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April 21, 2012
Services
Friends may visit with the family at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne, on Tuesday, April 24, 2012 from 3:00 PM - 6:30 PM. Funeral Services will be held at 6:30 PM at the funeral home.
Doris M. Van Decker, “Aunt Dot” to just about everyone, who was 101 years old, died at her nephew’s home in North Haledon on Saturday, April 21, 2012. Her family was gathered at her bedside.
Doris was born in Welland, Ontario in 1910. Her father was a member of a vaudeville act and played banjo, among other instruments. His career eventually brought him closer to New York City during the “roaring 20’s”. He settled his family in the Delawanna section of Clifton, New Jersey in 1922. Doris was the oldest daughter among the twelve children in her family and she used to tell the story of how her father had to custom build a kitchen table that would fit them all – no store carried a table large enough.
From her earliest years, she was helping to raise her siblings and those experiences certainly contributed to her kind and nurturing disposition which she carried throughout her lifetime. Family was her foundation and she was instrumental in raising her nieces, nephews and some of their children too. She was married to her husband Leonard until his death in Dec. of 1973. She relocated to Summerville, South Carolina and settled there for 30 years or so. While living in Summerville she was blessed with a number of new caring friends (Elaine, Liz & Chris, Annie & Gene, Cindy, Lynette, Patty & Lou, Gladys, Mary (and the Oak Brook Towers family), who all enjoyed her wonderful sense of humor. She always spoke kindly of Pastor Paul and her loving spiritual family at Crosstowne Church.
She and her friend, Walter, were big baseball fans and used to drive to Atlanta to take in a Brave’s game whenever possible. She loved to dance and was an avid fisherman. She enjoyed casting into the local lakes and seeing what she might catch. Despite her age and all the wonderful years she was blessed with, she never learned to drive a car. In fact, she was quite content having others chauffeuring her around wherever it was that she needed to go.
Doris is survived by two sisters; Helen Lass of North Carolina, Joan Futter of Hackettstown, New Jersey, two brothers; Raymond Burgess of Blairstown, New Jersey, and Gilbert Burgess of Nutley, New Jersey, as well as many nieces, nephews, and great-nieces and nephews who all love her dearly. Preceding her in death was Lloyd, Albert, Leonard, Mildred, Ruth, Madeline, and Russell.
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Friends may visit with the family at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne, on Tuesday, April 24, 2012 from 3:00 PM - 6:30 PM. Funeral Services will be held at 6:30 PM at the funeral home.
April 21, 2012
Services
Friends may visit with the family at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne, on Tuesday, April 24, 2012 from 3:00 PM - 6:30 PM. Funeral Services will be held at 6:30 PM at the funeral home.
Doris M. Van Decker, “Aunt Dot” to just about everyone, who was 101 years old, died at her nephew’s home in North Haledon on Saturday, April 21, 2012. Her family was gathered at her bedside.
Doris was born in Welland, Ontario in 1910. Her father was a member of a vaudeville act and played banjo, among other instruments. His career eventually brought him closer to New York City during the “roaring 20’s”. He settled his family in the Delawanna section of Clifton, New Jersey in 1922. Doris was the oldest daughter among the twelve children in her family and she used to tell the story of how her father had to custom build a kitchen table that would fit them all – no store carried a table large enough.
From her earliest years, she was helping to raise her siblings and those experiences certainly contributed to her kind and nurturing disposition which she carried throughout her lifetime. Family was her foundation and she was instrumental in raising her nieces, nephews and some of their children too. She was married to her husband Leonard until his death in Dec. of 1973. She relocated to Summerville, South Carolina and settled there for 30 years or so. While living in Summerville she was blessed with a number of new caring friends (Elaine, Liz & Chris, Annie & Gene, Cindy, Lynette, Patty & Lou, Gladys, Mary (and the Oak Brook Towers family), who all enjoyed her wonderful sense of humor. She always spoke kindly of Pastor Paul and her loving spiritual family at Crosstowne Church.
She and her friend, Walter, were big baseball fans and used to drive to Atlanta to take in a Brave’s game whenever possible. She loved to dance and was an avid fisherman. She enjoyed casting into the local lakes and seeing what she might catch. Despite her age and all the wonderful years she was blessed with, she never learned to drive a car. In fact, she was quite content having others chauffeuring her around wherever it was that she needed to go.
Doris is survived by two sisters; Helen Lass of North Carolina, Joan Futter of Hackettstown, New Jersey, two brothers; Raymond Burgess of Blairstown, New Jersey, and Gilbert Burgess of Nutley, New Jersey, as well as many nieces, nephews, and great-nieces and nephews who all love her dearly. Preceding her in death was Lloyd, Albert, Leonard, Mildred, Ruth, Madeline, and Russell.
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