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March 31, 2009
Services
Friends may visit with the family on Thursday, April 2, 2009 from 4 – 7:30 PM at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
Funeral services will be held 7:30 PM on Thursday, April 2, 2009 at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
Maryann Muro (Smrek), age 53 of Wayne, passed away on Tuesday. March 31, 2009. She had been suffering, from breast cancer complications for several months. She died quietly at 11:10am, with her husband, Danny, 52, her daughter Shannon and her son Nicholas and their spouses by her side. Maryann was rushed to the Hackensack University Medical Center earlier that morning having extreme breathing difficulties. She was made comfortable and she very quietly succumbed.
Maryann was born and raised in Newburgh, New York. She had 2 children, Shannon and Nicholas at a young age, and in 1982 married her husband and best friend, Daniel Muro. They met in the summer of 1981 in the New York-New Jersey area, Danny was in a popular rock band and Maryann was working as an actress and model. They became close friends immediately and were married on Valentine's Day in February 1982. The couple moved to Packanack Lake in Wayne, NJ to raise their 2 young children. Shortly after that, Danny and Maryann made career changes to better enable raising their children. Maryann became a freelance make-up artist for television, working on shows like "The Richard Bay" show, WOR-9 News, the Tim McGarver show, and countless other productions. Danny became a commercial photographer in New York CIty, eventually moving his business into their home in the late 1990s.
They loved each other intensely and devoted themselves to raising their children with great love and commitment, and saw them both get married, launch wonderful careers and have children of their own. Their life together was blessed with health, love and success, until Maryann was diagnosed with a breast cancer in 2003, having a lump her her breast removed in the Summer of that year. She was declared cancer free. She and her husband resumed their life and careers and had no signs of cancer returning until 2007, when she began treatment that kept it away until October of 2008. By November she began suffering from breathlessness, and the nature of the complications that began developing in her lungs went undiagnosable. Treatments continued, but the rare lymphatic metastesis continued to overcome her. She stopped working in early March of this year, and grew progressively worse until surrendering to the disease on March 31.
She leaves behind a devastated husband Daniel Muro; devoted children Nicholas Joseph Fayo and his wife Sandy, and Shannon Patricia Lauretta and her husband Rich; cherrished grandchildren Nicholas Fayo, Fallyn Fayo and Cameryn Lauretta. Maryann's glow, love and unrestrained generosity will be badly missed by all who were touched by her rare and beautiful energy. Her commitment to honesty, optimisim and hard work will serve as an inspiration to her family and friends for the rest of their lives.
In lieu of flowers memorial donations to the Wayne First Aid Squad, PO Box 291, Wayne, NJ 07470 would be appreciated.
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Friends may visit with the family on Thursday, April 2, 2009 from 4 – 7:30 PM at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
Funeral services will be held 7:30 PM on Thursday, April 2, 2009 at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
March 31, 2009
Services
Friends may visit with the family on Thursday, April 2, 2009 from 4 – 7:30 PM at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
Funeral services will be held 7:30 PM on Thursday, April 2, 2009 at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
Maryann Muro (Smrek), age 53 of Wayne, passed away on Tuesday. March 31, 2009. She had been suffering, from breast cancer complications for several months. She died quietly at 11:10am, with her husband, Danny, 52, her daughter Shannon and her son Nicholas and their spouses by her side. Maryann was rushed to the Hackensack University Medical Center earlier that morning having extreme breathing difficulties. She was made comfortable and she very quietly succumbed.
Maryann was born and raised in Newburgh, New York. She had 2 children, Shannon and Nicholas at a young age, and in 1982 married her husband and best friend, Daniel Muro. They met in the summer of 1981 in the New York-New Jersey area, Danny was in a popular rock band and Maryann was working as an actress and model. They became close friends immediately and were married on Valentine's Day in February 1982. The couple moved to Packanack Lake in Wayne, NJ to raise their 2 young children. Shortly after that, Danny and Maryann made career changes to better enable raising their children. Maryann became a freelance make-up artist for television, working on shows like "The Richard Bay" show, WOR-9 News, the Tim McGarver show, and countless other productions. Danny became a commercial photographer in New York CIty, eventually moving his business into their home in the late 1990s.
They loved each other intensely and devoted themselves to raising their children with great love and commitment, and saw them both get married, launch wonderful careers and have children of their own. Their life together was blessed with health, love and success, until Maryann was diagnosed with a breast cancer in 2003, having a lump her her breast removed in the Summer of that year. She was declared cancer free. She and her husband resumed their life and careers and had no signs of cancer returning until 2007, when she began treatment that kept it away until October of 2008. By November she began suffering from breathlessness, and the nature of the complications that began developing in her lungs went undiagnosable. Treatments continued, but the rare lymphatic metastesis continued to overcome her. She stopped working in early March of this year, and grew progressively worse until surrendering to the disease on March 31.
She leaves behind a devastated husband Daniel Muro; devoted children Nicholas Joseph Fayo and his wife Sandy, and Shannon Patricia Lauretta and her husband Rich; cherrished grandchildren Nicholas Fayo, Fallyn Fayo and Cameryn Lauretta. Maryann's glow, love and unrestrained generosity will be badly missed by all who were touched by her rare and beautiful energy. Her commitment to honesty, optimisim and hard work will serve as an inspiration to her family and friends for the rest of their lives.
In lieu of flowers memorial donations to the Wayne First Aid Squad, PO Box 291, Wayne, NJ 07470 would be appreciated.
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