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Services
Friends may visit with the family at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne on Tuesday, June 30, 2015 from 4-8 PM.
Funeral Services will be held Wednesday at 10 AM from the funeral home, then to Our Lady of the Valley RC Church where at 11 AM a Funeral Mass will be offered. Burial will follow at the East Ridgelawn Cemetery, Clifton.
Dorothy Rita Greenfield “Dot” age 86 of Wayne passed away peacefully while receiving the loving care of her family on Saturday, June 27, 2015. She had been a resident of Wayne since 1957.
Raised in Passaic, Dot graduated from Pope Pius XII High School and then attended the New York Institute of Dietetics where she was trained as a Dietician. She became restaurant manager at Schrafft’s in New York City and later worked as a Dietician at Passaic General Hospital. Her greatest job of all was being a Mom and raising her six children.
Dot was a fantastic homemaker. She often redecorated the house, moving the furniture around in the living room and her kid’s rooms. She had always been artistic and enjoyed painting and sketching. Her home was simply another form of canvas.
Dot enjoyed cooking as well, specializing in traditional Hungarian foods. Thanksgiving and Christmas were favorite holidays where she would spend days preparing and go all-out cooking a big meal for her family. Summers in Point Pleasant at the Jersey Shore were no different with the extended families gathering creating many wonderful memories. Dot loved the beach and enjoyed swimming in the ocean well into her senior years. She also loved nature and its beauty.
As a mother, Dot was very warm, loving and devoted to her children. She taught them kindness, respect, and affection for one another and shared her strong Catholic faith with them as well. She had always been involved with Our Lady of the Valley RC Church in Wayne; as a Girl Scout leader, with CYO, and in many other volunteer capacities. All of her children attended Our Lady of the Valley Catholic School. But the greatest example she set for her children was in her relationship with her husband, George.
Dot met George in 1950, at a YMCA dance and they were married on October 17, 1953 at Holy Trinity RC Church in Passaic where they initially lived. In 1957, they moved to Wayne to raise their family. Their love for each other never faded. They were both very affectionate people and Dot was a loving wife to her beloved George. They celebrated sixty years of marriage together before George passed in 2014.
Dorothy is survived by her six children; Rita Felderman and her husband David of Wayne, Laura Haug and her husband William of Kinnelon, George and his wife Renee of Glen Allen, VA, Douglas and his wife Diane of Wayne, Rich and his wife Delilah of Wesley Hills, NY, Robert and his wife Diana of Manhattan, and 11 grandchildren; Kara and her husband John, Kyle, William, Douglas, Max, Brendhan, Kevin, Samantha, Sam, Cooper and Cole as well as many nieces and nephews. She was also pre-deceased by her brother, James Sogorka, and her sister Margaret Mullen.
Her family wishes to acknowledge the wonderful and compassionate care given to Dot by the staff during her stay at the Atrium at Wayne.
Donations may be made to the National Alliance on Mental Illness, 3803 N. Fairfax Dr., Suite 100, Arlington, VA 22203, www.nami.org.
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Friends may visit with the family at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne on Tuesday, June 30, 2015 from 4-8 PM.
Funeral Services will be held Wednesday at 10 AM from the funeral home, then to Our Lady of the Valley RC Church where at 11 AM a Funeral Mass will be offered. Burial will follow at the East Ridgelawn Cemetery, Clifton.
Services
Friends may visit with the family at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne on Tuesday, June 30, 2015 from 4-8 PM.
Funeral Services will be held Wednesday at 10 AM from the funeral home, then to Our Lady of the Valley RC Church where at 11 AM a Funeral Mass will be offered. Burial will follow at the East Ridgelawn Cemetery, Clifton.
Dorothy Rita Greenfield “Dot” age 86 of Wayne passed away peacefully while receiving the loving care of her family on Saturday, June 27, 2015. She had been a resident of Wayne since 1957.
Raised in Passaic, Dot graduated from Pope Pius XII High School and then attended the New York Institute of Dietetics where she was trained as a Dietician. She became restaurant manager at Schrafft’s in New York City and later worked as a Dietician at Passaic General Hospital. Her greatest job of all was being a Mom and raising her six children.
Dot was a fantastic homemaker. She often redecorated the house, moving the furniture around in the living room and her kid’s rooms. She had always been artistic and enjoyed painting and sketching. Her home was simply another form of canvas.
Dot enjoyed cooking as well, specializing in traditional Hungarian foods. Thanksgiving and Christmas were favorite holidays where she would spend days preparing and go all-out cooking a big meal for her family. Summers in Point Pleasant at the Jersey Shore were no different with the extended families gathering creating many wonderful memories. Dot loved the beach and enjoyed swimming in the ocean well into her senior years. She also loved nature and its beauty.
As a mother, Dot was very warm, loving and devoted to her children. She taught them kindness, respect, and affection for one another and shared her strong Catholic faith with them as well. She had always been involved with Our Lady of the Valley RC Church in Wayne; as a Girl Scout leader, with CYO, and in many other volunteer capacities. All of her children attended Our Lady of the Valley Catholic School. But the greatest example she set for her children was in her relationship with her husband, George.
Dot met George in 1950, at a YMCA dance and they were married on October 17, 1953 at Holy Trinity RC Church in Passaic where they initially lived. In 1957, they moved to Wayne to raise their family. Their love for each other never faded. They were both very affectionate people and Dot was a loving wife to her beloved George. They celebrated sixty years of marriage together before George passed in 2014.
Dorothy is survived by her six children; Rita Felderman and her husband David of Wayne, Laura Haug and her husband William of Kinnelon, George and his wife Renee of Glen Allen, VA, Douglas and his wife Diane of Wayne, Rich and his wife Delilah of Wesley Hills, NY, Robert and his wife Diana of Manhattan, and 11 grandchildren; Kara and her husband John, Kyle, William, Douglas, Max, Brendhan, Kevin, Samantha, Sam, Cooper and Cole as well as many nieces and nephews. She was also pre-deceased by her brother, James Sogorka, and her sister Margaret Mullen.
Her family wishes to acknowledge the wonderful and compassionate care given to Dot by the staff during her stay at the Atrium at Wayne.
Donations may be made to the National Alliance on Mental Illness, 3803 N. Fairfax Dr., Suite 100, Arlington, VA 22203, www.nami.org.
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