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November 29, 2011
Services
Friends may visit with the family on Thursday, December 1, 2011 from 4-8 PM at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
Funeral services will be held Friday, December 2, 2011 8:30 AM from the funeral home then to Our Lady of the Valley RC Church, 630 Valley Road, Wayne where a 9:30 AM Funeral Mass will be offered.
Interment will be in Christ the King Cemetery, Franklin Lakes.
Josephine “Jo” Dillon (nee Dwyer) age 99 of Wayne passed peacefully at home on Tuesday, November 29, 2011.
She was born in Edina, Missouri where she was raised on the family farm. She and her brother Glennon would ride a pony to the one room schoolhouse where the teacher taught all grades.
At the age of 17 Josephine’s family sold the farm and came to New Jersey in search of work. She worked as a telephone operator for the Bell Telephone Corporation in Hackensack for many years before retiring in 1984. After retiring she lived in St. Petersburg Florida and lived in Hasbrouck Heights New Jersey before moving to Wayne in 1996 to live with her daughter Rita. Rita and Jo were mother and daugher but were blessed with being best friends as well. Rita could always be heard calling Jo "Sweetie Pie".
Josephine was always happy, had a smile and a little twinkle in her eye. She was kind and considerate, generous to a fault, patient and loving with a deep commitment to her Catholic faith. She was exceptionally graceful on the ballroom dancing floor, was a great cook and even better baker. Jo's pies were always homemade with fruits of the season, a result of growing up on the farm, and delicious. She enjoyed day trips with several Bergen County Seniors Clubs and playing Canasta and Poker. Her grandchildren will always remember her tickling their feet and playing "this little piggy" with them.
She was the loving wife of the late John Dillon; loving mother of Rita Nardozza of Wayne and the late Patricia Best(2003); cherrished grandmother of twelve grandchildren and eighteen great-grandchildren; she was predeceased by six siblings and is survived by her brother Glennon Dwyer and his wife Mickey of Beaver, Pennsylvania.
In lieu of flowers memorial donations to AutismSpeaks.org Autism Speaks, 1060 State Road – 2nd Floor, Princeton, NJ 08540, or St. Judes Children's Hospital, 501 St. Jude Place, Memphis, TN 38105-2729 or Eva’s Kitchen, 393 Main Street, Paterson, NJ 07501 would be appreciated.
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Friends may visit with the family on Thursday, December 1, 2011 from 4-8 PM at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
Funeral services will be held Friday, December 2, 2011 8:30 AM from the funeral home then to Our Lady of the Valley RC Church, 630 Valley Road, Wayne where a 9:30 AM Funeral Mass will be offered.
Interment will be in Christ the King Cemetery, Franklin Lakes.
November 29, 2011
Services
Friends may visit with the family on Thursday, December 1, 2011 from 4-8 PM at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
Funeral services will be held Friday, December 2, 2011 8:30 AM from the funeral home then to Our Lady of the Valley RC Church, 630 Valley Road, Wayne where a 9:30 AM Funeral Mass will be offered.
Interment will be in Christ the King Cemetery, Franklin Lakes.
Josephine “Jo” Dillon (nee Dwyer) age 99 of Wayne passed peacefully at home on Tuesday, November 29, 2011.
She was born in Edina, Missouri where she was raised on the family farm. She and her brother Glennon would ride a pony to the one room schoolhouse where the teacher taught all grades.
At the age of 17 Josephine’s family sold the farm and came to New Jersey in search of work. She worked as a telephone operator for the Bell Telephone Corporation in Hackensack for many years before retiring in 1984. After retiring she lived in St. Petersburg Florida and lived in Hasbrouck Heights New Jersey before moving to Wayne in 1996 to live with her daughter Rita. Rita and Jo were mother and daugher but were blessed with being best friends as well. Rita could always be heard calling Jo "Sweetie Pie".
Josephine was always happy, had a smile and a little twinkle in her eye. She was kind and considerate, generous to a fault, patient and loving with a deep commitment to her Catholic faith. She was exceptionally graceful on the ballroom dancing floor, was a great cook and even better baker. Jo's pies were always homemade with fruits of the season, a result of growing up on the farm, and delicious. She enjoyed day trips with several Bergen County Seniors Clubs and playing Canasta and Poker. Her grandchildren will always remember her tickling their feet and playing "this little piggy" with them.
She was the loving wife of the late John Dillon; loving mother of Rita Nardozza of Wayne and the late Patricia Best(2003); cherrished grandmother of twelve grandchildren and eighteen great-grandchildren; she was predeceased by six siblings and is survived by her brother Glennon Dwyer and his wife Mickey of Beaver, Pennsylvania.
In lieu of flowers memorial donations to AutismSpeaks.org Autism Speaks, 1060 State Road – 2nd Floor, Princeton, NJ 08540, or St. Judes Children's Hospital, 501 St. Jude Place, Memphis, TN 38105-2729 or Eva’s Kitchen, 393 Main Street, Paterson, NJ 07501 would be appreciated.
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