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November 13, 2012
Services
Friends may visit with the family from 2-6 PM on Sunday, November 18, 2012 at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
Funeral services will be held 10 AM on Monday, November 19, 2012 at the funeral home.
Interment will be in Glendale Cemetery, Bloomfield.
Nancy M. Strumolo (nee Mazzuca) age 79 of Wayne died peacefully at home on Tuesday, November 13, 2012.
She was born in Newark and raised at 123 Parker Street in Newark having graduated from Central High School with the Class of 1952.
Her first job was at the Kearfott factory in Newark where she worked on the assembly line for $3.00 per hour. She then dedicated herself to raising her five children. Once her youngest daughter went to school Nancy went to school to become a hairdresser. She also worked at the Saw Mill Furniture Store in Marshalls Creek PA for several years.
She met her husband Alfonse Strumolo when he was in college and she was working at the Franklin School in Newark’s Community Center for extra money. She spied Alfonse attending a dance at the Community Center and asked a guy friend to subtly introduce them. The friend walked up to Alfonse and said “this is Nancy” and walked away. Their first date was to Nancy’s family home to teach Alfonse to dance. They fell in love and it only took three years for Alfonse to propose marriage. He asked her to marry him in June and in October enlisted in the US Army Infantry serving in Korea. They married on March 23, 1952 at Saint Michael’s Church in Newark and had a three day honeymoon in New York City.
Their first home was 119 19th Street in East Orange where they rented the upper floor of the house to a family who had kids that would constantly bang on the floor. Their second home was 126 Beech Street in Nutley where they lived for five years. Their third home was 7 West William Street in Lincoln Park, fourth was 53 Burnside Place in Wayne where they raised their family. Their fifth home was in East Stroudsburg where they spent twenty-eight years before returning to Wayne in December of 2011.
Nancy loved to bake and was an excellent Italian cook; her special touch on meatballs, homemade ravioli, manicotti, lasagna, baked ziti, and rigatoni will be greatly missed.
Nancy was the loving wife of Alfonse Strumolo; devoted mother of Diane Markley and her husband Walter of Riverdale, Peter Strumolo and his wife Maribeth of Wayne, Detective Sergeant Alfonse Strumolo and his wife Kerrie of Wayne, Ralph Strumolo and his wife Dona of Jefferson, and Lorraine Penton of East Stroudsburg, PA; cherished grandmother of twelve grandchildren and three great-grandchildren; loved sister of Lucy DeBoasio, Nancy’s twin Ralph Mazzuca, Esther Maione, and the late Tessie, Katie, Louie, Pauline, Angela, Johnny, Sam, Joe, Vera, Louise, and Gloria.
In lieu of flowers memorial donations to St Jude’s Children’s Research Hospital, 262 Danny Thomas Place, Memphis, TN, 38105 would be appreciated.
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Friends may visit with the family from 2-6 PM on Sunday, November 18, 2012 at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
Funeral services will be held 10 AM on Monday, November 19, 2012 at the funeral home.
Interment will be in Glendale Cemetery, Bloomfield.
November 13, 2012
Services
Friends may visit with the family from 2-6 PM on Sunday, November 18, 2012 at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
Funeral services will be held 10 AM on Monday, November 19, 2012 at the funeral home.
Interment will be in Glendale Cemetery, Bloomfield.
Nancy M. Strumolo (nee Mazzuca) age 79 of Wayne died peacefully at home on Tuesday, November 13, 2012.
She was born in Newark and raised at 123 Parker Street in Newark having graduated from Central High School with the Class of 1952.
Her first job was at the Kearfott factory in Newark where she worked on the assembly line for $3.00 per hour. She then dedicated herself to raising her five children. Once her youngest daughter went to school Nancy went to school to become a hairdresser. She also worked at the Saw Mill Furniture Store in Marshalls Creek PA for several years.
She met her husband Alfonse Strumolo when he was in college and she was working at the Franklin School in Newark’s Community Center for extra money. She spied Alfonse attending a dance at the Community Center and asked a guy friend to subtly introduce them. The friend walked up to Alfonse and said “this is Nancy” and walked away. Their first date was to Nancy’s family home to teach Alfonse to dance. They fell in love and it only took three years for Alfonse to propose marriage. He asked her to marry him in June and in October enlisted in the US Army Infantry serving in Korea. They married on March 23, 1952 at Saint Michael’s Church in Newark and had a three day honeymoon in New York City.
Their first home was 119 19th Street in East Orange where they rented the upper floor of the house to a family who had kids that would constantly bang on the floor. Their second home was 126 Beech Street in Nutley where they lived for five years. Their third home was 7 West William Street in Lincoln Park, fourth was 53 Burnside Place in Wayne where they raised their family. Their fifth home was in East Stroudsburg where they spent twenty-eight years before returning to Wayne in December of 2011.
Nancy loved to bake and was an excellent Italian cook; her special touch on meatballs, homemade ravioli, manicotti, lasagna, baked ziti, and rigatoni will be greatly missed.
Nancy was the loving wife of Alfonse Strumolo; devoted mother of Diane Markley and her husband Walter of Riverdale, Peter Strumolo and his wife Maribeth of Wayne, Detective Sergeant Alfonse Strumolo and his wife Kerrie of Wayne, Ralph Strumolo and his wife Dona of Jefferson, and Lorraine Penton of East Stroudsburg, PA; cherished grandmother of twelve grandchildren and three great-grandchildren; loved sister of Lucy DeBoasio, Nancy’s twin Ralph Mazzuca, Esther Maione, and the late Tessie, Katie, Louie, Pauline, Angela, Johnny, Sam, Joe, Vera, Louise, and Gloria.
In lieu of flowers memorial donations to St Jude’s Children’s Research Hospital, 262 Danny Thomas Place, Memphis, TN, 38105 would be appreciated.
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