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February 22, 2017
Services
Friends may visit with the family at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne, on Friday, Feb. 24, 2017 from 4-8 PM. A funeral service will be held at 9 AM on Saturday, Feb. 25, 2017 at the funeral home, followed by burial at the Ocean View Cemetery on Staten Island.
Josephine M. Baccash, age 90 of Wayne, died peacefully on Wednesday, February 22, 2017. She had been a resident of Brooklyn, NY before moving to NJ in 1994.
Josephine was raised in the Park Slope section of Brooklyn and graduated from the Brooklyn Industrial High School for Girls in 1944. As a requirement for graduation, she had to sew her own dress for the matriculation ceremony. She was a graceful woman who embraced her femininity and always looked her best, regardless of the situation. She was like “Martha Stewart” before there was a Martha Stewart. Her wardrobe was made almost entirely of dresses and skirts, and her children estimate that Josephine was likely in her 60’s before ever donning her first pair of pants. She was truly a lady. She was “the best” mom they could have ever dreamed of having and she was always there for them. She was also an incredible homemaker and an outstanding cook. She wasn’t simply a “cook,” but rather, she “prepared” wonderful meals. She honored her family heritage and learned many traditional Lebanese recipes. Sometimes it’s the simple things that mean the most, and her children recall from their early childhood that nothing was better than mom’s BLT sandwiches!
Josephine dedicated herself to her family, but she was also very charitable, kind hearted, and willing to help others in need. For many years, she dedicated herself to the “Nairys” (“Syrian” spelled backwards) in Brooklyn, an organization of Syrian Christians who helped to raise money for St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital in New York. Her family requests that friends who wish to make a donation in Josephine’s memory please consider St. Jude Hospital. In later years she served as a volunteer at the St. Nicholas home in Brooklyn, and Valley Hospital in Ridgewood, NJ.
Josephine’s marriage was similar to those written about in story books. She met Joseph Baccash when they were both just young children, living in the same building in Brooklyn. Joseph went off to fight in World War II and upon his return from the service, he was quite elated to discover the now ‘grown up’ version of Josephine. The two of them began dating almost immediately and they married on May 29, 1949 at Our Lady of Lebanon Maronite Cathedral in Brooklyn. Following a honeymoon to Niagara Falls, they settled in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn and raised their three children there. Josephine and Joe loved each other very much and everyone knew it. They were both excellent dancers and it was common for them to drop whatever it was that they were doing and begin dancing together if a familiar song came on the radio.
Josephine is survived by her three children; Joyce Dellagatta and her husband Andrew of Wayne, Basil Baccash and his wife Janet of Holmdel, NJ, and Nicholas Baccash and his wife Jeanette of Doylestown, PA, as well as six grandchildren; Jeffrey Baccash, Christine Dellagatta, Nicholas Baccash and his wife Valerie, Dianna Baccash, Lauren Baccash, and Christopher Baccash, and her first great-grandchild expected this April. Josephine was predeceased by her beloved husband Joseph in 1987, and by her two brothers.
Donations in Josephine’s memory would be greatly appreciated to St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, 501 St. Jude Place, Memphis, TN 38105, or visit www.stjude.org.
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Friends may visit with the family at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne, on Friday, Feb. 24, 2017 from 4-8 PM. A funeral service will be held at 9 AM on Saturday, Feb. 25, 2017 at the funeral home, followed by burial at the Ocean View Cemetery on Staten Island.
February 22, 2017
Services
Friends may visit with the family at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne, on Friday, Feb. 24, 2017 from 4-8 PM. A funeral service will be held at 9 AM on Saturday, Feb. 25, 2017 at the funeral home, followed by burial at the Ocean View Cemetery on Staten Island.
Josephine M. Baccash, age 90 of Wayne, died peacefully on Wednesday, February 22, 2017. She had been a resident of Brooklyn, NY before moving to NJ in 1994.
Josephine was raised in the Park Slope section of Brooklyn and graduated from the Brooklyn Industrial High School for Girls in 1944. As a requirement for graduation, she had to sew her own dress for the matriculation ceremony. She was a graceful woman who embraced her femininity and always looked her best, regardless of the situation. She was like “Martha Stewart” before there was a Martha Stewart. Her wardrobe was made almost entirely of dresses and skirts, and her children estimate that Josephine was likely in her 60’s before ever donning her first pair of pants. She was truly a lady. She was “the best” mom they could have ever dreamed of having and she was always there for them. She was also an incredible homemaker and an outstanding cook. She wasn’t simply a “cook,” but rather, she “prepared” wonderful meals. She honored her family heritage and learned many traditional Lebanese recipes. Sometimes it’s the simple things that mean the most, and her children recall from their early childhood that nothing was better than mom’s BLT sandwiches!
Josephine dedicated herself to her family, but she was also very charitable, kind hearted, and willing to help others in need. For many years, she dedicated herself to the “Nairys” (“Syrian” spelled backwards) in Brooklyn, an organization of Syrian Christians who helped to raise money for St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital in New York. Her family requests that friends who wish to make a donation in Josephine’s memory please consider St. Jude Hospital. In later years she served as a volunteer at the St. Nicholas home in Brooklyn, and Valley Hospital in Ridgewood, NJ.
Josephine’s marriage was similar to those written about in story books. She met Joseph Baccash when they were both just young children, living in the same building in Brooklyn. Joseph went off to fight in World War II and upon his return from the service, he was quite elated to discover the now ‘grown up’ version of Josephine. The two of them began dating almost immediately and they married on May 29, 1949 at Our Lady of Lebanon Maronite Cathedral in Brooklyn. Following a honeymoon to Niagara Falls, they settled in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn and raised their three children there. Josephine and Joe loved each other very much and everyone knew it. They were both excellent dancers and it was common for them to drop whatever it was that they were doing and begin dancing together if a familiar song came on the radio.
Josephine is survived by her three children; Joyce Dellagatta and her husband Andrew of Wayne, Basil Baccash and his wife Janet of Holmdel, NJ, and Nicholas Baccash and his wife Jeanette of Doylestown, PA, as well as six grandchildren; Jeffrey Baccash, Christine Dellagatta, Nicholas Baccash and his wife Valerie, Dianna Baccash, Lauren Baccash, and Christopher Baccash, and her first great-grandchild expected this April. Josephine was predeceased by her beloved husband Joseph in 1987, and by her two brothers.
Donations in Josephine’s memory would be greatly appreciated to St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, 501 St. Jude Place, Memphis, TN 38105, or visit www.stjude.org.
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