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Friends may visit with the family at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne, on Sunday, Feb. 21, 2016 from 2-6 PM. Funeral Services will be held Monday, Feb. 22, 2016 at 9:30 AM from the funeral home, then to Immaculate Heart of Mary RC Church, Wayne, where at 10:30 AM a Funeral Mass will be offered. Burial will follow at the St. Charles Cemetery, Farmingdale, Long Island.
Maria G. Posa, age 70 of Wayne died suddenly on Wednesday, Feb. 17, 2016. She had lived in Brooklyn for many years before.
Maria was born in Larderia Superiore, Messina, Sicily. In 1956, at the age of eleven, she boarded a ship called the “Greek Line” with her family, and they sailed to America. They settled in Brooklyn and began their new life here as Americans, yet always held tightly to their traditional Sicilian family values. Family was always a priority and she raised her children to embrace those same values. Of course, Maria knew how to cook too and everything that came out of her kitchen was flawless. She was a perfectionist not only in the kitchen, but also kept a beautifully clean home. She was a wonderful talent with needle and thread who did everything by hand; she didn’t use a sewing machine. She made many of her children’s Halloween costumes throughout the years, starting the projects during the summer months because sewing them all by hand, of course, took a lot of time. She was particularly good at embroidery, again; all done by hand. Her embroidery work was a passion of hers and she was particularly proud that her embroidery looked as good on the back side as it did on the front. She was truly meticulous in her craft.
Maria met her husband Carmine while living in Brooklyn. The two of them had grown up in the same Brooklyn neighborhood but didn’t know each other until they were set up years later on a date by a mutual friend. They married in July of 1974 and enjoyed nineteen years together before Carmine passed away in 1993.
Maria is survived by her three children; daughter Cesaria “Rina” Posa and her husband Terence Hogan of Wayne, daughter Paula Posa and one grandson Anthony C. Posa-Napolitano of Wayne, and son Vincent Posa, her sister; Belmarina Todisco and husband Giovanni of Nutley, a brother Anthony Scirone and his wife Trisha of Carbondale, PA, many nieces and nephews. She was predeceased by her husband Carmine January 1993, and by her sister Joann Montesi.
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Friends may visit with the family at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne, on Sunday, Feb. 21, 2016 from 2-6 PM. Funeral Services will be held Monday, Feb. 22, 2016 at 9:30 AM from the funeral home, then to Immaculate Heart of Mary RC Church, Wayne, where at 10:30 AM a Funeral Mass will be offered. Burial will follow at the St. Charles Cemetery, Farmingdale, Long Island.
Services
Friends may visit with the family at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne, on Sunday, Feb. 21, 2016 from 2-6 PM. Funeral Services will be held Monday, Feb. 22, 2016 at 9:30 AM from the funeral home, then to Immaculate Heart of Mary RC Church, Wayne, where at 10:30 AM a Funeral Mass will be offered. Burial will follow at the St. Charles Cemetery, Farmingdale, Long Island.
Maria G. Posa, age 70 of Wayne died suddenly on Wednesday, Feb. 17, 2016. She had lived in Brooklyn for many years before.
Maria was born in Larderia Superiore, Messina, Sicily. In 1956, at the age of eleven, she boarded a ship called the “Greek Line” with her family, and they sailed to America. They settled in Brooklyn and began their new life here as Americans, yet always held tightly to their traditional Sicilian family values. Family was always a priority and she raised her children to embrace those same values. Of course, Maria knew how to cook too and everything that came out of her kitchen was flawless. She was a perfectionist not only in the kitchen, but also kept a beautifully clean home. She was a wonderful talent with needle and thread who did everything by hand; she didn’t use a sewing machine. She made many of her children’s Halloween costumes throughout the years, starting the projects during the summer months because sewing them all by hand, of course, took a lot of time. She was particularly good at embroidery, again; all done by hand. Her embroidery work was a passion of hers and she was particularly proud that her embroidery looked as good on the back side as it did on the front. She was truly meticulous in her craft.
Maria met her husband Carmine while living in Brooklyn. The two of them had grown up in the same Brooklyn neighborhood but didn’t know each other until they were set up years later on a date by a mutual friend. They married in July of 1974 and enjoyed nineteen years together before Carmine passed away in 1993.
Maria is survived by her three children; daughter Cesaria “Rina” Posa and her husband Terence Hogan of Wayne, daughter Paula Posa and one grandson Anthony C. Posa-Napolitano of Wayne, and son Vincent Posa, her sister; Belmarina Todisco and husband Giovanni of Nutley, a brother Anthony Scirone and his wife Trisha of Carbondale, PA, many nieces and nephews. She was predeceased by her husband Carmine January 1993, and by her sister Joann Montesi.
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