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Friends may visit with the family on Sunday, January 31, 2016 from 4 to 7:30 PM at the Chapel of the Holland Christian Home, 151 Graham Ave, North Haledon. A Funeral Service will immediately follow visiting and begin at 7:30 PM. Interment will be private.
Bessie Dyer “Bess” (nee Keyzer), age 94, of North Haledon, passed away peacefully on Friday, January 29, 2016 at the Holland Christian Home, just one-day shy of her 95th birthday.
Bess was born in Paterson at the Keyzer family residence and spent her earlier years in the Peoples Park area of Paterson, later living in Prospect Park for thirty-four years. She later lived in Manahawkin before moving to the Holland Home of North Haledon in 2010.
Bess received her formal education at Prospect Park Grammar School and then at Paterson Central High School, graduating with the Class of 1938. She then went on to study at the Paterson Business College in Paterson and learned office skills.
Her first full-time job was at Woolworth’s 5 & 10 Cent Store in Paterson. After her marriage, she worked as a secretary typist at Curtiss Wright Corporation in Caldwell. When her husband John established a laundry business in Passaic named White Cleaners and Launderers, Bess took over the office duties to help her husband.
It was at Woolworths that she met her husband to be, John Dyer. At first, it was a very casual dating arrangement but later, after John got his own car, they soon became a couple and married on September 18, 1943 in the garden at the rear of Reverend Heiminga’s back yard. They honeymooned in Connecticut and Massachusetts and settled down to married life in Prospect Park. They had thirty-seven years of loving and adventurous marriage until John’s passing in November, 1980.
She will always be remembered by her family as a wonderful mother who always showed motherly dedication within the family. Her family was very important to her and she enjoyed family gatherings. It was a regular routine to sit down on Sundays after church to enjoy a wonderful dinner together. One of her memorable entrees was pork roast which everyone enjoyed.
Thanks Mom for being so special in our lives.
Bess’ Christian faith was very important to her and she was a member of the Third Christian Reformed Church on Haledon Avenue in Paterson, later at the Fourth Christian Reformed Church on 4th Avenue in Paterson and now known as Faith Community Christian Reformed Church of Wyckoff.
Bessie was gifted with a quiet personality that melded well with whatever social setting presented itself. She was a delightful person to have in your company and always had a friendly welcoming smile and a twinkle in her eyes.
In her leisure time, she enjoyed reading and knitting sweaters for gifts.
Surviving to mourn this very special wife, mother, grandmother and great-grandmother are her children: Lynn Moore and husband Doug of Matamoras, PA, John “Jay” Dyer, III of Palm Coast Florida, and Joan Konnor and husband Jeff of Beach Haven Terrace on LBI; five grandchildren: Michele Dooley, Page “P.J.” Konnor and wife Julie, Christopher Konnor and wife Samantha, Steven Konnor, and Alexis Dyer-Birkland and husband Luke; three great-grandchildren: Chance Konnor, Connor Skiff, and Cameron Konnor.
In addition to the passing of her beloved husband John in 1980, in recent years, sadness visited her life again when her sisters Francine Faber and Aalte “Scott” Jeltes both died in 2008, and her brother Marinus “Rin” Keyzer died in 2009.
In lieu of flowers, those planning an expression of sympathy in Bessie’s memory are asked to consider The Holland Christian Home.
Those planning an expression of sympathy in Bessie’s memory are asked to consider The Holland Christian Home.
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Friends may visit with the family on Sunday, January 31, 2016 from 4 to 7:30 PM at the Chapel of the Holland Christian Home, 151 Graham Ave, North Haledon. A Funeral Service will immediately follow visiting and begin at 7:30 PM. Interment will be private.
Services
Friends may visit with the family on Sunday, January 31, 2016 from 4 to 7:30 PM at the Chapel of the Holland Christian Home, 151 Graham Ave, North Haledon. A Funeral Service will immediately follow visiting and begin at 7:30 PM. Interment will be private.
Bessie Dyer “Bess” (nee Keyzer), age 94, of North Haledon, passed away peacefully on Friday, January 29, 2016 at the Holland Christian Home, just one-day shy of her 95th birthday.
Bess was born in Paterson at the Keyzer family residence and spent her earlier years in the Peoples Park area of Paterson, later living in Prospect Park for thirty-four years. She later lived in Manahawkin before moving to the Holland Home of North Haledon in 2010.
Bess received her formal education at Prospect Park Grammar School and then at Paterson Central High School, graduating with the Class of 1938. She then went on to study at the Paterson Business College in Paterson and learned office skills.
Her first full-time job was at Woolworth’s 5 & 10 Cent Store in Paterson. After her marriage, she worked as a secretary typist at Curtiss Wright Corporation in Caldwell. When her husband John established a laundry business in Passaic named White Cleaners and Launderers, Bess took over the office duties to help her husband.
It was at Woolworths that she met her husband to be, John Dyer. At first, it was a very casual dating arrangement but later, after John got his own car, they soon became a couple and married on September 18, 1943 in the garden at the rear of Reverend Heiminga’s back yard. They honeymooned in Connecticut and Massachusetts and settled down to married life in Prospect Park. They had thirty-seven years of loving and adventurous marriage until John’s passing in November, 1980.
She will always be remembered by her family as a wonderful mother who always showed motherly dedication within the family. Her family was very important to her and she enjoyed family gatherings. It was a regular routine to sit down on Sundays after church to enjoy a wonderful dinner together. One of her memorable entrees was pork roast which everyone enjoyed.
Thanks Mom for being so special in our lives.
Bess’ Christian faith was very important to her and she was a member of the Third Christian Reformed Church on Haledon Avenue in Paterson, later at the Fourth Christian Reformed Church on 4th Avenue in Paterson and now known as Faith Community Christian Reformed Church of Wyckoff.
Bessie was gifted with a quiet personality that melded well with whatever social setting presented itself. She was a delightful person to have in your company and always had a friendly welcoming smile and a twinkle in her eyes.
In her leisure time, she enjoyed reading and knitting sweaters for gifts.
Surviving to mourn this very special wife, mother, grandmother and great-grandmother are her children: Lynn Moore and husband Doug of Matamoras, PA, John “Jay” Dyer, III of Palm Coast Florida, and Joan Konnor and husband Jeff of Beach Haven Terrace on LBI; five grandchildren: Michele Dooley, Page “P.J.” Konnor and wife Julie, Christopher Konnor and wife Samantha, Steven Konnor, and Alexis Dyer-Birkland and husband Luke; three great-grandchildren: Chance Konnor, Connor Skiff, and Cameron Konnor.
In addition to the passing of her beloved husband John in 1980, in recent years, sadness visited her life again when her sisters Francine Faber and Aalte “Scott” Jeltes both died in 2008, and her brother Marinus “Rin” Keyzer died in 2009.
In lieu of flowers, those planning an expression of sympathy in Bessie’s memory are asked to consider The Holland Christian Home.
Those planning an expression of sympathy in Bessie’s memory are asked to consider The Holland Christian Home.
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