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April 17, 2013
Services
Friends may visit with the family at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne, on Monday, April 22, 2013 from 7-9 PM and on Tuesday, April 23, from 4-8 PM.
Funeral Services will be held at 9:30 AM on Wednesday, April 24, 2013 from the funeral home, then to Immaculate Heart of Mary RC Church, Wayne, where at 10:30 AM a Funeral Mass will be offered.
Interment will be in Laurel Grove Cemetery in Totowa.
Doris B. Porter (nee Welle) age 87 of Wayne passed peacefully on April 17, 2013 at home with the comfort of family by her side.
She was born in the family home at 111 Lafayette Ave. in Hawthorne and lived in Glen Rock for two years before moving to the Packanack Lake Section of Wayne where they have lived for the past sixty-eight years.
Doris met the love of her life Gerald Porter when she was dating a basketball player. Gerry saw her and wouldn’t take no for an answer when requesting a date. Doris finally gave in and they went to a “ring dance” and then to a fancy restaurant in Wayne named the “Alps Manor”(on Alps Road)on their first date. Gerry was 21 and Doris was 17 when they married. They honeymooned in Atlantic City and celebrated their wedding at the “Fork and Spoon” a famous restaurant in Atlantic City which is still in business. Gerry was already serving in the Army during WWII when they married, and they had their first child, Joann (Porter) Mauer, which he did not find out about for some time as the mail service was slow during the war. They have enjoyed a loving and devoted marriage for almost seventy years.
Doris, after raising eight children in Wayne, was dedicated to helping others. From 1966 to 1969 she helped at Don Bosco Technical High School assisting the Salesian Brothers. She also spent ten years traveling to churches in New Jersey to teach about Tithing. Doris was a volunteer for Eva’s Kitchen in Paterson, a founder of Oasis, volunteered at Chilton Memorial Hospital in Pompton Plains for over twenty years, and served as a “room mother” at the Immaculate Heart of Mary School and President of the Mother’s Club for many years. Doris was a Christian Service Moderator at DePaul High School in Wayne and involved with the Fashion Show having chaired the Annual Spring Fashion Show from 1958 – 1987. She was a Red Cross Volunteer Nurses’ Aid at Mountainside Hospital in Montclair for eighteen years.
She was dedicated to her Catholic faith and was a member of Immaculate Heart of Mary RC Church.
Doris was also a member and President of the Packanack Women’s Golf Club in Wayne.
Doris and Gerry bought their first home in the Packanack section of Wayne Township when Packanack Lake wasn’t much more than a brook. The home they purchased was on the East side of where the lake is now and was the summer residence of Fred MacMurray(actor famous for being the widowed patriarch of the television show My Three Sons). After a brief move to Atlanta Georgia Doris wanted to return “home” to Packanack Lake where they purchased a home on the West side of the lake. The family has many fond memories of summers at the Jersey Shore. Doris and Gerry would take all eight children and stay in Ocean Beach, Unit 3, where other family friends would vacation as well.
She was dedicated to her Catholic faith and was a member of Immaculate Heart of Mary RC Church. She was also a member of the Packanack Golf Club in Wayne.
Doris was the loving wife of Gerald J. Porter, Sr.; devoted mother of JoAnn M. Maurer and her husband Robert of Newtown, CT, Tim Porter of Wayne, Gerard “Skip” Porter and his wife Mary of Wayne, Jayne Elizabeth Baskin and her husband Ron of Atlanta, GA, Doris B. Porter of Atlanta, GA, Thomas Porter and his wife Lisa of Haledon, Patrick Porter and his wife Carole of Wayne, and the late Debbie Porter (2008); cherished grandmother of ten grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.
In lieu of flowers memorial donations to the Passaic Valley Hospice, 783 Riverview Drive, Totowa, NJ 07512 would be appreciated.
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Friends may visit with the family at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne, on Monday, April 22, 2013 from 7-9 PM and on Tuesday, April 23, from 4-8 PM.
