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December 18, 2014
Services
Friends may visit with the family on Monday, December 22, 2014 from 4-7 PM at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Rd., Wayne.
Funeral services will be held privately. In lieu of flowers memorial donations to the Wayne First Aid Squad, PO Box 2004, Wayne, NJ 07474 would be appreciated.
Josephine Mazza (nee Mignone) age 88 of Wayne passed on Thursday, December 18, 2014.
She was born in Paterson and lived in Totowa before moving to Wayne fifty two years ago.
Josephine worked at a shoe store on Market Street in Paterson and eventually found work with the Wayne Hills High School cafeteria where she worked for twenty years from 6AM to 10 AM. She retired in March of 1988 and said she loved her work there serving breakfast to the students and teachers.
She was a very nurturing person and loved having her family gather at her home for Sunday dinner. She was always making gravy for the macaroni and was famous for her homemade stuffed shells. Josephine was a selfless person and always willing to step in and help whenever needed. She would typically be the first to arrive and last to leave all their family get-togethers. Josephine was a member of Kingdom Hall of Jehovah Witnesses.
She met a cute boy named Joseph Mazza almost by chance. Joe just happened to be with an Army buddy who had stopped off to visit a girlfriend. Josephine was there as well, and she caught Joe’s eye. They hit it off right from the start. Their first date was to the Regent Theatre in Paterson, which didn’t go so well. Josephine broke out in hives and Joe rushed her home! Nevertheless, they fell in love and Joe proposed marriage at Lake Atrium in Suffern, New York. They were married on February 28, 1948 by the Honorable Judge Milton Shamuck in Paterson, during a pretty severe snow storm. They have since enjoyed sixty-seven years of a loving and devoted marriage. They were always together and they complimented each other perfectly.
Josephine was the loving wife of Joseph Mazza; devoted mother of Debra Mastrogiovanni and her husband Robert of Wayne; cherished grandmother of Jennifer Piro and her husband Marc of Wayne, Laura Mauriello and her husband Al of Wayne; much loved great-grandmother of Madison and Samantha Piro, and Daniel and Andrew Mauriello, and two furry granddogs; Chloe and Charlie; dear sister of the late Raymond Mignone (1980).
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Friends may visit with the family on Monday, December 22, 2014 from 4-7 PM at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Rd., Wayne.
Funeral services will be held privately. In lieu of flowers memorial donations to the Wayne First Aid Squad, PO Box 2004, Wayne, NJ 07474 would be appreciated.
December 18, 2014
Services
Friends may visit with the family on Monday, December 22, 2014 from 4-7 PM at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Rd., Wayne.
Funeral services will be held privately. In lieu of flowers memorial donations to the Wayne First Aid Squad, PO Box 2004, Wayne, NJ 07474 would be appreciated.
Josephine Mazza (nee Mignone) age 88 of Wayne passed on Thursday, December 18, 2014.
She was born in Paterson and lived in Totowa before moving to Wayne fifty two years ago.
Josephine worked at a shoe store on Market Street in Paterson and eventually found work with the Wayne Hills High School cafeteria where she worked for twenty years from 6AM to 10 AM. She retired in March of 1988 and said she loved her work there serving breakfast to the students and teachers.
She was a very nurturing person and loved having her family gather at her home for Sunday dinner. She was always making gravy for the macaroni and was famous for her homemade stuffed shells. Josephine was a selfless person and always willing to step in and help whenever needed. She would typically be the first to arrive and last to leave all their family get-togethers. Josephine was a member of Kingdom Hall of Jehovah Witnesses.
She met a cute boy named Joseph Mazza almost by chance. Joe just happened to be with an Army buddy who had stopped off to visit a girlfriend. Josephine was there as well, and she caught Joe’s eye. They hit it off right from the start. Their first date was to the Regent Theatre in Paterson, which didn’t go so well. Josephine broke out in hives and Joe rushed her home! Nevertheless, they fell in love and Joe proposed marriage at Lake Atrium in Suffern, New York. They were married on February 28, 1948 by the Honorable Judge Milton Shamuck in Paterson, during a pretty severe snow storm. They have since enjoyed sixty-seven years of a loving and devoted marriage. They were always together and they complimented each other perfectly.
Josephine was the loving wife of Joseph Mazza; devoted mother of Debra Mastrogiovanni and her husband Robert of Wayne; cherished grandmother of Jennifer Piro and her husband Marc of Wayne, Laura Mauriello and her husband Al of Wayne; much loved great-grandmother of Madison and Samantha Piro, and Daniel and Andrew Mauriello, and two furry granddogs; Chloe and Charlie; dear sister of the late Raymond Mignone (1980).
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