Julia Locarno

Julia Locarno, 94 of Wayne, died peacefully at home on Thursday, December 5, 2019.  She’s lived in Wayne since 1958.

Julia grew up in Jersey City, where she graduated high school.  She took a job with Western Electric at age eighteen and continued with the same job into the 1980’s, transitioning along with the company to Bell Telephone and eventually AT&T.

Julia was an excellent cook who loved seafood, and she enjoyed baking creampuffs, cookies, pastries, and eclairs.  Her hobbies included making jewelry and keeping a flower garden.  She traveled extensively and toured the U.S. with her husband in their conversion van, visiting all of the contiguous States.  They spent many winters in Florida and had planned to build a retirement home there until grandchildren came along.  That was all the reason she needed to stay in New Jersey!  With her husband, she continued to travel in her retirement years and they averaged about two cruises each year.  On their fiftieth wedding anniversary, they took a two week tour or Europe, visiting France, England, Italy, Greece and Holland.  It was all very memorable, especially the Red Light District of Amsterdam, where she refused to get off the tour bus!

Julia met her husband Frank at a dance, shortly after he was discharged from the U.S. Navy.  They were married on September 25, 1948 and enjoyed sixty five years of marriage before he passed away in 2013.  The majority of those years were spent living in Wayne, where they raised their son, Michael.

Julia is survived by her son; Michael and his wife Lisa of Kinnelon, two grandchildren; Nicholas Locarno of Harrisburg, PA, and Jennifer Locarno of West Haven, CT, one sister; Florence Morley of Columbia, TN, and a brother; Frank Rogala of Roseland, FL.  She was predeceased by her husband Frank in 2013.