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March 16, 2014
Services
Friends may visit with the family from 4-7 PM on Friday, March 21, 2014 at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
Funeral services will be held 8:45 AM on Saturday, March 22, 2014 from the funeral home then to Our Lady of the Valley RC Church, 630 Valley Road, Wayne where a 10 AM Funeral Mass will be offered.
Edith McSally (nee Duell), age 87, formerly of Wayne passed peacefully on Sunday, March 16, 2014.
She was born and raised in the New Dorp section of Staten Island and graduated from New Dorp High School with the Class of 1941.
Edith worked for the Benjamin Moore Corporation in New York City and later for a Wall St. brokerage firm as an administrator. She enjoyed working on Wall Street and took pride in the fact that she began to read a ticker tape with some proficiency. After raising her family, she worked at J.M. Towne which eventually became Sealfons at the Willowbrook Mall in Wayne. She later moved to the Sealfons on Bloomfield Avenue in West Caldwell and workedthere until her late 70's before retiring.
Edith had a special place in her heart for the performing arts. She belonged to a dance troop that was known for dancing on the radio. She had a beautiful mezzo soprano voice and sang at Lincoln Center in NYC, with the Harmony Singers of Wayne, and had many parts in local community theatre. She sang with the USO in New York City during WWII, at weddings and many local events. She loved sports and enjoyed watching her children participating in them. She was a dedicated NY Mets fan and could recite the entire lineup for many years. She enjoyed watching golf on television and was always rooting for Phil Mickelson. For several years Edith cared for her granddaughter Mattison and enjoyed taking her for stroller rides through Mountain Lakes and would always stop to see the train. The train would pull into the station and the engineer would frequently come out and wave to Mattison. Additionally, Edith enjoyed the time she spent with her grandson Ryan. One of her favorite activities with Ryan was to attend Somerset Patriots baseball games.
Edith and her husband Bernard John McSally first met in grammar school. They hung around with the same group of friends and when Bernard was fifteen years old he moved to New England. For several years he corresponded with Edith by mail and in 1942 he joined the Army Air Corps. They fell in love over the years and married on November 17, 1947 at Our Lady Queen of Peace Church on Staten Island. They had a small wedding and no honeymoon as Edith's father had passed away just a few weeks before the wedding. They had thirty one years of dedicated marriage until Bernard's passing in 1978.
She was the loving mother of Michael McSally of Lincoln Park, the late Susan Ann McSally (1982), Patricia McSally and her husband Scott Ellis of Basking Ridge, and the late Barbara J. McSally (2006); cherished grandmother of Mattison Rose Ellis and Ryan McSally; loved sister of Marjorie Carmody of Staten Island and the late Gladys Cole and her late brother John Duell.
In lieu of flowers memorial donations to the Wayne First Aid Squad, PO Box 2004, Wayne, NJ 07474 would be appreciated.
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Friends may visit with the family from 4-7 PM on Friday, March 21, 2014 at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
Funeral services will be held 8:45 AM on Saturday, March 22, 2014 from the funeral home then to Our Lady of the Valley RC Church, 630 Valley Road, Wayne where a 10 AM Funeral Mass will be offered.
March 16, 2014
Services
Friends may visit with the family from 4-7 PM on Friday, March 21, 2014 at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
Funeral services will be held 8:45 AM on Saturday, March 22, 2014 from the funeral home then to Our Lady of the Valley RC Church, 630 Valley Road, Wayne where a 10 AM Funeral Mass will be offered.
Edith McSally (nee Duell), age 87, formerly of Wayne passed peacefully on Sunday, March 16, 2014.
She was born and raised in the New Dorp section of Staten Island and graduated from New Dorp High School with the Class of 1941.
Edith worked for the Benjamin Moore Corporation in New York City and later for a Wall St. brokerage firm as an administrator. She enjoyed working on Wall Street and took pride in the fact that she began to read a ticker tape with some proficiency. After raising her family, she worked at J.M. Towne which eventually became Sealfons at the Willowbrook Mall in Wayne. She later moved to the Sealfons on Bloomfield Avenue in West Caldwell and workedthere until her late 70's before retiring.
Edith had a special place in her heart for the performing arts. She belonged to a dance troop that was known for dancing on the radio. She had a beautiful mezzo soprano voice and sang at Lincoln Center in NYC, with the Harmony Singers of Wayne, and had many parts in local community theatre. She sang with the USO in New York City during WWII, at weddings and many local events. She loved sports and enjoyed watching her children participating in them. She was a dedicated NY Mets fan and could recite the entire lineup for many years. She enjoyed watching golf on television and was always rooting for Phil Mickelson. For several years Edith cared for her granddaughter Mattison and enjoyed taking her for stroller rides through Mountain Lakes and would always stop to see the train. The train would pull into the station and the engineer would frequently come out and wave to Mattison. Additionally, Edith enjoyed the time she spent with her grandson Ryan. One of her favorite activities with Ryan was to attend Somerset Patriots baseball games.
Edith and her husband Bernard John McSally first met in grammar school. They hung around with the same group of friends and when Bernard was fifteen years old he moved to New England. For several years he corresponded with Edith by mail and in 1942 he joined the Army Air Corps. They fell in love over the years and married on November 17, 1947 at Our Lady Queen of Peace Church on Staten Island. They had a small wedding and no honeymoon as Edith's father had passed away just a few weeks before the wedding. They had thirty one years of dedicated marriage until Bernard's passing in 1978.
She was the loving mother of Michael McSally of Lincoln Park, the late Susan Ann McSally (1982), Patricia McSally and her husband Scott Ellis of Basking Ridge, and the late Barbara J. McSally (2006); cherished grandmother of Mattison Rose Ellis and Ryan McSally; loved sister of Marjorie Carmody of Staten Island and the late Gladys Cole and her late brother John Duell.
In lieu of flowers memorial donations to the Wayne First Aid Squad, PO Box 2004, Wayne, NJ 07474 would be appreciated.
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