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July 11, 2009
Services
Friends may visit with the family at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne, on Monday July 13, 2009 from 2-4 & 7-9 PM. Funeral Services will be Tuesday July 14, 2009 beginning at 8:30 AM from the funeral home, then to Our Lady of Consolation RC Church, Wayne, where at 9:30 AM a Funeral Mass will be offered.
Lorenzo Galante, age 82 of Wayne died on Saturday, July 11, 2009.
Lorenzo was born and raised in Castellammare del Golfo, Sicily. He attended college there and achieved his Doctorate in Chemistry. When he was thirty one years old, he left Sicily to fulfill a dream: to live in America. His Uncle, living in New York City, sponsored his trip here and Lorenzo was forever grateful to him. Lorenzo would never hesitate to tell you how much he loved being an American and he believed with sincerity that America was the best place in the world to live and work.
His first job after coming to America was as a chemist at the Hospital for Special Surgery in Manhattan. Within a few years he landed his dream job as a Toxicologist for the Chief Medical Examiner’s office in New York, NY. He worked diligently there for over twenty five years before retiring in 1986. During that time, he also served as an Assistant Professor of Toxicology at New York University.
Lorenzo loved his family. He was especially proud of is two sons who will remember him as “dependable and loving.”
He met his wife Betty (Crociata) shortly after arriving here in America. His Uncle introduced them and, after a successful first date to an amusement park, they dated for two years before being married in 1959. They travelled extensively together, frequently back to his boyhood home in Sicily. Lorenzo’s favorite place to visit was right there in Castellammare del Golfo, Sicily. Together, Lorenzo and Betty enjoyed more than fifty years of “loving” marriage as “two peas in a pod.”
Lorenzo is survived by his wife Betty of Wayne, two sons; Albert of Wayne and Frank and his wife Simona of Italy, two grandchildren; Lorenzo Luigi Galante and Alexander Giovanni Galante, both of Italy, his sister; Enza Galante of Italy, one aunt; Maria Bonmarito of Elmwood Park, NJ, and three cousins; Rosealba Bonmarito, Lucia Bonmarito, and Anna Bonmarito, each of Elmwood Park, NJ.
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Friends may visit with the family at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne, on Monday July 13, 2009 from 2-4 & 7-9 PM. Funeral Services will be Tuesday July 14, 2009 beginning at 8:30 AM from the funeral home, then to Our Lady of Consolation RC Church, Wayne, where at 9:30 AM a Funeral Mass will be offered.
July 11, 2009
Services
Friends may visit with the family at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne, on Monday July 13, 2009 from 2-4 & 7-9 PM. Funeral Services will be Tuesday July 14, 2009 beginning at 8:30 AM from the funeral home, then to Our Lady of Consolation RC Church, Wayne, where at 9:30 AM a Funeral Mass will be offered.
Lorenzo Galante, age 82 of Wayne died on Saturday, July 11, 2009.
Lorenzo was born and raised in Castellammare del Golfo, Sicily. He attended college there and achieved his Doctorate in Chemistry. When he was thirty one years old, he left Sicily to fulfill a dream: to live in America. His Uncle, living in New York City, sponsored his trip here and Lorenzo was forever grateful to him. Lorenzo would never hesitate to tell you how much he loved being an American and he believed with sincerity that America was the best place in the world to live and work.
His first job after coming to America was as a chemist at the Hospital for Special Surgery in Manhattan. Within a few years he landed his dream job as a Toxicologist for the Chief Medical Examiner’s office in New York, NY. He worked diligently there for over twenty five years before retiring in 1986. During that time, he also served as an Assistant Professor of Toxicology at New York University.
Lorenzo loved his family. He was especially proud of is two sons who will remember him as “dependable and loving.”
He met his wife Betty (Crociata) shortly after arriving here in America. His Uncle introduced them and, after a successful first date to an amusement park, they dated for two years before being married in 1959. They travelled extensively together, frequently back to his boyhood home in Sicily. Lorenzo’s favorite place to visit was right there in Castellammare del Golfo, Sicily. Together, Lorenzo and Betty enjoyed more than fifty years of “loving” marriage as “two peas in a pod.”
Lorenzo is survived by his wife Betty of Wayne, two sons; Albert of Wayne and Frank and his wife Simona of Italy, two grandchildren; Lorenzo Luigi Galante and Alexander Giovanni Galante, both of Italy, his sister; Enza Galante of Italy, one aunt; Maria Bonmarito of Elmwood Park, NJ, and three cousins; Rosealba Bonmarito, Lucia Bonmarito, and Anna Bonmarito, each of Elmwood Park, NJ.
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