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June 9, 2010
Services
Friends may visit with the family at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne, on Sunday June 13, 2010 from 2-6 PM.
Funeral Services will be held at 8:30 on Monday June 14, 2010 from the funeral home, then to Annunciation RC Church where at 9:30 AM a Funeral Mass will be offered.
Burial will follow at the Christ the King Cemetery, Franklin Lakes.
Joseph B. Denari, age 90 of Wayne died peacefully on Wednesday, June 9, 2010 at the Sunrise Assisted Living in Wayne.
Born in Brooklyn, he grew up in Washington Heights and lived in several locations in New York City while going to school and working to help finance his own education. He began to pursue a Bachelor’s degree in Accounting from St. John’s University until the outbreak of WWII.
Joe joined the U.S. Army Air Corps in 1941 upon the United States entry into WWII. He served as a navigator, logging over four hundred hours flying time and of those, one hundred were in combat. On April 2, 1944 his B-24 Liberator Bomber was shot down over Albania by German anti-aircraft batteries. Joe parachuted from the plane before it fell to the earth. Severely wounded by shrapnel, he was captured and taken prisoner to Stalag Luft One, in Germany, a P.O.W. camp. He was freed from the camp thirteen months later at the war’s end, and was discharge in October of 1945. For his service, he was awarded the Air Medal, the Presidential Unit Citation, the European Theater Ribbon with two stars and the Asiatic Pacific Ribbon with one star, as well as a Purple Heart.
Joe resumed his college education and obtained his Accounting degree after the war. He became an accountant with Pan-American Airways, where he remained for most of his career, retiring in 1987.
Joe met his wife Norma at a family wedding and they were married after a short engagement. On their first date, Joe took her to Asti’s Restaurant in New York City where the waiters would sing and entertain. They were married in 1956 at the Lady Chapel of St. Patrick’s Cathedral in New York. Norma described their marriage as a happy and loving partnership. Joe was a true gentleman in every sense of the word; even tempered, gracious and kind, with a good sense of humor. Together they travelled extensively; Hawaii, England, Austria, San Francisco, Canada, and many more destinations. Those happy memories are sure to be cherished for years to come.
Joe and Norma moved to Maspeth, Queens shortly after they were married, which is where they raised their three children. Joe was an active and devoted father, and was always involved in his children’s academic and athletic programs. Once their children were all out on their own, Joe and Norma moved to New Jersey to enjoy their retirement years.
Joe is survived by his loving wife of fifty three years; Norma (nee Geier) of Wayne, his devoted children; Jeanne Palmer and her husband James of Boca Raton, FL, and John Denari and his wife Kathleen of Allendale, NJ, and one grandson; David Denari of Allendale. Joe was predeceased by one son; Joseph in 1998 and by his sister Dorothy Passarette of New Hyde Park, NY in 2008.
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Friends may visit with the family at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne, on Sunday June 13, 2010 from 2-6 PM.
Funeral Services will be held at 8:30 on Monday June 14, 2010 from the funeral home, then to Annunciation RC Church where at 9:30 AM a Funeral Mass will be offered.
Burial will follow at the Christ the King Cemetery, Franklin Lakes.
June 9, 2010
Services
Friends may visit with the family at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne, on Sunday June 13, 2010 from 2-6 PM.
Funeral Services will be held at 8:30 on Monday June 14, 2010 from the funeral home, then to Annunciation RC Church where at 9:30 AM a Funeral Mass will be offered.
Burial will follow at the Christ the King Cemetery, Franklin Lakes.
Joseph B. Denari, age 90 of Wayne died peacefully on Wednesday, June 9, 2010 at the Sunrise Assisted Living in Wayne.
Born in Brooklyn, he grew up in Washington Heights and lived in several locations in New York City while going to school and working to help finance his own education. He began to pursue a Bachelor’s degree in Accounting from St. John’s University until the outbreak of WWII.
Joe joined the U.S. Army Air Corps in 1941 upon the United States entry into WWII. He served as a navigator, logging over four hundred hours flying time and of those, one hundred were in combat. On April 2, 1944 his B-24 Liberator Bomber was shot down over Albania by German anti-aircraft batteries. Joe parachuted from the plane before it fell to the earth. Severely wounded by shrapnel, he was captured and taken prisoner to Stalag Luft One, in Germany, a P.O.W. camp. He was freed from the camp thirteen months later at the war’s end, and was discharge in October of 1945. For his service, he was awarded the Air Medal, the Presidential Unit Citation, the European Theater Ribbon with two stars and the Asiatic Pacific Ribbon with one star, as well as a Purple Heart.
Joe resumed his college education and obtained his Accounting degree after the war. He became an accountant with Pan-American Airways, where he remained for most of his career, retiring in 1987.
Joe met his wife Norma at a family wedding and they were married after a short engagement. On their first date, Joe took her to Asti’s Restaurant in New York City where the waiters would sing and entertain. They were married in 1956 at the Lady Chapel of St. Patrick’s Cathedral in New York. Norma described their marriage as a happy and loving partnership. Joe was a true gentleman in every sense of the word; even tempered, gracious and kind, with a good sense of humor. Together they travelled extensively; Hawaii, England, Austria, San Francisco, Canada, and many more destinations. Those happy memories are sure to be cherished for years to come.
Joe and Norma moved to Maspeth, Queens shortly after they were married, which is where they raised their three children. Joe was an active and devoted father, and was always involved in his children’s academic and athletic programs. Once their children were all out on their own, Joe and Norma moved to New Jersey to enjoy their retirement years.
Joe is survived by his loving wife of fifty three years; Norma (nee Geier) of Wayne, his devoted children; Jeanne Palmer and her husband James of Boca Raton, FL, and John Denari and his wife Kathleen of Allendale, NJ, and one grandson; David Denari of Allendale. Joe was predeceased by one son; Joseph in 1998 and by his sister Dorothy Passarette of New Hyde Park, NY in 2008.
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