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December 22, 2013
Services
Friends may visit with the family at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne, on Monday, December 30, 2013, from 9-11 AM.
A Funeral Service will immediately follow the time of visitation and begin at 11:00 AM. Entombment will take place at Garden of Memories, Washington Township.
Doris B. Stengel, age 92, of Wayne, died peacefully at home, with her loving family by her side, on Sunday, December 22, 2013.
Doris was born and grew up in Jersey City. Early on she met the love of her life, Christian William,"Bill" Stengel Jr., while they were both attending high school. After graduating from Stevens Institute of Technology with a degree in Mechanical Engineering, Bill joined the Navy during the war and Doris went to work on Wall Street. With Wall Street's reputation as a world of shrewd, cut-throat types, those who loved dear sweet Doris knew she was in the wrong place. Her career there was short as she moved on landing a job with a New York City insurance firm. Every morning, she boarded the train out of Journal Square, and took the ferry to get to work. She and Bill continued to date and after Bill's wartime service, in 1943, the two love birds were finally able to marry. It was at this point that Doris really hit her stride! Doris life completely revolved around loving her husband and building her life around him and their son Christian William Stengel, III, who they were blessed with in 1953. Doris wholeheartedly embraced life as a wife, mother and homemaker, providing a wonderful home for the two men in her life!
In 1960, Bill was transferred through his job with Western Electric from Kearny, New Jersey to Baltimore, Maryland. His faithful wife Doris and son Chris followed him to this new place where Doris quickly got involved as a volunteer at Anne Arundel General Hospital in Annapolis. Over the eleven years that the family lived there, Doris volunteered approximately fifteen-thousand hours, many of those hours for the Clothes Box, one of the first thrifts where folks could donate lightly used clothes for resale to raise funds for the hospital. In 1971, Bill transferred again with AT&T and the family moved back to New Jersey, this time settling in Wayne where they remained ever since. For Doris, her work as a volunteer was simply a means to an end, spending time with people! She loved being with others and, upon relocating back to New Jersey, she soon took a job as a volunteer with Chilton Memorial Hospital where she worked in the medical records department. Doris volunteered there for close to forty years, logging in approximately eleven-thousand hours until retiring at the age of ninety! Over the years, she made countless friends. Those whose life path crossed with hers almost immediately felt a connection to her dear, loving, warm, sweet personality. People could sense her deep, sincere commitment to her work as a volunteer.
Doris was an avid gardener, who lovingly cultivated beautiful flower gardens wherever she called home. She also enjoyed golf and spending time with her lady friends in women's golf leagues in Maryland and also at the Packanack Golf Course. She was also a wonderful host and she enjoyed the rich tradition of opening her home to all of the extended Stengel family for many Thanksgiving holidays. Thanks to Doris, the Stengel home was always warmly and welcomingly decorated for the Christmas holidays. In recent years, she was most appreciative of her son Chris for his help in decorating, as she was no longer able to do it so easily herself.
A woman of deep faith, Doris was most recently a member of Packanack Community Church where she loved to sing in the choir. A strong alto, Doris simply loved singing there and also the other churches she attended throughout the course of her life. While her family acknowledges the pain of her loss, they rejoice and find great comfort in knowing that she, today, is singing with choirs of angels, singing in exultation!
Doris is survived by her loving son Christian William, III of Wayne, and her niece Jeanne Schlichting and nephew Bill Schlichting, both of Wewahitchka FL, and nephew Peter Schlichting currently on the west coast. Doris is survived by nieces and nephew-in-law on the Stengel side of the family in Ohio, Iowa, upstate New York, and "down the ocean" in New Jersey.
Doris was predeceased by her beloved husband Christian William, Jr. in 1995, her loving sister Jessie Schlichting in 2011 and her dear daughter-in-law Giovanna Stengel in 2012.
In lieu of flowers, those planning an expression of sympathy in Doris' name are asked to consider the Packanack Community Church, 120 Lake Drive East, Wayne, NJ 07470.
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Friends may visit with the family at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne, on Monday, December 30, 2013, from 9-11 AM.
