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November 8, 2010
Services
Friends may visit with the family on Thursday, November 11, 2010 from 2-4, 7-9 PM at the funeral home.
Funeral services will be held 9 AM on Friday, November 12, 2010 from the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne then to St. Gerard's RC Church, 501 West Broadway, Paterson where a 10 AM Funeral Mass will be offered.
Interment will be in Holy Sepulchre Cemetery, Totowa.
Anita L. "Neat" Bergen (nee Sutter) age 100 of Wayne, formerly of Haledon, died Monday, November 8, 2010.
She was born in Northampton, MA, and lived in Haledon, NJ, for fifty-eight years before moving to Wayne. For the last eleven years she has lived in Packanack Lake with her daughter and granddaughter, Anita L. & Anita J., where she was cared for lovingly until her death.
Anita was a parishioner and member of the choir of St. Gerard's RC Church, Paterson for many years.
Anita met Walter T. Bergen, Sr. while sharing a soda at Bricky's Store, when she was just sixteen years old; There was no texting back then, so Walter and Anita communicated using Morse Code with their flashlights. They would meet for secret rondavous at Weeda's Ice Cream Parlor.
They married on August 26, 1933 at St. George's Church, Paterson, had a reception at Marucca's Restaurant, Wayne for their reception, and went by car on a two week honeymoon to the Chicago Worlds Fair. Walter was the principal of the Blomingdale Middle School where he worked for fifty years, which was then named for him. It is now called the Walter T. Bergen School of Bloomindgale. They had a loving and devoted sixty-five years of marriage until Walter passing in 1998.
Anita was always dressed nicely, a great shopper, a terrific homemaker, and an excellent grandmother. She was a talented seamstress and could often be found making clothes and costumes for her children and later her grand children. She was an active part of her grandchildren's lives well into her 80's. She is said to have made a great Lamb Stew; One wonders if her surviving the 1918 Spanish Flu Epidemic, helped give her the zest for life she had.
She was the devoted wife of the late Walter T. Bergen, Sr.(1998); loving mother of Anita Cronk of the Packanack Lake Section of Wayne, Walter T. Bergen, Jr. and his wife Paula of Estero, FL and Robert H. Bergen and his wife Jerilyn of Clifton; cherished grandmother of Brian Bergen, Amanda Cronk-Brzozowski, Maura Bergen, Erik Bergen, Alexandra Vignola, Anita J. Cronk, Erika Bergen, Jessica Bergen and the late Christopher Bergen(1983); loved great grandmother of Julianna Cronk and Joseph Vignola; loving sister of the late Marie Fischer, Henry and George Sutter.
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Friends may visit with the family on Thursday, November 11, 2010 from 2-4, 7-9 PM at the funeral home.
Funeral services will be held 9 AM on Friday, November 12, 2010 from the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne then to St. Gerard's RC Church, 501 West Broadway, Paterson where a 10 AM Funeral Mass will be offered.
Interment will be in Holy Sepulchre Cemetery, Totowa.
November 8, 2010
Services
Friends may visit with the family on Thursday, November 11, 2010 from 2-4, 7-9 PM at the funeral home.
Funeral services will be held 9 AM on Friday, November 12, 2010 from the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne then to St. Gerard's RC Church, 501 West Broadway, Paterson where a 10 AM Funeral Mass will be offered.
Interment will be in Holy Sepulchre Cemetery, Totowa.
Anita L. "Neat" Bergen (nee Sutter) age 100 of Wayne, formerly of Haledon, died Monday, November 8, 2010.
She was born in Northampton, MA, and lived in Haledon, NJ, for fifty-eight years before moving to Wayne. For the last eleven years she has lived in Packanack Lake with her daughter and granddaughter, Anita L. & Anita J., where she was cared for lovingly until her death.
Anita was a parishioner and member of the choir of St. Gerard's RC Church, Paterson for many years.
Anita met Walter T. Bergen, Sr. while sharing a soda at Bricky's Store, when she was just sixteen years old; There was no texting back then, so Walter and Anita communicated using Morse Code with their flashlights. They would meet for secret rondavous at Weeda's Ice Cream Parlor.
They married on August 26, 1933 at St. George's Church, Paterson, had a reception at Marucca's Restaurant, Wayne for their reception, and went by car on a two week honeymoon to the Chicago Worlds Fair. Walter was the principal of the Blomingdale Middle School where he worked for fifty years, which was then named for him. It is now called the Walter T. Bergen School of Bloomindgale. They had a loving and devoted sixty-five years of marriage until Walter passing in 1998.
Anita was always dressed nicely, a great shopper, a terrific homemaker, and an excellent grandmother. She was a talented seamstress and could often be found making clothes and costumes for her children and later her grand children. She was an active part of her grandchildren's lives well into her 80's. She is said to have made a great Lamb Stew; One wonders if her surviving the 1918 Spanish Flu Epidemic, helped give her the zest for life she had.
She was the devoted wife of the late Walter T. Bergen, Sr.(1998); loving mother of Anita Cronk of the Packanack Lake Section of Wayne, Walter T. Bergen, Jr. and his wife Paula of Estero, FL and Robert H. Bergen and his wife Jerilyn of Clifton; cherished grandmother of Brian Bergen, Amanda Cronk-Brzozowski, Maura Bergen, Erik Bergen, Alexandra Vignola, Anita J. Cronk, Erika Bergen, Jessica Bergen and the late Christopher Bergen(1983); loved great grandmother of Julianna Cronk and Joseph Vignola; loving sister of the late Marie Fischer, Henry and George Sutter.
In lieu of flowers please send donations to the Salesian Sisters Development. http://www.salesiansisters.org/
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