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May 30, 2013
Services
Friends may visit with the family on Tuesday, June 4, 2013 from 10 – 12 noon at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne. At 12 noon we will proceed to the Cedar Lawn Cemetery for a graveside committal.
Anna Potter (nee Becker) age 94 of Cedar Crest Village in Pompton Plains, formerly of Wayne and Clifton, died peacefully at home on Thursday, May 30, 2013.
She was born at the family home in Clifton. The family moved to Piaget Avenue in Clifton where Anna spent her formative years. She graduated from Clifton High School with the Class of 1936 and continued her education at Mills College in New York City where she received her Bachelors degree with the Class of 1940. Out of college she found work as an elementary school teacher and worked at the West Paterson Elementary School.
Anna fell in love with her neighbor and classmate in high school Norman Potter. They married on August 1, 1942 at the home her parents would rent every summer on Greenwood Lake. They honeymooned while boating on the Hudson River and enjoyed a loving marriage of sixty years before Norman’s passing in 2002. Anna and Norman had a son and she put her teaching career on hold for a few years to stay at home with Albert. Once Albert entered the first grade she resumed her teaching career with the Wayne Board of Education. She truly loved to teach children and taught second grade at the Preakness School before retiring in 1979 - the same year the school officially closed.
She will be remembered as a loving mother who was very proper, private, and conservative. Despite her private nature she always had a soft spot for children and animals. Even in her later years she would watch her grand children with a smile on her face as they explored her room. She was a terrific all around cook who made a family tradition of making and sharing Christmas cookies. As long as you returned the tin they were in, you were guaranteed cookies the following Christmas. She also enjoyed sewing and knitting sweaters for her grandchildren.
Anna was a member of Saint Andrews Episcopal Church in Lincoln Park for many years.
She was the loving wife of sixty years to the late Norman Potter (2002); devoted mother of Albert Potter and his wife Marilyn of Wayne; cherished grandmother of David Potter and his wife Therese and Scott Potter and his wife Kimberly; dear great-grandmother of Greggory, Erin, Michael, Catherine, and Tyler Potter; loved sister of the late Frederick Becker and Lillian DiSimone.
In lieu of flowers memorial donations in Anna’s memory to your favorite charity would be greatly appreciated.
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Friends may visit with the family on Tuesday, June 4, 2013 from 10 – 12 noon at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne. At 12 noon we will proceed to the Cedar Lawn Cemetery for a graveside committal.
May 30, 2013
Services
Friends may visit with the family on Tuesday, June 4, 2013 from 10 – 12 noon at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne. At 12 noon we will proceed to the Cedar Lawn Cemetery for a graveside committal.
Anna Potter (nee Becker) age 94 of Cedar Crest Village in Pompton Plains, formerly of Wayne and Clifton, died peacefully at home on Thursday, May 30, 2013.
She was born at the family home in Clifton. The family moved to Piaget Avenue in Clifton where Anna spent her formative years. She graduated from Clifton High School with the Class of 1936 and continued her education at Mills College in New York City where she received her Bachelors degree with the Class of 1940. Out of college she found work as an elementary school teacher and worked at the West Paterson Elementary School.
Anna fell in love with her neighbor and classmate in high school Norman Potter. They married on August 1, 1942 at the home her parents would rent every summer on Greenwood Lake. They honeymooned while boating on the Hudson River and enjoyed a loving marriage of sixty years before Norman’s passing in 2002. Anna and Norman had a son and she put her teaching career on hold for a few years to stay at home with Albert. Once Albert entered the first grade she resumed her teaching career with the Wayne Board of Education. She truly loved to teach children and taught second grade at the Preakness School before retiring in 1979 - the same year the school officially closed.
She will be remembered as a loving mother who was very proper, private, and conservative. Despite her private nature she always had a soft spot for children and animals. Even in her later years she would watch her grand children with a smile on her face as they explored her room. She was a terrific all around cook who made a family tradition of making and sharing Christmas cookies. As long as you returned the tin they were in, you were guaranteed cookies the following Christmas. She also enjoyed sewing and knitting sweaters for her grandchildren.
Anna was a member of Saint Andrews Episcopal Church in Lincoln Park for many years.
She was the loving wife of sixty years to the late Norman Potter (2002); devoted mother of Albert Potter and his wife Marilyn of Wayne; cherished grandmother of David Potter and his wife Therese and Scott Potter and his wife Kimberly; dear great-grandmother of Greggory, Erin, Michael, Catherine, and Tyler Potter; loved sister of the late Frederick Becker and Lillian DiSimone.
In lieu of flowers memorial donations in Anna’s memory to your favorite charity would be greatly appreciated.
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