Mary Mascolo

Mary P. Mascolo, age 96, of Wayne, passed on Tuesday, December 10, 2019.

She was born to William and Veronica Mackiewicz (Mack) in Exeter, PA.  During her high school years she moved to Nanticoke, PA, to live with extended family.  She graduated from Nanticoke High School with the Class of 1941. After high school, she moved to New York City to pursue a career in banking.  After a short-lived move to Washington DC, she moved back to New York City, where she met and married her husband, Philip, in 1951.  In 1957, they moved to Lodi and she continued to commute into Manhattan for work.  In 1965, she officially left the banking industry to dedicate herself to raising her family in Lodi.  In 2000, after her children had families of their own, she downsized to a condominium in Wayne.

Mary will be remembered as a mild-mannered, fun-loving person with a huge heart.  She was always the optimist, seeing the good in every situation.  She was young at heart and you could set a watch to her routine of watching her soap operas and game shows. She was taught to cook Italian by her mother-in-law and was forever in the kitchen.  Cooking shows were always playing on television and she would take notes and write down new recipes as she was always willing to try something new.  Mary’s loving hands on her Sunday sauce, lasagna, and meatloaf will be greatly missed.

She was the loving wife of the late Philip Mascolo (d. 1990); loving mother of Philip Mascolo and his fiancé Luz of Wayne, Ellen Chesney and her husband Bill of Pompton Plains, and the late Nicholas Mascolo (d. 2004) and his wife Diane (d. 2010); cherished grandmother of Nicholas, Connor, Alexandra, Brian, and Kevin.  She was also predeceased by her loving brother John Mack.

In lieu of flowers memorial donations to the Alzheimer’s Association would be appreciated.