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January 26, 2009
Services
Funeral services will be held 9 AM on Saturday, January 30, 2009 at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
Friends may visit with the family on Friday, January 29, 2009 from 2-4, 7-9 PM at the funeral home.
Interment will be in Clinton Cemetery, Irvington.
Alicia R. Philhower(Rowe) age 97 of Wayne died Monday, January 26, 2009 at the Chilton Memorial Hospital, Pompton Plains.
She was born in Newark and lived in East Orange and Irvington before moving to Wayne twenty-eight years ago.
Alicia was a payroll clerk for Public Service Gas & Electric, Newark before retiring in 1973.
She loved to cook and was lovingly know as the “Apple Pie Queen” by her family. She also enjoyed traveling during her retirement years as it was always her dream to “see the world”.
She was predeceased by her loving husband Harold Philhower in 1960. Alicia is the beloved mother of Patricia Ryan and her husband Charles of Towaco; cherished grandmother of Joyce Kardux and her husband Ken of Wayne, JoAnn Bigsby and her husband Russ of Stockholm, and Richard Kelly and his wife Tara of Pequannock; devoted great-grandmother of Erik and Devin Bigsby, K.C. and Ryan Kardux and Brynn Kelly.
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Funeral services will be held 9 AM on Saturday, January 30, 2009 at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
Friends may visit with the family on Friday, January 29, 2009 from 2-4, 7-9 PM at the funeral home.
Interment will be in Clinton Cemetery, Irvington.

January 26, 2009
Services
Funeral services will be held 9 AM on Saturday, January 30, 2009 at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
Friends may visit with the family on Friday, January 29, 2009 from 2-4, 7-9 PM at the funeral home.
Interment will be in Clinton Cemetery, Irvington.
Alicia R. Philhower(Rowe) age 97 of Wayne died Monday, January 26, 2009 at the Chilton Memorial Hospital, Pompton Plains.
She was born in Newark and lived in East Orange and Irvington before moving to Wayne twenty-eight years ago.
Alicia was a payroll clerk for Public Service Gas & Electric, Newark before retiring in 1973.
She loved to cook and was lovingly know as the “Apple Pie Queen” by her family. She also enjoyed traveling during her retirement years as it was always her dream to “see the world”.
She was predeceased by her loving husband Harold Philhower in 1960. Alicia is the beloved mother of Patricia Ryan and her husband Charles of Towaco; cherished grandmother of Joyce Kardux and her husband Ken of Wayne, JoAnn Bigsby and her husband Russ of Stockholm, and Richard Kelly and his wife Tara of Pequannock; devoted great-grandmother of Erik and Devin Bigsby, K.C. and Ryan Kardux and Brynn Kelly.
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