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Friends may visit with the family from 4-8 PM on Thursday, February 18, 2016 at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
Funeral services will be held 10 AM on Friday, February 19, 2016 from the funeral home then to Our Lady of the Valley RC Church, 630 Valley Road, Wayne where an 11 AM Funeral Mass will be offered.
Interment will be in Christ the King Cemetery, Franklin Lakes.
Ethel Holder (nee Koegler) age 88, of Wayne, passed peacefully on Tuesday, February 16, 2016.
She was born in Passaic and raised in Clifton having moved to Wayne over sixty years ago.
As a young woman Ethel worked as a graphic artist and when her daughter Barbara was born she dedicated herself to being a full time mom. When her daughter Barbara reached her working years both Ethel and her husband Herman took care of her children establishing a deep grandparent bond with them. In 2003 Herman passed away and Ethel’s brother Bill stepped right in to help with Barbara’s children. Her children were very fortunate to have an “Uncle Bill” who was more like a grandfather than an uncle. Uncle Bill passed away just three weeks ago on January 26, 2016. Loosing their grandmother Ethel and Uncle Bill within a month of each other has been very hard on the whole family.
Ethel will be remembered as a loving, kind, gentle soul and caregiver. She was artistic, an animal lover, and in her younger years served as a caregiver during her mother’s twilight years. She truly enjoyed a trip to Canada in her younger years and, although she didn’t get to travel much, seeing the world beyond the horizon of her sight was something she yearned to do.
She was a devout Catholic and parishioner of Our Lady of the Valley RC Church in Wayne for over sixty years.
Ethel was the loving wife of the late Herman J. Holder (2003); devoted mother of Barbara Lacey and her husband Jim of Boonton Township; cherished grandmother of Lauren and Leanne Lacey; much loved sister of Robert and his wife Betty of Mahomet, Il., Frederick and his wife Gladys of Hope, and the late William Koegler (January 2016); loving aunt to nieces, nephews, great-nieces, great-nephews, and great-great nieces and a great-great-nephew.
In lieu of flowers memorial donations to the Wayne Township Memorial First Aid Squad, PO Box 291, Wayne, NJ 07474 would be appreciated.
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Friends may visit with the family from 4-8 PM on Thursday, February 18, 2016 at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
Funeral services will be held 10 AM on Friday, February 19, 2016 from the funeral home then to Our Lady of the Valley RC Church, 630 Valley Road, Wayne where an 11 AM Funeral Mass will be offered.
Interment will be in Christ the King Cemetery, Franklin Lakes.
Services
Friends may visit with the family from 4-8 PM on Thursday, February 18, 2016 at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
Funeral services will be held 10 AM on Friday, February 19, 2016 from the funeral home then to Our Lady of the Valley RC Church, 630 Valley Road, Wayne where an 11 AM Funeral Mass will be offered.
Interment will be in Christ the King Cemetery, Franklin Lakes.
Ethel Holder (nee Koegler) age 88, of Wayne, passed peacefully on Tuesday, February 16, 2016.
She was born in Passaic and raised in Clifton having moved to Wayne over sixty years ago.
As a young woman Ethel worked as a graphic artist and when her daughter Barbara was born she dedicated herself to being a full time mom. When her daughter Barbara reached her working years both Ethel and her husband Herman took care of her children establishing a deep grandparent bond with them. In 2003 Herman passed away and Ethel’s brother Bill stepped right in to help with Barbara’s children. Her children were very fortunate to have an “Uncle Bill” who was more like a grandfather than an uncle. Uncle Bill passed away just three weeks ago on January 26, 2016. Loosing their grandmother Ethel and Uncle Bill within a month of each other has been very hard on the whole family.
Ethel will be remembered as a loving, kind, gentle soul and caregiver. She was artistic, an animal lover, and in her younger years served as a caregiver during her mother’s twilight years. She truly enjoyed a trip to Canada in her younger years and, although she didn’t get to travel much, seeing the world beyond the horizon of her sight was something she yearned to do.
She was a devout Catholic and parishioner of Our Lady of the Valley RC Church in Wayne for over sixty years.
Ethel was the loving wife of the late Herman J. Holder (2003); devoted mother of Barbara Lacey and her husband Jim of Boonton Township; cherished grandmother of Lauren and Leanne Lacey; much loved sister of Robert and his wife Betty of Mahomet, Il., Frederick and his wife Gladys of Hope, and the late William Koegler (January 2016); loving aunt to nieces, nephews, great-nieces, great-nephews, and great-great nieces and a great-great-nephew.
In lieu of flowers memorial donations to the Wayne Township Memorial First Aid Squad, PO Box 291, Wayne, NJ 07474 would be appreciated.
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