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November 13, 2014
Services
Friends are invited to join the family for a Memorial Mass at 11 AM on Saturday, November 22, 2014 at Our Lady of Magnificat RC Church, 2 Miller Rd, Kinnelon, NJ, 973-838-6838.
Orthopedic surgeon for over forty years, on staff at Chilton Hospital from 1964-2004.
Chester R. Kosarek, MD, age 86 of Wayne, died on Thursday, November 13, 2014. He was an orthopedic surgeon for over forty years with an office in Pompton Plains and more recently at 1335 Rt. 23 South in Butler. He had also been on staff at Chilton Hospital from 1964-2004.
Chester grew up in Passaic, NJ during the Great Depression, experiencing severe poverty throughout his childhood. He lived with his parents on the top floor for a three story walk up, that only had cold running water. Nevertheless, he persevered through and graduated from high school, Seton Hall University for his undergraduate degree, and ultimately from the University of Geneva, Switzerland where he earned his MD. After a residency at Monmouth Medical Center he began a lifelong career as an orthopedic surgeon.
Dr. Kosarek absolutely loved being a physician. He helped countless patients over the years and had many special people that he was able to treat. He enjoyed lifelong friendships with many of them. He was a big history buff and loved the sciences, especially astronomy. He would be very excited about the recent landing of the Rosetta Probe on a comet. Chester also enjoyed many hunting trips over the years with his fellow doctors, and his son, where they would pursue birds, deer, and bear. Fishing was a favorite activity too and he would often go out on the Raritan Bay or around Barnegat with his children to see what they could catch.
Surely Chester’s greatest catch was his wife, Joan (nee Majewski). They met at a dance at St. Joseph’s RC Church in Passaic, where Joan’s uncles were priests. When they announced their engagement, Joan’s grandmother implored them not to marry because she believed they were both too poor. Fortunately, they didn’t heed her advice and were wed on June 15, 1952 by Joan’s uncle, Fr. Francis Majewski, at the same church where they had first met. After a brief honeymoon at the Jersey Shore, they went on to enjoy a marriage of more than sixty two years. Devoted to one another, inseparable, and ‘best friends’ are some of the terms you could use to describe the two of them, and they truly embodied the concept of ‘one flesh.’ From the beginning, when Chester was in medical school, Joan nursed him through a bout of Tuberculosis, doing everything she could to return him to good health and keep his studies on track. Most recently, Joan and Chester were willing to try any and all treatment options if it meant they could be together a little longer. They set a wonderful example of what “true love” really is for their children and grandchildren to follow. Joan will miss him dearly.
Chester is survived by his loving wife Joan, by his three children; Catherine Schlafly and her husband Andrew of Chester, NJ, Chester and his wife Mary C. Keane of Kinnelon, and Francis and his wife Michelle Rivera of Charlotte, NC, and eight grandchildren; Andrew and Caroline Schlafly of Chester, Cassie, Noelle, and Matthew Kosarek of Kinnelon, and Frank, Mia and Alexander Kosarek of Charlotte, NC.
In lieu of flowers, donations to Chester’s beloved church, Our Lady of Magnificat, would be greatly appreciated.
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Friends are invited to join the family for a Memorial Mass at 11 AM on Saturday, November 22, 2014 at Our Lady of Magnificat RC Church, 2 Miller Rd, Kinnelon, NJ, 973-838-6838.
November 13, 2014
Services
Friends are invited to join the family for a Memorial Mass at 11 AM on Saturday, November 22, 2014 at Our Lady of Magnificat RC Church, 2 Miller Rd, Kinnelon, NJ, 973-838-6838.
Orthopedic surgeon for over forty years, on staff at Chilton Hospital from 1964-2004.
Chester R. Kosarek, MD, age 86 of Wayne, died on Thursday, November 13, 2014. He was an orthopedic surgeon for over forty years with an office in Pompton Plains and more recently at 1335 Rt. 23 South in Butler. He had also been on staff at Chilton Hospital from 1964-2004.
Chester grew up in Passaic, NJ during the Great Depression, experiencing severe poverty throughout his childhood. He lived with his parents on the top floor for a three story walk up, that only had cold running water. Nevertheless, he persevered through and graduated from high school, Seton Hall University for his undergraduate degree, and ultimately from the University of Geneva, Switzerland where he earned his MD. After a residency at Monmouth Medical Center he began a lifelong career as an orthopedic surgeon.
Dr. Kosarek absolutely loved being a physician. He helped countless patients over the years and had many special people that he was able to treat. He enjoyed lifelong friendships with many of them. He was a big history buff and loved the sciences, especially astronomy. He would be very excited about the recent landing of the Rosetta Probe on a comet. Chester also enjoyed many hunting trips over the years with his fellow doctors, and his son, where they would pursue birds, deer, and bear. Fishing was a favorite activity too and he would often go out on the Raritan Bay or around Barnegat with his children to see what they could catch.
Surely Chester’s greatest catch was his wife, Joan (nee Majewski). They met at a dance at St. Joseph’s RC Church in Passaic, where Joan’s uncles were priests. When they announced their engagement, Joan’s grandmother implored them not to marry because she believed they were both too poor. Fortunately, they didn’t heed her advice and were wed on June 15, 1952 by Joan’s uncle, Fr. Francis Majewski, at the same church where they had first met. After a brief honeymoon at the Jersey Shore, they went on to enjoy a marriage of more than sixty two years. Devoted to one another, inseparable, and ‘best friends’ are some of the terms you could use to describe the two of them, and they truly embodied the concept of ‘one flesh.’ From the beginning, when Chester was in medical school, Joan nursed him through a bout of Tuberculosis, doing everything she could to return him to good health and keep his studies on track. Most recently, Joan and Chester were willing to try any and all treatment options if it meant they could be together a little longer. They set a wonderful example of what “true love” really is for their children and grandchildren to follow. Joan will miss him dearly.
Chester is survived by his loving wife Joan, by his three children; Catherine Schlafly and her husband Andrew of Chester, NJ, Chester and his wife Mary C. Keane of Kinnelon, and Francis and his wife Michelle Rivera of Charlotte, NC, and eight grandchildren; Andrew and Caroline Schlafly of Chester, Cassie, Noelle, and Matthew Kosarek of Kinnelon, and Frank, Mia and Alexander Kosarek of Charlotte, NC.
In lieu of flowers, donations to Chester’s beloved church, Our Lady of Magnificat, would be greatly appreciated.
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