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January 10, 2013
Services
Friends may visit with the family on Monday, January 14, 2013 from 4-8 PM at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne. An 8 PM funeral service will be held at the funeral home on Monday after the visitation hours.
Andrew “Andy” James Lueddeke, Sr. age 55 of Wayne, died suddenly and unexpectedly, on Thursday, January 10, 2013 at home.
He was born in Montclair and was raised in the Packanack Lake Section of Wayne. Andy graduated from Wayne Valley High School with the Class of 1976.
Andy was always known to be a hard worker and manages to work two jobs in his 20’s as a mason’s helper for Carmen Raymond mason contractor in Wayne and also bartending at the Waterfront in Packanack Lake. It is at the Waterfront that he met his wife Michelle which was the love of his life and the love of hers. They were inseparable. His first date with Michelle was at Ratskeller’s in Haledon, they fell in love and eloped to New Mexico where they married on November 27, 1981. Andy and Michelle enjoyed thirty wonderful years together.
Andy was a very generous, kind and giving man. He was a mason by trade but was also a skilled carpenter. He built a half dozen homes in New Mexico - from start to finish. There was nothing Andy couldn’t do. His forte was site work where he would get projects literally off the ground for Donnelly Construction in Wayne. He also worked in the construction trade with Stackpole Construction in Westwood and Hekemian & Co. in Hackensack.
Andy also put his skilled hands to work helping family and friends remodel their homes. They would call Andy because of his craftsmanship & expertise. No one worked like Andy…he was a machine! Many said they never saw someone work as hard as he did…he was a perfectionist and his work showed that. Nearly all the time he would work for next to nothing….that’s the kind of man he was. Every winter Andy would be out shoveling driveways of people he didn’t know and an elderly neighbor. He would go out to buy a paper every Sunday and would get a second and leave it by his elderly neighbor's door. This is the kind of man he was.
Andy was an outgoing person who loved to tell stories. He talked to just about everyone and always seemed to have a joke. He enjoyed his visits to New Mexico, hiking, metal detecting, and being with his family.
Andy was the loving husband of Michelle (nee Gensinger) Lueddeke; devoted father of Andrew J. Lueddeke, Jr. of Wayne, Jason K. Lueddeke and his wife Jessica of Wayne, Michael C. Lueddeke and his wife Susan of Wayne, and Jessica J. Lueddeke and her husband Chris Locascio of Dover; cherished son of Jane (nee Reiley) Lueddeke of Wayne and her late husband Francis Lueddeke (2000); devoted grandfather of Jason L. Lueddeke, Jr. and Christopher Locascio, Jr.; dear brother of Jane Masterson and her husband Joe of Somerset, Barbara Lueddeke of Wayne, Maryanne Wray of Skyland, NC, Frank Lueddeke of Albuquerque, NM, Peggy Hulit and her husband Rob of Allentown, and TJ Lueddeke of Wayne; loved uncle of many nieces and nephews.
In lieu of flowers memorial donations to St Jude’s Children’s Hospital, 262 Danny Thomas Place, Memphis, TN, 38105 would be appreciated.
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Friends may visit with the family on Monday, January 14, 2013 from 4-8 PM at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne. An 8 PM funeral service will be held at the funeral home on Monday after the visitation hours.
January 10, 2013
Services
Friends may visit with the family on Monday, January 14, 2013 from 4-8 PM at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne. An 8 PM funeral service will be held at the funeral home on Monday after the visitation hours.
Andrew “Andy” James Lueddeke, Sr. age 55 of Wayne, died suddenly and unexpectedly, on Thursday, January 10, 2013 at home.
He was born in Montclair and was raised in the Packanack Lake Section of Wayne. Andy graduated from Wayne Valley High School with the Class of 1976.
Andy was always known to be a hard worker and manages to work two jobs in his 20’s as a mason’s helper for Carmen Raymond mason contractor in Wayne and also bartending at the Waterfront in Packanack Lake. It is at the Waterfront that he met his wife Michelle which was the love of his life and the love of hers. They were inseparable. His first date with Michelle was at Ratskeller’s in Haledon, they fell in love and eloped to New Mexico where they married on November 27, 1981. Andy and Michelle enjoyed thirty wonderful years together.
Andy was a very generous, kind and giving man. He was a mason by trade but was also a skilled carpenter. He built a half dozen homes in New Mexico - from start to finish. There was nothing Andy couldn’t do. His forte was site work where he would get projects literally off the ground for Donnelly Construction in Wayne. He also worked in the construction trade with Stackpole Construction in Westwood and Hekemian & Co. in Hackensack.
Andy also put his skilled hands to work helping family and friends remodel their homes. They would call Andy because of his craftsmanship & expertise. No one worked like Andy…he was a machine! Many said they never saw someone work as hard as he did…he was a perfectionist and his work showed that. Nearly all the time he would work for next to nothing….that’s the kind of man he was. Every winter Andy would be out shoveling driveways of people he didn’t know and an elderly neighbor. He would go out to buy a paper every Sunday and would get a second and leave it by his elderly neighbor's door. This is the kind of man he was.
Andy was an outgoing person who loved to tell stories. He talked to just about everyone and always seemed to have a joke. He enjoyed his visits to New Mexico, hiking, metal detecting, and being with his family.
Andy was the loving husband of Michelle (nee Gensinger) Lueddeke; devoted father of Andrew J. Lueddeke, Jr. of Wayne, Jason K. Lueddeke and his wife Jessica of Wayne, Michael C. Lueddeke and his wife Susan of Wayne, and Jessica J. Lueddeke and her husband Chris Locascio of Dover; cherished son of Jane (nee Reiley) Lueddeke of Wayne and her late husband Francis Lueddeke (2000); devoted grandfather of Jason L. Lueddeke, Jr. and Christopher Locascio, Jr.; dear brother of Jane Masterson and her husband Joe of Somerset, Barbara Lueddeke of Wayne, Maryanne Wray of Skyland, NC, Frank Lueddeke of Albuquerque, NM, Peggy Hulit and her husband Rob of Allentown, and TJ Lueddeke of Wayne; loved uncle of many nieces and nephews.
In lieu of flowers memorial donations to St Jude’s Children’s Hospital, 262 Danny Thomas Place, Memphis, TN, 38105 would be appreciated.
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