Angela Molter

Angela Marie Molter, age 97, of Packanack Lake in Wayne, passed away peacefully on Monday, January 31, 2022.

Angela was the beloved wife of Albert Molter who predeceased her in 2006. She was the devoted daughter of George M. Decker and Mary (née Stohl) Decker who both predeceased her; loving mother of Marilyn and husband Charles Mysak of Wayne: cherished grandmother of Paul and wife Eleni Palmeri, Nicole Mysak, Charles and wife Carrie Mysak, and Joseph Mysak; adoring great-grandmother of Noa Paige Mysak and Paul Albert Palmeri; dear sister of Mary and her late husband George Sendak, Nancy and husband Kashfinur Heine, the late Elizabeth Annee and her late husband Richard, the late George Decker and his wife Dorothy, sister-in-law of the late Mildred ‘Mimi’ Molter Abbate, and dear aunt of numerous nieces and nephews.

Angela ‘Sue’ Molter was an enthusiast for life, her whole life.

Born in 1924, Angela spent the summers of her early childhood in Boonton, New Jersey with her Great-Aunt Nora while her parents worked. When the Depression hit in the 1930’s, she helped her mother raise her four younger siblings: Mary, George, Elizabeth and Nancy. They remained close their entire lives. Angela attended Holy Trinity grammar school until the eighth grade and then continued her education at Clifton High School.

In 1941, she met her future husband, Al Molter, at a dance in Clifton and as Angela would say: ‘I knew he was the one’. The two sweethearts were married in 1942. Sue traveled with Al to all his training bases in the South before Al was sent by the United States Army to liberate Europe.

After the war, their daughter Marilyn was born in 1947. Then in 1950, Al and Sue bought a house in the Packanack Lake section of Wayne, which would become their lifelong home. They went to work for Datascan in Clifton. They were two of the first three employees and for the next twenty years, they would help build the company up to more than 100 employees.

Sue then went on to work for Smith Industries, the Aerospace and Defense System Company, in Florham Park, where she served as a supervisor in the departments that helped produce flight recorders and radar systems. She enjoyed and was proud of her work there.

Sue finished her career at the Wayne public schools as a before school childcare giver, retiring at the age of 87.

In 1975, with the birth of their first grandchild Paul, and then Nicole, Charlie and Joe, Sue and Al assumed the role of a lifetime as Grandma and Grandpa.

For the next three decades, they passionately supported their grandchildren through all of life’s activities, including many trips to Vermont, Hershey Park and Florida. This loving care for their family continued throughout their lives.

Grandma was a talented cook and baker. At Thanksgiving she would cook the big family dinner and on each grandchild’s birthday, she would make a special cake. As each child was born, Grandma would handcraft a beautiful Christmas stocking and yearly tree ornaments, all of which are enjoyed by the family to this day. Christmas was not only a time for gift giving, it was a time for the family to spend together going to shows such as the Big Apple Circus, Radio City Christmas Spectacular, Cirque Du Soleil and The Nutcracker.

For their Communions, Grandma would help craft their banners. At Easter she and Al would paint Easter eggs with their grandchildren and conduct the annual Easter egg hunt. Each family member has their own special, happy memories of these events, and at the center of these memories are Grandma and Grandpa. But it wasn’t just holidays and special occasions: Grandma and Grandpa were an integral part of their family’s everyday life.

Sue loved art and she loved to paint. She could paint a great landscape, as evidenced from the art that hung on her walls. She loved music and she loved to sing. If you wanted to get her going, all you would have to do is strike up a chorus of ‘Give My Regards to Broadway’ and ‘I’ll Be Loving you Always’, which reminded her of the way Grandpa would sign his Valentine’s cards, Always Al. There was ‘Oh What a Beautiful Morning’ ‘Catch a Falling Star’ ‘Que Sera Sera’ ‘It’s A Good Day’ and ‘You are My Sunshine.’

Grandma was upbeat, joyous and a positive force of nature for all who knew her.

One of her greatest joys was living long enough to welcome her great-grandchildren in 2018, Noa Paige and Paul Albert. She spent many happy moments with them, watching them grow.

Grandma and Grandpa were can-do people who taught their grandchildren that the most important things in life were the simplest. When you gathered around their table, you knew you were home. They were good listeners and with four busy, growing, talkative grandchildren, they had to be. There was never any doubt as to whose corner they were in, and that you were loved.

Grandma was sentimental. One of the family’s joys was to gather for Grandma’s birthday and give her presents and cards. Grandma would always read the cards aloud and inevitably, by the time she got to the last line, she would be all choked up with tears, because Grandma knew, and we all knew, that the love she infused into our family was returned in full.

We love her, we will miss her and will always keep her in our hearts.

In lieu of flowers, those planning an expression of sympathy in Angela’s name are asked to consider:

Alzheimer’s New Jersey
425 Eagle Rock Ave., Suite 203
Roseland, NJ 07068
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