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Josephine Virgilio Obituary
AGE: 89 • Piscataway
Josephine Doris Sprague Virgilio, 89, of Piscataway, passed away peacefully on Thursday; July 4th, 2013 at Somerset Medical Center in Somerville. Born in Seaside Park, Josephine has been a resident of Piscataway for over 50 years. She worked at Shoprite and was a school bus driver for Piscataway Township School District retiring in 1993, she continued to drive a bus for the Piscataway Senior Citizen Group. Josephine was an avid camper, and loved to travel and visit the beach. She was a weekly bridge player and would play twice a week at the Senior Citizen Club in Piscataway.
Josephine is predeceased by her loving husband Michael in 1983, her son John Renner, daughter JoAnn Alligier, and her brother Francis Sprague. She is survived by her 3 daughters, Patricia and her husband Jack Green of Dunellen, Kathleen and her husband Fran Hernandez of Somerville, and Michelle and her husband Robert Bechtol of Kentucky, her 2 sisters, Kathryn Smith of FL, and Anges Polhemus of Seaside Hights and her 2 brothers, James Sprague of Seaside Park, and John Sprague of FL, her son-in-law Robert Alligier Sr. of Piscataway, her daughter-in-law Genevieve Renner and her 16 grandchildren, John and Joel Renner, Cindee Sliker, Kathryn Posko, Joyce and Shawn Green, Amy Bryant, Robert, Michael, and Matthew Alligier, Carrie Ann Packin, Scott and Joshua Graf, Joseph and Hailey Virgilio, and Emily Bechtol, and many great grandchildren and a great great grandchild.
Visitation will be on Sunday; July 7th, 2013 from 4-7PM at the Sheenan Funeral Home, 233 Dunellen Ave, Dunellen, NJ. Cremation will be private. In lieu of flowers, donations in Josephine's name would be appreciated to the The Steeplechase Cancer Center, 30 Rehill Ave, Somerville, NJ 08876. For more info, please visit www.sheenanfh.com
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April Schostkewitz-Diaz
July 18, 2013
Grandma Doris (to my kids) will be so greatly missed by so many. One of the most loveable, kind and sweet natured person I have ever had the privilege to know for most of my life. Easy to talk to, easy to laugh with and always surprising (especially when she joined Facebook last year - lol). She gave me lifelong friends in her children and grandchildren - Thanks. I will miss you....
Dean Wheelan
July 6, 2013
We have many fond memories of Aunt Doris' laugh and easy-going way. She went through the toughest of times and kept her upbeat perspective, and will be greatly missed..
Love,
Dean & Elizabeth Wheelan
and Family
Katie and Joe Posko
July 6, 2013
May the light of your candle forever glow wherever you may be, may your love and spirit protect and guide us everyday, through your shining light that we see.
CAROL EDWARDS
July 6, 2013
TO MY DEAR FRIEND,WHO WAS ALWAYS SMILING, I WILL MISS YOU SO MUCH, LOVE YOU MY FRIEND REST IN PEACE
Mark Wheelan
July 5, 2013
To my dear Aunt Doris
She was always cheerful, loving, a great relative and sadly the last of the generation of the Virgilio clan. No matter what life threw at her she acted with grace, patience and a superior attitude. She will be missed by all who ever met her.
Love,
Nephew Mark and Karen Wheelan.
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