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Services
Friends may visit with the family at the funeral home on Friday, May 6, 2016 from 4-8 PM.
Funeral services will be held Saturday, May 7, 2016 at 9 AM from the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne then to Immaculate Heart of Mary RC Church, 580 Ratzer Road, Wayne where at 10 AM a Funeral Mass will be offered. Interment will follow at Laurel Grove Cemetery, Totowa.
Gertrude DeFranco, age 93 of Wayne, died Wednesday, May 4, 2016.
She was born in Paterson and had lived there before moving to Wayne fifty-eight years ago. She was a former secretary with the Diocese of Paterson. Gertrude had sixty-four years of “caring and devoted” marriage together with her husband Philip until his passing in 2007.
Surviving are her two sons Roy DeFranco and his wife Linda of West Milford and Philip DeFranco and his wife Randee of Wayne; grandchildren: Roy DeFranco Jr. and Melissa, Matthew DeFranco and Camille, Melissa DeFranco, and Brooke Mendel and Joseph; and seven great-grandchildren: Evangeline, Charlize, Addison, Caleb, Nathan, Lucia, and Amelia.
In lieu of flowers, those planning an expression of sympathy in Gertrude’s memory are asked to consider making a donation to The Department of Persons with Disabilities, 1 Catholic Charities, Way, Oak Ridge, NJ 07438. (dpd.org\give)
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Friends may visit with the family at the funeral home on Friday, May 6, 2016 from 4-8 PM.
Funeral services will be held Saturday, May 7, 2016 at 9 AM from the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne then to Immaculate Heart of Mary RC Church, 580 Ratzer Road, Wayne where at 10 AM a Funeral Mass will be offered. Interment will follow at Laurel Grove Cemetery, Totowa.
Services
Friends may visit with the family at the funeral home on Friday, May 6, 2016 from 4-8 PM.
Funeral services will be held Saturday, May 7, 2016 at 9 AM from the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne then to Immaculate Heart of Mary RC Church, 580 Ratzer Road, Wayne where at 10 AM a Funeral Mass will be offered. Interment will follow at Laurel Grove Cemetery, Totowa.
Gertrude DeFranco, age 93 of Wayne, died Wednesday, May 4, 2016.
She was born in Paterson and had lived there before moving to Wayne fifty-eight years ago. She was a former secretary with the Diocese of Paterson. Gertrude had sixty-four years of “caring and devoted” marriage together with her husband Philip until his passing in 2007.
Surviving are her two sons Roy DeFranco and his wife Linda of West Milford and Philip DeFranco and his wife Randee of Wayne; grandchildren: Roy DeFranco Jr. and Melissa, Matthew DeFranco and Camille, Melissa DeFranco, and Brooke Mendel and Joseph; and seven great-grandchildren: Evangeline, Charlize, Addison, Caleb, Nathan, Lucia, and Amelia.
In lieu of flowers, those planning an expression of sympathy in Gertrude’s memory are asked to consider making a donation to The Department of Persons with Disabilities, 1 Catholic Charities, Way, Oak Ridge, NJ 07438. (dpd.org\give)
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