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Friends may visit with the family at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne, on Monday, May 2, 2016 from 4-8 PM.
Funeral Services will be held at 9 AM on Tuesday, May 3, 2016 from the funeral home, then to Our Lady of the Valley RC Church, Wayne, where at 10 AM a Funeral Mass will be offered. Burial will follow at the Holy Sepulchre Cemetery in Totowa.
Catherine Wheeler, age 80 of Wayne, died Friday, April 29, 2016. Amid the ups and downs of serious health issues over the past several years, Catherine's spirit endured. She spent the last of her days resting in a sleep-like state surrounded by her family. She is now in a wonderful place where she will be singing, dancing, reading and playing her violin to her heart’s content.
Catherine’s life was a bountiful blessing beyond measure. She lived a life of intensity, achieved many accomplishments, and had the ability to touch the lives of those around her.
Catherine started life in the Big City of Upper Manhattan, New York where she remained until she married Ernest on April 29, 1967, at Immaculate Heart of Mary Parish in Brooklyn. She settled with Ernest in Wayne, New Jersey where she spent 45 years collecting many stories and life-long friends. After earning her Master’s degree at William Patterson University, Catherine started a career in teaching special education with the New Jersey Public School System.
While Catherine achieved many work and academic accomplishments, none are more important to Catherine or impressive to the world, than her five beautiful children, Jennifer, William, Michael, Veronica and Edward. Her children were the primary focus over the last 48 years of her life and the beneficiaries of her endless love and attention. A devoted mother, her children thrived under her care and guidance.
Catherine was also a devoted wife; her no-nonsense brand of wit and humor gave Catherine a presence unique to Catherine and Catherine alone. Not only did this presence work to touch the lives of those around her, it was also essential in allowing her marriage to flourish. For those of you that know her husband Ernest, the strong-will of Catherine allowed her to be Earnest's other half.
Catherine Mary Hall Wheeler was born to Annie and John Hall on January 29, 1936. Catherine was preceded in death by her sister Cecelia Patricia Hall Pryor and is survived by her loving husband, Ernest Wheeler, her brothers, John Hall and James Hall, and her children, Jennifer Duncan, William Wheeler, Michael Wheeler, Veronica Wheeler and Edward Wheeler, and four grandchildren, Seraphine Wheeler, Johnathan Wheeler, Amelia Duncan and Logan Wheeler.
In lieu of flowers, donations are welcome to St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, P.O Box 1000, Dept. 142, Memphis, TN 38148-0142; www.stjude.org a charitable organization devoted to advancing cures, and means of prevention, for pediatric catastrophic diseases through research and treatment.
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Friends may visit with the family at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne, on Monday, May 2, 2016 from 4-8 PM.
Funeral Services will be held at 9 AM on Tuesday, May 3, 2016 from the funeral home, then to Our Lady of the Valley RC Church, Wayne, where at 10 AM a Funeral Mass will be offered. Burial will follow at the Holy Sepulchre Cemetery in Totowa.
Services
Friends may visit with the family at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne, on Monday, May 2, 2016 from 4-8 PM.
Funeral Services will be held at 9 AM on Tuesday, May 3, 2016 from the funeral home, then to Our Lady of the Valley RC Church, Wayne, where at 10 AM a Funeral Mass will be offered. Burial will follow at the Holy Sepulchre Cemetery in Totowa.
Catherine Wheeler, age 80 of Wayne, died Friday, April 29, 2016. Amid the ups and downs of serious health issues over the past several years, Catherine's spirit endured. She spent the last of her days resting in a sleep-like state surrounded by her family. She is now in a wonderful place where she will be singing, dancing, reading and playing her violin to her heart’s content.
Catherine’s life was a bountiful blessing beyond measure. She lived a life of intensity, achieved many accomplishments, and had the ability to touch the lives of those around her.
Catherine started life in the Big City of Upper Manhattan, New York where she remained until she married Ernest on April 29, 1967, at Immaculate Heart of Mary Parish in Brooklyn. She settled with Ernest in Wayne, New Jersey where she spent 45 years collecting many stories and life-long friends. After earning her Master’s degree at William Patterson University, Catherine started a career in teaching special education with the New Jersey Public School System.
While Catherine achieved many work and academic accomplishments, none are more important to Catherine or impressive to the world, than her five beautiful children, Jennifer, William, Michael, Veronica and Edward. Her children were the primary focus over the last 48 years of her life and the beneficiaries of her endless love and attention. A devoted mother, her children thrived under her care and guidance.
Catherine was also a devoted wife; her no-nonsense brand of wit and humor gave Catherine a presence unique to Catherine and Catherine alone. Not only did this presence work to touch the lives of those around her, it was also essential in allowing her marriage to flourish. For those of you that know her husband Ernest, the strong-will of Catherine allowed her to be Earnest's other half.
Catherine Mary Hall Wheeler was born to Annie and John Hall on January 29, 1936. Catherine was preceded in death by her sister Cecelia Patricia Hall Pryor and is survived by her loving husband, Ernest Wheeler, her brothers, John Hall and James Hall, and her children, Jennifer Duncan, William Wheeler, Michael Wheeler, Veronica Wheeler and Edward Wheeler, and four grandchildren, Seraphine Wheeler, Johnathan Wheeler, Amelia Duncan and Logan Wheeler.
In lieu of flowers, donations are welcome to St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, P.O Box 1000, Dept. 142, Memphis, TN 38148-0142; www.stjude.org a charitable organization devoted to advancing cures, and means of prevention, for pediatric catastrophic diseases through research and treatment.
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