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Friends may visit with the family from 3-5 and 7-9 PM on Wednesday, September 23, 2015 at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
Funeral services will be held 9:30 AM from the funeral home on Thursday, September 24, 2015 then to Immaculate Heart of Mary RC Church, 580 Ratzer Road, Wayne where a 10:30 AM Funeral Mass will be offered.
Charles Michael Seergy, Sr., age 90 of Wayne passed peacefully at home on Monday, September 21, 2015.
He was born and raised in Paterson. He attended Saint John's High School and was drafted into the US Navy and WWII during December of his senior year at age eighteen.
During his service in the Navy, Charles attended pre-radio training at the Naval Armory in Chicago, IL and later electrical engineering and related mathematics training in Houston, TX. He completed the twenty-eight week instruction school of airborne electronics maintenance in Corpus Christi, TX. He was honorably discharged on May 20, 1946 as an Aviation Electronics Technician’s Mate Second Class. He would recount that during his service he installed and serviced the communication radios in Bell P-39 Airacobra Aircraft.
After his service in the Navy, Charles returned to Paterson and finished his high school degree while working both at his father’s dry goods store on Main Street and at a movie theater as an usher. In 1951, he graduated from Manhattan College in Bronx, NY with a Bachelor of Science degree in electrical engineering. He was an instructor at Newark College of Engineering and a member of ETA Kappa Nu electrical engineering honor society. He worked as a senior engineer for the RCA Corporation Color Television Development Program in Harrison, NJ. He later worked for Kearfott Guidance Systems in Totowa, NJ as a project director and test lab manager until his retirement in 1990. He was especially proud of his work with the JTIDS (Joint Tactical Information Distribution Systems), still in use today, and the SRAM (Short Range Attack Missile) while at Kearfott.
He met a beautiful girl named Jeanne Durgett at a CYO (Catholic Youth Organization) dance in Paterson. They fell in love and were married at Saint George’s RC Church in Paterson on July 19, 1952. Their reception was at the Cedar Cliff Hotel in Haledon and they honeymooned at Lake George, NY. Charles and Jeanne initially lived in Paterson and in 1959, built their home in Wayne, where they have lived for the past 56 years. They have enjoyed 63 years of a loving, caring, and faith-filled marriage.
Charles was a devout Catholic and strong supporter of Catholic education as all of his children attended Catholic schools. He was a founding parishioner of Immaculate Heart of Mary RC Church in Wayne, a member of their finance committee and guard of honor, and could always be found at the Sunday – 9 AM Mass where he served as an usher for many, many years.
Charles was a lifelong New York Giants fan having held season tickets just about forever. He was also a lifetime member of the Knights of Columbus. He was intelligent, disciplined, organized, responsible, and only expected from you what he would expect from himself. Family celebrations brought him great joy, and he could not have been prouder of his children and grandchildren.
Charles was the loving husband of Jeanne M. (nee Durgett) Seergy; devoted father of Michael J. Seergy and his wife Kate of Mendham, Marybeth Watkins and her husband Bill of Morris Township, and Charles M. Seergy, Jr. and his wife Eileen of Franklin Lakes; cherished grandfather of Monica Whitmore and her husband AJ, Megan Watkins, Meredith Seergy, Rusty Watkins, Madeline O’Shea and her husband Dylan, Amy Watkins, Chuckie Seergy, and Michael Seergy; much loved great-grandfather of Kathleen Whitmore, Ryan Whitmore, and Rose O’Shea; dear brother of Annette Shalhoub and Gabriel Seergy, both of Maryland; and beloved uncle of many loving nieces and nephews.
In lieu of flowers, memorial donations to Immaculate Heart of Mary Church, 580 Ratzer Road, Wayne, NJ 07470 would be appreciated.
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Friends may visit with the family from 3-5 and 7-9 PM on Wednesday, September 23, 2015 at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
Funeral services will be held 9:30 AM from the funeral home on Thursday, September 24, 2015 then to Immaculate Heart of Mary RC Church, 580 Ratzer Road, Wayne where a 10:30 AM Funeral Mass will be offered.
