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August 4, 2013
Services
Friends may visit with the family on Wednesday, August 7, 2013 from 2-4 and 7-9 PM at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
Funeral services will be held 10 AM on Thursday, August 8, 2013 at the funeral home.
Interment will be in Christ the King Cemetery, Franklin Lakes.
Dorothy O. Maruszak (nee Obal) age 88, of the Pines Lake Section of Wayne, passed peacefully on Sunday, August 4, 2013.
She was born in Passaic and raised in Garfield having graduated from Garfield High School with the Class of 1943. She went on to Berkley College where she graduated from their Secretarial program. She soon found work with the Union Carbide Corporation in New York City where she worked until 1953 when she had her first child. She dedicated herself to raising her family before returning to work as a kindergarten teacher at Saint Anthony of Padua School in Passaic. Later in her career she returned to work for the Union Carbide Corporation in Hackensack and before formally retiring in 1996 she worked at the Sterns Department Store in Wayne.
Dorothy was a member of the Pines Lake Seniors and the Union Carbide Retirees. She loved gardening around the house and was always keeping the lawn perfect, often patrolling for leaves and branches that fell upon it. She enjoyed sewing, knitting and crocheting and made all of her daughter Karen’s dresses for many years. Holiday and family gatherings were always complimented by her special touch on traditional Polish cooking.
She courted Alfred Maruszak while he served as an MP in the military. They married on January 3, 1948 at Saint Stanislaus Church in Garfield and honeymooned in Williamsburg Virginia.
Dorothy was the loving wife of forty three years to the late Alfred Maruszak(1991); devoted mother of Richard Maruszak and his wife Patricia of Sparta, Karen Kopp and her husband John of Wayne, and Gary Maruszak and his wife Vicki of Highland Lakes; cherished grandmother of Pamela, Jenna, Katherine, Melissa, Matthew, and Carolynn Maruszak, Allison and Evan Kopp; dear sister of Theresa Uychich of Elmwood Park and the late Stanley Obal.
In lieu of flowers memorial donations to Amedisys Hospice, 25 E. Salem St., Hackensack, NJ 07601 would be appreciated.
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Friends may visit with the family on Wednesday, August 7, 2013 from 2-4 and 7-9 PM at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
Funeral services will be held 10 AM on Thursday, August 8, 2013 at the funeral home.
Interment will be in Christ the King Cemetery, Franklin Lakes.
August 4, 2013
Services
Friends may visit with the family on Wednesday, August 7, 2013 from 2-4 and 7-9 PM at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
Funeral services will be held 10 AM on Thursday, August 8, 2013 at the funeral home.
Interment will be in Christ the King Cemetery, Franklin Lakes.
Dorothy O. Maruszak (nee Obal) age 88, of the Pines Lake Section of Wayne, passed peacefully on Sunday, August 4, 2013.
She was born in Passaic and raised in Garfield having graduated from Garfield High School with the Class of 1943. She went on to Berkley College where she graduated from their Secretarial program. She soon found work with the Union Carbide Corporation in New York City where she worked until 1953 when she had her first child. She dedicated herself to raising her family before returning to work as a kindergarten teacher at Saint Anthony of Padua School in Passaic. Later in her career she returned to work for the Union Carbide Corporation in Hackensack and before formally retiring in 1996 she worked at the Sterns Department Store in Wayne.
Dorothy was a member of the Pines Lake Seniors and the Union Carbide Retirees. She loved gardening around the house and was always keeping the lawn perfect, often patrolling for leaves and branches that fell upon it. She enjoyed sewing, knitting and crocheting and made all of her daughter Karen’s dresses for many years. Holiday and family gatherings were always complimented by her special touch on traditional Polish cooking.
She courted Alfred Maruszak while he served as an MP in the military. They married on January 3, 1948 at Saint Stanislaus Church in Garfield and honeymooned in Williamsburg Virginia.
Dorothy was the loving wife of forty three years to the late Alfred Maruszak(1991); devoted mother of Richard Maruszak and his wife Patricia of Sparta, Karen Kopp and her husband John of Wayne, and Gary Maruszak and his wife Vicki of Highland Lakes; cherished grandmother of Pamela, Jenna, Katherine, Melissa, Matthew, and Carolynn Maruszak, Allison and Evan Kopp; dear sister of Theresa Uychich of Elmwood Park and the late Stanley Obal.
In lieu of flowers memorial donations to Amedisys Hospice, 25 E. Salem St., Hackensack, NJ 07601 would be appreciated.
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