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February 26, 2008
Services
Funeral services will be held Saturday, March 1, 2008 at 8:30 AM from the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne then to Annunciation RC Church, Wayne where at 9:30 AM a Funeral Mass will be offered.
Friends may visit with the family at the funeral home on Friday from 2-4, 7-9 PM.
Interment will be in Maryrest Cemetery in Darlington.
Robert A. Turatti age 87 of Wayne died Tuesday, February 26, 2008 at the Morristown Memorial Hospital in Morristown. He died after a courageous battle with his health and his passing was quiet and peaceful with his loving family at his side.
He was born in Brooklyn, New York where he spent his formative years before moving to Wayne forty-eight years ago.
Robert received his formal education at Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute where he majored in Metal Fabrication.
He established his own business in 1955 and named it BP Kitchen Equipment located in Saddle Brook. His company made commercial kitchens for many large construction projects of hotels and restaurants. His family recalls that when the Statue of Liberty was refurbished his company provided the culinary equipment. He enjoyed his work and ran the business for forty years before his retirement in 1995.
He served in the Army Air Force during World War II. His service duties included Radio Operator and Gunner Mechanic. The battles and campaigns he participated in included the Air Offensive of Europe, battles of Naples-Foggia, Rome-Arno in Italy. He received the Air Medal, five Oak Leaf Clusters, the Distinguished Unit Badge and the European-African- Middle Eastern service medal.
Robert was a parishioner of the Annunciation RC Church in Wayne.
As a hobby he enjoyed flying and had his pilot license. His favorite plane was a red and white Piper Cherokee. His daughter Barbara recalls that she was the only family member with the courage to ride in Dad’s plane.
He leaves his family with many fond memories of a very devoted loving and supportive family man who was always nurturing and concerned about the well being of his children including their emphasis on education.
Robert and Anne Turatti had fifty-five years of close and loving marriage that could be best described as two peas in a pod until Anne’s passing in January of 2000. He somehow never got over her loss in his life.
Surviving are two daughters Barbara Jeckert and her husband James of Lincoln Park and Andrea Onorato and her husband James of Montville; one sister Dolores Guzzon of Weeki Wachee, Florida.
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Funeral services will be held Saturday, March 1, 2008 at 8:30 AM from the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne then to Annunciation RC Church, Wayne where at 9:30 AM a Funeral Mass will be offered.
Friends may visit with the family at the funeral home on Friday from 2-4, 7-9 PM.
Interment will be in Maryrest Cemetery in Darlington.
February 26, 2008
Services
Funeral services will be held Saturday, March 1, 2008 at 8:30 AM from the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne then to Annunciation RC Church, Wayne where at 9:30 AM a Funeral Mass will be offered.
Friends may visit with the family at the funeral home on Friday from 2-4, 7-9 PM.
Interment will be in Maryrest Cemetery in Darlington.
Robert A. Turatti age 87 of Wayne died Tuesday, February 26, 2008 at the Morristown Memorial Hospital in Morristown. He died after a courageous battle with his health and his passing was quiet and peaceful with his loving family at his side.
He was born in Brooklyn, New York where he spent his formative years before moving to Wayne forty-eight years ago.
Robert received his formal education at Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute where he majored in Metal Fabrication.
He established his own business in 1955 and named it BP Kitchen Equipment located in Saddle Brook. His company made commercial kitchens for many large construction projects of hotels and restaurants. His family recalls that when the Statue of Liberty was refurbished his company provided the culinary equipment. He enjoyed his work and ran the business for forty years before his retirement in 1995.
He served in the Army Air Force during World War II. His service duties included Radio Operator and Gunner Mechanic. The battles and campaigns he participated in included the Air Offensive of Europe, battles of Naples-Foggia, Rome-Arno in Italy. He received the Air Medal, five Oak Leaf Clusters, the Distinguished Unit Badge and the European-African- Middle Eastern service medal.
Robert was a parishioner of the Annunciation RC Church in Wayne.
As a hobby he enjoyed flying and had his pilot license. His favorite plane was a red and white Piper Cherokee. His daughter Barbara recalls that she was the only family member with the courage to ride in Dad’s plane.
He leaves his family with many fond memories of a very devoted loving and supportive family man who was always nurturing and concerned about the well being of his children including their emphasis on education.
Robert and Anne Turatti had fifty-five years of close and loving marriage that could be best described as two peas in a pod until Anne’s passing in January of 2000. He somehow never got over her loss in his life.
Surviving are two daughters Barbara Jeckert and her husband James of Lincoln Park and Andrea Onorato and her husband James of Montville; one sister Dolores Guzzon of Weeki Wachee, Florida.
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