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October 22, 2013
Services
Friends may visit with the family from 3-8 PM on Friday, October 25, 2013 at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
Funeral services will be held 9AM on Saturday, October 26, 2013 from the funeral home then to Annunciation RC Church, 45 Urban Club Rd., Wayne where a 10 AM Funeral Mass will be offered.
Interment will be in George Washington Memorial Park, Paramus.
Lula DiGiovanni (nee Raftopulous) age 91 of Wayne, formerly of North Bergen, died peacefully at the St Josephs Wayne Hospital on Tuesday, October 22, 2013.
She was born in Athens, Greece on May 25, 1922 and during WWII met a handsome Italian Navy Sailor named Clorindo DiGiovanni. They married on August 22, 1943 and soon had a son named Michael. Clorindo was taken as a Prisoner of War by the British. At this time Lula moved to Chianchetelle, Italy to live with her mother and father in law. Clorindo was released and they had three more children Joan, Madeline and John who were all born in Italy. In 1954 the family moved to the United States of America and came on a ship called the Christopher Columbus (a sister ship to the Andrea Doria). The family initially settled in Palisades Park, NJ, and lived in West New York,where they had their daughter Maria, and Weehawken, before moving to North Bergen, NJ just after the untimely passing of Clorindo in 1984.
Lula always worked in sales, first at the Schlesinger’s Men’s Clothing Store in West New York, and later at the Roberts Jewelry Store in West New York and finally at Rads Jewelers in Union City before retiring in 1989. Lula will be remembered as a loving mother who was extremely hard working, dedicated to raising her family, and who cherished hearing of the accomplishments of her grand and great-grandchildren. She was also a great cook whose special touch on pasta e fagioli will be greatly missed.
She was the loving wife of forty years to the late Clorindo DiGiovanni (1984); devoted mother of Michael DiGiovanni and his wife Linda of Woodland Park, Joan Isaacson and her husband Sheldon of Westport, CT, Madeline Caminiti and her husband Peter of Paramus, John DiGiovanni and his wife Patricia of Wayne, and Maria Stolba and her husband David of New Market, MD; cherished grandmother of fourteen grandchildren and twenty-two great-grandchildren; loved sister of the late Vasilis, Christos, Apostoli, Elena and Aphroditi.
In lieu of flowers memorial donations to the Tomorrows Children’s Fund, 30 Prospect Ave., Hackensack, NJ 07601 would be appreciated.
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Friends may visit with the family from 3-8 PM on Friday, October 25, 2013 at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
Funeral services will be held 9AM on Saturday, October 26, 2013 from the funeral home then to Annunciation RC Church, 45 Urban Club Rd., Wayne where a 10 AM Funeral Mass will be offered.
Interment will be in George Washington Memorial Park, Paramus.
October 22, 2013
Services
Friends may visit with the family from 3-8 PM on Friday, October 25, 2013 at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
Funeral services will be held 9AM on Saturday, October 26, 2013 from the funeral home then to Annunciation RC Church, 45 Urban Club Rd., Wayne where a 10 AM Funeral Mass will be offered.
Interment will be in George Washington Memorial Park, Paramus.
Lula DiGiovanni (nee Raftopulous) age 91 of Wayne, formerly of North Bergen, died peacefully at the St Josephs Wayne Hospital on Tuesday, October 22, 2013.
She was born in Athens, Greece on May 25, 1922 and during WWII met a handsome Italian Navy Sailor named Clorindo DiGiovanni. They married on August 22, 1943 and soon had a son named Michael. Clorindo was taken as a Prisoner of War by the British. At this time Lula moved to Chianchetelle, Italy to live with her mother and father in law. Clorindo was released and they had three more children Joan, Madeline and John who were all born in Italy. In 1954 the family moved to the United States of America and came on a ship called the Christopher Columbus (a sister ship to the Andrea Doria). The family initially settled in Palisades Park, NJ, and lived in West New York,where they had their daughter Maria, and Weehawken, before moving to North Bergen, NJ just after the untimely passing of Clorindo in 1984.
Lula always worked in sales, first at the Schlesinger’s Men’s Clothing Store in West New York, and later at the Roberts Jewelry Store in West New York and finally at Rads Jewelers in Union City before retiring in 1989. Lula will be remembered as a loving mother who was extremely hard working, dedicated to raising her family, and who cherished hearing of the accomplishments of her grand and great-grandchildren. She was also a great cook whose special touch on pasta e fagioli will be greatly missed.
She was the loving wife of forty years to the late Clorindo DiGiovanni (1984); devoted mother of Michael DiGiovanni and his wife Linda of Woodland Park, Joan Isaacson and her husband Sheldon of Westport, CT, Madeline Caminiti and her husband Peter of Paramus, John DiGiovanni and his wife Patricia of Wayne, and Maria Stolba and her husband David of New Market, MD; cherished grandmother of fourteen grandchildren and twenty-two great-grandchildren; loved sister of the late Vasilis, Christos, Apostoli, Elena and Aphroditi.
In lieu of flowers memorial donations to the Tomorrows Children’s Fund, 30 Prospect Ave., Hackensack, NJ 07601 would be appreciated.
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