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April 27, 2012
Services
Friends may visit with the family from 2-4 and 7-9 PM on Tuesday, May 1, 2012 at the Vander May Wayne.
Funeral services will be held 10 AM on Wednesday, May 2, 2012 at the funeral home. Interment will be in Crest
Haven Cemetery, Clifton.
Doris "Dee" E. Oberg (nee Knapp) age 71 of Wayne died Friday, April 27, 2012 after a three month battle with lung cancer. She had the comfort of family
by her side.
She was born in Jersey City and lived in Palisades Park before moving to Wayne in 1946 where she graduated from the Wayne High School with the Class of 1958. During her high school years she wasa Majorette in the Marching Band. Dee always had a love for music and continued her education at the Southwestern College in Kansas where she was a music major.
After her second year in college, Dee had a little fender bender with her father's car and was referred to a nice young man named Donald Oberg to help with the repair before her father could find out. Dee had no money for the supplies and matching paint and this nice young man took money out of his own pocket to buy the paint and then do the repair. Donald thought she was beautiful and asked her out. On their first date they went to a restaurant called the Crystal Chandelier in Pompton Lakes and it was closed. Donald couldn't remember the alternate dinner location but they soon fell in love. He asked Dee's parents for her hand in marriage and they married on June 4, 1960 at the Advent Lutheran Church in Wyckoff as St Timothy Lutheran Church in Wayne was still under construction. They honeymooned at Niagara Falls New York and have enjoyed fifty-one years of loving marriage.
She worked for the Wayne Board of Education starting as a cafeteria and playground aide at A.P. Terhune School, Pines Lakes School, then in the Board office before she took a position in 1987 as the secretary for Randall Carter School having retired from there in 2010. Dee was a people person and loved working with the children and staff many of who have been dear friends now for many years.
Dee was a member and formerly the organist for St Timothy Lutheran Church in Wayne. She was also a member of the Golden Age Circle of Wayne.
She will be remembered mostly for her fun loving generous giving personality. Whether it was a holiday, or someone's birthday, or someone just need to be cheered up, Dee was always thinking of them with a card or a phone call or gift. She loved shopping, going for coffee or lunch with friends, Sunday brunch, listening to music, going to the movies, Broadway shows, trips to Atlantic City and LasVegas, vacations with family and friends and spending many summers at the beach in Wildwood Crest. She was true to her family and friends and they were true to her.
She had a heart of gold and was loved by all.
She was the loving wife of Donald Oberg; devoted mother of Carin Della Badia of Scotch Plains, and Donald Oberg and his wife Lynn of East Windsor; cherished grandmother of Tyler and Paige Della Badia, and Amanda and Kristin Oberg.
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Friends may visit with the family from 2-4 and 7-9 PM on Tuesday, May 1, 2012 at the Vander May Wayne.
Funeral services will be held 10 AM on Wednesday, May 2, 2012 at the funeral home. Interment will be in Crest
Haven Cemetery, Clifton.
April 27, 2012
Services
Friends may visit with the family from 2-4 and 7-9 PM on Tuesday, May 1, 2012 at the Vander May Wayne.
Funeral services will be held 10 AM on Wednesday, May 2, 2012 at the funeral home. Interment will be in Crest
Haven Cemetery, Clifton.
Doris "Dee" E. Oberg (nee Knapp) age 71 of Wayne died Friday, April 27, 2012 after a three month battle with lung cancer. She had the comfort of family
by her side.
She was born in Jersey City and lived in Palisades Park before moving to Wayne in 1946 where she graduated from the Wayne High School with the Class of 1958. During her high school years she wasa Majorette in the Marching Band. Dee always had a love for music and continued her education at the Southwestern College in Kansas where she was a music major.
After her second year in college, Dee had a little fender bender with her father's car and was referred to a nice young man named Donald Oberg to help with the repair before her father could find out. Dee had no money for the supplies and matching paint and this nice young man took money out of his own pocket to buy the paint and then do the repair. Donald thought she was beautiful and asked her out. On their first date they went to a restaurant called the Crystal Chandelier in Pompton Lakes and it was closed. Donald couldn't remember the alternate dinner location but they soon fell in love. He asked Dee's parents for her hand in marriage and they married on June 4, 1960 at the Advent Lutheran Church in Wyckoff as St Timothy Lutheran Church in Wayne was still under construction. They honeymooned at Niagara Falls New York and have enjoyed fifty-one years of loving marriage.
She worked for the Wayne Board of Education starting as a cafeteria and playground aide at A.P. Terhune School, Pines Lakes School, then in the Board office before she took a position in 1987 as the secretary for Randall Carter School having retired from there in 2010. Dee was a people person and loved working with the children and staff many of who have been dear friends now for many years.
Dee was a member and formerly the organist for St Timothy Lutheran Church in Wayne. She was also a member of the Golden Age Circle of Wayne.
She will be remembered mostly for her fun loving generous giving personality. Whether it was a holiday, or someone's birthday, or someone just need to be cheered up, Dee was always thinking of them with a card or a phone call or gift. She loved shopping, going for coffee or lunch with friends, Sunday brunch, listening to music, going to the movies, Broadway shows, trips to Atlantic City and LasVegas, vacations with family and friends and spending many summers at the beach in Wildwood Crest. She was true to her family and friends and they were true to her.
She had a heart of gold and was loved by all.
She was the loving wife of Donald Oberg; devoted mother of Carin Della Badia of Scotch Plains, and Donald Oberg and his wife Lynn of East Windsor; cherished grandmother of Tyler and Paige Della Badia, and Amanda and Kristin Oberg.
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