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September 23, 2012
Services
Funeral services will be held Friday, September 28, 2012 at 10:15 AM from the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne then to Our Lady of the Holy Angels Church, 473 Main Street, Little Falls, NJ where at 11:00 AM a Funeral Mass will be offered.
Friends may visit with the family on Friday, September 28, 2012 from 8:30 to 10:30 AM at the funeral home.
Agnes A. Kichury, age 84 died peacefully on Sunday, September 23, 2012 with her loving family by her side.
Agnes was born on December 4, 1927 in Port Blanchard, PA to polish immigrant parents Simon and Mary Para. Her father was a coal miner and she grew up in that mining town where, as a child, her brothers would roll her in a tire down hills of coal. Sometimes she would come home from play black beyond recognition!
One day, while still living in Port Blanchard, a friend came to visit Agnes. The friend brought his buddy, a young Navy Soldier named John J. Kichury from Passaic, NJ. At eighteen years of age, she married that handsome soldier and together they moved to West Paterson, NJ where they lived for seven years before moving in 1960 to their new house in Wayne which was built by her husband John and his brothers. It was in that house in Wayne that Agnes lived all these years.
With the exception of working for a season for Otagiri, a Japanese importer in Wayne to make a little extra spending money Agnes first love was being a homemaker, creating a wonderful place for family and friends to gather. She loved to entertain and was known for distributing toys instead of candy to the trick-or-treaters at Halloween. John’s coworkers would join at the Kichury home on New Year’s Eve and Agnes would wow them with her fantastic talents in the kitchen. She was especially good at cooking chicken scampi and baking pineapple squares and apple strudel. When here two grandsons Michael and Jason were born, they spent lots of time with Grandma and Grandpa. Agnes would get them off to school every morning. She also loved to sew, garden and, later in life, root for the New York Mets. She’ll be remembered as a person who was full of life, caring and giving and she will be missed by all.
Agnes is survived by her loving son John Kichury and wife Joan and her loving daughter Carol Pares and husband Michael of Wayne; two adored grandsons: Michael Pares of Wayne and Jason Pares and wife Kate of Barrington, RI. She is also survived by her two sisters: Caroline Wall of West Pittston, PA and Antoinette Zane of Pittston, PA; her brother Jacob Para of Fairfax, VA as well as many nieces and nephews.
Agnes was predeceased by her beloved husband John J. just short of celebrating their 50th wedding anniversary in 1998. She was also predeceased by four sisters: Stella Para, Catherine LoGuidice, Mary Lynott, and Victorial Blackfeld; and four brothers: Joseph, Andrew, Leo and John Para.
In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be sent to the American Heart Association, 1 Union Street, Number 301, Robbinsville, NJ 08691, would be appreciated.
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Funeral services will be held Friday, September 28, 2012 at 10:15 AM from the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne then to Our Lady of the Holy Angels Church, 473 Main Street, Little Falls, NJ where at 11:00 AM a Funeral Mass will be offered.
Friends may visit with the family on Friday, September 28, 2012 from 8:30 to 10:30 AM at the funeral home.
September 23, 2012
Services
Funeral services will be held Friday, September 28, 2012 at 10:15 AM from the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne then to Our Lady of the Holy Angels Church, 473 Main Street, Little Falls, NJ where at 11:00 AM a Funeral Mass will be offered.
Friends may visit with the family on Friday, September 28, 2012 from 8:30 to 10:30 AM at the funeral home.
Agnes A. Kichury, age 84 died peacefully on Sunday, September 23, 2012 with her loving family by her side.
Agnes was born on December 4, 1927 in Port Blanchard, PA to polish immigrant parents Simon and Mary Para. Her father was a coal miner and she grew up in that mining town where, as a child, her brothers would roll her in a tire down hills of coal. Sometimes she would come home from play black beyond recognition!
One day, while still living in Port Blanchard, a friend came to visit Agnes. The friend brought his buddy, a young Navy Soldier named John J. Kichury from Passaic, NJ. At eighteen years of age, she married that handsome soldier and together they moved to West Paterson, NJ where they lived for seven years before moving in 1960 to their new house in Wayne which was built by her husband John and his brothers. It was in that house in Wayne that Agnes lived all these years.
With the exception of working for a season for Otagiri, a Japanese importer in Wayne to make a little extra spending money Agnes first love was being a homemaker, creating a wonderful place for family and friends to gather. She loved to entertain and was known for distributing toys instead of candy to the trick-or-treaters at Halloween. John’s coworkers would join at the Kichury home on New Year’s Eve and Agnes would wow them with her fantastic talents in the kitchen. She was especially good at cooking chicken scampi and baking pineapple squares and apple strudel. When here two grandsons Michael and Jason were born, they spent lots of time with Grandma and Grandpa. Agnes would get them off to school every morning. She also loved to sew, garden and, later in life, root for the New York Mets. She’ll be remembered as a person who was full of life, caring and giving and she will be missed by all.
Agnes is survived by her loving son John Kichury and wife Joan and her loving daughter Carol Pares and husband Michael of Wayne; two adored grandsons: Michael Pares of Wayne and Jason Pares and wife Kate of Barrington, RI. She is also survived by her two sisters: Caroline Wall of West Pittston, PA and Antoinette Zane of Pittston, PA; her brother Jacob Para of Fairfax, VA as well as many nieces and nephews.
Agnes was predeceased by her beloved husband John J. just short of celebrating their 50th wedding anniversary in 1998. She was also predeceased by four sisters: Stella Para, Catherine LoGuidice, Mary Lynott, and Victorial Blackfeld; and four brothers: Joseph, Andrew, Leo and John Para.
In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be sent to the American Heart Association, 1 Union Street, Number 301, Robbinsville, NJ 08691, would be appreciated.
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