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Friends may visit with the family at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne, on Tuesday, April 5, 2016 from 4-8 PM.
Funeral Services will be held at 9:30 AM on Wednesday, April 6, 2016 from the funeral home, then to Our Lady of the Valley RC Church, Wayne, where at 10:30 AM a Funeral Mass will be offered. Entombment at the Laurel Grove Mausoleum will follow.
Joy Catanzaro (nee Viviano), age 84 of Wayne, died peacefully at home on Saturday, April 2, 2016. She had been a Wayne resident since 1960 and a devoted founding member of Our Lady of the Valley RC Church in Wayne.
Joy grew up in Fair Lawn and graduated from Fair Lawn High School. The home she was raised in is now the Louis Suburban Funeral Chapel on Broadway. After high school, she trained as a model at the Barbizon Modeling School in New York City and modeled for Meyer Bros. in Paterson. At that time,the printed advertisements were created by artists who sketched by hand. Joy would pose wearing various garments in the studio while those sketch artists rendered their drawings of her. She was proud to be a Barbizon model and was blessed with a youthful complexion too, something she attributed to the routine ‘facial exercises’ she did, which kept those wrinkles at bay.
Joy met her husband Raymond on a blind date that she almost didn’t attend. Some friends invited her to join them for a night of bowling and she really didn’t want to go, but they persuaded her. When she and Ray met that night, it was love at first sight! Joy and Ray would eventually enjoy a love-affair marriage that grew stronger by the day and has lasted nearly sixty years. Joy’s daughter, Maryann, recalls how often she has heard her father say “Joy, I don’t just love you, I adore you.” They shared an uncommon love and set a wonderful example for their children and grandchildren.
Difficulty came upon Joy when she was unable to have children naturally. She and Ray prayed about their dilemma and decided to do one of the most noble things anyone can; they adopted a little girl. Lo and behold, when their daughter Terri was three years old, Joy got pregnant naturally and had another daughter; Maryann. Joy devoted herself to her family and was a wonderful mom. She never sweat the small stuff and always put God first, followed by her family, and lots of prayer too, of course. Joy had a gift for being a good listener and her daughters knew who they could turn to when faced with difficulty. She taught them that “worry and anger lead to trouble. Pray, and trust in God.” It’s no wonder her Bible is so well used, with numerous highlighted verses and many notes in the margins. She spent a great deal of time at Our Lady of the Valley RC Church in Wayne, where she was an early founder, member of the Rosary Society, and a volunteer on the cleaning crew who helped to keep the church spotless. Even as her health failed and she struggled with a degenerative neurological disease that gradually took her mobility over the past fifteen years, her faith never waned. She told her 2 granddaughters Nicole and Rachel recently that she will always watch over them and planned to go tap dancing upon her arrival in heaven.
Joy is survived by her devoted husband Raymond of Wayne, by her daughter Maryann Mahon and her husband Matthew and their 2 children Nicole and Rachel Mahon of Wayne, NJ and also survived by her daughter Terri Moore of Clark, NJ and her 2 children Jennifer and Jonathan Moore.
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Friends may visit with the family at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne, on Tuesday, April 5, 2016 from 4-8 PM.
Funeral Services will be held at 9:30 AM on Wednesday, April 6, 2016 from the funeral home, then to Our Lady of the Valley RC Church, Wayne, where at 10:30 AM a Funeral Mass will be offered. Entombment at the Laurel Grove Mausoleum will follow.
Services
Friends may visit with the family at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne, on Tuesday, April 5, 2016 from 4-8 PM.
Funeral Services will be held at 9:30 AM on Wednesday, April 6, 2016 from the funeral home, then to Our Lady of the Valley RC Church, Wayne, where at 10:30 AM a Funeral Mass will be offered. Entombment at the Laurel Grove Mausoleum will follow.
Joy Catanzaro (nee Viviano), age 84 of Wayne, died peacefully at home on Saturday, April 2, 2016. She had been a Wayne resident since 1960 and a devoted founding member of Our Lady of the Valley RC Church in Wayne.
Joy grew up in Fair Lawn and graduated from Fair Lawn High School. The home she was raised in is now the Louis Suburban Funeral Chapel on Broadway. After high school, she trained as a model at the Barbizon Modeling School in New York City and modeled for Meyer Bros. in Paterson. At that time,the printed advertisements were created by artists who sketched by hand. Joy would pose wearing various garments in the studio while those sketch artists rendered their drawings of her. She was proud to be a Barbizon model and was blessed with a youthful complexion too, something she attributed to the routine ‘facial exercises’ she did, which kept those wrinkles at bay.
Joy met her husband Raymond on a blind date that she almost didn’t attend. Some friends invited her to join them for a night of bowling and she really didn’t want to go, but they persuaded her. When she and Ray met that night, it was love at first sight! Joy and Ray would eventually enjoy a love-affair marriage that grew stronger by the day and has lasted nearly sixty years. Joy’s daughter, Maryann, recalls how often she has heard her father say “Joy, I don’t just love you, I adore you.” They shared an uncommon love and set a wonderful example for their children and grandchildren.
Difficulty came upon Joy when she was unable to have children naturally. She and Ray prayed about their dilemma and decided to do one of the most noble things anyone can; they adopted a little girl. Lo and behold, when their daughter Terri was three years old, Joy got pregnant naturally and had another daughter; Maryann. Joy devoted herself to her family and was a wonderful mom. She never sweat the small stuff and always put God first, followed by her family, and lots of prayer too, of course. Joy had a gift for being a good listener and her daughters knew who they could turn to when faced with difficulty. She taught them that “worry and anger lead to trouble. Pray, and trust in God.” It’s no wonder her Bible is so well used, with numerous highlighted verses and many notes in the margins. She spent a great deal of time at Our Lady of the Valley RC Church in Wayne, where she was an early founder, member of the Rosary Society, and a volunteer on the cleaning crew who helped to keep the church spotless. Even as her health failed and she struggled with a degenerative neurological disease that gradually took her mobility over the past fifteen years, her faith never waned. She told her 2 granddaughters Nicole and Rachel recently that she will always watch over them and planned to go tap dancing upon her arrival in heaven.
Joy is survived by her devoted husband Raymond of Wayne, by her daughter Maryann Mahon and her husband Matthew and their 2 children Nicole and Rachel Mahon of Wayne, NJ and also survived by her daughter Terri Moore of Clark, NJ and her 2 children Jennifer and Jonathan Moore.
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