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October 15, 2008
Services
Friends may visit with the family on Friday, October 17, 2008 from 2-4, 7-9 PM at the funeral home.
Funeral services will be held 8 AM on Saturday, October 18, 2008 from the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne then to Our Lady of Consolation RC Church, 1799 Hamburg Tpk., Wayne where at 9 AM a Funeral Mass will be offered.
Entombment will be Madonna Mausoleum, Fort Lee.
Concetta T. “Connie D” D’Amato died on Wednesday, October 15, 2008 at the Hospice of NJ, Wayne.
She was born and raised in New York City and after she married her late husband Raymond D’Amato in November of 1933 they moved to Jersey City where they raised their two children Susan and John having lived in Caldwell before moving to the Claridge House in Verona in 1966.
During her children’s formative years she worked sewing piece work at the textile mills in Jersey City. Once her children were of age she worked at the Jersey Journal having started in the obituary department and later worked in selling advertising space, advertising layouts, advertising copy and telephone solicitation for advertising in the paper. She started working for the Star Ledger Newspaper on January 2, 1964. She wanted to do outside sales for the Star Ledger but was told that wasn’t a job they were willing to let a woman do. She later spied an ad from the New York Times looking for an outside sales representative. They also told her this was not a job for a woman. She ultimately stayed at the Star Ledger and got her chance at outside sales in the real estate division. When she asked her boss if she could wear a pantsuit he was taken back. Women didn’t wear pants, but when she showed up in her Sacks Fifth Avenue pantsuit, he was sold. Her personality, attractive looks and knowledge of the industry helped her attain sales goals of an unprecedented level. She was truly a pioneer for working women in sales. She retired from work at the Star Ledger after some thirty years of service to the paper. Briefly, before fully retiring, she worked for the NJ Business Magazine.
Connie presented herself in a regal manor, her hair always done perfectly, nails just so, and dressed smartly. She loved her family and was generous to a fault with her grandchildren.
She was married to the late Raymond D’Amato for fifty years before his passing in 1985; loving mother of John D’Amato of Fairfax, CA and Susan Kelly and her late husband Eugene(2002); loving grandmother of Eugene R. Kelly, Raymond D’Amato, Joseph Kelly and his wife Sharon and Joey D’Amato and his wife Johanna; cherished great-grandmother of Ryan and Evan Kelly; loving sister of the late Teresa Grillo, Josephine Palumbo, Mildred Catricola, Celestine Amedore and Joseph Ceravole.
In lieu of flowers, memorial donations to the Hospice of New Jersey, 400 Broad Acres Drive, 4th floor, Bloomfield, NJ 07003. Please click on the link below "Print out donation form" and mail in this form with your donation. This will insure that your donation is properly acknowledged to the family.
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Friends may visit with the family on Friday, October 17, 2008 from 2-4, 7-9 PM at the funeral home.
Funeral services will be held 8 AM on Saturday, October 18, 2008 from the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne then to Our Lady of Consolation RC Church, 1799 Hamburg Tpk., Wayne where at 9 AM a Funeral Mass will be offered.
Entombment will be Madonna Mausoleum, Fort Lee.
October 15, 2008
Services
Friends may visit with the family on Friday, October 17, 2008 from 2-4, 7-9 PM at the funeral home.
Funeral services will be held 8 AM on Saturday, October 18, 2008 from the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne then to Our Lady of Consolation RC Church, 1799 Hamburg Tpk., Wayne where at 9 AM a Funeral Mass will be offered.
Entombment will be Madonna Mausoleum, Fort Lee.
Concetta T. “Connie D” D’Amato died on Wednesday, October 15, 2008 at the Hospice of NJ, Wayne.
She was born and raised in New York City and after she married her late husband Raymond D’Amato in November of 1933 they moved to Jersey City where they raised their two children Susan and John having lived in Caldwell before moving to the Claridge House in Verona in 1966.
During her children’s formative years she worked sewing piece work at the textile mills in Jersey City. Once her children were of age she worked at the Jersey Journal having started in the obituary department and later worked in selling advertising space, advertising layouts, advertising copy and telephone solicitation for advertising in the paper. She started working for the Star Ledger Newspaper on January 2, 1964. She wanted to do outside sales for the Star Ledger but was told that wasn’t a job they were willing to let a woman do. She later spied an ad from the New York Times looking for an outside sales representative. They also told her this was not a job for a woman. She ultimately stayed at the Star Ledger and got her chance at outside sales in the real estate division. When she asked her boss if she could wear a pantsuit he was taken back. Women didn’t wear pants, but when she showed up in her Sacks Fifth Avenue pantsuit, he was sold. Her personality, attractive looks and knowledge of the industry helped her attain sales goals of an unprecedented level. She was truly a pioneer for working women in sales. She retired from work at the Star Ledger after some thirty years of service to the paper. Briefly, before fully retiring, she worked for the NJ Business Magazine.
Connie presented herself in a regal manor, her hair always done perfectly, nails just so, and dressed smartly. She loved her family and was generous to a fault with her grandchildren.
She was married to the late Raymond D’Amato for fifty years before his passing in 1985; loving mother of John D’Amato of Fairfax, CA and Susan Kelly and her late husband Eugene(2002); loving grandmother of Eugene R. Kelly, Raymond D’Amato, Joseph Kelly and his wife Sharon and Joey D’Amato and his wife Johanna; cherished great-grandmother of Ryan and Evan Kelly; loving sister of the late Teresa Grillo, Josephine Palumbo, Mildred Catricola, Celestine Amedore and Joseph Ceravole.
In lieu of flowers, memorial donations to the Hospice of New Jersey, 400 Broad Acres Drive, 4th floor, Bloomfield, NJ 07003. Please click on the link below "Print out donation form" and mail in this form with your donation. This will insure that your donation is properly acknowledged to the family.
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