This Book of Memories memorial website is designed to be a permanent tribute paying tribute to the life and memory of Janet Centuori. It allows family and friends a place to re-visit, interact with each other, share and enhance this tribute for future generations. We are both pleased and proud to provide the Book of Memories to the families of our community.

Thank you.

Cancel
Select Candle

Obituary for Janet Centuori

Janet G. Centuori, Matriarch who worked at Bloomfield library and valued Italian-American culture Janet G. Centuori peacefully passed away on March 13, 2017, in the greater Los Angeles, Calif. area, where she lived for the past two years of her life. A Funeral Mass will be held Saturday, March 25, at 11 a.m. at St. Theresa of Calcutta Parish-Church of the Immaculate Conception, 30 N. Fullerton Ave., Montclair, N.J., with interment at Immaculate Conception Cemetery, Upper Montclair. Visiting will be on Friday, March 24, from 6 to 8 p.m. at Caggiano Memorial, 62 Grove St., Montclair. caggianomemorial.com Born in 1930 to an Italian immigrant father, Benjamin Galati, and mother Anna (Autorino) Galati, Janet spent most of her life in New Jersey, having worked for 20 years as an administrative assistant for The Lummus Co. and another 20 years for the Bloomfield Public Library. Janet naturally assumed the role of passionate matriarch who fiercely protected and loved her family. She had a huge heart, generous spirit, and quirky sense of humor. She was good to friends and family alike. She loved the cuisine and traditions of all things Italian-American: from the bitter taste of broccoli rabe to sweet cannoli (only with fresh ricotta filling). Janet enjoyed playing bingo and the lottery, Palm Sunday Mass, honoring superstitions, and relaying stories of right and wrong. Her beautifully crafted penmanship demonstrated her innate sense of creativity and precision. Her dream of becoming a schoolteacher was expressed through a keen interest in the work of her professor daughter and her schoolteacher granddaughter. Janet was loved by all who knew her. Many say she was their second mom. She will be greatly missed, though some of her traits live on through her son, Edmond Centuori; her daughter, Jeanine Centuori, and three grandchildren, Cassandra Centuori, Michael Centuori, and Rafael Rock. Janet was preceded in death by her husband, Edmond Centuori Sr., and her brother, Dennis Galati. -

Provide comfort for the family by planting a tree in memory of Janet Centuori, please visit our Heartfelt Sympathies Store.

Printable
Recently Shared Condolences
Recently Lit Memorial Candles
Recently Shared Stories
Recently Shared Photos