Obituary of Salvatore Venti

VENTI Salvatore, age 90, died Sunday, September 18, 2011. Born in Brooklyn, NY, he lived in Wyckoff for 43 years before moving to Palm Coast, FL in 2010. Salvatore studied art at the Commercial Illustration Studio Art School and Pratt Institute and then embarked on a forty-year career in advertising. Starting as an Art Director at Parents Magazine, he then owned his own graphic design studio for twelve years, followed by twenty-six years working for top New York advertising agencies. Sal retired in 1987. After his retirement, he was able to spend more time on his golf game, and continued his interest in fine art, working in collage, acrylics, gouache and mixed media, and exhibited at the National Arts Club and several other galleries. Sal was a bombardier and radio operator during World War II in the U.S. Army Air Force, having attained the rank of Second Lieutenant. Sal is survived by his wife Anita (Tammy); his four children: Linda Camille Venti and her husband John Keller of Lexington, MA, Steven and his wife Nancy of Hanover, NH, Michael and his wife Mickey of Liverpool, NY and Lisa Overholts and her husband Bob of Zionsville, PA; his nine grandchildren: Julia, Brian, Amelia, Nicholas, Leah, Michael, Lauren, Benjamin, and Anna; two sisters: Anna Parinello of Leesburg, FL and Lucy Cottone of Pittsburgh, PA; and his brother Frank Ventimiglia of Oxnard, CA. He was predeceased by his first wife Eleanor Camille in 1994. Visiting, Saturday, 9-11 AM immediately followed by a Funeral Service at the Vander Plaat Funeral Home (vpfh.com), 257 Godwin Ave., Wyckoff. Interment, Christ the King Cemetery, Franklin Lakes. In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions to the James A. McFaul Environmental Center, 150 Crescent Ave., Wyckoff, NJ 07481, would be appreciated. Please make checks payable to "County of Bergen" and include "Environmental Center Trust Fund" in the memo line.