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January 7, 2014
Services
Friends are invited to visit with the family from 3-8 PM on Friday, January 10, 2014 at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Rd., Wayne.
Funeral services will be held 11 AM on Saturday January 11, 2014 at St. David's Episcopal Church, 91 Kinnelon Road, Kinnelon. Please meet directly at the church.
Entombment will be private.
Mossca Stamas age 79 of Pompton Plains died peacefully at home with a smile and the comfort of her daughters and grandchildren by her side.
Mossca was born and raised in Brooklyn New York having graduated from Fort Hamilton High School with the Class of 1952. She married and moved to Lake Parsippany having raised her family in Parsippany-Troy Hills. She lived in Livingston for twenty years before moving to Cedar Crest Village in Pompton Plains in 2004.
She was the daughter of the late Christine (Manolakos) of Sparta, Greece and Peter Stamas of Andros, Greece who both immigrated to Brooklyn, New York. They worked as furriers in New York City, for the P&C Stamas Company, lining coats with fur.
Mossca worked for New York Telephone in New York City where she held a special security clearance and worked with technicians in Alaska. She left the phone company to raise her two children and when the children got older she found employment as a bookkeeper with AT&T in Basking Ridge, New Jersey where she worked for twenty-two years before retiring in 1996. She served as a Girl Scout leader in Parsippany and on the Alter Guild for Saint Peters Church in Livingston, and truly enjoyed making ceramics at Cedar Crest Village.
She was the kind of person who was very dedicated to her family and relished in the accomplishments of her children and grandchildren. Mossca was a loving and supportive mother and grandmother who was strong willed, very generous and giving, and had strong political views she didn't mind sharing.
Mossca was the loving mother of Harriet Stewart of Wayne, and Barbara Pavlak and her husband Donald of Wayne; dear sister of Nicholas Stamas and his wife Elaine of Brooklyn, NY who live in Mossca's childhood home; cherished grandmother of Christine and Jordan Stewart, and Samantha and Katie Pavlak.
In lieu of flowers memorial donations to Saint Jude Children's Research Hospital, 501 St Jude Place, Memphis, TN 38105 or the Make-A-Wish Foundation, 1347 Perrineville Road, Monroe Twp., NJ 08831 would be appreciated.
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Friends are invited to visit with the family from 3-8 PM on Friday, January 10, 2014 at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Rd., Wayne.
Funeral services will be held 11 AM on Saturday January 11, 2014 at St. David's Episcopal Church, 91 Kinnelon Road, Kinnelon. Please meet directly at the church.
Entombment will be private.
January 7, 2014
Services
Friends are invited to visit with the family from 3-8 PM on Friday, January 10, 2014 at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Rd., Wayne.
Funeral services will be held 11 AM on Saturday January 11, 2014 at St. David's Episcopal Church, 91 Kinnelon Road, Kinnelon. Please meet directly at the church.
Entombment will be private.
Mossca Stamas age 79 of Pompton Plains died peacefully at home with a smile and the comfort of her daughters and grandchildren by her side.
Mossca was born and raised in Brooklyn New York having graduated from Fort Hamilton High School with the Class of 1952. She married and moved to Lake Parsippany having raised her family in Parsippany-Troy Hills. She lived in Livingston for twenty years before moving to Cedar Crest Village in Pompton Plains in 2004.
She was the daughter of the late Christine (Manolakos) of Sparta, Greece and Peter Stamas of Andros, Greece who both immigrated to Brooklyn, New York. They worked as furriers in New York City, for the P&C Stamas Company, lining coats with fur.
Mossca worked for New York Telephone in New York City where she held a special security clearance and worked with technicians in Alaska. She left the phone company to raise her two children and when the children got older she found employment as a bookkeeper with AT&T in Basking Ridge, New Jersey where she worked for twenty-two years before retiring in 1996. She served as a Girl Scout leader in Parsippany and on the Alter Guild for Saint Peters Church in Livingston, and truly enjoyed making ceramics at Cedar Crest Village.
She was the kind of person who was very dedicated to her family and relished in the accomplishments of her children and grandchildren. Mossca was a loving and supportive mother and grandmother who was strong willed, very generous and giving, and had strong political views she didn't mind sharing.
Mossca was the loving mother of Harriet Stewart of Wayne, and Barbara Pavlak and her husband Donald of Wayne; dear sister of Nicholas Stamas and his wife Elaine of Brooklyn, NY who live in Mossca's childhood home; cherished grandmother of Christine and Jordan Stewart, and Samantha and Katie Pavlak.
In lieu of flowers memorial donations to Saint Jude Children's Research Hospital, 501 St Jude Place, Memphis, TN 38105 or the Make-A-Wish Foundation, 1347 Perrineville Road, Monroe Twp., NJ 08831 would be appreciated.
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