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August 21, 2008
Services
Funeral services will be held 9 AM on Tuesday, August 26, 2008 from the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne then to Saint Marys RC Church, Pompton Lakes where at 10 AM a Funeral Mass will be offered.
Friends may visit with the family on Monday, August 25, 2008 from 2-4, 7-9 PM at the funeral home.
Anna J. Rude(Geiger) age 89 of Clifton died on Thursday, August 21, 2008, suddenly while on a family vacation.
She was born in Bayonne and lived in Jersey City, Teaneck and Bogota before moving to Clifton twenty-five years ago.
Anna graduated from Saint Francis School of Nursing, Hoboken where she received her certification as a Registered Nurse.
She was a RN and Operating Room Supervisor for Saddle Brook Hospital, Saddle Brook for many years before retiring.
She was a parishioner of Saint Brendans RC Church, Clifton.
Her hobbies include delighting in the accomplishments of her children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren, being an avid reader, brilliant at crossword puzzles, baking and travel. Her travel destinations include: Japan, China, Australia, Italy and England just to name a few. One trip she looked forward to each year, for the past forty-two years, was a family vacation in Beach Haven, NJ. It was on this trip that she passed away with her family by her side.
She was the beloved wife of thirty-one years to the late Martin A. Rude(1970); loving mother of Patricia Rude of Burbank, CA, Joseph M. Rude and his wife Marie of Wayne, the late John D. Rude(1995)and his surviving wife Judy Rude of New York City and the late Martin A. Rude(1971); cherished grandmother of eight grandchildren and seventeen great-grandchildren; loved sister of the late Elizabeth Hauch and Eleanor Gomer.
In lieu of flowers memorial donations to the Downs Syndrome Research & Treatment Fund(DSRTF), 755 Pagemill Road, Suite A-200, Palo Alto, CA 94304 would be appreciated.
Grandma Rude- Everyone’s Grandma
Euglogy read by her grandson Joseph Rude
When Mom and Dad asked me to do the Eulogy about Grandma on Friday I was not surprised. In fact, I almost expected it for some reason. Soon after Jeanne called me about her passing and the news settled in, I began searching my cloudy brain for what to say about this awesome woman’s life. While we were at Grandma’s house, I found a letter from the Air Force about my Uncle Martin’s passing away and it reminded me about something she gave me. I found a letter in our house that she wrote to me in my first week of college. Now granted my letter was not wrapped in saran wrap and put in a dated Ziploc like hers but I still have it.
At this point in the eulogy Joe read the following letter:
Friday, September 11, 1987
Dear Joe,
Thank you for the beautiful birthday card and your nice note. I took it to your home to share it with your parents and sister on Wednesday. I went there to help celebrate your mother’s birthday. I was the cook and I made a London broil with a different recipe that I got in Manasquan from Aunt Elizabeth. With it we had shrimp cocktail, buttered noodles and wilted lettuce. I just know you would have loved it. As a matter of fact your father’s wished he could mail some to you but couldn’t quite figure out how. Later we had birthday cake that Aunt Jeanne made.
We ate a little late because we wanted to wait for Jeannea. Rather than drive home I stayed over in your bed. It was so comfortable and all those people on your walls didn’t keep me awake for one minute.
Have to get my laundry out of the drier. I am having a problem with my washing machine and they won’t be able to come to fix it until next Friday. It’s a good thing there is a Laundromat down the block because I’m almost as bad or good as your mother when it comes to washing clothes. I’ll write again soon and I’ll remember to make you some choc chips as soon as I have a chance.
Love,
Grandma
Could the girl write or what? Didn’t she put John Grisham to shame? Well, she did for that home sick 18 year old boy who just left Wayne for the first time. Her comforting letters with her chocolate chip cookies surrounded by the edible popcorn packaging brought me home without ever having to leave college. It seems like a lifetime ago.
Anna Jane Rude was born on September 5, 1918 and was in no mood for a surprise party so she stepped out quietly on August 21, 2008 in a place that she loved surrounded by her family. Some say that Garrett’s intense potty training regime next to her bedroom in LBI is what put her over the edge but no one can confirm this for sure.
I can see GiGi laughing at my humor now. Her infectious smile and laugh is one that we all know and will remember. It is one that is inside of all of us. Grandma Rude was always a positive uplifting person to be around. She was a giving friend, a mentor, a teacher, and many of us forget a healer. I am sure when she got to heaven there was a line of people behind Grandpa Rude, Uncle Martin, and Uncle John whom she did not know who wanted to thank her. They wanted to finally thank her for the great job she did as a nurse when they were in the hospital and never got the chance.
