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February 25, 2012
Services
Friends may visit with the family at the funeral home on Thursday, March 1st 2012 from 2-4, 7-8:30 PM.
Funeral services will be held Thursday at 8:30 PM at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
Clarence “Larry” F. McGill age 90 of Wayne passed into life eternal at the Jerry and Delores Turco Care Center in Lincoln Park. His passing was gracefully peaceful with his family spending much time at his bedside in his final days.
He was born in Asbury Park, NJ, son of a horse trainer Floyd and his mother Louise and spent his childhood years in Harrison and Kearny. Larry received his formal education at Kearny High School graduating with the Class of 1939.
He received his Army draft notice in 1942 and served his military duty in the Army/Air Force as a certified airplane mechanic in the China, Burma, India Theater of World War II.
After returning from the War in 1946 he lived with his family in Lyndhurst and continued his education by attending and graduating from Bloomfield Technical School of Aeronautics.
Across the street from his home in Lyndhurst was a two family home where one of his mother’s friends lived. One day while this neighbor was at his house he worked up the courage to ask her if it would be ok to ask her daughter out and her response was “ Go ahead and ask her yourself” and that is the beginning of a lifetime relationship of Larry and Yvonne. They decided to become a couple and on June 18, 1949 they married at The First Reformed Church in North Newark. The final result is that they had sixty-two years of “love and adventures” in a marriage together.
On March 18, Larry’s whole life changed with the birth of his daughter, Sharon, she was his world and he has stood by her with unconditional love. His finest dedication in life was to his wife and daughter. Larry was a hard worker and wonderful provider for his family. He was selfless always being a Dad and holding the true concerns of fatherhood above his own personal needs.
Daddy, Thank you for being so special in my life journey.
His first job was as a grocery delivery boy for the A&P in Kearny, NJ from that very first day
of work he was hooked, he loved the satisfaction of getting a paycheck and a job well done. He was a very hard worker.
His principle occupation was as a butcher and meat cutter and recieved formal training at a Butcher Trade School in Chicago. At one time he was a partner/owner of butcher shops, with 3 locations the Pine Brook Market in Pinebrook and Frankie’s Market in Lodi and Keyport Airport in Keyport. He also worked for a Sumas Brother Shop Rite Group and was a member of Local 464 Meat Cutters Union. Larry took on other jobs after he retired from Shop Right, he was a bank teller, a trainer and meat cutter for Fudrucker’s in Wayne, and then for IGA in Bloomingdale. His last job was with Chilton Hospital as a store room clerk in the mailroom from 1998 – 2007. Then he finally retired from work at the age of 86. He loved his job at the hospital and there was not a person working there at the time that did not know his name and he knew theirs.
Larry was a member and former deacon at the First Reformed Church of Pompton Plains as well as a member of the Mountain View Masonic Lodge.
He volunteered at the Pompton Falls Fire Company #3 and thoroughly enjoyed being a fireman for over twenty-three years. His participation with the fire company gave him a lot of personal satisfaction in serving his community. This passion began when as a young boy he was a junior firefighter in Kearny.
He was gifted with a quiet and reserved personality and it took time to get to know you but then became a robust friend to the many lives he touched. Larry was deeply loved by all whose lives he touched and will be greatly missed!
His life on this earth has made a difference.
He was the loving husband of sixty-two years to Yvonne (nee Fraser) McGill; loving father of Sharon McGill of Wayne; devoted uncle of Laura Safar and her husband Russell, Lynn Gianfrancesco and her husband Domineco and their children Christopher and Dana, and Robert Safar.
Donations can be made in Clarence’s name to the:
New Jersey Fireman’s Home
565 Lathrop Avenue
Boonton, NJ 07005
973.334.0024
Please be sure and include “In memory of Clarence McGill” in the memo.
If you would like to send a private condolence directly to the family use this condolence section.
