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August 18, 2012
Services
Friends may visit with the family at the funeral home on Wednesday, August 22, 2012 from 10 AM – 12 Noon at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
Funeral services will be held 12 Noon from the funeral home then to Our Lady of the Valley RC Church, 630 Valley Road, Wayne where a 12:30 PM Funeral Mass will be offered.
Interment will be in Holy Sepulchre Cemetery, Totowa.
Josephine “Josie” Cialone age 92 of Wayne died peacefully on Saturday, August 18, 2012.
She was born in Paterson where she lived a happy childhood. She received her formal education at Paterson Grammar School No. 5.
Josie, as a teenager, needed to find work and she went to a local factory and inquired about employment. She filled out their application and was accepted for a position. Something told her that she should learn more about her potential work responsibilities and she proceeded to ask a few questions. At that point she learned that this company’s main product was condoms. To make a long story short she went into an emotional panic that included a flushed red face, and told them in a forthright manner that she definitely could not do that kind of work. Over the years this life experience was the subject of much good kidding and delightful interfamily humor.
Her sister Teresa was of dating age and she was being pursued by a gentlemen named Rocco Cialone. Teresa being a party girl wanted nothing to do with Rocco and at that point Rocco took an interest in Josephine. They decided to join their hearts in marriage and married on February 19, 1944 and had thirty-one years of extremely devoted and loving marriage together until Rocco’s passing on February 4th, 1975.
Her principal focus in life was her family and when you met Josie she made you a member of that family.
Wayne residents will recall that the Cialone family had green houses and a farm on Valley Road in Wayne. They were highly respected as a warm and popular part of the Wayne citizenry. Josie would reach out to neighbors and help them with their domestic chores, cooking and house cleaning and in particular helping to raise the fifteen children in the VanPeenen family.
Surviving to cherish her memory are her nieces Kathleen Fox of Butler, Annette Meyer of Fredon, Charles Puglia of Dresher, PA, Michael Puglia of Taylors, SC, Joseph Cialone of FL, Philip Cialone of FL, Paul Cialone of CT, and BettyLou Breen of Lincoln Park.
She was predeceased by her loving parents Michael and Antoinette (Rosciano) Puglia; she was also predeceased by her brothers Charles and John Puglia, and Teresa Puglia.
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Friends may visit with the family at the funeral home on Wednesday, August 22, 2012 from 10 AM – 12 Noon at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
Funeral services will be held 12 Noon from the funeral home then to Our Lady of the Valley RC Church, 630 Valley Road, Wayne where a 12:30 PM Funeral Mass will be offered.
Interment will be in Holy Sepulchre Cemetery, Totowa.
August 18, 2012
Services
Friends may visit with the family at the funeral home on Wednesday, August 22, 2012 from 10 AM – 12 Noon at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
Funeral services will be held 12 Noon from the funeral home then to Our Lady of the Valley RC Church, 630 Valley Road, Wayne where a 12:30 PM Funeral Mass will be offered.
Interment will be in Holy Sepulchre Cemetery, Totowa.
Josephine “Josie” Cialone age 92 of Wayne died peacefully on Saturday, August 18, 2012.
She was born in Paterson where she lived a happy childhood. She received her formal education at Paterson Grammar School No. 5.
Josie, as a teenager, needed to find work and she went to a local factory and inquired about employment. She filled out their application and was accepted for a position. Something told her that she should learn more about her potential work responsibilities and she proceeded to ask a few questions. At that point she learned that this company’s main product was condoms. To make a long story short she went into an emotional panic that included a flushed red face, and told them in a forthright manner that she definitely could not do that kind of work. Over the years this life experience was the subject of much good kidding and delightful interfamily humor.
Her sister Teresa was of dating age and she was being pursued by a gentlemen named Rocco Cialone. Teresa being a party girl wanted nothing to do with Rocco and at that point Rocco took an interest in Josephine. They decided to join their hearts in marriage and married on February 19, 1944 and had thirty-one years of extremely devoted and loving marriage together until Rocco’s passing on February 4th, 1975.
Her principal focus in life was her family and when you met Josie she made you a member of that family.
Wayne residents will recall that the Cialone family had green houses and a farm on Valley Road in Wayne. They were highly respected as a warm and popular part of the Wayne citizenry. Josie would reach out to neighbors and help them with their domestic chores, cooking and house cleaning and in particular helping to raise the fifteen children in the VanPeenen family.
Surviving to cherish her memory are her nieces Kathleen Fox of Butler, Annette Meyer of Fredon, Charles Puglia of Dresher, PA, Michael Puglia of Taylors, SC, Joseph Cialone of FL, Philip Cialone of FL, Paul Cialone of CT, and BettyLou Breen of Lincoln Park.
She was predeceased by her loving parents Michael and Antoinette (Rosciano) Puglia; she was also predeceased by her brothers Charles and John Puglia, and Teresa Puglia.
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