Rosemary F. Perna

The visitation will be held at the LaMonica Memorial Home 145 E. Mt. Pleasant Avenue, Livingston on Sunday, Nov. 19, from 2-6 pm. Services will commence at the funeral home on Monday, Nov. 20, at 9 am followed by a Mass of Christian Burial at 10 am in St. John’s Church in Orange. The burial will be in Rosedale Cemetery in Orange.

Rosemary was the owner of Chateau Nicole Hair Salon in West Orange for 7 years. She then went to work as a supervisor for the Hawthorne Collection Agency in West Orange for 10 years retiring in 2002.

Her greatest loves were family, baking, cooking, and the Yankees.

She was the beloved wife of the late Nicholas Perna, loving mother of Anthony Perna and his wife Linda and Marian Aulisi, cherished grandmother of Nicolette Perna, Toni Lynn Rodriguez and husband Giovanni, Joseph Perna and wife Christina, and Marissa Semplenski and husband Frank, adored great grandmother of Gianna, Anthony, Anthony Salvatore, Emma, and Mia, and dear sister of the late Michael and Joseph Silvestri.

In lieu of flowers the family requests donations be made to the Alzheimer’s’ Association in Rosemary’s name.