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Services
Friends may visit with the family on Friday, October 23, 2015 from 4-8 PM at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
Funeral services will be held Saturday, 8:30 AM from the funeral home then to Our Lady of the Valley RC Church, Wayne where a 9:30 AM Funeral Mass will be offered.
Entombment will be in Holy Sepulchre Cemetery, Totowa.
Dr. Nino Silvano, age 93 of Wayne, passed peacefully in his sleep at home on Tuesday, October 20, 2015. He had been a podiatrist in Wayne for over thirty years before retiring in 1995.
Dr. Silvano was born in Paterson to Joseph and Carmella Silvano, Italian immigrants who had met in America through their sponsors. After graduating from high school, Dr. Silvano began working at Wright Aeronautical. He was soon drafted into the U.S. Army and considering his work experience at Wright, the Army sent him to school for aircraft mechanics and he became an Aerial Engineer. His first mission involved flying a brand new airplane from Indiana, all the way to England, 400 miles at a time. Before long, he was aboard C-46 and C-47 cargo planes flying over Europe. He served with the 47th Troop Carrier Squadron and the 313th Troop Carrier Group. His missions included dropping countless paratroopers behind enemy lines, and towing gliders full of soldiers into enemy territory. He attained the rank of Sergeant and received the European Africa Middle Eastern Service Medal, and the Good Conduct Medal. He was discharged in 1945 and began working as a federal inspector at a factory in Ohio.
While working as a federal inspector in Greenfield, Ohio he met Eva Mitchell, an employee at the factory where he was assigned. Their first date was going out to lunch and they soon fell in love and were married first by a Justice of the Peace at the Pike County Courthouse in Ohio and a few months later they were married a second time at the Sacred Heart RC Church in Manitowoc, Wisconsin. After honeymooning in Pompano Beach, Florida, they enjoyed many years of a loving and caring marriage before Eva’s passing in November of 2014.
Dr. Silvano took advantage of the GI Bill and worked on his college degree while he was an inspector. He was a determined young man and eventually completed his doctoral degree. As a young podiatrist, Dr. Silvano began his practice in Paterson and building a home in Wayne. He and Eva moved into their home, where he also moved his practice, in 1964. He truly enjoyed being a podiatrist in Wayne and was grateful for all the wonderful people he met over the thirty plus years he was in practice. Having his practice at home also had its many benefits, including being close to his wife and children all the time, and later on his grandchildren would often come to visit. His backyard and pool was the site of many family gatherings and the place where uncountable happy memories were made. His family is left with a trove of good times to treasure throughout their lifetimes.
Dr. Silvano was also a proud parishioner of Our Lady of the Valley RC Church in Wayne since 1964. He was loyal to the church and an ever faithful servant to the Lord. He was a Fourth Degree Knight of the Barry Assembly of the Knights of Columbus and originally served with the Ringwood Council for decades having joined the Wayne Council at Our Lady of the Valley RC Church in Wayne. Dr. Silvano was also a member of the Wayne Elks Lodge 2181 where he managed the inter-league softball team at the Wayne Elks for many years. He was always ready to give back to the community and volunteered a great deal of his time to benevolent causes.
After retiring in 1995, Dr. Silvano nurtured his second love; golf. Together, he and Eva split their time between Wayne and Florida. While in Pembroke Pines, Florida, Dr. Silvano would hit the links often 3 or 4 times a week. He never tired of the game and would have played more often, if he could have. Surely by now, he’s already playing his second or third round of golf in Heaven.
He was the loving husband of the late Eva (nee Mitchell) Silvano (2014); beloved father of Melissa Rizzi and her husband Gioacchino of Wayne, Lisa Silvano of Wayne, Carla Silvano of West New York, NJ, Nino Silvano and his wife Joan of Wayne; cherished grandfather of Gina Rizzi of Wayne, Jacleen Rizzi of Wayne, and Stephanie Silvano of Wayne; dear brother of Connie Carlo and her husband Robert of Wayne, Helen Piccolo and her husband Sonny of Haledon, and the late Joseph Silvano (2013) and his surviving wife Barbara of Wanaque, and the late Millie Silvano (2004).
In lieu of flowers memorial donations to Wayne Memorial First Aid Squad, PO Box 2004, Wayne, NJ 07474 would be appreciated.
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Friends may visit with the family on Friday, October 23, 2015 from 4-8 PM at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
Funeral services will be held Saturday, 8:30 AM from the funeral home then to Our Lady of the Valley RC Church, Wayne where a 9:30 AM Funeral Mass will be offered.
