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May 2, 2014
Services
Friends may visit with the family from 2-6 PM on Sunday, May 4, 2014 at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne, NJ. A funeral service will be held Sunday at 5 PM during the visitation hours.
Brenda (Bucci) Rouse, age 71 of Spotsylvania, Va. passed peacefully on Friday, May 2, 2014.
She was born at Saint Joseph’s Hospital in Paterson and lived at 445 Marshall Street in Paterson until she was fifteen years old. The family moved to Minnisink Road in Totowa which was the beginning of a lifetime of travel for Brenda. She lived in such places as Montreal, Canada, Rhodesia (now known as Zimbabwe), Johannesburg, South Africa, Reston and Williamsburg, Virginia, Tampa, Florida, New Jersey and in Spotsylvania for the last 10 years.
Brenda graduated from Passaic Valley High School in Little Falls with the Class of 1959 at the young age of 16, It was customary back then for schools to have students skip grades if they were advanced and very smart. She went on to receive her Bachelor’s Degree from William Paterson University in Wayne, and received her Master’s Degree in Library Science from McGill University in Montreal, Canada.
She will be remembered as an intelligent, generous, caring person who was strong willed, adventurous, independent, and who loved people and animals. She and her late husband Robert (2013) were instrumental in founding the Fawn Lake Dog Park in Spotsylvania, VA. She also enjoyed the many friendships made at the Fawn Lake Golf Club, and her wonderful neighbors.
She was the loving wife of the late Robert Rouse (2013); much loved sister of Jerry Bucci and his wife Kathleen of Wayne, NJ and Corinne Jasinski and her husband Robert of Wayne, NJ; much loved aunt of Frank Bucci and his wife Caroline, John Jasinski and his wife Diana, Mark Bucci, Andrew Bucci, Jason Jasinski, and James Bucci.
In lieu of flowers, memorial donations in Brenda’s name can be sent to the Wayne Animal Shelter, 201 Pompton Plains Crossroads, Wayne, NJ 07470 or to the Spotsylvania Animal Shelter, 450 Tv Drive, Fredericksburg, VA 22408.
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Friends may visit with the family from 2-6 PM on Sunday, May 4, 2014 at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne, NJ. A funeral service will be held Sunday at 5 PM during the visitation hours.
May 2, 2014
Services
Friends may visit with the family from 2-6 PM on Sunday, May 4, 2014 at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne, NJ. A funeral service will be held Sunday at 5 PM during the visitation hours.
Brenda (Bucci) Rouse, age 71 of Spotsylvania, Va. passed peacefully on Friday, May 2, 2014.
She was born at Saint Joseph’s Hospital in Paterson and lived at 445 Marshall Street in Paterson until she was fifteen years old. The family moved to Minnisink Road in Totowa which was the beginning of a lifetime of travel for Brenda. She lived in such places as Montreal, Canada, Rhodesia (now known as Zimbabwe), Johannesburg, South Africa, Reston and Williamsburg, Virginia, Tampa, Florida, New Jersey and in Spotsylvania for the last 10 years.
Brenda graduated from Passaic Valley High School in Little Falls with the Class of 1959 at the young age of 16, It was customary back then for schools to have students skip grades if they were advanced and very smart. She went on to receive her Bachelor’s Degree from William Paterson University in Wayne, and received her Master’s Degree in Library Science from McGill University in Montreal, Canada.
She will be remembered as an intelligent, generous, caring person who was strong willed, adventurous, independent, and who loved people and animals. She and her late husband Robert (2013) were instrumental in founding the Fawn Lake Dog Park in Spotsylvania, VA. She also enjoyed the many friendships made at the Fawn Lake Golf Club, and her wonderful neighbors.
She was the loving wife of the late Robert Rouse (2013); much loved sister of Jerry Bucci and his wife Kathleen of Wayne, NJ and Corinne Jasinski and her husband Robert of Wayne, NJ; much loved aunt of Frank Bucci and his wife Caroline, John Jasinski and his wife Diana, Mark Bucci, Andrew Bucci, Jason Jasinski, and James Bucci.
In lieu of flowers, memorial donations in Brenda’s name can be sent to the Wayne Animal Shelter, 201 Pompton Plains Crossroads, Wayne, NJ 07470 or to the Spotsylvania Animal Shelter, 450 Tv Drive, Fredericksburg, VA 22408.
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