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Friends may visit with the family on Friday, August 19, 2016 from 4-8 PM at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
Funeral services will be held at 12:00 noon on Saturday, August 20, 2016 from the funeral home, followed by interment at Gate of Heaven Cemetery, East Hanover.
Frances V. (Scaturro) Menzo, née Bocina age 89 of Pompton Plains, passed away peacefully on Sunday, August 14, 2016.
Born in East Orange, her family moved to Fayette Avenue in Wayne when Fran was just two years old. She grew up in that home and, because Wayne didn’t have its own high school at that time, she attended Pompton Lakes High School where she played basketball and graduated with the Class of 1944. After high school Fran worked for a time as a waitress at her brother Casper’s diner.
As a young lady, Fran’s dancing skills caught the eye of a young man named Samuel Scaturro one evening at a dance hall in East Orange. Not a bad dancer himself, they danced together and that night, a beautiful romance was born. They married a couple years later in 1946 at Holy Cross Church in the Mountainview section of Wayne.
Meanwhile, her parents had sold the house on Fayette Avenue and had since moved into the house next door. Then one day, that house Fran grew up in went up for sale again so she and Sam bought it back. Over the next seven years, from 1948 to 1955, Fran and Sam established a beautiful family welcoming three children: Ben, Ginny, and Stephen. Fran settled into the role of mom and homemaker and she served admirably! Her family held her cooking and baking talents up in high esteem and they especially loved her home-made manicotti and Italian wedding soup. Fran always made Christmas a special and memorable time for family and friends hosting dinner and lots of Italian cookies. She especially got a kick out of hosting non-Italian guests for Christmas because they’d always be full after the first course, never realizing that dinner was an all-day, take-a-nap-in-between, multi-course event.
When Stephen, Fran’s youngest, began attending high school, she rejoined the ranks of those who work outside the home. Her first job was with the Township of Wayne where she was a secretary in the tax department. She worked there for ten years, before taking a job as a secretary with Singer Kearfott where she worked for twenty more years, most recently in their West Paterson location, before retiring permanently.
Fran’s greatest pastimes included dancing and traveling. She and Sam spent many nights with friends at places like Donahue’s Dance Club as well as events at the American Legion Hall. Together, they also took some exciting trips to Italy and Hawaii. They were really enjoying the empty nest years but they came to a sudden and sad end when Sam passed away in 1982 after a loving marriage of thirty-six years.
In 1983 Fran said goodbye to the house on Fayette Ave., purchasing a home in Packanack Lake. A year later, when the big floods hit the north Jersey area, Fayette Ave. was not spared from the floods and Fran was all too thankful she had sold the year before. A parishioner of Holy Cross Church in the Mountainview section of Wayne for many years, when she moved to Packanack Lake, she found spiritual guidance and nourishment at Immaculate Heart of Mary Parish where she remained a faithful parishioner until moving to Cedar Crest Village in Pompton Plains in 2010.
Eventually, Fran found love again when she met John Menzo at a travel club. They dated for a time and ultimately decided to tie the knot in 1984. They had twenty five years of a “happy and fun” marriage together until John’s passing in 2009. John also shared Fran’s love of dancing so, whenever the occasion allowed, they would spend a pleasant evening dancing together with friends. They also shared a love for travel and together visited twenty-five countries including all of the United States.
One of Fran’s greatest joys was having her whole family gathered at the summer house down the Jersey shore in Belmar. The family always gathers on the same spot on the beach – right where 19th Ave. runs into the beach. For the past ten years, a tradition has developed as the whole Scaturro clan gathers annually for a family get-together on the weekend after Labor Day.
Fran will be dearly missed but her family gives thanks for her life and are grateful that she is at peace.
Surviving are Fran’s son Benjamin and wife Deborah Scaturro of Bloomingdale, daughter Virginia and husband Chester Zalusky of Wayne, and son Stephen and wife Nancy Scaturro of Greenwood Lake, NY; six grandchildren: Samuel, David, Benjamin, Jr., Regina, Michael and Andrew; ten great-grandchildren: Emma, Julian, Sophia, Aliyah, Arianna, Maréa, Matthew, Zachary, Ryan and Nathan; and two siblings: Rosalie Pitch of Tampa, FL, and Casper and wife Phyllis Bocina of Far Hills, NJ. She was predeceased by her first husband Samuel Scaturro in 1982, her second husband John Menzo in 2009, and her grandson Shawn Scaturro in 1992.
In lieu of flowers, those planning an expression of sympathy in Frances’ name are asked to consider American Cancer Society, NJ Chapter, 20 Mercer Street, Hackensack, NJ 07601 (www.cancer.org).
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Friends may visit with the family on Friday, August 19, 2016 from 4-8 PM at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
Funeral services will be held at 12:00 noon on Saturday, August 20, 2016 from the funeral home, followed by interment at Gate of Heaven Cemetery, East Hanover.
