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December 5, 2012
Services
Friends may visit with the family at the Cedar Crest Village Chapel, Pompton Plains, from 1-3 PM on Sunday, December 9, 2012.
A Funeral Mass will be celebrated immediately following the visiting hours, at 3PM on Sunday, at the Cedar Crest Chapel.
Mary will be buried with her husband at the Brigadier General William C. Doyle Veterans Memorial Cemetery, Wrightstown, NJ, on Monday, December 10, 2012 at 11 AM.
Mary A. Lotito age 86 of Cedar Crest Village in Pompton Plains, died on Wednesday December 5, 2012.
Mary was born in Tolve, Italy and her mother passed away when she was just one year old. She came to America with her sisters in 1934 and they were raised by their aunt in Nanticoke, Pennsylvania. A few years after graduating high school, Mary moved to New York City with her identical twin sister Lucy and began schooling to become an X-Ray technician. She enjoyed a career at the New York Hospital and during that time she met several notable dignitaries, actors, actresses, and heads of state that came through the X-Ray department.
Mary met her husband Frank in New York. They were married on June 25, 1955 and honeymooned in Florida and Cuba for one month. They settled in Brooklyn and Queens before buying their first home in Elmont, New York. She became a full time mother and raised their three children there. She and Frank traveled a bit and Mary even visited Italy a few times. She went back to work in 1977 and held a position as medical secretary for a physician in Franklin Square until she retired in 1999. She and Frank then moved to Columbus, NJ. They enjoyed fifty two years together before he passed in 2007. Thereafter, she moved to Cedar Crest Village to be closer to her daughters and truly enjoyed her time there. She made many new friends, played canasta, enjoyed socializing, and best of all - she reconnected with her cousin, Ann, whom she was previously unaware had been living there, too.
Mary’s children recall what a great gardener Mary was, growing vegetables, tending to her fig trees, and how especially good she was at growing orchids. African violets and orchids were her forte and there are several in her home today. She often played canasta several times per week with her friends at Cedar Crest. She liked spending time with her children, all of whom she was always very proud of, on the weekends. They enjoyed an amazing orchid show at the New York Botanical Gardens, a Broadway play (Priscilla, Queen of the Desert!), and great restaurants in New York City. One of her favorite foods was lobster and her daughters surprised her with a Lobsterfest for her birthday in 2010. Mary was also a big Yankees fan, always watching the games on television and rooting for Derek Jeter. Her family took her to first game at the new Yankee Stadium in 2010 and, even though they lost to the Red Sox that day, she had a wonderful time and the family has memories from that night to cherish for a lifetime.
Mary is survived by her three children: Rosemarie and her husband Keith, Frank and his wife Victoria, and Stephanie; one grandson, Brett; her twin sister Lucy and her husband Rod; her brother-in-law, Pat; and her husband’s sisters and brother, Lee, Ann, and Pat. Mary was predeceased by her husband Frank in 2007 and her sister Antoinette in 2010.
If friends so wish, memorial donations to the American Cancer Society, 20 Mercer Street, Hackensack, NJ 07601 or to Valley Hospice Foundation, 223 North Van Dien Avenue, Ridgewood, NJ 07450 would be kindly appreciated.
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Friends may visit with the family at the Cedar Crest Village Chapel, Pompton Plains, from 1-3 PM on Sunday, December 9, 2012.
A Funeral Mass will be celebrated immediately following the visiting hours, at 3PM on Sunday, at the Cedar Crest Chapel.
Mary will be buried with her husband at the Brigadier General William C. Doyle Veterans Memorial Cemetery, Wrightstown, NJ, on Monday, December 10, 2012 at 11 AM.
December 5, 2012
Services
Friends may visit with the family at the Cedar Crest Village Chapel, Pompton Plains, from 1-3 PM on Sunday, December 9, 2012.
A Funeral Mass will be celebrated immediately following the visiting hours, at 3PM on Sunday, at the Cedar Crest Chapel.
Mary will be buried with her husband at the Brigadier General William C. Doyle Veterans Memorial Cemetery, Wrightstown, NJ, on Monday, December 10, 2012 at 11 AM.
Mary A. Lotito age 86 of Cedar Crest Village in Pompton Plains, died on Wednesday December 5, 2012.
Mary was born in Tolve, Italy and her mother passed away when she was just one year old. She came to America with her sisters in 1934 and they were raised by their aunt in Nanticoke, Pennsylvania. A few years after graduating high school, Mary moved to New York City with her identical twin sister Lucy and began schooling to become an X-Ray technician. She enjoyed a career at the New York Hospital and during that time she met several notable dignitaries, actors, actresses, and heads of state that came through the X-Ray department.
Mary met her husband Frank in New York. They were married on June 25, 1955 and honeymooned in Florida and Cuba for one month. They settled in Brooklyn and Queens before buying their first home in Elmont, New York. She became a full time mother and raised their three children there. She and Frank traveled a bit and Mary even visited Italy a few times. She went back to work in 1977 and held a position as medical secretary for a physician in Franklin Square until she retired in 1999. She and Frank then moved to Columbus, NJ. They enjoyed fifty two years together before he passed in 2007. Thereafter, she moved to Cedar Crest Village to be closer to her daughters and truly enjoyed her time there. She made many new friends, played canasta, enjoyed socializing, and best of all - she reconnected with her cousin, Ann, whom she was previously unaware had been living there, too.
Mary’s children recall what a great gardener Mary was, growing vegetables, tending to her fig trees, and how especially good she was at growing orchids. African violets and orchids were her forte and there are several in her home today. She often played canasta several times per week with her friends at Cedar Crest. She liked spending time with her children, all of whom she was always very proud of, on the weekends. They enjoyed an amazing orchid show at the New York Botanical Gardens, a Broadway play (Priscilla, Queen of the Desert!), and great restaurants in New York City. One of her favorite foods was lobster and her daughters surprised her with a Lobsterfest for her birthday in 2010. Mary was also a big Yankees fan, always watching the games on television and rooting for Derek Jeter. Her family took her to first game at the new Yankee Stadium in 2010 and, even though they lost to the Red Sox that day, she had a wonderful time and the family has memories from that night to cherish for a lifetime.
Mary is survived by her three children: Rosemarie and her husband Keith, Frank and his wife Victoria, and Stephanie; one grandson, Brett; her twin sister Lucy and her husband Rod; her brother-in-law, Pat; and her husband’s sisters and brother, Lee, Ann, and Pat. Mary was predeceased by her husband Frank in 2007 and her sister Antoinette in 2010.
If friends so wish, memorial donations to the American Cancer Society, 20 Mercer Street, Hackensack, NJ 07601 or to Valley Hospice Foundation, 223 North Van Dien Avenue, Ridgewood, NJ 07450 would be kindly appreciated.
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