March 3, 2009

Anthony W. Murphy

Wayne

Services

Friends may visit with the family on Thursday, March 5, 2009 from 2-4 and 7-9 PM at Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Rd., Wayne.

Funeral services will be held 8:30 AM on Friday from the funeral home then to Our Lady of the Valley Church, 630 Valley Road, Wayne where at 9:30 AM a Funeral Mass will be offered.

Entombment will be in Laurel Grove Mausoleum, Totowa.

Anthony W. Murphy age 60, of Wayne, died Tuesday, March 03, 2009 at home with the comfort of family by his side.

He was born in Glen Cove, Long Island, NY and raised in Greenlawn, Long Island, NY, having lived in West Milford for twenty-five years before moving to Wayne ten years ago.

Tony graduated from Harborfields High School, Greenlawn, NY with the class of 1967. He went on to attend classes at the Suffolk Community College, NY.

He was a US Army Veteran of the Vietnam War where he served as a Military Policeman.

Tony was the Vice President of Sales for the Federal Direct Printing Company, Clifton where he has worked for thirty years.

He was dedicated to his family and friends and loved to travel. He truly enjoyed going to the beach and loved trips to Jamaica. During his years in the Hewitt section of West Milford he was active in the Lakeside Community Club.

He is the loving husband of Lois Snyder-Murphy; devoted father of Seana Polglaze and her husband Christopher of West Milford and Brooke Snyder of Wayne; cherished son of Allison(Wright) and the late John Murphy(1999); much loved grandfather of Patrick and Ian Polglaze; loved brother of Kevin Murphy and his wife Luci of East Northport, LI, NY, Sheila Mulcahey-Taylor and her husband Scott of Chicago, Illinois, Paul Murphy of Sparta and Brian Murphy and his wife Anne of Newport News, VA. Tony was predeceased by his first wife Joyce (McKenna) Murphy in 1999.

In lieu of flowers memorial donations to the American Brain Tumor Association, 2720 River Road, Des Plains, Illinois, 60018 would be appreciated.

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Services

Friends may visit with the family on Thursday, March 5, 2009 from 2-4 and 7-9 PM at Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Rd., Wayne.

Funeral services will be held 8:30 AM on Friday from the funeral home then to Our Lady of the Valley Church, 630 Valley Road, Wayne where at 9:30 AM a Funeral Mass will be offered.

Entombment will be in Laurel Grove Mausoleum, Totowa.

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