Virginia Massood

Virginia M. Massood, age 87, of Franklin Lakes passed on Monday, November 8, 2021.

She was born to Anthony and Laura Palazzone and raised in Paterson.  She graduated from Central High School in Paterson, where she played on the basketball team, with the Class of 1951.  During her high school years she worked as a soda-jerk at the Sunray Drug Store at the intersection of Main and Market Street in Paterson. After she graduated high school she worked at the Prudential Insurance Company in Newark where she was Secretary to the Vice President.

As a young lady she met Joseph Massood while at a dance held at a ballroom on Main Street in Paterson. Joe remembers driving Virginia home in a 1942 Oldsmobile with a terribly loose front end. As a matter of fact Joe pulled off the license plates and abandoned that car when it broke down by the farmers market in Paterson. Joe and Virginia fell in love and married on May 24, 1959 at the Sacred Heart Church in Paterson.  They honeymooned in Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, and Venezuela before returning to Fort Lauderdale, Florida on a cruise ship.  They have had a loving and devoted marriage of sixty-two years that was blessed with four children.

Virginia was a dedicated and devoted Catholic having been raised at Our Lady of Pompeii Church in Paterson and after getting married she joined the parish of the Sacred Heart Church in Paterson.  Most recently she has been a parishioner, Eucharistic Minister, and member of the Rosary Society of the Church of the Most Blessed Sacrament in Franklin Lakes.

Virginia was a loving and devoted wife, mother, and grandmother. She will be remembered for her kind and caring way and always taking care of anyone and everyone. Virginia was always a sports enthusiast having played tennis for over thirty years with the Franklin Lakes Racquet Club.  She was also a long-standing member of the North Jersey Country Club in Wayne. When it came to professional sports teams she was an avid New York Yankee and New York Giants fan.

Virginia was the loving wife of Joseph Massood; devoted mother of Joseph A. Massood, Esq. of Wayne, Dr. Stephen M. Massood of Franklin Lakes, Debra S. Massood of Franklin Lakes, and the late Gregory P. Massood (d. 2016); she was the cherished grandmother of Alec and Kyle Massood; loved sister of Marie Palazzone and Diane Palazzone both of Paterson, and the late Peter Palazzone and Late Gloria Mulé.

In lieu of flowers memorial donations to: Mary Help of Christians, The Saint Josephs Hospital Foundation, or the Church of the Most Blessed Sacrament would be greatly appreciate