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June 26, 2018
Services
Friends may visit with the family from 4-8 PM on Friday, June 29, 2018 at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
Funeral services will be held 9:30 AM on Saturday, June 30, 2018 at Saint Gerard Majella Catholic Church, 501 W. Broadway, Paterson.(please meet directly at the church)
Entombment will be in Calvary Mausoleum, Paterson.
Sarah C. Antonucci of Cedar Crest Village in Pompton Plains, formerly of Wayne, passed peacefully at home on Tuesday, June 26, 2018.
Sarah was born in Paterson to her loving parents, the late Louis and Jennie Coiro and was proud of her upbringing in the Stoney Road section of Paterson. Because of the effects of the Great Depression, Sarah, like so many of her generation, needed to leave school to find a job. She found work at the Jersey Coat Factory, sewing heavy woolen coats for the Military.
At a friendly neighborhood dance, the young, beautiful Sarah would meet the young, handsome Thomas Antonucci and after a courtship of enjoying the pleasures of a simpler day, were married on September 7, 1941 just three months to the day before the attack on Pearl Harbor. The newly married couple moved into a quaint over-the-garage apartment in West Paterson, where their first son Thomas was born. Then, after a World War and a few minor moves in between, they moved to Wills Avenue in Wayne in 1948, Ratzer Road in 1953, and finally settled into what was to become, the family homestead on Sears Place in Wayne in 1964. Along the way, they “furnished” these new homes with not only new appliances but four new sons, Louis, John, Jeff and Ron. The past three homes were built by the skilled, prideful hands of her husband who was a carpenter by trade.
As Thomas built his houses and factories out of lumber, concrete and steel, by the sweat of his brow and the strength of his back, Sarah built those houses into ‘homes” with foundations of love and trusses of compassion and generosity with her golden heart and kind, benevolent smile.
While growing up, Jeff recalls how his mother Sarah never took the easy way out by tossing one of those out-of-the-box dryer sheets into the dryer to give her sheets that “fresh as a day in spring” aroma. Sarah’s sheets came to smell that way because she labored hard and hung those sheets out on the clothes line on an actual fresh day in spring. And if she wanted that ‘summer fresh smell” the same effort was applied in the summer. Autumn, autumn, etc., etc. Jeff says, crawling into bed on a warm summer night and wrapping those cool, crisp, aromatic sheets around you induced the most sound and peaceful sleep. That was Sarah’s goal and no matter how labor intensive or challenging, Sarah always accomplished her goal!
The same held true for the amazing meals Sarah would cook. Her preparations began early in the day, shopping at the various markets that sold only the finest of ingredients. “Nothing but the best for my family,” she would say. And the results of these efforts were amazing. Everything from her homemade tomato sauce cast over steaming, succulent homemade pasta, to her Roast Leg of Lamb, cooked to perfection with oven roasted potatoes and broccoli rabe, with an ample slice of fresh baked apple pie to top it all off, were beyond description delicious. Jeff says, his mom’s meals not only nourished her family’s bodies, they nurtured our very souls.
To some, all this would be work and a burden. To Sarah, it was all a labor of love and the unbounded giving of that love was what defined her. It was what made Sarah LIVE! And anyone and everyone who had the pleasure of knowing our glorious Sarah are all the beneficiaries. How fortunate we all are!
In September of 2008 Sarah moved to live at the Cedar Crest Village in Pompton Plains.
Sarah was the loving wife of 54 years to the late Thomas Antonucci (1995); devoted mother of Thomas and his late wife Rosa of Wayne, Louis and his wife Donna of Bonita Springs, FL, John and his wife Rina of Oro Valley, AZ, Jeffrey and his wife Kathleen of Wayne, and Ronald, his girlfriend Beth and his ex-wife Cathy of Hampstead, NC; Sarah was the cherished grandmother of Rosanne and her boyfriend Tony, Gina and her husband Christopher, and the late Paula Jean, Tara, Louis and his fiancé Tara, Albert and his wife Diane, Thomas and his wife Heather, and Anthony, Nicole and her husband Justin, John and his wife Jocelyn, Jeffrey, Jr., Ashley, Ronald, Sarah and Thomas; she was the dearly loved great-grandmother of Justin, Olivia, Christopher, Victoria, Michael, Louis, Luca, Florencia, Vincent, Matthew, Alayna, Giuliana, Sabrina, Simone, Violette, Madison, and Talon; Sarah was the dear sister of the late Catherine, Jennie and Grace.
Our Dear Beloved Sarah,
From your entire family, and all who knew you, we say, thank you for all the love you so generously gave us over all these many years. And we make you a promise that for eternity, we will love you back! We thank you God Almighty for the perfect creation that is Your daughter Sarah, and for giving that perfect creation of Your love as a very special gift to us.
In lieu of flowers memorial donations to the Alzheimers New Jersey, 425 Eagle Rock Ave., Suite 203, Roseland, NJ 07068 or St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, Memorial Processing, 501 St. Jude Place, Memphis, TN 38105-9959 would be appreciated.
