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October 26, 2013
Services
A memorial service will be held on Saturday, November 16, 2013 at 12 noon to celebrate Ada’s “life journey” at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne. Friends may visit with the family at the funeral home Saturday, prior to the service from 10 AM to 12 Noon.
Ada L. Hauer (nee Cole), age 88 of Pompton Plains, passed peacefully into life eternal on Saturday, October 26, 2013.
Ada was born at home in Oakwood Heights, Staten Island, daughter of Herbert and Claire Cole and little sister of Claire and Herbert. Her family moved to Nutley when she was eleven years old and it was there that Ada graduated from Nutley High School.
Ada went on to additional studies at Berkley Secretarial School and, following graduation, she worked in the Graybar Building on Lexington Avenue, New York City for Union Asbestos Corporation.
Ada met her future husband William “Bill” Hauer, Jr. while in high school. They began dating each other after his return from military service in 1945 and they married on Saturday, October 7, 1950. They initially settled in the Allwood section of Clifton, then to Bellville for one year before moving with their growing family into their brand new home in Wayne in 1958 where Ada and Bill stayed until moving to Cedar Crest Village in 2005. Together they enjoyed sixty years in a loving and devoted marriage.
Ada and Bill were completely dedicated to doing what was best for their family. Their motto in life was “family first!” After Ada’s father Herbert Cole passed away, she took over his steel business – H.W. Cole Steel Company in Matawan, NJ. Her focus was sales and she remained dedicated to her job for approximately eight years providing the extra income needed to ensure that each of her and Bill’s three daughters were able to get a much-valued college education. After that, she stayed home for a time before deciding to work part-time as a cafeteria helper in the Wayne schools. In their retired years, Ada and Bill took advantage of their free time, providing a great support to their three daughters as they married and settled into their own homes. Like almost any home you move into, these needed a bit of work and Ada and Bill were right there with sleeves rolled up, ready to paint, clean, and fix anything that would make it easier for the girls and their son-in-laws. They also saw their grandchildren as one of life’s greatest joys and blessing and having them for the weekend or spending time with them taking them to Chuck E. Cheese’s, Wild West City, Sandy Hook or camping in their pop-up and RV was their delight! They even were happy to take their daughter Patty’s springer spaniels in to their home or camping for a few days if it was helpful! While it wasn’t one of her favorite things to do, Ada was an excellent cook! She figured it was necessary and as long as she was charged with that particular responsibility, she may as well do the best she could. Her family was the greatest benefactor of that philosophy and they especially loved her roasted green pepper salad, spaghetti sauce, pot roasts, sauerbraten and apple pie recipes. Unfortunately, those recipes will go with Ada as she never wrote any of them down.
Ada derived much enjoyment from music and her love was expressed through her membership and singing with the Harmony Singers of Wayne and the Preakness Women’s Club. She also loved gardening and she displayed a keen eye and intuitive ability to grow the right combination of flowers and bushes to enjoy colorful blooms all season long, even if, on rare occasions, a few of the flowers had to be of the plastic variety. She and Bill enjoyed going to flea markets and having coffee together at McDonald’s.
Surviving to mourn her passing are Ada’s three daughters: Ada Lee Williams and her husband Bill of Slippery Rock, Pennsylvania, Patty Valente and her husband Bob of Stockton, NJ and Janice Paulussen and her husband David of Long Valley, NJ; five cherished grandchildren: Glenn Wonsettler, Anne Cole Robinson and her husband Nathan, Lindsay Valente-Posluszny and her husband Russ, Kimberly and Benjamin Paulussen; and her cherished great-granddaughter Eloise.
Ada was predeceased by her beloved husband William H. Hauer, Jr. in 2010 and her two siblings: Claire Cubbage and Herbert Cole.
Those planning an expression of sympathy in Ada’s memory are asked to consider St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, P.O Box 1000, Dept. 142, Memphis, TN 38148-0142,
www.stjude.org
If you would like to send a private condolence directly to the family use this condolence section.