Services
Friends may visit with the family from 3-5 and 7-9 PM on Wednesday, September 23, 2015 at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
Funeral services will be held 9:30 AM from the funeral home on Thursday, September 24, 2015 then to Immaculate Heart of Mary RC Church, 580 Ratzer Road, Wayne where a 10:30 AM Funeral Mass will be offered.
Charles Michael Seergy, Sr., age 90 of Wayne passed peacefully at home on Monday, September 21, 2015.
He was born and raised in Paterson. He attended Saint John's High School and was drafted into the US Navy and WWII during December of his senior year at age eighteen.
During his service in the Navy, Charles attended pre-radio training at the Naval Armory in Chicago, IL and later electrical engineering and related mathematics training in Houston, TX. He completed the twenty-eight week instruction school of airborne electronics maintenance in Corpus Christi, TX. He was honorably discharged on May 20, 1946 as an Aviation Electronics Technician’s Mate Second Class. He would recount that during his service he installed and serviced the communication radios in Bell P-39 Airacobra Aircraft.
After his service in the Navy, Charles returned to Paterson and finished his high school degree while working both at his father’s dry goods store on Main Street and at a movie theater as an usher. In 1951, he graduated from Manhattan College in Bronx, NY with a Bachelor of Science degree in electrical engineering. He was an instructor at Newark College of Engineering and a member of ETA Kappa Nu electrical engineering honor society. He worked as a senior engineer for the RCA Corporation Color Television Development Program in Harrison, NJ. He later worked for Kearfott Guidance Systems in Totowa, NJ as a project director and test lab manager until his retirement in 1990. He was especially proud of his work with the JTIDS (Joint Tactical Information Distribution Systems), still in use today, and the SRAM (Short Range Attack Missile) while at Kearfott.
He met a beautiful girl named Jeanne Durgett at a CYO (Catholic Youth Organization) dance in Paterson. They fell in love and were married at Saint George’s RC Church in Paterson on July 19, 1952. Their reception was at the Cedar Cliff Hotel in Haledon and they honeymooned at Lake George, NY. Charles and Jeanne initially lived in Paterson and in 1959, built their home in Wayne, where they have lived for the past 56 years. They have enjoyed 63 years of a loving, caring, and faith-filled marriage.
Charles was a devout Catholic and strong supporter of Catholic education as all of his children attended Catholic schools. He was a founding parishioner of Immaculate Heart of Mary RC Church in Wayne, a member of their finance committee and guard of honor, and could always be found at the Sunday – 9 AM Mass where he served as an usher for many, many years.
Charles was a lifelong New York Giants fan having held season tickets just about forever. He was also a lifetime member of the Knights of Columbus. He was intelligent, disciplined, organized, responsible, and only expected from you what he would expect from himself. Family celebrations brought him great joy, and he could not have been prouder of his children and grandchildren.
Charles was the loving husband of Jeanne M. (nee Durgett) Seergy; devoted father of Michael J. Seergy and his wife Kate of Mendham, Marybeth Watkins and her husband Bill of Morris Township, and Charles M. Seergy, Jr. and his wife Eileen of Franklin Lakes; cherished grandfather of Monica Whitmore and her husband AJ, Megan Watkins, Meredith Seergy, Rusty Watkins, Madeline O’Shea and her husband Dylan, Amy Watkins, Chuckie Seergy, and Michael Seergy; much loved great-grandfather of Kathleen Whitmore, Ryan Whitmore, and Rose O’Shea; dear brother of Annette Shalhoub and Gabriel Seergy, both of Maryland; and beloved uncle of many loving nieces and nephews.
In lieu of flowers, memorial donations to Immaculate Heart of Mary Church, 580 Ratzer Road, Wayne, NJ 07470 would be appreciated.
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