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January 15, 2009
Services
Friends may visit with the family on Monday, January 19, 2009 from 2-4 and 7-9 PM at the funeral home.
Funeral services will be held 9 AM on Tuesday, January 20, 2009 at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
Eleanor M. Sior age 95 of Wayne died peacefully on Thursday, January 15, 2009 at the Hospice of NJ, Wayne.
Eleanor was born and raised in New York City; from there she moved to Edgewater having lived in Hackensack for thirty years before moving to Wayne five years ago.
She used to say she went to high school for one day but her father fell ill and she went to work to help support the family. She learned Pitman Shorthand and soon landed a job with Time Publishing in New York City where she spent her entire thirty year career before retiring in 1974.
Eleanor was a liberated girl for her time. She loved to go to Speak-Easys, drank bathtub gin, wore short skirts, smoked, bobbed her hair and had a reputation for flaunting what society at that time would question as acceptable behavior for a young woman. She also enjoyed following the NY Giants Baseball team.
During her years in Edgewater she lived in a home that shared a front porch with the home next door. It is here that she befriended her neighbor Lillian McCormack and emotionally adopted her daughter Karen saying “she was the daughter I never had.” For the past five years Eleanor has lived and was lovingly cared for by her “daughter” Karen and her husband Tom at their home in Wayne. She considered Karen and Tom’s children Thomas and Kristen Kolano her grandchildren.
Eleanor will be interred with her parents at the Lutheran All Faiths Cemetery, Middle Village, Queens, NY.
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Friends may visit with the family on Monday, January 19, 2009 from 2-4 and 7-9 PM at the funeral home.
Funeral services will be held 9 AM on Tuesday, January 20, 2009 at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
January 15, 2009
Services
Friends may visit with the family on Monday, January 19, 2009 from 2-4 and 7-9 PM at the funeral home.
Funeral services will be held 9 AM on Tuesday, January 20, 2009 at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
Eleanor M. Sior age 95 of Wayne died peacefully on Thursday, January 15, 2009 at the Hospice of NJ, Wayne.
Eleanor was born and raised in New York City; from there she moved to Edgewater having lived in Hackensack for thirty years before moving to Wayne five years ago.
She used to say she went to high school for one day but her father fell ill and she went to work to help support the family. She learned Pitman Shorthand and soon landed a job with Time Publishing in New York City where she spent her entire thirty year career before retiring in 1974.
Eleanor was a liberated girl for her time. She loved to go to Speak-Easys, drank bathtub gin, wore short skirts, smoked, bobbed her hair and had a reputation for flaunting what society at that time would question as acceptable behavior for a young woman. She also enjoyed following the NY Giants Baseball team.
During her years in Edgewater she lived in a home that shared a front porch with the home next door. It is here that she befriended her neighbor Lillian McCormack and emotionally adopted her daughter Karen saying “she was the daughter I never had.” For the past five years Eleanor has lived and was lovingly cared for by her “daughter” Karen and her husband Tom at their home in Wayne. She considered Karen and Tom’s children Thomas and Kristen Kolano her grandchildren.
Eleanor will be interred with her parents at the Lutheran All Faiths Cemetery, Middle Village, Queens, NY.
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