Entombment will be in Holy Sepulchre Cemetery, Totowa.
Services
Friends may visit with the family on Friday, October 23, 2015 from 4-8 PM at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
Funeral services will be held Saturday, 8:30 AM from the funeral home then to Our Lady of the Valley RC Church, Wayne where a 9:30 AM Funeral Mass will be offered.
Entombment will be in Holy Sepulchre Cemetery, Totowa.
Dr. Nino Silvano, age 93 of Wayne, passed peacefully in his sleep at home on Tuesday, October 20, 2015. He had been a podiatrist in Wayne for over thirty years before retiring in 1995.
Dr. Silvano was born in Paterson to Joseph and Carmella Silvano, Italian immigrants who had met in America through their sponsors. After graduating from high school, Dr. Silvano began working at Wright Aeronautical. He was soon drafted into the U.S. Army and considering his work experience at Wright, the Army sent him to school for aircraft mechanics and he became an Aerial Engineer. His first mission involved flying a brand new airplane from Indiana, all the way to England, 400 miles at a time. Before long, he was aboard C-46 and C-47 cargo planes flying over Europe. He served with the 47th Troop Carrier Squadron and the 313th Troop Carrier Group. His missions included dropping countless paratroopers behind enemy lines, and towing gliders full of soldiers into enemy territory. He attained the rank of Sergeant and received the European Africa Middle Eastern Service Medal, and the Good Conduct Medal. He was discharged in 1945 and began working as a federal inspector at a factory in Ohio.
While working as a federal inspector in Greenfield, Ohio he met Eva Mitchell, an employee at the factory where he was assigned. Their first date was going out to lunch and they soon fell in love and were married first by a Justice of the Peace at the Pike County Courthouse in Ohio and a few months later they were married a second time at the Sacred Heart RC Church in Manitowoc, Wisconsin. After honeymooning in Pompano Beach, Florida, they enjoyed many years of a loving and caring marriage before Eva’s passing in November of 2014.
Dr. Silvano took advantage of the GI Bill and worked on his college degree while he was an inspector. He was a determined young man and eventually completed his doctoral degree. As a young podiatrist, Dr. Silvano began his practice in Paterson and building a home in Wayne. He and Eva moved into their home, where he also moved his practice, in 1964. He truly enjoyed being a podiatrist in Wayne and was grateful for all the wonderful people he met over the thirty plus years he was in practice. Having his practice at home also had its many benefits, including being close to his wife and children all the time, and later on his grandchildren would often come to visit. His backyard and pool was the site of many family gatherings and the place where uncountable happy memories were made. His family is left with a trove of good times to treasure throughout their lifetimes.
Dr. Silvano was also a proud parishioner of Our Lady of the Valley RC Church in Wayne since 1964. He was loyal to the church and an ever faithful servant to the Lord. He was a Fourth Degree Knight of the Barry Assembly of the Knights of Columbus and originally served with the Ringwood Council for decades having joined the Wayne Council at Our Lady of the Valley RC Church in Wayne. Dr. Silvano was also a member of the Wayne Elks Lodge 2181 where he managed the inter-league softball team at the Wayne Elks for many years. He was always ready to give back to the community and volunteered a great deal of his time to benevolent causes.
After retiring in 1995, Dr. Silvano nurtured his second love; golf. Together, he and Eva split their time between Wayne and Florida. While in Pembroke Pines, Florida, Dr. Silvano would hit the links often 3 or 4 times a week. He never tired of the game and would have played more often, if he could have. Surely by now, he’s already playing his second or third round of golf in Heaven.
He was the loving husband of the late Eva (nee Mitchell) Silvano (2014); beloved father of Melissa Rizzi and her husband Gioacchino of Wayne, Lisa Silvano of Wayne, Carla Silvano of West New York, NJ, Nino Silvano and his wife Joan of Wayne; cherished grandfather of Gina Rizzi of Wayne, Jacleen Rizzi of Wayne, and Stephanie Silvano of Wayne; dear brother of Connie Carlo and her husband Robert of Wayne, Helen Piccolo and her husband Sonny of Haledon, and the late Joseph Silvano (2013) and his surviving wife Barbara of Wanaque, and the late Millie Silvano (2004).
In lieu of flowers memorial donations to Wayne Memorial First Aid Squad, PO Box 2004, Wayne, NJ 07474 would be appreciated.
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