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July 12, 2014
Services
Friends may visit with the family from 2-4 and 7-9 PM on Wednesday, July 16, 2014 at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
Funeral services will be held 9:30 AM on Thursday, July 17, 2014 from the funeral home then to Immaculate Heart of Mary RC Church, 580 Ratzer Road, Wayne where a 10:30 AM Funeral Mass will be offered.
Entombment will be in Calvary Mausoleum, Paterson.
Michael “Arky” Semeraro, age 87, a fifty-three year resident of Wayne, passed peacefully on Saturday, July 12, 2014.
He was born in Paterson and raised in the Stony Road section of the city having attended Central High School with the Class of 1945. During and just after high school Arky worked at the Minerire Construction Company in Paterson driving a truck. In 1945 he, along with a group of his friends, enlisted in the Army. He served with the D company of the 18th Infantry Regiment and received the Army of Occupation (Germany) Medal and the WWII Victory Medal.
After being honorably discharged from the Army he went to work at the family business, Semeraro Brothers, a Paterson based utility construction company that had projects throughout North Jersey. He worked here for thirty-five years before retiring in 1992.
Arky summered in Toms River, wintered in Fort Lauderdale, FL, and lived in Wayne. From youth to maturity he was dedicated to Our Lady of Pompeii Church in Paterson where he was a member of the Our Lady of Pompeii club. He was also a member of the Italian Circle in Totowa. His fun, stern, energetic, upbeat, and generous personality will be greatly missed by all who knew him. Arky was incredibly dedicated to his grandchildren.
He was the loving husband of sixty-one years to Ruth (Windish) Semeraro; devoted father of Charles “Chuck” Semeraro of Pompton Plains, Michael Semeraro, Jr. and his wife Diane of Wayne, and Mark Semeraro of Wayne; cherished grandfather of Michelle, Arky III, Laura, Chelsea, Julia, and Michael Semeraro; dear brother of Katie Cole of Sunrise, FL, Rose Kelly and her husband Bill of Riverdale, Lea Caramalis and her husband Nick of Tampa, FL, Luann “Lukie” Terlizzi of Naples, FL, and the late Antoinette Matis and late Frank Semeraro.
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Friends may visit with the family from 2-4 and 7-9 PM on Wednesday, July 16, 2014 at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
Funeral services will be held 9:30 AM on Thursday, July 17, 2014 from the funeral home then to Immaculate Heart of Mary RC Church, 580 Ratzer Road, Wayne where a 10:30 AM Funeral Mass will be offered.
Entombment will be in Calvary Mausoleum, Paterson.
July 12, 2014
Services
Friends may visit with the family from 2-4 and 7-9 PM on Wednesday, July 16, 2014 at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
Funeral services will be held 9:30 AM on Thursday, July 17, 2014 from the funeral home then to Immaculate Heart of Mary RC Church, 580 Ratzer Road, Wayne where a 10:30 AM Funeral Mass will be offered.
Entombment will be in Calvary Mausoleum, Paterson.
Michael “Arky” Semeraro, age 87, a fifty-three year resident of Wayne, passed peacefully on Saturday, July 12, 2014.
He was born in Paterson and raised in the Stony Road section of the city having attended Central High School with the Class of 1945. During and just after high school Arky worked at the Minerire Construction Company in Paterson driving a truck. In 1945 he, along with a group of his friends, enlisted in the Army. He served with the D company of the 18th Infantry Regiment and received the Army of Occupation (Germany) Medal and the WWII Victory Medal.
After being honorably discharged from the Army he went to work at the family business, Semeraro Brothers, a Paterson based utility construction company that had projects throughout North Jersey. He worked here for thirty-five years before retiring in 1992.
Arky summered in Toms River, wintered in Fort Lauderdale, FL, and lived in Wayne. From youth to maturity he was dedicated to Our Lady of Pompeii Church in Paterson where he was a member of the Our Lady of Pompeii club. He was also a member of the Italian Circle in Totowa. His fun, stern, energetic, upbeat, and generous personality will be greatly missed by all who knew him. Arky was incredibly dedicated to his grandchildren.
He was the loving husband of sixty-one years to Ruth (Windish) Semeraro; devoted father of Charles “Chuck” Semeraro of Pompton Plains, Michael Semeraro, Jr. and his wife Diane of Wayne, and Mark Semeraro of Wayne; cherished grandfather of Michelle, Arky III, Laura, Chelsea, Julia, and Michael Semeraro; dear brother of Katie Cole of Sunrise, FL, Rose Kelly and her husband Bill of Riverdale, Lea Caramalis and her husband Nick of Tampa, FL, Luann “Lukie” Terlizzi of Naples, FL, and the late Antoinette Matis and late Frank Semeraro.
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