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May 6, 2011
Services
Friends may visit with the family at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne, on Sunday, May 8, 2011 from 2-4 & 7-9 PM.
Funeral Services will be held at 8:30 AM on Monday from the funeral home, then to Annunciation RC Church, Wayne where at 9:30 AM a Funeral Mass will be offered. Burial will follow at the Gate of Heaven Cemetery in East Hanover, NJ.
Rose Pastore, age 83 of Pompton Plains, died peacefully on Friday, May 6, 2011 at the Cedar Crest Village.
Rose was born in Orange, NJ, one of seven children. She graduated from Orange High School and enjoyed a career as an insurance adjuster with Allstate before retiring in 1988. She had a great sense of humor and in a recent conversation, while discussing her lengthy career, she said “Susan B. Anthony didn’t do me any favors”, and of course, it made her whole family laugh. Aunt Rose was a devoted Catholic with strong faith and prayed to the Blessed Mother often. It’s no wonder she always had such a positive outlook and happy disposition, although she did have a way of letting you know when she wasn’t happy with you.
Throughout her years she was fortunate to travel quite a bit, often with a small group of friends. Her favorite destinations always had a casino or two. Atlantic City and Las Vegas were among her favorites and she was an accomplished gambler, winning pretty big on a few occasions.
She was very happy living at Cedar Crest in Pompton Plains and over the years she made many good friends there. She was particularly pleased with the Cedar Crest staff who all treated her so kindly that she considered them as family and cared deeply for all of them. Rose was also blessed to have two of the most wonderful friends she could ask for; Lucy Farrell and Carmela Cirmino. Rose, Lucy, and Carmella were friends since elementary school and they remained very close throughout all the years. Lucy and Carmela visited her often at Cedar Crest and she was always so happy to see them.
Rose is survived by her brother Victor Pastore and his wife Dolores of Wayne, four nieces; Janice Hurlbutt and her husband Dr. Thomas of Allentown, PA, Elise Rossbach and her husband Richard of Wayne, Alane Lynch and her husband James of Allentown, PA, and Joyce Towey and her husband John of Pompton Plains, and nine great nieces and nephews who she loved and treated as though they were her own grandchildren. She was predeceased by her brothers; Anthony and Nicholas, two sisters; Palmiera, whom everyone called “Dolly”, and Jeanette, as well as her little baby brother Vito who died many years ago at around two years of age.
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Friends may visit with the family at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne, on Sunday, May 8, 2011 from 2-4 & 7-9 PM.
Funeral Services will be held at 8:30 AM on Monday from the funeral home, then to Annunciation RC Church, Wayne where at 9:30 AM a Funeral Mass will be offered. Burial will follow at the Gate of Heaven Cemetery in East Hanover, NJ.
May 6, 2011
Services
Friends may visit with the family at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne, on Sunday, May 8, 2011 from 2-4 & 7-9 PM.
Funeral Services will be held at 8:30 AM on Monday from the funeral home, then to Annunciation RC Church, Wayne where at 9:30 AM a Funeral Mass will be offered. Burial will follow at the Gate of Heaven Cemetery in East Hanover, NJ.
Rose Pastore, age 83 of Pompton Plains, died peacefully on Friday, May 6, 2011 at the Cedar Crest Village.
Rose was born in Orange, NJ, one of seven children. She graduated from Orange High School and enjoyed a career as an insurance adjuster with Allstate before retiring in 1988. She had a great sense of humor and in a recent conversation, while discussing her lengthy career, she said “Susan B. Anthony didn’t do me any favors”, and of course, it made her whole family laugh. Aunt Rose was a devoted Catholic with strong faith and prayed to the Blessed Mother often. It’s no wonder she always had such a positive outlook and happy disposition, although she did have a way of letting you know when she wasn’t happy with you.
Throughout her years she was fortunate to travel quite a bit, often with a small group of friends. Her favorite destinations always had a casino or two. Atlantic City and Las Vegas were among her favorites and she was an accomplished gambler, winning pretty big on a few occasions.
She was very happy living at Cedar Crest in Pompton Plains and over the years she made many good friends there. She was particularly pleased with the Cedar Crest staff who all treated her so kindly that she considered them as family and cared deeply for all of them. Rose was also blessed to have two of the most wonderful friends she could ask for; Lucy Farrell and Carmela Cirmino. Rose, Lucy, and Carmella were friends since elementary school and they remained very close throughout all the years. Lucy and Carmela visited her often at Cedar Crest and she was always so happy to see them.
Rose is survived by her brother Victor Pastore and his wife Dolores of Wayne, four nieces; Janice Hurlbutt and her husband Dr. Thomas of Allentown, PA, Elise Rossbach and her husband Richard of Wayne, Alane Lynch and her husband James of Allentown, PA, and Joyce Towey and her husband John of Pompton Plains, and nine great nieces and nephews who she loved and treated as though they were her own grandchildren. She was predeceased by her brothers; Anthony and Nicholas, two sisters; Palmiera, whom everyone called “Dolly”, and Jeanette, as well as her little baby brother Vito who died many years ago at around two years of age.
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