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September 8, 2007
Services
Friends may visit with the family on Tuesday from 7-9 PM at the funeral home.
Funeral services will be held 9:30 AM on Wednesday, September 12, 2007 from the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Rd., Wayne then to Immaculate Heart of Mary RC Church, Wayne where at 10:30 AM a Funeral Mass will be offered.
Interment will be in Christ the King Cemetery, Franklin Lakes.
Albert J. Ketterer age 84 of Wayne died Saturday, September 8, 2007 at the Saint Josephs Hospital, Wayne with family by his side.
He was born in Makefield, PA and raised in Nutley having lived in Clifton before moving to Wayne fifty-three years ago.
Albert was a US Army Veteran of WW II having achieved the rank of Corporal. While in service he repaired all types of airborne communications and navigation equipment and served one year overseas in Newfoundland. He received the American Service Medal, Good Conduct Medal and the WWII Victory Medal.
He graduated from Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY with a bachelors degree in Communications with the class of 1949.
Mr. Ketterer was self-employed in industrial sales and control system design having traded as Clark Transmission and Conic Systems both in Fairfield. In the late 1980’s he scaled back his hours of work but never fully retired. He began persuing a multitude of interests including: family, travel, wine making, painting, clock making, photography and wood working to name a just few.
Albert is the loving husband of fifty- eight years to Mary (nee Clark) Ketterer; devoted father of Kathy Bogert and John of Wayne, David Ketterer and Jeanne of Chapel Hill, NC, Douglas Ketterer and Julann of Lincoln Park , Paul Ketterer and Kathy Coburn of New Foundland, PA , Susan Lynn of Fair Lawn, Victoria Wittersch ein and James of Hopewell Township, Nancy Cohen and Scott of Cedar Grove,; loving brother of Cynthia Gibbons and Patrick of Houston, TX and Lawrence L Ketterer and Judy of Basking Ridge; cherished grandfather of ten grandchildren and one great-grandson.
In lieu of flowers memorial donations to the Wayne Memorial First Aid Squad, PO Box 291, Wayne, NJ 07470 or the Passaic Valley Hospice, 783 North Riverview Drive, Totowa 07512 would be appreciated.
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Friends may visit with the family on Tuesday from 7-9 PM at the funeral home.
Funeral services will be held 9:30 AM on Wednesday, September 12, 2007 from the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Rd., Wayne then to Immaculate Heart of Mary RC Church, Wayne where at 10:30 AM a Funeral Mass will be offered.
Interment will be in Christ the King Cemetery, Franklin Lakes.
September 8, 2007
Services
Friends may visit with the family on Tuesday from 7-9 PM at the funeral home.
Funeral services will be held 9:30 AM on Wednesday, September 12, 2007 from the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Rd., Wayne then to Immaculate Heart of Mary RC Church, Wayne where at 10:30 AM a Funeral Mass will be offered.
Interment will be in Christ the King Cemetery, Franklin Lakes.
Albert J. Ketterer age 84 of Wayne died Saturday, September 8, 2007 at the Saint Josephs Hospital, Wayne with family by his side.
He was born in Makefield, PA and raised in Nutley having lived in Clifton before moving to Wayne fifty-three years ago.
Albert was a US Army Veteran of WW II having achieved the rank of Corporal. While in service he repaired all types of airborne communications and navigation equipment and served one year overseas in Newfoundland. He received the American Service Medal, Good Conduct Medal and the WWII Victory Medal.
He graduated from Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY with a bachelors degree in Communications with the class of 1949.
Mr. Ketterer was self-employed in industrial sales and control system design having traded as Clark Transmission and Conic Systems both in Fairfield. In the late 1980’s he scaled back his hours of work but never fully retired. He began persuing a multitude of interests including: family, travel, wine making, painting, clock making, photography and wood working to name a just few.
Albert is the loving husband of fifty- eight years to Mary (nee Clark) Ketterer; devoted father of Kathy Bogert and John of Wayne, David Ketterer and Jeanne of Chapel Hill, NC, Douglas Ketterer and Julann of Lincoln Park , Paul Ketterer and Kathy Coburn of New Foundland, PA , Susan Lynn of Fair Lawn, Victoria Wittersch ein and James of Hopewell Township, Nancy Cohen and Scott of Cedar Grove,; loving brother of Cynthia Gibbons and Patrick of Houston, TX and Lawrence L Ketterer and Judy of Basking Ridge; cherished grandfather of ten grandchildren and one great-grandson.
In lieu of flowers memorial donations to the Wayne Memorial First Aid Squad, PO Box 291, Wayne, NJ 07470 or the Passaic Valley Hospice, 783 North Riverview Drive, Totowa 07512 would be appreciated.
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