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May 29, 2008
Services
Funeral services will be held Tuesday, June 3, 2008 9:30 AM from the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne then to Saint James RC Church, 32 St. James Place, Totowa where at 10:30 AM a Funeral Mass will be offered.
Friends may visit with the family on Monday, June 2, 2008 from 2-4 and 7-9 PM at the funeral home.
Interment will be in Madonna Cemetery, Fort Lee.
John Joseph Pellegrino age 87 of Lincoln Park, formerly of Wayne, died Thursday, May 29, 2008 at the Lincoln Park Renaissance
He was born and raised in Cliffside Park having lived in Fairview, Maywood, Wayne, Lakehurst and Sparta before moving to Lincoln Park in 2006
John was an Army Veteran of WWII having served with Company I, 397th Infantry as a First Sergeant. A decorated veteran he received the American Service Medal, European African Middle Eastern Service Medal, Good Conduct Medal, World War II Victory Medal and the Purple Heart.
He was a personnel manager for the Lever Brothers Corporation, Edgewater where he worked for forty-one years before his retirement in 1981.
John is best described as a personable yet quiet person who was always there when you needed him. He and his wife Gloria were always a hit at weddings as they could dance ‘Swing’ beautifully.
He is the beloved husband of sixty-three years to Gloria(Mistretta) Pellegrino; loving father of the late R. Linda Hoermann(2005) and her surviving husband John, Grayce Mouravieff of Oak Ridge and her late husband Alexandre(2006), Andrea Holloway and her husband John of Brick, Joseph Pellegrino and his wife Bethanne of Wayne and Maria Murphy and her husband Peter of Totowa; cherished grandfather of Anthony, Brendan and Kendall Murphy, Joey, Jennifer and Jordan Pellegrino, Alexis Wilson and her husband Michael and Derek Hoermann; much loved great-grandfather of McKenzie Wilson; loved brother of James Pellegrino of Edgewater, Louise Sculco of Hawthorne and the late Louis Pellegrino, Connie Rea and the late Rose Ferrera.
In lieu of flowers memorial donations to the Disabled American Veterans-DAV Memorial Program, PO Box 14301, Cincinnati, OH 45250-0301 would be appreciated.
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Funeral services will be held Tuesday, June 3, 2008 9:30 AM from the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne then to Saint James RC Church, 32 St. James Place, Totowa where at 10:30 AM a Funeral Mass will be offered.
Friends may visit with the family on Monday, June 2, 2008 from 2-4 and 7-9 PM at the funeral home.
Interment will be in Madonna Cemetery, Fort Lee.
May 29, 2008
Services
Funeral services will be held Tuesday, June 3, 2008 9:30 AM from the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne then to Saint James RC Church, 32 St. James Place, Totowa where at 10:30 AM a Funeral Mass will be offered.
Friends may visit with the family on Monday, June 2, 2008 from 2-4 and 7-9 PM at the funeral home.
Interment will be in Madonna Cemetery, Fort Lee.
John Joseph Pellegrino age 87 of Lincoln Park, formerly of Wayne, died Thursday, May 29, 2008 at the Lincoln Park Renaissance
He was born and raised in Cliffside Park having lived in Fairview, Maywood, Wayne, Lakehurst and Sparta before moving to Lincoln Park in 2006
John was an Army Veteran of WWII having served with Company I, 397th Infantry as a First Sergeant. A decorated veteran he received the American Service Medal, European African Middle Eastern Service Medal, Good Conduct Medal, World War II Victory Medal and the Purple Heart.
He was a personnel manager for the Lever Brothers Corporation, Edgewater where he worked for forty-one years before his retirement in 1981.
John is best described as a personable yet quiet person who was always there when you needed him. He and his wife Gloria were always a hit at weddings as they could dance ‘Swing’ beautifully.
He is the beloved husband of sixty-three years to Gloria(Mistretta) Pellegrino; loving father of the late R. Linda Hoermann(2005) and her surviving husband John, Grayce Mouravieff of Oak Ridge and her late husband Alexandre(2006), Andrea Holloway and her husband John of Brick, Joseph Pellegrino and his wife Bethanne of Wayne and Maria Murphy and her husband Peter of Totowa; cherished grandfather of Anthony, Brendan and Kendall Murphy, Joey, Jennifer and Jordan Pellegrino, Alexis Wilson and her husband Michael and Derek Hoermann; much loved great-grandfather of McKenzie Wilson; loved brother of James Pellegrino of Edgewater, Louise Sculco of Hawthorne and the late Louis Pellegrino, Connie Rea and the late Rose Ferrera.
In lieu of flowers memorial donations to the Disabled American Veterans-DAV Memorial Program, PO Box 14301, Cincinnati, OH 45250-0301 would be appreciated.
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