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December 20, 2012
Services
Friends may visit with the family on Friday, December 21, 2012 from 4-8 PM at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
Funeral services will be held 10 AM on Saturday, December 22, 2012 at the funeral home.
Interment will be in Calvary Cemetery in Paterson.
Frank Shortino age 89 of Jensen Beach Florida died peacefully, on Thursday, December 20, 2012, in Wayne New Jersey.
He was born and raised in Garfield having lived at 130 Jewell Street for many years. He attended School #4 and the Garfield High School with the Class of 1941.
In 1943 Frank enlisted in the United States Army and served much of his time in the South Pacific Theatre of WWII. After his service in the military he joined the family business, working side by side with his father, Shortino Poultry Market just one door away from his childhood home. After forty years the family business was closed as supermarkets came to be and took away most of the specialized family business in the community. Frank soon found employment with the Thom McCann shoe chain where he worked as a warehouse supervisor. After a few years Thom McCann moved its distribution to Massachusetts and Frank didn’t want to follow. He found warehouse work with the Teamsters Local 707 in Hempstead New York and worked for the Oneida Trucking Company in Carlstadt before retiring in 1985 at the age of 62.
For many years he had a home in the Hewitt section of Upper Greenwood Lake. Upon his retirement he moved to Jensen Beach Florida and during the summer he was a snowbird in New Jersey. Frank was very proud of his military service and was a member of the VFW in both Garfield NJ and Florida.
Frank was the loving husband of fifty eight years to Sophie Shortino. They married at Our Lady of Sorrows RC Church in Garfield on June 4, 1950 and honeymooned at Niagara Falls. Frank’s true devotion to Sophie became evident in her most latter years when she was stricken with Alzheimers Disease. Frank cared for Sophie night and day vowing to never let her go into a nursing home. She passed away in 2008 still under Frank’s love and care.
Frank was the loving father of Joseph Shortino and his wife Linda of the Township of Washington, LuAnn Rosende and her husband Peter of Montville, and Marie Rossman and her husband Donald of Wayne; cherished grandfather of Danielle, Lisa, Ariel, Brian, and Gina. He was predeceased by his three brothers Angelo, Samuel and Louis Shortino.
In lieu of flowers memorial donations to the Wounded Warrior Project Wounded Warrior Project, 4899 Belfort Road, Suite 300, Jacksonville, FL 32256 would be appreicated.
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Friends may visit with the family on Friday, December 21, 2012 from 4-8 PM at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
Funeral services will be held 10 AM on Saturday, December 22, 2012 at the funeral home.
Interment will be in Calvary Cemetery in Paterson.
December 20, 2012
Services
Friends may visit with the family on Friday, December 21, 2012 from 4-8 PM at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
Funeral services will be held 10 AM on Saturday, December 22, 2012 at the funeral home.
Interment will be in Calvary Cemetery in Paterson.
Frank Shortino age 89 of Jensen Beach Florida died peacefully, on Thursday, December 20, 2012, in Wayne New Jersey.
He was born and raised in Garfield having lived at 130 Jewell Street for many years. He attended School #4 and the Garfield High School with the Class of 1941.
In 1943 Frank enlisted in the United States Army and served much of his time in the South Pacific Theatre of WWII. After his service in the military he joined the family business, working side by side with his father, Shortino Poultry Market just one door away from his childhood home. After forty years the family business was closed as supermarkets came to be and took away most of the specialized family business in the community. Frank soon found employment with the Thom McCann shoe chain where he worked as a warehouse supervisor. After a few years Thom McCann moved its distribution to Massachusetts and Frank didn’t want to follow. He found warehouse work with the Teamsters Local 707 in Hempstead New York and worked for the Oneida Trucking Company in Carlstadt before retiring in 1985 at the age of 62.
For many years he had a home in the Hewitt section of Upper Greenwood Lake. Upon his retirement he moved to Jensen Beach Florida and during the summer he was a snowbird in New Jersey. Frank was very proud of his military service and was a member of the VFW in both Garfield NJ and Florida.
Frank was the loving husband of fifty eight years to Sophie Shortino. They married at Our Lady of Sorrows RC Church in Garfield on June 4, 1950 and honeymooned at Niagara Falls. Frank’s true devotion to Sophie became evident in her most latter years when she was stricken with Alzheimers Disease. Frank cared for Sophie night and day vowing to never let her go into a nursing home. She passed away in 2008 still under Frank’s love and care.
Frank was the loving father of Joseph Shortino and his wife Linda of the Township of Washington, LuAnn Rosende and her husband Peter of Montville, and Marie Rossman and her husband Donald of Wayne; cherished grandfather of Danielle, Lisa, Ariel, Brian, and Gina. He was predeceased by his three brothers Angelo, Samuel and Louis Shortino.
In lieu of flowers memorial donations to the Wounded Warrior Project Wounded Warrior Project, 4899 Belfort Road, Suite 300, Jacksonville, FL 32256 would be appreicated.
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