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May 25, 2017
Services
Friends may visit with the family from 4-8 PM on Tuesday, May 30, 2017 at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
Funeral services will be held 9:30 AM on Wednesday, March 31, 2017 from the funeral home then to Our Lady of the Valley, 630 Valley Road, Wayne where a 10:30 AM Funeral Mass will be offered.
Marilyn M. Gerardi, age 70, of Wayne, passed at home on Thursday, May 25, 2017 after four years of treatment for ovarian cancer.
She was born to James and Helen E. McEwen at the Staten Island Hospital. She was raised in the Todt Hill Section of Staten Island where she graduated from the Port Richmond High School with the Class of 1964. During her high school years she was a member of the National Honor Society and attained the highest honors for her Spanish studies. She then went on to study and graduate from the Latin American Institute in New York City where she learned bi-lingual secretarial skills.
Marilyn worked in Manhattan as a bilingual administrative assistant for an international bank and the oil company, Citgo. Then as an administrative assistant, research assistant, and office manager for the investment-banking firm Oppenheimer & Co. While raising her children, she furthered her education at William Paterson University in Wayne, NJ and then worked for eleven years in the business office of the Wayne Board of Education before retiring in 2012. Marilyn was also a secretary in charge of publicity for the Special Parents Association (SPA) for six years.
Marilyn’s interests were reading novels, piano, Bible study, Spanish, playing Sudoku on her iPad, and most of all keeping in touch with friends and family. She loved people, was patient, kind, supportive, and always interested in others. Her selfless, comforting way made her a wonderful mother, friend, and confidant. She was a devoted Christian and parishioner of Our Lady of the Valley RC Church, Wayne.
Marilyn met Gary Gerardi while walking on the beach in South Hampton. A year later, they married on August 28, 1976 at the Marble Collegiate Church in NYC.
Marilyn was the loving wife of Dr. Gary Gerardi; devoted mother of Gary Mark Gerardi of Wayne and Dr. Helen Gerardi and her husband Craig Chowaniec; loved sister of James McEwen and his wife Paulette of West Virginia; dear aunt of James McEwen and Jennifer Tokash.
In lieu of flowers memorial donations to Our Lady of the Valley Church, 630 Valley Road, Wayne, NJ 07470 would be appreciated.
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Friends may visit with the family from 4-8 PM on Tuesday, May 30, 2017 at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
Funeral services will be held 9:30 AM on Wednesday, March 31, 2017 from the funeral home then to Our Lady of the Valley, 630 Valley Road, Wayne where a 10:30 AM Funeral Mass will be offered.
May 25, 2017
Services
Friends may visit with the family from 4-8 PM on Tuesday, May 30, 2017 at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
Funeral services will be held 9:30 AM on Wednesday, March 31, 2017 from the funeral home then to Our Lady of the Valley, 630 Valley Road, Wayne where a 10:30 AM Funeral Mass will be offered.
Marilyn M. Gerardi, age 70, of Wayne, passed at home on Thursday, May 25, 2017 after four years of treatment for ovarian cancer.
She was born to James and Helen E. McEwen at the Staten Island Hospital. She was raised in the Todt Hill Section of Staten Island where she graduated from the Port Richmond High School with the Class of 1964. During her high school years she was a member of the National Honor Society and attained the highest honors for her Spanish studies. She then went on to study and graduate from the Latin American Institute in New York City where she learned bi-lingual secretarial skills.
Marilyn worked in Manhattan as a bilingual administrative assistant for an international bank and the oil company, Citgo. Then as an administrative assistant, research assistant, and office manager for the investment-banking firm Oppenheimer & Co. While raising her children, she furthered her education at William Paterson University in Wayne, NJ and then worked for eleven years in the business office of the Wayne Board of Education before retiring in 2012. Marilyn was also a secretary in charge of publicity for the Special Parents Association (SPA) for six years.
Marilyn’s interests were reading novels, piano, Bible study, Spanish, playing Sudoku on her iPad, and most of all keeping in touch with friends and family. She loved people, was patient, kind, supportive, and always interested in others. Her selfless, comforting way made her a wonderful mother, friend, and confidant. She was a devoted Christian and parishioner of Our Lady of the Valley RC Church, Wayne.
Marilyn met Gary Gerardi while walking on the beach in South Hampton. A year later, they married on August 28, 1976 at the Marble Collegiate Church in NYC.
Marilyn was the loving wife of Dr. Gary Gerardi; devoted mother of Gary Mark Gerardi of Wayne and Dr. Helen Gerardi and her husband Craig Chowaniec; loved sister of James McEwen and his wife Paulette of West Virginia; dear aunt of James McEwen and Jennifer Tokash.
In lieu of flowers memorial donations to Our Lady of the Valley Church, 630 Valley Road, Wayne, NJ 07470 would be appreciated.
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