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December 21, 2010
Services
Funeral services will be held on Thursday, December 23, 2010 at 7 PM in the evening at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne, NJ. Friends may visit with the family at the funeral home on Thursday from 1-3PM, and 5-7pm, and anyone wishing to attend the evening services at 7PM are welcome.
Laura Clara Loffredo, age 75, of Wayne, passed away on Tuesday, December 21, 2010 at home, after a short declining illness. Her passing was quiet and peaceful with her loving family at her side.
Laura was born in Paterson and had lived her formative years in Haledon, NJ, where she lived with her adoptive parents, Eric and Clara Zinn. She loved them very much and they also loved her so very much. She received a formal education at Haledon Grammar School and at Central High School, in Paterson, NJ, graduating in 1953.
Very shortly after graduating high school she married, and resided with her former husband, Ronald Loffredo, in Lincoln Park, NJ. After 5 years into her marriage, she moved to Wayne, NJ. She was a homemaker, mother and wife, raising two children, a daughter and a son. When the children were in school, she obtained work at the Shop Rite Grocery Store in Wayne, NJ, where she worked for several years as a cashier. She later worked as a switchboard operator for several years. Always trying to advance herself, she then took a better position for herself and family, with Paid Prescriptions Company of Parsippany, NJ, where she worked as a Pharmaceutical Administrative Assistant for over 20 years, until her retirement in 2008.
Laura was a member of St. Timothy’s Lutheran Evangelical Church in Wayne, NJ.
She was a very gifted with a quiet and private personality that focused much of her energy on being a dedicated mother to her children. She very much enjoyed volunteering for tasks that related to her children’s advancement and education. She especially enjoyed being a volunteer class mother and filling the role of softball coach for her daughter’s softball team. She would never miss any of her son’s baseball games and always took a very active interest in each and every game. She recognized her daughter’s and son’s love for the water at a very early age in their lives, and loved to join swim clubs and enjoyed watching them swim and dive for hours. She attended all of her daughter’s swim meets and always gave her encouragement. She always had a great love of the ocean and enjoyed many summer trips to Wildwood Crest, and Long Beach Island, an in later years, Avon by the Sea.
During the Viet Nam war, when her former husband’s work brought the family to live for two summer’s in Fort Walton Beach, Florida, where her former husband was designing navigational and guidance systems, she was so excited to find out that the famous actor, John Wayne would be staying at their hotel. She was so excited, and no one will ever forget how happy she was about his coming to town to film the Green Berets. When he finally arrived, there were hundreds of people standing around him. Laura, who was so excited about this, pushed her way through the crowd and said “Hi Mr. Wayne…. I’m from WAYNE, NJ”. John Wayne immediately loved the way she introduced herself and took an immediate liking to her and her family.
Laura also recognized her children’s interests, such as sports and always encouraged them in their love of sports, as well as their musical talents. She had played piano as a child and passed this on to her daughter and gave her lessons at a very early age, which brought out her daughter’s gift in music. She enjoyed each and every one of their interests.
Laura was very gifted and for her idle time, she enjoyed knitting, crocheting and needle point work. Her work was extremely impressive and when women saw her beautiful work and raved over it, Laura would then teach them to do the very hard and intricate stitches and patterns that she did herself so easily. She loved the arts. She also loved to shop for her loving grandchildren’s needs. This gave her such great joy. She also loved to bowl and spent many years on a bowling league, and also loved to play marjon with the neighborhood women. She also had a great love of the Irish culture and their holidays, such as St Patrick’s Day, and all their other cultures. Also remembered are Laura’s long time friends, Lefty and Marty. She enjoyed attending all the events having to do with Irish culture.
Laura’s first marriage had ended to her former husband Ronald (who predeceased her in 2008), and her more recent companion, Charlie Drew, spent many years together. She loved to dine at very fine restaurants with the famous entertainer, Charlie Drew, and enjoyed meeting the many famous people that Charlie had known throughout his life. She also loved to hear him entertain with his beautiful Grand Piano, and music that he wrote and performed.
Surviving to mourn her loss are two children, her daughter, Linda D. Loffredo of Rockaway, NJ and her son Anthony R. Loffredo and his wife, Rose Marie of Ringwood, and two cherished grandchildren, Melanie and Breanna Loffredo
Laura will be sadly missed by all who knew her and especially by her son and daughter, her daughter in law and her two beautiful grandchildren.
Those planning an expression of sympathy in Laura Loffredo’s memory are asked to consider The Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation, Northern New Jersey Chapter, 560 Sylvan Avenue, Englewood Cliffs, NJ 07632 or The Wayne Animal Shelter, 187 Dey Road, Wayne, NJ 07470.
