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February 2, 2018
Services
Friends may visit with the family at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne, on Wednesday, February 7, 2018 from 4-8 PM.
Funeral Services will be held at 9 AM on Thursday, February 8, 2018 from the funeral home, then to Our Lady of Consolation RC Church, Wayne, where at 10 AM a Funeral Mass will be offered. Burial will follow at Christ the King Cemetery in Franklin Lakes.
Tina Continanza (nee Tribastone), age 91 of Franklin Lakes, died on Friday, February 2, 2018. She had previously lived in Fairview and Wayne.
Tina Tribastone was born on May 6, 1926 in West New York, NJ. Her parents were immigrants from Ragusa, Sicily who came here with her two older siblings, and she and her brother were first-generation American born. She graduated from Memorial High School in West New York.
Tina married her childhood sweetheart, Ernest Continanza, on February 1, 1948 and she remained a devoted wife for 61 years. She was a warm and caring mother to three children, Linda, Allen and Laura. Tina and Ernest lived in Fairview for many years before moving to Wayne in 1993.
Family was most important to Tina and some of her happiest times were when the grandchildren came. She was a participating and loving grandmother to four grandchildren, Christopher, Nicholas, Jessica and Paul. Just six months ago, she was blessed with her first great-grandchild, Everly Grace Abrams.
Tina and Ernest also enjoyed a condo in Seminole, Florida for more than thirty years where they enjoyed visits from their children and grandchildren and made many good friends. They played shuffle-board, golfed and enjoyed many happy hours!
Tina was selfless. She was quiet, kind and introspective. She was much happier listening rather than talking. She was insightful. She was funnier than she knew. She was smarter than she knew. She was stronger than she knew.
Tina had a passion for cooking! She showed her love through food and how she managed to produce those banquet sized portions out of her little kitchen in Fairview was a miracle. She loved to play Scrabble and she wouldn’t hesitate to challenge your words and spelling right up to a couple of weeks before she passed.
Tina is survived by her three children; Linda Zic and her husband Ron of Scottsdale, AZ; Allen Continanza and his wife Doreen of Barnegat, NJ; and Laura Moser and her husband Paul of Oakland, New Jersey; four grandchildren; Christopher Continanza of San Francisco, CA; Nicholas Continanza of Helmetta, NJ; Jessica Abrams and her husband Samuel of Wyckoff, NJ; Paul Moser of Fair Lawn, NJ; as well as her great-granddaughter Everly Grace Abrams. She was predeceased by her beloved Ernest in 2009 and each of her three siblings; Samuel, Sylvia and John.
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Friends may visit with the family at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne, on Wednesday, February 7, 2018 from 4-8 PM.
Funeral Services will be held at 9 AM on Thursday, February 8, 2018 from the funeral home, then to Our Lady of Consolation RC Church, Wayne, where at 10 AM a Funeral Mass will be offered. Burial will follow at Christ the King Cemetery in Franklin Lakes.
February 2, 2018
Services
Friends may visit with the family at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne, on Wednesday, February 7, 2018 from 4-8 PM.
Funeral Services will be held at 9 AM on Thursday, February 8, 2018 from the funeral home, then to Our Lady of Consolation RC Church, Wayne, where at 10 AM a Funeral Mass will be offered. Burial will follow at Christ the King Cemetery in Franklin Lakes.
Tina Continanza (nee Tribastone), age 91 of Franklin Lakes, died on Friday, February 2, 2018. She had previously lived in Fairview and Wayne.
Tina Tribastone was born on May 6, 1926 in West New York, NJ. Her parents were immigrants from Ragusa, Sicily who came here with her two older siblings, and she and her brother were first-generation American born. She graduated from Memorial High School in West New York.
Tina married her childhood sweetheart, Ernest Continanza, on February 1, 1948 and she remained a devoted wife for 61 years. She was a warm and caring mother to three children, Linda, Allen and Laura. Tina and Ernest lived in Fairview for many years before moving to Wayne in 1993.
Family was most important to Tina and some of her happiest times were when the grandchildren came. She was a participating and loving grandmother to four grandchildren, Christopher, Nicholas, Jessica and Paul. Just six months ago, she was blessed with her first great-grandchild, Everly Grace Abrams.
Tina and Ernest also enjoyed a condo in Seminole, Florida for more than thirty years where they enjoyed visits from their children and grandchildren and made many good friends. They played shuffle-board, golfed and enjoyed many happy hours!
Tina was selfless. She was quiet, kind and introspective. She was much happier listening rather than talking. She was insightful. She was funnier than she knew. She was smarter than she knew. She was stronger than she knew.
Tina had a passion for cooking! She showed her love through food and how she managed to produce those banquet sized portions out of her little kitchen in Fairview was a miracle. She loved to play Scrabble and she wouldn’t hesitate to challenge your words and spelling right up to a couple of weeks before she passed.
Tina is survived by her three children; Linda Zic and her husband Ron of Scottsdale, AZ; Allen Continanza and his wife Doreen of Barnegat, NJ; and Laura Moser and her husband Paul of Oakland, New Jersey; four grandchildren; Christopher Continanza of San Francisco, CA; Nicholas Continanza of Helmetta, NJ; Jessica Abrams and her husband Samuel of Wyckoff, NJ; Paul Moser of Fair Lawn, NJ; as well as her great-granddaughter Everly Grace Abrams. She was predeceased by her beloved Ernest in 2009 and each of her three siblings; Samuel, Sylvia and John.
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