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December 22, 2014
Services
Friends may visit with the family from 2-4 and 7-9 PM on Friday, December 26, 2014 at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Rd., Wayne.
Funeral services will be held 8:15 AM on Saturday, December 27, 2014 from the funeral home then to St. Gerard’s RC Church, 501 W. Broadway, Paterson where a 9:30 AM Funeral Mass will be offered.
Interment will be in Holy Sepulchre Cemetery, Totowa.
Joseph C. Delaney age 88 of Wayne passed Monday, December 22, 2014.
He was born and raised in Paterson having attended Central High School with the Class of 1944.
He was a US Navy Veteran of WWII having served on the USS Saint Paul a Baltimore Class Heavy Cruiser. The USS Saint Paul fired the last hostile salvo from a major ship on Tokyo Bay then entered the Bay for the formal surrender ceremony the next day. The ship is also known for firing the last round shot at sea during the Korean War.
Joe was a quiet man who loved sports. He was a gifted shortstop having played at the Polo Ground in New York City. He was talented enough to get an invite to try out for the Saint Louis Cardinals. This never came to be as he felt the call to serve his country outweighed his desire to play baseball. He enjoyed making models of military ships and planes and could often be heard saying “believe me when I tell ya.”
Joe met his wife Josephine “Sophie” Rusciano through an introduction by a close friend of hers. They fell in love and married on June 28, 1952 at St. Michaels RC Church, Paterson. Their honeymoon in Atlantic City was followed by years in Paterson, Clifton, and Hawthorne before moving to Wayne. They have enjoyed fifty nine years of loving and dedicated marriage before Josephine’s passing in June of 2011.
He was the beloved husband of the late Josephine “Sophie” Delaney (2011); devoted father of Joseph Delaney and his wife Gale of Wayne, Anthony Delaney and his wife Nancy of Warwick, NY, and Renee Weinstein and her husband Scott of Wayne; cherished grandfather of Lisa King and her husband Michael, Michael Delaney, John Delaney and his wife Fallon, Cara and her husband Jonathan DellaMonica, Thomas Delaney, and Ryan Weinstein; much loved great-grandfather of Julia King, Jax King, and Hailey DellaMonica.
In lieu of flowers memorial donations to the Wayne First Aid Squad, PO Box 2004, Wayne, NJ 07474 would be appreciated.
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Friends may visit with the family from 2-4 and 7-9 PM on Friday, December 26, 2014 at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Rd., Wayne.
Funeral services will be held 8:15 AM on Saturday, December 27, 2014 from the funeral home then to St. Gerard’s RC Church, 501 W. Broadway, Paterson where a 9:30 AM Funeral Mass will be offered.
Interment will be in Holy Sepulchre Cemetery, Totowa.
December 22, 2014
Services
Friends may visit with the family from 2-4 and 7-9 PM on Friday, December 26, 2014 at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Rd., Wayne.
Funeral services will be held 8:15 AM on Saturday, December 27, 2014 from the funeral home then to St. Gerard’s RC Church, 501 W. Broadway, Paterson where a 9:30 AM Funeral Mass will be offered.
Interment will be in Holy Sepulchre Cemetery, Totowa.
Joseph C. Delaney age 88 of Wayne passed Monday, December 22, 2014.
He was born and raised in Paterson having attended Central High School with the Class of 1944.
He was a US Navy Veteran of WWII having served on the USS Saint Paul a Baltimore Class Heavy Cruiser. The USS Saint Paul fired the last hostile salvo from a major ship on Tokyo Bay then entered the Bay for the formal surrender ceremony the next day. The ship is also known for firing the last round shot at sea during the Korean War.
Joe was a quiet man who loved sports. He was a gifted shortstop having played at the Polo Ground in New York City. He was talented enough to get an invite to try out for the Saint Louis Cardinals. This never came to be as he felt the call to serve his country outweighed his desire to play baseball. He enjoyed making models of military ships and planes and could often be heard saying “believe me when I tell ya.”
Joe met his wife Josephine “Sophie” Rusciano through an introduction by a close friend of hers. They fell in love and married on June 28, 1952 at St. Michaels RC Church, Paterson. Their honeymoon in Atlantic City was followed by years in Paterson, Clifton, and Hawthorne before moving to Wayne. They have enjoyed fifty nine years of loving and dedicated marriage before Josephine’s passing in June of 2011.
He was the beloved husband of the late Josephine “Sophie” Delaney (2011); devoted father of Joseph Delaney and his wife Gale of Wayne, Anthony Delaney and his wife Nancy of Warwick, NY, and Renee Weinstein and her husband Scott of Wayne; cherished grandfather of Lisa King and her husband Michael, Michael Delaney, John Delaney and his wife Fallon, Cara and her husband Jonathan DellaMonica, Thomas Delaney, and Ryan Weinstein; much loved great-grandfather of Julia King, Jax King, and Hailey DellaMonica.
In lieu of flowers memorial donations to the Wayne First Aid Squad, PO Box 2004, Wayne, NJ 07474 would be appreciated.
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