A memorial service will be held on Saturday, November 16, 2013 at 12 noon to celebrate Ada’s “life journey” at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne. Friends may visit with the family at the funeral home Saturday, prior to the service from 10 AM to 12 Noon.
October 26, 2013
Services
A memorial service will be held on Saturday, November 16, 2013 at 12 noon to celebrate Ada’s “life journey” at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne. Friends may visit with the family at the funeral home Saturday, prior to the service from 10 AM to 12 Noon.
Ada L. Hauer (nee Cole), age 88 of Pompton Plains, passed peacefully into life eternal on Saturday, October 26, 2013.
Ada was born at home in Oakwood Heights, Staten Island, daughter of Herbert and Claire Cole and little sister of Claire and Herbert. Her family moved to Nutley when she was eleven years old and it was there that Ada graduated from Nutley High School.
Ada went on to additional studies at Berkley Secretarial School and, following graduation, she worked in the Graybar Building on Lexington Avenue, New York City for Union Asbestos Corporation.
Ada met her future husband William “Bill” Hauer, Jr. while in high school. They began dating each other after his return from military service in 1945 and they married on Saturday, October 7, 1950. They initially settled in the Allwood section of Clifton, then to Bellville for one year before moving with their growing family into their brand new home in Wayne in 1958 where Ada and Bill stayed until moving to Cedar Crest Village in 2005. Together they enjoyed sixty years in a loving and devoted marriage.
Ada and Bill were completely dedicated to doing what was best for their family. Their motto in life was “family first!” After Ada’s father Herbert Cole passed away, she took over his steel business – H.W. Cole Steel Company in Matawan, NJ. Her focus was sales and she remained dedicated to her job for approximately eight years providing the extra income needed to ensure that each of her and Bill’s three daughters were able to get a much-valued college education. After that, she stayed home for a time before deciding to work part-time as a cafeteria helper in the Wayne schools. In their retired years, Ada and Bill took advantage of their free time, providing a great support to their three daughters as they married and settled into their own homes. Like almost any home you move into, these needed a bit of work and Ada and Bill were right there with sleeves rolled up, ready to paint, clean, and fix anything that would make it easier for the girls and their son-in-laws. They also saw their grandchildren as one of life’s greatest joys and blessing and having them for the weekend or spending time with them taking them to Chuck E. Cheese’s, Wild West City, Sandy Hook or camping in their pop-up and RV was their delight! They even were happy to take their daughter Patty’s springer spaniels in to their home or camping for a few days if it was helpful! While it wasn’t one of her favorite things to do, Ada was an excellent cook! She figured it was necessary and as long as she was charged with that particular responsibility, she may as well do the best she could. Her family was the greatest benefactor of that philosophy and they especially loved her roasted green pepper salad, spaghetti sauce, pot roasts, sauerbraten and apple pie recipes. Unfortunately, those recipes will go with Ada as she never wrote any of them down.
Ada derived much enjoyment from music and her love was expressed through her membership and singing with the Harmony Singers of Wayne and the Preakness Women’s Club. She also loved gardening and she displayed a keen eye and intuitive ability to grow the right combination of flowers and bushes to enjoy colorful blooms all season long, even if, on rare occasions, a few of the flowers had to be of the plastic variety. She and Bill enjoyed going to flea markets and having coffee together at McDonald’s.
Surviving to mourn her passing are Ada’s three daughters: Ada Lee Williams and her husband Bill of Slippery Rock, Pennsylvania, Patty Valente and her husband Bob of Stockton, NJ and Janice Paulussen and her husband David of Long Valley, NJ; five cherished grandchildren: Glenn Wonsettler, Anne Cole Robinson and her husband Nathan, Lindsay Valente-Posluszny and her husband Russ, Kimberly and Benjamin Paulussen; and her cherished great-granddaughter Eloise.
Ada was predeceased by her beloved husband William H. Hauer, Jr. in 2010 and her two siblings: Claire Cubbage and Herbert Cole.
Those planning an expression of sympathy in Ada’s memory are asked to consider St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, P.O Box 1000, Dept. 142, Memphis, TN 38148-0142,
www.stjude.org
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