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A Memorial Mass will be held at 11:30 a.m. on Saturday, January 10, 2015 at the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary RC Church, 45 Urban Club Road, Wayne, NJ.
Arthur Joseph Leise, age 96, of Wayne, NJ passed on Friday, January 2, 2015.
Arthur was the son of Arthur J. Leise and Margaret Dolan and grew up in the Glendale section of Queens, New York with his two brothers, Joseph and Edwin, and his sister, Alice. The oldest of the four, Arthur graduated from Brooklyn Technical High School and decided to defer engineering school in order to help support his family. He did so by working as a runner on Wall Street and also by working at the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade where he marched holding ropes which were attached to the parade floats.
While attending St. John’s University at night, Arthur began working at Republic Aviation in Farmingdale, Long Island where he helped manufacture P-47 fighter planes for the Army. After basic training, he arrived in Scotland in 1944 with the U.S. Army’s 289th Infantry and participated in the invasion and survived battles through the end of the war. He was awarded the European African Middle Eastern Campaign Medal, the Good Conduct Medal and the WWII Victory Medal. Arthur returned to Glendale and to his family after being honorably discharged with the rank of corporal on April 20, 1946.
After the war, Arthur found work as an accountant and attended college at night earning his B.A. from St. John’s University in 1952 and his M.B.A. from NYU in 1956. He also met Margaret Virginia Chaney, a young woman who had recently arrived in New York from Kansas City, Missouri. During their courtship, they traveled to horse races at venues from New York to Baltimore. After marriage, Arthur and Margaret raised their children as Arthur’s career at American Cyanamid took him to division controller jobs in Danbury, CT and Mentor, OH.
They moved to Wayne in 1974, and Arthur retired from American Cyanamid in 1981. During his many years of retirement, Arthur worked as a substitute teacher for the Wayne Board of Education and continued his role as Margaret’s partner in duplicate bridge. After Margaret passed in 2002, Arthur continued to play bridge and attend Mass at Our Lady of the Valley and Church of the Annunciation in Wayne. An avid golfer often seen at the Passaic County Golf Course, he was also a diehard supporter of the St. John’s Redmen. He volunteered at Eva’s Kitchen in Paterson and was a member of the Holy Name Society.
He was the devoted husband of the late Margaret V. Leise (2002); devoted father of Patricia Engrissei of Wayne, and Christopher Leise of Haddonfield; devoted father-in-law of Rebecca Leise; cherished grandfather of Tasmine Poole of Dayton, NV, Erik Engrissei and his wife Sheera Gartzman of Cherry Hill, Anna and Virginia Leise of New York, NY. His brothers Edwin and Joseph, his sister Alice Scott and his brother-in-law Edward Scott predeceased him.
In lieu of flowers, memorial donations to Saint Jude Children’s Research Hospital, P.O. Box 1000, Dept. 142, Memphis, TN 38148-0142 would be appreciated.
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A Memorial Mass will be held at 11:30 a.m. on Saturday, January 10, 2015 at the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary RC Church, 45 Urban Club Road, Wayne, NJ.
Services
A Memorial Mass will be held at 11:30 a.m. on Saturday, January 10, 2015 at the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary RC Church, 45 Urban Club Road, Wayne, NJ.
Arthur Joseph Leise, age 96, of Wayne, NJ passed on Friday, January 2, 2015.
Arthur was the son of Arthur J. Leise and Margaret Dolan and grew up in the Glendale section of Queens, New York with his two brothers, Joseph and Edwin, and his sister, Alice. The oldest of the four, Arthur graduated from Brooklyn Technical High School and decided to defer engineering school in order to help support his family. He did so by working as a runner on Wall Street and also by working at the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade where he marched holding ropes which were attached to the parade floats.
While attending St. John’s University at night, Arthur began working at Republic Aviation in Farmingdale, Long Island where he helped manufacture P-47 fighter planes for the Army. After basic training, he arrived in Scotland in 1944 with the U.S. Army’s 289th Infantry and participated in the invasion and survived battles through the end of the war. He was awarded the European African Middle Eastern Campaign Medal, the Good Conduct Medal and the WWII Victory Medal. Arthur returned to Glendale and to his family after being honorably discharged with the rank of corporal on April 20, 1946.
After the war, Arthur found work as an accountant and attended college at night earning his B.A. from St. John’s University in 1952 and his M.B.A. from NYU in 1956. He also met Margaret Virginia Chaney, a young woman who had recently arrived in New York from Kansas City, Missouri. During their courtship, they traveled to horse races at venues from New York to Baltimore. After marriage, Arthur and Margaret raised their children as Arthur’s career at American Cyanamid took him to division controller jobs in Danbury, CT and Mentor, OH.
They moved to Wayne in 1974, and Arthur retired from American Cyanamid in 1981. During his many years of retirement, Arthur worked as a substitute teacher for the Wayne Board of Education and continued his role as Margaret’s partner in duplicate bridge. After Margaret passed in 2002, Arthur continued to play bridge and attend Mass at Our Lady of the Valley and Church of the Annunciation in Wayne. An avid golfer often seen at the Passaic County Golf Course, he was also a diehard supporter of the St. John’s Redmen. He volunteered at Eva’s Kitchen in Paterson and was a member of the Holy Name Society.
He was the devoted husband of the late Margaret V. Leise (2002); devoted father of Patricia Engrissei of Wayne, and Christopher Leise of Haddonfield; devoted father-in-law of Rebecca Leise; cherished grandfather of Tasmine Poole of Dayton, NV, Erik Engrissei and his wife Sheera Gartzman of Cherry Hill, Anna and Virginia Leise of New York, NY. His brothers Edwin and Joseph, his sister Alice Scott and his brother-in-law Edward Scott predeceased him.
In lieu of flowers, memorial donations to Saint Jude Children’s Research Hospital, P.O. Box 1000, Dept. 142, Memphis, TN 38148-0142 would be appreciated.
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