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June 19, 2013
Services
Friends may visit with the family at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne, on Sunday, June 23, 2013 from 2-6 PM. Funeral Services will be held at 8:30 AM Monday, June 24, 2013 from the funeral home, then to Our Lady of the Valley RC Church, Wayne, where at 9:30 AM a Funeral Mass will be offered. Anna will then be laid to rest with her husband Harold at the Laurel Grove Cemetery, Totowa.
Anna M. Weaver (nee Mabey), age 95 of Wayne died peacefully on Wednesday, June 19, 2013. She was a resident of Wayne since 1962. She retired from Sears in 1984 after a lengthy career managing their candy department. She was well known as “The Candy Lady.”
Anna grew up in Hawthorne and attended East Side High School in Paterson because Hawthorne didn’t have its own high school at the time. At age fifteen, she moved to West Milford with her family and finished her schooling there. She also met Harold Weaver there and the two of them fell in love. They married at St. Joseph’s RC Church in West Milford on August 1, 1936 and enjoyed a honeymoon at Niagara Falls, NY. They initially settled in West Milford then moved to Hawthorne in 1955 and eventually to Wayne in 1962. Harold passed in 1980 after forty four years of marriage.
Anna loved to play Bingo and over the years you could find her at the Wayne PAL, Boys and Girls Club, or St. James of the Marches RC Church in Totowa playing Bingo! She was also a good card player and taught her grandchildren how to play cards. She used to tell her grandkids “if you cheat, I’m not playing!” and she held them to it. She loved her grandchildren dearly and they truly were everything to her. They threw fun birthday parties for her every year. They will all miss her dearly.
Anna is survived by her daughter Judith Ann Van Koppen and her husband Neil of Wayne, five grandchildren; Scott Van Koppen and his wife Lisa of Montville, Christine Vecere and her husband John of Wayne, Robert J. Weaver and his wife Jeanette of Florida, Veronica Cassidy and her husband Dennis of Oak Ridge, and Henry Weaver and his wife Brandi of Oak Ridge, eleven great-grandchildren; Marissa, Michael and Brian Van Koppen, Andrew and Brandon Vecere, Robert J and Lauren Weaver, Alexandra and Travis Cassidy, Drew and Alice Weaver. She was predeceased by her husband Harold in 1980, her son Robert J. Weaver in 1995, her great-grandson Garret Cassidy in 1995, her brother Martin Mabey in 1971, her sister Marie Sanford in 1980, and by her twin brother Charles Mabey in 2004.
Donations in Anna’s memory would be greatly appreciated. Please consider St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, 501 St. Jude Place, Memphis, TN 38105.
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Friends may visit with the family at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne, on Sunday, June 23, 2013 from 2-6 PM. Funeral Services will be held at 8:30 AM Monday, June 24, 2013 from the funeral home, then to Our Lady of the Valley RC Church, Wayne, where at 9:30 AM a Funeral Mass will be offered. Anna will then be laid to rest with her husband Harold at the Laurel Grove Cemetery, Totowa.
June 19, 2013
Services
Friends may visit with the family at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne, on Sunday, June 23, 2013 from 2-6 PM. Funeral Services will be held at 8:30 AM Monday, June 24, 2013 from the funeral home, then to Our Lady of the Valley RC Church, Wayne, where at 9:30 AM a Funeral Mass will be offered. Anna will then be laid to rest with her husband Harold at the Laurel Grove Cemetery, Totowa.
Anna M. Weaver (nee Mabey), age 95 of Wayne died peacefully on Wednesday, June 19, 2013. She was a resident of Wayne since 1962. She retired from Sears in 1984 after a lengthy career managing their candy department. She was well known as “The Candy Lady.”
Anna grew up in Hawthorne and attended East Side High School in Paterson because Hawthorne didn’t have its own high school at the time. At age fifteen, she moved to West Milford with her family and finished her schooling there. She also met Harold Weaver there and the two of them fell in love. They married at St. Joseph’s RC Church in West Milford on August 1, 1936 and enjoyed a honeymoon at Niagara Falls, NY. They initially settled in West Milford then moved to Hawthorne in 1955 and eventually to Wayne in 1962. Harold passed in 1980 after forty four years of marriage.
Anna loved to play Bingo and over the years you could find her at the Wayne PAL, Boys and Girls Club, or St. James of the Marches RC Church in Totowa playing Bingo! She was also a good card player and taught her grandchildren how to play cards. She used to tell her grandkids “if you cheat, I’m not playing!” and she held them to it. She loved her grandchildren dearly and they truly were everything to her. They threw fun birthday parties for her every year. They will all miss her dearly.
Anna is survived by her daughter Judith Ann Van Koppen and her husband Neil of Wayne, five grandchildren; Scott Van Koppen and his wife Lisa of Montville, Christine Vecere and her husband John of Wayne, Robert J. Weaver and his wife Jeanette of Florida, Veronica Cassidy and her husband Dennis of Oak Ridge, and Henry Weaver and his wife Brandi of Oak Ridge, eleven great-grandchildren; Marissa, Michael and Brian Van Koppen, Andrew and Brandon Vecere, Robert J and Lauren Weaver, Alexandra and Travis Cassidy, Drew and Alice Weaver. She was predeceased by her husband Harold in 1980, her son Robert J. Weaver in 1995, her great-grandson Garret Cassidy in 1995, her brother Martin Mabey in 1971, her sister Marie Sanford in 1980, and by her twin brother Charles Mabey in 2004.
Donations in Anna’s memory would be greatly appreciated. Please consider St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, 501 St. Jude Place, Memphis, TN 38105.
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