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April 16, 2009
Services
Funeral services will be held 8:30 AM on Tuesday, April 21, 2009 from the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne then to Our Lady of the Valley RC Church, 630 Valley Rd., Wayne where at 9:30 AM a Funeral Mass will be offered.
Friends may visit with the family on Monday, April 20, 2009 from 2-4, 7-9 PM at the funeral home.
Interment will be in St. Josephs Cemetery, Hackensack.
Dr. Ellen M. Brockmann age 78 of Wayne died Thursday, April 16, 2009 at the St. Josephs Hospital, Wayne.
She was born in Hackensack and raised in Woodridge before moving to Wayne forty-five years ago.
Dr. Brockmann graduated from Wood-Ridge High School with the class of 1947. Having continued her education she graduated from: Manhattanville College, Purchase, NY with a B.A. in Psychology; Jersey City State College with an M.A. in Education; Fordham University, NY with a Ph.D. in Curriculum and Teaching.
She was considered to be one of the foremost proponents in the State on the problem of adapting handicapped children into a normal classroom situation. She gained her expertise after being stricken with Polio at age 19 and having been confined to a wheelchair ever since.
Ellen was a teacher for the Totowa Public Schools for forty-three years before retiring in 1995.
She was employed as an elementary teacher in the Totowa Public Schools for forty-three years, having taught all the elementary subjects and various grade levels, before retiring in 1995.
Ellen held professional licenses with the NJ Permanent Teaching Certificate (K-8) and a NJ Principal’s and Supervisor’s Certificate. She also held honors in education with Kappa Delta Pi, Phi Delta Kappan and PTA life Membership.
Her professional activities included: member of the curriculum revision committees for language arts, mathematics, science, and social studies, past chairperson of the Instructional Council, past chairperson of the Totowa PTA, Past President of the Totowa Education Association all for Totowa Borough; Passaic County - Adjunct Professor at William Paterson College, Wayne, chairperson of the Professional Development Committee of the Passaic County Educators Association and member of the Passaic County PTA Executive Board; State of NJ - past president of the Association of Mathematics Teachers of NJ, Member of NJEA Professional Development Committee, Speaker at NJEA conventions, AMTNJ Conferences, NJ Reading Teachers Conferences and Good Ideas Workshops; Nationally - representative to NEA Conventions, chairperson NEA Teacher Caucus, speaker at National Council of Mathematics Teachers Conferences all over the country, editor of NEA book-Handicapped Students in the Mathematics Classroom; Internationally – she was on the program at the International Reading Associations Conference in Hong Kong and London and the International Council of Mathematics Educators in Australia and Hungary.
Ellen was the beloved sister of Robert H. Brockmann, Jr and his wife Alice E. of Kinnelon and Marilyn Waldman and her husband David of Manchester; cherished aunt of Robert H Brockmann III and his wife Patricia of West Nyack, NY, William Brockmann of Kinnelon, Clifford Brockmann and his wife Janet of Fairfield, Douglas Brockmann and his wife Marian of Sparta, Brenda Brockmann Leardi and her husband Michael of Glenwood, Kenneth Brockmann and his wife Carmelina of Sparta, Michael Waldman and his wife Gabrielle of Great Meadows, Scott Waldman and his wife Sonia of Morristown, Sean Waldman and his wife Kathy of Long Valley, Victoria Waldman of Philadelphia, PA; devoted aunt to eighteen grand nephews and nieces.
In lieu of flowers donations to St. Josephs Wayne Hospital Foundation, 224 Hamburg Tpk, Wayne, NJ 07470 or Hospice of NJ, 400 Broadacres Drive (4th floor), Bloomfield, NJ 07003 would be appreciated.
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Funeral services will be held 8:30 AM on Tuesday, April 21, 2009 from the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne then to Our Lady of the Valley RC Church, 630 Valley Rd., Wayne where at 9:30 AM a Funeral Mass will be offered.
