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August 2, 2014
Services
Friends may visit with the family from 2-4 and 7-9 PM on Wednesday, August 6, 2014 at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
Funeral services will be held on Thursday, August 7, 2014, at 9 AM at the funeral home then to Our Lady of the Valley RC Church, 630 Valley Road, Wayne where a 10 AM Funeral Mass will be offered.
Interment will be in Saint Nicholas Cemetery, Lodi.
Silvia Luciano (Meglio) age 96 of Wayne passed peacefully on Saturday, August 2, 2014.
She was born in Hackensack and raised in Lyndhurst having left Lyndhurst in 1941 when she married John M. Luciano. Silvia and John met at a dance and soon fell in love. They married on February 9, 1941 at Sacred Heart RC Church in Lyndhurst and honeymooned at Niagara Falls, New York. Once married they moved into the upper level of John’s parents two family home at 329 Passaic Street in Lodi. In 1953 they saved enough money to buy land in Wayne where they built the home Silvia lived in until her passing.
Silvia was a terrific cook and baker, especially in regards to traditional Italian foods. She was even the baker for the Wayne Schools during the 1960’s. Her apple pie was so good that her granddaughter asked for an apple pie instead of a birthday cake for her tenth birthday. The love Sylvia cooked into her food, especially her lasagna and homemade pasta sauce, will be greatly missed.
She was a founding parishioner of Our Lady of the Valley RC Church in Wayne. Sylvia was formerly a member of the Wayne Garden Club, and the Wayne Women’s Club.
Throughout her life she was blessed with good health and a positive attitude. She hadn’t taken any pills or medications until just last year. Sylvia was easy going, a loved everyone-people person, who was happiest when entertaining family and friends with coffee, cakes, and even the occasional Pina Colada. She loved gadgets and was usually the first to own any newfangled device. She was proficient with her cell phone and even gave her daughter birthday money telling her to upgrade her phone with it.
She and her husband John enjoyed traveling and even drove across the United States, no cell phone, no global positioning, just maps and the occasional gas-station-man advice. One of their favorite destinations was Disneyworld in Florida. Sylvia loved her tuxedo cat name Hal, but most of all she was a loving, caring and devoted wife, mother, grandmother, and great-grandmother.
Sylvia was the loving wife of the late John M. Luciano (2002); devoted mother of Michael Luciano, and Donna Daly both of Wayne; cherished grandmother of Rhonda Long and her husband Lee, and John Daly and his wife Allyson; adored great-grandmother of Jonathan “Hutch” Long, Benjamin Long, Barrett Daly, and Brooke Daly; dear sister of the late Rose Colasurdo, Lucille Paterno, and Anthony Meglio; surviving in-laws include Nettie and John Gramo of Hasbrouck Heights, and Josephine Luciano of Wayne, and many loving nieces and nephews.
Memorial donations in Silvia’s name would be greatly appreciated. Please consider the Wayne Township Memorial First Aid Squad, PO Box 2004, Wayne, NJ 07474.
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Friends may visit with the family from 2-4 and 7-9 PM on Wednesday, August 6, 2014 at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
Funeral services will be held on Thursday, August 7, 2014, at 9 AM at the funeral home then to Our Lady of the Valley RC Church, 630 Valley Road, Wayne where a 10 AM Funeral Mass will be offered.
Interment will be in Saint Nicholas Cemetery, Lodi.
August 2, 2014
Services
Friends may visit with the family from 2-4 and 7-9 PM on Wednesday, August 6, 2014 at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
Funeral services will be held on Thursday, August 7, 2014, at 9 AM at the funeral home then to Our Lady of the Valley RC Church, 630 Valley Road, Wayne where a 10 AM Funeral Mass will be offered.
Interment will be in Saint Nicholas Cemetery, Lodi.
Silvia Luciano (Meglio) age 96 of Wayne passed peacefully on Saturday, August 2, 2014.
She was born in Hackensack and raised in Lyndhurst having left Lyndhurst in 1941 when she married John M. Luciano. Silvia and John met at a dance and soon fell in love. They married on February 9, 1941 at Sacred Heart RC Church in Lyndhurst and honeymooned at Niagara Falls, New York. Once married they moved into the upper level of John’s parents two family home at 329 Passaic Street in Lodi. In 1953 they saved enough money to buy land in Wayne where they built the home Silvia lived in until her passing.
Silvia was a terrific cook and baker, especially in regards to traditional Italian foods. She was even the baker for the Wayne Schools during the 1960’s. Her apple pie was so good that her granddaughter asked for an apple pie instead of a birthday cake for her tenth birthday. The love Sylvia cooked into her food, especially her lasagna and homemade pasta sauce, will be greatly missed.
She was a founding parishioner of Our Lady of the Valley RC Church in Wayne. Sylvia was formerly a member of the Wayne Garden Club, and the Wayne Women’s Club.
Throughout her life she was blessed with good health and a positive attitude. She hadn’t taken any pills or medications until just last year. Sylvia was easy going, a loved everyone-people person, who was happiest when entertaining family and friends with coffee, cakes, and even the occasional Pina Colada. She loved gadgets and was usually the first to own any newfangled device. She was proficient with her cell phone and even gave her daughter birthday money telling her to upgrade her phone with it.
She and her husband John enjoyed traveling and even drove across the United States, no cell phone, no global positioning, just maps and the occasional gas-station-man advice. One of their favorite destinations was Disneyworld in Florida. Sylvia loved her tuxedo cat name Hal, but most of all she was a loving, caring and devoted wife, mother, grandmother, and great-grandmother.
Sylvia was the loving wife of the late John M. Luciano (2002); devoted mother of Michael Luciano, and Donna Daly both of Wayne; cherished grandmother of Rhonda Long and her husband Lee, and John Daly and his wife Allyson; adored great-grandmother of Jonathan “Hutch” Long, Benjamin Long, Barrett Daly, and Brooke Daly; dear sister of the late Rose Colasurdo, Lucille Paterno, and Anthony Meglio; surviving in-laws include Nettie and John Gramo of Hasbrouck Heights, and Josephine Luciano of Wayne, and many loving nieces and nephews.
Memorial donations in Silvia’s name would be greatly appreciated. Please consider the Wayne Township Memorial First Aid Squad, PO Box 2004, Wayne, NJ 07474.
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