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July 4, 2011
Services
Private Funeral services were held Thursday at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
Emilie Dawson (Nee Merkel) age 102 of Pompton Plains formerly of Wayne. She passed to the presence of her Lord and Savior on Monday, July 4, 2011.
She was born in Secaucus where she spent her formative years and received her formal education at Secaucus grammar school and later at Secaucus High School graduating with the Class of 1927.
She met a handsome fellow in 1930 named John Dawson. They joined in marriage and had forty-five years of wonderful marriage together until John's passing in March of 1976.
Emilie later lived in Carlstadt, Pompton Plains and Berkely Township moving to Wayne to reside at Siena Village.
Her finest dedication in her life journey was family. She was a wonderful, dedicated mother to her two sons; Jack and Dennis. No matter how many birthdays they had, she looked after them with loving concern.
Motherhood arose to a new and wonderful elevation for her with the arrival of grandchildren and great grandchildren. She loved them with all of her heart.
Her heritage was German and she had many typical German mannerisms embodied in her personality. Her parents, having lived through rugged times in their homeland, Germany, conveyed to Emilie life skills that they had learned. Even more pressure presented itself, while they lived in this country, namely the great depression. Her family remembers her frugal habits as one of those resulting life practices. Her family recalls an example of her thrift in their lunch boxes for work. Mom would get the best buy she could on apples but they invariably would be sour and her husband and son could not eat them out of the lunches she made and ended up tossing them.
Sadness visited her life in December 2005 when her youngest son Dennis Dawson passed away.
Surviving to mourn this special lady are one son Jack Dawson and his wife Barbara (Bobbie) of Pompton Plains; four grandchildren Jack, Craig, Glenn and Kevin Dawson; four great grandchildren Noah, and twins Paige, Hunter, and Tyler Dawson. She is also survived by her daughter in law Shirley Dawson.
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Private Funeral services were held Thursday at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
July 4, 2011
Services
Private Funeral services were held Thursday at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
Emilie Dawson (Nee Merkel) age 102 of Pompton Plains formerly of Wayne. She passed to the presence of her Lord and Savior on Monday, July 4, 2011.
She was born in Secaucus where she spent her formative years and received her formal education at Secaucus grammar school and later at Secaucus High School graduating with the Class of 1927.
She met a handsome fellow in 1930 named John Dawson. They joined in marriage and had forty-five years of wonderful marriage together until John's passing in March of 1976.
Emilie later lived in Carlstadt, Pompton Plains and Berkely Township moving to Wayne to reside at Siena Village.
Her finest dedication in her life journey was family. She was a wonderful, dedicated mother to her two sons; Jack and Dennis. No matter how many birthdays they had, she looked after them with loving concern.
Motherhood arose to a new and wonderful elevation for her with the arrival of grandchildren and great grandchildren. She loved them with all of her heart.
Her heritage was German and she had many typical German mannerisms embodied in her personality. Her parents, having lived through rugged times in their homeland, Germany, conveyed to Emilie life skills that they had learned. Even more pressure presented itself, while they lived in this country, namely the great depression. Her family remembers her frugal habits as one of those resulting life practices. Her family recalls an example of her thrift in their lunch boxes for work. Mom would get the best buy she could on apples but they invariably would be sour and her husband and son could not eat them out of the lunches she made and ended up tossing them.
Sadness visited her life in December 2005 when her youngest son Dennis Dawson passed away.
Surviving to mourn this special lady are one son Jack Dawson and his wife Barbara (Bobbie) of Pompton Plains; four grandchildren Jack, Craig, Glenn and Kevin Dawson; four great grandchildren Noah, and twins Paige, Hunter, and Tyler Dawson. She is also survived by her daughter in law Shirley Dawson.
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