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July 7, 2014
Services
Friends may visit with the family from 4-8 PM on Friday, July 18, 2014 at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
Funeral services will be held 9 AM on Saturday, July 19, 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.
Eileen H Smyth of Hobe Sound FL and formerly of Wayne NJ age 89.
Wife, mother, sister, aunt, grandmother and great grandmother, Eileen Elizabeth Handler was born in Newark in 1925 and grew up in East Orange. Her father William was of German and Scottish lineage and her mother Edna came from England as a baby. Eileen met her future husband Bill in high school and they married when he returned from service in WWII. Moving to the Preakness valley section of Wayne in 1953 she lovingly raised a daughter and three sons there giving them a wonderful childhood.
A fabulous cook, she also enjoyed sewing and gardening in her spare time. She was a proud grandmother and everyone in the family looked forward to holidays at Mom’s. Always a cheerful and considerate person, she thought the best of everyone. Never an unkind word came from her lips.
Eileen and Bill enjoyed winter vacations in Florida and finally moved there full time in 1996. Residents of a golf community in Hobe Sound they loved to play the game and socialize with their many friends.
Eileen is survived by her daughter Nancy Smyth Yannetti formerly of Northvale NJ, sons Kenneth Smyth and wife Anne of West Friendship MD, Steven Smyth and wife Claire of Kennett Square PA, David Smyth and his wife Christine of Wayne NJ. Also grandchildren Alison Smyth Lynn and husband Jason of Alexandria VA, Lyndsay Smyth of Alexandria and Jillayne Smyth of Washington DC, Kevin Smyth of NYC, Christa Smyth of Washington DC, Daniel Smyth and Stephanie Smyth of Wayne NJ. Her great grandchildren are Preston and Harrison Lynn of Alexandria VA.
She was predeceased by William, her devoted husband of 67 years, this April and by her beloved younger sister Audrey in January.
Friends wishing to make a donation in Eileen’s memory are asked to please consider the Treasure Coast Hospice, 1201 SE Indian St., Stuart, FL 34997, or the Alzheimer’s Association, 400 Morris Ave., Suite 251, Denville, NJ 07834.
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Friends may visit with the family from 4-8 PM on Friday, July 18, 2014 at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
Funeral services will be held 9 AM on Saturday, July 19, 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.
July 7, 2014
Services
Friends may visit with the family from 4-8 PM on Friday, July 18, 2014 at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
Funeral services will be held 9 AM on Saturday, July 19, 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.
Eileen H Smyth of Hobe Sound FL and formerly of Wayne NJ age 89.
Wife, mother, sister, aunt, grandmother and great grandmother, Eileen Elizabeth Handler was born in Newark in 1925 and grew up in East Orange. Her father William was of German and Scottish lineage and her mother Edna came from England as a baby. Eileen met her future husband Bill in high school and they married when he returned from service in WWII. Moving to the Preakness valley section of Wayne in 1953 she lovingly raised a daughter and three sons there giving them a wonderful childhood.
A fabulous cook, she also enjoyed sewing and gardening in her spare time. She was a proud grandmother and everyone in the family looked forward to holidays at Mom’s. Always a cheerful and considerate person, she thought the best of everyone. Never an unkind word came from her lips.
Eileen and Bill enjoyed winter vacations in Florida and finally moved there full time in 1996. Residents of a golf community in Hobe Sound they loved to play the game and socialize with their many friends.
Eileen is survived by her daughter Nancy Smyth Yannetti formerly of Northvale NJ, sons Kenneth Smyth and wife Anne of West Friendship MD, Steven Smyth and wife Claire of Kennett Square PA, David Smyth and his wife Christine of Wayne NJ. Also grandchildren Alison Smyth Lynn and husband Jason of Alexandria VA, Lyndsay Smyth of Alexandria and Jillayne Smyth of Washington DC, Kevin Smyth of NYC, Christa Smyth of Washington DC, Daniel Smyth and Stephanie Smyth of Wayne NJ. Her great grandchildren are Preston and Harrison Lynn of Alexandria VA.
She was predeceased by William, her devoted husband of 67 years, this April and by her beloved younger sister Audrey in January.
Friends wishing to make a donation in Eileen’s memory are asked to please consider the Treasure Coast Hospice, 1201 SE Indian St., Stuart, FL 34997, or the Alzheimer’s Association, 400 Morris Ave., Suite 251, Denville, NJ 07834.
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