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November 23, 2018
Services
Friends may visit with the family from 4-8PM on Wednesday November 28, 2018 at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Rd, Wayne. Funeral services will be held 10AM on Thursday November 29 at the funeral home.
Interment will be in First Reformed Church Cemetery, Pompton Plains.
Marianna “Ann” Pugliese (nee Bozza) age 92 of Riverdale passed away peacefully on Friday November 23, 2018 while receiving the loving care of her family.
Marianna was born and raised in Newark to Dominic and Beatrice Bozza. She grew up in the heart of Newark and after graduating high school she took a job as a bookkeeper at a local bank. After several years she became Head Bookkeeper at West Side Bank. During that time in the late 1940’s she was introduced to a handsome young man by the name of Leonard Pugliese. It was Leonard’s brother Tony and Ann’s cousin Jenny that got the two of them together. Ann and Leonard hit it off great and as fate would have it they fell in love and were married on February 18, 1950.
After getting married, the couple stayed in Newark only for a short time and then moved to Nutley where they would spend many years together and raise their family. Also after getting married, Ann decided that her one mission in life was too devote herself to her family and become a homemaker. She was always there for her daughter and two sons, and she and Leonard were “joined at the hip” throughout their entire marriage. Ann was fond of cooking and was quite good at it. She and Leonard enjoyed traveling, they owned a timeshare in Aruba as well as Villa Roma, and frequented Pompano Beach where they owned a condominium. Ann was a “quiet person” never saying much and letting her husband do most of the talking. However she was like a “pillar of strength,” always there at her children’s and her husband’s side. Leonard and Ann cherished fifty four years of loving and loyal marriage until Leonard’s passing in 2004. Above all, Ann’s greatest passion was for her family. Nothing meant more to her than spending time with and caring for her children and husband. Ann was an extraordinary person who touched the lives of many people. She will be sincerely missed by everyone that knew her.
Marianna is survived by her daughter Andrea Driesse and her husband John of Lincoln Park, two sons; Leonard Pugliese Jr and his wife Linda of Nutley, and Gary Pugliese and his wife Diane of Bloomfield, six grandchildren; Jason, Brandon, Leonard III, Gary Jr., Alycia and Matthew, as well as great grandchildren.
In lieu of flowers, donations may be made in Marianna’s name to Lustgarten Foundation, Pancreatic Cancer Research, 415 Crossways Park Drive, Suite D, Woodbury, NY 11797.
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Friends may visit with the family from 4-8PM on Wednesday November 28, 2018 at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Rd, Wayne. Funeral services will be held 10AM on Thursday November 29 at the funeral home.
Interment will be in First Reformed Church Cemetery, Pompton Plains.
November 23, 2018
Services
Friends may visit with the family from 4-8PM on Wednesday November 28, 2018 at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Rd, Wayne. Funeral services will be held 10AM on Thursday November 29 at the funeral home.
Interment will be in First Reformed Church Cemetery, Pompton Plains.
Marianna “Ann” Pugliese (nee Bozza) age 92 of Riverdale passed away peacefully on Friday November 23, 2018 while receiving the loving care of her family.
Marianna was born and raised in Newark to Dominic and Beatrice Bozza. She grew up in the heart of Newark and after graduating high school she took a job as a bookkeeper at a local bank. After several years she became Head Bookkeeper at West Side Bank. During that time in the late 1940’s she was introduced to a handsome young man by the name of Leonard Pugliese. It was Leonard’s brother Tony and Ann’s cousin Jenny that got the two of them together. Ann and Leonard hit it off great and as fate would have it they fell in love and were married on February 18, 1950.
After getting married, the couple stayed in Newark only for a short time and then moved to Nutley where they would spend many years together and raise their family. Also after getting married, Ann decided that her one mission in life was too devote herself to her family and become a homemaker. She was always there for her daughter and two sons, and she and Leonard were “joined at the hip” throughout their entire marriage. Ann was fond of cooking and was quite good at it. She and Leonard enjoyed traveling, they owned a timeshare in Aruba as well as Villa Roma, and frequented Pompano Beach where they owned a condominium. Ann was a “quiet person” never saying much and letting her husband do most of the talking. However she was like a “pillar of strength,” always there at her children’s and her husband’s side. Leonard and Ann cherished fifty four years of loving and loyal marriage until Leonard’s passing in 2004. Above all, Ann’s greatest passion was for her family. Nothing meant more to her than spending time with and caring for her children and husband. Ann was an extraordinary person who touched the lives of many people. She will be sincerely missed by everyone that knew her.
Marianna is survived by her daughter Andrea Driesse and her husband John of Lincoln Park, two sons; Leonard Pugliese Jr and his wife Linda of Nutley, and Gary Pugliese and his wife Diane of Bloomfield, six grandchildren; Jason, Brandon, Leonard III, Gary Jr., Alycia and Matthew, as well as great grandchildren.
In lieu of flowers, donations may be made in Marianna’s name to Lustgarten Foundation, Pancreatic Cancer Research, 415 Crossways Park Drive, Suite D, Woodbury, NY 11797.
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