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August 13, 2018
Services
Friends may visit with the family at the Vander May Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne, on Friday, August 17, 2018 from 3-7 PM. Funeral services will be held at 9 AM on Saturday, August 18 from the funeral home, then to Immaculate Heart of Mary RC Church, Wayne, where at 10 AM, a Funeral Mass will be offered. Burial will follow at Holy Sepulchre Cemetery in Totowa.
Edna May Hughes, 91, of Vernon and formerly of Paterson, NJ, passed peacefully at the Christian Health Care Center, Wyckoff on Monday, August 13, 2018.
Edna was a registered nurse who worked at Clara Maas and Barnert hospitals and at the Daughters of Miriam. But she was always first and foremost a loving wife, and dedicated and tireless mother of 7, grandmother of 14 and great-grandmother of 13 children who all adored her.
She’ll be remembered as the first on the dance floor, a voracious reader, an avid puzzle solver, and a warm lap for all her babies over the years. Edna had a can-do attitude, which served her well raising 7 kids while her husband Tom was away for days at a time as a Paterson fire fighter. Edna was always that perfect combination of strength and softness. No broken arm or near catastrophe could shake her and she was the one neighbors always ran to for help, which she gave with a smile.
She raised her children to be a strong family unit, bound together with unfailing love and loyalty—perhaps the greatest gift possible. To this day, they still believe that they together are all that’s needed for a party! And along with her husband Tom, she showed her children that a loving marriage could be fun and playful, as well as hard work.
For her girls, she was a role model of strong femininity and she applauded their independence. She was also their role model for all a mother should be and all a child could want.
She leaves behind endless happy memories and enduring life lessons shared with her sons: Thomas and his wife Betty Hughes of Wyckoff, James Hughes of Vernon, Brian Hughes of Scottsdale AZ, and son-in-law Manuel Ortega and her daughters: Deborah Hughes of Boonton Township, Sharon Hughes of Wayne, and Teresa Rusciano of Garfield. Her beloved daughter Colleen Ortega passed away in June, 2016 and is welcoming Edna in heaven, as is her devoted husband Thomas.
In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to Colleen’s Corner, a non-profit set up in memory of Edna’s deceased daughter to increase childhood literacy by providing books to the underserved. (www.Colleenscorner.net). Donations can also be sent to St. Jude’s Children’s Hospital Memorial Processing, 501 St. Jude Place, Memphis, TN 38105-9959 (www.stjude.org), which Edna always supported.
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Friends may visit with the family at the Vander May Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne, on Friday, August 17, 2018 from 3-7 PM. Funeral services will be held at 9 AM on Saturday, August 18 from the funeral home, then to Immaculate Heart of Mary RC Church, Wayne, where at 10 AM, a Funeral Mass will be offered. Burial will follow at Holy Sepulchre Cemetery in Totowa.
August 13, 2018
Services
Friends may visit with the family at the Vander May Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne, on Friday, August 17, 2018 from 3-7 PM. Funeral services will be held at 9 AM on Saturday, August 18 from the funeral home, then to Immaculate Heart of Mary RC Church, Wayne, where at 10 AM, a Funeral Mass will be offered. Burial will follow at Holy Sepulchre Cemetery in Totowa.
Edna May Hughes, 91, of Vernon and formerly of Paterson, NJ, passed peacefully at the Christian Health Care Center, Wyckoff on Monday, August 13, 2018.
Edna was a registered nurse who worked at Clara Maas and Barnert hospitals and at the Daughters of Miriam. But she was always first and foremost a loving wife, and dedicated and tireless mother of 7, grandmother of 14 and great-grandmother of 13 children who all adored her.
She’ll be remembered as the first on the dance floor, a voracious reader, an avid puzzle solver, and a warm lap for all her babies over the years. Edna had a can-do attitude, which served her well raising 7 kids while her husband Tom was away for days at a time as a Paterson fire fighter. Edna was always that perfect combination of strength and softness. No broken arm or near catastrophe could shake her and she was the one neighbors always ran to for help, which she gave with a smile.
She raised her children to be a strong family unit, bound together with unfailing love and loyalty—perhaps the greatest gift possible. To this day, they still believe that they together are all that’s needed for a party! And along with her husband Tom, she showed her children that a loving marriage could be fun and playful, as well as hard work.
For her girls, she was a role model of strong femininity and she applauded their independence. She was also their role model for all a mother should be and all a child could want.
She leaves behind endless happy memories and enduring life lessons shared with her sons: Thomas and his wife Betty Hughes of Wyckoff, James Hughes of Vernon, Brian Hughes of Scottsdale AZ, and son-in-law Manuel Ortega and her daughters: Deborah Hughes of Boonton Township, Sharon Hughes of Wayne, and Teresa Rusciano of Garfield. Her beloved daughter Colleen Ortega passed away in June, 2016 and is welcoming Edna in heaven, as is her devoted husband Thomas.
In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to Colleen’s Corner, a non-profit set up in memory of Edna’s deceased daughter to increase childhood literacy by providing books to the underserved. (www.Colleenscorner.net). Donations can also be sent to St. Jude’s Children’s Hospital Memorial Processing, 501 St. Jude Place, Memphis, TN 38105-9959 (www.stjude.org), which Edna always supported.
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