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November 6, 2013
Services
Friends may visit with the family from 2 - 6 PM on Sunday, November 10, 2013 at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
Funeral services will be held 9 AM from the funeral home on Monday, November 11, 2013, then to Annunciation RC Church, 45 Urban Club Road, Wayne where a 10 AM Funeral Mass will be offered.
Frank Greco age 84 of Wayne passed peacefully on Wednesday, November 6, 2013.
He was born and raised in Paterson having graduated from Eastside High School in Paterson with the class of 1946.
At the age of eleven and for the next seventy-three years he worked at the family business, Maiella Furniture in Paterson. The showroom moved from Paterson to Haledon before settling in Hawthorne 30 years ago. Frank worked there up until June of this year.
Frank met his wife, Rosemarie Vitale, while doing the Saturday collections of furniture purchases people had made on credit. One of the families he was collecting from urged him to meet Rosemarie. Their first date was to Coney Island in Frank’s blue Ford. The married on February 13, 1955 at Blessed Sacrament RC Church in Paterson and they honeymooned in Mexico City and Acapulco. This was the first and only time Frank took a two week vacation from work. Frank and Rosemarie enjoyed fifty-eight years of loving marriage.
Frank was dedicated to his work and his community. He was a member for fifty four years and was a Past Exalted Ruler of the Passaic Valley Elks Lodge 2111; Past Grand Knight of the Knights of Columbus Council 11943 at Annunciation RC Church in Wayne; served as Treasurer of the Passaic County Elks Cerebral Palsy Center until his passing; and was a Committee Chairman of the Wayne Boy Scouts of America Troop 127; member of the Italian American Club of Totowa; a member of the Fidelians of North Haledon; and a member of the Furniture Manufacturers Association.
He was a founding parishioner of Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary RC Church in Wayne and served as an Usher for many years.
Frank was the loving husband of fifty-eight years to Rosemarie (Vitale) Greco; loving father of Frank Greco, Jr. of Clifton, Dana Hampson and her husband Bill of Hawthorne, Melissa Greco and her partner Lisa Rapone of Union, and David Greco and his wife Lisa Szegedi of Hawthorne; cherished grandfather of Stephanie Greco, Elizabeth, Alexandra, Danielle and Jacquelyn Hampson; loved brother of the late Joseph Greco and his surviving wife Yolanda of Brick, and the late Bernadette Zaloom; much loved brother-in-law of Joseph and Elinore Vitale; adored uncle of Stephen and Thomas Vitale, Yolanda Sisco, Adrianna Scott, Donna Feil, and the late Elyse Zaloom.
In lieu of flowers memorial donations to the Passaic County Elks Cerebral Palsy Center, 1481 Main Ave., Clifton, NJ 07011 would be appreciated.
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Friends may visit with the family from 2 - 6 PM on Sunday, November 10, 2013 at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
Funeral services will be held 9 AM from the funeral home on Monday, November 11, 2013, then to Annunciation RC Church, 45 Urban Club Road, Wayne where a 10 AM Funeral Mass will be offered.
November 6, 2013
Services
Friends may visit with the family from 2 - 6 PM on Sunday, November 10, 2013 at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
Funeral services will be held 9 AM from the funeral home on Monday, November 11, 2013, then to Annunciation RC Church, 45 Urban Club Road, Wayne where a 10 AM Funeral Mass will be offered.
Frank Greco age 84 of Wayne passed peacefully on Wednesday, November 6, 2013.
He was born and raised in Paterson having graduated from Eastside High School in Paterson with the class of 1946.
At the age of eleven and for the next seventy-three years he worked at the family business, Maiella Furniture in Paterson. The showroom moved from Paterson to Haledon before settling in Hawthorne 30 years ago. Frank worked there up until June of this year.
Frank met his wife, Rosemarie Vitale, while doing the Saturday collections of furniture purchases people had made on credit. One of the families he was collecting from urged him to meet Rosemarie. Their first date was to Coney Island in Frank’s blue Ford. The married on February 13, 1955 at Blessed Sacrament RC Church in Paterson and they honeymooned in Mexico City and Acapulco. This was the first and only time Frank took a two week vacation from work. Frank and Rosemarie enjoyed fifty-eight years of loving marriage.
Frank was dedicated to his work and his community. He was a member for fifty four years and was a Past Exalted Ruler of the Passaic Valley Elks Lodge 2111; Past Grand Knight of the Knights of Columbus Council 11943 at Annunciation RC Church in Wayne; served as Treasurer of the Passaic County Elks Cerebral Palsy Center until his passing; and was a Committee Chairman of the Wayne Boy Scouts of America Troop 127; member of the Italian American Club of Totowa; a member of the Fidelians of North Haledon; and a member of the Furniture Manufacturers Association.
He was a founding parishioner of Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary RC Church in Wayne and served as an Usher for many years.
Frank was the loving husband of fifty-eight years to Rosemarie (Vitale) Greco; loving father of Frank Greco, Jr. of Clifton, Dana Hampson and her husband Bill of Hawthorne, Melissa Greco and her partner Lisa Rapone of Union, and David Greco and his wife Lisa Szegedi of Hawthorne; cherished grandfather of Stephanie Greco, Elizabeth, Alexandra, Danielle and Jacquelyn Hampson; loved brother of the late Joseph Greco and his surviving wife Yolanda of Brick, and the late Bernadette Zaloom; much loved brother-in-law of Joseph and Elinore Vitale; adored uncle of Stephen and Thomas Vitale, Yolanda Sisco, Adrianna Scott, Donna Feil, and the late Elyse Zaloom.
In lieu of flowers memorial donations to the Passaic County Elks Cerebral Palsy Center, 1481 Main Ave., Clifton, NJ 07011 would be appreciated.
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