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April 9, 2014
Services
Friends may visit with the family from 2-6 PM on Sunday, April 13, 2014 at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
Funeral services will be held 10 AM on Monday, April 14, 2014 at the funeral home.
Interment will be in Gate of Heaven Cemetery, East Hanover.
Margaret M. Carleo age 93 of Wayne passed away peacefully at home on Wednesday, April 9, 2014.
She was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York. Margaret met a cute boy named Vincent Carleo outside of a dance hall in Brooklyn. Vincent swears she was sitting on his car and Margaret emphatically always denied it. They fell in love and married on June 29, 1942 in Shreveport, Louisiana. Vincent was in the Army and Margaret took a bus to Louisiana to get married. A true city girl, and after the bus ride, she vowed she would never go back there again. They had a rock solid marriage for over forty years before Vincent’s passing in 1986.
For several years the family had a summer home in the Hoffman Grove section of Wayne. They would leave Brooklyn and spend summers at Hoffman Grove swimming in the Pompton River. Vincent and Margaret decided to move to Wayne permanently in 1968. Their two young children, Vincent and Patricia thought their parents had lost their minds; who would want to leave Brooklyn to live in the middle of nowhere?
Margaret worked as a packer for the Western Publishing Company in Wayne for sixteen years before retiring in 1984. She was a quiet, very loving, conservative person who had a great sense of humor and could adapt to just about any situation. She traveled to Florida with a pop up camper, laughed when her sons’ friends were outside his window trying to get her son Vincent to sneak out of the house, dressed up in old clothes at Frontier-town at Lake George, or going to Shea Stadium with a group of kids for her grandson’s birthday, she fit right in. Margaret was all about family and took great pride in the accomplishments of her children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren.
She was the loving wife of the late Vincent Carleo (1986); devoted mother of Vincent Carleo, Jr. and his wife Diane of Dalton, GA, and Patricia Adelle of Wayne; loved grandmother of Duane Carleo and his wife Amanda, Lucas Eugene Cotterman and his fiancé Lexi, and Jessica Finney and her husband Chris; much loved great-grandmother of Sean and Connor Finney; loved sister of Elizabeth Fasino of Mastic, Long Island, NY and the late Robert Nelson.
In lieu of flowers memorial donations to the Passaic Valley Hospice, 783 Riverview Drive, Totowa, NJ 07512 would be appreciated.
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Friends may visit with the family from 2-6 PM on Sunday, April 13, 2014 at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
Funeral services will be held 10 AM on Monday, April 14, 2014 at the funeral home.
Interment will be in Gate of Heaven Cemetery, East Hanover.
April 9, 2014
Services
Friends may visit with the family from 2-6 PM on Sunday, April 13, 2014 at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
Funeral services will be held 10 AM on Monday, April 14, 2014 at the funeral home.
Interment will be in Gate of Heaven Cemetery, East Hanover.
Margaret M. Carleo age 93 of Wayne passed away peacefully at home on Wednesday, April 9, 2014.
She was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York. Margaret met a cute boy named Vincent Carleo outside of a dance hall in Brooklyn. Vincent swears she was sitting on his car and Margaret emphatically always denied it. They fell in love and married on June 29, 1942 in Shreveport, Louisiana. Vincent was in the Army and Margaret took a bus to Louisiana to get married. A true city girl, and after the bus ride, she vowed she would never go back there again. They had a rock solid marriage for over forty years before Vincent’s passing in 1986.
For several years the family had a summer home in the Hoffman Grove section of Wayne. They would leave Brooklyn and spend summers at Hoffman Grove swimming in the Pompton River. Vincent and Margaret decided to move to Wayne permanently in 1968. Their two young children, Vincent and Patricia thought their parents had lost their minds; who would want to leave Brooklyn to live in the middle of nowhere?
Margaret worked as a packer for the Western Publishing Company in Wayne for sixteen years before retiring in 1984. She was a quiet, very loving, conservative person who had a great sense of humor and could adapt to just about any situation. She traveled to Florida with a pop up camper, laughed when her sons’ friends were outside his window trying to get her son Vincent to sneak out of the house, dressed up in old clothes at Frontier-town at Lake George, or going to Shea Stadium with a group of kids for her grandson’s birthday, she fit right in. Margaret was all about family and took great pride in the accomplishments of her children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren.
She was the loving wife of the late Vincent Carleo (1986); devoted mother of Vincent Carleo, Jr. and his wife Diane of Dalton, GA, and Patricia Adelle of Wayne; loved grandmother of Duane Carleo and his wife Amanda, Lucas Eugene Cotterman and his fiancé Lexi, and Jessica Finney and her husband Chris; much loved great-grandmother of Sean and Connor Finney; loved sister of Elizabeth Fasino of Mastic, Long Island, NY and the late Robert Nelson.
In lieu of flowers memorial donations to the Passaic Valley Hospice, 783 Riverview Drive, Totowa, NJ 07512 would be appreciated.
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