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Friends may visit with the family at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne, on Sunday November 27, 2016 from 2-6 PM.
Funeral Services will be held on Monday November 28, at 9am from the funeral home, then to Our Lady of Consolation Church, 1799 Hamburg Tpk, Wayne where at 10AM a Funeral Mass will be offered.
Elizabeth Pace Appaluccio age 84 of Lionshead area of Wayne passed away peacefully at her home while receiving the loving care of her family. She was born in Dundee, Scotland and at age seventeen made a packed with her girlfriend that they would immigrate to the United States of America. Her girlfriend backed out but Betty stayed the course and went on her own. She arrived by a boat named the USS Marine Shark in New York Harbor where her aunt met her.
She settled in Paterson, NJ where she lived with her Father’s sister. Her first job was in a lampshade factory in Garfield and later at Haband Company in Paterson who were in clothing retailers. It is interesting to note that her days were spent as a homemaker and her nights outside working to generate income to support her family.
She raised six children with this schedule and never regretted a day of it. Like her husband Jim, she had a wonderful can-do attitude that prevailed in her life story.
Jim and Betty were wonderful providers to their family. They had an entrepreneurial ambition that was built into their work ethic. They both held many jobs simultaneously. Besides the Postal Service and being a Homemaker, they would keep themselves active don landscaping, lampshade making and any job they could find to generate income for their family.
A legacy is what we inherit and this family’s finest legacy is a super work ethic. They follow to this day their father’s and their mother’s “can do” ways as they carry out their own personal life journey. Thanks mom and dad for teaching us this ambitious work ethic way in our lives.
One evening, in her teens, she was at the Polish Home Dance Hall in Passaic and she met a handsome fellow named Jim. Her gift of personality included a Scottish twinkle in her eye that captured Jim’s heart and after a two year courtship a smitten Jim proposed to Betty. They cherished nearly years of loyal and loving marriage together.
Surviving are two sons; Mark Appaluccio of Pompton Lakes, David Appaluccio of Wayne, three daughters;, Lori Hon of Inverness, FL, Carol Albano and her husband Joseph of Wayne, Jaclyn Sexton of Wayne, one son in law Paul Blitzstein of New Foundland, nine grandchildren; Jared Blitzstein and his wife Kate, Justin Blitzstein and his wife Colleen, Billy Hon and his wife Noel, Alyxandra Albano, Nicholas Appaluccio, Nicolette Albano, Sydney Sexton, Riley Sexton, and Gavin Sexton, She was predeceased by her husband Jim Appaluccio (2011), and her daughter Jamie Blitzstein (2013).
In lieu of flowers donations in Betty’s name may be made to Valley Home Care, 15 Essex Rd, Paramus, NJ 07652.
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Friends may visit with the family at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne, on Sunday November 27, 2016 from 2-6 PM.
Funeral Services will be held on Monday November 28, at 9am from the funeral home, then to Our Lady of Consolation Church, 1799 Hamburg Tpk, Wayne where at 10AM a Funeral Mass will be offered.
Services
Friends may visit with the family at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne, on Sunday November 27, 2016 from 2-6 PM.
Funeral Services will be held on Monday November 28, at 9am from the funeral home, then to Our Lady of Consolation Church, 1799 Hamburg Tpk, Wayne where at 10AM a Funeral Mass will be offered.
Elizabeth Pace Appaluccio age 84 of Lionshead area of Wayne passed away peacefully at her home while receiving the loving care of her family. She was born in Dundee, Scotland and at age seventeen made a packed with her girlfriend that they would immigrate to the United States of America. Her girlfriend backed out but Betty stayed the course and went on her own. She arrived by a boat named the USS Marine Shark in New York Harbor where her aunt met her.
She settled in Paterson, NJ where she lived with her Father’s sister. Her first job was in a lampshade factory in Garfield and later at Haband Company in Paterson who were in clothing retailers. It is interesting to note that her days were spent as a homemaker and her nights outside working to generate income to support her family.
She raised six children with this schedule and never regretted a day of it. Like her husband Jim, she had a wonderful can-do attitude that prevailed in her life story.
Jim and Betty were wonderful providers to their family. They had an entrepreneurial ambition that was built into their work ethic. They both held many jobs simultaneously. Besides the Postal Service and being a Homemaker, they would keep themselves active don landscaping, lampshade making and any job they could find to generate income for their family.
A legacy is what we inherit and this family’s finest legacy is a super work ethic. They follow to this day their father’s and their mother’s “can do” ways as they carry out their own personal life journey. Thanks mom and dad for teaching us this ambitious work ethic way in our lives.
One evening, in her teens, she was at the Polish Home Dance Hall in Passaic and she met a handsome fellow named Jim. Her gift of personality included a Scottish twinkle in her eye that captured Jim’s heart and after a two year courtship a smitten Jim proposed to Betty. They cherished nearly years of loyal and loving marriage together.
Surviving are two sons; Mark Appaluccio of Pompton Lakes, David Appaluccio of Wayne, three daughters;, Lori Hon of Inverness, FL, Carol Albano and her husband Joseph of Wayne, Jaclyn Sexton of Wayne, one son in law Paul Blitzstein of New Foundland, nine grandchildren; Jared Blitzstein and his wife Kate, Justin Blitzstein and his wife Colleen, Billy Hon and his wife Noel, Alyxandra Albano, Nicholas Appaluccio, Nicolette Albano, Sydney Sexton, Riley Sexton, and Gavin Sexton, She was predeceased by her husband Jim Appaluccio (2011), and her daughter Jamie Blitzstein (2013).
In lieu of flowers donations in Betty’s name may be made to Valley Home Care, 15 Essex Rd, Paramus, NJ 07652.
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