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March 8, 2024
Services
Visiting 2-6pm Sunday, March 17, 2024 at Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
Funeral services will be held 9AM on Monday, March 18 from the funeral home then to Annunciation RC Church, 45 Urban Club Road, Wayne where at 10AM a Funeral Mass will be offered.
Interment will be in Redeemer Cemetery, Mahwah, NJ.
Mario C. Morandi age 93 of Lakewood passed away peacefully on Friday, March 8, 2024 while receiving the loving care of his family.
Mario was born in the Bronx, New York the first son of Italian immigrant parents Ernesto and Thersina Morandi who originated in Bergamo, Italy. Mario graduated from Samuel Gumpers High School. He enlisted in the US Army and was stationed in Korea. After the army, Mario went to work for Prudential Insurance Company as a sales agent for 34 years before retiring. Mario moved to Wayne where he lived until moving to Lakewood.
Mario met Reba Humphrey and married on September 20, 1981. They have enjoyed 43 years of “Fantastic Loving Marriage” together. For their honeymoon they traveled for a month in Italy and throughout their marriage, traveled the world. Mario and Reba ran the local food pantry for Christ United Methodist Church for 11 years. He was a truly spiritual man and gave anyone who was Christian a cross. Mario was blessed with a warm and genuine extraverted personality that caused him to make friends easily and they in turn wanted to call him friend.
Mario was the loving husband of Reba (nee Humphrey) Morandi; loving father of: Teresa and husband Aaron Tollin of West Milford, Christina Morandi of Ramsey, Cynthia and husband John Losardo of Boonton, grandfather of: Marc and wife Brittany Tollin, Nicole and husband Chris Donovan, Kristie Dischino and husband Kevin, Michelle Scrofani, John and wife Krista Losardo, Megan and wife Nicole Losardo, Samantha Losardo, and 11 great grandchildren. He was predeceased by his brother Remo Morandi, and his son David Hepworth.
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Visiting 2-6pm Sunday, March 17, 2024 at Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
Funeral services will be held 9AM on Monday, March 18 from the funeral home then to Annunciation RC Church, 45 Urban Club Road, Wayne where at 10AM a Funeral Mass will be offered.
Interment will be in Redeemer Cemetery, Mahwah, NJ.
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