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January 6, 2013
Services
Friends may visit with the family on Wednesday, January 9, 2013 from 2-4 and 7-9 PM at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
Funeral services will be held 9 AM on Thursday, January 10, 2013 from the funeral home then to Our Lady of Fatima Church, 32 W. Franklin Ave., Pequannock where a 10 AM Funeral Mass will be offered.
Interment will be in Holy Sepulchre Cemetery, Totowa.
Josephine Ippolito (nee Losciuto) age 102 ½ of Pequannock, died peacefully with the comfort of her daughters by her side on Sunday, January 6, 2013.
She was born in New York City and lived in Paterson and Wayne before moving to Pequannock thirty-two years ago.
When she was just twelve years old Josephine lost her mother during childbirth and she soon found employment in the New York City garment industry as a seamstress. The family moved to Paterson - and named their new home “The Castle” -where she again found work as a seamstress having worked with Local 161 of the International Ladies Garment Workers Union. When her children were young, she took time off from her work as a seamstress and raised her family, having worked a few years as a “lunch lady” at the Lafayette School in Wayne. When the children were grown she returned to work as a seamstress in the garment industry before retiring in 1972. Josephine walked just about everywhere, as she raised her family, grocery shopped, and worked, all without ever getting her driver’s license! She truly worked hard and played little.
She met her husband, the late Donato Ippolito(2001) through an introduction by family friends Gary and Laura Berdan while living in Paterson. Donato said he fell in love when, as he would always say, “She winked at me”. It is rumored that the first movie they saw together was the now classic Gone With The Wind. They married on April 19, 1942 at St. Michael’s RC Church in Paterson and honeymooned in Niagara Falls, New York. They married later in life by the day’s standards, Josephine was thirty-two and Donato was thirty-four years old – they were blessed with fifty-nine years of “wonderful” marriage. They initially lived on Sherwood Avenue in Paterson for three years and in 1945 they moved to a five acre farm located on Runnymede Drive in Wayne. The farm with it’s horse race track became available after a terrible barn fire. They lived in Wayne for thirty-six years having raised horses, goats, chickens and the like for many years. In 1980 Josephine moved to Pequannock where she has lived ever since.
Josephine loved to sew, she was an excellent baker, and made a terrific lasagna. Every Christmas she would make lots of Christmas Cookies and she enjoyed many trips to Miami and Fort Meyers Florida with Donato. The simplicity of raising her family and witnessing the accomplishments of her children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren provided Josephine with fantastic wealth…as family was her life and her payment was love.
Josephine was the loving wife of fifty-nine years to the late Donato Ippolito(2001); devoted mother of RoseMarie Tomkowich of Pequannock, Michele Newman and her husband John of Wayne, and the late JoAnn Clark (2008) and her surviving husband Dave; cherished grandmother of Vickie Lepore and her husband Carmine of West Milford, and Michelle Kronberg and her husband Robert of Glenwood; adored great-grandmother of Shelby, Shane, and Kyle Lepore, Nicole, Amanda, and Hailey Kronberg; dear sister of the late Mary Tanucci, Antoinette, Ned, Paul and Michael Loscuito; much loved aunt to several nieces and nephews.
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Friends may visit with the family on Wednesday, January 9, 2013 from 2-4 and 7-9 PM at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
Funeral services will be held 9 AM on Thursday, January 10, 2013 from the funeral home then to Our Lady of Fatima Church, 32 W. Franklin Ave., Pequannock where a 10 AM Funeral Mass will be offered.
Interment will be in Holy Sepulchre Cemetery, Totowa.
January 6, 2013
Services
Friends may visit with the family on Wednesday, January 9, 2013 from 2-4 and 7-9 PM at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
Funeral services will be held 9 AM on Thursday, January 10, 2013 from the funeral home then to Our Lady of Fatima Church, 32 W. Franklin Ave., Pequannock where a 10 AM Funeral Mass will be offered.
Interment will be in Holy Sepulchre Cemetery, Totowa.
Josephine Ippolito (nee Losciuto) age 102 ½ of Pequannock, died peacefully with the comfort of her daughters by her side on Sunday, January 6, 2013.
She was born in New York City and lived in Paterson and Wayne before moving to Pequannock thirty-two years ago.
When she was just twelve years old Josephine lost her mother during childbirth and she soon found employment in the New York City garment industry as a seamstress. The family moved to Paterson - and named their new home “The Castle” -where she again found work as a seamstress having worked with Local 161 of the International Ladies Garment Workers Union. When her children were young, she took time off from her work as a seamstress and raised her family, having worked a few years as a “lunch lady” at the Lafayette School in Wayne. When the children were grown she returned to work as a seamstress in the garment industry before retiring in 1972. Josephine walked just about everywhere, as she raised her family, grocery shopped, and worked, all without ever getting her driver’s license! She truly worked hard and played little.
She met her husband, the late Donato Ippolito(2001) through an introduction by family friends Gary and Laura Berdan while living in Paterson. Donato said he fell in love when, as he would always say, “She winked at me”. It is rumored that the first movie they saw together was the now classic Gone With The Wind. They married on April 19, 1942 at St. Michael’s RC Church in Paterson and honeymooned in Niagara Falls, New York. They married later in life by the day’s standards, Josephine was thirty-two and Donato was thirty-four years old – they were blessed with fifty-nine years of “wonderful” marriage. They initially lived on Sherwood Avenue in Paterson for three years and in 1945 they moved to a five acre farm located on Runnymede Drive in Wayne. The farm with it’s horse race track became available after a terrible barn fire. They lived in Wayne for thirty-six years having raised horses, goats, chickens and the like for many years. In 1980 Josephine moved to Pequannock where she has lived ever since.
Josephine loved to sew, she was an excellent baker, and made a terrific lasagna. Every Christmas she would make lots of Christmas Cookies and she enjoyed many trips to Miami and Fort Meyers Florida with Donato. The simplicity of raising her family and witnessing the accomplishments of her children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren provided Josephine with fantastic wealth…as family was her life and her payment was love.
Josephine was the loving wife of fifty-nine years to the late Donato Ippolito(2001); devoted mother of RoseMarie Tomkowich of Pequannock, Michele Newman and her husband John of Wayne, and the late JoAnn Clark (2008) and her surviving husband Dave; cherished grandmother of Vickie Lepore and her husband Carmine of West Milford, and Michelle Kronberg and her husband Robert of Glenwood; adored great-grandmother of Shelby, Shane, and Kyle Lepore, Nicole, Amanda, and Hailey Kronberg; dear sister of the late Mary Tanucci, Antoinette, Ned, Paul and Michael Loscuito; much loved aunt to several nieces and nephews.
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