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January 10, 2011
Services
Friends may visit with the family at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne, on Thursday, January 13, 2011 from 2-4 & 7-9 PM. Funeral Services will be held at 10 AM on Friday at the funeral home.
Eleanor M. Schweizer, (nee Vanderhoof) age 85 of Wayne, died on Monday, January 10, 2011 after a courageous battle with cancer.
She was born in 1925 at home in Wayne and has lived in the same house her entire life. The town was surely different then; mostly farms. She met her husband Leon and they married in 1943, before he shipped off to join the war. She and her husband Leon moved into the family home in Wayne and together they raised their family right there where she was born and grew up. They celebrated sixty seven years of loving and devoted marriage together at their last anniversary.
Eleanor was a hard worker and spent many years with A&P as a Deli Manager. She started out working at the A&P on Rt. 23, where Staples is now, and retired in 1991 after a long career.
In her spare time, Eleanor enjoyed her flower garden which was always blooming with roses, pussy willows and poppies. She also made many trips to Las Vegas and Atlantic City to exercise her other favorite pastime; playing the slots. She also enjoyed coming home from the grocery store with a few pounds of peanuts and a couple of loaves of bread to feed the birds and squirrels that frequented her yard. More than anything though, she treasured her family. Being a grandmother and great-grandmother was a joy to her like none other and she had the patience of a saint at times, with a large, generous heart.
Eleanor is survived by her husband Leon, four children; Penny Casey and her husband Pastor Edward of Hamburg, NJ, Sherry Schweizer of Wayne, Ruth Wilbert and her husband Bruce of Dingmans Ferry, PA, and Leon Jr. of Wayne, three grandchildren; Kimberly Rogers and her husband Tom of Lake Placid, FL, Ernie Christensen Jr. and his wife Janmarie of Hamburg, NJ, and Dr. Charity Wilkinson of Wyomissing, PA, and four great grandchildren: Crystal and Thomas Rogers of Lake Placid, FL, and Michael and Daniel Christensen of Hamburg, NJ.
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Friends may visit with the family at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne, on Thursday, January 13, 2011 from 2-4 & 7-9 PM. Funeral Services will be held at 10 AM on Friday at the funeral home.
January 10, 2011
Services
Friends may visit with the family at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne, on Thursday, January 13, 2011 from 2-4 & 7-9 PM. Funeral Services will be held at 10 AM on Friday at the funeral home.
Eleanor M. Schweizer, (nee Vanderhoof) age 85 of Wayne, died on Monday, January 10, 2011 after a courageous battle with cancer.
She was born in 1925 at home in Wayne and has lived in the same house her entire life. The town was surely different then; mostly farms. She met her husband Leon and they married in 1943, before he shipped off to join the war. She and her husband Leon moved into the family home in Wayne and together they raised their family right there where she was born and grew up. They celebrated sixty seven years of loving and devoted marriage together at their last anniversary.
Eleanor was a hard worker and spent many years with A&P as a Deli Manager. She started out working at the A&P on Rt. 23, where Staples is now, and retired in 1991 after a long career.
In her spare time, Eleanor enjoyed her flower garden which was always blooming with roses, pussy willows and poppies. She also made many trips to Las Vegas and Atlantic City to exercise her other favorite pastime; playing the slots. She also enjoyed coming home from the grocery store with a few pounds of peanuts and a couple of loaves of bread to feed the birds and squirrels that frequented her yard. More than anything though, she treasured her family. Being a grandmother and great-grandmother was a joy to her like none other and she had the patience of a saint at times, with a large, generous heart.
Eleanor is survived by her husband Leon, four children; Penny Casey and her husband Pastor Edward of Hamburg, NJ, Sherry Schweizer of Wayne, Ruth Wilbert and her husband Bruce of Dingmans Ferry, PA, and Leon Jr. of Wayne, three grandchildren; Kimberly Rogers and her husband Tom of Lake Placid, FL, Ernie Christensen Jr. and his wife Janmarie of Hamburg, NJ, and Dr. Charity Wilkinson of Wyomissing, PA, and four great grandchildren: Crystal and Thomas Rogers of Lake Placid, FL, and Michael and Daniel Christensen of Hamburg, NJ.
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