Antonietta Zaccardi Obituary (1928 - 2021)

Antonietta Zaccardi (nee Transitano), 93, of West Orange N.J. passed away on Sunday, April 25, 2021. Relatives and friends may visit with the family at Paul Ippolito-Dancy Memorial, 9 Smull Ave., Caldwell, N.J., on Thursday, April 29, 2021 from 4 to 7 p.m. A Mass will be at St. Aloysius Church, Caldwell, N.J., Friday, April 30, 2021at 10:30 a.m., followed by the interment at Gate of Heaven Cemetery, East Hanover, N.J. (Due to COVID restrictions the funeral home will only permit 50 people in the building at a time, masks and social distancing are required in the funeral home, church and cemetery). Atonietta was born in Pescopagano, Italy and immigrated to the United States with her husband and three children in 1961, settling in West Orange, NJ. Cooking, tending to her garden and spending time with her family was most important to her. Antonietta was the loving mother of Maria Zaccardi-Leone, and Rosa Zaccardi-Castillo and her husband Robert Castillo; loving grandmother to Giuseppe Leone, Leonora Cavalieri and her husband, Joe, Marisa Gillespie and her husband, Joe, Carla Madeo, Matthew Madeo and his wife, Katelyn, and great-grandmother to Antonio Leone, Luca Gillespie, Marielle Madeo. She is also survived by her loving sister Angelina Borea of Montreal. Antonietta was predeceased by her loving husband Guglielmo Zaccardi, loving daughter, Frances Madeo, and loving son-in-law Antonino Leone.