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March 5, 2018
Services
Friends may visit with the family on Friday, March 9, 2018 from 4-8 PM at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
Funeral services will be held 8:30 AM on Saturday, March 10, 2018 from the funeral home then to Saint James of the Marches RC Church, 410 Totowa Road, Totowa where a 9:30 AM Funeral Mass will be offered.
Interment will be in Holy Sepulchre Cemetery, Totowa.
Joyce Frances Chiaro Schwartz (nee Passero) 81, of Totowa, passed Monday, March 5, 2018.
She was born in Stamford, Connecticut and raised in Haledon, New Jersey before moving to Montville. She graduated from the Mary Help of Christians Academy with the Class of 1954. After high school she continued her education at the Saint Joseph's Hospital School of Nursing in Paterson having graduated in 1957.
After graduating from nursing school Joyce married Ralph Chiaro in November of 1957. Ralph was serving in the United States Air Force at the Dover Air Force Base in Delaware and the newly married couple soon started their family. After having two children, the next stop for the young family was Mt. Holly, New Jersey where Ralph was transferred to McGuire Air Force Base in Wrightstown. Ralph was discharged from the Air Force in 1964, they settled in Totowa, New Jersey. Joyce continued her career as a Registered Nurse at Saint Joseph's Hospital in Paterson and Ralph worked at Ford Motor Company in Mahwah, New Jersey. In 1967, when their daughter Patricia was eight and daughter Marie was six, Ralph suddenly and unexpectedly passed away. Joyce was a single working mom who raised two children on her own. She not only raised them but managed to buy a house in Totowa. After working at the hospital Joyce worked as the nurse for Dr. Sydney Baxt on 21st Avenue in Paterson, the Little Sisters of the Poor where she worked the night shift, and retired from nursing while at the Daughters of Miriam in 2002.
Joyce will be lovingly remembered as a big hearted, socially active, generous person. She was a great baker and her Christmas Cake and Carrot Cake will always be fondly remembered. Joyce was a member of the Totowa Junior Women’s Club, the Clifton Quilters Guild, Past President of the Totowa Seniors, a member of the Totowa Republican Club, the Italian American Club, and the Friends of the Totowa Library.
She was the loving wife of the late Ralph Chiaro (1967) and wife of the late Marvin Schwartz (1996); devoted mother of Patricia Gangi and her husband Thomas of West Milford, and Marie Reenstra and her husband John, Jr. of Pequannock; cherished grandmother of John Reenstra III, Kelsey Reenstra, Rebecca Zuks and her husband Art, and Nicholas Gangi; loved sister of Sr. Louise Passero of the Salesian Sisters of Saint John Bosco of Haledon, and the late Charlene Jaycox (2017).
In lieu of flowers memorial donations to the Salesian Sisters of Saint John Bosco, 659 Belmont Ave., North Haledon, NJ 07508 would be appreciated.
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Friends may visit with the family on Friday, March 9, 2018 from 4-8 PM at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
Funeral services will be held 8:30 AM on Saturday, March 10, 2018 from the funeral home then to Saint James of the Marches RC Church, 410 Totowa Road, Totowa where a 9:30 AM Funeral Mass will be offered.
Interment will be in Holy Sepulchre Cemetery, Totowa.
March 5, 2018
Services
Friends may visit with the family on Friday, March 9, 2018 from 4-8 PM at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
Funeral services will be held 8:30 AM on Saturday, March 10, 2018 from the funeral home then to Saint James of the Marches RC Church, 410 Totowa Road, Totowa where a 9:30 AM Funeral Mass will be offered.
Interment will be in Holy Sepulchre Cemetery, Totowa.
Joyce Frances Chiaro Schwartz (nee Passero) 81, of Totowa, passed Monday, March 5, 2018.
She was born in Stamford, Connecticut and raised in Haledon, New Jersey before moving to Montville. She graduated from the Mary Help of Christians Academy with the Class of 1954. After high school she continued her education at the Saint Joseph's Hospital School of Nursing in Paterson having graduated in 1957.
After graduating from nursing school Joyce married Ralph Chiaro in November of 1957. Ralph was serving in the United States Air Force at the Dover Air Force Base in Delaware and the newly married couple soon started their family. After having two children, the next stop for the young family was Mt. Holly, New Jersey where Ralph was transferred to McGuire Air Force Base in Wrightstown. Ralph was discharged from the Air Force in 1964, they settled in Totowa, New Jersey. Joyce continued her career as a Registered Nurse at Saint Joseph's Hospital in Paterson and Ralph worked at Ford Motor Company in Mahwah, New Jersey. In 1967, when their daughter Patricia was eight and daughter Marie was six, Ralph suddenly and unexpectedly passed away. Joyce was a single working mom who raised two children on her own. She not only raised them but managed to buy a house in Totowa. After working at the hospital Joyce worked as the nurse for Dr. Sydney Baxt on 21st Avenue in Paterson, the Little Sisters of the Poor where she worked the night shift, and retired from nursing while at the Daughters of Miriam in 2002.
Joyce will be lovingly remembered as a big hearted, socially active, generous person. She was a great baker and her Christmas Cake and Carrot Cake will always be fondly remembered. Joyce was a member of the Totowa Junior Women’s Club, the Clifton Quilters Guild, Past President of the Totowa Seniors, a member of the Totowa Republican Club, the Italian American Club, and the Friends of the Totowa Library.
She was the loving wife of the late Ralph Chiaro (1967) and wife of the late Marvin Schwartz (1996); devoted mother of Patricia Gangi and her husband Thomas of West Milford, and Marie Reenstra and her husband John, Jr. of Pequannock; cherished grandmother of John Reenstra III, Kelsey Reenstra, Rebecca Zuks and her husband Art, and Nicholas Gangi; loved sister of Sr. Louise Passero of the Salesian Sisters of Saint John Bosco of Haledon, and the late Charlene Jaycox (2017).
In lieu of flowers memorial donations to the Salesian Sisters of Saint John Bosco, 659 Belmont Ave., North Haledon, NJ 07508 would be appreciated.
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