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Friends may visit with the family on Wednesday, December 21, 2016 from 4-8 PM at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
Funeral services will be held 9:30 AM from the funeral home on Thursday, December 22, 2016 then to Immaculate Heart of Mary RC Church, 580 Ratzer Road, Wayne where a 10:30 AM Funeral Mass will be offered.
Interment will be in Holy Sepulchre Cemetery, Totowa.
Jean Bonadies, age 87, a twenty-year resident of Wayne, passed peacefully on Saturday, December 17, 2016.
She was born to Mary and Joseph Stumboli and raised in Paterson. She attended Central High School with the Class of 1947, but had to leave to help her parents support her family of ten. Jean worked at the Curtiss-Wright aircraft engine manufacturing facility in Paterson, where she met her future husband, Albert Bonadies. They married at Saint Anne’s Melkite Catholic church in Paterson on
July 24, 1954 and they honeymooned in Florida.
Jean and Al initially lived in a cold water flat apartment on 4th Avenue in Paterson, and eventually moved into the three family home Al’s parents owned, on East 17th Street. Soon after, Albert and Jean built a two family home next door on East 17th Street, where they raised their children and lived until they moved to Wayne in 1997. They enjoyed fifty-two years of a loving and devoted marriage, before Albert’s passing in September 2006.
They enjoyed annual family trips to Wildwood Crest. These trips were vacations for all, but, Jean’s love of cooking shown through as she cooked all but a few meals, when they dined at some of the family’s favorite spots: Urie’s Fish Fry or Asselta’s Restaurant. Jean also enjoyed her time spent with girlfriends in Ocean Grove; a special trip with her sisters, Alice and Sara, to New Orleans, to visit Jeanne and her growing family; as well as the family’s big trip to DisneyWorld in 1974.
She was a fastidious housekeeper, and will be remembered as an excellent cook and baker. Although she came from a Syrian background, she specialized in all types of Italian dishes. She was known for her Sunday macaroni, when friends would often join the family for dinner. Her sausage & peppers, Pizzagaina, tomato gravy (not sauce), rice pudding, and cheesecake were always front and center at graduations, holidays, and just about any family celebration she hosted, and there were many. After their Italian Sunday dinner, they would go to Jean’s parents’ home and meet up with the rest of her large family.
Jean was the loving wife of fifty-two years to the late Albert (2006); devoted mother of Ralph Bonadies of Holland, PA, Jean Bonadies-Jurik of Allentown, NJ, and Kathleen Cipoletti and her husband Robert of Pompton Plains; she was the cherished grandmother of nine grandchildren: Nicole, Jeremy, Kyle, Colette, Joshua, Cynthia, Kailyn, Joseph, and Steven; and dearly loved sister of Raymond Stumboli and his wife Lois, Joseph Stumboli and his wife Bonnie, and the late Albert, Sarah, Edward, Alice, and Louis. Jean will also be greatly missed by her extended family members: Vince, Ralph and Betty, and Lorraine, as well as her many nieces and nephews, and lifelong friends.
In lieu of flowers, memorial donations to Saint Jude Children’s Research Hospital, Memorials Processing, 501 St. Jude Place, Memphis TN 38105-9959 would be greatly appreciated.
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Friends may visit with the family on Wednesday, December 21, 2016 from 4-8 PM at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
Funeral services will be held 9:30 AM from the funeral home on Thursday, December 22, 2016 then to Immaculate Heart of Mary RC Church, 580 Ratzer Road, Wayne where a 10:30 AM Funeral Mass will be offered.
Interment will be in Holy Sepulchre Cemetery, Totowa.
Services
Friends may visit with the family on Wednesday, December 21, 2016 from 4-8 PM at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
Funeral services will be held 9:30 AM from the funeral home on Thursday, December 22, 2016 then to Immaculate Heart of Mary RC Church, 580 Ratzer Road, Wayne where a 10:30 AM Funeral Mass will be offered.
Interment will be in Holy Sepulchre Cemetery, Totowa.
Jean Bonadies, age 87, a twenty-year resident of Wayne, passed peacefully on Saturday, December 17, 2016.
She was born to Mary and Joseph Stumboli and raised in Paterson. She attended Central High School with the Class of 1947, but had to leave to help her parents support her family of ten. Jean worked at the Curtiss-Wright aircraft engine manufacturing facility in Paterson, where she met her future husband, Albert Bonadies. They married at Saint Anne’s Melkite Catholic church in Paterson on
July 24, 1954 and they honeymooned in Florida.
Jean and Al initially lived in a cold water flat apartment on 4th Avenue in Paterson, and eventually moved into the three family home Al’s parents owned, on East 17th Street. Soon after, Albert and Jean built a two family home next door on East 17th Street, where they raised their children and lived until they moved to Wayne in 1997. They enjoyed fifty-two years of a loving and devoted marriage, before Albert’s passing in September 2006.
They enjoyed annual family trips to Wildwood Crest. These trips were vacations for all, but, Jean’s love of cooking shown through as she cooked all but a few meals, when they dined at some of the family’s favorite spots: Urie’s Fish Fry or Asselta’s Restaurant. Jean also enjoyed her time spent with girlfriends in Ocean Grove; a special trip with her sisters, Alice and Sara, to New Orleans, to visit Jeanne and her growing family; as well as the family’s big trip to DisneyWorld in 1974.
She was a fastidious housekeeper, and will be remembered as an excellent cook and baker. Although she came from a Syrian background, she specialized in all types of Italian dishes. She was known for her Sunday macaroni, when friends would often join the family for dinner. Her sausage & peppers, Pizzagaina, tomato gravy (not sauce), rice pudding, and cheesecake were always front and center at graduations, holidays, and just about any family celebration she hosted, and there were many. After their Italian Sunday dinner, they would go to Jean’s parents’ home and meet up with the rest of her large family.
Jean was the loving wife of fifty-two years to the late Albert (2006); devoted mother of Ralph Bonadies of Holland, PA, Jean Bonadies-Jurik of Allentown, NJ, and Kathleen Cipoletti and her husband Robert of Pompton Plains; she was the cherished grandmother of nine grandchildren: Nicole, Jeremy, Kyle, Colette, Joshua, Cynthia, Kailyn, Joseph, and Steven; and dearly loved sister of Raymond Stumboli and his wife Lois, Joseph Stumboli and his wife Bonnie, and the late Albert, Sarah, Edward, Alice, and Louis. Jean will also be greatly missed by her extended family members: Vince, Ralph and Betty, and Lorraine, as well as her many nieces and nephews, and lifelong friends.
In lieu of flowers, memorial donations to Saint Jude Children’s Research Hospital, Memorials Processing, 501 St. Jude Place, Memphis TN 38105-9959 would be greatly appreciated.
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