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August 31, 2010
Services
Friends may visit with the family at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne, on Thursday, September 2, 2010 from 2-4 & 7-9 PM. Funeral Services will be held at 10 AM on Friday, September 3, 2010 at the funeral home.
Charles W. Vasel, age 79 of Wayne, died peacefully at home on Tuesday, August 31, 2010 with his family at his bedside.
Charles was born in Hoboken September 28, 1930 and grew up in Jersey City. His twin sisters did their best to keep their little brother out of trouble, but the streets of Jersey City were tough in those days. His parents sent him off to the New York Military Academy in the seventh grade and he graduated high school there in 1948. He attended Rutgers University for two years and then joined the U.S. Army. He served as an MP in Germany during the Korean War. Upon his return home, he studied at Fairleigh Dickinson University and graduated with a degree in business. He then joined his father at The Horseshoe, a German restaurant that his family had owned in Jersey City, where he worked for many years.
Charles was a laid-back, easy going kind of guy with a bit of wanderlust. He traveled extensively as a young man, all over the world. It was on one of these excursions that he decided perhaps it was time to settle down. Upon his return, he asked his girlfriend Mynda to marry him and they settled down in Fort Lee to raise a family. Tragedy struck their family on September 11, 2001, when his son Scott Charles was working in the World Trade Center. That sorrow remained with Charles and he was never the same since. In 2004 Charles lost his wife after nearly forty years of marriage and decided to sell his home in Fort Lee. He moved to Wayne to live with his daughter Janyne and her family.
He is survived by his loving daughter Janyne Dembicki and her husband Julian of Wayne, his daughter-in-law Amy Vasel, four grandchildren; Justin and Jason Dembicki and Matthew and Ryan Vasel, and his two sisters; Mildred Moran of Georgia and Eileen Andes of Blauvelt, NY.
In lieu of flowers, donations to the Scott Vasel Scholarship Fund, would be greatly appreciated. Donations can be mailed to the funeral home and will be forwarded to the family.
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Friends may visit with the family at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne, on Thursday, September 2, 2010 from 2-4 & 7-9 PM. Funeral Services will be held at 10 AM on Friday, September 3, 2010 at the funeral home.
August 31, 2010
Services
Friends may visit with the family at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne, on Thursday, September 2, 2010 from 2-4 & 7-9 PM. Funeral Services will be held at 10 AM on Friday, September 3, 2010 at the funeral home.
Charles W. Vasel, age 79 of Wayne, died peacefully at home on Tuesday, August 31, 2010 with his family at his bedside.
Charles was born in Hoboken September 28, 1930 and grew up in Jersey City. His twin sisters did their best to keep their little brother out of trouble, but the streets of Jersey City were tough in those days. His parents sent him off to the New York Military Academy in the seventh grade and he graduated high school there in 1948. He attended Rutgers University for two years and then joined the U.S. Army. He served as an MP in Germany during the Korean War. Upon his return home, he studied at Fairleigh Dickinson University and graduated with a degree in business. He then joined his father at The Horseshoe, a German restaurant that his family had owned in Jersey City, where he worked for many years.
Charles was a laid-back, easy going kind of guy with a bit of wanderlust. He traveled extensively as a young man, all over the world. It was on one of these excursions that he decided perhaps it was time to settle down. Upon his return, he asked his girlfriend Mynda to marry him and they settled down in Fort Lee to raise a family. Tragedy struck their family on September 11, 2001, when his son Scott Charles was working in the World Trade Center. That sorrow remained with Charles and he was never the same since. In 2004 Charles lost his wife after nearly forty years of marriage and decided to sell his home in Fort Lee. He moved to Wayne to live with his daughter Janyne and her family.
He is survived by his loving daughter Janyne Dembicki and her husband Julian of Wayne, his daughter-in-law Amy Vasel, four grandchildren; Justin and Jason Dembicki and Matthew and Ryan Vasel, and his two sisters; Mildred Moran of Georgia and Eileen Andes of Blauvelt, NY.
In lieu of flowers, donations to the Scott Vasel Scholarship Fund, would be greatly appreciated. Donations can be mailed to the funeral home and will be forwarded to the family.
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