August 22, 2009

Doris Wilkes

Wayne

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Funeral services will be held Wednesday, August 26, 2009 at 11 AM at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne. Friends may visit with the family at the funeral home on Wednesday from 10 – 11:30 AM.

Interment will be in Gate of Heaven Cemetery in East Hanover.

Doris Wilkes (nee McIvers) age 83 of Wayne passed away on Saturday, August 22, 2009 at the Saint Josephs Hospital in Wayne. Her passing was peaceful with her son Brian at her bedside.

She was born in Kearny and lived her youthful years there, where she received her formal education at Kearny grammar school and later Kearny High School, graduating with the Class of 1943. She then went on to Montclair State Univesity where she receive a degree in education and became a teacher in the Wayne School system for twenty years before her retirement in 1988.

She was a parishioner of the Immaculate Heart of Mary RC Church in Wayne.

She was predeceased by her husband Edward Wilkes in November of 2007.

Surviving are three sons Brian Wilkes and his wife Betsy of Milford, Pennsylvania, Edward Wilkes and his wife Marsha of North Muskegon, Michigan, Steven Wilkes of Newport, Rhode Island; one daughter Lynn Dolan and her husband Michael of Wayne; one brother William McIvers of California, Julie Hazecamp of Butler and Kay Sullivan of Boston, Massachusetts; also survived by twelve grandchildren and several great grandchildren.

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Funeral services will be held Wednesday, August 26, 2009 at 11 AM at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne. Friends may visit with the family at the funeral home on Wednesday from 10 – 11:30 AM.

Interment will be in Gate of Heaven Cemetery in East Hanover.

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