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April 14, 2011
Services
Friends may visit with the family from 2-4 and 7-9 PM on Tuesday, April 19, 2011 at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Rd., Wayne.
Funeral services will be held 10 AM on Wednesday, April 20, 2011 at the funeral home.
Interment will be in Restland Memorial Park, East Hanover.
Charles Arthur Tappan age 79 of Pequannock died Thursday, April 14, 2011.
He was born in East Orange and raised in Bloomfield having graduated from Bloomfield High School with the Class of 1949, having moved to Wayne forty-six years ago.
Mr. Tappan was an auto mechanic, worked as a salesman for Troy Fasteners of Fairfield and finally as a US Postal Employee in Kearny for twenty years before retiring in 2001.
His father was a musician and taught Charles to play the drums at the age of three. He played in the High School Band, the Marine Corps Band and finally as a union drummer for weddings, proms and in clubs. This was his second job, and love, for as many years as the family can remember.
Charles enjoyed old cars, history, genealogy, was a jokester, but most of all he loved to talk. He married the love of his life Joan Bohr after knowing her for many years and then dating. Charles was raised by his grandmother, whom he brought in the car with him on the day he asked Joan to marry him. They married on August 17, 1957 at the Sacred Heart RC Church, Bloomfield and honeymooned at the family bungalow in Ocean Beach, NJ.
He was the loving husband of fifty-three years to Joan (nee Bohr) Tappan; devoted father of Dorothy Frazier and her husband Ltc. James of Williamsburg, VA, Laura Hughes of Harvest, AL, Dana Tappan of Stockholm, NJ, Charles R. Tappan of Wayne, Richard Tappan and his wife Jeannette of Little Falls, Wes and James Tappan both of West Milford; cherished grandfather of eight; loved brother of Scott Tappan, Bob Weber and Gail Tappan.
In lieu of flowers memorial donations to the Pequannock First Aid Squad would be appreciated, 528 Newark Pompton Tpk. Pompton Plains, NJ 07444 .
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Friends may visit with the family from 2-4 and 7-9 PM on Tuesday, April 19, 2011 at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Rd., Wayne.
Funeral services will be held 10 AM on Wednesday, April 20, 2011 at the funeral home.
Interment will be in Restland Memorial Park, East Hanover.
April 14, 2011
Services
Friends may visit with the family from 2-4 and 7-9 PM on Tuesday, April 19, 2011 at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Rd., Wayne.
Funeral services will be held 10 AM on Wednesday, April 20, 2011 at the funeral home.
Interment will be in Restland Memorial Park, East Hanover.
Charles Arthur Tappan age 79 of Pequannock died Thursday, April 14, 2011.
He was born in East Orange and raised in Bloomfield having graduated from Bloomfield High School with the Class of 1949, having moved to Wayne forty-six years ago.
Mr. Tappan was an auto mechanic, worked as a salesman for Troy Fasteners of Fairfield and finally as a US Postal Employee in Kearny for twenty years before retiring in 2001.
His father was a musician and taught Charles to play the drums at the age of three. He played in the High School Band, the Marine Corps Band and finally as a union drummer for weddings, proms and in clubs. This was his second job, and love, for as many years as the family can remember.
Charles enjoyed old cars, history, genealogy, was a jokester, but most of all he loved to talk. He married the love of his life Joan Bohr after knowing her for many years and then dating. Charles was raised by his grandmother, whom he brought in the car with him on the day he asked Joan to marry him. They married on August 17, 1957 at the Sacred Heart RC Church, Bloomfield and honeymooned at the family bungalow in Ocean Beach, NJ.
He was the loving husband of fifty-three years to Joan (nee Bohr) Tappan; devoted father of Dorothy Frazier and her husband Ltc. James of Williamsburg, VA, Laura Hughes of Harvest, AL, Dana Tappan of Stockholm, NJ, Charles R. Tappan of Wayne, Richard Tappan and his wife Jeannette of Little Falls, Wes and James Tappan both of West Milford; cherished grandfather of eight; loved brother of Scott Tappan, Bob Weber and Gail Tappan.
In lieu of flowers memorial donations to the Pequannock First Aid Squad would be appreciated, 528 Newark Pompton Tpk. Pompton Plains, NJ 07444 .
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