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March 19, 2018
Services
Friends may visit with the family at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne, on Thursday, March 22, 2018 from 4-8 PM.
Funeral Services will be held on Friday, March 23, 2018 at 8:30 AM from the funeral home, then to St. Mary’s RC Church, Pompton Lakes, where at 9:30 AM, a Funeral Mass will be offered. Entombment at the Immaculate Conception Cemetery, Upper Montclair will follow.
James V. Vecharello, Sr., age 76 of Wayne, died on Monday, March 19, 2018. He had been a resident of Wayne for thirty years.
Jim grew up in Belleville, NJ. One summer, while vacationing with his parents and two sisters in Upper Greenwood Lake, NY, he had the great fortune of meeting a lovely young lady named Catherine Provenzano. They soon fell in love and began a courtship which ultimately culminated in the exchange of their wedding vows on Saturday, July 7, 1962. After the ceremony and reception, Jim and “Ginger” as she was known to many, drove to the Poconos in Jim’s ’56 Ford for their honeymoon. They settled in Jim’s hometown of Bellville before moving to Paterson and then West Paterson. In 1988 they purchased a home in Wayne where they had lived happily ever since.
Jim’s first job was in the textile mills of Paterson. After a short stint there, he began working for his uncle in the family auto repair business. It was there that he found his vocational calling. He became a career mechanic who, in addition to working for his uncle, became a head mechanic for the Montclair Bloomfield Ford Dealership. In 1976 he opened his own business – CJ Auto Service in Bloomingdale. Jim derived the name by simply taking the first letter of his wife Catherine’s name, plus the first letter of his own name to come up with the “CJ” in CJ Auto Service. After ten years, Jim decided to sell and he completed his career as a mechanic for Entenmann’s Bakery in Little Falls.
Jim and Ginger were avid campers. They bought a tent one day and after their first campout, they traded up to a popup camper which eventually gave way to a large travel trailer that they towed all over the east coast. They’ve camped from Nova Scotia to Florida and everywhere in between. They traveled as far west as Tennessee and, with the exception of the one and only time that Ginger flipped the trailer, they enjoyed many miles of safe travel. They also loved riding snowmobiles – especially to Old Forge, NY in the winter months. Jim and Ginger once traveled nearly 600 miles on their snowmobiles, touring throughout Upstate NY, into Canada and back again. They just loved it and they loved being together. They also treated themselves to several more traditional vacations to Italy, London, Mexico, and even Hawaii – of course, not on snowmobiles. Jim had a classic 1964 ½ original Red Ford Mustang which he loved to spend time restoring. While he truly enjoyed all of these leisurely pursuits, Jim’s greatest love was, of course, his family. All of his hobbies, interests, and vacations were special because of the people he shared them with. His sons and grandchildren made him proud and he and Ginger shared a love not unlike that portrayed by Fred and Ethel Mertz - always with love in their hearts for each other.
Jim was the beloved husband of Catherine (nee Provenzano) who passed away in 2015. They enjoyed 53 years in a loving marriage. He is survived by his two sons: James, Jr. of Morris Plains and William of Vernon; his four cherished grandchildren: James Vincent Vecharello, III of Morris Plains, Amanda Lee Vecharello of Morris Plains, Julia Catherine Vecharello of Vernon, and Matthew William Vecharello of Vernon; two dear sisters: Sara Foglia and her late husband Robert of East Stroudsburg, PA, and Rose Marie LoGrecco and her husband Angelo of Murrell’s Inlet, SC; his brother in law and best friends Thomas Williams and his wife Corrine of Wayne; and his nieces and nephews: Dr. Gina Marie Foglia and her husband Ralph White of Stroudsburg, PA, Andrea Kolenc and her husband Ernie of Totowa, Richard Kaufman and his wife Michele of N. Arlington, Thomas Williams, Jr. and his wife Dana of Wayne, Michael Williams and his wife Krystan of Andover, and Kenneth Williams and his wife Theresa of Totowa. Jim was predeceased by his parents Concetta (nee Bennato) and William Vecharello.
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Friends may visit with the family at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne, on Thursday, March 22, 2018 from 4-8 PM.