Funeral Services will be held at 9:30 AM on Wednesday, April 24, 2013 from the funeral home, then to Immaculate Heart of Mary RC Church, Wayne, where at 10:30 AM a Funeral Mass will be offered.
Interment will be in Laurel Grove Cemetery in Totowa.
April 17, 2013
Services
Friends may visit with the family at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne, on Monday, April 22, 2013 from 7-9 PM and on Tuesday, April 23, from 4-8 PM.
Funeral Services will be held at 9:30 AM on Wednesday, April 24, 2013 from the funeral home, then to Immaculate Heart of Mary RC Church, Wayne, where at 10:30 AM a Funeral Mass will be offered.
Interment will be in Laurel Grove Cemetery in Totowa.
Doris B. Porter (nee Welle) age 87 of Wayne passed peacefully on April 17, 2013 at home with the comfort of family by her side.
She was born in the family home at 111 Lafayette Ave. in Hawthorne and lived in Glen Rock for two years before moving to the Packanack Lake Section of Wayne where they have lived for the past sixty-eight years.
Doris met the love of her life Gerald Porter when she was dating a basketball player. Gerry saw her and wouldn’t take no for an answer when requesting a date. Doris finally gave in and they went to a “ring dance” and then to a fancy restaurant in Wayne named the “Alps Manor”(on Alps Road)on their first date. Gerry was 21 and Doris was 17 when they married. They honeymooned in Atlantic City and celebrated their wedding at the “Fork and Spoon” a famous restaurant in Atlantic City which is still in business. Gerry was already serving in the Army during WWII when they married, and they had their first child, Joann (Porter) Mauer, which he did not find out about for some time as the mail service was slow during the war. They have enjoyed a loving and devoted marriage for almost seventy years.
Doris, after raising eight children in Wayne, was dedicated to helping others. From 1966 to 1969 she helped at Don Bosco Technical High School assisting the Salesian Brothers. She also spent ten years traveling to churches in New Jersey to teach about Tithing. Doris was a volunteer for Eva’s Kitchen in Paterson, a founder of Oasis, volunteered at Chilton Memorial Hospital in Pompton Plains for over twenty years, and served as a “room mother” at the Immaculate Heart of Mary School and President of the Mother’s Club for many years. Doris was a Christian Service Moderator at DePaul High School in Wayne and involved with the Fashion Show having chaired the Annual Spring Fashion Show from 1958 – 1987. She was a Red Cross Volunteer Nurses’ Aid at Mountainside Hospital in Montclair for eighteen years.
She was dedicated to her Catholic faith and was a member of Immaculate Heart of Mary RC Church.
Doris was also a member and President of the Packanack Women’s Golf Club in Wayne.
Doris and Gerry bought their first home in the Packanack section of Wayne Township when Packanack Lake wasn’t much more than a brook. The home they purchased was on the East side of where the lake is now and was the summer residence of Fred MacMurray(actor famous for being the widowed patriarch of the television show My Three Sons). After a brief move to Atlanta Georgia Doris wanted to return “home” to Packanack Lake where they purchased a home on the West side of the lake. The family has many fond memories of summers at the Jersey Shore. Doris and Gerry would take all eight children and stay in Ocean Beach, Unit 3, where other family friends would vacation as well.
She was dedicated to her Catholic faith and was a member of Immaculate Heart of Mary RC Church. She was also a member of the Packanack Golf Club in Wayne.
Doris was the loving wife of Gerald J. Porter, Sr.; devoted mother of JoAnn M. Maurer and her husband Robert of Newtown, CT, Tim Porter of Wayne, Gerard “Skip” Porter and his wife Mary of Wayne, Jayne Elizabeth Baskin and her husband Ron of Atlanta, GA, Doris B. Porter of Atlanta, GA, Thomas Porter and his wife Lisa of Haledon, Patrick Porter and his wife Carole of Wayne, and the late Debbie Porter (2008); cherished grandmother of ten grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.
In lieu of flowers memorial donations to the Passaic Valley Hospice, 783 Riverview Drive, Totowa, NJ 07512 would be appreciated.
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