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March 2, 2018
Services
Friends may visit with the family at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne, on Monday, March 5, 2018 from 9-10 AM. A Funeral mass will be celebrated following the visiting hours, at 10:30 AM on Monday, March 5, 2018 at Immaculate Heart of Mary RC Church, Wayne. Entombment will follow at the Holy Cross Mausoleum in North Arlington, NJ.
Morris Altomare, age 93 of Wayne, died on Friday, March 3, 2018. He was a lifelong resident of Union City, NJ and had recently moved to Brookdale Senior Living in Wayne, where he lived with his brother Gus. Sadly, Gus also passed away just seven weeks ago.
Morris was born in Hoboken in 1924. He moved with his family to Corona, Queens as a teenager and finished high school at the Newtown High School in Queens. Promptly upon his graduation, he was drafted into the U.S. Army and found himself headed to war in Europe. He survived the invasion of Normandy – barely. He earned a Purple Heart and carried shrapnel fragments in his flesh throughout his lifetime. Upon his discharge in 1945, he returned home and began working for Curtis Wright. This led to a career with Pan Am Airlines that lasted nearly forty years before he retired in 1991.
His employment with Pan Am allowed him to travel extensively and he received discounts of about 90% off of his airfare costs! He had visited Spain, the Bahamas, Rome, Nice, and most other areas of Europe, and many other wonderful destinations. He was took full advantage of Pan Am’s generosity during his years there. He also enjoyed taking bus trips to Atlantic City and the Meadowlands Race Track was also a favorite place to spend the day. He also made some good friends at the Italian club in Hoboken where he would play cards for hours with his friends. He liked going to the movies and he even learned to play the piano. He was certainly a quiet and reserved person, very well mannered, and he was always his mother’s favorite! He was blessed with a long and happy life and his family will miss him dearly.
Morris was predeceased by his parents; Donato (1970) and Rose (1972), his sister; Catherine Altomare (2009), and by his brother; Cosmo “Gus” Altomare in January, 2018. He is survived by his brother; Donald Altomare and his wife Pat of Wayne.
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Friends may visit with the family at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne, on Monday, March 5, 2018 from 9-10 AM. A Funeral mass will be celebrated following the visiting hours, at 10:30 AM on Monday, March 5, 2018 at Immaculate Heart of Mary RC Church, Wayne. Entombment will follow at the Holy Cross Mausoleum in North Arlington, NJ.
March 2, 2018
Services
Friends may visit with the family at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne, on Monday, March 5, 2018 from 9-10 AM. A Funeral mass will be celebrated following the visiting hours, at 10:30 AM on Monday, March 5, 2018 at Immaculate Heart of Mary RC Church, Wayne. Entombment will follow at the Holy Cross Mausoleum in North Arlington, NJ.
Morris Altomare, age 93 of Wayne, died on Friday, March 3, 2018. He was a lifelong resident of Union City, NJ and had recently moved to Brookdale Senior Living in Wayne, where he lived with his brother Gus. Sadly, Gus also passed away just seven weeks ago.
Morris was born in Hoboken in 1924. He moved with his family to Corona, Queens as a teenager and finished high school at the Newtown High School in Queens. Promptly upon his graduation, he was drafted into the U.S. Army and found himself headed to war in Europe. He survived the invasion of Normandy – barely. He earned a Purple Heart and carried shrapnel fragments in his flesh throughout his lifetime. Upon his discharge in 1945, he returned home and began working for Curtis Wright. This led to a career with Pan Am Airlines that lasted nearly forty years before he retired in 1991.
His employment with Pan Am allowed him to travel extensively and he received discounts of about 90% off of his airfare costs! He had visited Spain, the Bahamas, Rome, Nice, and most other areas of Europe, and many other wonderful destinations. He was took full advantage of Pan Am’s generosity during his years there. He also enjoyed taking bus trips to Atlantic City and the Meadowlands Race Track was also a favorite place to spend the day. He also made some good friends at the Italian club in Hoboken where he would play cards for hours with his friends. He liked going to the movies and he even learned to play the piano. He was certainly a quiet and reserved person, very well mannered, and he was always his mother’s favorite! He was blessed with a long and happy life and his family will miss him dearly.
Morris was predeceased by his parents; Donato (1970) and Rose (1972), his sister; Catherine Altomare (2009), and by his brother; Cosmo “Gus” Altomare in January, 2018. He is survived by his brother; Donald Altomare and his wife Pat of Wayne.
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