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April 20, 2009
Services
Funeral services will be held Friday 11 AM at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
Friends may visit with the family at the funeral home on Thursday from 2-4, 7-9 PM.
Cornelia will be laid to rest with her late husband Jacob at the East Ridge Lawn Cemetery in Clifton.
This short life story is a beautiful tribute to a beautiful person.
Cornelia G. Johnson (nee Vande Griek) age 88 formerly of Pompton Plains died on Monday, April 20, 2009 at the Pleasant Valley Nursing Home in Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania.
She was born in Passaic where she spent her formative years later moving to Pompton Plains where she lived for fifty two years.
She attended the Jacksonville Chapel.
Jacob and Cornelia met in Passaic on the front porch of Cornelia’s family’s residence. As the story unfolds Jacob saw the pretty girl waiting for the bus on a certain corner. He was fascinated with her appearance and he spent some effort cruising the local streets until he saw the apple of his eye on a porch with her mother. He got up his nerve and approached the residence and of course introduced himself, as any proper gentleman would do, to Cornelia’s mother. Once he won Mrs. Vande Grieks’s confidence he asked Cornelia out for a date. Things clicked and in 1939 they married and had a “wonderful and loving” marriage together for sixty-four years until Jacob’s passing in 2003.
This mother leaves her children with many wonderful memories of a very devoted wife, mother, grandmother and great grandmother. She always loved her family gathered around her and made many special and delightful recipes to everyone’s delight.
Cornelia kept her home in an immaculate manner and loved to garden. The exterior of her home had many beautiful flowers and vegetables. She loved to have special picnics and birthday parties as well as Holiday celebrations. She was graced with a very special extraverted personality that caused her to have many friends.
As a mother she was very loving and encouraging and always concerned about her children’s life circumstances no matter how old they were. Thanks Mom for being so special in our lives.
Surviving are two daughters Joyce Kish and her husband Charles of Hamburg and Lakeville, Pennsylvania formerly of Pequannock, Karen Sommers and her husband Fred of Bartonsville, PA formerly of Bloomingdale; five grandchildren Laura Jewett and her husband Bobby, Dawn Mackawgy and her husband Joe, Kevin Kish and his wife Jennifer, Ryan Sommers and his wife Tina, Jason Sommers and his wife Nicole; eight great grandchildren Kyle, David and Zachary Jewett, Hayley and Joseph Mackawgy, Ashley and Jacob Kish and Kendra Sommers. She also leaves a sister, Jean Kruyd of Lincoln Park, NJ. She was predeceased by her brother Oliver VandeGriek
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Funeral services will be held Friday 11 AM at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
Friends may visit with the family at the funeral home on Thursday from 2-4, 7-9 PM.
Cornelia will be laid to rest with her late husband Jacob at the East Ridge Lawn Cemetery in Clifton.
April 20, 2009
Services
Funeral services will be held Friday 11 AM at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
Friends may visit with the family at the funeral home on Thursday from 2-4, 7-9 PM.
Cornelia will be laid to rest with her late husband Jacob at the East Ridge Lawn Cemetery in Clifton.
This short life story is a beautiful tribute to a beautiful person.
Cornelia G. Johnson (nee Vande Griek) age 88 formerly of Pompton Plains died on Monday, April 20, 2009 at the Pleasant Valley Nursing Home in Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania.
She was born in Passaic where she spent her formative years later moving to Pompton Plains where she lived for fifty two years.
She attended the Jacksonville Chapel.
Jacob and Cornelia met in Passaic on the front porch of Cornelia’s family’s residence. As the story unfolds Jacob saw the pretty girl waiting for the bus on a certain corner. He was fascinated with her appearance and he spent some effort cruising the local streets until he saw the apple of his eye on a porch with her mother. He got up his nerve and approached the residence and of course introduced himself, as any proper gentleman would do, to Cornelia’s mother. Once he won Mrs. Vande Grieks’s confidence he asked Cornelia out for a date. Things clicked and in 1939 they married and had a “wonderful and loving” marriage together for sixty-four years until Jacob’s passing in 2003.
This mother leaves her children with many wonderful memories of a very devoted wife, mother, grandmother and great grandmother. She always loved her family gathered around her and made many special and delightful recipes to everyone’s delight.
Cornelia kept her home in an immaculate manner and loved to garden. The exterior of her home had many beautiful flowers and vegetables. She loved to have special picnics and birthday parties as well as Holiday celebrations. She was graced with a very special extraverted personality that caused her to have many friends.
As a mother she was very loving and encouraging and always concerned about her children’s life circumstances no matter how old they were. Thanks Mom for being so special in our lives.
Surviving are two daughters Joyce Kish and her husband Charles of Hamburg and Lakeville, Pennsylvania formerly of Pequannock, Karen Sommers and her husband Fred of Bartonsville, PA formerly of Bloomingdale; five grandchildren Laura Jewett and her husband Bobby, Dawn Mackawgy and her husband Joe, Kevin Kish and his wife Jennifer, Ryan Sommers and his wife Tina, Jason Sommers and his wife Nicole; eight great grandchildren Kyle, David and Zachary Jewett, Hayley and Joseph Mackawgy, Ashley and Jacob Kish and Kendra Sommers. She also leaves a sister, Jean Kruyd of Lincoln Park, NJ. She was predeceased by her brother Oliver VandeGriek
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