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Services
Friends may visit with the family from 4-8 PM on Tuesday, December 1, 2015 at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne, NJ.
Funeral services will be held 9 AM on Wednesday, December 2, 2015 from the funeral home then to Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary RC Church, 45 Urban Club Road, Wayne, NJ where a 10 AM Funeral Mass will be offered.
Interment will be in Christ the King Cemetery, 980 Huron Avenue, Franklin Lakes, NJ.
Louis Alaimo age 86 of Long Beach, New York, passed Thursday, November 26, 2015.
He was born and raised in New York City, the thirteenth child of the seventeen children of Salvatore and Salvatrice Alaimo. The family moved from Manhattan to Gates Avenue in Brooklyn where Louis attended Bushwick High School for one year. He had to leave high school to find work so he could help support the household financially.
Louis’ work history starts with him selling pretzels on Knickerbocker Avenue in Brooklyn. He eventually found work at the Economy Bias Binding Company in NYC as a shipping clerk. This is where he would meet the girl of his dreams Rosa Semiday. He later worked at Cotton Arts Mills, his nephew’s Chicken Delight franchise, the Boars Head Meats factory loading meat onto trucks, and finally settled into a career in the banking business with the Dime Savings Bank of NY all in Brooklyn. While at the Dime Savings Bank he worked his way from teller to senior teller for all branches, to being the teacher for all new teller recruits. The management at the bank wanted Louis to become an officer at the bank but would require him to return to school and finish his high school diploma. Louis felt time with his family was more important that a title and declined the offer. He worked at the bank for many years before retiring in 1991.
Again Louis and Rosa met at Economy Bias Binding Company in NYC in 1947 and their first date was at a company party where their boss, Mr. Laden, insisted Louis escort her home after the party. Rosa lived on the upper West Side of NYC and Louis lived in Brooklyn; he continued escorting her home, they fell in love, and eventually he proposed to her in the hallway of her apartment house. With Louis at the age of 21 and Rosa 16, they married on February 25, 1950 at Saint Martin of Tours RC Church in Brooklyn with Father Hendel officiating the ceremony. Louis & Rosa did not have enough money for a honeymoon but Mr. Laden gave them a monetary gift which allowed them to go to the Hotel New Yorker for 3 days and see a show at the Copa Cabana night club. After their wedding the newlywed couple lived with Louis’ parents and siblings. The obvious difficulty of living with family was compounded by the fact that Louis, an Italian boy, married Rosa a Puerto Rican girl. The bias of inter-racial marriage was extremely strong in those days but love would prevail. Their first apartment, a cold water flat, at 464 Wilson Ave. in Brooklyn was too cold so they moved to 380 Central Ave. in Brooklyn where they had steam heat. Several years later they moved to the Alfred E. Smith projects on the lower East side of Manhattan where they attended St. Joseph’s RC Church and he became a member of the Legion of Mary. They tried a move to Puerto Rico but that only lasted six months or so. They returned to East New York Brooklyn in an apartment on Skank Avenue then on Weldon Street, and finally bought a home at 107-47 110th Street in the Richmond Hill section of Queens for around twenty-nine thousand dollars. They have lived in Long Beach, New York for the past eight years.
Louis will be remembered as a strong, hard-working man who had a great sense of humor. He was initially shy but warmed up fast. As a young man he enjoyed playing handball, family poker games, boxed a little bit, and was a devoted fan of the New York Yankees. Louis, contrary to popular superstition considered 13 his lucky number. He was the 13th of 17 children, he was born on the 13th, his wife was the 13th child in her family, and his locker at Dime Saving was 1313.
Louis was the loving husband of sixty-five years to Rosa (Semiday) Alaimo; devoted father of Salvatore Alaimo and his wife Sonia of Saint Augustine, FL, Lou Alaimo and his wife Patricia of Wayne, NJ and Dr. Michael Alaimo and his wife Judy of Malvern, NY; cherished grandfather of Hermes, Joseph, James, and Marcus; much loved great-grandfather of, John, Joshua, Alexander and Jesse; Great-Great grandfather of Sophia; loved brother of sixteen siblings.
In lieu of flowers memorial donations to Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary RC Church, 45 Urban Club Road, Wayne, NJ 07470 would be appreciated.
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Friends may visit with the family from 4-8 PM on Tuesday, December 1, 2015 at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne, NJ.
