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February 20, 2023
Services
Friends may visit with the family from 2-5:30 PM on Tuesday, February 28, 2023 at the Vander May Wane Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Rd., Wayne. At 5:30 PM on Tuesday there will be a time for sharing memories and celebrating Brenda’s life.
Brenda Cordwell Walker, 72, of West Milford New Jersey passed away on February 20th from complications due to COPD.
Born in Paterson to Clifford and Elizabeth Cordwell, with brother Doug and sister Gail, she was a Paterson girl of her times, happy, carefree, and loving her life.
She attended schools 19 and 27, graduated from Kennedy High School in 1968 (voted Typical Teenager) and William Paterson College in 1972 where she studied to become an elementary school teacher.
Brenda started her teaching career at School 5 in Paterson where she met (and did not like at all) Chud Walker, who persisted and became her husband of 46 years and father of her children Justin, Sean, and daughter Rory, the best things that ever happened to them both. She spent 38 and 1/2 years working tirelessly to help the kids in Paterson, teaching 4th and 5th grades and becoming a Basic Skills instructor. She was, by popular acclaim, one of the best teachers the school ever had. Have a problem or question, see Brenda.
She could dance up a storm (the Lincoln Club, the Osprey) make or break a boy’s heart, smile to make you melt, drive that blue Valiant like a demon, and light up any space or place she was in. She had a great sense of humor and was a true and loyal friend to those she loved. She will be fondly remembered and sorely missed.
Please, no donations. Instead, commit random acts of mercy and kindness. And call your mother.
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Friends may visit with the family from 2-5:30 PM on Tuesday, February 28, 2023 at the Vander May Wane Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Rd., Wayne. At 5:30 PM on Tuesday there will be a time for sharing memories and celebrating Brenda’s life.
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