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August 8, 2010
Services
Friends may visit with the family from 5-9 PM on Thursday, August 12, 2010 at the Vander May Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Rd., Wayne.
Funeral services will be held at 10 AM on Friday, August 13, 2010 at the funeral home.
Interment will be in Oak Hill Cemetery, Nyack, NY.
Bradford F. Green, age 53, of South Plainfield died peacefully on Sunday, August 8, 2010 at home with the comfort of his family by his side.
He was born in Ridgewood having lived in Oakland, the Packanack Lake section of Wayne, Towaco, and Green Pond before moving to South Plainfield twenty-two years ago.
Brad graduated from Montville High School with the Class of 1974. He attended Nichols College, Dudley, MA and transferred to Susquehanna University, Selinsgrove, PA where he received his Bachelor of Science Degree with the Class of 1979.
He truly enjoyed and was proud of his work as a taper/spackler for Union Local 1976 which later became Local 711, Springfield.
There was nothing more important to Brad than his family. He never missed a hockey, basketball, baseball, or softball game. He made it to every concert, recital, and graduation. Throughout the years Brad chaperoned numerous field trips; he even taught a herpetology class on a trip to Stokes State Forest.
Brad loved the serenity of nature, whether it was the sun coming up over the still lake in the morning, the peaceful chirping of crickets on a warm summer night, or anything in between. Nothing captured this beauty more so than Green Pond. Green Pond is where he was taught to fish by his Grandpa John. Brad also became a championship sailor, terrific water skier, and accomplished rock climber at the lake (check out the rock that adorns his name if you don’t believe it).
Every August, Brad and his family would pack their bags for a week of fun on the beaches of Avalon, NJ. While staying at the beach Brad loved swimming, body surfing, walking up and down the beach, eating seafood (especially if it was from Sylvester’s), and spending quality time with his wife and children.
Brad’s friends and neighbors will fondly remember him dressing for Halloween as a clown. He would put on his spackling stilts, modified extra long jeans, and clown wig and walk around the block honking his horn with his family by his side. He was always sure to be a hit with all of the kids.
Brad is survived by his loving wife Elizabeth “Liz” (Niedner) Green; his five children: Nicholas Green of New York City, Sarah Green of South Plainfield, Kendall Green of Los Angeles, Logan Green of South Plainfield, and Jack Green of South Plainfield; his mother Shirley Green of Green Pond and the late Robert Green (2008); and his three sisters: Wendy Herbert and her husband James of Hamburg, Pamela Jacobs of Pine Brook, and Suzanne Green of Lake Hiawatha.
In lieu of flowers memorial donations to either The Cancer Institute of NJ, 195 Little Albany Street, New Brunswick, NJ 08901 (please place in memo “in memory of Brad Green”) or Robert Wood Johnson Hospital, One Robert Wood Johnson Place, New Brunswick, NJ 08903 (please place in memo “donation to Bone Marrow Transplant Unit in memory of Brad Green”) would be appreciated.
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Friends may visit with the family from 5-9 PM on Thursday, August 12, 2010 at the Vander May Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Rd., Wayne.
Funeral services will be held at 10 AM on Friday, August 13, 2010 at the funeral home.
Interment will be in Oak Hill Cemetery, Nyack, NY.
August 8, 2010
Services
Friends may visit with the family from 5-9 PM on Thursday, August 12, 2010 at the Vander May Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Rd., Wayne.
Funeral services will be held at 10 AM on Friday, August 13, 2010 at the funeral home.
Interment will be in Oak Hill Cemetery, Nyack, NY.
Bradford F. Green, age 53, of South Plainfield died peacefully on Sunday, August 8, 2010 at home with the comfort of his family by his side.
He was born in Ridgewood having lived in Oakland, the Packanack Lake section of Wayne, Towaco, and Green Pond before moving to South Plainfield twenty-two years ago.
Brad graduated from Montville High School with the Class of 1974. He attended Nichols College, Dudley, MA and transferred to Susquehanna University, Selinsgrove, PA where he received his Bachelor of Science Degree with the Class of 1979.
He truly enjoyed and was proud of his work as a taper/spackler for Union Local 1976 which later became Local 711, Springfield.
There was nothing more important to Brad than his family. He never missed a hockey, basketball, baseball, or softball game. He made it to every concert, recital, and graduation. Throughout the years Brad chaperoned numerous field trips; he even taught a herpetology class on a trip to Stokes State Forest.
Brad loved the serenity of nature, whether it was the sun coming up over the still lake in the morning, the peaceful chirping of crickets on a warm summer night, or anything in between. Nothing captured this beauty more so than Green Pond. Green Pond is where he was taught to fish by his Grandpa John. Brad also became a championship sailor, terrific water skier, and accomplished rock climber at the lake (check out the rock that adorns his name if you don’t believe it).
Every August, Brad and his family would pack their bags for a week of fun on the beaches of Avalon, NJ. While staying at the beach Brad loved swimming, body surfing, walking up and down the beach, eating seafood (especially if it was from Sylvester’s), and spending quality time with his wife and children.
Brad’s friends and neighbors will fondly remember him dressing for Halloween as a clown. He would put on his spackling stilts, modified extra long jeans, and clown wig and walk around the block honking his horn with his family by his side. He was always sure to be a hit with all of the kids.
Brad is survived by his loving wife Elizabeth “Liz” (Niedner) Green; his five children: Nicholas Green of New York City, Sarah Green of South Plainfield, Kendall Green of Los Angeles, Logan Green of South Plainfield, and Jack Green of South Plainfield; his mother Shirley Green of Green Pond and the late Robert Green (2008); and his three sisters: Wendy Herbert and her husband James of Hamburg, Pamela Jacobs of Pine Brook, and Suzanne Green of Lake Hiawatha.
In lieu of flowers memorial donations to either The Cancer Institute of NJ, 195 Little Albany Street, New Brunswick, NJ 08901 (please place in memo “in memory of Brad Green”) or Robert Wood Johnson Hospital, One Robert Wood Johnson Place, New Brunswick, NJ 08903 (please place in memo “donation to Bone Marrow Transplant Unit in memory of Brad Green”) would be appreciated.
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