Adelaide Vitello (nee Balletti) Obituary (1937 - 2020)

Adelaide Vitello (nee Balletti), of West Caldwell, NJ, passed away in her home with family by her side on February 25, 2020, at the age of 82, after a courageous battle with cancer. Mrs. Vitello was born and raised in Aquilonia, Italy and sailed on The Olympia to the United States in April 1955, where she first lived in Newark and worked as a seamstress. Upon marrying her husband, they started their family in East Orange before settling in West Caldwell for the past 46 years. Adelaide will always be remembered and loved for her amazing Italian cooking, which she took passion in sharing with her family and friends. Quick to laugh and share her fresh baked cupcakes, she danced whenever she heard Italian music. She grew figs in her backyard, where she would often look out upon her children and grandchildren in the pool, and loved to draw the birds that she watched. She is the beloved wife of the late Felix "Phil" Vitello; loving mother of Thomas Vitello, Lisa Amoroso and her husband Robert, Adele Gulfo and her husband Joseph, Donna Maria Fano and her husband Michael, and Elaine Vitello and her husband John Burger; dear sister of Gerardo Balletti, Renato Balletti, Yolanda Picillo, and the late Maria and Antonietta Balletti; cherished grandmother of Devon Fano, and Robert and Jennifer Amoroso; and diet-busting dog grandmother of Fred and Gustavo. Visiting will be held in Paul Ippolito-Dancy Memorial, 9 Smull Ave., Caldwell, NJ on Thursday, February 27th from 4-8 PM. The Funeral Mass will be held at Notre Dame Church, North Caldwell on Friday, February 28th at 11 AM. Interment to follow at Gate of Heaven Cemetery, East Hanover. In lieu of flowers, the family encourages donations to St. Jude Children's Research Hospital.