April 2, 2009

Jennie Marie Rosa

Wayne

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Friends may visit with the family on Sunday, April 5, 2009 from 2-5 PM at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.

Funeral services will be held 10 AM on Monday, April 6, 2009 at the funeral home. Interment will be in Gate of Heaven Cemetery, East Hanover.

Jennie Marie Rosa (nee Cottone) age 77 of Lakewood and Seaside Heights, formerly of Wayne, died Thursday, April 2, 2009 peacefully at home.

She was born and raised in Newark having attended Central High School, Newark with the class of 1949.

She met her husband John A. Rosa, Jr. at Automatic Mfg Company in Newark, where she worked as a secretary and he as an industrial engineer. They were married on October 31, 1953 at Saint Anthonys Church, Belleville. She moved to Union City and lived there for 10 years, then they moved to Wayne, where they resided for 45 years, and spent summers at their jersey shore condo. Last year they moved to 4-Seasons @ Lakewood.

Mrs. Rosa was a purchasing agent, and was known as a tenacious cost cutter for Thomas Electronics of Wayne for twenty years before retiring in 1996.

She will be fondly remembered as a loving wife and mother who took pride in her home and family. Jennie was a sophisticated lady who had style, grace, and beauty.

Jennie was the loving wife of John A. Rosa, Jr. for 55 years; loving mother of John F. Rosa of Toms River and Jeanette Burchill of Wayne; cherished grandmother of Jake, Samuel and Shanna Burchill; and loving sister of Mary Tammera of Bloomfield, Elvira Tammera of Livingston, and the late Frank Cottone.

In lieu of flowers donations can be made to: The Parkinson's Disease Foundation at PDF.ORG or The National Parkinson's Foundation at PARKINSON.ORG

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Friends may visit with the family on Sunday, April 5, 2009 from 2-5 PM at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.

Funeral services will be held 10 AM on Monday, April 6, 2009 at the funeral home. Interment will be in Gate of Heaven Cemetery, East Hanover.

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