March 27, 2008

Elinor Lange

Wayne

Services

Funeral services will be held 12 Noon on Monday, March 31, 2008 at St. Timothy Evangelical Lutheran Church, 395 Valley Rd., Wayne.

Friends may visit with the family on Sunday from 2-4 PM at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.

Elinor Lange(Weeks) age 95, of the Packanack Lake section of Wayne, died Thursday, March 27, 2008 at the Chilton Memorial Hospital, Pompton Plains.

She was born and raised in Brooklyn, NY having moved to the Packanack Lake section of Wayne forty years ago.

Elinor was a member of St. Timothy Evangelical Lutheran Church, Wayne having previously belonged to the Good Shepherd Lutheran Church, Brooklyn, NY.

She was a cafeteria worker for the Wayne Board of Education having worked at Wayne Valley High School for many years and later volunteered at the coffee shop at Chilton Memorial Hospital, Pompton Plains, also for many years.

Elinor is best described as a nice, lovely, woman who loved being with her family and especially enjoyed seeing the accomplishments of her children, grandchildren and great-grandsons. She had a fondness for knitting, crocheting, crossword puzzles, and reading novels and mysteries. Elinor learned several Norwegian-Christmas bread and cookie baking traditions from her mother and passed those traditions on to her children.

Elinor was the beloved wife of over twenty-five years to the late Charles Lange(1960); loving mother of Barbara Westerberg and her husband Richard of Wayne, Louise Gjoerloff of Green Cove Springs, FL and Charles Lange and his wife Lois of Vernon; cherished grandmother of nine grandchildren and seven great-grandsons.

In lieu of flowers memorial donations to St Timothy Evangelical Lutheran Church, 395 Valley Rd., Wayne, NJ 07470 would be appreciated.

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Services

Funeral services will be held 12 Noon on Monday, March 31, 2008 at St. Timothy Evangelical Lutheran Church, 395 Valley Rd., Wayne.

Friends may visit with the family on Sunday from 2-4 PM at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.

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