Friends may visit with the family at the funeral home on Thursday, March 1st 2012 from 2-4, 7-8:30 PM.
Funeral services will be held Thursday at 8:30 PM at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
February 25, 2012
Services
Friends may visit with the family at the funeral home on Thursday, March 1st 2012 from 2-4, 7-8:30 PM.
Funeral services will be held Thursday at 8:30 PM at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
Clarence “Larry” F. McGill age 90 of Wayne passed into life eternal at the Jerry and Delores Turco Care Center in Lincoln Park. His passing was gracefully peaceful with his family spending much time at his bedside in his final days.
He was born in Asbury Park, NJ, son of a horse trainer Floyd and his mother Louise and spent his childhood years in Harrison and Kearny. Larry received his formal education at Kearny High School graduating with the Class of 1939.
He received his Army draft notice in 1942 and served his military duty in the Army/Air Force as a certified airplane mechanic in the China, Burma, India Theater of World War II.
After returning from the War in 1946 he lived with his family in Lyndhurst and continued his education by attending and graduating from Bloomfield Technical School of Aeronautics.
Across the street from his home in Lyndhurst was a two family home where one of his mother’s friends lived. One day while this neighbor was at his house he worked up the courage to ask her if it would be ok to ask her daughter out and her response was “ Go ahead and ask her yourself” and that is the beginning of a lifetime relationship of Larry and Yvonne. They decided to become a couple and on June 18, 1949 they married at The First Reformed Church in North Newark. The final result is that they had sixty-two years of “love and adventures” in a marriage together.
On March 18, Larry’s whole life changed with the birth of his daughter, Sharon, she was his world and he has stood by her with unconditional love. His finest dedication in life was to his wife and daughter. Larry was a hard worker and wonderful provider for his family. He was selfless always being a Dad and holding the true concerns of fatherhood above his own personal needs.
Daddy, Thank you for being so special in my life journey.
His first job was as a grocery delivery boy for the A&P in Kearny, NJ from that very first day
of work he was hooked, he loved the satisfaction of getting a paycheck and a job well done. He was a very hard worker.
His principle occupation was as a butcher and meat cutter and recieved formal training at a Butcher Trade School in Chicago. At one time he was a partner/owner of butcher shops, with 3 locations the Pine Brook Market in Pinebrook and Frankie’s Market in Lodi and Keyport Airport in Keyport. He also worked for a Sumas Brother Shop Rite Group and was a member of Local 464 Meat Cutters Union. Larry took on other jobs after he retired from Shop Right, he was a bank teller, a trainer and meat cutter for Fudrucker’s in Wayne, and then for IGA in Bloomingdale. His last job was with Chilton Hospital as a store room clerk in the mailroom from 1998 – 2007. Then he finally retired from work at the age of 86. He loved his job at the hospital and there was not a person working there at the time that did not know his name and he knew theirs.
Larry was a member and former deacon at the First Reformed Church of Pompton Plains as well as a member of the Mountain View Masonic Lodge.
He volunteered at the Pompton Falls Fire Company #3 and thoroughly enjoyed being a fireman for over twenty-three years. His participation with the fire company gave him a lot of personal satisfaction in serving his community. This passion began when as a young boy he was a junior firefighter in Kearny.
He was gifted with a quiet and reserved personality and it took time to get to know you but then became a robust friend to the many lives he touched. Larry was deeply loved by all whose lives he touched and will be greatly missed!
His life on this earth has made a difference.
He was the loving husband of sixty-two years to Yvonne (nee Fraser) McGill; loving father of Sharon McGill of Wayne; devoted uncle of Laura Safar and her husband Russell, Lynn Gianfrancesco and her husband Domineco and their children Christopher and Dana, and Robert Safar.
Donations can be made in Clarence’s name to the:
New Jersey Fireman’s Home
565 Lathrop Avenue
Boonton, NJ 07005
973.334.0024
Please be sure and include “In memory of Clarence McGill” in the memo.
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