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March 12, 2014
Services
Friends may visit with the family on Friday, March 14, 2014 from 4-7 PM at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
Funeral services will be held 9:30 AM on Saturday, March 15, 2014 at the funeral home.
Interment will be in Holy Sepulchre Cemetery, Totowa.
Earl E. Day age 85 of Oak Ridge, formerly of Wayne, passed Wednesday, March 12, 2014.
He was born in Welling, Oklahoma and raised in Blackwell Oklahoma on the family farm. Earl enlisted in the United States Navy at the age of seventeen. He was the oldest of thirteen children. Being raised on a farm, the operation of machinery was second nature to Earl, and he soon found his place with the Navy’s Sea Bee’s who’s name comes from Construction Battalion (CB). During his service he drilled wells for water, helped build the airstrip on Okinawa during WWII, was an instructor of engineering, and retired from a top-secret unit of the Sea Bee’s in 1965. Earl was a career Navy man and retired from active duty in 1965 as a Senior Chief Naval Officer. Post retirement he served another ten years in the Naval Reserve. After his service he worked for Gervans Industries in Bloomingdale as a foreman and formally retired in 1993 from Trap Rock Industries having helped to build a large portion of Route 80 in New Jersey.
Earl met June O’Brien while he was attending a deep sea diving school in Bermuda. June had been given a trip to Bermuda as a college graduation present from her mom and soon found herself smitten with the handsome Navy man she met there. June thought their time together would be limited to Bermuda but when she returned home she got a letter from Earl saying he was transferred to Bayonne, New Jersey. She had found work teaching in Palisades Park and soon the two were together again. Earl was transferred again to the Brooklyn Navy Yard and soon orders came for a transfer to Albuquerque, New Mexico. Earl and June decided to marry before his assignment to New Mexico. They married on July 4, 1953 at Saint Theresa’s RC Church in Paterson and their reception was at the Swiss Chalet in Rochelle Park. They honeymooned in the Pocono Mountains in Pennsylvania. They enjoyed sixty years of a loving and dedicated marriage.
He was a member of the American Legion Post 23 in Milton for many years. Earl will be remembered as being an extreme gentleman, honest, hard working, brave, a great dancer, excellent golfer, fisherman, and a great chef. His special touch on beef and beans and Taylor Ham and eggs will be greatly missed.
Surviving are his loving wife June (O’Brien) Day; son Michael Day and his wife Lorraine of Forked River, Patricia Teeling and her husband Robert of Andover, Christopher Day and his wife Marilyn of Lebanon, PA, and Timothy Day and his wife Suzanne of Tampa, FL; loved brother of Ima Carter, Bonnie Kelly, Doris Ledbetter, Michael, Denis, Floyd, Arvel, Kenneth, Ronald, John, Doyle and Tommy Day; cherished grandfather of ten grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.
In lieu of flowers memorial donations to the Milton First Aid Squad, 45 Milton Road Oak Ridge, NJ 07438 would be appreciated.
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Friends may visit with the family on Friday, March 14, 2014 from 4-7 PM at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
Funeral services will be held 9:30 AM on Saturday, March 15, 2014 at the funeral home.
Interment will be in Holy Sepulchre Cemetery, Totowa.
March 12, 2014
Services
Friends may visit with the family on Friday, March 14, 2014 from 4-7 PM at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
Funeral services will be held 9:30 AM on Saturday, March 15, 2014 at the funeral home.
Interment will be in Holy Sepulchre Cemetery, Totowa.
Earl E. Day age 85 of Oak Ridge, formerly of Wayne, passed Wednesday, March 12, 2014.
He was born in Welling, Oklahoma and raised in Blackwell Oklahoma on the family farm. Earl enlisted in the United States Navy at the age of seventeen. He was the oldest of thirteen children. Being raised on a farm, the operation of machinery was second nature to Earl, and he soon found his place with the Navy’s Sea Bee’s who’s name comes from Construction Battalion (CB). During his service he drilled wells for water, helped build the airstrip on Okinawa during WWII, was an instructor of engineering, and retired from a top-secret unit of the Sea Bee’s in 1965. Earl was a career Navy man and retired from active duty in 1965 as a Senior Chief Naval Officer. Post retirement he served another ten years in the Naval Reserve. After his service he worked for Gervans Industries in Bloomingdale as a foreman and formally retired in 1993 from Trap Rock Industries having helped to build a large portion of Route 80 in New Jersey.
Earl met June O’Brien while he was attending a deep sea diving school in Bermuda. June had been given a trip to Bermuda as a college graduation present from her mom and soon found herself smitten with the handsome Navy man she met there. June thought their time together would be limited to Bermuda but when she returned home she got a letter from Earl saying he was transferred to Bayonne, New Jersey. She had found work teaching in Palisades Park and soon the two were together again. Earl was transferred again to the Brooklyn Navy Yard and soon orders came for a transfer to Albuquerque, New Mexico. Earl and June decided to marry before his assignment to New Mexico. They married on July 4, 1953 at Saint Theresa’s RC Church in Paterson and their reception was at the Swiss Chalet in Rochelle Park. They honeymooned in the Pocono Mountains in Pennsylvania. They enjoyed sixty years of a loving and dedicated marriage.
He was a member of the American Legion Post 23 in Milton for many years. Earl will be remembered as being an extreme gentleman, honest, hard working, brave, a great dancer, excellent golfer, fisherman, and a great chef. His special touch on beef and beans and Taylor Ham and eggs will be greatly missed.
Surviving are his loving wife June (O’Brien) Day; son Michael Day and his wife Lorraine of Forked River, Patricia Teeling and her husband Robert of Andover, Christopher Day and his wife Marilyn of Lebanon, PA, and Timothy Day and his wife Suzanne of Tampa, FL; loved brother of Ima Carter, Bonnie Kelly, Doris Ledbetter, Michael, Denis, Floyd, Arvel, Kenneth, Ronald, John, Doyle and Tommy Day; cherished grandfather of ten grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.
In lieu of flowers memorial donations to the Milton First Aid Squad, 45 Milton Road Oak Ridge, NJ 07438 would be appreciated.
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