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February 4, 2012
Services
Friends may visit with the family on Tuesday, February 7, 2012 from 2-4 and 7-9 PM at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Rd., Wayne.
Funeral services will be held 9 AM on Wednesday, February 8, 2012 from the funeral home then to Our Lady of Consolation RC Church, 1799 Hamburg Tpk., Wayne where at 10 AM a Funeral Mass will be offered. Interment will be in Christ the King Cemetery, Franklin Lakes.
Anna Kolodziej age 90 of Wayne died peacefully on Saturday, February 04, 2012.
She was born in Kozlow Poland. Anna was living with her daughter Joanne, grandparents, aunts and uncles on a farm in Poland when they were separated from the rest of the family by the advancing Germans. Anna and Joanne were rounded up by the Germans and placed into a railroad cattle car and sent to Germany. Anna was sent to a German farm to work as a slave laborer and was able to keep her then three year old daughter Joanne with her. The Americans liberated Anna from the farm and she was sent to a Displaced Persons Camp in Germany where she met and married her second husband Bogumil. They came to the United States on the USS Taylor in 1950 as they had been sponsored to this country by a farmer in Pennsylvania. The farmer backed out of the job offering to Bogumil and they soon found him a job in West Virginia. The family lived there for six months before moving to Irvington, NJ where they lived for twenty years, having lived in Clifton also for twenty years, before moving to Wayne seven years ago.
Anna was a quality control inspector for the Revlon Corporation in Irvington for twenty years before retiring in 1987.
She was a parishioner of Sacred Heart in Irvington, St. Josephs in Passaic and Our Lady of Consolation in Wayne.
She was the loving wife of 57 years to the late Bogumil Kolodziej(2004); loving mother of Joanne Baksa of Wayne, Mary Ann Gentile and her husband Frank of Toms River; cherished grandmother of Victoria and Kristen and great-grandmother of Leo and Max; sister of Bolek Pyziak of Poland and predeceased by her sister the late Frances Nazzaro-Fenamore, and two brothers the late Casmir Pyziak and the late Walter Pyziak.
In lieu of flowers memorial donations to Alzheimer’s Association, 400 Morris Ave, #251, Denville, NJ 07834-1365 or the Wayne First Aid Squad, PO Box 2004, Wayne, NJ 07474 would be appreciated.
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Friends may visit with the family on Tuesday, February 7, 2012 from 2-4 and 7-9 PM at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Rd., Wayne.
Funeral services will be held 9 AM on Wednesday, February 8, 2012 from the funeral home then to Our Lady of Consolation RC Church, 1799 Hamburg Tpk., Wayne where at 10 AM a Funeral Mass will be offered. Interment will be in Christ the King Cemetery, Franklin Lakes.
February 4, 2012
Services
Friends may visit with the family on Tuesday, February 7, 2012 from 2-4 and 7-9 PM at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Rd., Wayne.
Funeral services will be held 9 AM on Wednesday, February 8, 2012 from the funeral home then to Our Lady of Consolation RC Church, 1799 Hamburg Tpk., Wayne where at 10 AM a Funeral Mass will be offered. Interment will be in Christ the King Cemetery, Franklin Lakes.
Anna Kolodziej age 90 of Wayne died peacefully on Saturday, February 04, 2012.
She was born in Kozlow Poland. Anna was living with her daughter Joanne, grandparents, aunts and uncles on a farm in Poland when they were separated from the rest of the family by the advancing Germans. Anna and Joanne were rounded up by the Germans and placed into a railroad cattle car and sent to Germany. Anna was sent to a German farm to work as a slave laborer and was able to keep her then three year old daughter Joanne with her. The Americans liberated Anna from the farm and she was sent to a Displaced Persons Camp in Germany where she met and married her second husband Bogumil. They came to the United States on the USS Taylor in 1950 as they had been sponsored to this country by a farmer in Pennsylvania. The farmer backed out of the job offering to Bogumil and they soon found him a job in West Virginia. The family lived there for six months before moving to Irvington, NJ where they lived for twenty years, having lived in Clifton also for twenty years, before moving to Wayne seven years ago.
Anna was a quality control inspector for the Revlon Corporation in Irvington for twenty years before retiring in 1987.
She was a parishioner of Sacred Heart in Irvington, St. Josephs in Passaic and Our Lady of Consolation in Wayne.
She was the loving wife of 57 years to the late Bogumil Kolodziej(2004); loving mother of Joanne Baksa of Wayne, Mary Ann Gentile and her husband Frank of Toms River; cherished grandmother of Victoria and Kristen and great-grandmother of Leo and Max; sister of Bolek Pyziak of Poland and predeceased by her sister the late Frances Nazzaro-Fenamore, and two brothers the late Casmir Pyziak and the late Walter Pyziak.
In lieu of flowers memorial donations to Alzheimer’s Association, 400 Morris Ave, #251, Denville, NJ 07834-1365 or the Wayne First Aid Squad, PO Box 2004, Wayne, NJ 07474 would be appreciated.
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