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October 2, 2023
Services
Friends may visit with the family from 4-8 PM on Friday, October 6, 2023, at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
Funeral services will be held 8:30 AM on Saturday, October 7, 2023, from the Funeral Home then to Our Lady of Consolation Church, 1799 Hamburg Turnpike, Wayne where a 9:30 AM Funeral Mass will be offered.
Entombment will be in the George Washington Memorial Park, Paramus.
Dino Christopher Vergano, age 97, of Wayne passed Monday, October 2, 2023.
He was born to Peter Dino and Mary (Savio) Vergano at the family home in West New York, NJ. He graduated from Memorial High School in West New York with the Class of 1944.
Dino worked from the age of seven on. His first job was setting bowling pins at the local bowling alley and he delivered groceries for a small grocery store. He enlisted in the U.S. Army Air Corps on April 13, 1944 and passed the tests to be a pilot, bombardier, and navigator for aircraft. He did have one bad eye but memorized the eye chart so he could pass the vision test. He graduated Gunnery School and was honorably discharged on May 11, 1946.
Dino and Dolores had only one date together before he went off to serve in the US Army’s Air Corps. They corresponded by mail and when he came home from the war they fell in love. Dolores and Dino were married on June 4, 1950, at St Joseph of the Palisades Church in West New York and honeymooned at Niagara Falls, New York. They have had seventy-two years of a loving and devoted marriage before Dolores’ passing on November 11, 2022.
Under the GI Bill, Dino went to Brooklyn Polytechnical Institute and then to the Newark College of Engineering (now known as NJIT). He attended school at night for twelve years having graduated with a degree in Mechanical Engineering in May of 1959. Dino had a successful career specializing in the industrial Heating Ventilation and Air Conditioning field. Through the years he has owned several companies in the HVAC industry and represented as many as twelve lines of equipment. His family remembers him always being on the phone (not a cellphone but a wired land line) even when they were on vacation. Along with the constant telephone calls he was forever in his car. He formally retired in 2013 at the age of eighty-eight.
Dino and his late wife Dolores were dedicated to their Catholic faith, and both were founding members of Our Lady of Consolation Church in Wayne. A small group founding the church would meet to worship on Sundays at the Schuyler Colfax School in Wayne prior to the completion of the church. For many years Dino served as an Usher and Eucharistic Minister.
Some will remember Dino volunteering as a Little League baseball coach in Wayne. He did this for several years during his son Chris’ youth.
Dino will be lovingly remembered as a truly remarkable individual exuding a quiet and personable nature that effortlessly drew people towards him. With an innate charm and warmth, he possessed an extraordinary ability to make everyone he encountered feel valued and appreciated. Whether engaging in light-hearted banter or lending a listening ear, Dino had an uncanny knack for establishing genuine connections. His selflessness and genuine interest in others made him an all-around nice person, leaving a lasting impression on everyone fortunate enough to cross his path.
Dino was the loving husband of seventy-two years to the late Dolores (Ferris) Vergano (d. November 11, 2022); devoted father of Christopher Vergano and his wife Deneen of Wayne and Cynthia Vergano Brozuski of Oak Ridge and her late husband Chris (d. January 6, 2023); loved brother of the late Ernani Vergano (d. July 19,2021) and his wife Egidia of Attleboro, MA; he was the cherished grandfather of Kyle Vergano and his wife Jenna, Allison Vergano, and Gregory Brozuski and his fiancé Keira Logue.
In lieu of flowers memorial donations to the Wayne First Aid Squad would be greatly appreciated.
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Friends may visit with the family from 4-8 PM on Friday, October 6, 2023, at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
Funeral services will be held 8:30 AM on Saturday, October 7, 2023, from the Funeral Home then to Our Lady of Consolation Church, 1799 Hamburg Turnpike, Wayne where a 9:30 AM Funeral Mass will be offered.
Entombment will be in the George Washington Memorial Park, Paramus.
October 2, 2023
Services
Friends may visit with the family from 4-8 PM on Friday, October 6, 2023, at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
Funeral services will be held 8:30 AM on Saturday, October 7, 2023, from the Funeral Home then to Our Lady of Consolation Church, 1799 Hamburg Turnpike, Wayne where a 9:30 AM Funeral Mass will be offered.
Entombment will be in the George Washington Memorial Park, Paramus.
Dino Christopher Vergano, age 97, of Wayne passed Monday, October 2, 2023.
He was born to Peter Dino and Mary (Savio) Vergano at the family home in West New York, NJ. He graduated from Memorial High School in West New York with the Class of 1944.
Dino worked from the age of seven on. His first job was setting bowling pins at the local bowling alley and he delivered groceries for a small grocery store. He enlisted in the U.S. Army Air Corps on April 13, 1944 and passed the tests to be a pilot, bombardier, and navigator for aircraft. He did have one bad eye but memorized the eye chart so he could pass the vision test. He graduated Gunnery School and was honorably discharged on May 11, 1946.
Dino and Dolores had only one date together before he went off to serve in the US Army’s Air Corps. They corresponded by mail and when he came home from the war they fell in love. Dolores and Dino were married on June 4, 1950, at St Joseph of the Palisades Church in West New York and honeymooned at Niagara Falls, New York. They have had seventy-two years of a loving and devoted marriage before Dolores’ passing on November 11, 2022.
Under the GI Bill, Dino went to Brooklyn Polytechnical Institute and then to the Newark College of Engineering (now known as NJIT). He attended school at night for twelve years having graduated with a degree in Mechanical Engineering in May of 1959. Dino had a successful career specializing in the industrial Heating Ventilation and Air Conditioning field. Through the years he has owned several companies in the HVAC industry and represented as many as twelve lines of equipment. His family remembers him always being on the phone (not a cellphone but a wired land line) even when they were on vacation. Along with the constant telephone calls he was forever in his car. He formally retired in 2013 at the age of eighty-eight.
Dino and his late wife Dolores were dedicated to their Catholic faith, and both were founding members of Our Lady of Consolation Church in Wayne. A small group founding the church would meet to worship on Sundays at the Schuyler Colfax School in Wayne prior to the completion of the church. For many years Dino served as an Usher and Eucharistic Minister.
Some will remember Dino volunteering as a Little League baseball coach in Wayne. He did this for several years during his son Chris’ youth.
Dino will be lovingly remembered as a truly remarkable individual exuding a quiet and personable nature that effortlessly drew people towards him. With an innate charm and warmth, he possessed an extraordinary ability to make everyone he encountered feel valued and appreciated. Whether engaging in light-hearted banter or lending a listening ear, Dino had an uncanny knack for establishing genuine connections. His selflessness and genuine interest in others made him an all-around nice person, leaving a lasting impression on everyone fortunate enough to cross his path.
Dino was the loving husband of seventy-two years to the late Dolores (Ferris) Vergano (d. November 11, 2022); devoted father of Christopher Vergano and his wife Deneen of Wayne and Cynthia Vergano Brozuski of Oak Ridge and her late husband Chris (d. January 6, 2023); loved brother of the late Ernani Vergano (d. July 19,2021) and his wife Egidia of Attleboro, MA; he was the cherished grandfather of Kyle Vergano and his wife Jenna, Allison Vergano, and Gregory Brozuski and his fiancé Keira Logue.
In lieu of flowers memorial donations to the Wayne First Aid Squad would be greatly appreciated.
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