Obituary of Armand Della Pesca

Della Pesca, Armand, age of 93, died Sunday, June 17, 2012. Born in Paterson, he lived in Wyckoff and Fair Lawn. Armand was in the U.S. Army and fought at Normandy Beach and the Battle of the Bulge. He was self-employed owning Broadway Seafood in Paterson for 47 years. He was a member of the Cosmos Club of Fair Lawn, the VFW of Fair Lawn and a lifelong Yankees Fan. He is survived by his children Lillian Keelan, John Della Pesca and wife Cathy, Lucille Dwyer and husband John, and Arlene Dugan and husband Craig, his 11 grandchildren, and 13 great-grandchildren. He is also survived by his sister Esther Krautheim and his brothers Richard, William and Albert. Armand was predeceased by his wife of 52 years, Lucille in 1993. Visiting will be Tuesday 2 - 4 & 7 - 9 at the Vander Plaat Funeral Home, www.vpfh.com, 257 Godwin Ave., Wyckoff, NJ 07481. Funeral Mass will be Wednesday, 10:00 am at St. Elizabeth's RC Church, 700 Wyckoff Ave., Wyckoff, NJ 07481. Interment will follow at the Laurel Grove Memorial Park Cemetery in Totowa. In lieu of flowers donations can be made to The Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital Clinical Neurosciences Center for the research of progressive supranuclear palsy at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital. One Robert Wood Johnson Place, New Brunswick, NJ, 08903