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January 6, 2011
Services
Funeral services will be held privately at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
Passed into life eternal on Tuesday, January 4, 2011.
Arthur A. Mayer “Art” age 88 of Wayne passed into life eternal on Tuesday, January 4, 2011 at the Wayne View Care Center in Wayne. His passing was graciously peaceful after having received the loving care of his family who spent many hours at his bedside.
He was born in Paterson and spent his formative years in North Haledon. He received his formal education at the North Haledon Grammar School then at Hawthorne High School in Hawthorne graduating with the Class of 1942. Later that year he enlisted in the Army and after a short period of time was assigned to the Army’s Air Force Division. He served in the 2132nd Army Air Force base unit as a Radar Mechanic. He was discharged with the rank of Corporal in November of 1945. He received the American Theater Ribbon, The European-African Medal Middle Eastern Medal and the World War II Victory Medal.
Upon completing his Military obligation he returned home and went to the University of Pennsylvania and studied engineering. He graduated with a Bachelor of Science Degree in Electrical Engineering. He went to work for Bell Communications Research Division in Piscataway which later changed to Telecordia Corporation and he finally retired in 1993 after forty-three years of career service.
During his college days he had an offer of a blind date with this real cute girl named Camille Failla. At the same juncture of time Camille Failla was offered a blind date with a very handsome fellow by the name of Arthur Mayer. It was finally agreed that Arthur would come by in a car and Camille would take a look from the house window to see him. If she liked what she saw it was a date. Well history revealed that she liked his looks and it was the beginning of a long relationship. They married on December 28, 1947 and had sixty-three years of “wonderful” marriage together.
Art was of German heritage. His grandfather came to America in the era of 1920 having experienced war torn Germany during World War I. He immigrated to America seeking relief from the travails of War and found that America was indeed a land of opportunity. It was because of his need to have a better life for his future family that his son Arthur has enjoyed the American Dream.
He was gifted with a reserved personality that perhaps was the product of his parents experiencing the stress of War and in turn maintained a very conservative family life in their new found land called America. His family recalls how close he was to his Mother who showed him motherly affection and was so pleased with his choice of Camille as his wife so that he would have someone to take care of him when she would pass on.
Art was a homebody who went to work and returned to his family on a daily basis with many household tasks to complete. He was gifted with a “green thumb” and would make work of growing in his garden beautiful tomatoes and peppers.
He loved his boxer dogs and his favorite “Zoie” a brindle show dog Boxer predeceased him.
Surviving to mourn his passing are his loving wife of sixty-three years Camille (nee Failla) Mayer; one daughter Lynne Mayer of Wayne; two special companion dogs Kasper a white boxer and Chloe a brindle boxer.
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Funeral services will be held privately at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
January 6, 2011
Services
Funeral services will be held privately at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
Passed into life eternal on Tuesday, January 4, 2011.
Arthur A. Mayer “Art” age 88 of Wayne passed into life eternal on Tuesday, January 4, 2011 at the Wayne View Care Center in Wayne. His passing was graciously peaceful after having received the loving care of his family who spent many hours at his bedside.
He was born in Paterson and spent his formative years in North Haledon. He received his formal education at the North Haledon Grammar School then at Hawthorne High School in Hawthorne graduating with the Class of 1942. Later that year he enlisted in the Army and after a short period of time was assigned to the Army’s Air Force Division. He served in the 2132nd Army Air Force base unit as a Radar Mechanic. He was discharged with the rank of Corporal in November of 1945. He received the American Theater Ribbon, The European-African Medal Middle Eastern Medal and the World War II Victory Medal.
Upon completing his Military obligation he returned home and went to the University of Pennsylvania and studied engineering. He graduated with a Bachelor of Science Degree in Electrical Engineering. He went to work for Bell Communications Research Division in Piscataway which later changed to Telecordia Corporation and he finally retired in 1993 after forty-three years of career service.
During his college days he had an offer of a blind date with this real cute girl named Camille Failla. At the same juncture of time Camille Failla was offered a blind date with a very handsome fellow by the name of Arthur Mayer. It was finally agreed that Arthur would come by in a car and Camille would take a look from the house window to see him. If she liked what she saw it was a date. Well history revealed that she liked his looks and it was the beginning of a long relationship. They married on December 28, 1947 and had sixty-three years of “wonderful” marriage together.
Art was of German heritage. His grandfather came to America in the era of 1920 having experienced war torn Germany during World War I. He immigrated to America seeking relief from the travails of War and found that America was indeed a land of opportunity. It was because of his need to have a better life for his future family that his son Arthur has enjoyed the American Dream.
He was gifted with a reserved personality that perhaps was the product of his parents experiencing the stress of War and in turn maintained a very conservative family life in their new found land called America. His family recalls how close he was to his Mother who showed him motherly affection and was so pleased with his choice of Camille as his wife so that he would have someone to take care of him when she would pass on.
Art was a homebody who went to work and returned to his family on a daily basis with many household tasks to complete. He was gifted with a “green thumb” and would make work of growing in his garden beautiful tomatoes and peppers.
He loved his boxer dogs and his favorite “Zoie” a brindle show dog Boxer predeceased him.
Surviving to mourn his passing are his loving wife of sixty-three years Camille (nee Failla) Mayer; one daughter Lynne Mayer of Wayne; two special companion dogs Kasper a white boxer and Chloe a brindle boxer.
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