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December 17, 2011
Services
Friends may visit with the family at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne, on Tuesday, December 20, 2011 from 3:30-8 PM.
Funeral Services will be held at 9 AM on Wednesday, December 21, from the funeral home, then to St. Mary’s RC Church, Pompton Lakes, NJ, where at 10 AM a Funeral Mass will be offered.
Sandra Mattera, “Sandy”, age 26 of Wayne and New York City passed away on Saturday, December 17, 2011.
Sandy was born in Summit, NJ and moved to Wayne with her family when she was just five years old. She graduated from Wayne Hills High School with honors in 2003 where she had starred in theatre productions, was the marching band drum major and saxophone soloist in many musical ensembles, and participated in FBLA, varsity fencing and the Honor Society. She was an award winning vocalist who loved to sing, especially when her grandpa played guitar and with the St. Mary's youth choir in Pompton Lakes.
After graduating from Wayne Hills, she went on to the Stern School of Business at New York University where she majored in finance and Spanish. She graduated Cum Laude in 2007, making the Dean’s List each of her four years there. She made her family very proud and set the bar high for her four younger siblings.
After graduating from NYU, she worked for Banc of America Securities as an investment banking analyst before joining Canoe Ventures as manager of business planning and development earlier this year. She was a natural and gifted leader.
Since she was a little girl, she had a love for the theatre and took in plenty of Broadway shows over the past few years. RENT was by far her favorite (she saw it 8 or 9 times!) but she really enjoyed them all. Her new job had freed her up on the weekends to begin auditioning once again for various acting parts in New York, and that brought her a lot of happiness.
Sandy had also enjoyed some world travel, visiting many Spanish speaking countries including Argentina, Spain, and Majorca (her favorite!), just to name a few. She told her family a story of her time in Majorca when she had ordered fish at a restaurant. The waiter wanted to be sure she had the freshest fish possible and she waited for the fisherman to come back with his fresh catch before she could eat it. The meal was wonderful, of course, and she dreamed of going back soon.
She was a strong, independent woman. As the oldest of five children, she was the easy-going one that kept everyone together. Her brothers and sister recall how she was always there to protect them, in school, at home, or wherever they were, she would come to their defense. She was the matriarch of them all and she loved each of them very much. They, and many others, will surely miss her kindness, her love, and her support.
Sandy is survived by her loving mother; Catherine Romania of Wayne, her caring father; Nicholas Mattera of Wayne, one sister; Jessica Mattera, and three brothers; Nicholas, Joseph and Thomas Mattera, all of Wayne, her devoted grandparents; Eleanor and Nicholas Romania of Wayne, her uncles and aunts; Dr. Anthony Romania and his wife Linda Talerico of Stonington, CT, Marie Gunn and her husband Joseph of Jupiter, FL, and Candy Romania of West Milford, NJ, and her boyfriend of four years; Joseph Markisz. She is predeceased by her uncle Nicholas Romania.
Memorial donations in Sandy’s honor would be greatly appreciated. Please consider The Mr. Holland’s Opus Foundation, 4370 Tujunga Ave., Ste 330, Studio City, CA 91604 and the American Diabetes Association, P.O. Box 11454, Alexandria, VA 22312.
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Friends may visit with the family at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne, on Tuesday, December 20, 2011 from 3:30-8 PM.
Funeral Services will be held at 9 AM on Wednesday, December 21, from the funeral home, then to St. Mary’s RC Church, Pompton Lakes, NJ, where at 10 AM a Funeral Mass will be offered.
December 17, 2011
Services
Friends may visit with the family at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne, on Tuesday, December 20, 2011 from 3:30-8 PM.
Funeral Services will be held at 9 AM on Wednesday, December 21, from the funeral home, then to St. Mary’s RC Church, Pompton Lakes, NJ, where at 10 AM a Funeral Mass will be offered.
Sandra Mattera, “Sandy”, age 26 of Wayne and New York City passed away on Saturday, December 17, 2011.
Sandy was born in Summit, NJ and moved to Wayne with her family when she was just five years old. She graduated from Wayne Hills High School with honors in 2003 where she had starred in theatre productions, was the marching band drum major and saxophone soloist in many musical ensembles, and participated in FBLA, varsity fencing and the Honor Society. She was an award winning vocalist who loved to sing, especially when her grandpa played guitar and with the St. Mary's youth choir in Pompton Lakes.
After graduating from Wayne Hills, she went on to the Stern School of Business at New York University where she majored in finance and Spanish. She graduated Cum Laude in 2007, making the Dean’s List each of her four years there. She made her family very proud and set the bar high for her four younger siblings.
After graduating from NYU, she worked for Banc of America Securities as an investment banking analyst before joining Canoe Ventures as manager of business planning and development earlier this year. She was a natural and gifted leader.
Since she was a little girl, she had a love for the theatre and took in plenty of Broadway shows over the past few years. RENT was by far her favorite (she saw it 8 or 9 times!) but she really enjoyed them all. Her new job had freed her up on the weekends to begin auditioning once again for various acting parts in New York, and that brought her a lot of happiness.
Sandy had also enjoyed some world travel, visiting many Spanish speaking countries including Argentina, Spain, and Majorca (her favorite!), just to name a few. She told her family a story of her time in Majorca when she had ordered fish at a restaurant. The waiter wanted to be sure she had the freshest fish possible and she waited for the fisherman to come back with his fresh catch before she could eat it. The meal was wonderful, of course, and she dreamed of going back soon.
She was a strong, independent woman. As the oldest of five children, she was the easy-going one that kept everyone together. Her brothers and sister recall how she was always there to protect them, in school, at home, or wherever they were, she would come to their defense. She was the matriarch of them all and she loved each of them very much. They, and many others, will surely miss her kindness, her love, and her support.
Sandy is survived by her loving mother; Catherine Romania of Wayne, her caring father; Nicholas Mattera of Wayne, one sister; Jessica Mattera, and three brothers; Nicholas, Joseph and Thomas Mattera, all of Wayne, her devoted grandparents; Eleanor and Nicholas Romania of Wayne, her uncles and aunts; Dr. Anthony Romania and his wife Linda Talerico of Stonington, CT, Marie Gunn and her husband Joseph of Jupiter, FL, and Candy Romania of West Milford, NJ, and her boyfriend of four years; Joseph Markisz. She is predeceased by her uncle Nicholas Romania.
Memorial donations in Sandy’s honor would be greatly appreciated. Please consider The Mr. Holland’s Opus Foundation, 4370 Tujunga Ave., Ste 330, Studio City, CA 91604 and the American Diabetes Association, P.O. Box 11454, Alexandria, VA 22312.
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