When you were down or sick she always had a way of picking you up and making you feel better. She met with Triumphs and Disasters and treated those two impostors just the same. Just think of it…She lived through the Great Depression, World War II and was a contributing part of the Greatest Generation. Together with my Grandpa she raised four children leading us up to today’s litter of 17 great grandchildren, her newest generation.
Annie’s strengths of mind, body, and spirit, are qualities I hope she passed on to our children. Her faith constantly amazed me. The fact that she buried her spouse and two children and did not lose it was awesome. Just when she thought her faith was fully tested we brought her Garrett. Still she did not waiver. She could have given up but instead decided to become Garrett’s favorite bathroom attendant and if you look closely you can still see her quickly opening doors to get us inside for those emergencies.
We are here to celebrate Grandma’s life. We know that Vacations, Birthdays, Easter, Thanksgiving, and Christmas will not be the same without her (especially since she was buying for me in the grab bag this year). We will miss her apple and minced meats pies (whatever minced meat is?), chocolate chip cookies, not to mention her Butterless Eggless Milk less cakes. She was truly the Matriarch of our family.
While she is gone she will never be forgotten by anyone she has touched.
Before I finish I want to say just a few words to see if they remind you of Mom, Grandma, GiGi, Grandma Rude, Annie, Gram or however you may have known her:
Jersey City, Bayonne, Food Stamps, The Depression, Teaneck High, The Air Force, Stage Hands, The Ed Sullivan Theater, Hello Dolly, Annie, Souvenirs from Abroad, Wilted Lettuce, NonParels, Tissue Packets, Peppermint Lifesavers, Stew, The Buccaneer, Shrimp Cocktail Sauce, Plain M&M’s, the Coloring Books in Clifton, the Rocking Horse in Bayonne, Jewish Coffee Cake, A&W Root Beer, Birthday Cards with $1 Bills for all the Grandkids and Great Grandkids, Saran Wrap, Dated Foods in Ziploc bags, CA, WA, Pea Soup, Applesauce, Crossword puzzles, the Blue Buick, Weekly phone calls, Wayne, the Crab Fest, LBI, Goodbye kisses
We Love You! We will miss you!!
You were everyone’s Grandma!
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Funeral services will be held 9 AM on Tuesday, August 26, 2008 from the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne then to Saint Marys RC Church, Pompton Lakes where at 10 AM a Funeral Mass will be offered.
Friends may visit with the family on Monday, August 25, 2008 from 2-4, 7-9 PM at the funeral home.
August 21, 2008
Services
Funeral services will be held 9 AM on Tuesday, August 26, 2008 from the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne then to Saint Marys RC Church, Pompton Lakes where at 10 AM a Funeral Mass will be offered.
Friends may visit with the family on Monday, August 25, 2008 from 2-4, 7-9 PM at the funeral home.
Anna J. Rude(Geiger) age 89 of Clifton died on Thursday, August 21, 2008, suddenly while on a family vacation.
She was born in Bayonne and lived in Jersey City, Teaneck and Bogota before moving to Clifton twenty-five years ago.
Anna graduated from Saint Francis School of Nursing, Hoboken where she received her certification as a Registered Nurse.
She was a RN and Operating Room Supervisor for Saddle Brook Hospital, Saddle Brook for many years before retiring.
She was a parishioner of Saint Brendans RC Church, Clifton.
Her hobbies include delighting in the accomplishments of her children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren, being an avid reader, brilliant at crossword puzzles, baking and travel. Her travel destinations include: Japan, China, Australia, Italy and England just to name a few. One trip she looked forward to each year, for the past forty-two years, was a family vacation in Beach Haven, NJ. It was on this trip that she passed away with her family by her side.
She was the beloved wife of thirty-one years to the late Martin A. Rude(1970); loving mother of Patricia Rude of Burbank, CA, Joseph M. Rude and his wife Marie of Wayne, the late John D. Rude(1995)and his surviving wife Judy Rude of New York City and the late Martin A. Rude(1971); cherished grandmother of eight grandchildren and seventeen great-grandchildren; loved sister of the late Elizabeth Hauch and Eleanor Gomer.
In lieu of flowers memorial donations to the Downs Syndrome Research & Treatment Fund(DSRTF), 755 Pagemill Road, Suite A-200, Palo Alto, CA 94304 would be appreciated.
Grandma Rude- Everyone’s Grandma
Euglogy read by her grandson Joseph Rude
When Mom and Dad asked me to do the Eulogy about Grandma on Friday I was not surprised. In fact, I almost expected it for some reason. Soon after Jeanne called me about her passing and the news settled in, I began searching my cloudy brain for what to say about this awesome woman’s life. While we were at Grandma’s house, I found a letter from the Air Force about my Uncle Martin’s passing away and it reminded me about something she gave me. I found a letter in our house that she wrote to me in my first week of college. Now granted my letter was not wrapped in saran wrap and put in a dated Ziploc like hers but I still have it.
