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August 5, 2017
Services
Friends may visit with the family at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne, on Tuesday, August 8, 2017 from 2-4 & 7-9 PM. Funeral Services will be held on Wednesday, August 9, 2017 at 9 AM from the funeral home, then to Annunciation RC Church, Wayne, where at 10 AM a Funeral Mass will be offered. Joe will be laid to rest near his daughter, Lynda, at the mausoleum in Maryrest Cemetery, Mahwah.
Joseph Silvestri, Jr., age 81 of Wayne and formerly of Oakland, died peacefully on Saturday, August 05, 2017. He had lived in Oakland for fifty years before moving to Wayne in 2013.
Joe had worked as a sales manager in the heating oil business for most of his career. He started with Hess Corporation and one of his favorite perquisites were tickets to go see the NY JETS play football! He later worked with Home Fuel Oil Company of Englewood, NJ, and he made a lot of dear friends during those years.
Joe was raised in Paterson, NJ and graduated from Central High School where he was an outstanding basketball player. His love of sports never ended and he loved to go to West Point for football games. As a teenager, he moved to Haledon with his family and shortly after high school he was drafted into the U.S. Army. After training at Fort Dix, Joe was deployed to Germany where he really enjoyed himself. He made some lifelong friends in the service and they were fortunate to be able to tour all around Europe while they were there. It was truly a great experience and he spoke about it often.
Upon returning home from the Army, Joe met Rosemarie Remish at a bowling alley one evening. She was a fantastic bowler and caught Joe’s eye that very night. He invited her out on a date for hotdogs at the Falls View Grill and the rest, as they say, is history. They were married on May 2, 1964 at St. Stan’s Church in Garfield and after a memorable honeymoon to Bermuda, they settled to their Oakland, NJ home for the next fifty years. They raised their two daughters there and enjoyed vacations to Chadwick Beach on the Jersey Shore every summer. Joe was a devoted husband and a good provider. His daughter recalls that no matter how hard he worked, and how tired he may have been when he got home, he always made time to play games with his two girls. When Joe was eventually blessed with a grandson, he was delighted to spend as much time with him as possible. He taught Matthew to play sports and they did all sorts of things together. Matthew was like the son he never had, and Joe could not have been happier to watch him grow up into the young man he’s become. Joe loved his family dearly and he’s left them all with many memories to cherish throughout their lifetimes.
Joe is survived by his beloved wife of fifty years; Rosemarie of Wayne, by his daughter Tina Cillo and her husband James Bennett of West Milford, NJ, his grandson Matthew Cillo of West Milford, two sisters; Victoria Corallo and her husband Peter of Ocean County, NJ, and Elvera “Vera” Mariano of Totowa, and a brother; Pat Silvestri and his wife Mildred of Butler, NJ. He was predeceased by his daughter Lynda in 2015, and by his sister Rose Nativo in 2006.
Friends wishing to make a donation in Joe’s memory are asked to consider the American Diabetes Association, P.O. Box 11454, Alexandria, VA 22312, www.diabetes.org, or the National Kidney Foundation, Finance Department, 30 East 33rd St., New York, NY 10016, www.kidney.org.
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Friends may visit with the family at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne, on Tuesday, August 8, 2017 from 2-4 & 7-9 PM. Funeral Services will be held on Wednesday, August 9, 2017 at 9 AM from the funeral home, then to Annunciation RC Church, Wayne, where at 10 AM a Funeral Mass will be offered. Joe will be laid to rest near his daughter, Lynda, at the mausoleum in Maryrest Cemetery, Mahwah.
August 5, 2017
Services
Friends may visit with the family at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne, on Tuesday, August 8, 2017 from 2-4 & 7-9 PM. Funeral Services will be held on Wednesday, August 9, 2017 at 9 AM from the funeral home, then to Annunciation RC Church, Wayne, where at 10 AM a Funeral Mass will be offered. Joe will be laid to rest near his daughter, Lynda, at the mausoleum in Maryrest Cemetery, Mahwah.
Joseph Silvestri, Jr., age 81 of Wayne and formerly of Oakland, died peacefully on Saturday, August 05, 2017. He had lived in Oakland for fifty years before moving to Wayne in 2013.
Joe had worked as a sales manager in the heating oil business for most of his career. He started with Hess Corporation and one of his favorite perquisites were tickets to go see the NY JETS play football! He later worked with Home Fuel Oil Company of Englewood, NJ, and he made a lot of dear friends during those years.
Joe was raised in Paterson, NJ and graduated from Central High School where he was an outstanding basketball player. His love of sports never ended and he loved to go to West Point for football games. As a teenager, he moved to Haledon with his family and shortly after high school he was drafted into the U.S. Army. After training at Fort Dix, Joe was deployed to Germany where he really enjoyed himself. He made some lifelong friends in the service and they were fortunate to be able to tour all around Europe while they were there. It was truly a great experience and he spoke about it often.
Upon returning home from the Army, Joe met Rosemarie Remish at a bowling alley one evening. She was a fantastic bowler and caught Joe’s eye that very night. He invited her out on a date for hotdogs at the Falls View Grill and the rest, as they say, is history. They were married on May 2, 1964 at St. Stan’s Church in Garfield and after a memorable honeymoon to Bermuda, they settled to their Oakland, NJ home for the next fifty years. They raised their two daughters there and enjoyed vacations to Chadwick Beach on the Jersey Shore every summer. Joe was a devoted husband and a good provider. His daughter recalls that no matter how hard he worked, and how tired he may have been when he got home, he always made time to play games with his two girls. When Joe was eventually blessed with a grandson, he was delighted to spend as much time with him as possible. He taught Matthew to play sports and they did all sorts of things together. Matthew was like the son he never had, and Joe could not have been happier to watch him grow up into the young man he’s become. Joe loved his family dearly and he’s left them all with many memories to cherish throughout their lifetimes.
Joe is survived by his beloved wife of fifty years; Rosemarie of Wayne, by his daughter Tina Cillo and her husband James Bennett of West Milford, NJ, his grandson Matthew Cillo of West Milford, two sisters; Victoria Corallo and her husband Peter of Ocean County, NJ, and Elvera “Vera” Mariano of Totowa, and a brother; Pat Silvestri and his wife Mildred of Butler, NJ. He was predeceased by his daughter Lynda in 2015, and by his sister Rose Nativo in 2006.
Friends wishing to make a donation in Joe’s memory are asked to consider the American Diabetes Association, P.O. Box 11454, Alexandria, VA 22312, www.diabetes.org, or the National Kidney Foundation, Finance Department, 30 East 33rd St., New York, NY 10016, www.kidney.org.
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