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October 17, 2018
Services
Friends may visit with the family from 4-7 PM on Saturday, October 20, 2018 at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne. A 7 PM Funeral Service will be held at the conclusion of the visitation hours.
Claire M. Ganz, age 88, of Wayne passed peacefully at home on Wednesday, October 17, 2018.
She was born in Middletown, New York and raised in Matamoras, Pennsylvania and graduated from the Matamoras High School.
As a young lady Claire met Russell Ganz while roller-skating and they soon fell in love. They married on September 14, 1947 at Saint Agnes Church in Paterson and had a reception at the VFW Hall in Hawthorne. They honeymooned at Niagara Falls, New York having drove the first car Russ had ever bought, a black Plymouth. They had a loving marriage of sixty-seven years before Russell’s passing in May of 2014.
After Claire and Russell were married they moved to Straight Street in Paterson and she worked in the cafeteria at Saint Josephs Hospital in Paterson for several years. They young couple moved to a duplex on Edmund Avenue in Totowa where their marriage was blessed with their first son Gerald. They purchased property in Wayne for twelve hundred dollars and had their dream home built. Their marriage was once again blessed with their second son Russell.
Claire will be lovingly remembered as being easy going, generous to a fault, always upbeat, and an all-around great mom. The family melded into the neighborhood seamlessly with the boys playing all kinds of sports together and the parents often getting together to play cards. She was a devoted New York Mets, New York Giants, and Notre Dame fan. When the boys were young she was a member of the Women’s Auxiliary of the Wayne Little League.
Claire was the loving wife of the late Russell J. Ganz (d.2014); loving mother of Gerald Ganz of Long Beach, CA, and Russell Ganz and his wife Celeste of Pompton Lakes; cherished grandmother of Kelly Orofino and her husband Thomas of New York City, Lindsay Goebel and her husband Nick of Long Beach, CA; dearly loved great-grandmother of Colin Orofino, Olivia Orofino and Teagan Goebel.
In lieu of flowers memorial donations to Saint Jude Children's Research Hospital or the Wayne Memorial First Aid Squad would be greatly appreciated.
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Friends may visit with the family from 4-7 PM on Saturday, October 20, 2018 at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne. A 7 PM Funeral Service will be held at the conclusion of the visitation hours.
October 17, 2018
Services
Friends may visit with the family from 4-7 PM on Saturday, October 20, 2018 at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne. A 7 PM Funeral Service will be held at the conclusion of the visitation hours.
Claire M. Ganz, age 88, of Wayne passed peacefully at home on Wednesday, October 17, 2018.
She was born in Middletown, New York and raised in Matamoras, Pennsylvania and graduated from the Matamoras High School.
As a young lady Claire met Russell Ganz while roller-skating and they soon fell in love. They married on September 14, 1947 at Saint Agnes Church in Paterson and had a reception at the VFW Hall in Hawthorne. They honeymooned at Niagara Falls, New York having drove the first car Russ had ever bought, a black Plymouth. They had a loving marriage of sixty-seven years before Russell’s passing in May of 2014.
After Claire and Russell were married they moved to Straight Street in Paterson and she worked in the cafeteria at Saint Josephs Hospital in Paterson for several years. They young couple moved to a duplex on Edmund Avenue in Totowa where their marriage was blessed with their first son Gerald. They purchased property in Wayne for twelve hundred dollars and had their dream home built. Their marriage was once again blessed with their second son Russell.
Claire will be lovingly remembered as being easy going, generous to a fault, always upbeat, and an all-around great mom. The family melded into the neighborhood seamlessly with the boys playing all kinds of sports together and the parents often getting together to play cards. She was a devoted New York Mets, New York Giants, and Notre Dame fan. When the boys were young she was a member of the Women’s Auxiliary of the Wayne Little League.
Claire was the loving wife of the late Russell J. Ganz (d.2014); loving mother of Gerald Ganz of Long Beach, CA, and Russell Ganz and his wife Celeste of Pompton Lakes; cherished grandmother of Kelly Orofino and her husband Thomas of New York City, Lindsay Goebel and her husband Nick of Long Beach, CA; dearly loved great-grandmother of Colin Orofino, Olivia Orofino and Teagan Goebel.
In lieu of flowers memorial donations to Saint Jude Children's Research Hospital or the Wayne Memorial First Aid Squad would be greatly appreciated.
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