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November 11, 2008
Services
Funeral services will be held 10 AM on Saturday, November 15, 2008 from the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne then to Saint Marys RC Church, 17 Pompton Ave., Pompton Lakes where at 11 AM a Funeral Mass will be offered.
Friends may visit with the family on Friday, November 14, 2008 from 2-4 and 7-9 PM at the funeral home.
Fannie M. Cannatella (nee Danna) age 86 of Pompton Lakes died Tuesday, November 11, 2008 at the Chilton Memorial Hospital, Pequannock receiving the love and comfort of her family by her side for the past several days.
She was born in NYC where she was raised and met her husband to be Anthony A. Cannatella, a WWII U.S. Army Veteran. The couple married on June 9, 1946 at Holy Rosary RC Church, NYC and had their first two children, Rose and Joseph, while living in New York City. The family moved to Fair Lawn, NJ and had their third child Linda. Anthony died in 1973, at the age of 55 from a sudden heart attack. Following the death of her beloved husband, Fannie moved with Rose to Pompton Lakes in 1979 where she has lived for the past thirty years.
Before her marriage to Anthony, Fannie worked for the Mutual Life Insurance Company in NYC where she was a draftswoman. She was responsible for creating charts and graphs for the company including the financing for the top secret Manhattan Project during WWII. Fannie also worked for Woolworth’s in Fair Lawn, Midlantic Bank, W. Paterson and the Anthony Wayne Savings Bank, Wayne before retiring in 1985. She was a founding member of the Fair Lawn Opportunity Center for developmentally disabled persons, was a Girl Scout leader in Fair Lawn and served on the Fair Lawn Heavy Rescue Squad’s Ladies Auxiliary.
Fannie had a loving dedication to her special daughter Rose Marie; she treasured her love and companionship dearly.
She was the beloved wife of twenty-seven years to the late Anthony A. Cannatella(1973); loving mother of Rose Marie Cannatella of Pompton Lakes, Joseph Cannatella and his wife Donna of Wayne and Linda Chiodo and her husband Warren of Bluffton, SC; cherished grandmother of Warren Chiodo and his wife Brook, Kimberly Cerretta and her husband William, Christina Havens and her husband Christopher and Aubrey Cannatella; much loved great-grandmother of Dylan Havens; loved sister of the late Samuel and Ralph Danna and Anthony Mercaldi; much loved by her sister-in-law Marlene Mercaldi of Yorktown Heights, and many nieces and nephews.
In lieu of flowers memorial donations to the Wayne Foundation for the Handicapped, 30 Woodridge Terr., Wayne, NJ 07470 would be appreciated.
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Funeral services will be held 10 AM on Saturday, November 15, 2008 from the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne then to Saint Marys RC Church, 17 Pompton Ave., Pompton Lakes where at 11 AM a Funeral Mass will be offered.
Friends may visit with the family on Friday, November 14, 2008 from 2-4 and 7-9 PM at the funeral home.
November 11, 2008
Services
Funeral services will be held 10 AM on Saturday, November 15, 2008 from the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne then to Saint Marys RC Church, 17 Pompton Ave., Pompton Lakes where at 11 AM a Funeral Mass will be offered.
Friends may visit with the family on Friday, November 14, 2008 from 2-4 and 7-9 PM at the funeral home.
Fannie M. Cannatella (nee Danna) age 86 of Pompton Lakes died Tuesday, November 11, 2008 at the Chilton Memorial Hospital, Pequannock receiving the love and comfort of her family by her side for the past several days.
She was born in NYC where she was raised and met her husband to be Anthony A. Cannatella, a WWII U.S. Army Veteran. The couple married on June 9, 1946 at Holy Rosary RC Church, NYC and had their first two children, Rose and Joseph, while living in New York City. The family moved to Fair Lawn, NJ and had their third child Linda. Anthony died in 1973, at the age of 55 from a sudden heart attack. Following the death of her beloved husband, Fannie moved with Rose to Pompton Lakes in 1979 where she has lived for the past thirty years.
Before her marriage to Anthony, Fannie worked for the Mutual Life Insurance Company in NYC where she was a draftswoman. She was responsible for creating charts and graphs for the company including the financing for the top secret Manhattan Project during WWII. Fannie also worked for Woolworth’s in Fair Lawn, Midlantic Bank, W. Paterson and the Anthony Wayne Savings Bank, Wayne before retiring in 1985. She was a founding member of the Fair Lawn Opportunity Center for developmentally disabled persons, was a Girl Scout leader in Fair Lawn and served on the Fair Lawn Heavy Rescue Squad’s Ladies Auxiliary.
Fannie had a loving dedication to her special daughter Rose Marie; she treasured her love and companionship dearly.
She was the beloved wife of twenty-seven years to the late Anthony A. Cannatella(1973); loving mother of Rose Marie Cannatella of Pompton Lakes, Joseph Cannatella and his wife Donna of Wayne and Linda Chiodo and her husband Warren of Bluffton, SC; cherished grandmother of Warren Chiodo and his wife Brook, Kimberly Cerretta and her husband William, Christina Havens and her husband Christopher and Aubrey Cannatella; much loved great-grandmother of Dylan Havens; loved sister of the late Samuel and Ralph Danna and Anthony Mercaldi; much loved by her sister-in-law Marlene Mercaldi of Yorktown Heights, and many nieces and nephews.
In lieu of flowers memorial donations to the Wayne Foundation for the Handicapped, 30 Woodridge Terr., Wayne, NJ 07470 would be appreciated.
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