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May 31, 2021
Services
Friends may visit with the family on Friday, June 4, 2021 from 4-8 PM at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
A 9 AM Funeral Mass will be offered Saturday, June 5, 2021 at Our Lady of Good Counsel Church, 155 West Parkway, Pompton Plains.
Entombment will be in Holy Sepulchre Cemetery, 52 Totowa Road, Totowa.
Kathy Cipoletti, a 35-year resident of Wayne, passed Monday, May 31, 2021.
Kathy was born in Butler, PA. When she was about 15, she moved into a home on Berkshire Avenue in Paterson. She graduated from Kennedy High School with the Class of 1968. Kathy continued her education at William Paterson College in Wayne, where she received a Bachelor of Science in Nursing. Since moving to NJ, Kathy has lived in Paterson, Totowa, and Wayne.
Through the years, Kathy worked as a Registered Nurse, practicing at Paterson General Hospital. For many years, she worked at the private medical practice of Dr. Jay Choi in Clifton and finally as a School Nurse for the Passaic County Commission, having covered several schools before retiring in 2019.
Kathy met her husband-to-be John “Jack” Cipoletti when she was a teenager. Jack and Kathy met on Berkshire Avenue in Paterson, where they were neighbors. Their first date was to see Johnny Mathis at Seton Hall University, where Jack was going to school. Jack and Kathy fell in love and got married on November 14, 1970 at Saint Gerard’s Church in Paterson. They had a backyard reception at Kathy’s parents’ home and incorporated one of Jack’s work trips to New Orleans into a honeymoon. Jack and Kathy have been married for more than 50 years and were blessed with four children -- Melissa, Beth, Timothy, and Kara.
Kathy was dedicated to her Catholic Faith and for many years attended and sang in the choir of Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary Church in Wayne. Most recently she has attended Our Lady of Good Counsel Church in Pompton Plains. She was also dedicated to her community, having volunteered with and served on the board of the Totowa chapter of the Deborah Hospital Foundation as well as having been a member of the Totowa Junior Women’s Club.
Kathy was the loving wife of Jack Cipoletti; devoted mother of Melissa (Robert) Keenan of Wayne, Beth (Andrew Birnbaum) Cipoletti of West Milford, Timothy Cipoletti of Bradenton, FL, and Kara (Michael) Everhart of Rockaway; she was the cherished grandmother of Taylor, Dylan, Logan, Evan, Olivia, Collin, Kylie, and Addison; she was the loved sister of JoAnn (Jim) Sallo of Hillsdale and JoDee (Charles) Roach of San Antonio, TX.
In lieu of flowers memorial donations to the Lupus Foundation would be greatly appreciated.
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Friends may visit with the family on Friday, June 4, 2021 from 4-8 PM at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
A 9 AM Funeral Mass will be offered Saturday, June 5, 2021 at Our Lady of Good Counsel Church, 155 West Parkway, Pompton Plains.
Entombment will be in Holy Sepulchre Cemetery, 52 Totowa Road, Totowa.
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