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July 3, 2014
Services
Friends may visit with the family on Monday July 7, 2014 from 6-9PM at the VanderMay Wayne Colonial Funeral Home 567 Ratzer Rd, Wayne, NJ 07470.
Funeral Services will be held on Tuesday 10AM at the funeral home.
Interment will be in Hoboken Cemetery in North Bergen.
Elsie Westphal (nee Kopp) age 101 passed away peacefully on Thursday July 3, 2014 at her home in Cedar Crest Village in Pompton Plains.
Elsie was born on November 8, 1912 to Frank and Sophie (Prohl) and raised in Hoboken where she lived for 45 years. She married Ernest Westphal in 1956. They moved to Parsippany, and spent the next 40 years together in a loving marriage until his passing.
Elsie worked as an Executive Secretary for Burlington Mills in New York City for many years until her retirement in 1960.
While Ernie was very quiet, Elsie was very outgoing and active. She loved gardening, cooking and quite a variety of “Hand Work”, including crocheting afghans for all of her family and friends. Although she didn’t have any children, Elsie treated her nieces and nephews of each generation as her own and couldn’t do enough for them.
Elsie was very active in Trinity Lutheran Church in Morris Plains and a member of the Altar Guild.
Elsie was a member of the “Office on Aging” in Parsippany where she was very involved in running their boutique. She was also named Parsippany Senior Citizen of the Year.
A few years after her husband Ernie passed away she moved to Cedar Crest Village where she became extremely social with the other residents. She would make her way to the resident mailbox area in her wheelchair where she would retrieve their mail as she said “they can’t get around very well.”
Elsie lived a full rich life and will be sincerely missed by her family and friends alike.
Elsie is survived by her niece Betsy Andersen and her husband Ronald of Wayne; 2 grandnephews Ronald Andersen and his wife Theresa of Kinnelon and Robert Andersen and his wife Andrea of Wayne; 6 great grandnieces and nephews Erica, Valerie, Brian Sean, Meghan and Christopher; and her goddaughter Ruth Havens and her husband Richard and their children Christopher and Steven. She was pre-deceased by her husband Ernest in 1996 as well as her brother Edwin Kopp in 1968.
In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to Cedar Crest Benevolent Fund, c/o Philanthropy Office, 1 Cedar Crest Dr., Pompton Plains, NJ 07444.
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Friends may visit with the family on Monday July 7, 2014 from 6-9PM at the VanderMay Wayne Colonial Funeral Home 567 Ratzer Rd, Wayne, NJ 07470.
Funeral Services will be held on Tuesday 10AM at the funeral home.
Interment will be in Hoboken Cemetery in North Bergen.
July 3, 2014
Services
Friends may visit with the family on Monday July 7, 2014 from 6-9PM at the VanderMay Wayne Colonial Funeral Home 567 Ratzer Rd, Wayne, NJ 07470.
Funeral Services will be held on Tuesday 10AM at the funeral home.
Interment will be in Hoboken Cemetery in North Bergen.
Elsie Westphal (nee Kopp) age 101 passed away peacefully on Thursday July 3, 2014 at her home in Cedar Crest Village in Pompton Plains.
Elsie was born on November 8, 1912 to Frank and Sophie (Prohl) and raised in Hoboken where she lived for 45 years. She married Ernest Westphal in 1956. They moved to Parsippany, and spent the next 40 years together in a loving marriage until his passing.
Elsie worked as an Executive Secretary for Burlington Mills in New York City for many years until her retirement in 1960.
While Ernie was very quiet, Elsie was very outgoing and active. She loved gardening, cooking and quite a variety of “Hand Work”, including crocheting afghans for all of her family and friends. Although she didn’t have any children, Elsie treated her nieces and nephews of each generation as her own and couldn’t do enough for them.
Elsie was very active in Trinity Lutheran Church in Morris Plains and a member of the Altar Guild.
Elsie was a member of the “Office on Aging” in Parsippany where she was very involved in running their boutique. She was also named Parsippany Senior Citizen of the Year.
A few years after her husband Ernie passed away she moved to Cedar Crest Village where she became extremely social with the other residents. She would make her way to the resident mailbox area in her wheelchair where she would retrieve their mail as she said “they can’t get around very well.”
Elsie lived a full rich life and will be sincerely missed by her family and friends alike.
Elsie is survived by her niece Betsy Andersen and her husband Ronald of Wayne; 2 grandnephews Ronald Andersen and his wife Theresa of Kinnelon and Robert Andersen and his wife Andrea of Wayne; 6 great grandnieces and nephews Erica, Valerie, Brian Sean, Meghan and Christopher; and her goddaughter Ruth Havens and her husband Richard and their children Christopher and Steven. She was pre-deceased by her husband Ernest in 1996 as well as her brother Edwin Kopp in 1968.
In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to Cedar Crest Benevolent Fund, c/o Philanthropy Office, 1 Cedar Crest Dr., Pompton Plains, NJ 07444.
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