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June 29, 2011
Services
Friends may visit with the family on Friday, July 1, 2011 from 2-4 and 7-9 PM at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
Funeral services will be held 8:30 AM on Saturday July 2, 2011 from the funeral home then to St. Gerard RC Church, 501 West Broadway, Paterson, NJ where a 9:30 AM Funeral Mass will be celebrated.
Interment will follow at the Holy Sepulchre Cemetery, Totowa.
Josephine "Sophie" Marie Delaney (nee Rusciano), age 78 of Wayne, died on Wednesday, June 29, 2011. She was born and raised in Paterson, having lived in Hawthorne for nearly forty years before moving to Wayne in December of 2007.
She was a parishioner of St. Gerard RC Church, Paterson where she was a member of the St. Gerard Seniors.
She is remembered as a family oriented person who was very social. Her special touch on Pizzagan and meatballs will be greatly missed.
She met her husband to be Joseph Delaney through introduction by a close friend of Josephine’s. They fell in love and married on June 28, 1952 at St. Michaels RC Church, Paterson. They honeymooned in Atlantic City and lived in Paterson before finding a home in Hawthorne. They have enjoyed fifty nine years of loving and dedicated marriage.
Sophie was the loving mother of Joseph Delaney and his wife Gale of Wayne, Anthony Delaney and his wife Nancy of Warwick, NY, and Renee Weinstein and her husband Scott of Wayne; cherished grandmother of Lisa Marie, Michael, John, Cara, Thomas and Ryan; loved sister of Anthony Rosciano and his wife Vera of Paterson, Marie Marino of Paterson, Annie D’Amelio of Toms River, Michael Rusciano and his wife Catherine of Paterson, and the late Sarah Festa, Caroline Mappa, Florence Marrese and Rose Jordan, and many nieces and nephews.
Donations in Sophie's memory to the Wayne Memorial First Aid Squad, PO Box 2004, Wayne, NJ 07474 would be greatly appreciated.
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Friends may visit with the family on Friday, July 1, 2011 from 2-4 and 7-9 PM at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
Funeral services will be held 8:30 AM on Saturday July 2, 2011 from the funeral home then to St. Gerard RC Church, 501 West Broadway, Paterson, NJ where a 9:30 AM Funeral Mass will be celebrated.
Interment will follow at the Holy Sepulchre Cemetery, Totowa.
June 29, 2011
Services
Friends may visit with the family on Friday, July 1, 2011 from 2-4 and 7-9 PM at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
Funeral services will be held 8:30 AM on Saturday July 2, 2011 from the funeral home then to St. Gerard RC Church, 501 West Broadway, Paterson, NJ where a 9:30 AM Funeral Mass will be celebrated.
Interment will follow at the Holy Sepulchre Cemetery, Totowa.
Josephine "Sophie" Marie Delaney (nee Rusciano), age 78 of Wayne, died on Wednesday, June 29, 2011. She was born and raised in Paterson, having lived in Hawthorne for nearly forty years before moving to Wayne in December of 2007.
She was a parishioner of St. Gerard RC Church, Paterson where she was a member of the St. Gerard Seniors.
She is remembered as a family oriented person who was very social. Her special touch on Pizzagan and meatballs will be greatly missed.
She met her husband to be Joseph Delaney through introduction by a close friend of Josephine’s. They fell in love and married on June 28, 1952 at St. Michaels RC Church, Paterson. They honeymooned in Atlantic City and lived in Paterson before finding a home in Hawthorne. They have enjoyed fifty nine years of loving and dedicated marriage.
Sophie was the loving mother of Joseph Delaney and his wife Gale of Wayne, Anthony Delaney and his wife Nancy of Warwick, NY, and Renee Weinstein and her husband Scott of Wayne; cherished grandmother of Lisa Marie, Michael, John, Cara, Thomas and Ryan; loved sister of Anthony Rosciano and his wife Vera of Paterson, Marie Marino of Paterson, Annie D’Amelio of Toms River, Michael Rusciano and his wife Catherine of Paterson, and the late Sarah Festa, Caroline Mappa, Florence Marrese and Rose Jordan, and many nieces and nephews.
Donations in Sophie's memory to the Wayne Memorial First Aid Squad, PO Box 2004, Wayne, NJ 07474 would be greatly appreciated.
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