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August 17, 2009
Services
Funeral services will be held 9 AM on Friday, August 21, 2009 from the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne then to St Ann Melkite Catholic Church, 802 Rifle Camp Rd., Woodland Park (West Paterson) for a 10 AM funeral service.
Friends may visit with the family on Thursday, August 20, 2009 from 2-4, 7-9 PM at the funeral home.
Interment will be in Holy Sepulchre Cemetery, Totowa.
Margaret Gerro (nee Baker) age 90 of Wayne died peacefully in her sleep on Monday, August 17, 2009.
She was born in Utica, NY and lived in Paterson and Toms River before moving to Wayne four years ago.
She was the beloved wife of the late Charles “Chick” Gerro; loving mother of George Gerro and his wife Marianne of Totowa and Charlotte Dahdah and her husband George of Wayne; devoted daughter of the late Michael and Fanny Baker; loving sister of George Baker of Woodland Park and the late Julia Casab, Helen Hajjar, Albert Baker, and Samuel Baker; loving sister-in-law of Arlene Baker of North Haledon, Yvonne Gerro of Burbank, CA and Raymond Mardo of Little Falls; cherished grandmother of Raylene Langish and her husband Michael, Sheri-Ann Haug and her husband Christopher and Sharon VanDalinda and her husband Ryan; and six great-grandchildren Anthony Charles Langish, Rachael Marie Langish, James Christopher Haug, Samuel George Haug, Katherine Ann Haug and Sean Ryan VanDalinda; loving aunt of many nieces and nephews.
Margaret was a seamstress in the Paterson textile industry and later worked for the NJ Bell Telephone Company, Paterson.
She married Charles “Chick” Gerro on November 23, 1941 at St Ann’s Melkite Catholic Church, Paterson and went on an overnight honeymoon to New York City. Charles was called into military service just three months into their marriage and when she was pregnant with their first child. Charles entered the service and was permitted to stay local until the birth of George. Just days after his birth he went overseas. At Charles’s return from military service she maintained the role of a devoted mother and had their second child Charlotte. She lived in Paterson for many years having lived in Toms River for eighteen years before Charles’s passing in 2004. Margaret has lived in Siena Village, Wayne for the past four years.
She was active and enjoyed playing cards with her family just the evening before she passed. Margaret also liked bingo, crocheting, sewing and was a great cook having made many traditional Middle Eastern dishes to share with her family.
She was a member of St Ann Melkite Catholic Church, West Paterson.
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Funeral services will be held 9 AM on Friday, August 21, 2009 from the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne then to St Ann Melkite Catholic Church, 802 Rifle Camp Rd., Woodland Park (West Paterson) for a 10 AM funeral service.
Friends may visit with the family on Thursday, August 20, 2009 from 2-4, 7-9 PM at the funeral home.
Interment will be in Holy Sepulchre Cemetery, Totowa.
August 17, 2009
Services
Funeral services will be held 9 AM on Friday, August 21, 2009 from the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne then to St Ann Melkite Catholic Church, 802 Rifle Camp Rd., Woodland Park (West Paterson) for a 10 AM funeral service.
Friends may visit with the family on Thursday, August 20, 2009 from 2-4, 7-9 PM at the funeral home.
Interment will be in Holy Sepulchre Cemetery, Totowa.
Margaret Gerro (nee Baker) age 90 of Wayne died peacefully in her sleep on Monday, August 17, 2009.
She was born in Utica, NY and lived in Paterson and Toms River before moving to Wayne four years ago.
She was the beloved wife of the late Charles “Chick” Gerro; loving mother of George Gerro and his wife Marianne of Totowa and Charlotte Dahdah and her husband George of Wayne; devoted daughter of the late Michael and Fanny Baker; loving sister of George Baker of Woodland Park and the late Julia Casab, Helen Hajjar, Albert Baker, and Samuel Baker; loving sister-in-law of Arlene Baker of North Haledon, Yvonne Gerro of Burbank, CA and Raymond Mardo of Little Falls; cherished grandmother of Raylene Langish and her husband Michael, Sheri-Ann Haug and her husband Christopher and Sharon VanDalinda and her husband Ryan; and six great-grandchildren Anthony Charles Langish, Rachael Marie Langish, James Christopher Haug, Samuel George Haug, Katherine Ann Haug and Sean Ryan VanDalinda; loving aunt of many nieces and nephews.
Margaret was a seamstress in the Paterson textile industry and later worked for the NJ Bell Telephone Company, Paterson.
She married Charles “Chick” Gerro on November 23, 1941 at St Ann’s Melkite Catholic Church, Paterson and went on an overnight honeymoon to New York City. Charles was called into military service just three months into their marriage and when she was pregnant with their first child. Charles entered the service and was permitted to stay local until the birth of George. Just days after his birth he went overseas. At Charles’s return from military service she maintained the role of a devoted mother and had their second child Charlotte. She lived in Paterson for many years having lived in Toms River for eighteen years before Charles’s passing in 2004. Margaret has lived in Siena Village, Wayne for the past four years.
She was active and enjoyed playing cards with her family just the evening before she passed. Margaret also liked bingo, crocheting, sewing and was a great cook having made many traditional Middle Eastern dishes to share with her family.
She was a member of St Ann Melkite Catholic Church, West Paterson.
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