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March 26, 2018
Services
Friends may visit with the family from 4-8 PM on Thursday, March 29, 2018 at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
A 5 PM funeral service will be held on Thursday during the visitation hours.
An 11:30 AM graveside service will be held on Friday, March 30, 2018 at Saint Rocco’s Church Cemetery, 176 Oak Street, Pittston, PA where Luther will be laid to rest next to his wife.
Luther Wilson, age 93, of Wayne passed peacefully on Monday, March 26, 2018.
He was born in Jersey City and graduated from Dickerson High School with the Class of 1942. Luther enjoyed working with electronics and as a young man opened his own radio and television repair shop in Jersey City. For many years Luther worked for the Beckman Instruments Company in Cedar Grove before retiring in 1992.
One day a pretty young lady came into his repair shop asking to have the batteries in her transistor radio replaced. That young lady was Leona Insalaco and the two soon fell in love. After a first date to The Stanley Theatre in the Journal Square section of Jersey City they married on April 18, 1948 at Saint Patrick's Church in Jersey City. They enjoyed over sixty years of a loving and devoted marriage.
Luther was predeceased by his wife Leona in December of 2016. He is the loving brother of Isabel Wilson of Jersey City and was predeceased by eight siblings. He is the loving brother-in-law of Catherine Insalaco of Jersey City. He was the much loved uncle to Joan Starkowsky, John Insalaco, Mary Ellen Garofalo, Nancy Ford, Carol Ann Smith and eleven more nieces and nephews.Lu was also blessed to have wonderful neighbors who were like a his second family.
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Friends may visit with the family from 4-8 PM on Thursday, March 29, 2018 at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
A 5 PM funeral service will be held on Thursday during the visitation hours.
An 11:30 AM graveside service will be held on Friday, March 30, 2018 at Saint Rocco’s Church Cemetery, 176 Oak Street, Pittston, PA where Luther will be laid to rest next to his wife.
March 26, 2018
Services
Friends may visit with the family from 4-8 PM on Thursday, March 29, 2018 at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
A 5 PM funeral service will be held on Thursday during the visitation hours.
An 11:30 AM graveside service will be held on Friday, March 30, 2018 at Saint Rocco’s Church Cemetery, 176 Oak Street, Pittston, PA where Luther will be laid to rest next to his wife.
Luther Wilson, age 93, of Wayne passed peacefully on Monday, March 26, 2018.
He was born in Jersey City and graduated from Dickerson High School with the Class of 1942. Luther enjoyed working with electronics and as a young man opened his own radio and television repair shop in Jersey City. For many years Luther worked for the Beckman Instruments Company in Cedar Grove before retiring in 1992.
One day a pretty young lady came into his repair shop asking to have the batteries in her transistor radio replaced. That young lady was Leona Insalaco and the two soon fell in love. After a first date to The Stanley Theatre in the Journal Square section of Jersey City they married on April 18, 1948 at Saint Patrick's Church in Jersey City. They enjoyed over sixty years of a loving and devoted marriage.
Luther was predeceased by his wife Leona in December of 2016. He is the loving brother of Isabel Wilson of Jersey City and was predeceased by eight siblings. He is the loving brother-in-law of Catherine Insalaco of Jersey City. He was the much loved uncle to Joan Starkowsky, John Insalaco, Mary Ellen Garofalo, Nancy Ford, Carol Ann Smith and eleven more nieces and nephews.Lu was also blessed to have wonderful neighbors who were like a his second family.
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