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March 30, 2009
Services
Funeral services will be held Saturday 8:30 AM from the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne then to Saint Ann Melkite Catholic Church, West Paterson for a 9:30 AM Funeral Service.
Friends may visit with the family at the funeral home on Friday from 2-4, 7-9 PM.
Charles J. Wardy age 91 of Franklin Lakes on Monday, March 30, 2009 peacefully at home with his family at his side.
He was born in Union City and had spent his formative years in Paterson. Charles lived in Passaic County for most of his life before moving to Franklin Lakes to live with his daughter and her family eighteen years ago.
Charles received his formal education at Paterson St John’s Grammar and High School. He then joined the United States Army serving as a driver in the Signal Corp during World War II serving in France. He received the American Theater Ribbon, the European African Middle Eastern and World War II Victory Ribbons.
He started his work life managing a dry cleaning business and also a shoe repair business. After his Army service Charles took a two year course in stone cutting and diamonds (paid for by GI Bill) and subsequently opened his own Jewelry Store in Brooklyn, New York later in Paterson, NJ at 951 Main Street. His last retail location was at the Plains Plaza shopping center on Route 23 in Pompton Plains. After closing his own store, he served as a diamond expert at Bamberger’s (later Macy’s) Department Store at the Garden State Plaza Shopping Center in Paramus.
As a pillar of the Syrian community originating in South Paterson, Charles was a lifelong devoted parishioner of St. Ann Melkite Catholic Church in West Paterson. He took exceptional pride in his Arabic language skills and his heritage.
Charles was by nature generous, loving, non-judgmental, and most of all gentle. Always willing to help, he would take on any task that needed to be done and was known to have regularly mowed the lawn in a three piece suit. In his later years, his jovial personality blessed the lives of all who interacted with him, especially his beloved grandchildren with whom he lived. His priceless expressions and reactions provided countless laughs and loving memories.
He was in attendance as a guest at an engagement party for a friend and met Elizabeth Haddad who became the love of his life and they married in 1945 and had forty-six years of “loving and devoted” marriage together until Elizabeth’s passing in March of 1991. During their marriage you could depend on good natured "Chal" to do many household tasks including the food shopping and taking out the garbage.
Surviving are one son Joseph Anthony Wardy of Randolph and one daughter Mary Joan Ajjan and her husband Dr. Geroge Ajjan of Franklin Lakes. He is the cherished grandfather of Adrienne Griffin and her husband Edward, Charles J. Wardy II, George Charles Ajjan, Vanessa Karam, and her husband Jean-Pierre, Valerie Ajjan, and one great grandson Raphael George Karam.
His son Charles J. Wardy, Jr predeceased him. He was the last of all his family of eleven siblings to pass away. His sisters Beatrice Hayek, Mary Baskinger, Helen Trebotich, Anne Dembiak, Norma Riffle, Josephine Dorgan, Agnes Cella, Anthony, Albert and George Wardy all predeceased him.
Those planning an expression of sympathy in Charles’ memory are asked to consider St Ann Melkite Catholic Church in West Paterson or Holy Name Hospital in Teaneck, New Jersey.
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Funeral services will be held Saturday 8:30 AM from the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne then to Saint Ann Melkite Catholic Church, West Paterson for a 9:30 AM Funeral Service.
Friends may visit with the family at the funeral home on Friday from 2-4, 7-9 PM.
March 30, 2009
Services
Funeral services will be held Saturday 8:30 AM from the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne then to Saint Ann Melkite Catholic Church, West Paterson for a 9:30 AM Funeral Service.
Friends may visit with the family at the funeral home on Friday from 2-4, 7-9 PM.
Charles J. Wardy age 91 of Franklin Lakes on Monday, March 30, 2009 peacefully at home with his family at his side.
He was born in Union City and had spent his formative years in Paterson. Charles lived in Passaic County for most of his life before moving to Franklin Lakes to live with his daughter and her family eighteen years ago.
Charles received his formal education at Paterson St John’s Grammar and High School. He then joined the United States Army serving as a driver in the Signal Corp during World War II serving in France. He received the American Theater Ribbon, the European African Middle Eastern and World War II Victory Ribbons.
He started his work life managing a dry cleaning business and also a shoe repair business. After his Army service Charles took a two year course in stone cutting and diamonds (paid for by GI Bill) and subsequently opened his own Jewelry Store in Brooklyn, New York later in Paterson, NJ at 951 Main Street. His last retail location was at the Plains Plaza shopping center on Route 23 in Pompton Plains. After closing his own store, he served as a diamond expert at Bamberger’s (later Macy’s) Department Store at the Garden State Plaza Shopping Center in Paramus.
As a pillar of the Syrian community originating in South Paterson, Charles was a lifelong devoted parishioner of St. Ann Melkite Catholic Church in West Paterson. He took exceptional pride in his Arabic language skills and his heritage.
Charles was by nature generous, loving, non-judgmental, and most of all gentle. Always willing to help, he would take on any task that needed to be done and was known to have regularly mowed the lawn in a three piece suit. In his later years, his jovial personality blessed the lives of all who interacted with him, especially his beloved grandchildren with whom he lived. His priceless expressions and reactions provided countless laughs and loving memories.
He was in attendance as a guest at an engagement party for a friend and met Elizabeth Haddad who became the love of his life and they married in 1945 and had forty-six years of “loving and devoted” marriage together until Elizabeth’s passing in March of 1991. During their marriage you could depend on good natured "Chal" to do many household tasks including the food shopping and taking out the garbage.
Surviving are one son Joseph Anthony Wardy of Randolph and one daughter Mary Joan Ajjan and her husband Dr. Geroge Ajjan of Franklin Lakes. He is the cherished grandfather of Adrienne Griffin and her husband Edward, Charles J. Wardy II, George Charles Ajjan, Vanessa Karam, and her husband Jean-Pierre, Valerie Ajjan, and one great grandson Raphael George Karam.
His son Charles J. Wardy, Jr predeceased him. He was the last of all his family of eleven siblings to pass away. His sisters Beatrice Hayek, Mary Baskinger, Helen Trebotich, Anne Dembiak, Norma Riffle, Josephine Dorgan, Agnes Cella, Anthony, Albert and George Wardy all predeceased him.
Those planning an expression of sympathy in Charles’ memory are asked to consider St Ann Melkite Catholic Church in West Paterson or Holy Name Hospital in Teaneck, New Jersey.
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