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November 17, 2014
Services
Friends may visit with the family from 4-8 PM on Thursday, November 20, 2014 at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Rd., Wayne.
Funeral services will be held 9 AM on Friday, November 21, 2014 at the funeral home, then to Our Lady of the Valley RC Church, 630 Valley Rd., Wayne, where at 10 AM Funeral Mass will be offered. Entombment will be in Holy Sepulchre Cemetery, Totowa.
Eva Silvano (nee Mitchell), age 85 of Wayne passed peacefully on Monday, November 17, 2014.
She was born on the Mitchell Farm in Pike County, Ohio, and raised in Greenfield, OH, having lived in Paterson and Haskell before moving to Wayne fifty years ago.
When Eva was a young girl she worked as a line inspector at the Greenfield Pad Company, a business that made padded horse collars. During WWII, the factory was given a government contract to make small nylon parachutes and put them in metal canisters. It was at work that Eva met a wonderful man named Nino Silvano who was a government inspector at the plant. They had lunch together many times and soon fell in love. They were married by a Justice of the Peace, and after Eva converted to Catholicism they were married at Sacred Heart RC Church in Manitowoc, Wisconsin. Their first daughter, Melissa, was born in Manitowoc, and then the young couple moved back to Nino’s hometown of Paterson, NJ, where they had children Carla and Nino. They rented a home on 31st Street in Paterson before Nino was able to secure a loan through the GI Bill to buy their first home in Haskell, NJ. Eventually they built a home on Ratzer Road in Wayne, NJ where they had their fourth child, Lisa, and raised their family.
Eva was a parishioner of Our Lady of the Valley RC Church, Wayne.
Eva will be remembered as a great cook whose special ingredient of motherly love, while making her eggplant parmesan, will be greatly missed. Eva was taught how to cook in the Italian tradition by Nino’s parents soon after they were married. When their children were young, Nino put in a pool at the Ratzer Road house and Sunday dinners in the garage with family, friends, and neighborhood kids were a ritual for many years. That table would be filled with macaroni, roast beef, eggplant parmesan and many other Italian foods. Eva will also be remembered for her plain spoken way in which she would tell it as it is. She loved to read, play solitaire on her computer, and had a collection of over three hundred movies. Many in the family were blessed with one of the several hundred afghans that she crocheted. Eva was also very independent, and even learned how to drive Nino’s International Harvester tractor. He would come home to find she plowed the snow from the driveway. Eva will be remembered as a loving, warm hearted, straightforward person who made the difficult job of raising four children and keeping a household in order look effortless.
She was the loving wife of sixty-one years to Dr. Nino Silvano of Wayne; devoted mother of Melissa Rizzi and her husband Jack of Wayne, Carla Silvano of West New York, NJ, Nino Silvano and his wife Joan of Wayne, and Lisa LaMont and her husband Peter of Wayne; cherished grandmother of Gina, Jacleen, Stephanie, and Allison; she was the last survivor of nine siblings.
In lieu of flowers, memorial donations to the Wayne Memorial First Aid Squad, PO Box 2004, Wayne, NJ 07474 would be appreciated.
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Friends may visit with the family from 4-8 PM on Thursday, November 20, 2014 at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Rd., Wayne.
Funeral services will be held 9 AM on Friday, November 21, 2014 at the funeral home, then to Our Lady of the Valley RC Church, 630 Valley Rd., Wayne, where at 10 AM Funeral Mass will be offered. Entombment will be in Holy Sepulchre Cemetery, Totowa.
November 17, 2014
Services
Friends may visit with the family from 4-8 PM on Thursday, November 20, 2014 at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Rd., Wayne.
Funeral services will be held 9 AM on Friday, November 21, 2014 at the funeral home, then to Our Lady of the Valley RC Church, 630 Valley Rd., Wayne, where at 10 AM Funeral Mass will be offered. Entombment will be in Holy Sepulchre Cemetery, Totowa.
Eva Silvano (nee Mitchell), age 85 of Wayne passed peacefully on Monday, November 17, 2014.
She was born on the Mitchell Farm in Pike County, Ohio, and raised in Greenfield, OH, having lived in Paterson and Haskell before moving to Wayne fifty years ago.
When Eva was a young girl she worked as a line inspector at the Greenfield Pad Company, a business that made padded horse collars. During WWII, the factory was given a government contract to make small nylon parachutes and put them in metal canisters. It was at work that Eva met a wonderful man named Nino Silvano who was a government inspector at the plant. They had lunch together many times and soon fell in love. They were married by a Justice of the Peace, and after Eva converted to Catholicism they were married at Sacred Heart RC Church in Manitowoc, Wisconsin. Their first daughter, Melissa, was born in Manitowoc, and then the young couple moved back to Nino’s hometown of Paterson, NJ, where they had children Carla and Nino. They rented a home on 31st Street in Paterson before Nino was able to secure a loan through the GI Bill to buy their first home in Haskell, NJ. Eventually they built a home on Ratzer Road in Wayne, NJ where they had their fourth child, Lisa, and raised their family.
Eva was a parishioner of Our Lady of the Valley RC Church, Wayne.
Eva will be remembered as a great cook whose special ingredient of motherly love, while making her eggplant parmesan, will be greatly missed. Eva was taught how to cook in the Italian tradition by Nino’s parents soon after they were married. When their children were young, Nino put in a pool at the Ratzer Road house and Sunday dinners in the garage with family, friends, and neighborhood kids were a ritual for many years. That table would be filled with macaroni, roast beef, eggplant parmesan and many other Italian foods. Eva will also be remembered for her plain spoken way in which she would tell it as it is. She loved to read, play solitaire on her computer, and had a collection of over three hundred movies. Many in the family were blessed with one of the several hundred afghans that she crocheted. Eva was also very independent, and even learned how to drive Nino’s International Harvester tractor. He would come home to find she plowed the snow from the driveway. Eva will be remembered as a loving, warm hearted, straightforward person who made the difficult job of raising four children and keeping a household in order look effortless.
She was the loving wife of sixty-one years to Dr. Nino Silvano of Wayne; devoted mother of Melissa Rizzi and her husband Jack of Wayne, Carla Silvano of West New York, NJ, Nino Silvano and his wife Joan of Wayne, and Lisa LaMont and her husband Peter of Wayne; cherished grandmother of Gina, Jacleen, Stephanie, and Allison; she was the last survivor of nine siblings.
In lieu of flowers, memorial donations to the Wayne Memorial First Aid Squad, PO Box 2004, Wayne, NJ 07474 would be appreciated.
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