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December 8, 2011
Services
Friends may visit with the family on Monday, December 12, 2011 from 9 – 10:30 AM at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
A Funeral Mass will be offered Monday 11 AM at Our Lady of the Valley RC Church, 600 Valley Road, Wayne following the visitation.
Interment will be in Gate of Heaven Cemetery, East Hanover.
Rachel Zambito (nee Schimenti) age 88 of Wayne died peacefully on Thursday, December 8, 2011.
She was born in Jersey City having been raised mostly in Yonkers, NY, getting married and returning to Jersey City, before moving to Wayne forty years ago.
She met her husband, the late Salvatore M. Zambito(2006), while summering in Marlboro, NY. They fell in love and married on December 23, 1945 during a snowstorm. They honeymooned in New York City and Florida.
Rachel was dedicated to her Catholic faith and a member of Our Lady of the Valley RC Church, Wayne for many years.
Rachel was a dedicated and loving wife, mother, grandmother and
great-grandmother. In her younger years she loved to dance, even entering a
dance competition in the 1939 World’s Fair in New York City with her brother.
She derived much satisfaction and joy from seeing the accomplishments of both
her children and grandchildren. For many years, Rachel enjoyed having the family together at her house for dinner on Sunday afternoon. Her special touches of pasta with gravy meat; lamb shanks and pastina will be dearly missed. For a good portion of her life, Rachel also enjoyed playing bridge with her friends and reading as part of a club.
She was the loving wife of sixty years to the late Salvatore M. Zambito (2006); loving mother of Theresa Pisano and her husband Dominic of Berkeley Heights, Mary Carla Hofsommer and her husband Kenneth of Pompton Plains, Michael Zambito and his wife Debra of Parsippany, Salvatore Zambito and his wife Diane of Livingston, and Matthew Zambito and his wife Nancy of Wayne; cherished grandmother of eleven grandchildren and four great-grandchildren; loved sister of five brothers and one sister all who predeceased her.
In lieu of flowers memorial donations to the Alzheimer’s Association - Greater NJ Chapter, 400 Morris Ave., Suite 251, Denville, NJ 07834 would be appreciated.
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Friends may visit with the family on Monday, December 12, 2011 from 9 – 10:30 AM at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
A Funeral Mass will be offered Monday 11 AM at Our Lady of the Valley RC Church, 600 Valley Road, Wayne following the visitation.
Interment will be in Gate of Heaven Cemetery, East Hanover.
December 8, 2011
Services
Friends may visit with the family on Monday, December 12, 2011 from 9 – 10:30 AM at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
A Funeral Mass will be offered Monday 11 AM at Our Lady of the Valley RC Church, 600 Valley Road, Wayne following the visitation.
Interment will be in Gate of Heaven Cemetery, East Hanover.
Rachel Zambito (nee Schimenti) age 88 of Wayne died peacefully on Thursday, December 8, 2011.
She was born in Jersey City having been raised mostly in Yonkers, NY, getting married and returning to Jersey City, before moving to Wayne forty years ago.
She met her husband, the late Salvatore M. Zambito(2006), while summering in Marlboro, NY. They fell in love and married on December 23, 1945 during a snowstorm. They honeymooned in New York City and Florida.
Rachel was dedicated to her Catholic faith and a member of Our Lady of the Valley RC Church, Wayne for many years.
Rachel was a dedicated and loving wife, mother, grandmother and
great-grandmother. In her younger years she loved to dance, even entering a
dance competition in the 1939 World’s Fair in New York City with her brother.
She derived much satisfaction and joy from seeing the accomplishments of both
her children and grandchildren. For many years, Rachel enjoyed having the family together at her house for dinner on Sunday afternoon. Her special touches of pasta with gravy meat; lamb shanks and pastina will be dearly missed. For a good portion of her life, Rachel also enjoyed playing bridge with her friends and reading as part of a club.
She was the loving wife of sixty years to the late Salvatore M. Zambito (2006); loving mother of Theresa Pisano and her husband Dominic of Berkeley Heights, Mary Carla Hofsommer and her husband Kenneth of Pompton Plains, Michael Zambito and his wife Debra of Parsippany, Salvatore Zambito and his wife Diane of Livingston, and Matthew Zambito and his wife Nancy of Wayne; cherished grandmother of eleven grandchildren and four great-grandchildren; loved sister of five brothers and one sister all who predeceased her.
In lieu of flowers memorial donations to the Alzheimer’s Association - Greater NJ Chapter, 400 Morris Ave., Suite 251, Denville, NJ 07834 would be appreciated.
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