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January 5, 2014
Services
Friends may visit with the family at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne, on Tuesday, January 7, 2014 from 9-11 AM.
Funeral Services will be held at 11:00 AM at the funeral home, immediately after visitation, followed by burial at Christ the King Cemetery, Franklin Lakes.
Giovanna, McCarrick, age 91 of Pompton Plains, died peacefully on Sunday morning, January 5, 2014.
She was born and raised in New York City. As a young girl, she enjoyed vacationing with her family, including her brother and sister, at their summer home in Staten Island. After graduation from a needle trade school, she became a seamstress.
A Navy serviceman approached her one night in 1945 while she was out to dinner with friends. He asked if it would be ok if his friend George bought her a drink. George had just returned from fighting in World War II in the United States Navy. Giovanna accepted and, with that drink, she had the honor of meeting this handsome young man named George McCarrick. They soon fell in love and married on December 17, 1950. They honeymooned in sunny Florida. Giovanna and George settled in Clifton and lived there until 1958 when they moved to Pompton Plains. By now, Giovanna had left behind her career as a seamstress and devoted herself to being a full-time homemaker and mother to her two daughters: Georgean and Joanne. In those early years, the family enjoyed weekends together in Toms River, floating on their cabin cruiser by day and sleeping on it at night. She and George had many friends who they liked to go to dinner with.
Giovanna and George enjoyed eighteen years together in Pompton Plains and a total of twenty-five years of marriage until George’s passing in 1976. Giovanna continued to reside in Pompton Plains until her passing.
Giovanna was dedicated to her role as mother. She loved to cook, sew and crochet. She especially had fun making Halloween costumes for the girls and later, when blessed with grandchildren, she made costumes for them too. Those costumes were so cleverly and beautifully made that, with one of the costumes, all three of her grandchildren she had at that point were voted the winners of a costume competition. Giovanna also crocheted blankets for her grandchildren. As the kids grew older and bigger, she would simply crochet each one of them newer and larger blankets. The kids loved Grandma Jean! When they were little she would baby-sit them and take them out for dinner to Friendly’s in Pompton Plains. She also enjoyed dinners at the Chinese restaurant. Grandma Jean also loved to sing songs with them. She liked to teach them words and phrases in Italian, her second language.
Besides family and friends, Giovanna’s faith in God was very important to her. When she and George moved to Pompton Plains, they got involved with a new church in town called Our Lady of Good Council Roman Catholic Church. Giovanna especially enjoyed singing in the church’s choir. She was also involved as a member of the church’s ladies council.
She will be remembered as a kind, loving and happy woman who was dedicated to her family and her faith.
Giovanna is survived by her two daughters: Georgean and husband Dion Coleman, and Joanne and husband Clifford Zoppo, both of West Milford; four grandchildren: Dion Coleman, II, Lauren Coleman, David Zoppo, and Dianna Zoppo; one great-granddaughter: Jaelyn; and one brother: Saverio and wife Mona Sciortino of Bayside, NY.
Giovanna was predeceased by her beloved husband George in 1976, and her sister Eleanor Carrozza.
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Friends may visit with the family at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne, on Tuesday, January 7, 2014 from 9-11 AM.
Funeral Services will be held at 11:00 AM at the funeral home, immediately after visitation, followed by burial at Christ the King Cemetery, Franklin Lakes.
January 5, 2014
Services
Friends may visit with the family at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne, on Tuesday, January 7, 2014 from 9-11 AM.
Funeral Services will be held at 11:00 AM at the funeral home, immediately after visitation, followed by burial at Christ the King Cemetery, Franklin Lakes.
Giovanna, McCarrick, age 91 of Pompton Plains, died peacefully on Sunday morning, January 5, 2014.
She was born and raised in New York City. As a young girl, she enjoyed vacationing with her family, including her brother and sister, at their summer home in Staten Island. After graduation from a needle trade school, she became a seamstress.
A Navy serviceman approached her one night in 1945 while she was out to dinner with friends. He asked if it would be ok if his friend George bought her a drink. George had just returned from fighting in World War II in the United States Navy. Giovanna accepted and, with that drink, she had the honor of meeting this handsome young man named George McCarrick. They soon fell in love and married on December 17, 1950. They honeymooned in sunny Florida. Giovanna and George settled in Clifton and lived there until 1958 when they moved to Pompton Plains. By now, Giovanna had left behind her career as a seamstress and devoted herself to being a full-time homemaker and mother to her two daughters: Georgean and Joanne. In those early years, the family enjoyed weekends together in Toms River, floating on their cabin cruiser by day and sleeping on it at night. She and George had many friends who they liked to go to dinner with.
Giovanna and George enjoyed eighteen years together in Pompton Plains and a total of twenty-five years of marriage until George’s passing in 1976. Giovanna continued to reside in Pompton Plains until her passing.
Giovanna was dedicated to her role as mother. She loved to cook, sew and crochet. She especially had fun making Halloween costumes for the girls and later, when blessed with grandchildren, she made costumes for them too. Those costumes were so cleverly and beautifully made that, with one of the costumes, all three of her grandchildren she had at that point were voted the winners of a costume competition. Giovanna also crocheted blankets for her grandchildren. As the kids grew older and bigger, she would simply crochet each one of them newer and larger blankets. The kids loved Grandma Jean! When they were little she would baby-sit them and take them out for dinner to Friendly’s in Pompton Plains. She also enjoyed dinners at the Chinese restaurant. Grandma Jean also loved to sing songs with them. She liked to teach them words and phrases in Italian, her second language.
Besides family and friends, Giovanna’s faith in God was very important to her. When she and George moved to Pompton Plains, they got involved with a new church in town called Our Lady of Good Council Roman Catholic Church. Giovanna especially enjoyed singing in the church’s choir. She was also involved as a member of the church’s ladies council.
She will be remembered as a kind, loving and happy woman who was dedicated to her family and her faith.
Giovanna is survived by her two daughters: Georgean and husband Dion Coleman, and Joanne and husband Clifford Zoppo, both of West Milford; four grandchildren: Dion Coleman, II, Lauren Coleman, David Zoppo, and Dianna Zoppo; one great-granddaughter: Jaelyn; and one brother: Saverio and wife Mona Sciortino of Bayside, NY.
Giovanna was predeceased by her beloved husband George in 1976, and her sister Eleanor Carrozza.
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