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June 8, 2017
Services
Friends may visit with the family on Monday, June 12, 2017 from 4-8 PM at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
A 9:30 AM Funeral Mass will be offered on Tuesday, June 13, 2017 at Saint Marys RC Church, 17 Pompton Avenue, Pompton Lakes.
Entombment will be in Calvary Mausoleum, Paterson.
Rosa Antonietta Antonucci, age 69 of Wayne, passed peacefully at home on Thursday, June 8, 2017.
Rosa was born in Modica Sicily Italy and at the age of seven she immigrated to the United States just after Rosa’s father, at the age of forty-two, passed away. The came to the United States through New York City and settle into life in South Paterson, New Jersey. Rosa was raised at the home at 400 21st Avenue in Paterson and attended the Eastside High School in Paterson with the Class of 1966. She left Paterson soon after she married Thomas Antonucci and they bought a home in Wayne where they have lived for over forty-five years.
After high school Rosa went to the Roman Academy of Beauty School in Paterson where she found a career in hair dressing that was more of a passion than work. Most recently she worked for over twenty-five years at the L’egance Creative Hair Designers on Union Boulevard in Totowa. She loved the people she worked with and her clients often turned into loyal friends.
Rosa was introduced, by the parish priest at Saint Michaels Church in Paterson, to a young man named Thomas Antonucci. They were married on September 19, 1971 at Saint Michaels Church and honeymooned in Jamaica. Rosa and Thomas were inseparable. They were truly always there for each other, loved to travel, always enjoyed going out to dinner with friends and family, and enjoyed trips to Atlantic City together. They have lovingly enjoyed forty-six years of devoted marriage.
Rosa will be remembered as a strong person who was always positive, selfless, very outgoing, and a kid at heart. She was an excellent cook and the love she stirred into her Italian cooking and specialties like lasagna, rice balls, pizzagaina, and sauce will always be treasured. Most of all Rosa will be remembered as a loving and devoted wife, mother, and grandmother. Rosa fondly remembered the time she and Thomas traveled to Italy and entered her hometown of Modico. After over fifty years, as soon as she started walking around, cousins immediately recognized her.
Rosa was the loving wife of Thomas Antonucci; dearly loved daughter of Lena Iacono and the late Giovanni Iacono; devoted mother of Rosanne Antonucci of Wayne, Gina Biro and her husband Chris of Pompton Plains, and the late Paula Jean Antonucci (May 1994); cherished grandmother of Justin, Christopher, and Olivia; and loved sister of Gilda Iacono of Woodland Park.
In lieu of flowers memorial donations to the Hackensack University Medical Center Foundation, 360 Essex Street, Suite 301, Hackensack, NJ 07601 would be appreciated.
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Friends may visit with the family on Monday, June 12, 2017 from 4-8 PM at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
A 9:30 AM Funeral Mass will be offered on Tuesday, June 13, 2017 at Saint Marys RC Church, 17 Pompton Avenue, Pompton Lakes.
Entombment will be in Calvary Mausoleum, Paterson.
June 8, 2017
Services
Friends may visit with the family on Monday, June 12, 2017 from 4-8 PM at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
A 9:30 AM Funeral Mass will be offered on Tuesday, June 13, 2017 at Saint Marys RC Church, 17 Pompton Avenue, Pompton Lakes.
Entombment will be in Calvary Mausoleum, Paterson.
Rosa Antonietta Antonucci, age 69 of Wayne, passed peacefully at home on Thursday, June 8, 2017.
Rosa was born in Modica Sicily Italy and at the age of seven she immigrated to the United States just after Rosa’s father, at the age of forty-two, passed away. The came to the United States through New York City and settle into life in South Paterson, New Jersey. Rosa was raised at the home at 400 21st Avenue in Paterson and attended the Eastside High School in Paterson with the Class of 1966. She left Paterson soon after she married Thomas Antonucci and they bought a home in Wayne where they have lived for over forty-five years.
After high school Rosa went to the Roman Academy of Beauty School in Paterson where she found a career in hair dressing that was more of a passion than work. Most recently she worked for over twenty-five years at the L’egance Creative Hair Designers on Union Boulevard in Totowa. She loved the people she worked with and her clients often turned into loyal friends.
Rosa was introduced, by the parish priest at Saint Michaels Church in Paterson, to a young man named Thomas Antonucci. They were married on September 19, 1971 at Saint Michaels Church and honeymooned in Jamaica. Rosa and Thomas were inseparable. They were truly always there for each other, loved to travel, always enjoyed going out to dinner with friends and family, and enjoyed trips to Atlantic City together. They have lovingly enjoyed forty-six years of devoted marriage.
Rosa will be remembered as a strong person who was always positive, selfless, very outgoing, and a kid at heart. She was an excellent cook and the love she stirred into her Italian cooking and specialties like lasagna, rice balls, pizzagaina, and sauce will always be treasured. Most of all Rosa will be remembered as a loving and devoted wife, mother, and grandmother. Rosa fondly remembered the time she and Thomas traveled to Italy and entered her hometown of Modico. After over fifty years, as soon as she started walking around, cousins immediately recognized her.
Rosa was the loving wife of Thomas Antonucci; dearly loved daughter of Lena Iacono and the late Giovanni Iacono; devoted mother of Rosanne Antonucci of Wayne, Gina Biro and her husband Chris of Pompton Plains, and the late Paula Jean Antonucci (May 1994); cherished grandmother of Justin, Christopher, and Olivia; and loved sister of Gilda Iacono of Woodland Park.
In lieu of flowers memorial donations to the Hackensack University Medical Center Foundation, 360 Essex Street, Suite 301, Hackensack, NJ 07601 would be appreciated.
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