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March 14, 2020
Services
Friends may visit with the family at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne, from 4-8 PM on Tuesday, March 17, 2020.
Funeral Services will be held at 9 AM on Wednesday, March 18, 2020 from the funeral home, then to Our Lady of the Valley RC Church, Wayne, where at 10 AM a Funeral Mass will be offered.
Burial will follow at the Calvary Cemetery.
Rose Marie Gibbs (nee Bilko), age 85 of Wayne, died peacefully at home on Saturday, March 14, 2020 with her family at her bedside. She has been a resident of Wayne for over fifty years.
Rose Marie was raised in Kingston, PA and after high school, she pursued a career in nursing. She graduated from Newark Beth Israel’s nursing school in Newark, NJ as a Registered Nurse and began working as a Pediatric Nurse at the Chilton Hospital in Pompton Plains. She eventually became a school nurse in the Paterson Public Schools, serving at School #21 and at the Martin Luther King Elementary School, enjoying a career of more than thirty years.
In the 1950’s, she met Joe Gibbs, Jr. at a wedding. They hit it off and were soon married on December 28, 1957. After a honeymoon to Colonial Williamsburg, which included a heavy snow storm, they settled in Wayne. Throughout the years, Rose Marie and Joe enjoyed many wonderful vacations and cruises, touring Europe, Alaska, the Caribbean, the Panama Canal, and many trips with Rotary International. They celebrated their fiftieth wedding anniversary with a trip to Hawaii, and marked sixty-two years of marriage this past December. Rose Marie and Joe were blessed with a summer home at Long Beach Island, NJ, where she loved to spend the summers with all of their grandchildren. Rose Marie took them to the pool at the Haven Beach Yacht Club and they made many good memories at the shore. Her family will cherish those memories for many years to come.
Rose Marie also loved reading mystery novels by James Patterson as much as a good harlequin romance. She did the crossword puzzles often. She was an exceptional baker who made cookies, pies, pumpkin bread, and many other treats, usually giving many of them away as gifts to her friends and family. Rose Marie was blessed with a green thumb and loved gardening, taking care of her plants, flowers, and landscaping.
Rose Marie is survived by her beloved husband Joseph of Wayne, her daughter, Rosemarie Mastroieni and her husband Mark of Wayne, five grandchildren; Kathleen Horvath and her husband Scott of Windsor, Colorado, Amy Woods and her husband Michael of Kinnelon, Erin Dubow and her husband Justin of Wayne, Dr. Rebecca Mastroieni of Glen Rock, and Mark Mastroieni of Wayne, and five great-grandchildren; Leah Horvath, Ian Horvath, Olivia Dubow, Ryan Dubow, and Alexandra Woods.
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Friends may visit with the family at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne, from 4-8 PM on Tuesday, March 17, 2020.
Funeral Services will be held at 9 AM on Wednesday, March 18, 2020 from the funeral home, then to Our Lady of the Valley RC Church, Wayne, where at 10 AM a Funeral Mass will be offered.
Burial will follow at the Calvary Cemetery.
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