Office Hours: Monday – Friday, 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM
Calls outside of office hours? No worries! Our team will respond within 10–15 minutes.
September 13, 2012
Services
Friends may visit with the family from 2-5 PM on Sunday, September 16, 2012 at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
Funeral services will be held 10 AM on Monday, September 17, 2012 at the Pompton Plains Reformed Bible Church, 415 Boulevard, Pompton Plains.
Interment will be in Laurel Grove Memorial Park, Totowa.
Bernice L. Tanis (nee Decker) 69, of Bloomingdale, went home to her Lord and Savior on September 13, 2012 at home with the comfort of family by her side.
She was born in Paterson to the late Peter and Clara Decker of Oakland. She graduated from Eastern Christian High School with the Class of 1960. After high school Bernice worked for New Jersey Bank as a secretary for three executives and then dedicated herself to raising her six children. She returned to work for Wayne Savings Bank which merged with Valley National Bank in Wayne before retiring in 2008.
Bernice had known John M. Tanis through school and they formally began dating after her sister, Arlene arranged a date to the Palisades Amusement Park…that John forgot about. They called him and came and picked him up and the rest is a true love story. John proposed to Bernice on one knee after asking her parents for Bernice’s hand in marriage. They were wed on July 19, 1961 at the 3rd Christian Reformed Church in Paterson and honeymooned at Niagara Falls, NY. Bernice and John have had fifty one years of an inseparable, loving, and devoted marriage.
Bernice was a member of the Pompton Plains Reformed Bible Church for the past 38 years having joined the church after the 4th Reformed Church in Paterson burned down.
The family has many fond memories of Mondays at Island Beach State Park, Bernice’s coleslaw, potato salad, chicken pot pies, and her Dutch Santa cookies.
She was the loving wife of John M. Tanis; devoted mother of John M. Tanis, Jr. and his wife Laurie of Midland Park, Lois LoSacco and her husband Leonard of Emerson, Linda Van Grouw and her husband Brian of Oakland, Cornelius Tanis and his wife Lisa of North Haledon, Karen Sanders and her husband James of Wyckoff, and Patricia Hagedoorn and her husband Henry of Midland Park; cherished grandmother of 22 grandchildren; dear sister of Arlene Durkot and her husband John of Sparta, the late Robert Decker and his wife Ineke, formerly of Franklin Lakes, Garry Decker and his wife Tetsy of Oakland, Peter Decker and his wife Gail of Colorado Springs, Colorado, and Walter Decker and his wife Cindy of Pine Bush, NY. Dear sister-in-law to Martha of Lincoln Park, Bernice Tanis of Bear, Delaware, and the late Trina Domokos and brother-in-law, Richard of Ohio, as well as several nieces and nephews.
In lieu of flowers memorial donations to the Eastern Christian School Assoc., 50 Oakwood Ave., North Haledon, NJ 07508 would be appreciated
If you would like to send a private condolence directly to the family use this condolence section.
Friends may visit with the family from 2-5 PM on Sunday, September 16, 2012 at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
Funeral services will be held 10 AM on Monday, September 17, 2012 at the Pompton Plains Reformed Bible Church, 415 Boulevard, Pompton Plains.
Interment will be in Laurel Grove Memorial Park, Totowa.
September 13, 2012
Services
Friends may visit with the family from 2-5 PM on Sunday, September 16, 2012 at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
Funeral services will be held 10 AM on Monday, September 17, 2012 at the Pompton Plains Reformed Bible Church, 415 Boulevard, Pompton Plains.
Interment will be in Laurel Grove Memorial Park, Totowa.
Bernice L. Tanis (nee Decker) 69, of Bloomingdale, went home to her Lord and Savior on September 13, 2012 at home with the comfort of family by her side.
She was born in Paterson to the late Peter and Clara Decker of Oakland. She graduated from Eastern Christian High School with the Class of 1960. After high school Bernice worked for New Jersey Bank as a secretary for three executives and then dedicated herself to raising her six children. She returned to work for Wayne Savings Bank which merged with Valley National Bank in Wayne before retiring in 2008.
Bernice had known John M. Tanis through school and they formally began dating after her sister, Arlene arranged a date to the Palisades Amusement Park…that John forgot about. They called him and came and picked him up and the rest is a true love story. John proposed to Bernice on one knee after asking her parents for Bernice’s hand in marriage. They were wed on July 19, 1961 at the 3rd Christian Reformed Church in Paterson and honeymooned at Niagara Falls, NY. Bernice and John have had fifty one years of an inseparable, loving, and devoted marriage.
Bernice was a member of the Pompton Plains Reformed Bible Church for the past 38 years having joined the church after the 4th Reformed Church in Paterson burned down.
The family has many fond memories of Mondays at Island Beach State Park, Bernice’s coleslaw, potato salad, chicken pot pies, and her Dutch Santa cookies.
She was the loving wife of John M. Tanis; devoted mother of John M. Tanis, Jr. and his wife Laurie of Midland Park, Lois LoSacco and her husband Leonard of Emerson, Linda Van Grouw and her husband Brian of Oakland, Cornelius Tanis and his wife Lisa of North Haledon, Karen Sanders and her husband James of Wyckoff, and Patricia Hagedoorn and her husband Henry of Midland Park; cherished grandmother of 22 grandchildren; dear sister of Arlene Durkot and her husband John of Sparta, the late Robert Decker and his wife Ineke, formerly of Franklin Lakes, Garry Decker and his wife Tetsy of Oakland, Peter Decker and his wife Gail of Colorado Springs, Colorado, and Walter Decker and his wife Cindy of Pine Bush, NY. Dear sister-in-law to Martha of Lincoln Park, Bernice Tanis of Bear, Delaware, and the late Trina Domokos and brother-in-law, Richard of Ohio, as well as several nieces and nephews.
In lieu of flowers memorial donations to the Eastern Christian School Assoc., 50 Oakwood Ave., North Haledon, NJ 07508 would be appreciated
Guestbook