CALDERONE, ROSE

A funeral mass was offered March 20 at St. Martha’s Church, Pt. Pleasant Beach, for Rose Calderone, 92, born in Jersey City and a long-time resident of North Bergen and most recently of Brick Township. She died March 17. Rose was the original “hatcheck girl” at the famed Canton Tea Garden at Journal Square. She later worked at the American Can Company and was everyone’s favorite cashier at Two Guys department store. She was the wife of the late Fred Calderone; mother of Robert and partner Dr. Joseph Amorino and Frederick and partner Lucy Bortono; grandmother of Jennie and Joseph; sister of Carolann Galvin and the late Walter, George, and Robert Fenton. Services arranged by the Colonial Funeral Home, Brick Township.

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