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Services
Friends may visit with the family from 4-8 PM on Thursday, March 26, 2015 at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
Funeral services will be held 12 Noon on Friday, March 27, 2015 from the funeral home then to Annunciation RC Church, 45 Urban Club Road, Wayne where a 1PM Funeral Mass will be offered.
Interment will be in Christ the King Cemetery, Franklin Lakes.
Dion Coleman, age 55 of West Milford, passed suddenly on Saturday, March 21, 2015.
He was born in Park Forest, Illinois and at the age of three the family moved to Wayne, New Jersey. Dion graduated from Wayne Hills High School with the Class of 1977.
During high school Dion was business minded and after being a paper boy for a while, started a lawn mowing business that wore out three of his dad’s lawn mowers. Just after high school Dion joined the United States Air Force where he trained to be a jet engine mechanic. After high school he returned to Wayne and met a pretty girl named Georgean McCarrick. After a first date to see a Richard Pryor movie, it took six years for the two to make up their minds to get married. They wed on September 6, 1987 at Annunciation RC Church in Wayne, had a reception at the Bethwood in Totowa, and had a two week honeymoon traveling the coast of California. Dion and Georgean did just about everything together. Whether it was a trip to the store or going out at night to see a band play, they were always together.
Dion was especially skilled with anything mechanical. Whether it was repairing his dad’s lawnmowers, fixing jet engines, or working with motorcycles, he had a fundamental knowledge of how things work. Through the years he worked for several area companies, including the body shop at Maroon Pontiac in Wayne, and most recently Trillum US, Inc. in Hamburg where he was the shop manager and a computer specialist in CNC machine programming.
Dion had a love of music and was a self-taught guitar player. Dion’s love of music is something he shared with his son Dion II. With his daughter, he shared his love of motocross racing. Dion had a room full of motocross trophies and raced with the District 34 of the AMA as well as the Metropolitan Sports Committee. He served as his daughter’s mechanic and riding coach for many years. He will be remembered as being fun loving, outgoing, sociable, a total perfectionist with anything he worked on, and as a person who had a zest for life like no other.
He was the loving husband of twenty-seven years to Georgean; devoted father of Dion Coleman, II of West Milford, and Lauren Coleman of West Milford; cherished grandfather of Jaelyn Essen of Wayne; dear son of Daniel J and Mary Coleman; loved brother of Daniel Coleman III and his wife Laurie of Troy, MI, C. Colin Coleman and his wife Barbara of Palos Verdes, CA, Mary Rose Coleman of NYC, and Christina Coleman also of NYC; much loved uncle of Jennifer, Kristen, Rachel, Eva, and Daniel IV Coleman.
In lieu of flowers memorial donations to Saint Jude Children’s Hospital, PO Box 1000, Dept. 142, Memphis, TN 38148-0142 would be appreciated.
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Friends may visit with the family from 4-8 PM on Thursday, March 26, 2015 at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
Funeral services will be held 12 Noon on Friday, March 27, 2015 from the funeral home then to Annunciation RC Church, 45 Urban Club Road, Wayne where a 1PM Funeral Mass will be offered.
Interment will be in Christ the King Cemetery, Franklin Lakes.
Services
Friends may visit with the family from 4-8 PM on Thursday, March 26, 2015 at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
Funeral services will be held 12 Noon on Friday, March 27, 2015 from the funeral home then to Annunciation RC Church, 45 Urban Club Road, Wayne where a 1PM Funeral Mass will be offered.
Interment will be in Christ the King Cemetery, Franklin Lakes.
Dion Coleman, age 55 of West Milford, passed suddenly on Saturday, March 21, 2015.
He was born in Park Forest, Illinois and at the age of three the family moved to Wayne, New Jersey. Dion graduated from Wayne Hills High School with the Class of 1977.
During high school Dion was business minded and after being a paper boy for a while, started a lawn mowing business that wore out three of his dad’s lawn mowers. Just after high school Dion joined the United States Air Force where he trained to be a jet engine mechanic. After high school he returned to Wayne and met a pretty girl named Georgean McCarrick. After a first date to see a Richard Pryor movie, it took six years for the two to make up their minds to get married. They wed on September 6, 1987 at Annunciation RC Church in Wayne, had a reception at the Bethwood in Totowa, and had a two week honeymoon traveling the coast of California. Dion and Georgean did just about everything together. Whether it was a trip to the store or going out at night to see a band play, they were always together.
Dion was especially skilled with anything mechanical. Whether it was repairing his dad’s lawnmowers, fixing jet engines, or working with motorcycles, he had a fundamental knowledge of how things work. Through the years he worked for several area companies, including the body shop at Maroon Pontiac in Wayne, and most recently Trillum US, Inc. in Hamburg where he was the shop manager and a computer specialist in CNC machine programming.
Dion had a love of music and was a self-taught guitar player. Dion’s love of music is something he shared with his son Dion II. With his daughter, he shared his love of motocross racing. Dion had a room full of motocross trophies and raced with the District 34 of the AMA as well as the Metropolitan Sports Committee. He served as his daughter’s mechanic and riding coach for many years. He will be remembered as being fun loving, outgoing, sociable, a total perfectionist with anything he worked on, and as a person who had a zest for life like no other.
He was the loving husband of twenty-seven years to Georgean; devoted father of Dion Coleman, II of West Milford, and Lauren Coleman of West Milford; cherished grandfather of Jaelyn Essen of Wayne; dear son of Daniel J and Mary Coleman; loved brother of Daniel Coleman III and his wife Laurie of Troy, MI, C. Colin Coleman and his wife Barbara of Palos Verdes, CA, Mary Rose Coleman of NYC, and Christina Coleman also of NYC; much loved uncle of Jennifer, Kristen, Rachel, Eva, and Daniel IV Coleman.
In lieu of flowers memorial donations to Saint Jude Children’s Hospital, PO Box 1000, Dept. 142, Memphis, TN 38148-0142 would be appreciated.
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