Funeral Services will be held on Friday, March 23, 2018 at 8:30 AM from the funeral home, then to St. Mary’s RC Church, Pompton Lakes, where at 9:30 AM, a Funeral Mass will be offered. Entombment at the Immaculate Conception Cemetery, Upper Montclair will follow.
March 19, 2018
Services
Friends may visit with the family at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne, on Thursday, March 22, 2018 from 4-8 PM.
Funeral Services will be held on Friday, March 23, 2018 at 8:30 AM from the funeral home, then to St. Mary’s RC Church, Pompton Lakes, where at 9:30 AM, a Funeral Mass will be offered. Entombment at the Immaculate Conception Cemetery, Upper Montclair will follow.
James V. Vecharello, Sr., age 76 of Wayne, died on Monday, March 19, 2018. He had been a resident of Wayne for thirty years.
Jim grew up in Belleville, NJ. One summer, while vacationing with his parents and two sisters in Upper Greenwood Lake, NY, he had the great fortune of meeting a lovely young lady named Catherine Provenzano. They soon fell in love and began a courtship which ultimately culminated in the exchange of their wedding vows on Saturday, July 7, 1962. After the ceremony and reception, Jim and “Ginger” as she was known to many, drove to the Poconos in Jim’s ’56 Ford for their honeymoon. They settled in Jim’s hometown of Bellville before moving to Paterson and then West Paterson. In 1988 they purchased a home in Wayne where they had lived happily ever since.
Jim’s first job was in the textile mills of Paterson. After a short stint there, he began working for his uncle in the family auto repair business. It was there that he found his vocational calling. He became a career mechanic who, in addition to working for his uncle, became a head mechanic for the Montclair Bloomfield Ford Dealership. In 1976 he opened his own business – CJ Auto Service in Bloomingdale. Jim derived the name by simply taking the first letter of his wife Catherine’s name, plus the first letter of his own name to come up with the “CJ” in CJ Auto Service. After ten years, Jim decided to sell and he completed his career as a mechanic for Entenmann’s Bakery in Little Falls.
Jim and Ginger were avid campers. They bought a tent one day and after their first campout, they traded up to a popup camper which eventually gave way to a large travel trailer that they towed all over the east coast. They’ve camped from Nova Scotia to Florida and everywhere in between. They traveled as far west as Tennessee and, with the exception of the one and only time that Ginger flipped the trailer, they enjoyed many miles of safe travel. They also loved riding snowmobiles – especially to Old Forge, NY in the winter months. Jim and Ginger once traveled nearly 600 miles on their snowmobiles, touring throughout Upstate NY, into Canada and back again. They just loved it and they loved being together. They also treated themselves to several more traditional vacations to Italy, London, Mexico, and even Hawaii – of course, not on snowmobiles. Jim had a classic 1964 ½ original Red Ford Mustang which he loved to spend time restoring. While he truly enjoyed all of these leisurely pursuits, Jim’s greatest love was, of course, his family. All of his hobbies, interests, and vacations were special because of the people he shared them with. His sons and grandchildren made him proud and he and Ginger shared a love not unlike that portrayed by Fred and Ethel Mertz - always with love in their hearts for each other.
Jim was the beloved husband of Catherine (nee Provenzano) who passed away in 2015. They enjoyed 53 years in a loving marriage. He is survived by his two sons: James, Jr. of Morris Plains and William of Vernon; his four cherished grandchildren: James Vincent Vecharello, III of Morris Plains, Amanda Lee Vecharello of Morris Plains, Julia Catherine Vecharello of Vernon, and Matthew William Vecharello of Vernon; two dear sisters: Sara Foglia and her late husband Robert of East Stroudsburg, PA, and Rose Marie LoGrecco and her husband Angelo of Murrell’s Inlet, SC; his brother in law and best friends Thomas Williams and his wife Corrine of Wayne; and his nieces and nephews: Dr. Gina Marie Foglia and her husband Ralph White of Stroudsburg, PA, Andrea Kolenc and her husband Ernie of Totowa, Richard Kaufman and his wife Michele of N. Arlington, Thomas Williams, Jr. and his wife Dana of Wayne, Michael Williams and his wife Krystan of Andover, and Kenneth Williams and his wife Theresa of Totowa. Jim was predeceased by his parents Concetta (nee Bennato) and William Vecharello.
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