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June 6, 2011
Services
Friends are invited to visit with the family on Friday, June 10, 2011 from 2-4 and 7-9 PM at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
Funeral services will be held on 9 AM on Saturday, June 11, 2011 at the funeral home. Interment will be in Laurel Grove Memorial Park, Totowa.
Cornelius “Casey” H. Tanis age 53 died peacefully on Monday, June 6, 2011 at Kindred Care within St. Josephs Wayne Hospital after a lifelong battle with Muscular Dystrophy.
He was born and raised in Paterson having lived in Wayne before moving to Bloomingdale fifteen years ago.
Casey worked at the A&P Supermarket, Pompton Plains for many years. He was a very determined, strong willed and giving person, loved Monopoly, Rummy, Uno and many other card games. He also loved to socialize and could talk, at length, to just about anyone. One of his most enjoyable life memories were summers at Wymbolwood on the Georgian Bay of Lake Huron.
He was the loving son of the late Herman(1974) and Elizabeth(1985) (nee DenHollander) Tanis; loved brother of Joleen McKinstry and her husband Richard of Bloomingdale and the late Elise (2007), James (2006), and Johannes (1999) Tanis; devoted nephew of Gerda Van Grouw and her husband Donald of Pequannock; cherished uncle of Lindsay (McKinstry) VanderValk and her husband Tyler, Shawn, Ryan and Patience McKinstry all of Bloomingdale.
In lieu of flowers, donations will be appreciated for the Helping Hands Ministry of Trinity Baptist Church 160 Changebridge Road Montville, NJ 07045.
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Friends are invited to visit with the family on Friday, June 10, 2011 from 2-4 and 7-9 PM at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
Funeral services will be held on 9 AM on Saturday, June 11, 2011 at the funeral home. Interment will be in Laurel Grove Memorial Park, Totowa.

June 6, 2011
Services
Friends are invited to visit with the family on Friday, June 10, 2011 from 2-4 and 7-9 PM at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
Funeral services will be held on 9 AM on Saturday, June 11, 2011 at the funeral home. Interment will be in Laurel Grove Memorial Park, Totowa.
Cornelius “Casey” H. Tanis age 53 died peacefully on Monday, June 6, 2011 at Kindred Care within St. Josephs Wayne Hospital after a lifelong battle with Muscular Dystrophy.
He was born and raised in Paterson having lived in Wayne before moving to Bloomingdale fifteen years ago.
Casey worked at the A&P Supermarket, Pompton Plains for many years. He was a very determined, strong willed and giving person, loved Monopoly, Rummy, Uno and many other card games. He also loved to socialize and could talk, at length, to just about anyone. One of his most enjoyable life memories were summers at Wymbolwood on the Georgian Bay of Lake Huron.
He was the loving son of the late Herman(1974) and Elizabeth(1985) (nee DenHollander) Tanis; loved brother of Joleen McKinstry and her husband Richard of Bloomingdale and the late Elise (2007), James (2006), and Johannes (1999) Tanis; devoted nephew of Gerda Van Grouw and her husband Donald of Pequannock; cherished uncle of Lindsay (McKinstry) VanderValk and her husband Tyler, Shawn, Ryan and Patience McKinstry all of Bloomingdale.
In lieu of flowers, donations will be appreciated for the Helping Hands Ministry of Trinity Baptist Church 160 Changebridge Road Montville, NJ 07045.
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