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March 20, 2014
Services
Friends may visit with the family from 3-7 PM on Tuesday, March 25, 2014 at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
Funeral services will be held 9 AM on Wednesday, March 26, 2014 from the funeral home then to Our Lady of Consolation RC Church, 1799 Hamburg Tpk., Wayne where a 10 AM Funeral Mass will be offered.
Interment will be in Christ the King Cemetery, Franklin Lakes.
Charles “Charley” J. Ahearn age 91 of Wayne passed peacefully on Thursday, March 20, 2014.
He was born in Boston, Massachusetts and raised in Palisades’ Park. During the Great Depression years his father was an accountant for A&P food stores and would take Charley along with him in his Model T Ford to do cash collections from the A&P food markets throughout Brooklyn, New York. He graduated from Saint Cecilia’s High School in Englewood where his physics teacher was Vince Lombardi. While attending the school his tuition was paid by the pastor of the church as long as Charley turned in acceptable report cards.
Charley was drafted into the United States Army during WWII. He scored very high on his Aptitude Tests and was pulled from his basic training group and was to be send to Ohio University. His basic training group was sent to the D-Day invasion. Charley never made it to Ohio University as the Army needed to supplement troop divisions in the European Theatre of the war. He was assigned to the 14th Armored Division of the 94th Cavalry. He served from 1943 through 1946 and commanded a tank recovery vehicle. He traveled through France and Germany disarming disabled tanks as he went. His division saw fierce fighting at the battle to control Alsace in France. He was honorably discharged in 1946.
After his service in the Army Charley returned to the Alcoa Aluminum company where he had been serving an internship while attending the Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken. He completed is degree in engineering, drafting, and machine design at Stevens in January of 1952. About 1960 Charley bought a machine shop in Paterson called English Machine from a Mr. Dick English. He eventually moved the shop to Fairfield before retiring in 1986.
Charley was a quiet, reserved man who was very intellectual. He had a gentle way of motivating. He was a hard worker and his wife Kathleen would insist the family eat together. The children remember going to his shop in Paterson and eating around dad’s desk. Dad also had a little refrigerator where he kept Hershey bars, beer and Coca-Cola. Years before he was married he also enjoyed being on a Midget Car racing team out of Hinchcliffe Stadium in Paterson. His technical skills were put to good use as the team traveled the East Coast racing.
As the oldest of seven children Charley, when his father passed away at the age of forty-nine, tried his best to help his siblings. He worked hard and put together enough money to buy the family home in Palisades Park so his mom and siblings would have it just a bit easier.
He was the loving husband of the late Kathleen M. Ahearn (February 2014); devoted father of Rosemary Ahearn and her husband Don Hasara of Phillipsburg, Charles E. Ahearn and his wife Kathleen of Wayne, Carolyn Willis and her husband Dave of Franklin Lakes, and Joseph Ahearn and his wife Kelly of Edison; cherished grandfather of Charles “CJ” Ahearn, Brendan, Colm, and Deirdre Hasara; loved and oldest surviving brother of five brothers and one sister.
In lieu of flowers memorial donations to the Wayne First Aid Squad, PO Box 2004, Wayne, NJ 07474 would be appreciated
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Friends may visit with the family from 3-7 PM on Tuesday, March 25, 2014 at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
Funeral services will be held 9 AM on Wednesday, March 26, 2014 from the funeral home then to Our Lady of Consolation RC Church, 1799 Hamburg Tpk., Wayne where a 10 AM Funeral Mass will be offered.
Interment will be in Christ the King Cemetery, Franklin Lakes.
March 20, 2014
Services
Friends may visit with the family from 3-7 PM on Tuesday, March 25, 2014 at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
Funeral services will be held 9 AM on Wednesday, March 26, 2014 from the funeral home then to Our Lady of Consolation RC Church, 1799 Hamburg Tpk., Wayne where a 10 AM Funeral Mass will be offered.
Interment will be in Christ the King Cemetery, Franklin Lakes.
Charles “Charley” J. Ahearn age 91 of Wayne passed peacefully on Thursday, March 20, 2014.
He was born in Boston, Massachusetts and raised in Palisades’ Park. During the Great Depression years his father was an accountant for A&P food stores and would take Charley along with him in his Model T Ford to do cash collections from the A&P food markets throughout Brooklyn, New York. He graduated from Saint Cecilia’s High School in Englewood where his physics teacher was Vince Lombardi. While attending the school his tuition was paid by the pastor of the church as long as Charley turned in acceptable report cards.
Charley was drafted into the United States Army during WWII. He scored very high on his Aptitude Tests and was pulled from his basic training group and was to be send to Ohio University. His basic training group was sent to the D-Day invasion. Charley never made it to Ohio University as the Army needed to supplement troop divisions in the European Theatre of the war. He was assigned to the 14th Armored Division of the 94th Cavalry. He served from 1943 through 1946 and commanded a tank recovery vehicle. He traveled through France and Germany disarming disabled tanks as he went. His division saw fierce fighting at the battle to control Alsace in France. He was honorably discharged in 1946.
After his service in the Army Charley returned to the Alcoa Aluminum company where he had been serving an internship while attending the Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken. He completed is degree in engineering, drafting, and machine design at Stevens in January of 1952. About 1960 Charley bought a machine shop in Paterson called English Machine from a Mr. Dick English. He eventually moved the shop to Fairfield before retiring in 1986.
Charley was a quiet, reserved man who was very intellectual. He had a gentle way of motivating. He was a hard worker and his wife Kathleen would insist the family eat together. The children remember going to his shop in Paterson and eating around dad’s desk. Dad also had a little refrigerator where he kept Hershey bars, beer and Coca-Cola. Years before he was married he also enjoyed being on a Midget Car racing team out of Hinchcliffe Stadium in Paterson. His technical skills were put to good use as the team traveled the East Coast racing.
As the oldest of seven children Charley, when his father passed away at the age of forty-nine, tried his best to help his siblings. He worked hard and put together enough money to buy the family home in Palisades Park so his mom and siblings would have it just a bit easier.
He was the loving husband of the late Kathleen M. Ahearn (February 2014); devoted father of Rosemary Ahearn and her husband Don Hasara of Phillipsburg, Charles E. Ahearn and his wife Kathleen of Wayne, Carolyn Willis and her husband Dave of Franklin Lakes, and Joseph Ahearn and his wife Kelly of Edison; cherished grandfather of Charles “CJ” Ahearn, Brendan, Colm, and Deirdre Hasara; loved and oldest surviving brother of five brothers and one sister.
In lieu of flowers memorial donations to the Wayne First Aid Squad, PO Box 2004, Wayne, NJ 07474 would be appreciated
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