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March 6, 2018
Services
Friends may visit with the family on Monday, March 12, 2018 at VanderMay Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Rd, Wayne from 9-10AM. A funeral service will be held at 10AM following the visiting hours. Interment will be in Laurel Grove Memorial Park, Totowa.
Charles A. Wigfield, age 91, of Prospect Park and formerly of Wayne passed away peacefully while surrounded by his family.
Charles was born in Paterson and grew up in Prospect Park. He graduated from Central High School in Paterson with the class of 1944 and served his country in the United States Navy until 1947. After a short stint with the telephone company, he started working for Story Electric Motor Repair Company, Inc. in Little Falls, eventually becoming one of the owners of the company. He worked for that company until his retirement in 1992. Unable to sit still in retirement, he put his mechanical talents to good use working for other companies and volunteering with Habitat for Humanity.
He was a lifelong member of the Sixth Reformed Church in Prospect Park and met his wife Betty there in 1947 after returning from service. He and Betty were married in February of 1949 and started a family with the birth of their first child in 1950. In 1955, Charles and Betty moved to Wayne where they raised their 3 children. After their children left the family home and were married, Charles and Betty moved back to Prospect Park where they resided for the rest of their married lives.
Charles and Betty spent their summers and as many weekends as possible in a house they owned in Ocean Grove. Since the house was over 100 years old, Charles never ran out of things he could do to fix up and repair. At the Sixth Reformed Church, Charles was an active member having served as both a Deacon and an Elder of the church as well as a member of the male chorus. Charles was extremely devoted to his Christian faith and was a godly man of integrity; in addition to his involvement in the Sixth Reformed Church, he also served as an usher in the Great Auditorium. It was a very rare summer Sunday when Charles did not participate in the traditional usher’s march during the morning and evening services. During the rare times he wasn’t participating in church activities or fixing something, Charles enjoyed seeing his friends and playing golf with his best friend, Joe Van Eeuwen.
Charles is survived by his son, David and his wife Kathleene of Wayne; two daughters, Pamela Hess and her husband Christian of Kinnelon, and Allison Cantilina and her husband John of Milford; six grandchildren and one great grandchild; and his sister, Corinne Verduin of Wyckoff.
Those planning to make donations in Charles’ name are asked to consider Living Word Reformed Church, 21 Pleasant View Drive, North Haledon, NJ 07508 or The Ocean Grove Camp Meeting Association, Attn: Now and Forever Fund, 54 Pitman Avenue, P.O. Box 248, Ocean Grove, NJ, 07756.
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Friends may visit with the family on Monday, March 12, 2018 at VanderMay Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Rd, Wayne from 9-10AM. A funeral service will be held at 10AM following the visiting hours. Interment will be in Laurel Grove Memorial Park, Totowa.
March 6, 2018
Services
Friends may visit with the family on Monday, March 12, 2018 at VanderMay Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Rd, Wayne from 9-10AM. A funeral service will be held at 10AM following the visiting hours. Interment will be in Laurel Grove Memorial Park, Totowa.
Charles A. Wigfield, age 91, of Prospect Park and formerly of Wayne passed away peacefully while surrounded by his family.
Charles was born in Paterson and grew up in Prospect Park. He graduated from Central High School in Paterson with the class of 1944 and served his country in the United States Navy until 1947. After a short stint with the telephone company, he started working for Story Electric Motor Repair Company, Inc. in Little Falls, eventually becoming one of the owners of the company. He worked for that company until his retirement in 1992. Unable to sit still in retirement, he put his mechanical talents to good use working for other companies and volunteering with Habitat for Humanity.
He was a lifelong member of the Sixth Reformed Church in Prospect Park and met his wife Betty there in 1947 after returning from service. He and Betty were married in February of 1949 and started a family with the birth of their first child in 1950. In 1955, Charles and Betty moved to Wayne where they raised their 3 children. After their children left the family home and were married, Charles and Betty moved back to Prospect Park where they resided for the rest of their married lives.
Charles and Betty spent their summers and as many weekends as possible in a house they owned in Ocean Grove. Since the house was over 100 years old, Charles never ran out of things he could do to fix up and repair. At the Sixth Reformed Church, Charles was an active member having served as both a Deacon and an Elder of the church as well as a member of the male chorus. Charles was extremely devoted to his Christian faith and was a godly man of integrity; in addition to his involvement in the Sixth Reformed Church, he also served as an usher in the Great Auditorium. It was a very rare summer Sunday when Charles did not participate in the traditional usher’s march during the morning and evening services. During the rare times he wasn’t participating in church activities or fixing something, Charles enjoyed seeing his friends and playing golf with his best friend, Joe Van Eeuwen.
Charles is survived by his son, David and his wife Kathleene of Wayne; two daughters, Pamela Hess and her husband Christian of Kinnelon, and Allison Cantilina and her husband John of Milford; six grandchildren and one great grandchild; and his sister, Corinne Verduin of Wyckoff.
Those planning to make donations in Charles’ name are asked to consider Living Word Reformed Church, 21 Pleasant View Drive, North Haledon, NJ 07508 or The Ocean Grove Camp Meeting Association, Attn: Now and Forever Fund, 54 Pitman Avenue, P.O. Box 248, Ocean Grove, NJ, 07756.
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