Services
Friends may visit with the family on Friday, August 19, 2016 from 4-8 PM at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
Funeral services will be held at 12:00 noon on Saturday, August 20, 2016 from the funeral home, followed by interment at Gate of Heaven Cemetery, East Hanover.
Frances V. (Scaturro) Menzo, née Bocina age 89 of Pompton Plains, passed away peacefully on Sunday, August 14, 2016.
Born in East Orange, her family moved to Fayette Avenue in Wayne when Fran was just two years old. She grew up in that home and, because Wayne didn’t have its own high school at that time, she attended Pompton Lakes High School where she played basketball and graduated with the Class of 1944. After high school Fran worked for a time as a waitress at her brother Casper’s diner.
As a young lady, Fran’s dancing skills caught the eye of a young man named Samuel Scaturro one evening at a dance hall in East Orange. Not a bad dancer himself, they danced together and that night, a beautiful romance was born. They married a couple years later in 1946 at Holy Cross Church in the Mountainview section of Wayne.
Meanwhile, her parents had sold the house on Fayette Avenue and had since moved into the house next door. Then one day, that house Fran grew up in went up for sale again so she and Sam bought it back. Over the next seven years, from 1948 to 1955, Fran and Sam established a beautiful family welcoming three children: Ben, Ginny, and Stephen. Fran settled into the role of mom and homemaker and she served admirably! Her family held her cooking and baking talents up in high esteem and they especially loved her home-made manicotti and Italian wedding soup. Fran always made Christmas a special and memorable time for family and friends hosting dinner and lots of Italian cookies. She especially got a kick out of hosting non-Italian guests for Christmas because they’d always be full after the first course, never realizing that dinner was an all-day, take-a-nap-in-between, multi-course event.
When Stephen, Fran’s youngest, began attending high school, she rejoined the ranks of those who work outside the home. Her first job was with the Township of Wayne where she was a secretary in the tax department. She worked there for ten years, before taking a job as a secretary with Singer Kearfott where she worked for twenty more years, most recently in their West Paterson location, before retiring permanently.
Fran’s greatest pastimes included dancing and traveling. She and Sam spent many nights with friends at places like Donahue’s Dance Club as well as events at the American Legion Hall. Together, they also took some exciting trips to Italy and Hawaii. They were really enjoying the empty nest years but they came to a sudden and sad end when Sam passed away in 1982 after a loving marriage of thirty-six years.
In 1983 Fran said goodbye to the house on Fayette Ave., purchasing a home in Packanack Lake. A year later, when the big floods hit the north Jersey area, Fayette Ave. was not spared from the floods and Fran was all too thankful she had sold the year before. A parishioner of Holy Cross Church in the Mountainview section of Wayne for many years, when she moved to Packanack Lake, she found spiritual guidance and nourishment at Immaculate Heart of Mary Parish where she remained a faithful parishioner until moving to Cedar Crest Village in Pompton Plains in 2010.
Eventually, Fran found love again when she met John Menzo at a travel club. They dated for a time and ultimately decided to tie the knot in 1984. They had twenty five years of a “happy and fun” marriage together until John’s passing in 2009. John also shared Fran’s love of dancing so, whenever the occasion allowed, they would spend a pleasant evening dancing together with friends. They also shared a love for travel and together visited twenty-five countries including all of the United States.
One of Fran’s greatest joys was having her whole family gathered at the summer house down the Jersey shore in Belmar. The family always gathers on the same spot on the beach – right where 19th Ave. runs into the beach. For the past ten years, a tradition has developed as the whole Scaturro clan gathers annually for a family get-together on the weekend after Labor Day.
Fran will be dearly missed but her family gives thanks for her life and are grateful that she is at peace.
Surviving are Fran’s son Benjamin and wife Deborah Scaturro of Bloomingdale, daughter Virginia and husband Chester Zalusky of Wayne, and son Stephen and wife Nancy Scaturro of Greenwood Lake, NY; six grandchildren: Samuel, David, Benjamin, Jr., Regina, Michael and Andrew; ten great-grandchildren: Emma, Julian, Sophia, Aliyah, Arianna, Maréa, Matthew, Zachary, Ryan and Nathan; and two siblings: Rosalie Pitch of Tampa, FL, and Casper and wife Phyllis Bocina of Far Hills, NJ. She was predeceased by her first husband Samuel Scaturro in 1982, her second husband John Menzo in 2009, and her grandson Shawn Scaturro in 1992.
In lieu of flowers, those planning an expression of sympathy in Frances’ name are asked to consider American Cancer Society, NJ Chapter, 20 Mercer Street, Hackensack, NJ 07601 (www.cancer.org).
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