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December 24, 2014
Services
Friends may visit with the family at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne, on Monday, December 29, 2014 from 2-4 & 7-9 PM. Funeral Services will be held at 9 AM on Tuesday, December 30, 2014 from the funeral home, then to Annunciation RC Church, Wayne, where at 10 AM a Funeral Mass will be offered. Burial will follow at Christ the King Cemetery, Franklin Lakes.
Rose Leitner (nee Pelonero), age 89 of Wayne, died peacefully on Wednesday, December 24, 2014 at her home.
Rose was raised in Garfield during the Great Depression. She left high school early and began working in a shoe factory. Every little bit of income was helpful in those days and Rose wasn’t afraid to work. She became skilled running the machine that put the soles on shoes and boots. Throughout her career, she worked in many of the area shoe factories, running their sole machines. She retired in the 1970’s from a slipper factory in Passaic.
Since she was a young girl, Rose enjoyed dancing and on any given Saturday night, you could find her on a dance floor at one of the area ballrooms. On one particular Saturday evening in 1944, Rose was dancing to the Duke Collins Orchestra at the President Palace Ballroom when she met Bill Leitner. Bill’s nickname was “Billy the whip” because of how he could spin his partner on the dance floor. Rose, who was just nineteen years old at the time, turned out to be a perfect dance partner and the two of them fell in love. They began dating and were married on December 7, 1947 at the Mount Virgin RC Church in Garfield. They traveled to Niagara Falls for their honeymoon and have since enjoyed sixty seven years of a devoted and very loving marriage. Rose was so special to Bill and she had a wonderfully vibrant personality. She could play the piano, was an excellent cook and, of course, she was Bill’s greatest dance partner. Over the years, they traveled extensively including Hawaii and Las Vegas. Their favorite summer getaway was to Wildwood, NJ where they enjoyed the beach. She was also instrumental in starting the “Prime-Timers” social group at her church; Annunciation RC Church in Wayne. She was a very social person and was blessed with many dear friends who will all miss her dearly.
Rose is survived by her sweetheart; William Leitner of Wayne, three sisters; Sally Albano of Elmwood Park, Mary Scrittorale of Delray Beach, Florida, and Anne Paternostro of Las Vegas, NV, two brothers; Peter Pelonero of Santa Anna, California and Bob Pelonero of Las Vegas.
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Friends may visit with the family at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne, on Monday, December 29, 2014 from 2-4 & 7-9 PM. Funeral Services will be held at 9 AM on Tuesday, December 30, 2014 from the funeral home, then to Annunciation RC Church, Wayne, where at 10 AM a Funeral Mass will be offered. Burial will follow at Christ the King Cemetery, Franklin Lakes.
December 24, 2014
Services
Friends may visit with the family at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne, on Monday, December 29, 2014 from 2-4 & 7-9 PM. Funeral Services will be held at 9 AM on Tuesday, December 30, 2014 from the funeral home, then to Annunciation RC Church, Wayne, where at 10 AM a Funeral Mass will be offered. Burial will follow at Christ the King Cemetery, Franklin Lakes.
Rose Leitner (nee Pelonero), age 89 of Wayne, died peacefully on Wednesday, December 24, 2014 at her home.
Rose was raised in Garfield during the Great Depression. She left high school early and began working in a shoe factory. Every little bit of income was helpful in those days and Rose wasn’t afraid to work. She became skilled running the machine that put the soles on shoes and boots. Throughout her career, she worked in many of the area shoe factories, running their sole machines. She retired in the 1970’s from a slipper factory in Passaic.
Since she was a young girl, Rose enjoyed dancing and on any given Saturday night, you could find her on a dance floor at one of the area ballrooms. On one particular Saturday evening in 1944, Rose was dancing to the Duke Collins Orchestra at the President Palace Ballroom when she met Bill Leitner. Bill’s nickname was “Billy the whip” because of how he could spin his partner on the dance floor. Rose, who was just nineteen years old at the time, turned out to be a perfect dance partner and the two of them fell in love. They began dating and were married on December 7, 1947 at the Mount Virgin RC Church in Garfield. They traveled to Niagara Falls for their honeymoon and have since enjoyed sixty seven years of a devoted and very loving marriage. Rose was so special to Bill and she had a wonderfully vibrant personality. She could play the piano, was an excellent cook and, of course, she was Bill’s greatest dance partner. Over the years, they traveled extensively including Hawaii and Las Vegas. Their favorite summer getaway was to Wildwood, NJ where they enjoyed the beach. She was also instrumental in starting the “Prime-Timers” social group at her church; Annunciation RC Church in Wayne. She was a very social person and was blessed with many dear friends who will all miss her dearly.
Rose is survived by her sweetheart; William Leitner of Wayne, three sisters; Sally Albano of Elmwood Park, Mary Scrittorale of Delray Beach, Florida, and Anne Paternostro of Las Vegas, NV, two brothers; Peter Pelonero of Santa Anna, California and Bob Pelonero of Las Vegas.
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