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November 15, 2007
Services
Friends may visit with the family on Sunday, December 2, 2007 from 2-6 PM at the funeral home.
Funeral services will be held Monday, December 3 at 9 AM from the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne then to Saint Marys RC Church, Pompton Lakes where at 10 AM a Funeral Mass will be offered.
Interment will be, with her husband Oscar, at the Calvary Cemetery, Paterson.
Mary DeFlora (nee Cozzolino) age 100 died Thursday, November 15, 2007 at the Chilton Memorial Hospital, Pompton Plains.
She was born in Mercato Cilento, Italy and came to this country at the age of four with her mother and four siblings. They settled in Paterson, New Jersey where her father had preceded the family a few years earlier.
Mary was devoted to her family and friends and enjoyed nurturing them through her cooking and story telling.
She had a devoted and loving marriage of sixty-nine years to the late Oscar DeFlora(1994); the loving aunt of Jerry Pacilio (who predeceased her in 2006) and his wife Betty of Virginia Beach, VA, Joseph Cozzolino of Florida, Margaret Schad of Oakland, Theresa Kopf and her husband Seymour of Jackson, Alfreda Campos and her husband Richard of Albany, CA, Jan Gavzy and her husband Stuart of Wayne, Lynn Edwards and her husband Cary of Oakland, Verne Taukus and her husband Ted of Ringwood, Tony De Flora and his wife Millie of Little Falls, and Barbara Keller and her husband Lou of Fair Lawn and much loved by many great-nieces, great-nephews and devoted friends.
For those considering a memorial in Mary's name are asked to consider St. Jude's Children's Hospital, 322 N. Lauderdale St. Memphis, TN 38105-2729.
If you would like to send a private condolence directly to the family use this condolence section.
Friends may visit with the family on Sunday, December 2, 2007 from 2-6 PM at the funeral home.
Funeral services will be held Monday, December 3 at 9 AM from the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne then to Saint Marys RC Church, Pompton Lakes where at 10 AM a Funeral Mass will be offered.
Interment will be, with her husband Oscar, at the Calvary Cemetery, Paterson.
November 15, 2007
Services
Friends may visit with the family on Sunday, December 2, 2007 from 2-6 PM at the funeral home.
Funeral services will be held Monday, December 3 at 9 AM from the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne then to Saint Marys RC Church, Pompton Lakes where at 10 AM a Funeral Mass will be offered.
Interment will be, with her husband Oscar, at the Calvary Cemetery, Paterson.
Mary DeFlora (nee Cozzolino) age 100 died Thursday, November 15, 2007 at the Chilton Memorial Hospital, Pompton Plains.
She was born in Mercato Cilento, Italy and came to this country at the age of four with her mother and four siblings. They settled in Paterson, New Jersey where her father had preceded the family a few years earlier.
Mary was devoted to her family and friends and enjoyed nurturing them through her cooking and story telling.
She had a devoted and loving marriage of sixty-nine years to the late Oscar DeFlora(1994); the loving aunt of Jerry Pacilio (who predeceased her in 2006) and his wife Betty of Virginia Beach, VA, Joseph Cozzolino of Florida, Margaret Schad of Oakland, Theresa Kopf and her husband Seymour of Jackson, Alfreda Campos and her husband Richard of Albany, CA, Jan Gavzy and her husband Stuart of Wayne, Lynn Edwards and her husband Cary of Oakland, Verne Taukus and her husband Ted of Ringwood, Tony De Flora and his wife Millie of Little Falls, and Barbara Keller and her husband Lou of Fair Lawn and much loved by many great-nieces, great-nephews and devoted friends.
For those considering a memorial in Mary's name are asked to consider St. Jude's Children's Hospital, 322 N. Lauderdale St. Memphis, TN 38105-2729.
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