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June 5, 2006
Services
Friends may visit with the family on Wednesday, June 7, 2006 from 2-4 and 7-9 PM at the funeral home.
Funeral services will be held Thursday 9:30 AM from the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne then to Immaculate Heart of Mary RC Church, Wayne where at 10:30 AM a Funeral Mass will be offered.
Bernard J. Kelleher age 90 of Wayne died Monday, June 5, 2006 at home.
He was born in Primrose, South Africa and lived in Cork County Ireland before coming to this country in 1925 settling in New York City having also lived in West New York and Fair Lawn before moving to Wayne forty-six years ago.
Mr. Kelleher was an executive accountant having finished his career as CEO of Ex-Lax Advertising, Brooklyn, NY where he worked for over twenty-five years before retiring in 1979.
He was a parishioner of Immaculate Heart of Mary RC Church, Wayne.
He was a US Coast Guard veteran of WWII.
Beloved husband of the late Mary Frances(nee Dooley) Kelleher(2001); loving father of Daniel Bernard Kelleher of Paterson, Maureen Ann Hoffman of Cedar Grove, Patricia Ellen Kelleher of West Milford, Nancy Eileen O’Dowd and her husband Frank of Houston, TX, Peggy Ann Mirabelli and her husband Steven of Jackson and Susan Mary Govlick and her husband Joseph of Kinnelon; cherished grandfather of Kim Neville and her husband Andy, Jody Schmalz and her husband Craig, Eileen Sunday and her husband Eric, Keith Kelleher, Michele Morrison, Melissa Kiritsis and her husband Alex, Christopher Morrison, Sean Govlick, Brian Govlick, Brendan O'Dowd, Ryan O'Dowd and his wife Laura and Kevin O’Dowd; much loved step-grandfather of Leah Pransky, Steven, Craig and Kristin Mirabelli; loving great-grandfather of Kellyn Charlotte Neville, Max Schmalz and Jack Neville.
He was predeceased by his brother Jerome Kelleher and sister Patricia Walton.
In lieu of flowers memorial donations to the Alzheimer's Association-Greater NJ, 400 Morris Avenue, Suite 251, Denville, NJ 07834 or Passaic Valley Hospice, 483 Riverview Drive, Totowa, NJ 07511 would be appreciated.
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Friends may visit with the family on Wednesday, June 7, 2006 from 2-4 and 7-9 PM at the funeral home.
Funeral services will be held Thursday 9:30 AM from the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne then to Immaculate Heart of Mary RC Church, Wayne where at 10:30 AM a Funeral Mass will be offered.
June 5, 2006
Services
Friends may visit with the family on Wednesday, June 7, 2006 from 2-4 and 7-9 PM at the funeral home.
Funeral services will be held Thursday 9:30 AM from the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne then to Immaculate Heart of Mary RC Church, Wayne where at 10:30 AM a Funeral Mass will be offered.
Bernard J. Kelleher age 90 of Wayne died Monday, June 5, 2006 at home.
He was born in Primrose, South Africa and lived in Cork County Ireland before coming to this country in 1925 settling in New York City having also lived in West New York and Fair Lawn before moving to Wayne forty-six years ago.
Mr. Kelleher was an executive accountant having finished his career as CEO of Ex-Lax Advertising, Brooklyn, NY where he worked for over twenty-five years before retiring in 1979.
He was a parishioner of Immaculate Heart of Mary RC Church, Wayne.
He was a US Coast Guard veteran of WWII.
Beloved husband of the late Mary Frances(nee Dooley) Kelleher(2001); loving father of Daniel Bernard Kelleher of Paterson, Maureen Ann Hoffman of Cedar Grove, Patricia Ellen Kelleher of West Milford, Nancy Eileen O’Dowd and her husband Frank of Houston, TX, Peggy Ann Mirabelli and her husband Steven of Jackson and Susan Mary Govlick and her husband Joseph of Kinnelon; cherished grandfather of Kim Neville and her husband Andy, Jody Schmalz and her husband Craig, Eileen Sunday and her husband Eric, Keith Kelleher, Michele Morrison, Melissa Kiritsis and her husband Alex, Christopher Morrison, Sean Govlick, Brian Govlick, Brendan O'Dowd, Ryan O'Dowd and his wife Laura and Kevin O’Dowd; much loved step-grandfather of Leah Pransky, Steven, Craig and Kristin Mirabelli; loving great-grandfather of Kellyn Charlotte Neville, Max Schmalz and Jack Neville.
He was predeceased by his brother Jerome Kelleher and sister Patricia Walton.
In lieu of flowers memorial donations to the Alzheimer's Association-Greater NJ, 400 Morris Avenue, Suite 251, Denville, NJ 07834 or Passaic Valley Hospice, 483 Riverview Drive, Totowa, NJ 07511 would be appreciated.
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