GALLINA, ANTOINETTE M.

A funeral mass was offered June 15 at St. Francis Church, Hoboken, for Antoinette (Shirley) M. Gallina, (nee Guglielmelli) of Cliffside Park. She passed away June 9. She was born in Hoboken, which is where she lived until she was married at the age of 30. After her mother passed away at a young age Shirley managed the finances of house and businesses of the family as well as housework for her father. She graduated high school in Hoboken and then stayed at home to help manage the finances while working as a bookkeeper. She eventually married a lifelong family friend Peter F. Gallina in 1961. They moved up to Cliffside Park to start a life and family together. Shirley was a loving sister, mother, grandmother, and wife who devoted her life to tending and loving her family. Anyone who met her would know that her three children, Helen, Michael, and Paul, were her proudest accomplishments. She stayed at home to nurture and love her children that her life revolved around. Her support for her children was eternal and only grew with the arrival of grandchildren. She cared for all her grandchildren as if they were her own children and always enjoyed their company. She was as supporting of a grandmother as she was a mother that loved baking with her grandchildren and never missed an important event of the family. She devoted her life to her family and was beloved by her family that is grateful to have had such a loving figure in their lives.
She was the daughter of the late Incoronata and Michele Guglielmelli; wife of 50 years to the late Peter F. Gallina; mother of Helen Gallina-DeLuca and her companion Joseph, Michael F. Gallina, and his wife Maria, and Paul M. Gallina Sr. and his wife Michelle; grandmother of Deanna & Daniel DeLuca, Paul and Peter Gallina and Angela and Alexa Gallina; sister of the late Andrew P. Guglielmelli, Dolores A. Guglielmelli, and Father Michael V. Guglielmelli of St. Francis Church, Hoboken. Brother-in-laws: Felix Gallina and the predeceased Louis Gallina. Sisters-in-laws: Joan Gallina and the predeceased Marie Guglielmelli and Ann Gallina. She also leaves behind many loved nephews, nieces, and godchildren.
Services arranged by the Konopka Funeral Home, North Bergen.