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*Please note: the service times have changed. The funeral service will be at 7:30 PM on Wednesday, April 20 during the visiting hours, at the funeral home. Family and friends are invited to meet at the funeral home on Thursday, April 21 at 10 AM, then process to the Fairlawn Cemetery where a graveside service will be held at 11 AM.
Friends may visit with the family at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne, on Wednesday April 20, 2016 from 4-8 PM.
Funeral services will be held on Wednesday, April 20, 2016 at 7:30 PM at the funeral home. A graveside service will be held on Thursday, April 21 at 11 AM at the Fairlawn Cemetery in Fairlawn.
Dale L. Froehner (nee Wielenga) age 63 of Pompton Lakes passed away suddenly and unexpectedly on Thursday, April 14, 2016.
Dale was born in Paterson and raised in North Haledon until moving to Pompton Lakes 30 years ago. After graduating from Manchester Regional High School in North Haledon, Dale earned an Associate’s Degree. She worked a short time for a local law firm, and then secured a job as a legal secretary with Kenneth Petrie, Esq., for whom she worked for the next 33 years. Following Mr. Petrie’s retirement in 2011, Dale went to work part-time for the Hawthorne Gospel Church where she also taught Sunday School and attended Bible study.
During the 1960’s, Dale had met, for the first time, a young man by the name of Kenneth A. Froehner. He was a member of the Preakness Volunteer Fire Company No. 4 in Wayne. At the time, Dale was dating someone else in the Fire Department. More than twenty years passed when Kenneth and Dale got reacquainted and started dating in 1984. After a couple of years dating they were married in 1986 and cherished the next thirty years together in a loving and loyal marriage. Almost immediately after they were married, they moved to Pompton Lakes, and this is where they would spend the rest of their lives together and raise their 2 sons.
Dale enjoyed cooking, her family would call her “Paula Dean”, the American celebrity chef and cooking show television host. She was not afraid to try new recipes and experiment in the realms of cooking. She was always tough on herself and was her own worst critic. But everyone in Dale’s family found everything she made to be delicious and asked her to make it again. She also loved to vacation at the beach, not any particular beach, but anywhere there was a beach. Be it the Jersey shore, Florida, or the Caribbean, just being on a beach made Dale extremely happy and content. Dale was also a woman who was devoted to her Christian faith, she was very active in the Hawthorne Gospel Church for many years. Aside and above all of her talents and hobbies, Dale was extremely devoted to her family, she was a dedicated wife, mother, and grandmother. She loved to spoil her children and grandchildren. Her family remembers her as being loving, caring and always trying to please everyone. They also remember her constantly trying to do “the right thing” in every situation she was in. Dale was an extraordinary person who was taken from the world too soon. She touched the lives of many people and will be sincerely missed by her family and friends alike.
Dale is survived by her Husband of Kenneth A. Froehner of Pompton Lakes, two sons Kenneth W. Froehner and his wife Kristen, and Kyle Froehner both of Pompton Lakes, two brothers; Bob Wielenga and his wife Ruth of Laguna Hills, CA, and Jim Wielenga and his wife BJ of Palm Harbor, FL, one grandson K.J. of Pompton Lakes, she was predeceased by her father Claude Wielenga (1995) and her mother Nellie Wielenga (2008).
In lieu of flowers donations in Dale’s name may be made to the Hawthorne Gospel Church, 2000 NJ-208, Hawthorne, NJ 07506.
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*Please note: the service times have changed. The funeral service will be at 7:30 PM on Wednesday, April 20 during the visiting hours, at the funeral home. Family and friends are invited to meet at the funeral home on Thursday, April 21 at 10 AM, then process to the Fairlawn Cemetery where a graveside service will be held at 11 AM.
Friends may visit with the family at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne, on Wednesday April 20, 2016 from 4-8 PM.
Funeral services will be held on Wednesday, April 20, 2016 at 7:30 PM at the funeral home. A graveside service will be held on Thursday, April 21 at 11 AM at the Fairlawn Cemetery in Fairlawn.
Services
*Please note: the service times have changed. The funeral service will be at 7:30 PM on Wednesday, April 20 during the visiting hours, at the funeral home. Family and friends are invited to meet at the funeral home on Thursday, April 21 at 10 AM, then process to the Fairlawn Cemetery where a graveside service will be held at 11 AM.
Friends may visit with the family at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne, on Wednesday April 20, 2016 from 4-8 PM.
Funeral services will be held on Wednesday, April 20, 2016 at 7:30 PM at the funeral home. A graveside service will be held on Thursday, April 21 at 11 AM at the Fairlawn Cemetery in Fairlawn.
Dale L. Froehner (nee Wielenga) age 63 of Pompton Lakes passed away suddenly and unexpectedly on Thursday, April 14, 2016.
Dale was born in Paterson and raised in North Haledon until moving to Pompton Lakes 30 years ago. After graduating from Manchester Regional High School in North Haledon, Dale earned an Associate’s Degree. She worked a short time for a local law firm, and then secured a job as a legal secretary with Kenneth Petrie, Esq., for whom she worked for the next 33 years. Following Mr. Petrie’s retirement in 2011, Dale went to work part-time for the Hawthorne Gospel Church where she also taught Sunday School and attended Bible study.
During the 1960’s, Dale had met, for the first time, a young man by the name of Kenneth A. Froehner. He was a member of the Preakness Volunteer Fire Company No. 4 in Wayne. At the time, Dale was dating someone else in the Fire Department. More than twenty years passed when Kenneth and Dale got reacquainted and started dating in 1984. After a couple of years dating they were married in 1986 and cherished the next thirty years together in a loving and loyal marriage. Almost immediately after they were married, they moved to Pompton Lakes, and this is where they would spend the rest of their lives together and raise their 2 sons.
Dale enjoyed cooking, her family would call her “Paula Dean”, the American celebrity chef and cooking show television host. She was not afraid to try new recipes and experiment in the realms of cooking. She was always tough on herself and was her own worst critic. But everyone in Dale’s family found everything she made to be delicious and asked her to make it again. She also loved to vacation at the beach, not any particular beach, but anywhere there was a beach. Be it the Jersey shore, Florida, or the Caribbean, just being on a beach made Dale extremely happy and content. Dale was also a woman who was devoted to her Christian faith, she was very active in the Hawthorne Gospel Church for many years. Aside and above all of her talents and hobbies, Dale was extremely devoted to her family, she was a dedicated wife, mother, and grandmother. She loved to spoil her children and grandchildren. Her family remembers her as being loving, caring and always trying to please everyone. They also remember her constantly trying to do “the right thing” in every situation she was in. Dale was an extraordinary person who was taken from the world too soon. She touched the lives of many people and will be sincerely missed by her family and friends alike.
Dale is survived by her Husband of Kenneth A. Froehner of Pompton Lakes, two sons Kenneth W. Froehner and his wife Kristen, and Kyle Froehner both of Pompton Lakes, two brothers; Bob Wielenga and his wife Ruth of Laguna Hills, CA, and Jim Wielenga and his wife BJ of Palm Harbor, FL, one grandson K.J. of Pompton Lakes, she was predeceased by her father Claude Wielenga (1995) and her mother Nellie Wielenga (2008).
In lieu of flowers donations in Dale’s name may be made to the Hawthorne Gospel Church, 2000 NJ-208, Hawthorne, NJ 07506.
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