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January 8, 2014
Services
Friends may visit with the family at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne, on Monday, January 13, 2014 from 2-4 & 7-9 PM. Funeral Services will be held at 9:30 AM on Tuesday, January 14, 2013 from the funeral home, then to Immaculate Heart of Mary R C Church, Wayne, where at 10:30 AM a Funeral Mass will be offered. Burial will follow at the East Ridgelawn Cemetery, Clifton.
Minerva “Ricky” Vaivada (nee Riccardi), age 91 of Wayne, died peacefully on Wednesday, January 8, 2014. She was a Wayne resident since 1953.
Ricky was raised in Nutley and graduated from Nutley High School with the class of 1941. She went on to graduate from the Presbyterian Hospital Nursing program in Newark and began her career as a nurse. She became a full time mom while raising her daughter and then began a second career with Macy’s where she worked for more than twenty seven years.
It was at a Christmas party that she met her husband Joe and their meeting was love at first sight. They were married on January 31, 1946 at Holy Family R C Church in Nutley and enjoyed fifty years of a fun and very happy marriage. They traveled to Florida a few times and enjoyed a wonderful trip to Italy that they promised to do again, but never did. Sadly, Joe passed in 1996.
Ricky was raised with strong traditional values and a firm understanding of familial respect. Her mother, Josephine Riccardi, raised six children all while running their family’s general store in Nutley and this enabled her to keep her family close. Ricky proudly passed those traditional values down to her children, grandchildren, and great grandchildren as well. She loved her family very dearly and her presence will surely be missed at future get-togethers.
As a young woman, Ricky loved to roller skate. She and her girlfriends competed throughout the area at various skate rinks, winning trophies and collecting stickers from all the competitions they participated in. If you ever watched the winter Olympics with her, she would point out during the figure skating events that she used to be able do that too, but on roller skates. After several admissions to Sub-Acute at the Atrium in Wayne, she was appointed their "Ambassador" in the community. She was delighted to hand out her business cards as she spread the good news about the benefits of rehab. She was also an avid seamstress, making draperies, window curtains, and all sorts of clothing. She simply loved to sew.
Ricky had been a member of Our Lady of the Valley R C Church, Wayne for many years, a member of the Wayne Elks Women’s Auxiliary, and the Golden Age Circle of Wayne.
Ricky is survived by her daughter Joann Karasiewicz and her husband Robert of Wayne, her granddaughters; Lisa Messenger of Elmwood Park, and Heather Sessa and her husband Kenneth of Rivervale, NJ, five great grandchildren; Kayleigh and Madelyn Messenger and Kenneth, Jr., Julia and Olivia Sessa, and one brother; Benjamin Riccardi and his wife Vilma of Pearl River, NY. She was predeceased by her sister Margaret in 1980, and three brothers; John, Ralph, and James.
Those wishing to express their sympathy by way of a memorial donation are asked to please consider Eva’s Village, 393 Main St., Paterson, NJ 07501.
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Friends may visit with the family at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne, on Monday, January 13, 2014 from 2-4 & 7-9 PM. Funeral Services will be held at 9:30 AM on Tuesday, January 14, 2013 from the funeral home, then to Immaculate Heart of Mary R C Church, Wayne, where at 10:30 AM a Funeral Mass will be offered. Burial will follow at the East Ridgelawn Cemetery, Clifton.
January 8, 2014
Services
Friends may visit with the family at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne, on Monday, January 13, 2014 from 2-4 & 7-9 PM. Funeral Services will be held at 9:30 AM on Tuesday, January 14, 2013 from the funeral home, then to Immaculate Heart of Mary R C Church, Wayne, where at 10:30 AM a Funeral Mass will be offered. Burial will follow at the East Ridgelawn Cemetery, Clifton.
Minerva “Ricky” Vaivada (nee Riccardi), age 91 of Wayne, died peacefully on Wednesday, January 8, 2014. She was a Wayne resident since 1953.
Ricky was raised in Nutley and graduated from Nutley High School with the class of 1941. She went on to graduate from the Presbyterian Hospital Nursing program in Newark and began her career as a nurse. She became a full time mom while raising her daughter and then began a second career with Macy’s where she worked for more than twenty seven years.
It was at a Christmas party that she met her husband Joe and their meeting was love at first sight. They were married on January 31, 1946 at Holy Family R C Church in Nutley and enjoyed fifty years of a fun and very happy marriage. They traveled to Florida a few times and enjoyed a wonderful trip to Italy that they promised to do again, but never did. Sadly, Joe passed in 1996.
Ricky was raised with strong traditional values and a firm understanding of familial respect. Her mother, Josephine Riccardi, raised six children all while running their family’s general store in Nutley and this enabled her to keep her family close. Ricky proudly passed those traditional values down to her children, grandchildren, and great grandchildren as well. She loved her family very dearly and her presence will surely be missed at future get-togethers.
As a young woman, Ricky loved to roller skate. She and her girlfriends competed throughout the area at various skate rinks, winning trophies and collecting stickers from all the competitions they participated in. If you ever watched the winter Olympics with her, she would point out during the figure skating events that she used to be able do that too, but on roller skates. After several admissions to Sub-Acute at the Atrium in Wayne, she was appointed their "Ambassador" in the community. She was delighted to hand out her business cards as she spread the good news about the benefits of rehab. She was also an avid seamstress, making draperies, window curtains, and all sorts of clothing. She simply loved to sew.
Ricky had been a member of Our Lady of the Valley R C Church, Wayne for many years, a member of the Wayne Elks Women’s Auxiliary, and the Golden Age Circle of Wayne.
Ricky is survived by her daughter Joann Karasiewicz and her husband Robert of Wayne, her granddaughters; Lisa Messenger of Elmwood Park, and Heather Sessa and her husband Kenneth of Rivervale, NJ, five great grandchildren; Kayleigh and Madelyn Messenger and Kenneth, Jr., Julia and Olivia Sessa, and one brother; Benjamin Riccardi and his wife Vilma of Pearl River, NY. She was predeceased by her sister Margaret in 1980, and three brothers; John, Ralph, and James.
Those wishing to express their sympathy by way of a memorial donation are asked to please consider Eva’s Village, 393 Main St., Paterson, NJ 07501.
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