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August 14, 2014
Services
Friends may visit with the family from 2-6 PM on Sunday, August 17, 2014 at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
Funeral services will be held 9:30 AM on Monday, August 18, 2014 at the funeral home.
Interment will be in George Washington Memorial Park, Paramus.
Marianne Johanna Sanfilippo (Luth) age 67 of Wayne passed peacefully at home on Thursday, August 14, 2014.
She was born in Newark, New York and raised in Jersey City having attended Dickinson High School in Jersey City and after the family moved to Glen Rock she graduated from Glen Rock High School with the Class of 1965. After high school she continued her education at Calvin College in Grand Rapids, Michigan where she received her degree in Elementary Education. Marianne had a true love of children and began teaching elementary education in the suburbs of Chicago. In 1973 Robert Sanfilippo proposed marriage to Marianne and she moved back to New Jersey. She began teaching at the Eastern Christian School in Midland Park where she taught Kindergarten and Pre-Kindergarten. After getting another teaching certification from William Paterson College in Wayne she found a position with the Leonia Board of Education where she worked for over twenty years before retiring in 2010 because of illness. She was recently awarded the “Honorary Teacher of the Year” by her colleagues at the Leonia schools.
Back in 1973 Marianne and Robert went on a hike to a lookout in New York State. Marianne couldn’t understand why they were hiking so long but Roberts plan was to spread a picnic blanket and propose marriage. The problem was he couldn’t muster the nerve to stop and ask her…so they kept on hiking. Eventually they did stop and he spread the picnic blanket and handed her a teddy bear with an engagement ring tied to it’s collar. They married on August 24, 1974 at the Ridgewood Christian Reformed Church and honeymooned in Bermuda. Marianne and Robert had a loving, devoted, best friends, marriage best characterized by the words exceptional and extraordinary.
Marianne again loved children and was an exceptional mother. She was a great listener, and a dear friend to all who knew her. A lover of animals, as a little girl her family had a German Sheppard named Tarzan. She brought a German Sheppard named Teddy into her own home and had a special bond as she would walk him at 4:30 AM every morning.
Marianne was the loving wife of forty years to Robert Sanfilippo; devoted mother of Debra Lynn Sanfilippo and her husband Leigh Amery of Philadelphia, PA, and Robert C. Sanfilippo and his wife Darcy Hoey of Berkeley Heights; cherished grandmother of Scarlett Mya Sanfilippo; dear sister of Robert E Luth of Lake Mary, FL, Joy Sall of Hudsonville, Michigan, and the late Sidney Luth.
In lieu of flowers memorial donations to the Lustgarten Foundation, 1111 Stewart Ave., Bethpage, NY 11714 would be appreciated.
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Friends may visit with the family from 2-6 PM on Sunday, August 17, 2014 at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
Funeral services will be held 9:30 AM on Monday, August 18, 2014 at the funeral home.
Interment will be in George Washington Memorial Park, Paramus.
August 14, 2014
Services
Friends may visit with the family from 2-6 PM on Sunday, August 17, 2014 at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
Funeral services will be held 9:30 AM on Monday, August 18, 2014 at the funeral home.
Interment will be in George Washington Memorial Park, Paramus.
Marianne Johanna Sanfilippo (Luth) age 67 of Wayne passed peacefully at home on Thursday, August 14, 2014.
She was born in Newark, New York and raised in Jersey City having attended Dickinson High School in Jersey City and after the family moved to Glen Rock she graduated from Glen Rock High School with the Class of 1965. After high school she continued her education at Calvin College in Grand Rapids, Michigan where she received her degree in Elementary Education. Marianne had a true love of children and began teaching elementary education in the suburbs of Chicago. In 1973 Robert Sanfilippo proposed marriage to Marianne and she moved back to New Jersey. She began teaching at the Eastern Christian School in Midland Park where she taught Kindergarten and Pre-Kindergarten. After getting another teaching certification from William Paterson College in Wayne she found a position with the Leonia Board of Education where she worked for over twenty years before retiring in 2010 because of illness. She was recently awarded the “Honorary Teacher of the Year” by her colleagues at the Leonia schools.
Back in 1973 Marianne and Robert went on a hike to a lookout in New York State. Marianne couldn’t understand why they were hiking so long but Roberts plan was to spread a picnic blanket and propose marriage. The problem was he couldn’t muster the nerve to stop and ask her…so they kept on hiking. Eventually they did stop and he spread the picnic blanket and handed her a teddy bear with an engagement ring tied to it’s collar. They married on August 24, 1974 at the Ridgewood Christian Reformed Church and honeymooned in Bermuda. Marianne and Robert had a loving, devoted, best friends, marriage best characterized by the words exceptional and extraordinary.
Marianne again loved children and was an exceptional mother. She was a great listener, and a dear friend to all who knew her. A lover of animals, as a little girl her family had a German Sheppard named Tarzan. She brought a German Sheppard named Teddy into her own home and had a special bond as she would walk him at 4:30 AM every morning.
Marianne was the loving wife of forty years to Robert Sanfilippo; devoted mother of Debra Lynn Sanfilippo and her husband Leigh Amery of Philadelphia, PA, and Robert C. Sanfilippo and his wife Darcy Hoey of Berkeley Heights; cherished grandmother of Scarlett Mya Sanfilippo; dear sister of Robert E Luth of Lake Mary, FL, Joy Sall of Hudsonville, Michigan, and the late Sidney Luth.
In lieu of flowers memorial donations to the Lustgarten Foundation, 1111 Stewart Ave., Bethpage, NY 11714 would be appreciated.
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