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July 24, 2009
Services
Funeral services will be held Wednesday, July 29, 2009 at 9:30 AM from the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne then to Immaculate Heart of Mary RC Church, Wayne where at 10:30 AM a Funeral Mass will be offered.
Friends may visit with the family at the funeral home on Tuesday from 2-4, 7-9 PM.
The concept of death some call dreadful is perhaps not so for some. In this life story it is a passage to a new day, a calling of freedom at last into the hands of the creator that originally gave it. For Donald Jantzen it is a new vista of total health. Yes free at last to enjoy eternal life to its fullest. It is the story of a beautiful family and their great sacrifices for each other. Those who knew this family can fill in the blanks from their own memories and experiences to sense the real tragedies and the real triumphs of Donald’s life. Donald Jantzen age fifty-nine of Wayne died on Friday, July 24, 2009 at his home. His passing was graciously peaceful.
He was born in Jersey City and had lived in Wayne for the past forty-seven years.
Donald was born with anoxia, commonly known as lack of oxygen, a condition that caused him to have Cerebral Palsy. His life condition was unrelenting and merciless and filled many days with extraordinary challenges and perhaps great frustrations of what each day would present.
To begin his story in a meaningful way we need to see the whole picture of his family surroundings. He was born to a family that cherished him, dedicated their lives to aiding and loving him and where no doubt the reason he survived to the age of fifty-nine. His parents Charles and Marjorie Jantzen set the pattern for his life’s care and his two sisters and three brothers made many sacrifices and genuinely gave much of themselves to take care of Donald.
Any family with a lesser dedication would have given up and institutionalized their special needs son and brother but not the Jantzen family. We need to view their many sacrifices of time, talent and love over a course of fifty-nine years to sort of get a handle on the true meaning of personal family dedication.
Donald with his diagnosed medical condition of Cerebral Palsy kept him in a state of uncontrolled spasms so that he could not exercise as a non afflicted person and had the additional condition of atrophy or shrinking of his tendons and muscles so that he lost coordinated control of his arms legs as well as his vocalization. Just know that his mind was just fine and well above average intelligence. This of course caused him to experience extreme frustrations that were often expressed in uncoordinated arm, leg and head motions that could easily intimidate the uninitiated person trying to visit and communicate with him.
At the age of 25, he had an operation to releive the cerebral palsy but the operation left him with paraplegia, with no feeling from the waist down.
His family understood his frustrations and learned how to work around his dilemmas as best they could to comfort Donald. Even though his father and mother and siblings were in full dedication to Donald there was only so much they could do without interfering with his life’s personal needs.
His father spent most of his time with Donald, in his youthful years, escorting him to outside activities. His dad, Charles ,was always looking for ways to insure Donald’s future care when he, at some point could no longer care for Donald. Dad came down with a serious illness himself and passed away in April of 1980.
His mother Marjorie took the bull by the horns, so to speak, and did the work of both mother and father. She displayed and produced a mother’s love for Donald that was exemplary beyond words. We have to say in admiration “What a Wonderful Mother”.
He spent every day in his wheel chair and as a child he just wanted to be like the other kids and play ball and enjoy the outdoors but his condition made it impossible. As a teenager he wanted to do what teenagers do but again he was not able to. As he went into manhood he had the same needs as every person growing up who finally needs loving relationships of perhaps a girl friend and pals to socialize with but that never developed. Finally he was able with help to establish his own home and for the past twelve years he enjoyed as best he could his own personal space.
On Friday evening God touched him and called him home.
Surviving him are his Mother Marjorie (nee Bowers) Jantzen of Wayne, his sisters Connie Jantzen and her husband Raymond Maguire of Stuart, Florida and Juliana Sauciuc and her husband Walter of Monroe, North Carolina; his brothers Joseph Jantzen of Trenton, Maine, “Andy” Charles Jantzen and his wife Linda of Wayne, and Arthur Jantzen of Wayne; Nieces and Nephews including Maryann Maguire of Stuart, Florida, Megan and Ashley Sauciuc of Monroe, NC, Phillip Jantzen and his wife Meghan of Wayne, Daniel Jantzen of Hoboken, Stephanie Jantzen, Jason Jantzen, Jessica Lueddeke and her husband Jason all of Wayne.
Those planning an expression of sympathy in Donald’s memory are asked to consider The Wayne Foundation for the Handicapped, 30 Woodridge Terrace, Wayne, NJ 07470
If you would like to send a private condolence directly to the family use this condolence section.
Funeral services will be held Wednesday, July 29, 2009 at 9:30 AM from the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne then to Immaculate Heart of Mary RC Church, Wayne where at 10:30 AM a Funeral Mass will be offered.
