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February 13, 2008
Services
Funeral services will be held Saturday 3 PM at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
Friends may visit with the family at the funeral home on Saturday from 1-3 PM.
Catherine F. Strauss “Cathy” (nee Monsees) age 59 of Hewitt, West Milford on Wednesday, February 13, 2008. She slipped away quietly and peacefully while receiving the loving care of her family who where at her bedside.
She was born in Union City and had lived her formative years in Wayne before moving to West Milford thirty-two years ago.
Catherine received her formal education at Wayne High School graduating with the Class of 1966.
Mrs. Strauss was an Office Manager for Selling Precision Company in West Milford manufacturers of hydraulic apparatus. She worked there for twenty three years until her illness caused her to retire from work.
She was skilled at and enjoyed the hobby of stained glass fabrication.
Cathy and Norman enjoyed nine years of a ecstatic “being in love” marriage together. They originally went to school together at Wayne High School and really didn’t know each other because they traveled in separate social circles. One day Norman planned a neighborhood picnic and one his neighbors brought Cathy and to make a long story short they got to know each other and fell in love.
She leaves her family with many fond memories of a very loving wife, mother, grandmother and sister. By nature she just loved her family and was very motherly to her sons as well as loving and nurturing to her two sisters. They spoke daily on the telephone even if it was just to say hello how are you.
A great sadness came into her life when her son Richard Petrowski died in April 2000.
Surviving are her loving husband Norman Strauss; one son Travis Petrowski and his wife Julie of Linden; one granddaughter Victoria Petrowski two sisters Sue LaComis and her husband Bill of Nanticoke, Pennsylvania and Martha Monsees of Pompton Lakes.
She was predeceased by her parents William and Lucille Monsees.
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Funeral services will be held Saturday 3 PM at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
Friends may visit with the family at the funeral home on Saturday from 1-3 PM.
February 13, 2008
Services
Funeral services will be held Saturday 3 PM at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
Friends may visit with the family at the funeral home on Saturday from 1-3 PM.
Catherine F. Strauss “Cathy” (nee Monsees) age 59 of Hewitt, West Milford on Wednesday, February 13, 2008. She slipped away quietly and peacefully while receiving the loving care of her family who where at her bedside.
She was born in Union City and had lived her formative years in Wayne before moving to West Milford thirty-two years ago.
Catherine received her formal education at Wayne High School graduating with the Class of 1966.
Mrs. Strauss was an Office Manager for Selling Precision Company in West Milford manufacturers of hydraulic apparatus. She worked there for twenty three years until her illness caused her to retire from work.
She was skilled at and enjoyed the hobby of stained glass fabrication.
Cathy and Norman enjoyed nine years of a ecstatic “being in love” marriage together. They originally went to school together at Wayne High School and really didn’t know each other because they traveled in separate social circles. One day Norman planned a neighborhood picnic and one his neighbors brought Cathy and to make a long story short they got to know each other and fell in love.
She leaves her family with many fond memories of a very loving wife, mother, grandmother and sister. By nature she just loved her family and was very motherly to her sons as well as loving and nurturing to her two sisters. They spoke daily on the telephone even if it was just to say hello how are you.
A great sadness came into her life when her son Richard Petrowski died in April 2000.
Surviving are her loving husband Norman Strauss; one son Travis Petrowski and his wife Julie of Linden; one granddaughter Victoria Petrowski two sisters Sue LaComis and her husband Bill of Nanticoke, Pennsylvania and Martha Monsees of Pompton Lakes.
She was predeceased by her parents William and Lucille Monsees.
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