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Friends may visit with the family from 4-8 PM on Monday, March 2, 2015 at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
Funeral services will be held 8:45 AM on Tuesday, March 3, 2015 from the funeral home then to Our Lady of Consolation RC Church, 1799 Hamburg Tpk., Wayne where a 10 AM Funeral Mass will be offered.
Interment will be in Holy Sepulchre Cemetery, Totowa.
Santa Lombardo age 83, a forty-seven year resident of Wayne, passed peacefully at home on Friday, February 27, 2015.
She was born and raised in Solarino, Sicily, Italy. It was here where she met, fell in love with, and married Giuseppe Lombardo on April 22, 1948. Santa was just sixteen years old and Giuseppe was twenty-four. She was a naturalized citizen of the United States as her father was a US Citizen. After having three children in Italy she told her husband she was moving to America. Giuseppe agreed to come to America, but only wanted to live here until he made $2,000.00. After that he was going back home.Santa boarded a ship from Italy and did one of the most difficult things a mom could do; she left her family behind and after a ten day trip across the ocean settled into Paterson, New Jersey. It was here that her host family helped her find a job sewing in the Paterson textile mills. It took Santa nine months but she got all the paperwork approved to bring her husband and three children to America. With the money she made working she rented an apartment and soon bought their first home in Paterson, with Giuseppe’s brother Carmelo, they called Paterson home until moving to Wayne in 1967. Many will remember the family garage farm-stand where Giuseppe and Santa sold all kinds of vegetables and Zinnias, Marigolds, and snap dragon bouquets of flowers for many years.
Santa was an accomplished seamstress having made dresses, her daughter Maria’s wedding dress, coats, pants, skirts, shirts. She did detail beading on dresses, made table cloths, curtains,enjoyed knitting, and crocheting, and made all kinds of items for her family. Her prowess in the kitchen was incredible. She made her own pasta, canned her own tomato sauce, preserved all types of vegetables, and every week she baked bread. Her children can’t remember ever buying store bought bread until very recently when health issues simply prohibited her from doing these things. Her special touch on pizza and scaittiata with Swiss chard, spinach, potatoes, and sun dried tomatoes will be greatly missed. She accomplished all these things having never driven a car.
She will be remembered as being a dedicated mother who was always worried about her kids, took care of everyone, and always considered the needs of others before her own. This motherly love and dedication seamlessly transitioned to her grandchildren and great-grandchildren whom she adored. Family gatherings with innumerable Italian specialties at Christmas, Easter, Thanksgiving, and New Years Eve were long established traditions at her home. Another tradition involved trips to Italy where they would bring home Italian olive oil, cheese, and sun dried tomatoes.
Santa was the loving wife of sixty-seven years to Giuseppe Lombardo; devoted mother of Salvatore Lombardo and his wife Donna of Butler, Josephine Vittorioso and her husband Gennaro of Wayne, Carmen Lombardo and his wife Sharon of Wayne, Maria Gilberti and her late husband Steve(May/2014), and Paula Ciaravino and her husband Steven of Wayne; cherished grandmother of Donia and her fiancé Rich, Anthony, Lucy and her husband Vinnie, Emanuele and his wife Rosanna, Santina and her husband Bill, Jarrod and his fiancé Ayla, Adam and his wife Ann, Danielle, Michael, Christian, Sophia, Sabrina, and Steven; much loved great-grandmother of fourteen great-grandchildren; dear sister of Paolo Lombardo and his wife Carmela, and Salvatore Lombardo both of Italy.
In lieu of flowers, memorial donations to the American Heart Association, P.O. Box 417005, Boston, MA 02241-7005 would be greatly appreciated.
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Friends may visit with the family from 4-8 PM on Monday, March 2, 2015 at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
Funeral services will be held 8:45 AM on Tuesday, March 3, 2015 from the funeral home then to Our Lady of Consolation RC Church, 1799 Hamburg Tpk., Wayne where a 10 AM Funeral Mass will be offered.
Interment will be in Holy Sepulchre Cemetery, Totowa.
Services
Friends may visit with the family from 4-8 PM on Monday, March 2, 2015 at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
Funeral services will be held 8:45 AM on Tuesday, March 3, 2015 from the funeral home then to Our Lady of Consolation RC Church, 1799 Hamburg Tpk., Wayne where a 10 AM Funeral Mass will be offered.
Interment will be in Holy Sepulchre Cemetery, Totowa.
Santa Lombardo age 83, a forty-seven year resident of Wayne, passed peacefully at home on Friday, February 27, 2015.
She was born and raised in Solarino, Sicily, Italy. It was here where she met, fell in love with, and married Giuseppe Lombardo on April 22, 1948. Santa was just sixteen years old and Giuseppe was twenty-four. She was a naturalized citizen of the United States as her father was a US Citizen. After having three children in Italy she told her husband she was moving to America. Giuseppe agreed to come to America, but only wanted to live here until he made $2,000.00. After that he was going back home.Santa boarded a ship from Italy and did one of the most difficult things a mom could do; she left her family behind and after a ten day trip across the ocean settled into Paterson, New Jersey. It was here that her host family helped her find a job sewing in the Paterson textile mills. It took Santa nine months but she got all the paperwork approved to bring her husband and three children to America. With the money she made working she rented an apartment and soon bought their first home in Paterson, with Giuseppe’s brother Carmelo, they called Paterson home until moving to Wayne in 1967. Many will remember the family garage farm-stand where Giuseppe and Santa sold all kinds of vegetables and Zinnias, Marigolds, and snap dragon bouquets of flowers for many years.
Santa was an accomplished seamstress having made dresses, her daughter Maria’s wedding dress, coats, pants, skirts, shirts. She did detail beading on dresses, made table cloths, curtains,enjoyed knitting, and crocheting, and made all kinds of items for her family. Her prowess in the kitchen was incredible. She made her own pasta, canned her own tomato sauce, preserved all types of vegetables, and every week she baked bread. Her children can’t remember ever buying store bought bread until very recently when health issues simply prohibited her from doing these things. Her special touch on pizza and scaittiata with Swiss chard, spinach, potatoes, and sun dried tomatoes will be greatly missed. She accomplished all these things having never driven a car.
She will be remembered as being a dedicated mother who was always worried about her kids, took care of everyone, and always considered the needs of others before her own. This motherly love and dedication seamlessly transitioned to her grandchildren and great-grandchildren whom she adored. Family gatherings with innumerable Italian specialties at Christmas, Easter, Thanksgiving, and New Years Eve were long established traditions at her home. Another tradition involved trips to Italy where they would bring home Italian olive oil, cheese, and sun dried tomatoes.
Santa was the loving wife of sixty-seven years to Giuseppe Lombardo; devoted mother of Salvatore Lombardo and his wife Donna of Butler, Josephine Vittorioso and her husband Gennaro of Wayne, Carmen Lombardo and his wife Sharon of Wayne, Maria Gilberti and her late husband Steve(May/2014), and Paula Ciaravino and her husband Steven of Wayne; cherished grandmother of Donia and her fiancé Rich, Anthony, Lucy and her husband Vinnie, Emanuele and his wife Rosanna, Santina and her husband Bill, Jarrod and his fiancé Ayla, Adam and his wife Ann, Danielle, Michael, Christian, Sophia, Sabrina, and Steven; much loved great-grandmother of fourteen great-grandchildren; dear sister of Paolo Lombardo and his wife Carmela, and Salvatore Lombardo both of Italy.
In lieu of flowers, memorial donations to the American Heart Association, P.O. Box 417005, Boston, MA 02241-7005 would be greatly appreciated.
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