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October 13, 2011
Services
Friends may visit with the family on Sunday, October 16, 2011 from 2-6 PM at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
Funeral services will be held on Monday, October 17, 2011 1:30 PM from the funeral home then to Our Lady of the Valley RC Church, 630 Valley Rd., Wayne where at 2:30PM a Funeral Mass will be offered. (please note the Mass time has changed from what was posted in the newspaper. This is the correct Mass time)
Vincent “Jimmy” Madonia age 82 of Wayne died suddenly on Thursday October 13, 2011 having the comfort of his wife Mildred by his side.
He was born and raised in Passaic having moved to Wayne in 1963.
Jimmy’s very first job was helping his dad on his milk route. He would run the bottles to the door and bring back the empty bottles. He later took a job as a yarn boy delivering yarn to worker at a textile mill in Passaic. In 1951 he graduated from the US Army Marine Diesel Engine Mechanic Course at Fort Eustis, VA. This training gave him the tools for a career as a Diesel Mechanic. After his discharge from the Army he took a job at Carlton Hill Trucking, East Rutherford where he worked for twelve years. He then took a job with Eastern Freightways, Carlstadt where he worked for ten years. In 1976 he got a job with Ward Trucking in Little Falls before retiring in 1988.
Jimmy was a US Army Veteran of the Korean War. He received the Distinguished Service Medal and the Korean Service Medal. He would talk of his service in the Pacific and how he only got seasick twice…once was during a Typhoon. After his service he received the State of NJ Distinguished Service Award from then Gov. Donald DiFrancesco and the NJ Korean War Commemorative Medal.
He was a member of the Our Lady of the Valley RC Church, Wayne, the Wayne Elks Lodge (elected Elk of the Year 1985/1986), American Legion, Wayne, and the Golden Age Circle of Wayne.
Jimmy met his wife Mildred (Ferraro) at a dance in Passaic on October 29, 1949. Their first date was to a Halloween Dance also in Passaic. They fell in love and married on January 7, 1951 at Sacred Heart RC Church, Lyndhurst - during a terrible ice storm. They honeymooned at the Split Rock Lodge in the Poconos. They were married just two months before Jimmy entered the US Army. Mildred lived with her parents in Lyndhurst for a while and when Jimmy finished Boot Camp, she moved to Virginia to live with him before he was deployed to the Philippines. She again lived with her parents until Jimmy was discharged on March 3, 1953. At this time they moved into Jimmy’s parents two family home in Passaic before moving to Wayne in 1963.
He is best described by his family as being in constant motion, always a project or endeavor of some kind. Even at age 81 they found him taking down a 30 foot tree, by himself, in the backyard. He enjoyed salt water fishing and cherished the days he spent on the water with his grandson by his side. He enjoyed cooking and could be found in the kitchen at the Wayne Elks cooking away. He even cooked for his son Jim and daughter-in-law Wendy’s wedding. Again he could never sit still and started his own office cleaning business called VJM Cleaning which he ran for several years.
He was the loving husband of sixty years to Mildred (Ferraro) Madonia; loving father of Janice Flaherty and her husband Tom of Aberdeen, and Jim Madonia and his wife Wendy of Little Falls; cherished grandfather of Matthew, Samantha, Alex and Nick Madonia; one sister Mary LaMarco of Passaic.
In lieu of flowers memorial donations to the Wayne First Aid Squad, PO Box 291, Wayne, NJ 07474 would be appreciated.
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Friends may visit with the family on Sunday, October 16, 2011 from 2-6 PM at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
Funeral services will be held on Monday, October 17, 2011 1:30 PM from the funeral home then to Our Lady of the Valley RC Church, 630 Valley Rd., Wayne where at 2:30PM a Funeral Mass will be offered. (please note the Mass time has changed from what was posted in the newspaper. This is the correct Mass time)
October 13, 2011
Services
Friends may visit with the family on Sunday, October 16, 2011 from 2-6 PM at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
Funeral services will be held on Monday, October 17, 2011 1:30 PM from the funeral home then to Our Lady of the Valley RC Church, 630 Valley Rd., Wayne where at 2:30PM a Funeral Mass will be offered. (please note the Mass time has changed from what was posted in the newspaper. This is the correct Mass time)
Vincent “Jimmy” Madonia age 82 of Wayne died suddenly on Thursday October 13, 2011 having the comfort of his wife Mildred by his side.
He was born and raised in Passaic having moved to Wayne in 1963.
Jimmy’s very first job was helping his dad on his milk route. He would run the bottles to the door and bring back the empty bottles. He later took a job as a yarn boy delivering yarn to worker at a textile mill in Passaic. In 1951 he graduated from the US Army Marine Diesel Engine Mechanic Course at Fort Eustis, VA. This training gave him the tools for a career as a Diesel Mechanic. After his discharge from the Army he took a job at Carlton Hill Trucking, East Rutherford where he worked for twelve years. He then took a job with Eastern Freightways, Carlstadt where he worked for ten years. In 1976 he got a job with Ward Trucking in Little Falls before retiring in 1988.
Jimmy was a US Army Veteran of the Korean War. He received the Distinguished Service Medal and the Korean Service Medal. He would talk of his service in the Pacific and how he only got seasick twice…once was during a Typhoon. After his service he received the State of NJ Distinguished Service Award from then Gov. Donald DiFrancesco and the NJ Korean War Commemorative Medal.
He was a member of the Our Lady of the Valley RC Church, Wayne, the Wayne Elks Lodge (elected Elk of the Year 1985/1986), American Legion, Wayne, and the Golden Age Circle of Wayne.
Jimmy met his wife Mildred (Ferraro) at a dance in Passaic on October 29, 1949. Their first date was to a Halloween Dance also in Passaic. They fell in love and married on January 7, 1951 at Sacred Heart RC Church, Lyndhurst - during a terrible ice storm. They honeymooned at the Split Rock Lodge in the Poconos. They were married just two months before Jimmy entered the US Army. Mildred lived with her parents in Lyndhurst for a while and when Jimmy finished Boot Camp, she moved to Virginia to live with him before he was deployed to the Philippines. She again lived with her parents until Jimmy was discharged on March 3, 1953. At this time they moved into Jimmy’s parents two family home in Passaic before moving to Wayne in 1963.
He is best described by his family as being in constant motion, always a project or endeavor of some kind. Even at age 81 they found him taking down a 30 foot tree, by himself, in the backyard. He enjoyed salt water fishing and cherished the days he spent on the water with his grandson by his side. He enjoyed cooking and could be found in the kitchen at the Wayne Elks cooking away. He even cooked for his son Jim and daughter-in-law Wendy’s wedding. Again he could never sit still and started his own office cleaning business called VJM Cleaning which he ran for several years.
He was the loving husband of sixty years to Mildred (Ferraro) Madonia; loving father of Janice Flaherty and her husband Tom of Aberdeen, and Jim Madonia and his wife Wendy of Little Falls; cherished grandfather of Matthew, Samantha, Alex and Nick Madonia; one sister Mary LaMarco of Passaic.
In lieu of flowers memorial donations to the Wayne First Aid Squad, PO Box 291, Wayne, NJ 07474 would be appreciated.
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