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Friends may visit with the family on Friday September 18, 2015 at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne from 4-8PM.
Funeral Services will be held Saturday at 8AM from the funeral home, then to Our Lady of Consolation RC Church, 1799 Hamburg Tpk, Wayne where at 9AM a Funeral Mass will be offered.
Entombment will be in Laurel Grove Memorial Park, Totowa.
Elizabeth “Betty” De Vito (nee Lacava) age 82 of Wayne passed away peacefully on September 14, 2015 while receiving the loving care of her family.
Betty was born and raised in Paterson. She lived in Paterson until 1973 and then she and her husband Carmine moved to Wayne. It was Wayne that they would call their home, spend the rest of their lives together and raise their three children.
After graduating from High School in 1951, Betty immediately entered the workplace and got her first job as a secretary for Franklin Furnishings in Paterson. She was only eighteen years old when she started. She worked there for several years until the early 1960’s. She then went to work for a company called Haband in the town of Haledon. In 1987 she was hired again as a secretary for William Paterson College in Wayne where she would work until her retirement in 1997.
In the early 1950’s she met the love of her life Carmine De Vito. They were introduced by a mutual friend. After a wonderful and loving courtship they were married in 1955. Carmine and Betty cherished forty-seven years of loving marriage until Carmine’s passing in 2002. During their time together they raised their three children Carmine, Michael and Fran. While raising their children, Betty worked part-time at Wayne Hills High School for about seven years. Her children seem to think that she did this to keep a closer eye on her daughter while she was in school. They came to this conclusion because shortly after their daughter graduated, she then went back to work as a secretary for William Paterson College.
Besides being a devoted mother and wife, Betty was greatly devoted to her Catholic faith. She was very active in Our Lady of Lourdes RC Church in Paterson during her earlier years living there, and was also extraordinarily active in Our Lady of Consolation Women’s Club Amity.
Betty’s family remembers her being tremendously creative and artistic, having a real talent for arts and crafts. She was an amazing cook and she was also an expert seamstress and would make beautiful Halloween costumes for all her children and grandchildren. Aside from her talents as a cook and seamstress, and apart from her love of music and arts and crafts, Betty’s favorite pastime was spending quality time with her friends and family. She wasn’t much of a sports fan in particular, but loved to watch her grandchildren play them. Betty was an extraordinary person who touched the lives of many people and will be sincerely missed by everyone that knew her.
Betty is survived by her two sons; Carmine of Pompton Lakes, Michael and his wife Gail of Wyckoff, one daughter; Fran and her husband Jack of Kinnelon, two sisters; Marie Ast and her husband Joe of Toms River, and Connie Lacava of Montville, five grandchildren; Michael, Matthew, Nicole, John, and Kyle, she was predeceased by her husband Carmine in 2002, and her sister Loretta Rom in 2014.
Those planning an expression of sympathy in Betty’s name are asked to consider One Hope Children, Inc. 209 Third St, Jersey City, NJ 07302 or Eva’s Kitchen, 393 Main St, Paterson, NJ 07501.
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Friends may visit with the family on Friday September 18, 2015 at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne from 4-8PM.
Funeral Services will be held Saturday at 8AM from the funeral home, then to Our Lady of Consolation RC Church, 1799 Hamburg Tpk, Wayne where at 9AM a Funeral Mass will be offered.
Entombment will be in Laurel Grove Memorial Park, Totowa.
Services
Friends may visit with the family on Friday September 18, 2015 at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne from 4-8PM.
Funeral Services will be held Saturday at 8AM from the funeral home, then to Our Lady of Consolation RC Church, 1799 Hamburg Tpk, Wayne where at 9AM a Funeral Mass will be offered.
Entombment will be in Laurel Grove Memorial Park, Totowa.
Elizabeth “Betty” De Vito (nee Lacava) age 82 of Wayne passed away peacefully on September 14, 2015 while receiving the loving care of her family.
Betty was born and raised in Paterson. She lived in Paterson until 1973 and then she and her husband Carmine moved to Wayne. It was Wayne that they would call their home, spend the rest of their lives together and raise their three children.
After graduating from High School in 1951, Betty immediately entered the workplace and got her first job as a secretary for Franklin Furnishings in Paterson. She was only eighteen years old when she started. She worked there for several years until the early 1960’s. She then went to work for a company called Haband in the town of Haledon. In 1987 she was hired again as a secretary for William Paterson College in Wayne where she would work until her retirement in 1997.
In the early 1950’s she met the love of her life Carmine De Vito. They were introduced by a mutual friend. After a wonderful and loving courtship they were married in 1955. Carmine and Betty cherished forty-seven years of loving marriage until Carmine’s passing in 2002. During their time together they raised their three children Carmine, Michael and Fran. While raising their children, Betty worked part-time at Wayne Hills High School for about seven years. Her children seem to think that she did this to keep a closer eye on her daughter while she was in school. They came to this conclusion because shortly after their daughter graduated, she then went back to work as a secretary for William Paterson College.
Besides being a devoted mother and wife, Betty was greatly devoted to her Catholic faith. She was very active in Our Lady of Lourdes RC Church in Paterson during her earlier years living there, and was also extraordinarily active in Our Lady of Consolation Women’s Club Amity.
Betty’s family remembers her being tremendously creative and artistic, having a real talent for arts and crafts. She was an amazing cook and she was also an expert seamstress and would make beautiful Halloween costumes for all her children and grandchildren. Aside from her talents as a cook and seamstress, and apart from her love of music and arts and crafts, Betty’s favorite pastime was spending quality time with her friends and family. She wasn’t much of a sports fan in particular, but loved to watch her grandchildren play them. Betty was an extraordinary person who touched the lives of many people and will be sincerely missed by everyone that knew her.
Betty is survived by her two sons; Carmine of Pompton Lakes, Michael and his wife Gail of Wyckoff, one daughter; Fran and her husband Jack of Kinnelon, two sisters; Marie Ast and her husband Joe of Toms River, and Connie Lacava of Montville, five grandchildren; Michael, Matthew, Nicole, John, and Kyle, she was predeceased by her husband Carmine in 2002, and her sister Loretta Rom in 2014.
Those planning an expression of sympathy in Betty’s name are asked to consider One Hope Children, Inc. 209 Third St, Jersey City, NJ 07302 or Eva’s Kitchen, 393 Main St, Paterson, NJ 07501.
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