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October 15, 2011
Services
Friends may visit with the family on Monday, October 17, 2011 from 2-4 and 7-9 PM at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
Funeral services will be held 8:30 AM on Tuesday, October 18, 2011 from the funeral home then to Our Lady of the Valley RC Church, 630 Valley Road, Wayne where a 9:30 AM Funeral Mass will be offered. Interment will be in Calvary Cemetery, Paterson.
Felicia Carini (nee Pezzuti) age 89 of Wayne died, Saturday, October 15, 2011, peacefully at the Atrium At Wayne.
She was born and raised in Paterson having graduated from Central High School, Paterson with the Class of 1939. After high school she worked as a bookkeeper at a shoe manufacturing company in New York City having commuted by train and going through Grand Central Station every day. After her children had grown, she returned to the workforce as a bookkeeper for Leonard’s Photography Studio, Totowa and eventually purchased the company. She ran Leonard’s Photography until she sold the business in 1982. After selling the business she worked as a bookkeeper for Bridal Manor, Totowa before retiring in 1987. Never one to sit still she started a new career as a babysitter for her grandchildren.
She met her husband Salvatore Carini having been set up by family and friends. Although they lived just a few blocks apart in Paterson they had never met. They married on May 15, 1955 at Our Lady of Lourdes RC Church, Paterson and honeymooned in Cuba. After they married they lived in a family owned two family home on Putnam Street in Paterson. In 1964 they moved to Wayne as their family grew. They had a loving and dedicated marriage until Salvatore’s untimely passing in 1977.
Felicia was independent and had many interests, but she dedicated herself to home and family as they were her priorities. Felicia was a gregarious and generous friend to many, always with a positive outlook and kind word. Felicia enjoyed bowling throughout the years and was awarded “Most Improved Bowler” at the T-Bowl Senior Leagues at age 88. Felicia was a dedicated parishioner of Our Lady of the Valley RC Church, Wayne, and a member of their Council of Catholic Women, and a member of the Annunciation RC Church of Wayne Primetimers senior group.
She was the keeper of family traditions who is best described as having a quick wit, a vibrant personality, and was blessed with good health and a clear, alert and up to date mind. Just the night before she passed she was still alert enough to joke with her family. An excellent cook her special touch on Chicken Soup, Beef Ribs and Gravy, Chocolate Pudding Pie, Lasagna, and Egg Omelets will surely be missed.
She was the beloved wife of the late Salvatore Carini (1977); loving mother of Maria Pizza and her husband Ron of Wayne, Joseph Carini and his wife Joan of Kinnelon, and Sue Piombo and her husband Albert of Wayne; cherished grandmother of Nicole George, Gina Hascup, Ron Pizza, Jr., Eric Ciappio, Albert Piombo, Jr., Melissa Piombo; and her four great grandchildren Sophie and Ethan George, and Gavin and Benjamin Hascup; loved sister of the late Alfonse and Daniel Pezzuti, Antoinette Gennarelli, Adele Magno, and Molly Gillick.
In lieu of flowers memorial donations to St. Judes Children’s Hospital, 501 St. Jude Place, Memphis, TN 38105 would be appreciated.
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Friends may visit with the family on Monday, October 17, 2011 from 2-4 and 7-9 PM at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
Funeral services will be held 8:30 AM on Tuesday, October 18, 2011 from the funeral home then to Our Lady of the Valley RC Church, 630 Valley Road, Wayne where a 9:30 AM Funeral Mass will be offered. Interment will be in Calvary Cemetery, Paterson.
October 15, 2011
Services
Friends may visit with the family on Monday, October 17, 2011 from 2-4 and 7-9 PM at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
Funeral services will be held 8:30 AM on Tuesday, October 18, 2011 from the funeral home then to Our Lady of the Valley RC Church, 630 Valley Road, Wayne where a 9:30 AM Funeral Mass will be offered. Interment will be in Calvary Cemetery, Paterson.
Felicia Carini (nee Pezzuti) age 89 of Wayne died, Saturday, October 15, 2011, peacefully at the Atrium At Wayne.
She was born and raised in Paterson having graduated from Central High School, Paterson with the Class of 1939. After high school she worked as a bookkeeper at a shoe manufacturing company in New York City having commuted by train and going through Grand Central Station every day. After her children had grown, she returned to the workforce as a bookkeeper for Leonard’s Photography Studio, Totowa and eventually purchased the company. She ran Leonard’s Photography until she sold the business in 1982. After selling the business she worked as a bookkeeper for Bridal Manor, Totowa before retiring in 1987. Never one to sit still she started a new career as a babysitter for her grandchildren.
She met her husband Salvatore Carini having been set up by family and friends. Although they lived just a few blocks apart in Paterson they had never met. They married on May 15, 1955 at Our Lady of Lourdes RC Church, Paterson and honeymooned in Cuba. After they married they lived in a family owned two family home on Putnam Street in Paterson. In 1964 they moved to Wayne as their family grew. They had a loving and dedicated marriage until Salvatore’s untimely passing in 1977.
Felicia was independent and had many interests, but she dedicated herself to home and family as they were her priorities. Felicia was a gregarious and generous friend to many, always with a positive outlook and kind word. Felicia enjoyed bowling throughout the years and was awarded “Most Improved Bowler” at the T-Bowl Senior Leagues at age 88. Felicia was a dedicated parishioner of Our Lady of the Valley RC Church, Wayne, and a member of their Council of Catholic Women, and a member of the Annunciation RC Church of Wayne Primetimers senior group.
She was the keeper of family traditions who is best described as having a quick wit, a vibrant personality, and was blessed with good health and a clear, alert and up to date mind. Just the night before she passed she was still alert enough to joke with her family. An excellent cook her special touch on Chicken Soup, Beef Ribs and Gravy, Chocolate Pudding Pie, Lasagna, and Egg Omelets will surely be missed.
She was the beloved wife of the late Salvatore Carini (1977); loving mother of Maria Pizza and her husband Ron of Wayne, Joseph Carini and his wife Joan of Kinnelon, and Sue Piombo and her husband Albert of Wayne; cherished grandmother of Nicole George, Gina Hascup, Ron Pizza, Jr., Eric Ciappio, Albert Piombo, Jr., Melissa Piombo; and her four great grandchildren Sophie and Ethan George, and Gavin and Benjamin Hascup; loved sister of the late Alfonse and Daniel Pezzuti, Antoinette Gennarelli, Adele Magno, and Molly Gillick.
In lieu of flowers memorial donations to St. Judes Children’s Hospital, 501 St. Jude Place, Memphis, TN 38105 would be appreciated.
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