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September 1, 2012
Services
Friends may visit with the family from 2-4 PM on Wednesday, September 12, 2012 at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne. A 4 PM Funeral Service will be held at the conclusion of the visitation hours.
Giovanna Olga Stengel (nee Carducci) age 57 of the Packanack Lake Section of Wayne died peacefully on Saturday, September 1, 2012.
She was born and raised in Naples Italy and married Christian W. Stengel III on June 5, 1976 in Naples. Giovanna and Christian met when he was stationed at the US Naval Base in Naples Italy. Christian had the basement apartment in the building where Giovanna's family lived on the sixth floor. Water
pressure was often an issue for the higher floors in the building and Christian would bring water up to them. Their first formal date was with her family and eating Pizza Margherita. Christian proposed to Giovanna after a Christmas vacation in the United States where she met his parents. They moved to the Newport Rhode Island Naval Base and lived in New Brunswick, NJ to attend Rutgers University for Criss' Electrical Engineering Degrees.
Both worked in Bowie, Maryland for twelve years before being transferred to Cary, North Carolina where they lived for seven years before moving to the Packanack Lake Section of Wayne nine years ago. In 1997 Christian retired from work to care for Giovanna full time. They loved being with each other and have had thirty-six years of loving and truly devoted marriage.
Giovanna was a Dental Assistant for seventeen years before a neurological movement disorder called Dystonia ended her working career in 1994.
She loved to be with people, enjoyed chatting, had a great sense of humor and enjoyed putting her working knowledge of five languages to work helping to translate for others. She also enjoyed making all kinds of crafts which she would give as gifts.
She was the loving wife of Christian W. Stengel III; devoted daughter of Luigi Carducci and his current wife Rosa and the late Renata (nee Meo) Carducci(1977); loved sister of Ornella Carducci of Naples Italy, Alba Saladino and her husband Pasquale of Pomigliano Italy, and Rosella Carducci of Naples; cherished aunt of Riccardo and Marco Saladino
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Friends may visit with the family from 2-4 PM on Wednesday, September 12, 2012 at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne. A 4 PM Funeral Service will be held at the conclusion of the visitation hours.
September 1, 2012
Services
Friends may visit with the family from 2-4 PM on Wednesday, September 12, 2012 at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne. A 4 PM Funeral Service will be held at the conclusion of the visitation hours.
Giovanna Olga Stengel (nee Carducci) age 57 of the Packanack Lake Section of Wayne died peacefully on Saturday, September 1, 2012.
She was born and raised in Naples Italy and married Christian W. Stengel III on June 5, 1976 in Naples. Giovanna and Christian met when he was stationed at the US Naval Base in Naples Italy. Christian had the basement apartment in the building where Giovanna's family lived on the sixth floor. Water
pressure was often an issue for the higher floors in the building and Christian would bring water up to them. Their first formal date was with her family and eating Pizza Margherita. Christian proposed to Giovanna after a Christmas vacation in the United States where she met his parents. They moved to the Newport Rhode Island Naval Base and lived in New Brunswick, NJ to attend Rutgers University for Criss' Electrical Engineering Degrees.
Both worked in Bowie, Maryland for twelve years before being transferred to Cary, North Carolina where they lived for seven years before moving to the Packanack Lake Section of Wayne nine years ago. In 1997 Christian retired from work to care for Giovanna full time. They loved being with each other and have had thirty-six years of loving and truly devoted marriage.
Giovanna was a Dental Assistant for seventeen years before a neurological movement disorder called Dystonia ended her working career in 1994.
She loved to be with people, enjoyed chatting, had a great sense of humor and enjoyed putting her working knowledge of five languages to work helping to translate for others. She also enjoyed making all kinds of crafts which she would give as gifts.
She was the loving wife of Christian W. Stengel III; devoted daughter of Luigi Carducci and his current wife Rosa and the late Renata (nee Meo) Carducci(1977); loved sister of Ornella Carducci of Naples Italy, Alba Saladino and her husband Pasquale of Pomigliano Italy, and Rosella Carducci of Naples; cherished aunt of Riccardo and Marco Saladino
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