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Friends may visit with the family at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne, on Tuesday November 15, 2016 from 4-8 PM. Funeral Services will be held at 10AM on Wednesday November 16 from the funeral home.
Entombment will be in Laurel Grove Memorial Park, Totowa.
Dolores Macchiarelli (nee Panico) age 86 of Wayne passed away peacefully on November 12, 2016 with her family by her side.
Dolores was born and raised in Paterson, NJ. She lived there until moving to Wayne nearly thirty years ago. As a child, she grew up with a young boy by the name of Joseph Macchiarelli. After graduating from Eastside High School in Paterson with the class of 1947, she went to work for a Dye House in Paterson as a secretary. She worked there for about five or six years. during that time Joseph Machhiarelli had left to serve his country near the end of the Second World War. When Joseph returned from the Navy, he got reacquainted with Dolores. They started dating and after a short time, as fate would have it, they fell in love and were married in 1951. Immediately after they were married, Dolores left her job and took on the daunting but rewarding task of a full time homemaker. They stayed in Paterson and raised several of their children there. They then moved to Wayne in the mid 1980’s and called it their home for the rest their time together. Joseph and Dolores cherished 65 years of loving and loyal marriage together.
Dolores was very dedicated to her Catholic faith and was a parishioner of St Stephen’s RC Church in Paterson. She was extremely involved in the church and was President of the Ladies Auxiliary as well. She loved to read, crochet and especially cook. Dolores was happy to cook for her entire family and always made sure there was enough for everyone. Dolores also enjoyed traveling and vacationing with her family, whether it was to their house in Toms River or Upper Greenwood Lake, or to Miami and Disney, which was one of her favorite places to be. Aside and above all of Dolores’ interests and talents, her greatest passion and devotion was to her family. She was a loving wife and a dedicated mother, grandmother, and great-grandmother. Dolores was a very special lady who touched the lives of many people and will be sincerely missed by her family and friends alike.
Dolores is survived by her husband Joseph, four sons; John and his wife Alexis of Wayne, Richard and his wife Toni of Pompton Plains, Joseph Statuto of Hawthorne, and John Statuto and his wife Portia of Florence, two daughters Roseanne Macchiarelli of Beachwood, and Dena Macchiarelli of Pequannock, six grandchildren; Brian, Lauren, Alyson, Taylor, Kimberly, Madison, and Anthony, two great grandchildren Genevieve, and Margaux.
In lieu of flowers friends may make donations to St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, P.O Box 1000, Dept. 142, Memphis, TN 38148-0142 www.stjude.org
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Friends may visit with the family at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne, on Tuesday November 15, 2016 from 4-8 PM. Funeral Services will be held at 10AM on Wednesday November 16 from the funeral home.
Entombment will be in Laurel Grove Memorial Park, Totowa.
Services
Friends may visit with the family at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne, on Tuesday November 15, 2016 from 4-8 PM. Funeral Services will be held at 10AM on Wednesday November 16 from the funeral home.
Entombment will be in Laurel Grove Memorial Park, Totowa.
Dolores Macchiarelli (nee Panico) age 86 of Wayne passed away peacefully on November 12, 2016 with her family by her side.
Dolores was born and raised in Paterson, NJ. She lived there until moving to Wayne nearly thirty years ago. As a child, she grew up with a young boy by the name of Joseph Macchiarelli. After graduating from Eastside High School in Paterson with the class of 1947, she went to work for a Dye House in Paterson as a secretary. She worked there for about five or six years. during that time Joseph Machhiarelli had left to serve his country near the end of the Second World War. When Joseph returned from the Navy, he got reacquainted with Dolores. They started dating and after a short time, as fate would have it, they fell in love and were married in 1951. Immediately after they were married, Dolores left her job and took on the daunting but rewarding task of a full time homemaker. They stayed in Paterson and raised several of their children there. They then moved to Wayne in the mid 1980’s and called it their home for the rest their time together. Joseph and Dolores cherished 65 years of loving and loyal marriage together.
Dolores was very dedicated to her Catholic faith and was a parishioner of St Stephen’s RC Church in Paterson. She was extremely involved in the church and was President of the Ladies Auxiliary as well. She loved to read, crochet and especially cook. Dolores was happy to cook for her entire family and always made sure there was enough for everyone. Dolores also enjoyed traveling and vacationing with her family, whether it was to their house in Toms River or Upper Greenwood Lake, or to Miami and Disney, which was one of her favorite places to be. Aside and above all of Dolores’ interests and talents, her greatest passion and devotion was to her family. She was a loving wife and a dedicated mother, grandmother, and great-grandmother. Dolores was a very special lady who touched the lives of many people and will be sincerely missed by her family and friends alike.
Dolores is survived by her husband Joseph, four sons; John and his wife Alexis of Wayne, Richard and his wife Toni of Pompton Plains, Joseph Statuto of Hawthorne, and John Statuto and his wife Portia of Florence, two daughters Roseanne Macchiarelli of Beachwood, and Dena Macchiarelli of Pequannock, six grandchildren; Brian, Lauren, Alyson, Taylor, Kimberly, Madison, and Anthony, two great grandchildren Genevieve, and Margaux.
In lieu of flowers friends may make donations to St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, P.O Box 1000, Dept. 142, Memphis, TN 38148-0142 www.stjude.org
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