Friends may visit with the family at the funeral home on Tuesday from 2-4, 7-9 PM.
July 24, 2009
Services
Funeral services will be held Wednesday, July 29, 2009 at 9:30 AM from the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne then to Immaculate Heart of Mary RC Church, Wayne where at 10:30 AM a Funeral Mass will be offered.
Friends may visit with the family at the funeral home on Tuesday from 2-4, 7-9 PM.
The concept of death some call dreadful is perhaps not so for some. In this life story it is a passage to a new day, a calling of freedom at last into the hands of the creator that originally gave it. For Donald Jantzen it is a new vista of total health. Yes free at last to enjoy eternal life to its fullest. It is the story of a beautiful family and their great sacrifices for each other. Those who knew this family can fill in the blanks from their own memories and experiences to sense the real tragedies and the real triumphs of Donald’s life. Donald Jantzen age fifty-nine of Wayne died on Friday, July 24, 2009 at his home. His passing was graciously peaceful.
He was born in Jersey City and had lived in Wayne for the past forty-seven years.
Donald was born with anoxia, commonly known as lack of oxygen, a condition that caused him to have Cerebral Palsy. His life condition was unrelenting and merciless and filled many days with extraordinary challenges and perhaps great frustrations of what each day would present.
To begin his story in a meaningful way we need to see the whole picture of his family surroundings. He was born to a family that cherished him, dedicated their lives to aiding and loving him and where no doubt the reason he survived to the age of fifty-nine. His parents Charles and Marjorie Jantzen set the pattern for his life’s care and his two sisters and three brothers made many sacrifices and genuinely gave much of themselves to take care of Donald.
Any family with a lesser dedication would have given up and institutionalized their special needs son and brother but not the Jantzen family. We need to view their many sacrifices of time, talent and love over a course of fifty-nine years to sort of get a handle on the true meaning of personal family dedication.
Donald with his diagnosed medical condition of Cerebral Palsy kept him in a state of uncontrolled spasms so that he could not exercise as a non afflicted person and had the additional condition of atrophy or shrinking of his tendons and muscles so that he lost coordinated control of his arms legs as well as his vocalization. Just know that his mind was just fine and well above average intelligence. This of course caused him to experience extreme frustrations that were often expressed in uncoordinated arm, leg and head motions that could easily intimidate the uninitiated person trying to visit and communicate with him.
At the age of 25, he had an operation to releive the cerebral palsy but the operation left him with paraplegia, with no feeling from the waist down.
His family understood his frustrations and learned how to work around his dilemmas as best they could to comfort Donald. Even though his father and mother and siblings were in full dedication to Donald there was only so much they could do without interfering with his life’s personal needs.
His father spent most of his time with Donald, in his youthful years, escorting him to outside activities. His dad, Charles ,was always looking for ways to insure Donald’s future care when he, at some point could no longer care for Donald. Dad came down with a serious illness himself and passed away in April of 1980.
His mother Marjorie took the bull by the horns, so to speak, and did the work of both mother and father. She displayed and produced a mother’s love for Donald that was exemplary beyond words. We have to say in admiration “What a Wonderful Mother”.
He spent every day in his wheel chair and as a child he just wanted to be like the other kids and play ball and enjoy the outdoors but his condition made it impossible. As a teenager he wanted to do what teenagers do but again he was not able to. As he went into manhood he had the same needs as every person growing up who finally needs loving relationships of perhaps a girl friend and pals to socialize with but that never developed. Finally he was able with help to establish his own home and for the past twelve years he enjoyed as best he could his own personal space.
On Friday evening God touched him and called him home.
Surviving him are his Mother Marjorie (nee Bowers) Jantzen of Wayne, his sisters Connie Jantzen and her husband Raymond Maguire of Stuart, Florida and Juliana Sauciuc and her husband Walter of Monroe, North Carolina; his brothers Joseph Jantzen of Trenton, Maine, “Andy” Charles Jantzen and his wife Linda of Wayne, and Arthur Jantzen of Wayne; Nieces and Nephews including Maryann Maguire of Stuart, Florida, Megan and Ashley Sauciuc of Monroe, NC, Phillip Jantzen and his wife Meghan of Wayne, Daniel Jantzen of Hoboken, Stephanie Jantzen, Jason Jantzen, Jessica Lueddeke and her husband Jason all of Wayne.
Those planning an expression of sympathy in Donald’s memory are asked to consider The Wayne Foundation for the Handicapped, 30 Woodridge Terrace, Wayne, NJ 07470
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