A Funeral Service will immediately follow the time of visitation and begin at 11:00 AM. Entombment will take place at Garden of Memories, Washington Township.
December 22, 2013
Services
Friends may visit with the family at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne, on Monday, December 30, 2013, from 9-11 AM.
A Funeral Service will immediately follow the time of visitation and begin at 11:00 AM. Entombment will take place at Garden of Memories, Washington Township.
Doris B. Stengel, age 92, of Wayne, died peacefully at home, with her loving family by her side, on Sunday, December 22, 2013.
Doris was born and grew up in Jersey City. Early on she met the love of her life, Christian William,"Bill" Stengel Jr., while they were both attending high school. After graduating from Stevens Institute of Technology with a degree in Mechanical Engineering, Bill joined the Navy during the war and Doris went to work on Wall Street. With Wall Street's reputation as a world of shrewd, cut-throat types, those who loved dear sweet Doris knew she was in the wrong place. Her career there was short as she moved on landing a job with a New York City insurance firm. Every morning, she boarded the train out of Journal Square, and took the ferry to get to work. She and Bill continued to date and after Bill's wartime service, in 1943, the two love birds were finally able to marry. It was at this point that Doris really hit her stride! Doris life completely revolved around loving her husband and building her life around him and their son Christian William Stengel, III, who they were blessed with in 1953. Doris wholeheartedly embraced life as a wife, mother and homemaker, providing a wonderful home for the two men in her life!
In 1960, Bill was transferred through his job with Western Electric from Kearny, New Jersey to Baltimore, Maryland. His faithful wife Doris and son Chris followed him to this new place where Doris quickly got involved as a volunteer at Anne Arundel General Hospital in Annapolis. Over the eleven years that the family lived there, Doris volunteered approximately fifteen-thousand hours, many of those hours for the Clothes Box, one of the first thrifts where folks could donate lightly used clothes for resale to raise funds for the hospital. In 1971, Bill transferred again with AT&T and the family moved back to New Jersey, this time settling in Wayne where they remained ever since. For Doris, her work as a volunteer was simply a means to an end, spending time with people! She loved being with others and, upon relocating back to New Jersey, she soon took a job as a volunteer with Chilton Memorial Hospital where she worked in the medical records department. Doris volunteered there for close to forty years, logging in approximately eleven-thousand hours until retiring at the age of ninety! Over the years, she made countless friends. Those whose life path crossed with hers almost immediately felt a connection to her dear, loving, warm, sweet personality. People could sense her deep, sincere commitment to her work as a volunteer.
Doris was an avid gardener, who lovingly cultivated beautiful flower gardens wherever she called home. She also enjoyed golf and spending time with her lady friends in women's golf leagues in Maryland and also at the Packanack Golf Course. She was also a wonderful host and she enjoyed the rich tradition of opening her home to all of the extended Stengel family for many Thanksgiving holidays. Thanks to Doris, the Stengel home was always warmly and welcomingly decorated for the Christmas holidays. In recent years, she was most appreciative of her son Chris for his help in decorating, as she was no longer able to do it so easily herself.
A woman of deep faith, Doris was most recently a member of Packanack Community Church where she loved to sing in the choir. A strong alto, Doris simply loved singing there and also the other churches she attended throughout the course of her life. While her family acknowledges the pain of her loss, they rejoice and find great comfort in knowing that she, today, is singing with choirs of angels, singing in exultation!
Doris is survived by her loving son Christian William, III of Wayne, and her niece Jeanne Schlichting and nephew Bill Schlichting, both of Wewahitchka FL, and nephew Peter Schlichting currently on the west coast. Doris is survived by nieces and nephew-in-law on the Stengel side of the family in Ohio, Iowa, upstate New York, and "down the ocean" in New Jersey.
Doris was predeceased by her beloved husband Christian William, Jr. in 1995, her loving sister Jessie Schlichting in 2011 and her dear daughter-in-law Giovanna Stengel in 2012.
In lieu of flowers, those planning an expression of sympathy in Doris' name are asked to consider the Packanack Community Church, 120 Lake Drive East, Wayne, NJ 07470.
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