At this point in the eulogy Joe read the following letter:
Friday, September 11, 1987
Dear Joe,
Thank you for the beautiful birthday card and your nice note. I took it to your home to share it with your parents and sister on Wednesday. I went there to help celebrate your mother’s birthday. I was the cook and I made a London broil with a different recipe that I got in Manasquan from Aunt Elizabeth. With it we had shrimp cocktail, buttered noodles and wilted lettuce. I just know you would have loved it. As a matter of fact your father’s wished he could mail some to you but couldn’t quite figure out how. Later we had birthday cake that Aunt Jeanne made.
We ate a little late because we wanted to wait for Jeannea. Rather than drive home I stayed over in your bed. It was so comfortable and all those people on your walls didn’t keep me awake for one minute.
Have to get my laundry out of the drier. I am having a problem with my washing machine and they won’t be able to come to fix it until next Friday. It’s a good thing there is a Laundromat down the block because I’m almost as bad or good as your mother when it comes to washing clothes. I’ll write again soon and I’ll remember to make you some choc chips as soon as I have a chance.
Love,
Grandma
Could the girl write or what? Didn’t she put John Grisham to shame? Well, she did for that home sick 18 year old boy who just left Wayne for the first time. Her comforting letters with her chocolate chip cookies surrounded by the edible popcorn packaging brought me home without ever having to leave college. It seems like a lifetime ago.
Anna Jane Rude was born on September 5, 1918 and was in no mood for a surprise party so she stepped out quietly on August 21, 2008 in a place that she loved surrounded by her family. Some say that Garrett’s intense potty training regime next to her bedroom in LBI is what put her over the edge but no one can confirm this for sure.
I can see GiGi laughing at my humor now. Her infectious smile and laugh is one that we all know and will remember. It is one that is inside of all of us. Grandma Rude was always a positive uplifting person to be around. She was a giving friend, a mentor, a teacher, and many of us forget a healer. I am sure when she got to heaven there was a line of people behind Grandpa Rude, Uncle Martin, and Uncle John whom she did not know who wanted to thank her. They wanted to finally thank her for the great job she did as a nurse when they were in the hospital and never got the chance.
When you were down or sick she always had a way of picking you up and making you feel better. She met with Triumphs and Disasters and treated those two impostors just the same. Just think of it…She lived through the Great Depression, World War II and was a contributing part of the Greatest Generation. Together with my Grandpa she raised four children leading us up to today’s litter of 17 great grandchildren, her newest generation.
Annie’s strengths of mind, body, and spirit, are qualities I hope she passed on to our children. Her faith constantly amazed me. The fact that she buried her spouse and two children and did not lose it was awesome. Just when she thought her faith was fully tested we brought her Garrett. Still she did not waiver. She could have given up but instead decided to become Garrett’s favorite bathroom attendant and if you look closely you can still see her quickly opening doors to get us inside for those emergencies.
We are here to celebrate Grandma’s life. We know that Vacations, Birthdays, Easter, Thanksgiving, and Christmas will not be the same without her (especially since she was buying for me in the grab bag this year). We will miss her apple and minced meats pies (whatever minced meat is?), chocolate chip cookies, not to mention her Butterless Eggless Milk less cakes. She was truly the Matriarch of our family.
While she is gone she will never be forgotten by anyone she has touched.
Before I finish I want to say just a few words to see if they remind you of Mom, Grandma, GiGi, Grandma Rude, Annie, Gram or however you may have known her:
Jersey City, Bayonne, Food Stamps, The Depression, Teaneck High, The Air Force, Stage Hands, The Ed Sullivan Theater, Hello Dolly, Annie, Souvenirs from Abroad, Wilted Lettuce, NonParels, Tissue Packets, Peppermint Lifesavers, Stew, The Buccaneer, Shrimp Cocktail Sauce, Plain M&M’s, the Coloring Books in Clifton, the Rocking Horse in Bayonne, Jewish Coffee Cake, A&W Root Beer, Birthday Cards with $1 Bills for all the Grandkids and Great Grandkids, Saran Wrap, Dated Foods in Ziploc bags, CA, WA, Pea Soup, Applesauce, Crossword puzzles, the Blue Buick, Weekly phone calls, Wayne, the Crab Fest, LBI, Goodbye kisses
We Love You! We will miss you!!
You were everyone’s Grandma!
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