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March 27, 2012
Services
Friends may visit with the family from 4-8 PM on Friday, March 30, 2012 at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
Funeral services will be held 9 AM on Saturday, March 31, 2012 at the funeral home.
Entombment will be in Holy Sepulchre Cemetery, Totowa.
Edward Dutches age 65 of Wayne died suddenly at home on Tuesday, March 27, 2012.
Born and raised in Paterson he graduated from Central High School with the Class of 1964. Ed served two tours in Vietnam with the United States Marine Corps having been discharged as a Lance Corporal in 1972. He would talk about how he was upset that during the TET Offensive the basketball court they had built was blown up and how on his way to see a dentist with a tooth ache he saw little puffs of dirt coming up at his feet as a sniper was trying to get him. He said he barely changed his gait walking as he was so consumed by the pain in his tooth.
After his service Ed got a job for just a few years with the NJ Transit Department inspecting the concrete mix being used on the roadways. He then worked for the Railroad as a Fireman for about two years and then secured a position with the Paterson Police Department. Ed was a Sergeant with the Paterson Police Department having worked there for 25 years before retiring in 2000.
Ed’s cousin Joan was attending a secretarial school in Ridgewood and thought he should meet one of her classmates Cathleen Hennessy. They went on a date to Jade Fountain in Hasbrouck Heights. He agreed to a second date so he could get revenge for how poorly Cathleen had treated him on their first date. They soon fell in love and married on August 4, 1973 at Saint Gabriel’s RC Church, Saddle River. They honeymooned in a “chicken coupe” on the property of an Inn in North Conway New Hampshire. Being the romantic guy he was he took Cathleen to a spooky movie and then on a tour of a haunted house. Once back at the “coupe” Ed went out for ice. While he was gone there was a power failure and Cathleen took off out the front door locking herself out. They have enjoyed thirty-nine years of a loving and devoted marriage.
He was the loving husband of Cathleen (nee Hennessy) Dutches; devoted father of Linda Palmiere and her husband Christopher of Parsippany, Michelle Dutches of Charlotte, N.C., and Robert Dutches of Wayne; loved brother of Dianne Strayer of Paterson; dear uncle of Thomas McNamara.
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Friends may visit with the family from 4-8 PM on Friday, March 30, 2012 at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
Funeral services will be held 9 AM on Saturday, March 31, 2012 at the funeral home.
Entombment will be in Holy Sepulchre Cemetery, Totowa.
March 27, 2012
Services
Friends may visit with the family from 4-8 PM on Friday, March 30, 2012 at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
Funeral services will be held 9 AM on Saturday, March 31, 2012 at the funeral home.
Entombment will be in Holy Sepulchre Cemetery, Totowa.
Edward Dutches age 65 of Wayne died suddenly at home on Tuesday, March 27, 2012.
Born and raised in Paterson he graduated from Central High School with the Class of 1964. Ed served two tours in Vietnam with the United States Marine Corps having been discharged as a Lance Corporal in 1972. He would talk about how he was upset that during the TET Offensive the basketball court they had built was blown up and how on his way to see a dentist with a tooth ache he saw little puffs of dirt coming up at his feet as a sniper was trying to get him. He said he barely changed his gait walking as he was so consumed by the pain in his tooth.
After his service Ed got a job for just a few years with the NJ Transit Department inspecting the concrete mix being used on the roadways. He then worked for the Railroad as a Fireman for about two years and then secured a position with the Paterson Police Department. Ed was a Sergeant with the Paterson Police Department having worked there for 25 years before retiring in 2000.
Ed’s cousin Joan was attending a secretarial school in Ridgewood and thought he should meet one of her classmates Cathleen Hennessy. They went on a date to Jade Fountain in Hasbrouck Heights. He agreed to a second date so he could get revenge for how poorly Cathleen had treated him on their first date. They soon fell in love and married on August 4, 1973 at Saint Gabriel’s RC Church, Saddle River. They honeymooned in a “chicken coupe” on the property of an Inn in North Conway New Hampshire. Being the romantic guy he was he took Cathleen to a spooky movie and then on a tour of a haunted house. Once back at the “coupe” Ed went out for ice. While he was gone there was a power failure and Cathleen took off out the front door locking herself out. They have enjoyed thirty-nine years of a loving and devoted marriage.
He was the loving husband of Cathleen (nee Hennessy) Dutches; devoted father of Linda Palmiere and her husband Christopher of Parsippany, Michelle Dutches of Charlotte, N.C., and Robert Dutches of Wayne; loved brother of Dianne Strayer of Paterson; dear uncle of Thomas McNamara.
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