ZISA, Josephine (Miseo), age 97 of Franklin Lakes, went home to be with her Lord on Monday, September 5, 2022. She was born in Tricarico, Italy to Salvatore and Felicia Miseo. She came to live in the US in 1948. She met and married the love of her life, Joseph Zisa, who predeceased her in 2014. They cherished 65 years of loving and loyal marriage together. The were blessed with 5 children, and Josephine embraced her role as a loving wife and mother and was a full-time homemaker. Josephine was a parishioner of Most Blessed Sacrament Church in Franklin Lakes.
Loving mother of Rosemarie Martie and her husband Bob of Kinnelon, Phyllis Kelly of Nutley, Jane Presto and her husband Mark of Belmar, Anthony Zisa and his partner Bill Cohen of New York City and Washington, DC, and her daughter-in-law Roseann Zisa. She was predeceased by her son Salvatore Zisa on September 11. Beloved grandmother to Dana and Matthew Presto, Christina Zisa and her husband John Sampogna, and Joey Zisa, and great-grandmother to Lucy Zisa-Sampogna.
Friends and family may visit on Thursday, September 8, 2022, from 4-8 PM at the Vander Plaat-Vermeulen Memorial Home, 530 High Mountain Road, Franklin Lakes. Funeral Mass to be held on Friday, September 9, 2022, at 11:00 AM at Our Lady of Perpetual Help, 25 Purdue Avenue, Oakland, NJ. Entombment to follow at Mary Rest Mausoleum in Mahwah, NJ.
Donations may be made in Josephine’s memory to St. Jude’s Children’s Research Hospital, 501 St. Jude Place, Memphis, TN 38105 or visit www.stjude.org.