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August 29, 2014
Services
Friends may visit from 2-4 and 7-9 PM on Tuesday, September 2, 2014 at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
Funeral services will be held 10 AM on Wednesday, September 3, 2014 at the funeral home.
Interment will be in Cedar Lawn Cemetery, Paterson.
Claire E. Osborne (nee Ferdinand) age 90, a fifty year resident of Woodland Park, passed peacefully on Friday, August 29, 2014.
She was born in Paterson, having lived in Canada for a year, before returning to live in Wyckoff where she graduated from Ramapo High School, at the age of fifteen, with the Class of 1938. After high school she graduated from the Sherwood Business School.
Claire was introduced to a young man named William Osborne. William was smitten, Claire not so much. William was persistent and eventually the two fell in love. William was going into the United States Army and asked for Claire’s hand in marriage; their wedding soon followed. Claire and William had the distinction of being the first couple to marry at the Gettysburg University Chapel. Claire briefly lived in California as her new husbands military training brought the newly married couple there. It was her training at the Sherwood Business School that helped her find work typing jokes for Bob Hope, a job she fondly remembered. Later on in life she had been a loyal hard-working member of the Mizzone Accounting Team for twenty-five years. Claire enjoyed entertaining at her home, and her special touch on soups and especially her Jook will be greatly missed, but most of all she was a dedicated mom. Claire made the extraordinary job of raising five children look easy. It was something she enjoyed and she did it well. Claire and William enjoyed golfing and travel together during their fifty-seven years of marriage until William’s sudden passing in 1999. Clair was a devoted Christian and a member of Jacksonville Chapel in Lincoln Park.
She was the loving wife of the late William Osborne (1999); devoted mother of Claire Punda and her husband Jeffrey of Cape May, Cheryl Mizzone and her husband Thomas of Wayne, William Osborne Jr. and his wife Joyceanne of Manor Township, PA, Peter Osborne and his wife Stacey of Summerfield, NC and Jeffrey Osborne of Rockaway Township; cherished grandmother of thirteen grandchildren and thirty-five great-grandchildren; dear sister of the late Dorothy McNutt.
In lieu of flowers memorial donations to Samaritan’s Purse would be appreciated.
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Friends may visit from 2-4 and 7-9 PM on Tuesday, September 2, 2014 at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
Funeral services will be held 10 AM on Wednesday, September 3, 2014 at the funeral home.
Interment will be in Cedar Lawn Cemetery, Paterson.
August 29, 2014
Services
Friends may visit from 2-4 and 7-9 PM on Tuesday, September 2, 2014 at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
Funeral services will be held 10 AM on Wednesday, September 3, 2014 at the funeral home.
Interment will be in Cedar Lawn Cemetery, Paterson.
Claire E. Osborne (nee Ferdinand) age 90, a fifty year resident of Woodland Park, passed peacefully on Friday, August 29, 2014.
She was born in Paterson, having lived in Canada for a year, before returning to live in Wyckoff where she graduated from Ramapo High School, at the age of fifteen, with the Class of 1938. After high school she graduated from the Sherwood Business School.
Claire was introduced to a young man named William Osborne. William was smitten, Claire not so much. William was persistent and eventually the two fell in love. William was going into the United States Army and asked for Claire’s hand in marriage; their wedding soon followed. Claire and William had the distinction of being the first couple to marry at the Gettysburg University Chapel. Claire briefly lived in California as her new husbands military training brought the newly married couple there. It was her training at the Sherwood Business School that helped her find work typing jokes for Bob Hope, a job she fondly remembered. Later on in life she had been a loyal hard-working member of the Mizzone Accounting Team for twenty-five years. Claire enjoyed entertaining at her home, and her special touch on soups and especially her Jook will be greatly missed, but most of all she was a dedicated mom. Claire made the extraordinary job of raising five children look easy. It was something she enjoyed and she did it well. Claire and William enjoyed golfing and travel together during their fifty-seven years of marriage until William’s sudden passing in 1999. Clair was a devoted Christian and a member of Jacksonville Chapel in Lincoln Park.
She was the loving wife of the late William Osborne (1999); devoted mother of Claire Punda and her husband Jeffrey of Cape May, Cheryl Mizzone and her husband Thomas of Wayne, William Osborne Jr. and his wife Joyceanne of Manor Township, PA, Peter Osborne and his wife Stacey of Summerfield, NC and Jeffrey Osborne of Rockaway Township; cherished grandmother of thirteen grandchildren and thirty-five great-grandchildren; dear sister of the late Dorothy McNutt.
In lieu of flowers memorial donations to Samaritan’s Purse would be appreciated.
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