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Friends may visit with the family at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne, on Friday, February 12, 2016 from 4-8 PM.
Funeral Services will be held Saturday, February 13 at 8:30AM from the funeral home, then to Our Lady of the Valley RC Church, 630 Valley Rd, Wayne, where at 9:30AM a Funeral Mass will be offered. Interment will follow at Holy Sepulchre Cemetery, Totowa.
Anne P. Snyder, of Monroe Township and formerly a long-time resident of Wayne, entered into her eternal life in heaven after spending one-hundred years on this earth, on Sunday, February 7, 2016.
Born in Paterson in 1915 when Woodrow Wilson was our U.S President and a first class postage stamp cost only two cents, she attended kindergarten through fourth grade at Paterson School Number 17, then fifth through eighth grade at Paterson School Number 12 and high school at Paterson’s Central High School where she graduated with the Class of 1934.
After high school Anne set her goal on become a registered nurse, and enrolled in the Saint Joseph’s School of Nursing in Paterson and graduated in 1937.
Anne met her beloved husband George as a young nurse, taking care of George’s mom. There’s was a true love so they exchanged their wedding vows before God, family and friends at St. Paul’s R.C. Church on Haledon Ave., in Prospect Park on Saturday, October 15, 1938.
After the wedding Mr. George and Mrs. Anne Snyder initially lived in Prospect Park. The later moved to Paterson on North Ninth Street where they were blessed with and had the privilege of raising two dear sons – George A., and Laurence. Anne took care of her little sons while continuing to maintain a career in nursing. When the boys were in elementary school she worked the eleven PM -to-seven AM shift at St. Joseph’s Hospital in Paterson. She’d be home, just in time to get them off to school. Then she’d sleep and be up and ready to be there when they got home in the afternoon. George and Larry enjoyed great memories of Mom taking them ice skating on Oldham Pond in North Haledon and on many trips as a family down the Jersey Shore, to Washington D.C., or to other destinations like Gettysburg, Valley Forge, Cape Cod and even Canada. When the family moved to Wayne in 1959, it felt like they moved out to the country. Anne and George soon got involved in a new church that had just opened its doors in Wayne. That church was Our Lady of the Valley Roman Catholic Church on Valley Road. Ann was very devout in her Christian faith and she attended daily mass with George and kept many of the church’s home-bound parishioners up to date by volunteering to deliver them the weekly church bulletin. She also served in the Rosary Society at St. Paul’s Church in Prospect Park.
The bulk of Anne’s career was spent working for Doctor Michael L. Keller, an OBGYN whose office was located on East 27th Street in Paterson. She loved assisting Doctor Keller and caring for the many moms and their little newborn babies that would come to the office. She made beautiful photo albums of all the little ones and to Anne, her days at work never felt much like work. She loved those little babies as if they were her own. She worked for many years until retiring in the 1960’s. Anne was also a proud member of the Saint Joseph’s Hospital School of Nursing Alumnae Association.
In 2005, after forty-six years calling Wayne their home, Anne and George moved to Monroe Township. Anne transitioned very well to independent living at Monroe Village Retirement Center where she continued to swim in the pool several times a week, right on up to her hundredth birthday and beyond, finally giving it up only a few months ago. She and George enjoyed some great retirement years, traveling in their motor home with their friends in the Good Sam’s Club right on up until they were eighty-five years old. In those years, they logged tens-of-thousands of miles as they traveled through and stayed in almost all of the state’s east of the Mississippi River.
Anne really enjoyed time spent in her kitchen cooking and baking. Her son George said his favorite meal was Anne’s delicious pork roast, and her baking skills weren’t too shabby either. Ask the numerous neighborhood kids who would stop by for one of Anne’s fresh-baked cookies or a slice of cake and they’ll tell you how good her baking was. Anne loved it when they would come to visit her! Her own grandchildren and later in life, her great-grandchildren, were the apples of her eye and she couldn’t wait to go visit them in Virginia and a little bit closer to home in Milltown, NJ.
