Obituary of Giovanna Buttacavoli

BUTTACAVOLI, Giovanna (nee Di Marco) age 93 of Franklin Lakes formerly of Garfield, died peacefully surrounded by her family on Sunday, June 5, 2016. Born in Sicily, Italy, Giovanna came to the United States settling with her family in Garfield. She was employed as a seamstress with the John Boiko Dress Company in Garfield for many years before her retirement in 1982. Giovanna was a parishioner of Most Blessed Sacrament Church in Franklin Lakes and a former parishioner of Our Lady of Sorrow Church in Garfield. Surviving are her devoted daughters, Rose and her husband Peter Corrado, Tina Pergola and Nina Cupo. She also leaves her seven grandchildren, James Corrado and his wife Mary Rose, Frank Corrado and his wife Kendra, Michele Corrado-Carbone and her husband Greg Carbone, Bobby Pergola, Cory Cupo, Eric Cort and Nina and her husband Shawn Reams, her eleven great grandchildren, and many nieces and nephews. Giovanna was pre-deceased by her husband Frank Buttacavoli in 2004, her son-in-law, James Pergola, Jr. in 1997, and her brother and four sisters. There will be a funeral mass on Tuesday, 11:00am at the Most Blessed Sacrament Church, 787 Franklin Lakes Road, Franklin Lakes. Entombment will follow at the Holy Sepulchre Mausoleum in Totowa. In lieu of flowers memorial contributions in Giovanna’s name may be made to the Juvenile Diabetes Research Fund, 26 Broadway, 14th Floor, New York, NY 10004. Arrangements by the Vander Plaat Funeral Home of Wyckoff (www.vpfh.com).