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February 3, 2023
Services
Friends may visit with the family from 4-8 PM on Thursday, February 9, 2023 at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
A 10 AM Funeral Mass will be offered on Friday, February 10, 2023 at the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary Church, 45 Urban Club Road, Wayne.
Interment will be in Maryrest Cemetery, Mahwah.
Rosemarie Kauer, age 88, of Wayne, passed Friday, February 3, 2023.
She was born to Rocco and Rose Gisonno in the family home in Sloatsburg, New York. She was raised in Sloatsburg and graduated from Suffern High School.
Rosemarie worked at the Avon Cosmetics Company in Rye, New York, in the manufacturing department. She worked there until she married.
Rosemarie met the love of her life, Robert “Jim” Kauer when she went for a ride on his boat at Greenwood Lake. Their first official date was to the Mountain Lakes Tavern at Greenwood Lake. Jim proposed marriage in a 1956 two-tone Blue and White Cadillac, and they were married at St Joan of Arc Church on August 19, 1961. They honeymooned in Quebec, Canada. They built a home in Wayne, New Jersey and that is where they would raise their family.
Rosemarie will be lovingly remembered for her generous, kind, and huge heart. When it came to her family, there was nothing more important to her. She loved being a mother and spoiling her grandchildren and grand pups. She enjoyed playing poker with family and friends, painting ceramics, reading romance novels and mysteries, and doing jigsaw puzzles with her grandchildren.
Rosemarie was dedicated to her Catholic Faith and she and Jim were founding parishioners of Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary Church in Wayne.
Rosemarie was the loving wife of Robert “Jim” Kauer; devoted mother of MaryAnn Fallon of Bloomingdale, Lisa Cullen of Plymouth, MA, and Karen Kauer-Kiraly and her husband Jeff of Haledon; she was the cherished grandmother of Carolyn Cullen, Erin Cullen, Amanda Fallon, Nicholas Kiraly, and Joseph Kiraly; she was also the loved sister of Mary Louise Gisonno of Sloatsburg, NY and was predeceased by her other three siblings James Gisonno, Carmen Gisonno, and Raffaela Menzie. She will also be dearly missed by her grand pups Milo, Chloe, and Maverick.
In lieu of flowers memorial donations to the Wayne Memorial First Aid Squad https://www.waynefirstaid.com/donate.php would be greatly appreciated.
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Friends may visit with the family from 4-8 PM on Thursday, February 9, 2023 at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
A 10 AM Funeral Mass will be offered on Friday, February 10, 2023 at the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary Church, 45 Urban Club Road, Wayne.
Interment will be in Maryrest Cemetery, Mahwah.
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