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May 3, 2011
Services
Friends may visit with the family at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne, on Friday, May 6, 2011 from 2-4 & 7-9 PM. Funeral Services will be held at 10 AM on Saturday, May 7, 2011 at the funeral home.
Alma MacRae (LaRoe) MacQueen, age 97 of Wayne, died peacefully on Tuesday, May 3, 2011.
Alma was born in Chicago, Illinois and due to her father’s employ, she moved around a great deal as a child. She attended fourteen different schools before graduating from high school, a fact that she didn’t necessarily appreciate. She continued her education at Douglass College in New Brunswick, New Jersey and graduated with the class of 1935. She ultimately earned a Masters Degree.
She came to call Ramsey, New Jersey her ‘hometown’, but she lived in Wayne longer than anywhere else. Alma enjoyed a career teaching home economics in the Oakland public schools for nineteen years before retiring in 1977.
Sadly, in 1969, Alma lost her first husband, the true love of her life, James MacQueen. Several years later she married Kenneth MacRae, who was also a teacher in the Oakland Schools. Together, they travelled all over the United States, including four cross-country road trips, each time taking a different route. She eventually visited forty eight of the United States, missing only Alaska and Hawaii. She ventured into Canada a few times and took a solo trip to Scotland once. After just sixteen years of marriage, Kenneth passed away in 1992.
Alma found her greatest joys volunteering at the Wayne General Hospital for a number of years and as a devoted parishioner of the United Methodist Church in Wayne. Her Christian faith was her foundation and she was grateful to the Lord for the many blessings she enjoyed during her many years.
Alma is survived by her three daughters; Peggy Blake and her husband Peter of Vernon, NJ, Barbara Watson and her husband Bruce of Westfield, Indiana, and Virginia Hunnell of Waynesburg, Pennsylvania, seven grandchildren: Kurt Blake and his wife Angela or York, PA, Scott Blake and his wife Janel of Ramsey, NJ, Jeff Blake of Vernon, NJ, Sherry Gant and her husband James of Indian Trail, North Carolina, Brian Hunnell and his wife Jennenne of Lawndale, North Carolina, Darren Watson of McMinnville, Oregon, and Stephanie Broere and her husband Rob of Indianapolis, Indiana, and thirteen great-grandchildren; Spencer, Benjamin, Marita, Jeremy, and Maggie Rae Blake, Paden, Shelby, and Caleb Gant, Cameron Samek, Aleya and Ian Hunnell, and Lily Ann and Aimee Broere. She was also predeceased by her brother, Edward LaRoe, in 2010 and her son-in-law Morgan Hunnell, in 2009.
In lieu of flowers, donations in Alma’s memory to the United Methodist Church of Wayne, 99 Parish Drive, Wayne, NJ 07470 would be greatly appreciated.
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Friends may visit with the family at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne, on Friday, May 6, 2011 from 2-4 & 7-9 PM. Funeral Services will be held at 10 AM on Saturday, May 7, 2011 at the funeral home.
May 3, 2011
Services
Friends may visit with the family at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne, on Friday, May 6, 2011 from 2-4 & 7-9 PM. Funeral Services will be held at 10 AM on Saturday, May 7, 2011 at the funeral home.
Alma MacRae (LaRoe) MacQueen, age 97 of Wayne, died peacefully on Tuesday, May 3, 2011.
Alma was born in Chicago, Illinois and due to her father’s employ, she moved around a great deal as a child. She attended fourteen different schools before graduating from high school, a fact that she didn’t necessarily appreciate. She continued her education at Douglass College in New Brunswick, New Jersey and graduated with the class of 1935. She ultimately earned a Masters Degree.
She came to call Ramsey, New Jersey her ‘hometown’, but she lived in Wayne longer than anywhere else. Alma enjoyed a career teaching home economics in the Oakland public schools for nineteen years before retiring in 1977.
Sadly, in 1969, Alma lost her first husband, the true love of her life, James MacQueen. Several years later she married Kenneth MacRae, who was also a teacher in the Oakland Schools. Together, they travelled all over the United States, including four cross-country road trips, each time taking a different route. She eventually visited forty eight of the United States, missing only Alaska and Hawaii. She ventured into Canada a few times and took a solo trip to Scotland once. After just sixteen years of marriage, Kenneth passed away in 1992.
Alma found her greatest joys volunteering at the Wayne General Hospital for a number of years and as a devoted parishioner of the United Methodist Church in Wayne. Her Christian faith was her foundation and she was grateful to the Lord for the many blessings she enjoyed during her many years.
Alma is survived by her three daughters; Peggy Blake and her husband Peter of Vernon, NJ, Barbara Watson and her husband Bruce of Westfield, Indiana, and Virginia Hunnell of Waynesburg, Pennsylvania, seven grandchildren: Kurt Blake and his wife Angela or York, PA, Scott Blake and his wife Janel of Ramsey, NJ, Jeff Blake of Vernon, NJ, Sherry Gant and her husband James of Indian Trail, North Carolina, Brian Hunnell and his wife Jennenne of Lawndale, North Carolina, Darren Watson of McMinnville, Oregon, and Stephanie Broere and her husband Rob of Indianapolis, Indiana, and thirteen great-grandchildren; Spencer, Benjamin, Marita, Jeremy, and Maggie Rae Blake, Paden, Shelby, and Caleb Gant, Cameron Samek, Aleya and Ian Hunnell, and Lily Ann and Aimee Broere. She was also predeceased by her brother, Edward LaRoe, in 2010 and her son-in-law Morgan Hunnell, in 2009.
In lieu of flowers, donations in Alma’s memory to the United Methodist Church of Wayne, 99 Parish Drive, Wayne, NJ 07470 would be greatly appreciated.
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