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February 14, 2009
Services
Funeral services will be held 9:30 AM on Wednesday, February 18, 2009 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 on Tuesday from 2-4, 7-9 PM at the funeral home.
Interment will be in Saint Josephs Cemetery, Hackensack.
Grace Bassano age 83 of Toms River, died Saturday, February 14, 2009 at the Community Hospital, Toms River.
She was born and raised in Hackensack having lived in Maywood and Hackensack before moving to Toms River seventeen years ago.
She met her husband, the late John Bassano(1999), while she was working at her father’s grocery store in Hackensack. They dated for two years before John volunteered for the Army and served in the European theater during WWII. One month after returning from service, on March 3, 1946, Grace and John were married at Saint Francis RC Church, Hackensack.
Grace and John’s first daughter, Gloria, died of Leukemia at the age of two. Recovering from that tragedy, Grace and John went on to raise two daughters, Eileen and Gail, who were always the centerpiece of their love for each other. Within time they were blessed with five grandchildren, Darren and Alison Lawley, and Jessica, Lyndsey and Lauren Kriftner. This past September Grace was blessed with her first great grandchild, Brady Arbittier.
While raising her family, Grace found time to work part-time at Iurato’s Bridal Shop in Hackensack and to be an active member and past president of the Ladies Auxillary of the Maywood VFW Post 7408. Grace was also an avid bowler.
Grace was predeceased by her husband of fifty-three years, John Bassano(1999). She leaves behind daughters Eileen Lawley and her husband Robert of Flanders, and Gail Kriftner and her husband Gary of Wayne; loved sister of Pauline Kramer of Toms River, Marie Fratello and her husband Vincent of Toms River and the late Carmen and Gloria Costa; grandchildren Darren Lawley and his wife Misha, Alison Mazur and her husband Kevin, Jessica Arbittier and her husband Gregg, Lyndsey Kriftner, Lauren Kriftner and her fiancé Patrick Conlon, great grandchild Brady Arbittier.
In lieu of flowers memorial donations to the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society, Donor Services, PO Box 4072, Pittsfield, MA 01202 would be appreciated.
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Funeral services will be held 9:30 AM on Wednesday, February 18, 2009 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 on Tuesday from 2-4, 7-9 PM at the funeral home.
Interment will be in Saint Josephs Cemetery, Hackensack.
February 14, 2009
Services
Funeral services will be held 9:30 AM on Wednesday, February 18, 2009 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 on Tuesday from 2-4, 7-9 PM at the funeral home.
Interment will be in Saint Josephs Cemetery, Hackensack.
Grace Bassano age 83 of Toms River, died Saturday, February 14, 2009 at the Community Hospital, Toms River.
She was born and raised in Hackensack having lived in Maywood and Hackensack before moving to Toms River seventeen years ago.
She met her husband, the late John Bassano(1999), while she was working at her father’s grocery store in Hackensack. They dated for two years before John volunteered for the Army and served in the European theater during WWII. One month after returning from service, on March 3, 1946, Grace and John were married at Saint Francis RC Church, Hackensack.
Grace and John’s first daughter, Gloria, died of Leukemia at the age of two. Recovering from that tragedy, Grace and John went on to raise two daughters, Eileen and Gail, who were always the centerpiece of their love for each other. Within time they were blessed with five grandchildren, Darren and Alison Lawley, and Jessica, Lyndsey and Lauren Kriftner. This past September Grace was blessed with her first great grandchild, Brady Arbittier.
While raising her family, Grace found time to work part-time at Iurato’s Bridal Shop in Hackensack and to be an active member and past president of the Ladies Auxillary of the Maywood VFW Post 7408. Grace was also an avid bowler.
Grace was predeceased by her husband of fifty-three years, John Bassano(1999). She leaves behind daughters Eileen Lawley and her husband Robert of Flanders, and Gail Kriftner and her husband Gary of Wayne; loved sister of Pauline Kramer of Toms River, Marie Fratello and her husband Vincent of Toms River and the late Carmen and Gloria Costa; grandchildren Darren Lawley and his wife Misha, Alison Mazur and her husband Kevin, Jessica Arbittier and her husband Gregg, Lyndsey Kriftner, Lauren Kriftner and her fiancé Patrick Conlon, great grandchild Brady Arbittier.
In lieu of flowers memorial donations to the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society, Donor Services, PO Box 4072, Pittsfield, MA 01202 would be appreciated.
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