Helen Manzione

December 27, 1923 - April 8, 2019

Helen Manzione, 95 of Tinton Falls, passed away peacefully on Monday, April 8, 2019 at the Jersey Shore Medical Center, with her daughter Debbie by her side. Helen was born in Jersey City, NJ on December 27, 1923 to Boleslaus and Jennie Oldakowski and lived in Bayonne. After attending Bayonne High School she worked for Maidenform as a seamstress for 15 years. On October 4, 1952, she married Salvatore Manzione and moved to Bloomfield, NJ where she would live until they retired in 1985 to Holiday City in Toms River, NJ. Helen is predeceased by her beloved husband, Salvatore in 2004, sisters Jean Ginter, Gerri Balint, and brothers Joseph, Walter and Raymond Oldakowski. She is survived by her daughter, Debbie and her husband, John along with her loving grandsons, Mark, and Robert DeGrassi and granddaughter, Cindy Scott, five cherished great-grandchildren, Aiden, Ryder, Aria, and Laurel DeGrassi, Jackson Scott, and sisters Claire Danelowski, Florence Ryan and many nieces and nephews. Helen was a Homemaker who loved to knit, sew, cook for her family and play board games and cards with her grandchildren who always seemed to win. In her early years as well as in her later years Helen loved to Atlantic City. In her retirement years, Helen loved spending the day with her husband and a picnic basket at the Monmouth Park race track placing a $2 wager on #4 and going shopping with her daughter. Visitation will be held, Sunday, 2pm - 5pm at the Bongarzone Funeral Home, 2400 Shafto Road in Tinton Falls. A mass celebration service will be at 10:30am, Monday, April 15 ath the Church of Saint Anselm, 1028 Wayside Road, Tinton Falls, NJ. Interment to follow at Saint Anne Cemetery, Wall, NJ. For online condolences, please visit Helen's memorial page at www.bongarzonefuneralhome.com