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May 8, 2011
Services
Friends may visit with the family at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne, on Tuesday, May 10, 2011 from 2-4 & 7-9 PM.
A funeral services will be held at 8:30 PM on Tuesday, during the evening visiting hours.
Valerie Battistuta, age 63 of Wayne, died peacefully on Sunday, May 8, 2011, with her family and friends gathered at her bedside.
Val was born in Jersey City and grew up in Hoboken and Weehawken, NJ. She graduated from Holy Rosary Academy with the class of 1965. She has lived in Wayne for the past fifteen years.
Val always enjoyed styling hair and applying makeup. She was naturally talented and very good at it. It was no surprise when she attended beautician school and began working as a hair dresser. She would fuss over her clients, who were really her friends, and she loved them all dearly. She worked at many salons throughout her career including “The Plaza” in Pompton Lakes, “John’s Beauty Salon” in North Bergen, and most recently at “Station 1” in Pompton Lakes. She retired six years ago, right after being diagnosed with cancer.
Val was very outgoing, loved to talk, and was one of those people who would always be there for you when you needed, no matter what. She was a genuinely kind person who always put the needs of others before her own. Her personality was so magnetic that she had a ‘gazillion’ friends. Dearest to her heart was her beloved Sal. She and Sal met over twenty five years ago when she was hired to give permanents in Sal’s barber shop. They hit it off and the two of them have enjoyed a loving, devoted and fun relationship ever since. She loved to cook for Sal and would make dinner every single night, without fail. And she was a great cook too; she cooked everything well.
Around the Holiday’s, she would cook what seemed like a few thousand cookies and give them away to everyone she knew, simply because she loved to. She was also a great gardener, tending to her flowers all the time, and she loved dogs. She was the kind of person that would see someone walking a dog, even a dog she didn’t know, and she’d pick it up and kiss it. She was that full of love, and she had to share it.
Val is survived by her loving companion of more than twenty five years; Sal Galasso of Wayne, her father; Dominick Canzano of Cliffside Park, and her sister; Michele Medves of Hackensack. She was predeceased by her mother, Frances Canzano in 2003.
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Friends may visit with the family at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne, on Tuesday, May 10, 2011 from 2-4 & 7-9 PM.
A funeral services will be held at 8:30 PM on Tuesday, during the evening visiting hours.
May 8, 2011
Services
Friends may visit with the family at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne, on Tuesday, May 10, 2011 from 2-4 & 7-9 PM.
A funeral services will be held at 8:30 PM on Tuesday, during the evening visiting hours.
Valerie Battistuta, age 63 of Wayne, died peacefully on Sunday, May 8, 2011, with her family and friends gathered at her bedside.
Val was born in Jersey City and grew up in Hoboken and Weehawken, NJ. She graduated from Holy Rosary Academy with the class of 1965. She has lived in Wayne for the past fifteen years.
Val always enjoyed styling hair and applying makeup. She was naturally talented and very good at it. It was no surprise when she attended beautician school and began working as a hair dresser. She would fuss over her clients, who were really her friends, and she loved them all dearly. She worked at many salons throughout her career including “The Plaza” in Pompton Lakes, “John’s Beauty Salon” in North Bergen, and most recently at “Station 1” in Pompton Lakes. She retired six years ago, right after being diagnosed with cancer.
Val was very outgoing, loved to talk, and was one of those people who would always be there for you when you needed, no matter what. She was a genuinely kind person who always put the needs of others before her own. Her personality was so magnetic that she had a ‘gazillion’ friends. Dearest to her heart was her beloved Sal. She and Sal met over twenty five years ago when she was hired to give permanents in Sal’s barber shop. They hit it off and the two of them have enjoyed a loving, devoted and fun relationship ever since. She loved to cook for Sal and would make dinner every single night, without fail. And she was a great cook too; she cooked everything well.
Around the Holiday’s, she would cook what seemed like a few thousand cookies and give them away to everyone she knew, simply because she loved to. She was also a great gardener, tending to her flowers all the time, and she loved dogs. She was the kind of person that would see someone walking a dog, even a dog she didn’t know, and she’d pick it up and kiss it. She was that full of love, and she had to share it.
Val is survived by her loving companion of more than twenty five years; Sal Galasso of Wayne, her father; Dominick Canzano of Cliffside Park, and her sister; Michele Medves of Hackensack. She was predeceased by her mother, Frances Canzano in 2003.
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