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August 2, 2014
Services
Friends may visit with the family at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne, on Thursday, August 7, 2014 from 4-8 PM. Funeral Services will be held at 9 AM on Friday from the funeral home, then to Our Lady of the Valley RC Church, Wayne, where at 10 AM a Funeral Mass will be offered.
Laura Homsani (nee Chidiac), age 82 of Wayne, died peacefully on Saturday, August 2, 2014. She’s been a Wayne resident for the past seventeen years.
Born in Paterson, Laura grew up in Jacksonville, Florida and Miami, Florida before returning to Paterson in the 1950’s. As a young girl, she was afflicted with Rheumatic fever. Her prognosis was bleak and her recovery was very slow. She recalled being made to sit in the sun for days on end, something she did not enjoy. As a result of the Rheumatic fever, Laura required several surgeries throughout her lifetime, but she fared incredibly well. Her childhood doctors could never have predicted that Laura would go on to enjoy a life of nearly eighty three years.
Laura raised two girls on her own, with the help of her sisters too. She opened a hair salon in their home in Paterson, called “Laura’s Beauty Parlor.” She operated the beauty parlor for almost ten years before moving to Clifton. She later worked for Calvin Klein in Wayne for many years.
Family was very important to Laura and her focus was always on her two little girls. She loved to see them having fun and a part of that included summer vacations to the Jersey Shore. The girls remember those vacations dearly and will always cherish the memories they shared with their mother.
Laura is survived by her two daughters; Linda Kabbash and her husband Douglas of Montague, NJ, Alyse Sciolaro and her husband Richard of Wantage, NJ, six grandchildren; Marisa, Nicolas, Brenna, Brittany, Casey and Henry, two sisters; Josephine Chidiac of Wayne and Marie D’Annunzio and her husband Gabriel of Florham Park. She was predeceased by her parents; Nicolas and Selma Chidiac, and by three sisters; Margaret, Bertha, and Harriet.
In lieu of flowers, memorial donations in Laura’s honor would be greatly appreciated to St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, P.O Box 1000, Dept. 142, Memphis, TN 38148-0142 www.stjude.org
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Friends may visit with the family at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne, on Thursday, August 7, 2014 from 4-8 PM. Funeral Services will be held at 9 AM on Friday from the funeral home, then to Our Lady of the Valley RC Church, Wayne, where at 10 AM a Funeral Mass will be offered.
August 2, 2014
Services
Friends may visit with the family at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne, on Thursday, August 7, 2014 from 4-8 PM. Funeral Services will be held at 9 AM on Friday from the funeral home, then to Our Lady of the Valley RC Church, Wayne, where at 10 AM a Funeral Mass will be offered.
Laura Homsani (nee Chidiac), age 82 of Wayne, died peacefully on Saturday, August 2, 2014. She’s been a Wayne resident for the past seventeen years.
Born in Paterson, Laura grew up in Jacksonville, Florida and Miami, Florida before returning to Paterson in the 1950’s. As a young girl, she was afflicted with Rheumatic fever. Her prognosis was bleak and her recovery was very slow. She recalled being made to sit in the sun for days on end, something she did not enjoy. As a result of the Rheumatic fever, Laura required several surgeries throughout her lifetime, but she fared incredibly well. Her childhood doctors could never have predicted that Laura would go on to enjoy a life of nearly eighty three years.
Laura raised two girls on her own, with the help of her sisters too. She opened a hair salon in their home in Paterson, called “Laura’s Beauty Parlor.” She operated the beauty parlor for almost ten years before moving to Clifton. She later worked for Calvin Klein in Wayne for many years.
Family was very important to Laura and her focus was always on her two little girls. She loved to see them having fun and a part of that included summer vacations to the Jersey Shore. The girls remember those vacations dearly and will always cherish the memories they shared with their mother.
Laura is survived by her two daughters; Linda Kabbash and her husband Douglas of Montague, NJ, Alyse Sciolaro and her husband Richard of Wantage, NJ, six grandchildren; Marisa, Nicolas, Brenna, Brittany, Casey and Henry, two sisters; Josephine Chidiac of Wayne and Marie D’Annunzio and her husband Gabriel of Florham Park. She was predeceased by her parents; Nicolas and Selma Chidiac, and by three sisters; Margaret, Bertha, and Harriet.
In lieu of flowers, memorial donations in Laura’s honor would be greatly appreciated to St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, P.O Box 1000, Dept. 142, Memphis, TN 38148-0142 www.stjude.org
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