Mahwah Senior Center Employee Passes Away Days After Retiring

MAHWAH, NJ – Rosalie Giudice, who worked for many years at the Mahwah Senior Center, passed away on Jan. 4, just days after she retired from her job.

The 76-year-old was also four days shy of her birthday, according to her obituary.

Giudice leaves behind her children, Doreen and Dawn, grandchildren, Richard, Joseph and Christina, and grandpuppies Maui and Kona.

After getting married in 1991, she and her husband Tony moved from Brooklyn, NY to Mahwah to build their dream home. She began working a few years later as the township’s assistant coordinator of senior activities, a job “she enjoyed very much” and retired from on Dec. 31, 2019, according to her obituary.

Carol Marker remembered her as "a very special woman," who was "warm and always welcoming to everyone who came in the Mahwah Senior Center."

Valentina Link said Giudice "will be missed" and "contributed her help, care, time to the Mahwah seniors" and did a great job of representing the township.

Mahwah Mayor John Roth, in a Facebook post, relayed the news, saying, "I am so very sad to advise that Rosalie Giudice, who for many years worked with Susanne Small in our Senior Center, has passed away following a brief illness."

Roth added, "Rosalie was the 'Face' of our senior center and the beautiful smile we all encountered when arriving there."

Giudice's obituary recalls her as "an ageless beauty who carried her own personal style of class and grace flawlessly."

"She was the one that her daughters, & everyone else, always called first for advise, to share big news with, or just for a shoulder to lean on. She was also the type of person who filled your heart with joy & brought happiness & tranquility to all who knew her," her obituary said.

A wake will be held Tuesday at Van Emburgh-Sneider-Pernice Funeral Home, 109 Darlington Avenue, Ramsey from 2 to 4 p.m. and 6 to 9 p.m.

On Wednesday, a funeral is scheduled for 11 a.m. at Church of the Presentation, 271 W. Saddle River Road, Upper Saddle River, followed by burial at Maryrest Cemetery in Mahwah.