Helen Pierce

Celebrating the life of Helen" Cookie "Pierce (nee Jakubowski) age 78 Thursday, May 16th, cookie died peacefully at home with her daughter by her side.

She was born March 3rd 1941 at Margaret Hague Hospital in Jersey City New Jersey.
She is predeceased by her husband Raymond Pierce Sr., her son Raymond Pierce Jr, her sister Barbara Gabriel, her brothers Robert Jakubowski and Joseph Wright.

She is survived by her children Ronald Pierce (Karen), Robert Pierce (Darlene), Rodney Pierce Sr (Lisa) and Robin Pierce. She is also survived by her grandchildren Jeanine Sloan (Rodney), Jennifer Brogna (Kristopher) Janice Pierce, Rodney Pierce II, Kristopher Figueroa, Freya Pierce, Rhiannon Pierce and Raymond Pierce III, and her great-grandchildren; Alyssa and Danielle Gaughran, Marissa Pierce, Gianna, Dominic and Gabriella Brogna and Kennedy Pierce. She is also survived by her Aunt Stella Rakowski, her sister Cathy Corcia and numerous nieces nephews and cousins all of whom she loved.

Cookie retired after 25 years as a toll collector for the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. She was a crossing guard for the city of Bayonne, a "meter maid" for the city of Bayonne and a counter person at Judickies Bakery. She was very active in the Bayonne Community as she served in the Bayonne Little League and as a past president of the Bayonne High School Football Parents Association serving many pregame steaks to our high school football champions during the mid-1970s

Funeral Wednesday 9AM from the Caiola-Stellato Funeral Home, 691 Avenue C, Bayonne. Funeral Mass 10AM St. Andrew Church of Blessed Miriam Teresa Demjanovich Parish. Interment Holy Cross Cemetery. Friends will be received Tuesday 4-8PM.

Visitation
Tuesday, May 21, 2019
4:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Caiola-Stellato Funeral Home - Bayonne
691 Avenue C
Bayonne NJ 07002
US
201-436-2645


Burial
Wednesday, May 22, 2019

Holy Cross Cemetery
340 Ridge Road
North Arlington NJ 07031
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Mass
Wednesday, May 22, 2019
10:00 AM -
St. Andrew Church of Blessed Miriam Teresa Demjanovich Parish
125 Broadway
Bayonne NJ 07002
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Funeral HomeCaiola-Stellato Funeral Home - Bayonne
691 Avenue C
Bayonne NJ - 07002
US
201-436-2645