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May 7, 2009
Services
Funeral services were held privately by the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne, NJ.
Doris R. Oleksy (nee Plokhooy) age 83 of Wayne on Thursday, May 7, 2009 at home. Her passing took place in her own home and surroundings and receiving the love of her family who were constantly caring for her.
Doris Oleksy’s health had been declining for some time. When her family realized that love and caring would be the best treatment for Mom and Grandma they took her home to her own familiar surroundings. There she spent her autumn days receiving the best of care from her family. Her granddaughter Kathryn stands out as a very special person who sacrificed for months to make grandma comfortable and well taken care of. Kathryn’s training was not medical but her heartfelt care and love was especially profound in Grandmas’ passage from this earthly life. Our family is very proud of Kathryn and very appreciative of her efforts for grandma.
She was born in Passaic and had grown up in the Delawana section of Clifton later living in Garfield before moving to Wayne sixty years ago.
She received her formal education at Grammar School No. 8 in Clifton and at Clifton High School.
Doris was employed at McGraw Edison Company in Wayne as an assembler of batteries.
She was gifted with a very private and perhaps shy personality and enjoyed gardening, playing solitaire and reading novels. She always loved to have a dog and a cat as household companions.
Doris was riding a Public Service bus one day and met John Oleksy the driver and after a courtship they married in 1943 and had fifty-nine years of “excellent companion relationship” until John’s passing in 2002.
Perhaps Doris’s finest life dedication came forth as a mother, grandmother and great grandmother. She simply loved her family intensely and was always concerned about everyone’s well being. She was always in nurturing and concern mode and her family is sure to pass that on to their children. We know that love isn’t to keep and hold but to pass on and she was an expert at that.
Surviving are one son James Oleksy and his wife Kathleen of Wayne, one daughter Carol Earls of Oak Ridge; one sister Charlotte Palecek of Spring Hill, Florida; five grandchildren Douglas Earls and his wife Kathryn, Rebecca Haynes, Kevin DeBoo and his wife Christine, Patricia and Jeffrey Oleksy; three great grandchildren Danielle, Lauren and Robert Haynes III.
Tragedy struck when her son John Oleksy died in 2002 and John’s wife Linda in 2001.
She was predeceased by her brothers John and Henry Plokhooy, her sister Marion Nicolosi and her sister Amy Hein.
Those planning an expression of sympathy in Doris’ memory are asked to consider The Hospice of New Jersey, 400 Broad Acres Drive, Bloomfield, NJ 07003.
If you would like to send a private condolence directly to the family use this condolence section.
Funeral services were held privately by the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne, NJ.
May 7, 2009
Services
Funeral services were held privately by the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne, NJ.
Doris R. Oleksy (nee Plokhooy) age 83 of Wayne on Thursday, May 7, 2009 at home. Her passing took place in her own home and surroundings and receiving the love of her family who were constantly caring for her.
Doris Oleksy’s health had been declining for some time. When her family realized that love and caring would be the best treatment for Mom and Grandma they took her home to her own familiar surroundings. There she spent her autumn days receiving the best of care from her family. Her granddaughter Kathryn stands out as a very special person who sacrificed for months to make grandma comfortable and well taken care of. Kathryn’s training was not medical but her heartfelt care and love was especially profound in Grandmas’ passage from this earthly life. Our family is very proud of Kathryn and very appreciative of her efforts for grandma.
She was born in Passaic and had grown up in the Delawana section of Clifton later living in Garfield before moving to Wayne sixty years ago.
She received her formal education at Grammar School No. 8 in Clifton and at Clifton High School.
Doris was employed at McGraw Edison Company in Wayne as an assembler of batteries.
She was gifted with a very private and perhaps shy personality and enjoyed gardening, playing solitaire and reading novels. She always loved to have a dog and a cat as household companions.
Doris was riding a Public Service bus one day and met John Oleksy the driver and after a courtship they married in 1943 and had fifty-nine years of “excellent companion relationship” until John’s passing in 2002.
Perhaps Doris’s finest life dedication came forth as a mother, grandmother and great grandmother. She simply loved her family intensely and was always concerned about everyone’s well being. She was always in nurturing and concern mode and her family is sure to pass that on to their children. We know that love isn’t to keep and hold but to pass on and she was an expert at that.
Surviving are one son James Oleksy and his wife Kathleen of Wayne, one daughter Carol Earls of Oak Ridge; one sister Charlotte Palecek of Spring Hill, Florida; five grandchildren Douglas Earls and his wife Kathryn, Rebecca Haynes, Kevin DeBoo and his wife Christine, Patricia and Jeffrey Oleksy; three great grandchildren Danielle, Lauren and Robert Haynes III.
Tragedy struck when her son John Oleksy died in 2002 and John’s wife Linda in 2001.
She was predeceased by her brothers John and Henry Plokhooy, her sister Marion Nicolosi and her sister Amy Hein.
Those planning an expression of sympathy in Doris’ memory are asked to consider The Hospice of New Jersey, 400 Broad Acres Drive, Bloomfield, NJ 07003.
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