Ann had a great outlook on life. She would always say, “If we hang our problems on a line, you’ll take yours, and I’ll take mine.” In other words, she knew that no one escapes challenges in this life, and when we see each other’s struggles, we realize ours aren’t so bad and we are happy to handle the ones we have with the help of God our Father in heaven. She was a loving and upbeat lady who was friendly to all and seemingly born to bless and serve others – it was her pleasure!
Anne and George were blessed with seventy years of marriage until George’s passing in 2008. The family held a huge celebration for that 70th anniversary, much like they did for the 50th anniversary at the Brownstone House in Paterson and the 60th anniversary at the Paris Inn in Wayne.
Everyone was so thrilled to be with Anne this past June, 2015 as she celebrated her 100th birthday. Surely God had been good to Anne in her lifetime.
Anne is survived by her dear son George A. and wife Susan Snyder of Purcellville, VA; nine adored grandchildren: Anthony Michael, George Matthew, Elizabeth Anne, Laura Lynn, Peter Donlon, Laurence John, Allyson Wesley, Kathleen Elizabeth, and Margaret Louise; eighteen cherished great-grandchildren; one niece and two nephews; and two daughters-in-law: Jane Snyder and Patricia Snyder. She was predeceased by her beloved husband George W. Snyder; her dear son Laurence Snyder; two sisters: Louise Pogacer and Dorothy and husband Maurice Juillet; and one brother: Anthony and wife Rita Pogacer.
In lieu of flowers, those planning an expression of sympathy in Anne’s memory are asked to consider Our Lady of the Valley R.C. Church, 630 Valley Road, Wayne, NJ 07470 or St. James The Less R.C. Church, 36 Lincoln Ave., Jamesburg, NJ 08831.
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Friends may visit with the family at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne, on Friday, February 12, 2016 from 4-8 PM.
Funeral Services will be held Saturday, February 13 at 8:30AM from the funeral home, then to Our Lady of the Valley RC Church, 630 Valley Rd, Wayne, where at 9:30AM a Funeral Mass will be offered. Interment will follow at Holy Sepulchre Cemetery, Totowa.
Services
Friends may visit with the family at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne, on Friday, February 12, 2016 from 4-8 PM.
Funeral Services will be held Saturday, February 13 at 8:30AM from the funeral home, then to Our Lady of the Valley RC Church, 630 Valley Rd, Wayne, where at 9:30AM a Funeral Mass will be offered. Interment will follow at Holy Sepulchre Cemetery, Totowa.
Anne P. Snyder, of Monroe Township and formerly a long-time resident of Wayne, entered into her eternal life in heaven after spending one-hundred years on this earth, on Sunday, February 7, 2016.
Born in Paterson in 1915 when Woodrow Wilson was our U.S President and a first class postage stamp cost only two cents, she attended kindergarten through fourth grade at Paterson School Number 17, then fifth through eighth grade at Paterson School Number 12 and high school at Paterson’s Central High School where she graduated with the Class of 1934.
After high school Anne set her goal on become a registered nurse, and enrolled in the Saint Joseph’s School of Nursing in Paterson and graduated in 1937.
Anne met her beloved husband George as a young nurse, taking care of George’s mom. There’s was a true love so they exchanged their wedding vows before God, family and friends at St. Paul’s R.C. Church on Haledon Ave., in Prospect Park on Saturday, October 15, 1938.
