Irene Maiorano

Ms. Irene Maiorano passed away on December 1, 2018, several days before her 98th birthday (December 23) in Cedar Grove.

A Funeral Mass will be offered in Our Lady of the Lake Church, Verona on Saturday, December 15 at 10:30 am. Interment will follow in Holy Cross Cemetery, North Arlington on Monday.

She was born and raised in Bayonne and spent her retirement years at Holiday City in Toms River.

Ms. Maiorano graduated high school in Bayonne and went to work at Western Electric Kearny Works, the manufacturing arm of AT&T in Kearny. She retired in 1975, after working as an Assembler and Inspector for 38 years.

Irene loved reading novels, solving word and picture puzzles, all types of crafts, especially crocheting and knitting and traveling, with trips to Atlantic City and Las Vegas, being her favorites. She was very active in and a Past President of the Senior Singles Club at Holiday City.

Ms. Maiorano never married and outlived her siblings and friends. She was predeceased by her parents, Angelo and Rosina (nee Carfagno) Maiorano; her siblings, Angelina Maiorano Rusnak (and her husband, John), Joseph Maiorano, John Maiorano (and his wife, Mary) and Adeline Maiorano Dimeck (and her husband, Frank); and her niece, Camille Dimeck Cortellessa (and her husband, Anthony).

She is survived by her nieces and nephews, Charles Dimeck (and his wife, Maureen), Paul Dimeck (and his wife, Di Anna), Jeanette Rusnak Lackey (and her husband, Robert), Alana Maiorano Davis (and her husband, William), John (Buz) Maiorano, Jr. as well as many other grandnieces and grandnephews and great-grandnieces and great-grandnephews.