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August 25, 2012
Services
Friends may visit with the family on Tuesday, August 28, 2012 from 3-6 PM at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
Funeral services will be held 10 AM on Wednesday, August 29, 2012 at the funeral home.
Ada Cauwenberghs (nee DeRuyscher) age 80 of Wayne died peacefully on Saturday, August 25, 2012.
She was born in Paterson and raised in Wayne having graduated from Pompton Lakes High School with the Class of 1949.
Ada was serving as a Lab Technician at the Bergen Pines Hospital in Paramus when she met a TB patient named Henry Cauwenberghs. When Henry was well enough he checked himself out of the hospital and took Ada to the movies. They fell in love and Henry asked Ada’s mother for her hand in marriage and then asked to borrow the $2.00 it would cost to secure the wedding license. They married at the Preakness Christian Reformed Church on Valley Road in Wayne on January 16, 1949. They drove to Fairfax Virginia for their honeymoon in an Oldsmobile that was so old they prayed every mile that it would make it. They had a loving, devoted, and as Henry stated “perfect” sixty-three years of marriage and rarely had an argument.
As Ada’s youngest daughter entered middle school she decided to go to college. She graduated from William Paterson University with a Bachelor of Science Degree in Teaching and continued at the university to secure her Masters Degree in Special Education. She worked for the Wayne Board of Education for several years, Our Lady of the Valley School in Wayne, then the Haledon Board of Education for many years before retiring in 2001.
Ada is best described as an outgoing person who was kind, polite to a fault, and extremely honest.
She was the loving wife of Henry Cauwenberghs; devoted mother of Henry Cauwenberghs and his wife Judy of Canajoharia, NY, and Dawn DiPaola and her husband John of Wayne, and the late Diana and Roger Cauwenberghs; cherished grandmother of Jennifer, Joseph, and Daniel Cauwenberghs, and Jeffrey, Kristen, and Stephen DiPaola; and four great-grandchildren.
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Friends may visit with the family on Tuesday, August 28, 2012 from 3-6 PM at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
Funeral services will be held 10 AM on Wednesday, August 29, 2012 at the funeral home.
August 25, 2012
Services
Friends may visit with the family on Tuesday, August 28, 2012 from 3-6 PM at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
Funeral services will be held 10 AM on Wednesday, August 29, 2012 at the funeral home.
Ada Cauwenberghs (nee DeRuyscher) age 80 of Wayne died peacefully on Saturday, August 25, 2012.
She was born in Paterson and raised in Wayne having graduated from Pompton Lakes High School with the Class of 1949.
Ada was serving as a Lab Technician at the Bergen Pines Hospital in Paramus when she met a TB patient named Henry Cauwenberghs. When Henry was well enough he checked himself out of the hospital and took Ada to the movies. They fell in love and Henry asked Ada’s mother for her hand in marriage and then asked to borrow the $2.00 it would cost to secure the wedding license. They married at the Preakness Christian Reformed Church on Valley Road in Wayne on January 16, 1949. They drove to Fairfax Virginia for their honeymoon in an Oldsmobile that was so old they prayed every mile that it would make it. They had a loving, devoted, and as Henry stated “perfect” sixty-three years of marriage and rarely had an argument.
As Ada’s youngest daughter entered middle school she decided to go to college. She graduated from William Paterson University with a Bachelor of Science Degree in Teaching and continued at the university to secure her Masters Degree in Special Education. She worked for the Wayne Board of Education for several years, Our Lady of the Valley School in Wayne, then the Haledon Board of Education for many years before retiring in 2001.
Ada is best described as an outgoing person who was kind, polite to a fault, and extremely honest.
She was the loving wife of Henry Cauwenberghs; devoted mother of Henry Cauwenberghs and his wife Judy of Canajoharia, NY, and Dawn DiPaola and her husband John of Wayne, and the late Diana and Roger Cauwenberghs; cherished grandmother of Jennifer, Joseph, and Daniel Cauwenberghs, and Jeffrey, Kristen, and Stephen DiPaola; and four great-grandchildren.
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