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Friends may visit with the family from 1-4 PM on Sunday, June 12, 2016 at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne. A funeral service will be held 4 PM at the conclusion of the visitation hours.
Jean P. Makl (nee Loiacona), age 83 of Bethesda, MD, died on June 10, 2016, with her family at her bedside. She had lived in Newtown, CT, Ridgewood, NJ and Bethesda, MD.
Jean grew up in Connecticut and after attending Western Connecticut Teacher’s College, she became a Special Education teacher’s aid at the Middle Gate School in Newtown, CT. She taught there during the early 1970’s before moving to Ridgewood, NJ with her family. She retired to the Bethesda, Maryland area in 2001. She found great pleasure in recent years as an active member of the Red Hat Society, and ‘growing older playfully’ certainly suited her.
Throughout her entire life, Jean had been very active and playful – a “June Cleaver” type mom, who was truly involved in her children’s lives. Raising her own children meant riding bikes, playing ball, and lots of arts & crafts. As a grandmother, she always had some sort of arts & crafts project going with the kids. She somehow also managed to attend virtually every show, school play, dance recital, and birthday party for her grandchildren. She was just an amazing grandmother by any measure, very loving and devoted to her family.
Jean enjoyed traveling and spent many summer vacations on Cape Cod and also at Wildwood, NJ. She had visited Disney World on more than a few occasions, and wintered at Lady Lake, Florida, with her cousins for a few years. She loved to read and enjoyed being in the book club. She was a wonderful gardener, tending to both flowers and her veggies. Jean was a great cook, and baking was her specialty. Cookies and pies were clearly her forte. On Christmas, for example, she would often surprise her family with a fresh batch of her candy cane cookies that were simply irresistible.
Jean is survived by her two children; Janet Sciacchetano-Cammarata and her husband Jim Cammarata of Pompton Lakes, her son; Glenn Makl and his wife Joy Langford of Betheda, MD, nine grandchildren; Joe Sciacchetano, Mary Sciacchetano Michaels and her husband Garrette,
Michael Sciacchetano, Rob Sciacchetano, Laura Makl, Paul Makl, Jackson Makl, Sarah Makl, and Sawyer Makl, as well as one great-grandson; Gavin Michaels, and one brother; John Loiacona of Florida. She was predeceased by her brother Phillip of Alexandria, VA.
In lieu of flowers memorial donations (please click on link to make a donation) to the Make-A-Wish Foundation or the Compass Rose Theater would be greatly appreciated; two organizations that were very special to Jean's grandchildren.
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Friends may visit with the family from 1-4 PM on Sunday, June 12, 2016 at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne. A funeral service will be held 4 PM at the conclusion of the visitation hours.
Services
Friends may visit with the family from 1-4 PM on Sunday, June 12, 2016 at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne. A funeral service will be held 4 PM at the conclusion of the visitation hours.
Jean P. Makl (nee Loiacona), age 83 of Bethesda, MD, died on June 10, 2016, with her family at her bedside. She had lived in Newtown, CT, Ridgewood, NJ and Bethesda, MD.
Jean grew up in Connecticut and after attending Western Connecticut Teacher’s College, she became a Special Education teacher’s aid at the Middle Gate School in Newtown, CT. She taught there during the early 1970’s before moving to Ridgewood, NJ with her family. She retired to the Bethesda, Maryland area in 2001. She found great pleasure in recent years as an active member of the Red Hat Society, and ‘growing older playfully’ certainly suited her.
Throughout her entire life, Jean had been very active and playful – a “June Cleaver” type mom, who was truly involved in her children’s lives. Raising her own children meant riding bikes, playing ball, and lots of arts & crafts. As a grandmother, she always had some sort of arts & crafts project going with the kids. She somehow also managed to attend virtually every show, school play, dance recital, and birthday party for her grandchildren. She was just an amazing grandmother by any measure, very loving and devoted to her family.
Jean enjoyed traveling and spent many summer vacations on Cape Cod and also at Wildwood, NJ. She had visited Disney World on more than a few occasions, and wintered at Lady Lake, Florida, with her cousins for a few years. She loved to read and enjoyed being in the book club. She was a wonderful gardener, tending to both flowers and her veggies. Jean was a great cook, and baking was her specialty. Cookies and pies were clearly her forte. On Christmas, for example, she would often surprise her family with a fresh batch of her candy cane cookies that were simply irresistible.
Jean is survived by her two children; Janet Sciacchetano-Cammarata and her husband Jim Cammarata of Pompton Lakes, her son; Glenn Makl and his wife Joy Langford of Betheda, MD, nine grandchildren; Joe Sciacchetano, Mary Sciacchetano Michaels and her husband Garrette,
Michael Sciacchetano, Rob Sciacchetano, Laura Makl, Paul Makl, Jackson Makl, Sarah Makl, and Sawyer Makl, as well as one great-grandson; Gavin Michaels, and one brother; John Loiacona of Florida. She was predeceased by her brother Phillip of Alexandria, VA.
In lieu of flowers memorial donations (please click on link to make a donation) to the Make-A-Wish Foundation or the Compass Rose Theater would be greatly appreciated; two organizations that were very special to Jean's grandchildren.
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