A PERMANENT APPEAL TO ALL IRVINGTONIANS
1) I am actively looking to purchase Irvington High School Yearbooks. The impossible ideal is to have every yearbook from 1926 to 1976.
2) I want to list the entire Class Rosters (just names) of every graduating class from 1926 to 1976 here on Irvington Remembered.
3) I am especially looking for old pictures of Irvington buildings. Places like The Old Homestead, Marie’s Pizza, Buff’s Diner, Drake’s Cakes, Candy Stores, Olympic Park rides, Litlle League Stadium, Major Music, Robert Halls, Lyons Lanes, Watson’s Bagels, Schools, Taverns, Continental Barbershop, The PAL etc.

MY APPEAL
1) If you know of anyone who has an extra yearbook and is willing to sell it or donate it, please let me know.  Yearbooks are GOLD to me.
2) May I be bold and ask for help in typing out Class Rosters? In other words, if you would like your class to be listed on Irvington Remembered, would you be willing to help me by typing the Last Name, First Name, Middle Name into an Excel spreadsheet? I have created a Class Page for every class from 1926 to 1976.
3) Please consider sharing your old, vintage pictures? Don’t them languish forever in a shoe box. Only to be thrown in the garbage someday.
 

JOAN JENNINGS SANTORIELLO, RIP
It is with great sadness that I announce the passing of one of the most beautiful Irvingtonians that I had the honor of coming to know since starting Irvington Remembered. From the beginning, Joan was one of my biggest supporters. She was a very special lady who ran the Florida All-Class Reunion. Just a few weeks ago I received mail from her. It was to be her very last Irvington Newsletter that she always did so lovingly. Oh my God, she is one that I and so many others are really going to miss. RIP our dear Joan. There is a big void in my heart tonight. You will never be forgotten by this Irvington boy. It is exactly for people like you who I started this web site for. And it is exactly for Irvingtonians like you that I will always continue this effort. So devout was Joan’s love for Irvington that she insisted that her high school yearbook be buried with her. I (we) love you, Joan !

For those of you who would like to leave a message of condolence, please click this link Joan Jennings Santoriello.

Joan (Jennings) Santoriello  (78), formerly of Berkeley Heights, NJ, most recently of the Villages,  FL, passed away Wednesday, August 10, 2011, at the Villages Regional  Hospital with her loving family by her side. She was the beloved wife of Alex (Monty) Santoriello for 55 years, and the loving and much loved  mother of Alex Joseph Santoriello of Barbados and Jill Alison  Santoriello of New York City. She is pre-deceased by her son, Kent  David, and by her parents, Joseph and Jean Stewart Jennings and Patricia Lederer Preston.  She is the cherished sister of Peggy and Gordon (Gig) Forbes of Milford, DE; loving aunt of Jennifer and Eric Mullenhard and  Heather Forbes and great-aunt of Nicole and Sara Mullenhard.  Sister-in-law of Nancy and Tony Dato and family.  She was born in  Newark, NJ, grew up in Irvington and graduated from Irvington High  School, class of 1950. She attended Drake Secretarial School.  After marrying in 1956, she lived in Hazlet for four years before moving to the Murray Hill section of Berkeley Heights for 33 years. Joan  worked as office manager/full charge bookkeeper for 11 years at Lincoln  Mold & Die Corporation in Roselle before retiring in 1994 to Florida where she lived in Marco Island, Naples and the Villages. She was the  Chairperson of the Irvington Class of 1950 Reunions for 45 years, which  gave her great pleasure as she loved her school, her classmates, the  town she grew up in and her forever friends including Kathleen  (Tootsie) Totorello, Patsy Camuso, June Spector, Joyce Saum, Joan  Morris, Joan Adamo, and Doris Jarosz. She and her husband wrote and  distributed a tri-yearly newsletter for many years for their Irvington  class of 50 as well as for graduates of other Irvington High School  classes. At the Villages, she belonged to Operation Shoebox, the Red  Hat Society and enjoyed playing golf and reading. She was a true blue Giant fan, (win or lose!) She and her husband were the very first  investors in the musical, A Tale of Two Cities, which played on Broadway in 2008. She was enormously proud of her daughter Jill who  wrote book, music and lyrics for the show, She was equally proud of her son Alex’s success as club owner of the popular Lexy Piano Bar in Barbados, his performances in 3 Broadway shows and his beautiful singing voice, which she taught him to project! Joan’s family was her true life’s work. She was selfless and unswerving in her devotion and loyalty. Our hearts are broken, but we are thankful that she is not  suffering anymore. We will always love and miss you, beautiful wife,  mother, sister and friend. Rest in peace until we meet again.

Family and friends  are invited to attend the visitation on Tuesday, August 16, 2011 at the  Higgins and Bonner Echo Lake Funeral Home, 582 Springfield Ave,  Westfield from 2-4 pm and 7-9 pm. A Mass will be held at 10:30 am on  Wednesday at Holy Spirit RC Church in Union, followed by a burial at  Fairview Cemetery in Westfield.

Condolences can be sent to the family at www.higginsandbonner.com



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