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June 3, 2014
Services
Friends may visit with the family at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne, on Friday, June 6, 2014 from 2-4 and 6-8 PM.
Funeral Services will be held on Saturday, June 7, 2014 at 9:00 AM from the funeral home, then to Immaculate Heart of Mary R.C. Church, 580 Ratzer Road, Wayne, where at 10:00 AM a Funeral Mass will be offered. Entombment will follow at Calvary Cemetery, Paterson.
James Michael Basile, age 94, of Clifton, died peacefully on Tuesday, June 3, 2014.
Born in Cilento, Italy, he emigrated as an infant to the United States and grew up in Paterson.
During World War II he served as a staff sergeant in the U.S. Army in the Philippines under General Douglas MacArthur.
Upon his return from the war, he rejoined Marcal Paper Mills in Elmwood Park and spent his entire career there, retiring in 1981 as plant superintendent. He was a life-long member of St. George Parish of Paterson.
Surviving are his wife of 67 years, Lena, his daughter Marie McKenna and husband Timothy of Wayne; three grandchildren: Emily and Claire McKenna and Margaret Weil; three great-grandchildren: Lena Rose Weil, James Giuseppe Kennedy and Colin Matthew Weil; and many nieces, nephews and cousins.
In lieu of flowers, those planning an expression of sympathy in James' name are asked to consider the Wounded Warrior Project, PO Box 758517 Topeka, KS 66675 (www.WoundedWarriorProject.org) or St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, P.O Box 1000, Dept. 142, Memphis, TN 38148-0142 (www.stjude.org).
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Friends may visit with the family at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne, on Friday, June 6, 2014 from 2-4 and 6-8 PM.
Funeral Services will be held on Saturday, June 7, 2014 at 9:00 AM from the funeral home, then to Immaculate Heart of Mary R.C. Church, 580 Ratzer Road, Wayne, where at 10:00 AM a Funeral Mass will be offered. Entombment will follow at Calvary Cemetery, Paterson.
June 3, 2014
Services
Friends may visit with the family at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne, on Friday, June 6, 2014 from 2-4 and 6-8 PM.
Funeral Services will be held on Saturday, June 7, 2014 at 9:00 AM from the funeral home, then to Immaculate Heart of Mary R.C. Church, 580 Ratzer Road, Wayne, where at 10:00 AM a Funeral Mass will be offered. Entombment will follow at Calvary Cemetery, Paterson.
James Michael Basile, age 94, of Clifton, died peacefully on Tuesday, June 3, 2014.
Born in Cilento, Italy, he emigrated as an infant to the United States and grew up in Paterson.
During World War II he served as a staff sergeant in the U.S. Army in the Philippines under General Douglas MacArthur.
Upon his return from the war, he rejoined Marcal Paper Mills in Elmwood Park and spent his entire career there, retiring in 1981 as plant superintendent. He was a life-long member of St. George Parish of Paterson.
Surviving are his wife of 67 years, Lena, his daughter Marie McKenna and husband Timothy of Wayne; three grandchildren: Emily and Claire McKenna and Margaret Weil; three great-grandchildren: Lena Rose Weil, James Giuseppe Kennedy and Colin Matthew Weil; and many nieces, nephews and cousins.
In lieu of flowers, those planning an expression of sympathy in James' name are asked to consider the Wounded Warrior Project, PO Box 758517 Topeka, KS 66675 (www.WoundedWarriorProject.org) or St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, P.O Box 1000, Dept. 142, Memphis, TN 38148-0142 (www.stjude.org).
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