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September 11, 2011
Services
Friends and family are invited to visit with the family from 2-4 and 7-9 PM on Thursday, September 15, 2011at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
Funeral services will be held 10 AM on Friday, September 16, 2011 at the funeral home.
Entombment will be in Laurel Grove Cemetery, Totowa.
Dorothy “Dot” Tweer age 81 of Wayne died peacefully on Sunday, September 11, 2011.
She was born and raised in South Paterson where she attended School #9 and later Central High School, Paterson with the Class of 1948. Just one month before graduating from high school her mother took her out of school so she could get a job to help support the family. Her first job was as a switchboard operator for New Jersey Bell, Paterson. After having her children she returned to NJ Bell in Paterson as a keypunch operator. In 1965 she took a job as the switchboard operator for the Wayne Board of Education where she worked for twenty-nine years before retiring in 1994.
Dot met the love of her life, George Tweer, at the Lakeview Presbyterian Church in Paterson. After George was discharged from the U.S. Navy, they enjoyed their first date bowling at the church. Dot would relate that her friend Sarah was actually interested in dating George, but George had eyes for Dot’s pretty legs. On more than one occasion she told him to “get lost”. Eventually George won the battle and he proposed to Dot at the Broadway Highway movie theatre in Fair Lawn. They married on September 10, 1949 at the Lakeview Presbyterian Church and honeymooned in Lavallette, NJ. Immediately after they married they moved to Minns Avenue in Wayne and have lived in Wayne where they had a loving, feisty and pleasantly normal marriage for sixty one years.
Dot was a founding and devoted member of the Wayne Presbyterian Church, Wayne.
She will be remembered as a friendly, sociable, stubborn person who was a great baker. Her special touch on apple, blueberry, lemon meringue, pumpkin pies and all types of deserts will be greatly missed.
She was a member and trustee of the Wayne Golden Age Circle having planned many bus trips, member of the Wayne Elks Lodge 2181 Ladies Auxiliary having often assisted with the Bingo for Vets in Paramus, and a member of the Ladies Auxiliary of the Preakness Fire Company #4, Wayne. In her younger years Dot was an avid dancer having taken classes, with George, at Walkers Dance Studio, Pompton Plains, a bowler in the leagues at T-Bowl Lanes, Wayne and a member of the Wayne Volley Ball League.
Dot was the loving wife of over sixty years to the late George Tweer (2010); loving mother of Dorothy “Dottie” Nazzaro and her husband Rocco of Kinnelon, George Tweer and his wife Aileen of Butler and Susan Hargreaves and her husband Marc of Lakeland, FL; cherished grandmother of Rocco George and David Nazzaro, Jennifer, John and Brian Tweer, Marc, Steven, and Ryan Hargreaves; loved sister of the late Thomas and Rudolph Kingma.
In lieu of flowers memorial donations to the Wayne Presbyterian Church, 1200 Alps Road, Wayne, NJ 07470 would be appreciated.
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Friends and family are invited to visit with the family from 2-4 and 7-9 PM on Thursday, September 15, 2011at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
Funeral services will be held 10 AM on Friday, September 16, 2011 at the funeral home.
Entombment will be in Laurel Grove Cemetery, Totowa.
September 11, 2011
Services
Friends and family are invited to visit with the family from 2-4 and 7-9 PM on Thursday, September 15, 2011at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
Funeral services will be held 10 AM on Friday, September 16, 2011 at the funeral home.
Entombment will be in Laurel Grove Cemetery, Totowa.
Dorothy “Dot” Tweer age 81 of Wayne died peacefully on Sunday, September 11, 2011.
She was born and raised in South Paterson where she attended School #9 and later Central High School, Paterson with the Class of 1948. Just one month before graduating from high school her mother took her out of school so she could get a job to help support the family. Her first job was as a switchboard operator for New Jersey Bell, Paterson. After having her children she returned to NJ Bell in Paterson as a keypunch operator. In 1965 she took a job as the switchboard operator for the Wayne Board of Education where she worked for twenty-nine years before retiring in 1994.
Dot met the love of her life, George Tweer, at the Lakeview Presbyterian Church in Paterson. After George was discharged from the U.S. Navy, they enjoyed their first date bowling at the church. Dot would relate that her friend Sarah was actually interested in dating George, but George had eyes for Dot’s pretty legs. On more than one occasion she told him to “get lost”. Eventually George won the battle and he proposed to Dot at the Broadway Highway movie theatre in Fair Lawn. They married on September 10, 1949 at the Lakeview Presbyterian Church and honeymooned in Lavallette, NJ. Immediately after they married they moved to Minns Avenue in Wayne and have lived in Wayne where they had a loving, feisty and pleasantly normal marriage for sixty one years.
Dot was a founding and devoted member of the Wayne Presbyterian Church, Wayne.
She will be remembered as a friendly, sociable, stubborn person who was a great baker. Her special touch on apple, blueberry, lemon meringue, pumpkin pies and all types of deserts will be greatly missed.
She was a member and trustee of the Wayne Golden Age Circle having planned many bus trips, member of the Wayne Elks Lodge 2181 Ladies Auxiliary having often assisted with the Bingo for Vets in Paramus, and a member of the Ladies Auxiliary of the Preakness Fire Company #4, Wayne. In her younger years Dot was an avid dancer having taken classes, with George, at Walkers Dance Studio, Pompton Plains, a bowler in the leagues at T-Bowl Lanes, Wayne and a member of the Wayne Volley Ball League.
Dot was the loving wife of over sixty years to the late George Tweer (2010); loving mother of Dorothy “Dottie” Nazzaro and her husband Rocco of Kinnelon, George Tweer and his wife Aileen of Butler and Susan Hargreaves and her husband Marc of Lakeland, FL; cherished grandmother of Rocco George and David Nazzaro, Jennifer, John and Brian Tweer, Marc, Steven, and Ryan Hargreaves; loved sister of the late Thomas and Rudolph Kingma.
In lieu of flowers memorial donations to the Wayne Presbyterian Church, 1200 Alps Road, Wayne, NJ 07470 would be appreciated.
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