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October 3, 2006
Services
A memorial service will be held Saturday, October 7, 2006 at 1 PM at the Packanack Community Church, 120 Lake Drive East, Wayne.
Friends may visit with the family on Friday, October 6, 2006 from 2-4 and 7-9 PM at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
Dean E. Ward, Sr. age 83 of Wayne died on Tuesday, October 3, 2006 at the Chilton Memorial Hospital, Pompton Plains.
He was born in Illinois and raised in Remington, Indiana having moved to Wayne forty-nine years ago.
Mr. Ward was CEO of the Haward Corporation in North Arlington. The business was initially started by his father Harold Ward but six months into the business’ start he became ill with cancer; Dean left college at Indiana State University and founded the company sixty years ago, having never retired. He loved his work and even co-authored a book on metal finishing, a book he wrote when stricken with the flu and confined indoors for two weeks.
Dean attended the University of Indiana and was a member of the National Association of Metal Finishers, American Electroplaters and Surface Finishing, the Powder Coating Institute and the Masters Association of Metal finishing.
He was a member of the Packanack Community Church, Wayne where he served as a deacon and was a member of the choir for thirty-six years.
Dean was an accomplished amateur photographer who loved to travel and had a great sense of humor. He will be remembered as a person who found something good in everyone and believed everyone deserves a chance, sometimes even a second chance, in life.
Beloved husband of forty-nine and a half years to Arlene C. Ward; loving father of Jane Miles and her husband Thomas of Wayne, Dean E. Ward, Jr. of Wayne; cherished grandfather of Dean E. Ward III of Pompton Lakes and Ciana Miles of Wayne; brother of Amy Lou Thompson of Chicago, Ill.
Those planning an expression of sympathy, in Ward’s memory, are asked to consider, for the founding of a memorial garden at his church, the “Dean E. Ward Memorial Fund” c/o Packanack Community Church, 120 Lake Drive East, Wayne, NJ 07470.
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A memorial service will be held Saturday, October 7, 2006 at 1 PM at the Packanack Community Church, 120 Lake Drive East, Wayne.
Friends may visit with the family on Friday, October 6, 2006 from 2-4 and 7-9 PM at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
October 3, 2006
Services
A memorial service will be held Saturday, October 7, 2006 at 1 PM at the Packanack Community Church, 120 Lake Drive East, Wayne.
Friends may visit with the family on Friday, October 6, 2006 from 2-4 and 7-9 PM at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
Dean E. Ward, Sr. age 83 of Wayne died on Tuesday, October 3, 2006 at the Chilton Memorial Hospital, Pompton Plains.
He was born in Illinois and raised in Remington, Indiana having moved to Wayne forty-nine years ago.
Mr. Ward was CEO of the Haward Corporation in North Arlington. The business was initially started by his father Harold Ward but six months into the business’ start he became ill with cancer; Dean left college at Indiana State University and founded the company sixty years ago, having never retired. He loved his work and even co-authored a book on metal finishing, a book he wrote when stricken with the flu and confined indoors for two weeks.
Dean attended the University of Indiana and was a member of the National Association of Metal Finishers, American Electroplaters and Surface Finishing, the Powder Coating Institute and the Masters Association of Metal finishing.
He was a member of the Packanack Community Church, Wayne where he served as a deacon and was a member of the choir for thirty-six years.
Dean was an accomplished amateur photographer who loved to travel and had a great sense of humor. He will be remembered as a person who found something good in everyone and believed everyone deserves a chance, sometimes even a second chance, in life.
Beloved husband of forty-nine and a half years to Arlene C. Ward; loving father of Jane Miles and her husband Thomas of Wayne, Dean E. Ward, Jr. of Wayne; cherished grandfather of Dean E. Ward III of Pompton Lakes and Ciana Miles of Wayne; brother of Amy Lou Thompson of Chicago, Ill.
Those planning an expression of sympathy, in Ward’s memory, are asked to consider, for the founding of a memorial garden at his church, the “Dean E. Ward Memorial Fund” c/o Packanack Community Church, 120 Lake Drive East, Wayne, NJ 07470.
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