After the wedding Mr. George and Mrs. Anne Snyder initially lived in Prospect Park. The later moved to Paterson on North Ninth Street where they were blessed with and had the privilege of raising two dear sons – George A., and Laurence. Anne took care of her little sons while continuing to maintain a career in nursing. When the boys were in elementary school she worked the eleven PM -to-seven AM shift at St. Joseph’s Hospital in Paterson. She’d be home, just in time to get them off to school. Then she’d sleep and be up and ready to be there when they got home in the afternoon. George and Larry enjoyed great memories of Mom taking them ice skating on Oldham Pond in North Haledon and on many trips as a family down the Jersey Shore, to Washington D.C., or to other destinations like Gettysburg, Valley Forge, Cape Cod and even Canada. When the family moved to Wayne in 1959, it felt like they moved out to the country. Anne and George soon got involved in a new church that had just opened its doors in Wayne. That church was Our Lady of the Valley Roman Catholic Church on Valley Road. Ann was very devout in her Christian faith and she attended daily mass with George and kept many of the church’s home-bound parishioners up to date by volunteering to deliver them the weekly church bulletin. She also served in the Rosary Society at St. Paul’s Church in Prospect Park.
The bulk of Anne’s career was spent working for Doctor Michael L. Keller, an OBGYN whose office was located on East 27th Street in Paterson. She loved assisting Doctor Keller and caring for the many moms and their little newborn babies that would come to the office. She made beautiful photo albums of all the little ones and to Anne, her days at work never felt much like work. She loved those little babies as if they were her own. She worked for many years until retiring in the 1960’s. Anne was also a proud member of the Saint Joseph’s Hospital School of Nursing Alumnae Association.
In 2005, after forty-six years calling Wayne their home, Anne and George moved to Monroe Township. Anne transitioned very well to independent living at Monroe Village Retirement Center where she continued to swim in the pool several times a week, right on up to her hundredth birthday and beyond, finally giving it up only a few months ago. She and George enjoyed some great retirement years, traveling in their motor home with their friends in the Good Sam’s Club right on up until they were eighty-five years old. In those years, they logged tens-of-thousands of miles as they traveled through and stayed in almost all of the state’s east of the Mississippi River.
Anne really enjoyed time spent in her kitchen cooking and baking. Her son George said his favorite meal was Anne’s delicious pork roast, and her baking skills weren’t too shabby either. Ask the numerous neighborhood kids who would stop by for one of Anne’s fresh-baked cookies or a slice of cake and they’ll tell you how good her baking was. Anne loved it when they would come to visit her! Her own grandchildren and later in life, her great-grandchildren, were the apples of her eye and she couldn’t wait to go visit them in Virginia and a little bit closer to home in Milltown, NJ.
Ann had a great outlook on life. She would always say, “If we hang our problems on a line, you’ll take yours, and I’ll take mine.” In other words, she knew that no one escapes challenges in this life, and when we see each other’s struggles, we realize ours aren’t so bad and we are happy to handle the ones we have with the help of God our Father in heaven. She was a loving and upbeat lady who was friendly to all and seemingly born to bless and serve others – it was her pleasure!
Anne and George were blessed with seventy years of marriage until George’s passing in 2008. The family held a huge celebration for that 70th anniversary, much like they did for the 50th anniversary at the Brownstone House in Paterson and the 60th anniversary at the Paris Inn in Wayne.
Everyone was so thrilled to be with Anne this past June, 2015 as she celebrated her 100th birthday. Surely God had been good to Anne in her lifetime.
Anne is survived by her dear son George A. and wife Susan Snyder of Purcellville, VA; nine adored grandchildren: Anthony Michael, George Matthew, Elizabeth Anne, Laura Lynn, Peter Donlon, Laurence John, Allyson Wesley, Kathleen Elizabeth, and Margaret Louise; eighteen cherished great-grandchildren; one niece and two nephews; and two daughters-in-law: Jane Snyder and Patricia Snyder. She was predeceased by her beloved husband George W. Snyder; her dear son Laurence Snyder; two sisters: Louise Pogacer and Dorothy and husband Maurice Juillet; and one brother: Anthony and wife Rita Pogacer.
In lieu of flowers, those planning an expression of sympathy in Anne’s memory are asked to consider Our Lady of the Valley R.C. Church, 630 Valley Road, Wayne, NJ 07470 or St. James The Less R.C. Church, 36 Lincoln Ave., Jamesburg, NJ 08831.
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