Funeral services will be held 9 AM on Wednesday, December 2, 2015 from the funeral home then to Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary RC Church, 45 Urban Club Road, Wayne, NJ where a 10 AM Funeral Mass will be offered.
Interment will be in Christ the King Cemetery, 980 Huron Avenue, Franklin Lakes, NJ.
Services
Friends may visit with the family from 4-8 PM on Tuesday, December 1, 2015 at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne, NJ.
Funeral services will be held 9 AM on Wednesday, December 2, 2015 from the funeral home then to Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary RC Church, 45 Urban Club Road, Wayne, NJ where a 10 AM Funeral Mass will be offered.
Interment will be in Christ the King Cemetery, 980 Huron Avenue, Franklin Lakes, NJ.
Louis Alaimo age 86 of Long Beach, New York, passed Thursday, November 26, 2015.
He was born and raised in New York City, the thirteenth child of the seventeen children of Salvatore and Salvatrice Alaimo. The family moved from Manhattan to Gates Avenue in Brooklyn where Louis attended Bushwick High School for one year. He had to leave high school to find work so he could help support the household financially.
Louis’ work history starts with him selling pretzels on Knickerbocker Avenue in Brooklyn. He eventually found work at the Economy Bias Binding Company in NYC as a shipping clerk. This is where he would meet the girl of his dreams Rosa Semiday. He later worked at Cotton Arts Mills, his nephew’s Chicken Delight franchise, the Boars Head Meats factory loading meat onto trucks, and finally settled into a career in the banking business with the Dime Savings Bank of NY all in Brooklyn. While at the Dime Savings Bank he worked his way from teller to senior teller for all branches, to being the teacher for all new teller recruits. The management at the bank wanted Louis to become an officer at the bank but would require him to return to school and finish his high school diploma. Louis felt time with his family was more important that a title and declined the offer. He worked at the bank for many years before retiring in 1991.
Again Louis and Rosa met at Economy Bias Binding Company in NYC in 1947 and their first date was at a company party where their boss, Mr. Laden, insisted Louis escort her home after the party. Rosa lived on the upper West Side of NYC and Louis lived in Brooklyn; he continued escorting her home, they fell in love, and eventually he proposed to her in the hallway of her apartment house. With Louis at the age of 21 and Rosa 16, they married on February 25, 1950 at Saint Martin of Tours RC Church in Brooklyn with Father Hendel officiating the ceremony. Louis & Rosa did not have enough money for a honeymoon but Mr. Laden gave them a monetary gift which allowed them to go to the Hotel New Yorker for 3 days and see a show at the Copa Cabana night club. After their wedding the newlywed couple lived with Louis’ parents and siblings. The obvious difficulty of living with family was compounded by the fact that Louis, an Italian boy, married Rosa a Puerto Rican girl. The bias of inter-racial marriage was extremely strong in those days but love would prevail. Their first apartment, a cold water flat, at 464 Wilson Ave. in Brooklyn was too cold so they moved to 380 Central Ave. in Brooklyn where they had steam heat. Several years later they moved to the Alfred E. Smith projects on the lower East side of Manhattan where they attended St. Joseph’s RC Church and he became a member of the Legion of Mary. They tried a move to Puerto Rico but that only lasted six months or so. They returned to East New York Brooklyn in an apartment on Skank Avenue then on Weldon Street, and finally bought a home at 107-47 110th Street in the Richmond Hill section of Queens for around twenty-nine thousand dollars. They have lived in Long Beach, New York for the past eight years.
Louis will be remembered as a strong, hard-working man who had a great sense of humor. He was initially shy but warmed up fast. As a young man he enjoyed playing handball, family poker games, boxed a little bit, and was a devoted fan of the New York Yankees. Louis, contrary to popular superstition considered 13 his lucky number. He was the 13th of 17 children, he was born on the 13th, his wife was the 13th child in her family, and his locker at Dime Saving was 1313.
Louis was the loving husband of sixty-five years to Rosa (Semiday) Alaimo; devoted father of Salvatore Alaimo and his wife Sonia of Saint Augustine, FL, Lou Alaimo and his wife Patricia of Wayne, NJ and Dr. Michael Alaimo and his wife Judy of Malvern, NY; cherished grandfather of Hermes, Joseph, James, and Marcus; much loved great-grandfather of, John, Joshua, Alexander and Jesse; Great-Great grandfather of Sophia; loved brother of sixteen siblings.
In lieu of flowers memorial donations to Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary RC Church, 45 Urban Club Road, Wayne, NJ 07470 would be appreciated.
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