Dolores M. Hauer

A Memorial Service for Dolores M. Hauer will be held on Saturday, August 7, 2021 beginning 11:00 AM at St. Michaels Episcopal Church, 1219 Ratzer Road, Wayne, NJ. An offsite lunch will follow at Amore of Wayne Restaurant 611 Ratzer Road Wayne, NJ, and will begin at 12:30 PM.

Dolores M. Hauer, age 91, of Wayne, passed away on Friday, February 14, 2020.

Dolores was born and raised in Newark, NJ where she graduated from Catholic high school in 1945. As was common during her era, Dolores pursued further education in preparation for a secretarial career.

As a career secretary, Dolores held positions with various companies throughout her career. Early on she worked for Miller’s Nursery in Wayne and for the office of Robert Molnar, attorney in Wayne. The bulk of her career was with the Township of Wayne where she served as secretary for the town’s judge and in the mayor’s office. She retired in 1986, but stayed connected in the activities of Wayne by volunteering at the Wayne Township Library where she taught English as a second language, and also participating in the Preakness Women’s Club.

At the tender age of nineteen, Dolores married Edward Hauer. They exchanged their wedding promises before God, family and friends on Saturday, June 28, 1947 at St. Peter’s R.C. Church in Newark. The newlyweds honeymooned in New England, including Cape Cod, Massachusetts. While on that honeymoon, they simply fell in love with the Cape and visited regularly in the ensuing 59 years of their loving and devoted life together as husband and wife. In fact, after starting out living in a cold water flat in Newark, in 1950, they purchased their own Cape Cod style home in Wayne and fashioned it after the homes they loved so much on the Cape. Dolores took great pride in that house and worked diligently to keep it looking impeccable, feeling that it was her neighbor’s collective responsibility to do the same. She and Ed lived in that home for the rest of their lives – a combined total of seventy years.

Dolores was so very loving and outgoing lady who made friends wherever she went. It was nothing unusual for her to be walking her dog - first King 1, a beautiful Dalmatian, and later King 2, another equally sweet Dalmatian, down at the local park. While out for those walks, she regularly struck up light conversation with other park visitors and just as regularly, she’d warmly invite her “new friends” home for dinner. This was pure pleasure for Dolores who loved to cook and entertain for those impromptu times as well as for many family holiday gatherings.

Seldom one to sit still, Dolores and Ed enjoyed time together in their little motor boat which always accompanied them to Cape Cod and which they would also take on Greenwood Lake. When in the comfort of her home, Dolores used her excellent seamstress, cross stitch and quilting skills to make beautiful blankets, quilts, hats, mittens and scarves, many which she donated to charity. She also enjoyed tinsel painting – painting on glass. A long-time member of St. Michael’s Episcopal Church in Wayne, Dolores was actively involved with the church’s Alter Guild.

Truthful and passionate, Dolores will always be remembered for her friendly, outgoing disposition. She touched the lives of all who were blessed to know her and will be dearly missed.

Dolores was the beloved wife of the late Edward Hauer who passed away in 2006; loving sister of the late Robert Celi and the late Jeffrey Celi; dear aunt of Meredith Celi, Allyson Celi, the late Lisa Celi Ferdinandi, Patty Hauer Valente, Janice Paulussen, and Lee Williams; and great-aunt of Victoria Ferdinandi and Nicholas Ferdinandi.

In lieu of flowers, those planning an expression of sympathy in Dolores’s name are asked to consider St. Michael’s Episcopal Church, Wayne.