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August 21, 2009
Services
A memorial service will be held Wednesday, August 26, 2009 at 8 PM at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
Friends may visit with the family at the funeral home on Wednesday from 2-4, 7-9 PM.
She will be laid to rest with her parents Matthew and Mary Vanderhoven and son Christopher in Cavalry Cemetery in Paterson.
Elizabeth M. Horman (nee Vanderhoven), age 89, died in Boston on August 21, 2009.
Born in Paterson, she moved to Wayne in 1945.
She was an honor student at Paterson's St. Joseph's High School, class of 1937, where that year there were 37 graduates. She attended secretarial school and worked as a legal secretary for several years.
During World War II she worked in the sales and engineering department of Wright Aeronautical in Paterson, and told of the windows being blacked out for security reasons. After her children were grown she became the Secretary to the Superintendent of Schools in Pequannock Township and retired there after 25 years of service.
She was a member of Our Lady of Consolation Church in Wayne and the Heritage Foundation in Washington, D.C.
She was preceded in death by her husband Alfred T. Horman in 1984, her son Christopher in 1998, and sister Eileen Kinch of Phoenix, Arizona in 2006.
She is survived by her daughter Elizabeth P.Harmon of Boston, Massachusetts and many nieces and nephews.
She will be remembered as a loving mother, loyal friend, for her upbeat spirit and smile, and soft mellifluous voice.
In lieu of flowers, if you wish, donations can be made in her loving memory to the Lions Eye Bank of New Jersey, where she was able to receive a new cornea and the gift of sight. 734-780-2129 or 841 Mountain Avenue, Springfield, NJ 07081.
If anyone wishes to contact her daughter, Beth, her address is 130 Fulton,St., Boston, Ma. 02109, phone 617-723-8931
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A memorial service will be held Wednesday, August 26, 2009 at 8 PM at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
Friends may visit with the family at the funeral home on Wednesday from 2-4, 7-9 PM.
She will be laid to rest with her parents Matthew and Mary Vanderhoven and son Christopher in Cavalry Cemetery in Paterson.
August 21, 2009
Services
A memorial service will be held Wednesday, August 26, 2009 at 8 PM at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
Friends may visit with the family at the funeral home on Wednesday from 2-4, 7-9 PM.
She will be laid to rest with her parents Matthew and Mary Vanderhoven and son Christopher in Cavalry Cemetery in Paterson.
Elizabeth M. Horman (nee Vanderhoven), age 89, died in Boston on August 21, 2009.
Born in Paterson, she moved to Wayne in 1945.
She was an honor student at Paterson's St. Joseph's High School, class of 1937, where that year there were 37 graduates. She attended secretarial school and worked as a legal secretary for several years.
During World War II she worked in the sales and engineering department of Wright Aeronautical in Paterson, and told of the windows being blacked out for security reasons. After her children were grown she became the Secretary to the Superintendent of Schools in Pequannock Township and retired there after 25 years of service.
She was a member of Our Lady of Consolation Church in Wayne and the Heritage Foundation in Washington, D.C.
She was preceded in death by her husband Alfred T. Horman in 1984, her son Christopher in 1998, and sister Eileen Kinch of Phoenix, Arizona in 2006.
She is survived by her daughter Elizabeth P.Harmon of Boston, Massachusetts and many nieces and nephews.
She will be remembered as a loving mother, loyal friend, for her upbeat spirit and smile, and soft mellifluous voice.
In lieu of flowers, if you wish, donations can be made in her loving memory to the Lions Eye Bank of New Jersey, where she was able to receive a new cornea and the gift of sight. 734-780-2129 or 841 Mountain Avenue, Springfield, NJ 07081.
If anyone wishes to contact her daughter, Beth, her address is 130 Fulton,St., Boston, Ma. 02109, phone 617-723-8931
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