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June 16, 2018
Services
Friends may visit with the family from 4-8 PM on Tuesday, June 19, 2018 at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
Funeral services will be held 9:30 AM on Wednesday, June 20, 2018 from the funeral home then to Immaculate Heart of Mary Church, 580 Ratzer Road, Wayne where a 10:30 AM Funeral Mass will be offered. Interment will be in Calvary Cemetery, Paterson.
Irene Lopuzzo age 81, of Wayne passed peacefully on Saturday, June 16, 2018.
She was born in Cliffside Park to the late August and Paula Juengert. The family moved to Clifton during Irene’s senior year of high school. She graduated from Clifton High School with the Class of 1954.
She married and lived in Clifton for 40 years before moving to Wayne over 20 years ago.
Irene married Donald Lopuzzo on October 7, 1956 at Saint Phillips Church in Clifton and honeymooned in Florida. They settled in Clifton and lived there for thirty-eight years before Donald’s passing in 1994. During their years together Irene learned to cook Italian specialties from Donald’s sisters. Irene was great at making meatballs and would give her children and eventually her grandchildren a meatball on a fork and tell them it was a lollipop. She enjoyed ceramics, dinners out with family - always preceded by a scotch and soda, and trying to teach her children and grandchildren German. She will also be lovingly remembered for her unapologetic and honest way. She had an expected standard and didn’t mince words if you failed to meet it.
Irene was all about doing everything as a family. Her children fondly remember Sunday dinners together, two week long summer vacations at the Pan American Hotel in Wildwood Crest, and many family vacations on cruise ships. Irene and Donald often took cruises and even enjoyed one on the “Love Boat” before it was cast on the television show The Love Boat. She enjoyed playing Bingo aboard the ships and with the Golden Age Circle of Wayne.
Soon after Donald passed away Irene moved to Wayne where she has lived for over twenty years. She was the loving wife to the late Donald Lopuzzo (1994); devoted mother of Janice Di Bianco and her husband Ettore of Wayne, Susan Pogorelec and her husband John of Wayne, and the late Arthur Lopuzzo (2004); cherished grandmother of Erica Lipkin and her husband Adam, Stephen Di Bianco and his wife Kaitlyn, Elisa Di Bianco and her fiancé Justin, Joseph Pogorelec and his wife Stephanie, and Janice Pogorelec; dearly loved great-grandmother of Charlie, Gina, Luca, Viviana, and James.
In lieu of flowers memorial donations to her granddaughter Janice's adult center, The Opportunity Center, 13-19 Fair Lawn Ave., Fair Lawn, 07410 would be appreciated.
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Friends may visit with the family from 4-8 PM on Tuesday, June 19, 2018 at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
Funeral services will be held 9:30 AM on Wednesday, June 20, 2018 from the funeral home then to Immaculate Heart of Mary Church, 580 Ratzer Road, Wayne where a 10:30 AM Funeral Mass will be offered. Interment will be in Calvary Cemetery, Paterson.
June 16, 2018
Services
Friends may visit with the family from 4-8 PM on Tuesday, June 19, 2018 at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
Funeral services will be held 9:30 AM on Wednesday, June 20, 2018 from the funeral home then to Immaculate Heart of Mary Church, 580 Ratzer Road, Wayne where a 10:30 AM Funeral Mass will be offered. Interment will be in Calvary Cemetery, Paterson.
Irene Lopuzzo age 81, of Wayne passed peacefully on Saturday, June 16, 2018.
She was born in Cliffside Park to the late August and Paula Juengert. The family moved to Clifton during Irene’s senior year of high school. She graduated from Clifton High School with the Class of 1954.
She married and lived in Clifton for 40 years before moving to Wayne over 20 years ago.
Irene married Donald Lopuzzo on October 7, 1956 at Saint Phillips Church in Clifton and honeymooned in Florida. They settled in Clifton and lived there for thirty-eight years before Donald’s passing in 1994. During their years together Irene learned to cook Italian specialties from Donald’s sisters. Irene was great at making meatballs and would give her children and eventually her grandchildren a meatball on a fork and tell them it was a lollipop. She enjoyed ceramics, dinners out with family - always preceded by a scotch and soda, and trying to teach her children and grandchildren German. She will also be lovingly remembered for her unapologetic and honest way. She had an expected standard and didn’t mince words if you failed to meet it.
Irene was all about doing everything as a family. Her children fondly remember Sunday dinners together, two week long summer vacations at the Pan American Hotel in Wildwood Crest, and many family vacations on cruise ships. Irene and Donald often took cruises and even enjoyed one on the “Love Boat” before it was cast on the television show The Love Boat. She enjoyed playing Bingo aboard the ships and with the Golden Age Circle of Wayne.
Soon after Donald passed away Irene moved to Wayne where she has lived for over twenty years. She was the loving wife to the late Donald Lopuzzo (1994); devoted mother of Janice Di Bianco and her husband Ettore of Wayne, Susan Pogorelec and her husband John of Wayne, and the late Arthur Lopuzzo (2004); cherished grandmother of Erica Lipkin and her husband Adam, Stephen Di Bianco and his wife Kaitlyn, Elisa Di Bianco and her fiancé Justin, Joseph Pogorelec and his wife Stephanie, and Janice Pogorelec; dearly loved great-grandmother of Charlie, Gina, Luca, Viviana, and James.
In lieu of flowers memorial donations to her granddaughter Janice's adult center, The Opportunity Center, 13-19 Fair Lawn Ave., Fair Lawn, 07410 would be appreciated.
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