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July 31, 2009
Services
Family and friends may visit with the family at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne on Monday 3 August from 6-9 PM.
Funeral services will be held on Tuesday 4 August from the funeral home and then to Saint Mary’s RC Church, Pompton Lakes where at 9:30 AM a Funeral Mass will be celebrated.
Interment will follow in Laurel Grove Memorial Park in Totowa.
Alice Louise Tenthoff (nee Eggermann) age 95 years eleven months of Wayne died Friday, July 31, 2009 at CareOne in Wayne.
She was born and raised in Jersey City and later moved to Beaver, Pennsylvania, Port Arthur, Texas, Cranford, New Jersey, and Bethel Park, Pennsylvania just south of Pittsburg before settling in Wayne thirty-seven years ago.
Alice received her formal education at Jersey City High School graduating with the Class of 1931. Her working career began right out of high school as a secretary with a jewelry firm in New York City. She stayed there until she got a position, also as a secretary, for the National Biscuit Company in New York City at 14th Street. The new job was a shorter commute but still took a bus and then the tube train under the Hudson River and a subway. It is interesting to note that her commute to work in those days was five cents for the Tube or a City Bus. When she married she had to leave the business world because it was socially not proper, in that day, to be married and work. However, without knowing it, National Biscuit did make her wedding cake for her. Later in life and after raising her three children she resumed working by being the Welcome Wagon Hostess in Wayne, a business enterprise in which she participated for twenty years. At the same time she ran “Engaged Girls Services” a company that would facilitate providing materials and services for future brides, and Birth of Babies which provided goodies to families with new children. She enjoyed all of her jobs and the friends she made at them.
Alice very much enjoyed the hobby of crocheting and in her career she made over one hundred and fifty Afghans as well as smaller items. Anyone who knew Alice at his point in her life would recognize her and her crochet bag. She used her finished products as gifts, and for charity auctions to help raise money for various causes. In her later years she spent time teaching her granddaughter how to crochet.
She was a member of the DAR “Daughters of the American Revolution Schuyler-Colfax Chapter” in Wayne. She was also a member of the Society for Creative Anachronisms, an educational society that went to great lengths creating historic events. One such event was carried out at Slippery Rock, Pennsylvania where ten thousand participants created a Medieval Village setting thereby giving participants and attendees a realistic picture of past middle ages civilization.
Alice also loved to travel and has logged visits to many countries including Germany, Mexico, Canada, France, Greece, and on safari to Kenya, Africa and many locations in the US including Florida and California.
Her children are left with fond memories in their youth of a very dedicated Mother who always put others before herself. Mom would welcome her children’s friends to their home and was always the hostess to be admired. As the children entered their adult years Mom assumed roles as friend and inspiration.
Edward and Alice Tenthoff were sometimes happily married for forty-four years until Ed’s passing in April 1983.
Surviving are two sons Edward John Tenthoff and his wife Katherine of West Milford, Alan Peter Tenthoff and his wife Lee of Little River, SC; one daughter Marian Hanlon and her husband John of Riverdale; ten grandchildren and nine great grandchildren.
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Family and friends may visit with the family at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne on Monday 3 August from 6-9 PM.
Funeral services will be held on Tuesday 4 August from the funeral home and then to Saint Mary’s RC Church, Pompton Lakes where at 9:30 AM a Funeral Mass will be celebrated.
Interment will follow in Laurel Grove Memorial Park in Totowa.
July 31, 2009
Services
Family and friends may visit with the family at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne on Monday 3 August from 6-9 PM.
Funeral services will be held on Tuesday 4 August from the funeral home and then to Saint Mary’s RC Church, Pompton Lakes where at 9:30 AM a Funeral Mass will be celebrated.
Interment will follow in Laurel Grove Memorial Park in Totowa.
Alice Louise Tenthoff (nee Eggermann) age 95 years eleven months of Wayne died Friday, July 31, 2009 at CareOne in Wayne.
She was born and raised in Jersey City and later moved to Beaver, Pennsylvania, Port Arthur, Texas, Cranford, New Jersey, and Bethel Park, Pennsylvania just south of Pittsburg before settling in Wayne thirty-seven years ago.
Alice received her formal education at Jersey City High School graduating with the Class of 1931. Her working career began right out of high school as a secretary with a jewelry firm in New York City. She stayed there until she got a position, also as a secretary, for the National Biscuit Company in New York City at 14th Street. The new job was a shorter commute but still took a bus and then the tube train under the Hudson River and a subway. It is interesting to note that her commute to work in those days was five cents for the Tube or a City Bus. When she married she had to leave the business world because it was socially not proper, in that day, to be married and work. However, without knowing it, National Biscuit did make her wedding cake for her. Later in life and after raising her three children she resumed working by being the Welcome Wagon Hostess in Wayne, a business enterprise in which she participated for twenty years. At the same time she ran “Engaged Girls Services” a company that would facilitate providing materials and services for future brides, and Birth of Babies which provided goodies to families with new children. She enjoyed all of her jobs and the friends she made at them.
Alice very much enjoyed the hobby of crocheting and in her career she made over one hundred and fifty Afghans as well as smaller items. Anyone who knew Alice at his point in her life would recognize her and her crochet bag. She used her finished products as gifts, and for charity auctions to help raise money for various causes. In her later years she spent time teaching her granddaughter how to crochet.
She was a member of the DAR “Daughters of the American Revolution Schuyler-Colfax Chapter” in Wayne. She was also a member of the Society for Creative Anachronisms, an educational society that went to great lengths creating historic events. One such event was carried out at Slippery Rock, Pennsylvania where ten thousand participants created a Medieval Village setting thereby giving participants and attendees a realistic picture of past middle ages civilization.
Alice also loved to travel and has logged visits to many countries including Germany, Mexico, Canada, France, Greece, and on safari to Kenya, Africa and many locations in the US including Florida and California.
Her children are left with fond memories in their youth of a very dedicated Mother who always put others before herself. Mom would welcome her children’s friends to their home and was always the hostess to be admired. As the children entered their adult years Mom assumed roles as friend and inspiration.
Edward and Alice Tenthoff were sometimes happily married for forty-four years until Ed’s passing in April 1983.
Surviving are two sons Edward John Tenthoff and his wife Katherine of West Milford, Alan Peter Tenthoff and his wife Lee of Little River, SC; one daughter Marian Hanlon and her husband John of Riverdale; ten grandchildren and nine great grandchildren.
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