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Friends may visit with the family from 10 AM – 11 AM on Monday, January 19, 2015 at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Rd., Wayne.
Funeral services will be held 11 AM on Monday at the funeral home with interment to follow at the Crest Haven Memorial Park Cemetery in Clifton.
Audrey Kuzman (LeMaire) age 95 of Cedar Crest Village in Pompton Plains, formerly of the Packanack Lake section of Wayne, passed Wednesday, January 14, 2015.
She was born and raised in Norfolk, Virginia. She married an All American Football player from Fordham University who then went on to play for the National Football League. She moved many times in her life; some of the places she lived included: Lakeland, FL, Chapel Hill, NC, Seattle, WA, San Francisco, CA, Chicago, IL, Jersey City, NJ, and New Brunswick, NJ. After all that moving around the country Audrey settled in the Packanack Lake Section of Wayne, NJ where she lived for fifty-five years before moving to the Cedar Crest Village in Pompton Plains, NJ in 2009.
Audrey met a young man named John Kuzman when she was dating his college roommate. John took one look at Audrey and was smitten. Audrey and John fell in love and married on September 3, 1941 in New York City. They married the same day John had a big game with Fordham University. During the first years of their marriage they lived all over the country because of John’s professional football career (Chicago Cardinals, San Francisco 49rs, Chicago Bears, and the Chicago Rockets) and his time served as a Lieutenant with the United States Navy. They had a loving and devoted marriage of sixty-seven years until John’s passing in 2008.
After raising her children, Audrey found work as a secretary for the Two Guys from Harrison Department Store in Totowa where she worked as the head cashier for many years. She later worked as a secretary for the AFIA Insurance Company in Clifton and the CIGNA insurance company in Wayne before retiring in 1984.
When it comes to describing Audrey, you have to start with family. Family was everything to her. Throughout her younger years, she was focused on raising her family in a nurturing and loving way. She was always at her children’s functions and made the difficult work of being a mom look easy. As her children grew and lived all over the country, Audrey’s home in Packanack Lake was always the center of operations. Holidays including Christmas, Easter, and Thanksgiving were always a little extra special here. Her grandchildren have come to know her loving ways having each spent a week or two at grandma’s house. She adored them more than words can describe. She loved animals and was a great family dog sitter. She enjoyed entertaining and whether it was neighbors, swim team parents, or family she was an organized and gracious host.
She was a member of Packanack Lake Fire Company #5’s Ladies Auxiliary, the Packanack Swim Team, and the Packanack Bowling Team throughout her years. She enjoyed varied types of music including Swing, Big Band, and even Rock n Roll. In her 70’s and 80’s, she even took tap dance lessons where she would have dance recitals with children many years younger than herself.
She was the loving wife of the late John Kuzman (2008); loving mother of Rick Kuzman and his wife Dagmar of Cape Cod, MA, Linda Walsh and her husband Mark of Edenton, NC, and Lorri Schmick and her husband Denny of Lancaster, PA; cherished grandmother of five grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.
In lieu of flowers memorial donations to the Juvenile Diabetes Research JDRF Foundation, 26 Broadway, 14th Floor, NY, NY 10004 or the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals ASPCA, 424 East 92nd Street, NY, NY 10128 would be greatly appreciated.
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Friends may visit with the family from 10 AM – 11 AM on Monday, January 19, 2015 at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Rd., Wayne.
Funeral services will be held 11 AM on Monday at the funeral home with interment to follow at the Crest Haven Memorial Park Cemetery in Clifton.
Services
Friends may visit with the family from 10 AM – 11 AM on Monday, January 19, 2015 at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Rd., Wayne.
Funeral services will be held 11 AM on Monday at the funeral home with interment to follow at the Crest Haven Memorial Park Cemetery in Clifton.
Audrey Kuzman (LeMaire) age 95 of Cedar Crest Village in Pompton Plains, formerly of the Packanack Lake section of Wayne, passed Wednesday, January 14, 2015.
She was born and raised in Norfolk, Virginia. She married an All American Football player from Fordham University who then went on to play for the National Football League. She moved many times in her life; some of the places she lived included: Lakeland, FL, Chapel Hill, NC, Seattle, WA, San Francisco, CA, Chicago, IL, Jersey City, NJ, and New Brunswick, NJ. After all that moving around the country Audrey settled in the Packanack Lake Section of Wayne, NJ where she lived for fifty-five years before moving to the Cedar Crest Village in Pompton Plains, NJ in 2009.
Audrey met a young man named John Kuzman when she was dating his college roommate. John took one look at Audrey and was smitten. Audrey and John fell in love and married on September 3, 1941 in New York City. They married the same day John had a big game with Fordham University. During the first years of their marriage they lived all over the country because of John’s professional football career (Chicago Cardinals, San Francisco 49rs, Chicago Bears, and the Chicago Rockets) and his time served as a Lieutenant with the United States Navy. They had a loving and devoted marriage of sixty-seven years until John’s passing in 2008.
After raising her children, Audrey found work as a secretary for the Two Guys from Harrison Department Store in Totowa where she worked as the head cashier for many years. She later worked as a secretary for the AFIA Insurance Company in Clifton and the CIGNA insurance company in Wayne before retiring in 1984.
When it comes to describing Audrey, you have to start with family. Family was everything to her. Throughout her younger years, she was focused on raising her family in a nurturing and loving way. She was always at her children’s functions and made the difficult work of being a mom look easy. As her children grew and lived all over the country, Audrey’s home in Packanack Lake was always the center of operations. Holidays including Christmas, Easter, and Thanksgiving were always a little extra special here. Her grandchildren have come to know her loving ways having each spent a week or two at grandma’s house. She adored them more than words can describe. She loved animals and was a great family dog sitter. She enjoyed entertaining and whether it was neighbors, swim team parents, or family she was an organized and gracious host.
She was a member of Packanack Lake Fire Company #5’s Ladies Auxiliary, the Packanack Swim Team, and the Packanack Bowling Team throughout her years. She enjoyed varied types of music including Swing, Big Band, and even Rock n Roll. In her 70’s and 80’s, she even took tap dance lessons where she would have dance recitals with children many years younger than herself.
She was the loving wife of the late John Kuzman (2008); loving mother of Rick Kuzman and his wife Dagmar of Cape Cod, MA, Linda Walsh and her husband Mark of Edenton, NC, and Lorri Schmick and her husband Denny of Lancaster, PA; cherished grandmother of five grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.
In lieu of flowers memorial donations to the Juvenile Diabetes Research JDRF Foundation, 26 Broadway, 14th Floor, NY, NY 10004 or the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals ASPCA, 424 East 92nd Street, NY, NY 10128 would be greatly appreciated.
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