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June 3, 2014
Services
Friends may visit with the family on Thursday, June 5, 2014 from 2-4 and 7-9 PM at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
Funeral services will be held 10 AM on Friday, June 6, 2014 at the funeral home.
Andrew Kerr age 77 of Wayne passed peacefully at home on Tuesday, June 3, 2014.
He was born at the family home in Lincoln Park and has lived in Pequannock, Pompton Plains and Wayne his entire life.
He served in the United States Navy. Andy loved boats and the ocean but was ironically placed with the aviation branch of the Navy throughout his service. He was honorably discharged in 1962.
Andy’s first job was as a landscaper. He was a draftsman for the Tungsol Corporation in Bloomfield and for the Edwards Engineering Company in Pompton Plains before working for thirty-five years as a graphic artist for Picatinny Arsenal in Dover before retiring in 1998. During his retirement he helped Wayne Auto Parts in Lincoln Park delivering parts a few days a week.
Andy will be remembered as a funny, kind, and considerate person. He loved to go to the New Jersey shore, looking for shells, flying kites, telling stories, and of course going for ice cream. He loved hot weather and just spending time by the pool in the backyard. He enjoyed traveling, camping in his younger years, cruises in the latter years. He has been to California, Massachusetts, Scotland, Spain, England, but if asked he would say Aruba was his favorite place to go. He could often be found just riding his bike around Pompton Plains and Lincoln Park. Most of all Andy cherished his family. His children and grandchildren were the focus of his life. He relished and took great pride in all their accomplishments. He thoroughly enjoyed having is grandkids over for sleepovers and breakfast on the deck. The grandchildren told him he made the “best eggs anywhere.”
He was dedicated to his community and served with the Wayne Memorial First Aid Squad for over twenty years. He served as Chief of the squad for ten years, was President and Delegate of the 6th District, Chairman of the 17th District, Trustee for four years, and was the first person awarded 1st Aider of the Year in 1973.
Andy was the loving husband of Joyce ((Markwis) Kerr; devoted father of John Kerr of Wayne and Sandy Friedhoff and her husband Timothy of Lake Stockholm; cherished grandfather of Deidra and Erica Friedhoff; dear brother of Eddie Sole of Beachwood, and the late Mae Haddad, Robert Kerr, James Kerr, Margaret Panzarino, and David Kerr; much loved uncle to many nieces and nephews.
In lieu of flowers memorial donations to the Wayne Memorial First Aid Squad, PO Box 2004, Wayne, NJ 07474 or St Jude Children’s Hospital, PO Box 1000, Dept. 142, Memphis, TN 38148-0142 would be appreciated.
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Friends may visit with the family on Thursday, June 5, 2014 from 2-4 and 7-9 PM at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
Funeral services will be held 10 AM on Friday, June 6, 2014 at the funeral home.
June 3, 2014
Services
Friends may visit with the family on Thursday, June 5, 2014 from 2-4 and 7-9 PM at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
Funeral services will be held 10 AM on Friday, June 6, 2014 at the funeral home.
Andrew Kerr age 77 of Wayne passed peacefully at home on Tuesday, June 3, 2014.
He was born at the family home in Lincoln Park and has lived in Pequannock, Pompton Plains and Wayne his entire life.
He served in the United States Navy. Andy loved boats and the ocean but was ironically placed with the aviation branch of the Navy throughout his service. He was honorably discharged in 1962.
Andy’s first job was as a landscaper. He was a draftsman for the Tungsol Corporation in Bloomfield and for the Edwards Engineering Company in Pompton Plains before working for thirty-five years as a graphic artist for Picatinny Arsenal in Dover before retiring in 1998. During his retirement he helped Wayne Auto Parts in Lincoln Park delivering parts a few days a week.
Andy will be remembered as a funny, kind, and considerate person. He loved to go to the New Jersey shore, looking for shells, flying kites, telling stories, and of course going for ice cream. He loved hot weather and just spending time by the pool in the backyard. He enjoyed traveling, camping in his younger years, cruises in the latter years. He has been to California, Massachusetts, Scotland, Spain, England, but if asked he would say Aruba was his favorite place to go. He could often be found just riding his bike around Pompton Plains and Lincoln Park. Most of all Andy cherished his family. His children and grandchildren were the focus of his life. He relished and took great pride in all their accomplishments. He thoroughly enjoyed having is grandkids over for sleepovers and breakfast on the deck. The grandchildren told him he made the “best eggs anywhere.”
He was dedicated to his community and served with the Wayne Memorial First Aid Squad for over twenty years. He served as Chief of the squad for ten years, was President and Delegate of the 6th District, Chairman of the 17th District, Trustee for four years, and was the first person awarded 1st Aider of the Year in 1973.
Andy was the loving husband of Joyce ((Markwis) Kerr; devoted father of John Kerr of Wayne and Sandy Friedhoff and her husband Timothy of Lake Stockholm; cherished grandfather of Deidra and Erica Friedhoff; dear brother of Eddie Sole of Beachwood, and the late Mae Haddad, Robert Kerr, James Kerr, Margaret Panzarino, and David Kerr; much loved uncle to many nieces and nephews.
In lieu of flowers memorial donations to the Wayne Memorial First Aid Squad, PO Box 2004, Wayne, NJ 07474 or St Jude Children’s Hospital, PO Box 1000, Dept. 142, Memphis, TN 38148-0142 would be appreciated.
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