Our Beginnings

In 1903, Ferdinand Migliaccio, a citizen of Calabria, Italy immigrated to the United States to Utica, NY. He quickly got work with a local furniture maker (who, since they built the caskets , were the primary morticians of the day) and married a girl he met from Mamaroneck, NY named Filomena who he soon married. Then in 1919, after earlier realizing a need in the community while visiting his wife's family, He moved Filomena and their two young children, son William R. and daughter Rose to a storefront apartment on 20th Street and Avenue C in Bayonne NJ where they opened the first office of The Migliaccio Funeral Home on November 2nd, 1919, "All Souls Day".

Unfortunately, tragedy came early for Ferdinand who was hit by an Avenue C Bus in 1920 and soon died from complications in 1921. Having very few options and with children to raise, Filomena did what was very uncharacteristic for a woman in those days, she took control of the business and slowly grew it.