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February 6, 2011
Services
Friends may visit with the family on Wednesday, February 9, 2011 from 2-4, 7-9 PM at the May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne. Funeral services will be held 9:00 AM on Thursday, February 10, 2011 from the funeral home then to Our Lady of the Valley RC Church, 630 Valley Road, Wayne where at 10:00 AM a Funeral Mass will be offered. Interment will be with her husband Walter at the Holy Cross Cemetery, North Arlington.
Clara Rolek (Cicchetti), “Gladys” “Claire”, age 85 of Wayne died peacefully on Sunday, February 06, 2011 at the St. Joseph’s Wayne Hospital.
She was born and raised in Jersey City, NJ and graduated from Dickerson High School with the Class of 1943.
Clara met a young man named Walter and after taking two different buses to pick her up she told him to go back home and get a tie on. They fell in love and married on April 26, 1947 at Our Lady of Victories RC Church in Jersey City. They started and raised their family in Kearney having moved to Manchester in their retirement years. They also enjoyed several years of being snow birds in Destin, Florida. They enjoyed fifty-two years of loving marriage before he passed away in 1999. Clara moved to Wayne to be close to her son in May of 2008.
Her first job was with the Western Electric Company in Kearney and then she took a job at the Harding Pharmacy in North Arlington. She later became the store manager of Lincoln Card & Gift in North Arlington. She took time away from work to raise her family and returned to the workforce as a teller for Westminster Savings Bank, Kearney and later the National community Bank in North Arlington before retiring in 1991.
She was a devoted Catholic and parishioner of St. Stephens RC Church, Kearney and St. Marys RC Church, Lakewood.
Clara is best described as a friendly and motherly person. She loved to cook and bake and was in charge of any and all cake cutting at each family function. Her special touch on Walnut Cream Cake, spaghetti sauce, and Golumpki’s (her mother-in-law’s stuffed cabbage recipe) will be greatly missed.
She was the beloved wife of the late Walter Rolek(1999); loving mother of the late Robert Rolek(2005) and his surviving wife Joanna of Illinois, and Richard Rolek of Wayne; cherished grandmother of Brandon Rolek and his wife Brooke, Kristen and Stefani Rolek; devoted great-grandmother of Bobbie Rolek; loved sister of Peter Cicchetti of Destin, Florida, the late Eugene Cicchetti, Helen McColgan, Mary Hirschmann and Alfred Cicchetti.
Those inclined to make memorial donations are asked to consider Robert W. Rolek Community Service Scholarship Fund, c/o 240 E. Whistler Rd., #2E, Highland Park, IL 60035.
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Friends may visit with the family on Wednesday, February 9, 2011 from 2-4, 7-9 PM at the May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne. Funeral services will be held 9:00 AM on Thursday, February 10, 2011 from the funeral home then to Our Lady of the Valley RC Church, 630 Valley Road, Wayne where at 10:00 AM a Funeral Mass will be offered. Interment will be with her husband Walter at the Holy Cross Cemetery, North Arlington.
February 6, 2011
Services
Friends may visit with the family on Wednesday, February 9, 2011 from 2-4, 7-9 PM at the May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne. Funeral services will be held 9:00 AM on Thursday, February 10, 2011 from the funeral home then to Our Lady of the Valley RC Church, 630 Valley Road, Wayne where at 10:00 AM a Funeral Mass will be offered. Interment will be with her husband Walter at the Holy Cross Cemetery, North Arlington.
Clara Rolek (Cicchetti), “Gladys” “Claire”, age 85 of Wayne died peacefully on Sunday, February 06, 2011 at the St. Joseph’s Wayne Hospital.
She was born and raised in Jersey City, NJ and graduated from Dickerson High School with the Class of 1943.
Clara met a young man named Walter and after taking two different buses to pick her up she told him to go back home and get a tie on. They fell in love and married on April 26, 1947 at Our Lady of Victories RC Church in Jersey City. They started and raised their family in Kearney having moved to Manchester in their retirement years. They also enjoyed several years of being snow birds in Destin, Florida. They enjoyed fifty-two years of loving marriage before he passed away in 1999. Clara moved to Wayne to be close to her son in May of 2008.
Her first job was with the Western Electric Company in Kearney and then she took a job at the Harding Pharmacy in North Arlington. She later became the store manager of Lincoln Card & Gift in North Arlington. She took time away from work to raise her family and returned to the workforce as a teller for Westminster Savings Bank, Kearney and later the National community Bank in North Arlington before retiring in 1991.
She was a devoted Catholic and parishioner of St. Stephens RC Church, Kearney and St. Marys RC Church, Lakewood.
Clara is best described as a friendly and motherly person. She loved to cook and bake and was in charge of any and all cake cutting at each family function. Her special touch on Walnut Cream Cake, spaghetti sauce, and Golumpki’s (her mother-in-law’s stuffed cabbage recipe) will be greatly missed.
She was the beloved wife of the late Walter Rolek(1999); loving mother of the late Robert Rolek(2005) and his surviving wife Joanna of Illinois, and Richard Rolek of Wayne; cherished grandmother of Brandon Rolek and his wife Brooke, Kristen and Stefani Rolek; devoted great-grandmother of Bobbie Rolek; loved sister of Peter Cicchetti of Destin, Florida, the late Eugene Cicchetti, Helen McColgan, Mary Hirschmann and Alfred Cicchetti.
Those inclined to make memorial donations are asked to consider Robert W. Rolek Community Service Scholarship Fund, c/o 240 E. Whistler Rd., #2E, Highland Park, IL 60035.
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