Jo-Ellen Dolengo

Jo-Ellen M. Dolengo (Willekes), age 55, of Bloomingdale, passed Monday, February 15, 2021.

She was born to John and Johanna Willekes in Pequannock New Jersey. Jo-Ellen graduated from the Netherlands Reformed Christian School in Pompton Plains with the Class of 1983.  She furthered her education at Berkley College in West Paterson and County College of Morris.  For several years Jo-Ellen worked in Bakery Department of the A&P Grocery Store in Boonton and later in Pompton Lakes. Her special Apple Cake gained her recognition in the local newspaper.  Jo-Ellen was always community minded and volunteered at the Pequannock 1st Aid Squad for several years.

Jo-Ellen will be lovingly remembered for her kind, caring, and outgoing personality. She was devoted to her Christian faith and a longstanding member of the Ebenezer Netherland Reformed Church in Franklin Lakes.

She met Brian Dolengo while on the Pequannock First Aid Squad.  Their first date was to a company dinner Brian invited her to.  They fell in love and Brian proposed to Jo-Ellen at the home of her parents.  They married on May 18, 1996 at the Ebenezer Netherland Reformed Church in Franklin Lakes and they honeymooned in Niagara Falls, NY.  They have had a loving, caring, and devoted marriage of twenty-four years.

Jo-Ellen was the loving daughter of John Willekes and his late wife Johanna (d.2015); she was the loved sister of the late Carl Willekes (d.2012); devoted daughter-in-law to Paul Dolengo of Pompton Plains and the late Ann Dolengo (d.2017); she was also the sister-in-law to David Dolengo of Butler.