Friends may visit with the family on Monday, April 20, 2009 from 2-4, 7-9 PM at the funeral home.
Interment will be in St. Josephs Cemetery, Hackensack.
April 16, 2009
Services
Funeral services will be held 8:30 AM on Tuesday, April 21, 2009 from the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne then to Our Lady of the Valley RC Church, 630 Valley Rd., Wayne where at 9:30 AM a Funeral Mass will be offered.
Friends may visit with the family on Monday, April 20, 2009 from 2-4, 7-9 PM at the funeral home.
Interment will be in St. Josephs Cemetery, Hackensack.
Dr. Ellen M. Brockmann age 78 of Wayne died Thursday, April 16, 2009 at the St. Josephs Hospital, Wayne.
She was born in Hackensack and raised in Woodridge before moving to Wayne forty-five years ago.
Dr. Brockmann graduated from Wood-Ridge High School with the class of 1947. Having continued her education she graduated from: Manhattanville College, Purchase, NY with a B.A. in Psychology; Jersey City State College with an M.A. in Education; Fordham University, NY with a Ph.D. in Curriculum and Teaching.
She was considered to be one of the foremost proponents in the State on the problem of adapting handicapped children into a normal classroom situation. She gained her expertise after being stricken with Polio at age 19 and having been confined to a wheelchair ever since.
Ellen was a teacher for the Totowa Public Schools for forty-three years before retiring in 1995.
She was employed as an elementary teacher in the Totowa Public Schools for forty-three years, having taught all the elementary subjects and various grade levels, before retiring in 1995.
Ellen held professional licenses with the NJ Permanent Teaching Certificate (K-8) and a NJ Principal’s and Supervisor’s Certificate. She also held honors in education with Kappa Delta Pi, Phi Delta Kappan and PTA life Membership.
Her professional activities included: member of the curriculum revision committees for language arts, mathematics, science, and social studies, past chairperson of the Instructional Council, past chairperson of the Totowa PTA, Past President of the Totowa Education Association all for Totowa Borough; Passaic County - Adjunct Professor at William Paterson College, Wayne, chairperson of the Professional Development Committee of the Passaic County Educators Association and member of the Passaic County PTA Executive Board; State of NJ - past president of the Association of Mathematics Teachers of NJ, Member of NJEA Professional Development Committee, Speaker at NJEA conventions, AMTNJ Conferences, NJ Reading Teachers Conferences and Good Ideas Workshops; Nationally - representative to NEA Conventions, chairperson NEA Teacher Caucus, speaker at National Council of Mathematics Teachers Conferences all over the country, editor of NEA book-Handicapped Students in the Mathematics Classroom; Internationally – she was on the program at the International Reading Associations Conference in Hong Kong and London and the International Council of Mathematics Educators in Australia and Hungary.
Ellen was the beloved sister of Robert H. Brockmann, Jr and his wife Alice E. of Kinnelon and Marilyn Waldman and her husband David of Manchester; cherished aunt of Robert H Brockmann III and his wife Patricia of West Nyack, NY, William Brockmann of Kinnelon, Clifford Brockmann and his wife Janet of Fairfield, Douglas Brockmann and his wife Marian of Sparta, Brenda Brockmann Leardi and her husband Michael of Glenwood, Kenneth Brockmann and his wife Carmelina of Sparta, Michael Waldman and his wife Gabrielle of Great Meadows, Scott Waldman and his wife Sonia of Morristown, Sean Waldman and his wife Kathy of Long Valley, Victoria Waldman of Philadelphia, PA; devoted aunt to eighteen grand nephews and nieces.
In lieu of flowers donations to St. Josephs Wayne Hospital Foundation, 224 Hamburg Tpk, Wayne, NJ 07470 or Hospice of NJ, 400 Broadacres Drive (4th floor), Bloomfield, NJ 07003 would be appreciated.
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