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January 20, 2010
Services
Funeral services will be held on Tuesday, January 26, 2010 at 9:30 AM from the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne then to Immaculate Heart of Mary RC Church, Wayne where at 10:30 AM a Funeral Mass will be offered. Friends may visit with the family at the funeral home on Monday, January 25th from 2-4, 7-9 PM.
Edithe Anne Samanchik “Edie” (nee Sefick) age 93 of the Packanack Lake area of Wayne died peacefully on Wednesday, January 20, 2010 at the Oakland Care Center, Oakland.
She was born in Garfield and spent her formative years there and in Passaic. Edithe received her formal education at Passaic High School graduating with the Class of 1934. She later lived in Clifton before moving to the Packanack Lake section of Wayne in 1960.
While living in Passaic she met Bill Samanchik through mutual family friends and they married in 1941. He always affectionately addressed his Edie as “Toots”. They had a “loving and devoted” marriage together for thirty three years until Bill’s passing in July, 1974.
She was a parishioner of the Immaculate Heart of Mary RC Church in Wayne.
She was also a member of the Packanack Lake Community Association, the Packanack Golf Club and the North Jersey Country Club. If you were to point out her favorite sport it would be golf.
On the Golf course her fellow golfers admiring nicknamed her “Speedy Edie” and perhaps was the most enthusiastic and skilled golfer to play on Wayne’s golf courses. She was gifted with an extraverted personality and a winning smile coupled with a wonderful personality that caused others to admire her and call her friend. If she wasn’t golfing she was playing canasta or bridge with many friends. In the winter when the weather would not allow her to golf, she participated in bowling.
She also was a long serving volunteer worker at Chilton Memorial Hospital with in house hospital chores and also enjoyed knitting newborn baby hats.
In her personal life she was a wonderful hostess and with her gift of sociability made her a welcome and popular part of any gathering in the community. If you met Edithe you received a hardy and warm greeting and you could not help but remember her name.
Left to mourn this wonderful lady are one son Paul Samanchik and his wife Carolyn of Wayne; one daughter Jane Schreven and her husband Cliff of Lynnwood, Washington; two grandchildren Travis and Zachary Schreven of Lynnwood, Washington; one Great Granddaughter Mia Love Schreven of Indianapolis, Indiana.
Sadness visited her life journey when in 1997 her grandson Scott Samanchik passed away at the tender age of twenty-one.
Edithe will be laid to rest with her husband William G. Samanchik at the Saint Nicholas Cemetery in Lodi.
Those planning an expression of sympathy in Edithe’s memory are asked to consider the Chilton Memorial Hospital Foundation, 97 West Parkway, Pompton Plains, NJ 07444 or Immaculate Heart of Mary RC Church, 580 Ratzer Road, Wayne, NJ 07470 or NJ State Golf Association, “Caddie Scholarship Fund”, 1700 Galloping Hill Road, Kennilworth, NJ 07033.
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Funeral services will be held on Tuesday, January 26, 2010 at 9:30 AM from the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne then to Immaculate Heart of Mary RC Church, Wayne where at 10:30 AM a Funeral Mass will be offered. Friends may visit with the family at the funeral home on Monday, January 25th from 2-4, 7-9 PM.
January 20, 2010
Services
Funeral services will be held on Tuesday, January 26, 2010 at 9:30 AM from the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne then to Immaculate Heart of Mary RC Church, Wayne where at 10:30 AM a Funeral Mass will be offered. Friends may visit with the family at the funeral home on Monday, January 25th from 2-4, 7-9 PM.
Edithe Anne Samanchik “Edie” (nee Sefick) age 93 of the Packanack Lake area of Wayne died peacefully on Wednesday, January 20, 2010 at the Oakland Care Center, Oakland.
She was born in Garfield and spent her formative years there and in Passaic. Edithe received her formal education at Passaic High School graduating with the Class of 1934. She later lived in Clifton before moving to the Packanack Lake section of Wayne in 1960.
While living in Passaic she met Bill Samanchik through mutual family friends and they married in 1941. He always affectionately addressed his Edie as “Toots”. They had a “loving and devoted” marriage together for thirty three years until Bill’s passing in July, 1974.
She was a parishioner of the Immaculate Heart of Mary RC Church in Wayne.
She was also a member of the Packanack Lake Community Association, the Packanack Golf Club and the North Jersey Country Club. If you were to point out her favorite sport it would be golf.
On the Golf course her fellow golfers admiring nicknamed her “Speedy Edie” and perhaps was the most enthusiastic and skilled golfer to play on Wayne’s golf courses. She was gifted with an extraverted personality and a winning smile coupled with a wonderful personality that caused others to admire her and call her friend. If she wasn’t golfing she was playing canasta or bridge with many friends. In the winter when the weather would not allow her to golf, she participated in bowling.
She also was a long serving volunteer worker at Chilton Memorial Hospital with in house hospital chores and also enjoyed knitting newborn baby hats.
In her personal life she was a wonderful hostess and with her gift of sociability made her a welcome and popular part of any gathering in the community. If you met Edithe you received a hardy and warm greeting and you could not help but remember her name.
Left to mourn this wonderful lady are one son Paul Samanchik and his wife Carolyn of Wayne; one daughter Jane Schreven and her husband Cliff of Lynnwood, Washington; two grandchildren Travis and Zachary Schreven of Lynnwood, Washington; one Great Granddaughter Mia Love Schreven of Indianapolis, Indiana.
Sadness visited her life journey when in 1997 her grandson Scott Samanchik passed away at the tender age of twenty-one.
Edithe will be laid to rest with her husband William G. Samanchik at the Saint Nicholas Cemetery in Lodi.
Those planning an expression of sympathy in Edithe’s memory are asked to consider the Chilton Memorial Hospital Foundation, 97 West Parkway, Pompton Plains, NJ 07444 or Immaculate Heart of Mary RC Church, 580 Ratzer Road, Wayne, NJ 07470 or NJ State Golf Association, “Caddie Scholarship Fund”, 1700 Galloping Hill Road, Kennilworth, NJ 07033.
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