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Services
Friends may visit with the family from 5-9 PM on Thursday, June 4, 2015 at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
Funeral services will be held Friday, June 5, 2015 at 9 AM from the funeral home then to Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary RC Church, 45 Urban Club Road, Wayne where a 10 AM Funeral Mass will be offered.
Denise Percuoco Garolis age 62 of Wayne passed peacefully at home on Sunday, May 31, 2015.
She was born in Jersey City and was raised in North Bergen having graduated from North Bergen High School with the Class of 1971. Denise went on to study at Arizona State University where she received her Elementary Education Certification with the Class of 1979.
During her career she worked at Saint Michaels Academy in Union City and Holy Rosary Academy also in Union City. She also assisted as a substitute teacher for the North Bergen Board of Education.
Denise will be remembered as a creative and generous person who loved teaching and would treat other’s children as if they were her own. She loved to dance and from the age of four right into her adult years she danced at the Hollywood Studios in Union City. She also performed at the community theatre in North Bergen.
Joe and Denise knew each other while in high school. Almost ten years later, Joe proposed to Denise at her parent’s home on 76th Street in North Bergen. They married on August 8, 1981 at Our Lady of Fatima church in North Bergen and honeymooned in Cherry Hill, NJ. They have enjoyed a loving and caring marriage of thirty-four years.
Denise was the loving wife of Joseph Garolis; devoted mother of Erin Garolis of Wayne, and Michael Garolis of Wayne; devoted daughter of Charles Percuoco of Florida, NY and the late Joan(2009); cherished grandmother of twins Gavin and Cole Garolis-Bechtold both of Wayne; dear sister of Charlene Wielk and her husband Michael of Chester, NY, and John Percuoco and his wife Susan of Wayne.
In lieu of flowers the family requests donations to the West Orange Elks Lodge 1590, 424 Main Street, West Orange, NJ 07052 (please be sure to put “In Memory of Denise Garolis” on the memo line).
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Friends may visit with the family from 5-9 PM on Thursday, June 4, 2015 at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
Funeral services will be held Friday, June 5, 2015 at 9 AM from the funeral home then to Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary RC Church, 45 Urban Club Road, Wayne where a 10 AM Funeral Mass will be offered.
Services
Friends may visit with the family from 5-9 PM on Thursday, June 4, 2015 at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
Funeral services will be held Friday, June 5, 2015 at 9 AM from the funeral home then to Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary RC Church, 45 Urban Club Road, Wayne where a 10 AM Funeral Mass will be offered.
Denise Percuoco Garolis age 62 of Wayne passed peacefully at home on Sunday, May 31, 2015.
She was born in Jersey City and was raised in North Bergen having graduated from North Bergen High School with the Class of 1971. Denise went on to study at Arizona State University where she received her Elementary Education Certification with the Class of 1979.
During her career she worked at Saint Michaels Academy in Union City and Holy Rosary Academy also in Union City. She also assisted as a substitute teacher for the North Bergen Board of Education.
Denise will be remembered as a creative and generous person who loved teaching and would treat other’s children as if they were her own. She loved to dance and from the age of four right into her adult years she danced at the Hollywood Studios in Union City. She also performed at the community theatre in North Bergen.
Joe and Denise knew each other while in high school. Almost ten years later, Joe proposed to Denise at her parent’s home on 76th Street in North Bergen. They married on August 8, 1981 at Our Lady of Fatima church in North Bergen and honeymooned in Cherry Hill, NJ. They have enjoyed a loving and caring marriage of thirty-four years.
Denise was the loving wife of Joseph Garolis; devoted mother of Erin Garolis of Wayne, and Michael Garolis of Wayne; devoted daughter of Charles Percuoco of Florida, NY and the late Joan(2009); cherished grandmother of twins Gavin and Cole Garolis-Bechtold both of Wayne; dear sister of Charlene Wielk and her husband Michael of Chester, NY, and John Percuoco and his wife Susan of Wayne.
In lieu of flowers the family requests donations to the West Orange Elks Lodge 1590, 424 Main Street, West Orange, NJ 07052 (please be sure to put “In Memory of Denise Garolis” on the memo line).
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