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December 21, 2009
Services
Funeral services will be held 8 AM on Thursday, December 24, 2009 from the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne then to Holy Angels Church, 465 Main St., Little Falls where at 9 AM a Funeral Mass will be offered.
Friends may visit with the family on Wednesday, December 23, 2009 from 2-4, 7-9 PM at the funeral home.
Interment will be at Christ the King Cemetery, Franklin Lakes.
Leona “Lee” T. Mulvihill(nee Rizzo) age 83 died Monday, December 21, 2009 at St. Josephs Hospital, Paterson.
She was born in Pittson, PA and raised in Bronx, NY having lived in Oshkosh, WI and Clifton, NJ before moving to Wayne, NJ fifty years ago.
Lee was an Art Teacher at DePaul Catholic High School, Wayne but most of all she was a stay-at-home mom who raised eight loving children.
She was a parishioner of Holy Angels Church, Little Falls.
Lee graduated from Mt. St Ursula Academy, Bronx, NY with the Class of 1944 and went on to Fordham University, Bronx, NY where she graduated with a Bachelor of Science Degree in Biology and specialized as a Biological Art Illustrator. She was one of the first female students to graduate from Fordham’s Bronx campus.
An artist at heart she would be considered a Renaissance Woman as she had talent in painting, poetry and could play the piano by ear.
She met Robert F. Mulvihill while at Fordham University. They were both attending a dance and Lee had come with a “wall-flower” who didn’t dance. Bob asked her to dance and she was swept off her feet. Bob noticed she began attending Fordham basketball games where he was a star defenseman. Lee’s father gave her two tickets to an opera at Lincoln Center(across the street from Fordham). She asked Bob to go with her; the lure of spending time with Lee outweighed his reservations about going to the opera. Bob asked Lee to marry him at her home in the Bronx after securing permission from her father. They married on April 23, 1949 in Oshkosh, WI as Bob was playing professional basketball for the National Basketball League’s Oshkosh All Stars. They honeymooned for six weeks in Daytona Beach Florida. Bob and Lee stopped in Daytona Beach on their way to Miami and in those days the hotels were empty during the month of April. They spent $15.00 on their first nights stay and the manager offered to let them spend the week for another $7.00. Each time they went to leave the manager sweetened the deal; by the end of their six week stay they were paying $14.00 for the week. Robert and Lee have enjoyed sixty years of a loving and devoted marriage.
Lee is survived by her devoted husband Robert F. Mulvihill; loving mother of Joseph Mulvihill and his fiance Jill of Clifton, Ellen Monahan and her husband Tim of Westchester, PA; Diane Wilson and her husband Peter of Toms River, Mary Brophy and her husband Kevin of Manasquan, Christine Jablonski and her husband Dave of Cranford, Laura Iurato of Wayne, Dr. Robert Mulvihill and his wife Rosanne of Colts Neck, and Steve Mulvihill of Wayne; loved sister of Regina Erwood of Wayne and the late Raymond Rizzo; cherished grandmother of twenty-five grandchildren and thirteen great-grandchildren.
In lieu of flowers memorial donations to the Wayne First Aid Squad, PO Box 291, Wayne, NJ 07470 would be appreciated.
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Funeral services will be held 8 AM on Thursday, December 24, 2009 from the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne then to Holy Angels Church, 465 Main St., Little Falls where at 9 AM a Funeral Mass will be offered.
Friends may visit with the family on Wednesday, December 23, 2009 from 2-4, 7-9 PM at the funeral home.
Interment will be at Christ the King Cemetery, Franklin Lakes.
December 21, 2009
Services
Funeral services will be held 8 AM on Thursday, December 24, 2009 from the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne then to Holy Angels Church, 465 Main St., Little Falls where at 9 AM a Funeral Mass will be offered.
Friends may visit with the family on Wednesday, December 23, 2009 from 2-4, 7-9 PM at the funeral home.
Interment will be at Christ the King Cemetery, Franklin Lakes.
Leona “Lee” T. Mulvihill(nee Rizzo) age 83 died Monday, December 21, 2009 at St. Josephs Hospital, Paterson.
She was born in Pittson, PA and raised in Bronx, NY having lived in Oshkosh, WI and Clifton, NJ before moving to Wayne, NJ fifty years ago.
Lee was an Art Teacher at DePaul Catholic High School, Wayne but most of all she was a stay-at-home mom who raised eight loving children.
She was a parishioner of Holy Angels Church, Little Falls.
Lee graduated from Mt. St Ursula Academy, Bronx, NY with the Class of 1944 and went on to Fordham University, Bronx, NY where she graduated with a Bachelor of Science Degree in Biology and specialized as a Biological Art Illustrator. She was one of the first female students to graduate from Fordham’s Bronx campus.
An artist at heart she would be considered a Renaissance Woman as she had talent in painting, poetry and could play the piano by ear.
She met Robert F. Mulvihill while at Fordham University. They were both attending a dance and Lee had come with a “wall-flower” who didn’t dance. Bob asked her to dance and she was swept off her feet. Bob noticed she began attending Fordham basketball games where he was a star defenseman. Lee’s father gave her two tickets to an opera at Lincoln Center(across the street from Fordham). She asked Bob to go with her; the lure of spending time with Lee outweighed his reservations about going to the opera. Bob asked Lee to marry him at her home in the Bronx after securing permission from her father. They married on April 23, 1949 in Oshkosh, WI as Bob was playing professional basketball for the National Basketball League’s Oshkosh All Stars. They honeymooned for six weeks in Daytona Beach Florida. Bob and Lee stopped in Daytona Beach on their way to Miami and in those days the hotels were empty during the month of April. They spent $15.00 on their first nights stay and the manager offered to let them spend the week for another $7.00. Each time they went to leave the manager sweetened the deal; by the end of their six week stay they were paying $14.00 for the week. Robert and Lee have enjoyed sixty years of a loving and devoted marriage.
Lee is survived by her devoted husband Robert F. Mulvihill; loving mother of Joseph Mulvihill and his fiance Jill of Clifton, Ellen Monahan and her husband Tim of Westchester, PA; Diane Wilson and her husband Peter of Toms River, Mary Brophy and her husband Kevin of Manasquan, Christine Jablonski and her husband Dave of Cranford, Laura Iurato of Wayne, Dr. Robert Mulvihill and his wife Rosanne of Colts Neck, and Steve Mulvihill of Wayne; loved sister of Regina Erwood of Wayne and the late Raymond Rizzo; cherished grandmother of twenty-five grandchildren and thirteen great-grandchildren.
In lieu of flowers memorial donations to the Wayne First Aid Squad, PO Box 291, Wayne, NJ 07470 would be appreciated.
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