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March 20, 2017
Services
Friends may visit with the family from 4-8 PM on Thursday, March 23, 2017 at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
A Committal Service will be held 10 AM on Friday, March 24, 2017 at the Garden of Memories Mausoleum, 300 Soldier Hill Road, Township of Washington. (please go directly to the cemetery)
A Memorial Service will be held 6 PM on Friday, March 24, 2017 at the United Methodist Church in Wayne, 99 Parish Drive, Wayne, NJ.
Maria T. Senti, 84 of Wayne, died on Monday, March 20, 2017.
Born and raised in Cuba, Maria came to America with her family in 1960. Fleeing the Castro regime wasn’t easy, but her family was sponsored by a Reverend Miller, a Methodist pastor, who was able to secure the necessary papers and bring them to the United States. He even helped Maria, who was just twenty-seven years old at the time, to secure a job. Reverend Miller also sponsored Maria’s husband at the time, and did his best to assist him in his own aspirations of becoming a Methodist minister.
Maria originally lived in Dade City, Florida but moved to Paterson, NJ in 1964 when her husband at the time, became the pastor of the Methodist church in town.
She went to school at Montclair State University where she received her undergraduate degree in Teaching then furthered her education at William Paterson University in Wayne where she earned Master’s Degrees in Bi-Lingual Teaching and Guidance Counseling.
Maria worked at Head Start in Paterson, NJ, as a Social Worker for several years before becoming a career Guidance Counselor with the Paterson Public Schools until retirement in 1994.
Maria loved music, could play the piano and sing. For over twenty years she played the piano at the Trinity Methodist Church in Paterson and was the Director of the day care at the church. She was very proud of her Cuban heritage, would always tell stories about life in Cuba, loved Spanish food, and treated everyone like she was their mother. She had a great sense of humor, loved to tell jokes, and was always fashionably dressed.
She was a member of the Wayne United Methodist Church for the past seventeen years.
She was the devoted mother of daughter Reina and Michael Cerce of Wayne, daughter Maria and Miguel Gonzalez of Oakland, daughter Susanna Senti and Veronica Abarca of Dover, son Anthony Senti of Florida; cherished grandmother of Joseph and Tammy Cerce of Florida, Michael and Lynette Gonzalez of Ringwood, Kristopher and Brittny Gonzalez of Florida, Desiree Senti of Florida, Michael Cerce of Florida, Austin Cerce of Florida, and Christopher and Meridith Purdy of Florida; much loved great-grandmother of Lila Gonzalez of Florida, Gabriela Gonzalez of Ringwood.
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Friends may visit with the family from 4-8 PM on Thursday, March 23, 2017 at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
A Committal Service will be held 10 AM on Friday, March 24, 2017 at the Garden of Memories Mausoleum, 300 Soldier Hill Road, Township of Washington. (please go directly to the cemetery)
A Memorial Service will be held 6 PM on Friday, March 24, 2017 at the United Methodist Church in Wayne, 99 Parish Drive, Wayne, NJ.
March 20, 2017
Services
Friends may visit with the family from 4-8 PM on Thursday, March 23, 2017 at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
A Committal Service will be held 10 AM on Friday, March 24, 2017 at the Garden of Memories Mausoleum, 300 Soldier Hill Road, Township of Washington. (please go directly to the cemetery)
A Memorial Service will be held 6 PM on Friday, March 24, 2017 at the United Methodist Church in Wayne, 99 Parish Drive, Wayne, NJ.
Maria T. Senti, 84 of Wayne, died on Monday, March 20, 2017.
Born and raised in Cuba, Maria came to America with her family in 1960. Fleeing the Castro regime wasn’t easy, but her family was sponsored by a Reverend Miller, a Methodist pastor, who was able to secure the necessary papers and bring them to the United States. He even helped Maria, who was just twenty-seven years old at the time, to secure a job. Reverend Miller also sponsored Maria’s husband at the time, and did his best to assist him in his own aspirations of becoming a Methodist minister.
Maria originally lived in Dade City, Florida but moved to Paterson, NJ in 1964 when her husband at the time, became the pastor of the Methodist church in town.
She went to school at Montclair State University where she received her undergraduate degree in Teaching then furthered her education at William Paterson University in Wayne where she earned Master’s Degrees in Bi-Lingual Teaching and Guidance Counseling.
Maria worked at Head Start in Paterson, NJ, as a Social Worker for several years before becoming a career Guidance Counselor with the Paterson Public Schools until retirement in 1994.
Maria loved music, could play the piano and sing. For over twenty years she played the piano at the Trinity Methodist Church in Paterson and was the Director of the day care at the church. She was very proud of her Cuban heritage, would always tell stories about life in Cuba, loved Spanish food, and treated everyone like she was their mother. She had a great sense of humor, loved to tell jokes, and was always fashionably dressed.
She was a member of the Wayne United Methodist Church for the past seventeen years.
She was the devoted mother of daughter Reina and Michael Cerce of Wayne, daughter Maria and Miguel Gonzalez of Oakland, daughter Susanna Senti and Veronica Abarca of Dover, son Anthony Senti of Florida; cherished grandmother of Joseph and Tammy Cerce of Florida, Michael and Lynette Gonzalez of Ringwood, Kristopher and Brittny Gonzalez of Florida, Desiree Senti of Florida, Michael Cerce of Florida, Austin Cerce of Florida, and Christopher and Meridith Purdy of Florida; much loved great-grandmother of Lila Gonzalez of Florida, Gabriela Gonzalez of Ringwood.
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