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January 15, 2012
Services
Friends may visit with the family on Thursday, January 19,2012 from 4-8 PM at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne. At 8 PM after the visitation hours a remembrance service will be held.
Charlie A. Rodgers age 42 of Wayne died unexpectedly on January 15, 2012.
He was born in Orange and was raised and has lived in Wayne. Charlie graduated from Wayne Hills High School with the Class of 1987.
Charlie’s first job was working for his father at OK Towing in Wayne. He later worked towing and doing auto repair for Mazzaro’s Auto Body and Towing in Totowa, as a roofer for CentiMark Roofing, and at Disneyworld’s Space Mountain before returning to New Jersey to start Clever Towing in West Milford.
Charlie was an ambitious, intelligent, person who was comfortable repairing anything mechanical. He was a devoted family man who loved to play cars with Brady who adored his dad. Brady loved to say, "let's play cars daddy!" and must have said daddy 1000 times a day. That little boy was his whole world. He always said that he didn't know he was able to love someone as much as he loves Brady. Charlie would have given the world to his son and his wife Jamie. He gave up his love of singing to make a better life for his family. At the end of Jamie and Charlie’s conversations was always an argument about who loved who the most. Jamie won. Charlie was her rock. Their wedding song was A Whole New World from Disney’s Aladdin. The first song Charlie sung to Jamie and continued to sing to her was Your Man by Josh Turner.
He met his wife Jamie Tara Stone when singing Karaoke in Watchung NJ. Their first date was to Maggie Moore’s in Lincoln Park and Charlie proposed marriage to Jamie at Briarwood Farm in Readington where she boarded a horse name “Clever”. They married on December 19, 2008 while on a Disney Cruise.
Charlie is the loving husband of Jamie Tara (Stone) Rodgers; devoted and loving father of Brady Quinn Rodgers; loving son of Lynfred N. Rodgers of Vernon and the late Cheryl (Southwell) Rodgers(2011); loved brother of Lenny Rodgers of Egg Harbor and Darlene Kinney and her husband Wayne of Ohio.
In lieu of flowers memorial donations to The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research, Church Street Station, PO Box 780, NY, NY 10008-0780 would be appreciated.
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Friends may visit with the family on Thursday, January 19,2012 from 4-8 PM at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne. At 8 PM after the visitation hours a remembrance service will be held.
January 15, 2012
Services
Friends may visit with the family on Thursday, January 19,2012 from 4-8 PM at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne. At 8 PM after the visitation hours a remembrance service will be held.
Charlie A. Rodgers age 42 of Wayne died unexpectedly on January 15, 2012.
He was born in Orange and was raised and has lived in Wayne. Charlie graduated from Wayne Hills High School with the Class of 1987.
Charlie’s first job was working for his father at OK Towing in Wayne. He later worked towing and doing auto repair for Mazzaro’s Auto Body and Towing in Totowa, as a roofer for CentiMark Roofing, and at Disneyworld’s Space Mountain before returning to New Jersey to start Clever Towing in West Milford.
Charlie was an ambitious, intelligent, person who was comfortable repairing anything mechanical. He was a devoted family man who loved to play cars with Brady who adored his dad. Brady loved to say, "let's play cars daddy!" and must have said daddy 1000 times a day. That little boy was his whole world. He always said that he didn't know he was able to love someone as much as he loves Brady. Charlie would have given the world to his son and his wife Jamie. He gave up his love of singing to make a better life for his family. At the end of Jamie and Charlie’s conversations was always an argument about who loved who the most. Jamie won. Charlie was her rock. Their wedding song was A Whole New World from Disney’s Aladdin. The first song Charlie sung to Jamie and continued to sing to her was Your Man by Josh Turner.
He met his wife Jamie Tara Stone when singing Karaoke in Watchung NJ. Their first date was to Maggie Moore’s in Lincoln Park and Charlie proposed marriage to Jamie at Briarwood Farm in Readington where she boarded a horse name “Clever”. They married on December 19, 2008 while on a Disney Cruise.
Charlie is the loving husband of Jamie Tara (Stone) Rodgers; devoted and loving father of Brady Quinn Rodgers; loving son of Lynfred N. Rodgers of Vernon and the late Cheryl (Southwell) Rodgers(2011); loved brother of Lenny Rodgers of Egg Harbor and Darlene Kinney and her husband Wayne of Ohio.
In lieu of flowers memorial donations to The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research, Church Street Station, PO Box 780, NY, NY 10008-0780 would be appreciated.
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