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July 2, 2017
Services
Friends may visit with the family from 4-8 PM on Thursday, July 6, 2017 at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
Funeral services will be held 9:30 AM on Friday, July 7, 2017 from the funeral home then to Immaculate Heart of Mary RC Church, 580 Ratzer Road, Wayne where a 10:30 AM Funeral Mass will be offered.
Edward J. Sullivan, age 79, a forty-six year resident of the Packanack Lake Section of Wayne, passed peacefully at home on Sunday, July 2, 2017.
He was born in the Bronx and lived in the Beechhurst and Bayside sections of Queens, New York before moving to Wayne in 1970. He was educated at Xavier High School, Fordham University (BS/Accounting), and St. John’s University (MBA/Controllership).
Upon college graduation, he was commissioned a 2nd Lieutenant and served his country proudly in the US Army.
Ed worked for Union Carbide Corporation for eight years before relocating to Wayne in 1970 to join IBM. He retired as a Corporate Auditor having worked for the IBM Corporation in Franklin Lakes for twenty-eight years.
During his forty-seven years in Wayne, he was a former member of both the Board of Governors and the Board of Directors of the Packanack Lake Community Association. He was a long term member of the Wayne Adult Community Center where he had been on the Executive Committee. For many years he participated in the Wayne Senior Follies.
He was a devoted parishioner of Immaculate Heart of Mary RC Church in Wayne where he served on the Parish School Board.
He was the loving husband of fifty-six years to Catherine “Kay” (Kennedy) Sullivan; devoted father of Kathleen Witterschein and her husband Tom of Wayne, Maureen Sullivan of New York City, James Sullivan of Annapolis, MD, Andrew Sullivan and his wife Dina of Fairfield, CT, and Michael Sullivan and his wife Tara of Maplewood; he was the cherished grandfather of Colin, Alex, Katie, Brendan, Sean, Roan, Cormac.
He loved his family, his friends, his country, the Atlanta Braves, the Pittsburgh Steelers, and his lunches with the PROMEOs.
In lieu of flowers, memorial donations to Homes for Our Troops, 6 Main Street, Taunton, MA 02780 would be greatly appreciated. Visit www.hfotusa.org
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Friends may visit with the family from 4-8 PM on Thursday, July 6, 2017 at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
Funeral services will be held 9:30 AM on Friday, July 7, 2017 from the funeral home then to Immaculate Heart of Mary RC Church, 580 Ratzer Road, Wayne where a 10:30 AM Funeral Mass will be offered.
July 2, 2017
Services
Friends may visit with the family from 4-8 PM on Thursday, July 6, 2017 at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
Funeral services will be held 9:30 AM on Friday, July 7, 2017 from the funeral home then to Immaculate Heart of Mary RC Church, 580 Ratzer Road, Wayne where a 10:30 AM Funeral Mass will be offered.
Edward J. Sullivan, age 79, a forty-six year resident of the Packanack Lake Section of Wayne, passed peacefully at home on Sunday, July 2, 2017.
He was born in the Bronx and lived in the Beechhurst and Bayside sections of Queens, New York before moving to Wayne in 1970. He was educated at Xavier High School, Fordham University (BS/Accounting), and St. John’s University (MBA/Controllership).
Upon college graduation, he was commissioned a 2nd Lieutenant and served his country proudly in the US Army.
Ed worked for Union Carbide Corporation for eight years before relocating to Wayne in 1970 to join IBM. He retired as a Corporate Auditor having worked for the IBM Corporation in Franklin Lakes for twenty-eight years.
During his forty-seven years in Wayne, he was a former member of both the Board of Governors and the Board of Directors of the Packanack Lake Community Association. He was a long term member of the Wayne Adult Community Center where he had been on the Executive Committee. For many years he participated in the Wayne Senior Follies.
He was a devoted parishioner of Immaculate Heart of Mary RC Church in Wayne where he served on the Parish School Board.
He was the loving husband of fifty-six years to Catherine “Kay” (Kennedy) Sullivan; devoted father of Kathleen Witterschein and her husband Tom of Wayne, Maureen Sullivan of New York City, James Sullivan of Annapolis, MD, Andrew Sullivan and his wife Dina of Fairfield, CT, and Michael Sullivan and his wife Tara of Maplewood; he was the cherished grandfather of Colin, Alex, Katie, Brendan, Sean, Roan, Cormac.
He loved his family, his friends, his country, the Atlanta Braves, the Pittsburgh Steelers, and his lunches with the PROMEOs.
In lieu of flowers, memorial donations to Homes for Our Troops, 6 Main Street, Taunton, MA 02780 would be greatly appreciated. Visit www.hfotusa.org
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