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March 8, 2010
Services
Friends may visit with the family on Friday, March 12, 2010 from 2-4 and 7-9 PM at the Vander May Funeral Home.
Funeral services will be held 8 AM on Saturday, March 13, 2010 from the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne then to Our Lady of Consolation RC Church, 1799 Hamburg Tpk., Wayne where a 9 AM Funeral Mass will be offered.
Interment will be in Holy Sepulchre Cemetery, Totowa.
Frances Coccari age 90 of Wayne died peacefully in her sleep on Monday, March 8, 2010.
She was born in Saint Andrea, Italy and came to this country at the age of sixteen settling in Brooklyn, NY having lived in West Paterson and Little Falls before moving to Wayne twenty five years ago.
Mrs. Coccari was a talented seamstress having first worked in textile factories and later for interior designers. She was employed by Harold Martin Interiors, Paterson and Wayne and later by Silver Threads of Fairfield. Dedicated to her trade she continued to work, on a part time basis, until she was eighty one years old.
She was a parishioner of Holy Angels RC Church, Little Falls and more recently Our Lady of Consolation RC Church, Wayne.
Frances is best described as a dedicated and loving mother and grandmother. She was constantly entertaining and “cooking up a storm” for family and friends. One of her culinary specialties was her rice balls which her grandson is now making with equal perfection. She traveled within the United States and was able to make several trips back to her hometown in Italy.
She met the love of her life Fiori Coccari… Frances came from a very conservative and protective family and in order to take her on a date Firoi had to take her parents, brothers and sisters with them.
She was a member of the St. Andrews Social Club of West Paterson and the Ladies Auxiliary of the Great Notch Fire Department, Little Falls.
Frances was predeceased by her husband of sixty-four years Fiori Coccari in 2002; she is the beloved mother of Frank Coccari of Watertown, NY, Anna Marie Fritts and her husband Thomas of Wayne and her daughter-in-law Lorraine Coccari of Wayne; cherished grandmother of Jennifer Herd and her husband Ryan of Pomton Plains , N.J., Thomas Fritts Jr and his wife Monique of Titusville , Florida, Wendy Grecco and her husband Kenny of Wayne, NJ, and Brian Fritts and his wife Janet of Florham Park , NJ, Sean Fritts of Nutley , NJ, and great-grandmother of Collin Fritts and Deja Fritts, Riley Herd and Ryan Pinder; loved sister of Mary Mannello and her husband Mario of Pompton Plains, Josephine Jackson of the Great-Notch section of Little Falls and Andrew Stillo and his wife Janet of Riverdale and the late Bruno Stillo.
In lieu of flowers memorial donations to the American Cancer Society, PO Box 22718, Oklahoma City, OK 73123-1717 would be appreciated.
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Friends may visit with the family on Friday, March 12, 2010 from 2-4 and 7-9 PM at the Vander May Funeral Home.
Funeral services will be held 8 AM on Saturday, March 13, 2010 from the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne then to Our Lady of Consolation RC Church, 1799 Hamburg Tpk., Wayne where a 9 AM Funeral Mass will be offered.
Interment will be in Holy Sepulchre Cemetery, Totowa.
March 8, 2010
Services
Friends may visit with the family on Friday, March 12, 2010 from 2-4 and 7-9 PM at the Vander May Funeral Home.
Funeral services will be held 8 AM on Saturday, March 13, 2010 from the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne then to Our Lady of Consolation RC Church, 1799 Hamburg Tpk., Wayne where a 9 AM Funeral Mass will be offered.
Interment will be in Holy Sepulchre Cemetery, Totowa.
Frances Coccari age 90 of Wayne died peacefully in her sleep on Monday, March 8, 2010.
She was born in Saint Andrea, Italy and came to this country at the age of sixteen settling in Brooklyn, NY having lived in West Paterson and Little Falls before moving to Wayne twenty five years ago.
Mrs. Coccari was a talented seamstress having first worked in textile factories and later for interior designers. She was employed by Harold Martin Interiors, Paterson and Wayne and later by Silver Threads of Fairfield. Dedicated to her trade she continued to work, on a part time basis, until she was eighty one years old.
She was a parishioner of Holy Angels RC Church, Little Falls and more recently Our Lady of Consolation RC Church, Wayne.
Frances is best described as a dedicated and loving mother and grandmother. She was constantly entertaining and “cooking up a storm” for family and friends. One of her culinary specialties was her rice balls which her grandson is now making with equal perfection. She traveled within the United States and was able to make several trips back to her hometown in Italy.
She met the love of her life Fiori Coccari… Frances came from a very conservative and protective family and in order to take her on a date Firoi had to take her parents, brothers and sisters with them.
She was a member of the St. Andrews Social Club of West Paterson and the Ladies Auxiliary of the Great Notch Fire Department, Little Falls.
Frances was predeceased by her husband of sixty-four years Fiori Coccari in 2002; she is the beloved mother of Frank Coccari of Watertown, NY, Anna Marie Fritts and her husband Thomas of Wayne and her daughter-in-law Lorraine Coccari of Wayne; cherished grandmother of Jennifer Herd and her husband Ryan of Pomton Plains , N.J., Thomas Fritts Jr and his wife Monique of Titusville , Florida, Wendy Grecco and her husband Kenny of Wayne, NJ, and Brian Fritts and his wife Janet of Florham Park , NJ, Sean Fritts of Nutley , NJ, and great-grandmother of Collin Fritts and Deja Fritts, Riley Herd and Ryan Pinder; loved sister of Mary Mannello and her husband Mario of Pompton Plains, Josephine Jackson of the Great-Notch section of Little Falls and Andrew Stillo and his wife Janet of Riverdale and the late Bruno Stillo.
In lieu of flowers memorial donations to the American Cancer Society, PO Box 22718, Oklahoma City, OK 73123-1717 would be appreciated.
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