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August 3, 2012
Services
Friends may visit with the family on Sunday, August 5, 2012 from 2-6 PM at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
A 9:30 AM Funeral Mass will be held on Monday, August 6, 2012 at Our Lady of the Valley RC Church, 630 Valley Road, Wayne.
Entombment will be in Garden of Memories Mausoleum, Washington Township.
Doris Ciavarella (nee Pedrin) age 79 of Wayne died peacefully on Friday, August 3, 2012.
She was born in Jersey City and lived in a four family home in Cliffside Park where they rented out the other three apartments in the home. She also lived in Garfield, East Paterson, Wayne and Cedar Crest Village in Pompton Plains before returning to Wayne.
After raising her children, and being inspired by teaching CCD for many years at Our Lady of the Valley Church in Wayne, Doris went to William Paterson College and graduated Cum Laude with her Bachelor of Science Degree in Early Childhood Education with a minor is special education.
She taught for the Wayne Board of Education having taught 3 rd grade at the Ryerson Elementary School, special education at the James Fallon Elementary School, and elementary education at the Packanack School before retiring in 1981.
She met her husband Anthony Ciavarella while dancing at the Palisades Amusement Park overlooking New York City. They married on October 25, 1955 at St. Michaels RC Church in Paterson and honeymooned in Bermuda. They enjoyed forty-seven years of a loving and devoted marriage before Anthony’s passing in 2002.
The family enjoyed many years of vacations at Lake George in New York. The “hook was set in their lip” after visiting Holiday House on Lake George. Since then three generations of Ciavarella’s have garnished wonderful memories from their summers there.
Doris was the loving wife of the late Anthony A. Ciavarella (2002); loving mother of Steven Ciavarella and his wife Larisa; Paul Ciavarella and his wife Eileen of Pompton Plains, Michael Ciavarella and his wife Theresa; John Ciavarella and his wife Donna of Wayne; cherished grandmother of Lauren, Brandon, Maggie, John, Rachel, Christopher, Michael, Matthew, Heather, and Anthony; loved sister of Elsie Palermo of Bergenfield, and Joseph Pedrin of Oradell.
In lieu of flowers memorial donations to the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, P.O. Box 27106, New York, NY, 10087-7106 would be appreciated. Click on the following link to go right to their donation page: http://mskcc.convio.net/site/PageServer?pagename=giv_donate_now.
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Friends may visit with the family on Sunday, August 5, 2012 from 2-6 PM at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
A 9:30 AM Funeral Mass will be held on Monday, August 6, 2012 at Our Lady of the Valley RC Church, 630 Valley Road, Wayne.
Entombment will be in Garden of Memories Mausoleum, Washington Township.
August 3, 2012
Services
Friends may visit with the family on Sunday, August 5, 2012 from 2-6 PM at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
A 9:30 AM Funeral Mass will be held on Monday, August 6, 2012 at Our Lady of the Valley RC Church, 630 Valley Road, Wayne.
Entombment will be in Garden of Memories Mausoleum, Washington Township.
Doris Ciavarella (nee Pedrin) age 79 of Wayne died peacefully on Friday, August 3, 2012.
She was born in Jersey City and lived in a four family home in Cliffside Park where they rented out the other three apartments in the home. She also lived in Garfield, East Paterson, Wayne and Cedar Crest Village in Pompton Plains before returning to Wayne.
After raising her children, and being inspired by teaching CCD for many years at Our Lady of the Valley Church in Wayne, Doris went to William Paterson College and graduated Cum Laude with her Bachelor of Science Degree in Early Childhood Education with a minor is special education.
She taught for the Wayne Board of Education having taught 3 rd grade at the Ryerson Elementary School, special education at the James Fallon Elementary School, and elementary education at the Packanack School before retiring in 1981.
She met her husband Anthony Ciavarella while dancing at the Palisades Amusement Park overlooking New York City. They married on October 25, 1955 at St. Michaels RC Church in Paterson and honeymooned in Bermuda. They enjoyed forty-seven years of a loving and devoted marriage before Anthony’s passing in 2002.
The family enjoyed many years of vacations at Lake George in New York. The “hook was set in their lip” after visiting Holiday House on Lake George. Since then three generations of Ciavarella’s have garnished wonderful memories from their summers there.
Doris was the loving wife of the late Anthony A. Ciavarella (2002); loving mother of Steven Ciavarella and his wife Larisa; Paul Ciavarella and his wife Eileen of Pompton Plains, Michael Ciavarella and his wife Theresa; John Ciavarella and his wife Donna of Wayne; cherished grandmother of Lauren, Brandon, Maggie, John, Rachel, Christopher, Michael, Matthew, Heather, and Anthony; loved sister of Elsie Palermo of Bergenfield, and Joseph Pedrin of Oradell.
In lieu of flowers memorial donations to the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, P.O. Box 27106, New York, NY, 10087-7106 would be appreciated. Click on the following link to go right to their donation page: http://mskcc.convio.net/site/PageServer?pagename=giv_donate_now.
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