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Friends may visit with the family from 4-8 PM on Friday, June 29, 2018 at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
Funeral services will be held 9:30 AM on Saturday, June 30, 2018 at Saint Gerard Majella Catholic Church, 501 W. Broadway, Paterson.(please meet directly at the church)
Entombment will be in Calvary Mausoleum, Paterson.
June 26, 2018
Services
Friends may visit with the family from 4-8 PM on Friday, June 29, 2018 at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
Funeral services will be held 9:30 AM on Saturday, June 30, 2018 at Saint Gerard Majella Catholic Church, 501 W. Broadway, Paterson.(please meet directly at the church)
Entombment will be in Calvary Mausoleum, Paterson.
Sarah C. Antonucci of Cedar Crest Village in Pompton Plains, formerly of Wayne, passed peacefully at home on Tuesday, June 26, 2018.
Sarah was born in Paterson to her loving parents, the late Louis and Jennie Coiro and was proud of her upbringing in the Stoney Road section of Paterson. Because of the effects of the Great Depression, Sarah, like so many of her generation, needed to leave school to find a job. She found work at the Jersey Coat Factory, sewing heavy woolen coats for the Military.
At a friendly neighborhood dance, the young, beautiful Sarah would meet the young, handsome Thomas Antonucci and after a courtship of enjoying the pleasures of a simpler day, were married on September 7, 1941 just three months to the day before the attack on Pearl Harbor. The newly married couple moved into a quaint over-the-garage apartment in West Paterson, where their first son Thomas was born. Then, after a World War and a few minor moves in between, they moved to Wills Avenue in Wayne in 1948, Ratzer Road in 1953, and finally settled into what was to become, the family homestead on Sears Place in Wayne in 1964. Along the way, they “furnished” these new homes with not only new appliances but four new sons, Louis, John, Jeff and Ron. The past three homes were built by the skilled, prideful hands of her husband who was a carpenter by trade.
As Thomas built his houses and factories out of lumber, concrete and steel, by the sweat of his brow and the strength of his back, Sarah built those houses into ‘homes” with foundations of love and trusses of compassion and generosity with her golden heart and kind, benevolent smile.
While growing up, Jeff recalls how his mother Sarah never took the easy way out by tossing one of those out-of-the-box dryer sheets into the dryer to give her sheets that “fresh as a day in spring” aroma. Sarah’s sheets came to smell that way because she labored hard and hung those sheets out on the clothes line on an actual fresh day in spring. And if she wanted that ‘summer fresh smell” the same effort was applied in the summer. Autumn, autumn, etc., etc. Jeff says, crawling into bed on a warm summer night and wrapping those cool, crisp, aromatic sheets around you induced the most sound and peaceful sleep. That was Sarah’s goal and no matter how labor intensive or challenging, Sarah always accomplished her goal!
The same held true for the amazing meals Sarah would cook. Her preparations began early in the day, shopping at the various markets that sold only the finest of ingredients. “Nothing but the best for my family,” she would say. And the results of these efforts were amazing. Everything from her homemade tomato sauce cast over steaming, succulent homemade pasta, to her Roast Leg of Lamb, cooked to perfection with oven roasted potatoes and broccoli rabe, with an ample slice of fresh baked apple pie to top it all off, were beyond description delicious. Jeff says, his mom’s meals not only nourished her family’s bodies, they nurtured our very souls.
To some, all this would be work and a burden. To Sarah, it was all a labor of love and the unbounded giving of that love was what defined her. It was what made Sarah LIVE! And anyone and everyone who had the pleasure of knowing our glorious Sarah are all the beneficiaries. How fortunate we all are!
In September of 2008 Sarah moved to live at the Cedar Crest Village in Pompton Plains.
Sarah was the loving wife of 54 years to the late Thomas Antonucci (1995); devoted mother of Thomas and his late wife Rosa of Wayne, Louis and his wife Donna of Bonita Springs, FL, John and his wife Rina of Oro Valley, AZ, Jeffrey and his wife Kathleen of Wayne, and Ronald, his girlfriend Beth and his ex-wife Cathy of Hampstead, NC; Sarah was the cherished grandmother of Rosanne and her boyfriend Tony, Gina and her husband Christopher, and the late Paula Jean, Tara, Louis and his fiancé Tara, Albert and his wife Diane, Thomas and his wife Heather, and Anthony, Nicole and her husband Justin, John and his wife Jocelyn, Jeffrey, Jr., Ashley, Ronald, Sarah and Thomas; she was the dearly loved great-grandmother of Justin, Olivia, Christopher, Victoria, Michael, Louis, Luca, Florencia, Vincent, Matthew, Alayna, Giuliana, Sabrina, Simone, Violette, Madison, and Talon; Sarah was the dear sister of the late Catherine, Jennie and Grace.
Our Dear Beloved Sarah,
From your entire family, and all who knew you, we say, thank you for all the love you so generously gave us over all these many years. And we make you a promise that for eternity, we will love you back! We thank you God Almighty for the perfect creation that is Your daughter Sarah, and for giving that perfect creation of Your love as a very special gift to us.
In lieu of flowers memorial donations to the Alzheimers New Jersey, 425 Eagle Rock Ave., Suite 203, Roseland, NJ 07068 or St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, Memorial Processing, 501 St. Jude Place, Memphis, TN 38105-9959 would be appreciated.
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