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Funeral services will be held on Thursday, December 23, 2010 at 7 PM in the evening at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne, NJ. Friends may visit with the family at the funeral home on Thursday from 1-3PM, and 5-7pm, and anyone wishing to attend the evening services at 7PM are welcome.
December 21, 2010
Services
Funeral services will be held on Thursday, December 23, 2010 at 7 PM in the evening at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne, NJ. Friends may visit with the family at the funeral home on Thursday from 1-3PM, and 5-7pm, and anyone wishing to attend the evening services at 7PM are welcome.
Laura Clara Loffredo, age 75, of Wayne, passed away on Tuesday, December 21, 2010 at home, after a short declining illness. Her passing was quiet and peaceful with her loving family at her side.
Laura was born in Paterson and had lived her formative years in Haledon, NJ, where she lived with her adoptive parents, Eric and Clara Zinn. She loved them very much and they also loved her so very much. She received a formal education at Haledon Grammar School and at Central High School, in Paterson, NJ, graduating in 1953.
Very shortly after graduating high school she married, and resided with her former husband, Ronald Loffredo, in Lincoln Park, NJ. After 5 years into her marriage, she moved to Wayne, NJ. She was a homemaker, mother and wife, raising two children, a daughter and a son. When the children were in school, she obtained work at the Shop Rite Grocery Store in Wayne, NJ, where she worked for several years as a cashier. She later worked as a switchboard operator for several years. Always trying to advance herself, she then took a better position for herself and family, with Paid Prescriptions Company of Parsippany, NJ, where she worked as a Pharmaceutical Administrative Assistant for over 20 years, until her retirement in 2008.
Laura was a member of St. Timothy’s Lutheran Evangelical Church in Wayne, NJ.
She was a very gifted with a quiet and private personality that focused much of her energy on being a dedicated mother to her children. She very much enjoyed volunteering for tasks that related to her children’s advancement and education. She especially enjoyed being a volunteer class mother and filling the role of softball coach for her daughter’s softball team. She would never miss any of her son’s baseball games and always took a very active interest in each and every game. She recognized her daughter’s and son’s love for the water at a very early age in their lives, and loved to join swim clubs and enjoyed watching them swim and dive for hours. She attended all of her daughter’s swim meets and always gave her encouragement. She always had a great love of the ocean and enjoyed many summer trips to Wildwood Crest, and Long Beach Island, an in later years, Avon by the Sea.
During the Viet Nam war, when her former husband’s work brought the family to live for two summer’s in Fort Walton Beach, Florida, where her former husband was designing navigational and guidance systems, she was so excited to find out that the famous actor, John Wayne would be staying at their hotel. She was so excited, and no one will ever forget how happy she was about his coming to town to film the Green Berets. When he finally arrived, there were hundreds of people standing around him. Laura, who was so excited about this, pushed her way through the crowd and said “Hi Mr. Wayne…. I’m from WAYNE, NJ”. John Wayne immediately loved the way she introduced herself and took an immediate liking to her and her family.
Laura also recognized her children’s interests, such as sports and always encouraged them in their love of sports, as well as their musical talents. She had played piano as a child and passed this on to her daughter and gave her lessons at a very early age, which brought out her daughter’s gift in music. She enjoyed each and every one of their interests.
Laura was very gifted and for her idle time, she enjoyed knitting, crocheting and needle point work. Her work was extremely impressive and when women saw her beautiful work and raved over it, Laura would then teach them to do the very hard and intricate stitches and patterns that she did herself so easily. She loved the arts. She also loved to shop for her loving grandchildren’s needs. This gave her such great joy. She also loved to bowl and spent many years on a bowling league, and also loved to play marjon with the neighborhood women. She also had a great love of the Irish culture and their holidays, such as St Patrick’s Day, and all their other cultures. Also remembered are Laura’s long time friends, Lefty and Marty. She enjoyed attending all the events having to do with Irish culture.
Laura’s first marriage had ended to her former husband Ronald (who predeceased her in 2008), and her more recent companion, Charlie Drew, spent many years together. She loved to dine at very fine restaurants with the famous entertainer, Charlie Drew, and enjoyed meeting the many famous people that Charlie had known throughout his life. She also loved to hear him entertain with his beautiful Grand Piano, and music that he wrote and performed.
Surviving to mourn her loss are two children, her daughter, Linda D. Loffredo of Rockaway, NJ and her son Anthony R. Loffredo and his wife, Rose Marie of Ringwood, and two cherished grandchildren, Melanie and Breanna Loffredo
Laura will be sadly missed by all who knew her and especially by her son and daughter, her daughter in law and her two beautiful grandchildren.
Those planning an expression of sympathy in Laura Loffredo’s memory are asked to consider The Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation, Northern New Jersey Chapter, 560 Sylvan Avenue, Englewood Cliffs, NJ 07632 or The Wayne Animal Shelter, 187 Dey Road, Wayne, NJ 07470.
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