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June 12, 2013
Services
Friends may visit with the family at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne, on Monday, June 17, 2013 from 2-4 & 7-9 PM.
Funeral Services will be held at 9 AM on Tuesday, June 18, 2013, from the funeral home, then to Our Lady of the Valley RC Church, Wayne, where at 10 AM a Funeral Mass will be offered. Burial will follow at the Laurel Grove Cemetery, Totowa.
Eleanor T. Matysik, age 67 of Wayne, died on Wednesday, June 12, 2013 after a courageous battle with cancer. She was a resident of Wayne for over thirty six years.
Eleanor had been a clerk for twenty five years at Gift Land in the Preakness Shopping Center, Wayne. Although she liked to say otherwise, she really loved working there and her coworkers became a second family to her. Her favorite holiday was Christmas and working at Gift Land helped her collect countless Christmas ornaments and decorations and over the years. Now she has so many ornaments that they don’t all fit on the tree. She also enjoyed Halloween and made her daughter’s costumes by hand each year. She enjoyed watching Nascar, playing cards with Krystian and doing crossword puzzles. She and John occasionally took trips to Atlantic City. She quickly became a ‘slot machine junky’ after winning $800 on her first visit to A.C. years ago.
Eleanor grew up in Belleville and Bloomfield, one of twelve children in her family. Her childhood was anything but easy and she learned to work hard at a very young age. She had her beautician’s license and used to cut her friends and family’s hair in the famous “hair cutting room”. In her late teens, Eleanor was introduced by a friend to John Matysik. The two of them dated shortly before he was drafted into the Army. During his time in the service, they wrote to each other often and upon his return, John proposed. They were married on September 22, 1968 at Sacred Heart RC Church in Bloomfield and honeymooned at Niagara Falls. They’ve enjoyed nearly forty five years of devoted marriage. Eleanor was so excited when her daughter, Heather, was born. She always wanted a girl and would joke that if she had a boy she was going to tell the doctor to keep him.
Becoming a grandmother was a little intimidating for Eleanor at first. She didn’t feel as if she was old enough to be a grandma! But Eleanor quickly fell into the role well and loved her grandchildren very much. When her son-in-law, Anthony Lanza, passed in 2009, she moved in with her daughter and helped to raise the children, bringing her even closer to them both. They will miss her dearly.
Eleanor is survived by her husband John of Wayne, their daughter Heather Lanza of Wayne, two grandchildren; Krystian and A.J. Lanza of Wayne, ten siblings and their families, brother-in-laws, sister-in-laws, and several nieces and nephews. Eleanor was predeceased by her son-in-law Anthony Lanza in 2009 and by her sister Shirley.
Donations in Eleanor’s memory would be greatly appreciated. Please consider the American Cancer Society, 20 Mercer St., Hackensack, NJ 07601.
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Friends may visit with the family at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne, on Monday, June 17, 2013 from 2-4 & 7-9 PM.
Funeral Services will be held at 9 AM on Tuesday, June 18, 2013, from the funeral home, then to Our Lady of the Valley RC Church, Wayne, where at 10 AM a Funeral Mass will be offered. Burial will follow at the Laurel Grove Cemetery, Totowa.
June 12, 2013
Services
Friends may visit with the family at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne, on Monday, June 17, 2013 from 2-4 & 7-9 PM.
Funeral Services will be held at 9 AM on Tuesday, June 18, 2013, from the funeral home, then to Our Lady of the Valley RC Church, Wayne, where at 10 AM a Funeral Mass will be offered. Burial will follow at the Laurel Grove Cemetery, Totowa.
Eleanor T. Matysik, age 67 of Wayne, died on Wednesday, June 12, 2013 after a courageous battle with cancer. She was a resident of Wayne for over thirty six years.
Eleanor had been a clerk for twenty five years at Gift Land in the Preakness Shopping Center, Wayne. Although she liked to say otherwise, she really loved working there and her coworkers became a second family to her. Her favorite holiday was Christmas and working at Gift Land helped her collect countless Christmas ornaments and decorations and over the years. Now she has so many ornaments that they don’t all fit on the tree. She also enjoyed Halloween and made her daughter’s costumes by hand each year. She enjoyed watching Nascar, playing cards with Krystian and doing crossword puzzles. She and John occasionally took trips to Atlantic City. She quickly became a ‘slot machine junky’ after winning $800 on her first visit to A.C. years ago.
Eleanor grew up in Belleville and Bloomfield, one of twelve children in her family. Her childhood was anything but easy and she learned to work hard at a very young age. She had her beautician’s license and used to cut her friends and family’s hair in the famous “hair cutting room”. In her late teens, Eleanor was introduced by a friend to John Matysik. The two of them dated shortly before he was drafted into the Army. During his time in the service, they wrote to each other often and upon his return, John proposed. They were married on September 22, 1968 at Sacred Heart RC Church in Bloomfield and honeymooned at Niagara Falls. They’ve enjoyed nearly forty five years of devoted marriage. Eleanor was so excited when her daughter, Heather, was born. She always wanted a girl and would joke that if she had a boy she was going to tell the doctor to keep him.
Becoming a grandmother was a little intimidating for Eleanor at first. She didn’t feel as if she was old enough to be a grandma! But Eleanor quickly fell into the role well and loved her grandchildren very much. When her son-in-law, Anthony Lanza, passed in 2009, she moved in with her daughter and helped to raise the children, bringing her even closer to them both. They will miss her dearly.
Eleanor is survived by her husband John of Wayne, their daughter Heather Lanza of Wayne, two grandchildren; Krystian and A.J. Lanza of Wayne, ten siblings and their families, brother-in-laws, sister-in-laws, and several nieces and nephews. Eleanor was predeceased by her son-in-law Anthony Lanza in 2009 and by her sister Shirley.
Donations in Eleanor’s memory would be greatly appreciated. Please consider the American Cancer Society, 20 Mercer St., Hackensack, NJ 07601.
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