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June 30, 2008
Services
Funeral services will be held Thursday, July 3, 2008 at 9:30 AM from the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne then to Immaculate Heart of Mary RC Church, Wayne where at 10:30 AM a Funeral Mass will be offered.
Friends may visit with the family at the funeral home on Wednesday from 2-4, 7-9 PM.
Interment will be in Christ the King Cemetery, Franklin Lakes.
George Fossati age 86 of Wayne died Monday, June 30, 2008 at the Care One Health Care Center, Wayne.
He was born in New York City where he lived until the age of twelve when he moved to Northern Italy to live with his mother. When WWII started his mother purchased a local tavern in hopes that this work would keep George out of the war. However the military police took him and made him serve in the Italian Merchant Marine. Once assigned to a ship he started a day of target practice in which they had to hit a target on the horizon. George destroyed the target with the first shot and was awarded a medal, which he refused. He recounted to his family that during one battle he was ordered to shoot at American planes overhead, he refused and was going to be court-marshaled but his ship was destroyed before that could be carried out. Once his ship was destroyed he made it back to Rome and tried to make his way to the American forces in Italy but was captured by the Fascists and scheduled for execution. He attributes his survival and his escape to two men he met up with, Ray and Bruno. Bruno had a suitcase full of money which proved very useful in keeping the three alive.
He met his wife-to-be Rosanna Garavetti, through a friend, in Cossila, Italy, married in 1948, and soon thereafter moved to the Untied States. The couple settled in West New York, NJ where George got employment with the Kaywoodie Pipe Company in West New York, NY where he worked for twenty years. He developed his skills as a machinist and later became a self-employed machinists trading as Fossati Engineering Company in Palisades Park, NJ. George put his inventive skills to work having invented a machine that could make cigarette and pipe filters automatically at approximately the rate of 100/minute compared to the age-old method of hand rolling these filters. He also invented a modular chandelier which would easily disassemble for easy cleaning of the crystal ornamentation.
George and Rosanna had sixty years of “wonderful loving” marriage together.
He leaves his family with many fond memories of a wonderful loving husband, father and grandfather. He was gifted with a selfless personality and always strove for the best for his family. Dad worked three jobs and made many personal sacrifices to put his son Jeffrey through medical school. He was very proud of his life achievements and his family remain very proud of him.
Surviving him are his wife of over sixty years Rosanna(Garavetti) Fossati; loving father of Jeffrey Fossati MD and his wife Kelly of Wayne; cherished grandfather of Cassandra and Jeffrey Fossati, Jr. both of Wayne.
He was predeceased by his sister Gloria Fossati who had lived in Italy.
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Funeral services will be held Thursday, July 3, 2008 at 9:30 AM from the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne then to Immaculate Heart of Mary RC Church, Wayne where at 10:30 AM a Funeral Mass will be offered.
Friends may visit with the family at the funeral home on Wednesday from 2-4, 7-9 PM.
Interment will be in Christ the King Cemetery, Franklin Lakes.
June 30, 2008
Services
Funeral services will be held Thursday, July 3, 2008 at 9:30 AM from the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne then to Immaculate Heart of Mary RC Church, Wayne where at 10:30 AM a Funeral Mass will be offered.
Friends may visit with the family at the funeral home on Wednesday from 2-4, 7-9 PM.
Interment will be in Christ the King Cemetery, Franklin Lakes.
George Fossati age 86 of Wayne died Monday, June 30, 2008 at the Care One Health Care Center, Wayne.
He was born in New York City where he lived until the age of twelve when he moved to Northern Italy to live with his mother. When WWII started his mother purchased a local tavern in hopes that this work would keep George out of the war. However the military police took him and made him serve in the Italian Merchant Marine. Once assigned to a ship he started a day of target practice in which they had to hit a target on the horizon. George destroyed the target with the first shot and was awarded a medal, which he refused. He recounted to his family that during one battle he was ordered to shoot at American planes overhead, he refused and was going to be court-marshaled but his ship was destroyed before that could be carried out. Once his ship was destroyed he made it back to Rome and tried to make his way to the American forces in Italy but was captured by the Fascists and scheduled for execution. He attributes his survival and his escape to two men he met up with, Ray and Bruno. Bruno had a suitcase full of money which proved very useful in keeping the three alive.
He met his wife-to-be Rosanna Garavetti, through a friend, in Cossila, Italy, married in 1948, and soon thereafter moved to the Untied States. The couple settled in West New York, NJ where George got employment with the Kaywoodie Pipe Company in West New York, NY where he worked for twenty years. He developed his skills as a machinist and later became a self-employed machinists trading as Fossati Engineering Company in Palisades Park, NJ. George put his inventive skills to work having invented a machine that could make cigarette and pipe filters automatically at approximately the rate of 100/minute compared to the age-old method of hand rolling these filters. He also invented a modular chandelier which would easily disassemble for easy cleaning of the crystal ornamentation.
George and Rosanna had sixty years of “wonderful loving” marriage together.
He leaves his family with many fond memories of a wonderful loving husband, father and grandfather. He was gifted with a selfless personality and always strove for the best for his family. Dad worked three jobs and made many personal sacrifices to put his son Jeffrey through medical school. He was very proud of his life achievements and his family remain very proud of him.
Surviving him are his wife of over sixty years Rosanna(Garavetti) Fossati; loving father of Jeffrey Fossati MD and his wife Kelly of Wayne; cherished grandfather of Cassandra and Jeffrey Fossati, Jr. both of Wayne.
He was predeceased by his sister Gloria Fossati who had lived in Italy.
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