Long-lost N.J. wedding album will be reunited with family, but the couple’s love story ended tragically

A 1956 photo album featuring the mystery couple was discovered by a Newark landlord, who started a search to reunite the wedding photos with the family.In the black-and-white photograph from 1956, the newlyweds are grinning through the rear of a car on their wedding day — a visible expression of happiness and optimism for the future ahead of them.

A building superintendent found Rosina and Vincent D’Angelo’s long-lost wedding album while cleaning out an apartment building a decade ago, said former Newark building owner Michael D’Agostino. But the album didn’t belong to his departing tenant and the couple’s name was too common for D’Agostino to locate the family to return the keepsake.Monday and within hours tips poured in from intrigued readers.

Rosina and Vincent D’Angelo were married on April 29, 1956, at the “Sacred Heart Cathedral” in Newark — which is now calledThe wedding album's front cover was torn off, but the photos remain intact.It’s unclear how Rosina and Vincent met, but they settled into an apartment on Grafton Avenue in Newark after they married, their nephew said. Vincent, a Navy veteran who went by the nickname Sonny, worked for a sheet metal factory.

Following Vincent’s sudden death, Rosina and her young son moved in with Chieppa, his parents and his younger brother. Both families, already close, grew even closer in the tragedy’s aftermath.Years passed and eventually Rosina, whose maiden name was Zarra, was remarried to a man named John Sica, said Robyn Lopez, whose ex-husband is Sica’s nephew.lists their wedding date as December 1972.Provided by Michael D’AgostinoHis death devastated Rosina, Lopez said.

Lopez recalled Ernie and Rosina fondly. “He was a riot, and she had a heart of gold. She really did,” she said.

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