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January 27, 2018
Services
Friends may visit with the family at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne, on Thursday, February 1, 2018 from 4:00 to 7:30 PM.
A Funeral Service will be held immediately following the time of visitation and begin in the funeral home at 7:30 PM.
Francisca Ruiz, age 88 of Wayne, passed away on Saturday, January 27, 2018.
Frances was born in Naguabo, Puerto Rico, the tenth of Marcello and Sabina Melendez’ eleven children.
When Frances was nineteen years old, she moved to the Bronx, NY in search of work. While getting settled, she initially lived with a family by the last name Ruiz. The Ruiz family had a son named George and it didn’t take too long before he and Frances began to take a bit of a liking to each other. In fact, they took such a liking to each other that they ultimately decided to get married. They exchanged wedding vows on Tuesday, May 16, 1950 at a local catholic church in the Bronx.
After marriage, Frances and George remained in the Bronx where they established their first home as husband and wife. Eventually they would welcome four sons and a daughter and Frances took her role as mother and homemaker very seriously. She did a great job teaching her kids about the value of hard work, character and honesty. She was also by far, their favorite cook and no one could make rice and beans, beans with dumplings, stewed chicken and other cultural Caribbean favorites like Momma Frances. The kids will always have fond memories of summer getaways, spending most summers at Cossayuna Lake in New York State where they all enjoyed being together in their sixty-foot trailer and watching Frances enjoy one of her personal favorite pastimes of fresh-water fishing. She was especially adept at catching sunfish and even more adept at fileting, breading and frying them up…….Mmmmmm! Flakey and delicious! She liked to catch perch and largemouth bass too. When her own children were older, Frances returned to the out-of- home workforce as a home attendant for the elderly.
Frances and George remained in the Bronx until 1994. By then their kids were all independent so they decided to move back to Puerto Rico. They remained there for four years, then, in 1998, they moved to Deltona, Florida because the healthcare was just better there than in Puerto Rico. In her retirement years, Frances loved watching television, especially Oprah Winfrey, The Price is Right, and reality programs on the Spanish broadcasting channels. Nothing made her more pleased though than when her thirteen grandchildren would come to visit. In 2015, two years after the passing of her husband George, Frances moved to Wayne to live with her son Frank.
Frances will always be loved and respected for providing a loving home where values were instilled. She was fun to be around and all of her children enjoyed her wit and humor.
Francisca was the beloved wife of George who passed away in 2013. They enjoyed 63 years in a loving marriage. She was the loving mother of George Orlando Ruiz and wife Norma of Lakeland, FL, Edda Lee Ruiz of the Bronx, NY, George Louis Ruiz of East Chester, NY, Raymond Ruiz and wife Maria Natalia of East Stroudsburg, PA, and Dr. Frank Ruiz and wife Alice of Wayne; Adoring grandmother of 13 grandchildren; 1 cherished great-grandchild; and dear sister of Ismael Melendez of Puerto Rico, and Roberto Melendez and wife Wilma of Puerto Rico. She was also predeceased by eight other dear siblings.
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Friends may visit with the family at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne, on Thursday, February 1, 2018 from 4:00 to 7:30 PM.
A Funeral Service will be held immediately following the time of visitation and begin in the funeral home at 7:30 PM.
January 27, 2018
Services
Friends may visit with the family at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne, on Thursday, February 1, 2018 from 4:00 to 7:30 PM.
A Funeral Service will be held immediately following the time of visitation and begin in the funeral home at 7:30 PM.
Francisca Ruiz, age 88 of Wayne, passed away on Saturday, January 27, 2018.
Frances was born in Naguabo, Puerto Rico, the tenth of Marcello and Sabina Melendez’ eleven children.
When Frances was nineteen years old, she moved to the Bronx, NY in search of work. While getting settled, she initially lived with a family by the last name Ruiz. The Ruiz family had a son named George and it didn’t take too long before he and Frances began to take a bit of a liking to each other. In fact, they took such a liking to each other that they ultimately decided to get married. They exchanged wedding vows on Tuesday, May 16, 1950 at a local catholic church in the Bronx.
After marriage, Frances and George remained in the Bronx where they established their first home as husband and wife. Eventually they would welcome four sons and a daughter and Frances took her role as mother and homemaker very seriously. She did a great job teaching her kids about the value of hard work, character and honesty. She was also by far, their favorite cook and no one could make rice and beans, beans with dumplings, stewed chicken and other cultural Caribbean favorites like Momma Frances. The kids will always have fond memories of summer getaways, spending most summers at Cossayuna Lake in New York State where they all enjoyed being together in their sixty-foot trailer and watching Frances enjoy one of her personal favorite pastimes of fresh-water fishing. She was especially adept at catching sunfish and even more adept at fileting, breading and frying them up…….Mmmmmm! Flakey and delicious! She liked to catch perch and largemouth bass too. When her own children were older, Frances returned to the out-of- home workforce as a home attendant for the elderly.
Frances and George remained in the Bronx until 1994. By then their kids were all independent so they decided to move back to Puerto Rico. They remained there for four years, then, in 1998, they moved to Deltona, Florida because the healthcare was just better there than in Puerto Rico. In her retirement years, Frances loved watching television, especially Oprah Winfrey, The Price is Right, and reality programs on the Spanish broadcasting channels. Nothing made her more pleased though than when her thirteen grandchildren would come to visit. In 2015, two years after the passing of her husband George, Frances moved to Wayne to live with her son Frank.
Frances will always be loved and respected for providing a loving home where values were instilled. She was fun to be around and all of her children enjoyed her wit and humor.
Francisca was the beloved wife of George who passed away in 2013. They enjoyed 63 years in a loving marriage. She was the loving mother of George Orlando Ruiz and wife Norma of Lakeland, FL, Edda Lee Ruiz of the Bronx, NY, George Louis Ruiz of East Chester, NY, Raymond Ruiz and wife Maria Natalia of East Stroudsburg, PA, and Dr. Frank Ruiz and wife Alice of Wayne; Adoring grandmother of 13 grandchildren; 1 cherished great-grandchild; and dear sister of Ismael Melendez of Puerto Rico, and Roberto Melendez and wife Wilma of Puerto Rico. She was also predeceased by eight other dear siblings.
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