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July 27, 2013
Services
Friends may visit with the family at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne, on Wednesday, July 31, 2013 from 4-8 PM. Funeral Services will be held at the funeral home on Thursday, August 1, 2013 at 10 AM. Entombment will follow at the Gate of Heaven Mausoleum in East Hanover.
Katherine M. Marinari, age 98 of Wayne, passed peacefully at home on Saturday, July 27, 2013.
Katherine (nee Cortese) was born in Paterson and grew up in the Silk City. She graduated from Central High School with the class of 1933, a time when the city was a fun place to live. She took her first job as a bookkeeper at the Otley Mills in Paterson.
On one wintery day she met Arthur Marinari while sleigh riding in town. They fell in love and were married on November 21, 1940; Thanksgiving Day. They first settled in Paterson before moving to Wayne in 1950. Art had negotiated to buy one acre of land from a farmer, right on Valley Road in Wayne. They paid $1,500 for the land and built their home along what was then just a gravel road with only farms, horses and cows. There were a total of only eight houses on Valley Road at the time. Katherine has enjoyed living there for sixty three years. Her husband Arthur had been well known around Totowa as the owner of “Art’s Barber Shop” which became “Father & Sons Barber Shop” in 1963, when his son Donny joined him there. Art and Katherine celebrated fifty four years of marriage before Art’s passing in 1994.
Katherine is survived by her four children; Donald Marinari and his wife Diane of Bernardsville Arthur Marinari DMD of Wayne and his girlfriend Michele Secula of Hackettstown, Virginia ‘Ginny’ Barbuto of Florida, the Rev. Ronald Marinari and his wife Patty of Tewksbury, and, fifteen grandchildren, ten great grandchildren and four great-great grandchildren.
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Friends may visit with the family at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne, on Wednesday, July 31, 2013 from 4-8 PM. Funeral Services will be held at the funeral home on Thursday, August 1, 2013 at 10 AM. Entombment will follow at the Gate of Heaven Mausoleum in East Hanover.
July 27, 2013
Services
Friends may visit with the family at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne, on Wednesday, July 31, 2013 from 4-8 PM. Funeral Services will be held at the funeral home on Thursday, August 1, 2013 at 10 AM. Entombment will follow at the Gate of Heaven Mausoleum in East Hanover.
Katherine M. Marinari, age 98 of Wayne, passed peacefully at home on Saturday, July 27, 2013.
Katherine (nee Cortese) was born in Paterson and grew up in the Silk City. She graduated from Central High School with the class of 1933, a time when the city was a fun place to live. She took her first job as a bookkeeper at the Otley Mills in Paterson.
On one wintery day she met Arthur Marinari while sleigh riding in town. They fell in love and were married on November 21, 1940; Thanksgiving Day. They first settled in Paterson before moving to Wayne in 1950. Art had negotiated to buy one acre of land from a farmer, right on Valley Road in Wayne. They paid $1,500 for the land and built their home along what was then just a gravel road with only farms, horses and cows. There were a total of only eight houses on Valley Road at the time. Katherine has enjoyed living there for sixty three years. Her husband Arthur had been well known around Totowa as the owner of “Art’s Barber Shop” which became “Father & Sons Barber Shop” in 1963, when his son Donny joined him there. Art and Katherine celebrated fifty four years of marriage before Art’s passing in 1994.
Katherine is survived by her four children; Donald Marinari and his wife Diane of Bernardsville Arthur Marinari DMD of Wayne and his girlfriend Michele Secula of Hackettstown, Virginia ‘Ginny’ Barbuto of Florida, the Rev. Ronald Marinari and his wife Patty of Tewksbury, and, fifteen grandchildren, ten great grandchildren and four great-great grandchildren.
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