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Friends may visit with the family from 4-8 PM on Monday, March 9, 2015 at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
Funeral services will be held 8:45 AM on Tuesday, March 10, 2015 from the funeral home then to Our Lady of Consolation RC Church, 1799 Hamburg Tpk., Wayne where a 10 AM Funeral Mass will be offered.
Entombment will be in Holy Sepulchre Cemetery, Totowa.
Giuseppe Lombardo age 91 of Wayne passed Friday, March 6, 2015.
He was born in Solarino, Sicily, Italy. He was the oldest of thirteen children having lost six of his siblings in their early years. Giuseppe also served with the Carbinieri and was stationed in Naples during the war. After returning home to Solarino, Sicily that Giuseppe met and married Santa on April 22, 1948. Santa was just sixteen years old and Giuseppe was twenty-four. After marrying he worked on a parcel of land Santa inherited from her father where they grew olive trees, made their own olive oil, raised chickens, and had a few dairy cows as well. And he would sell milk to make a living. He came to the United States of America for a better life. Thinking he was only going to stay for a few years, he ended up staying here. His first job was a polisher at a stainless steel shop working two shifts to support his family. They soon purchased their first home in Paterson, with Giuseppe’s brother Carmelo, they called home until moving to Wayne in 1967. Then for many years he worked in construction owning his own business in roofing and siding.
Many will remember his passion and hobby was his love of his garden, the family garage farm-stand where Giuseppe and Santa sold all kinds of vegetables and flowers. He grew tomatoes, zucchini, eggplant, squash, peaches, persimmon, figs and grapes for many years. Many of the plants were raised from seedlings in his greenhouse. He never used store-bought fertilizers and endeared himself to the neighbors annually when he would bring in manure from the VanPeenen Dairy Farm on Valley Road to fertilize the gardens. Giuseppe didn’t use any pesticides either and when he heard of the new term being used was “organic,” he immediately changed the sign at the end of the driveway to reflect his produce was “organic.” He was truly happiest when his hands were in the soil.
Giuseppe will be remembered as the head of the household, being very serious, and at the same time he was happy go lucky, loved having company at the house, and enjoyed talking to just about anyone.
Giuseppe was the loving husband of sixty-seven years to the late Santa Lombardo who passed just seven days ago; devoted father of Salvatore Lombardo and his wife Donna of Butler, Josephine Vittorioso and her husband Gennaro of Wayne, Carmen Lombardo and his wife Sharon of Wayne, Maria Gilberti and her late husband Steven (May/2014), and Paula Ciaravino and her husband Steven of Wayne; cherished grandfather of Donia and her fiancé Rich, Anthony, Lucy and her husband Vinnie, Emanuele and his wife Rosanna, Santina and her husband Bill, Jarrod and his fiancé Ayla, Adam and his wife Ann, Danielle, Michael, Christian, Sophia, Sabrina, and Steven; much loved great-grandfather of fourteen great-grandchildren; dear brother of Lina Cartella of Hawthorne, Maria Barbagallo and her husband Salvatore of Solarino, Italy, Salvatore Lombardo and his wife Antoinette of Wayne, Adele Amenta and her husband Salvatore of Italy, and brothers the late Paolo Lombardo and Carmelo Lombardo of Italy.
In lieu of flowers memorial donations to the Wayne First Aid Squad, PO Box 2004, Wayne, NJ 07474 would be appreciated.
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Friends may visit with the family from 4-8 PM on Monday, March 9, 2015 at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
Funeral services will be held 8:45 AM on Tuesday, March 10, 2015 from the funeral home then to Our Lady of Consolation RC Church, 1799 Hamburg Tpk., Wayne where a 10 AM Funeral Mass will be offered.
Entombment will be in Holy Sepulchre Cemetery, Totowa.
Services
Friends may visit with the family from 4-8 PM on Monday, March 9, 2015 at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
Funeral services will be held 8:45 AM on Tuesday, March 10, 2015 from the funeral home then to Our Lady of Consolation RC Church, 1799 Hamburg Tpk., Wayne where a 10 AM Funeral Mass will be offered.
Entombment will be in Holy Sepulchre Cemetery, Totowa.
Giuseppe Lombardo age 91 of Wayne passed Friday, March 6, 2015.
He was born in Solarino, Sicily, Italy. He was the oldest of thirteen children having lost six of his siblings in their early years. Giuseppe also served with the Carbinieri and was stationed in Naples during the war. After returning home to Solarino, Sicily that Giuseppe met and married Santa on April 22, 1948. Santa was just sixteen years old and Giuseppe was twenty-four. After marrying he worked on a parcel of land Santa inherited from her father where they grew olive trees, made their own olive oil, raised chickens, and had a few dairy cows as well. And he would sell milk to make a living. He came to the United States of America for a better life. Thinking he was only going to stay for a few years, he ended up staying here. His first job was a polisher at a stainless steel shop working two shifts to support his family. They soon purchased their first home in Paterson, with Giuseppe’s brother Carmelo, they called home until moving to Wayne in 1967. Then for many years he worked in construction owning his own business in roofing and siding.
Many will remember his passion and hobby was his love of his garden, the family garage farm-stand where Giuseppe and Santa sold all kinds of vegetables and flowers. He grew tomatoes, zucchini, eggplant, squash, peaches, persimmon, figs and grapes for many years. Many of the plants were raised from seedlings in his greenhouse. He never used store-bought fertilizers and endeared himself to the neighbors annually when he would bring in manure from the VanPeenen Dairy Farm on Valley Road to fertilize the gardens. Giuseppe didn’t use any pesticides either and when he heard of the new term being used was “organic,” he immediately changed the sign at the end of the driveway to reflect his produce was “organic.” He was truly happiest when his hands were in the soil.
Giuseppe will be remembered as the head of the household, being very serious, and at the same time he was happy go lucky, loved having company at the house, and enjoyed talking to just about anyone.
Giuseppe was the loving husband of sixty-seven years to the late Santa Lombardo who passed just seven days ago; devoted father of Salvatore Lombardo and his wife Donna of Butler, Josephine Vittorioso and her husband Gennaro of Wayne, Carmen Lombardo and his wife Sharon of Wayne, Maria Gilberti and her late husband Steven (May/2014), and Paula Ciaravino and her husband Steven of Wayne; cherished grandfather of Donia and her fiancé Rich, Anthony, Lucy and her husband Vinnie, Emanuele and his wife Rosanna, Santina and her husband Bill, Jarrod and his fiancé Ayla, Adam and his wife Ann, Danielle, Michael, Christian, Sophia, Sabrina, and Steven; much loved great-grandfather of fourteen great-grandchildren; dear brother of Lina Cartella of Hawthorne, Maria Barbagallo and her husband Salvatore of Solarino, Italy, Salvatore Lombardo and his wife Antoinette of Wayne, Adele Amenta and her husband Salvatore of Italy, and brothers the late Paolo Lombardo and Carmelo Lombardo of Italy.
In lieu of flowers memorial donations to the Wayne First Aid Squad, PO Box 2004, Wayne, NJ 07474 would be appreciated.
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