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September 9, 2012
Services
Friends may visit with the family at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne, on Tuesday, September 11, 2012 from 5-9 PM. Funeral Services will be held at 10am on Wednesday, Sept. 12 at Our Lady of the Visitation, 234 Farview Avenue, Paramus, NJ, followed by a burial at George Washington Memorial Park, 234 Paramus Road, Paramus NJ.
Evelyn M. Mooney (nee Nicol), age 90, of Cedar Crest Village in Pompton Plains, died on Sunday, September 9, 2012. She died peacefully surrounded by her five children.
Evelyn was born in New York City and grew up in Teaneck, NJ. She graduated from Teaneck High School in 1939. In 1945, she enjoyed a blind date with a young GI who had returned home from the war, William Mooney. They spent the evening dancing at the Meadowbrook in Cedar Grove and the rest is history. They married one year later on August 3, 1946 and eventually settled in Hackensack. Together they raised six children in a very busy household and enjoyed thirty three years together before William passed in 1979. Evelyn epitomized the strength and character of the Greatest Generation.
Evelyn was a secretary for the Hackensack Schools for nearly twenty-five years before her retirement in 1990. She moved to Wayne in 1987 and after retiring, she kept herself active by volunteering at Wayne General Hospital in the nursery and in the diabetic office. Always an avid reader, she also volunteered at the “Friends Room” at the Wayne Public Library. While living in Hackensack, she was a board member of the Johnson Free Public Library for many years.
Many summer vacations on Long Beach Island in New Jersey were special times for Evelyn and her family. In fact, she just enjoyed a beautiful summer weekend on Long Beach Island a few weeks ago with her daughter and her family. She also enjoyed visiting her children and grandchildren from coast to coast.. In her retirement years, she never passed up an opportunity to travel with her family. Her family was the most important part of her life and always was. Her face, even as she neared the end of her life, never ceased to light upon seeing her children and grandchildren--nothing made her happier. She will be dearly missed by them all.
Evelyn is survived by five children; Joanne Venn of Littleton, Colorado, Thomas Mooney and his wife Jadwiga of Tucson, Arizona, Eileen Considine of Loudonville, New York, Brian Mooney of Queens, New York, and Barbara Sommer and her husband Jonathan of Wayne, seven grandchildren and 3 great-grandchildren, and one sister-in-law, Anna Nicol of Monroe, Connecticut. She was predeceased by her husband William in 1979 and by her son William, Jr.in 1985.
In lieu of flowers, memorial donations are suggested to the food pantry at Wayne Interfaith Network, P.O. Box 3341, Wayne NJ 07474-3341 or to Friends of the Wayne Public Library, 461 Valley Road, Wayne NJ 07470.
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Friends may visit with the family at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne, on Tuesday, September 11, 2012 from 5-9 PM. Funeral Services will be held at 10am on Wednesday, Sept. 12 at Our Lady of the Visitation, 234 Farview Avenue, Paramus, NJ, followed by a burial at George Washington Memorial Park, 234 Paramus Road, Paramus NJ.
September 9, 2012
Services
Friends may visit with the family at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne, on Tuesday, September 11, 2012 from 5-9 PM. Funeral Services will be held at 10am on Wednesday, Sept. 12 at Our Lady of the Visitation, 234 Farview Avenue, Paramus, NJ, followed by a burial at George Washington Memorial Park, 234 Paramus Road, Paramus NJ.
Evelyn M. Mooney (nee Nicol), age 90, of Cedar Crest Village in Pompton Plains, died on Sunday, September 9, 2012. She died peacefully surrounded by her five children.
Evelyn was born in New York City and grew up in Teaneck, NJ. She graduated from Teaneck High School in 1939. In 1945, she enjoyed a blind date with a young GI who had returned home from the war, William Mooney. They spent the evening dancing at the Meadowbrook in Cedar Grove and the rest is history. They married one year later on August 3, 1946 and eventually settled in Hackensack. Together they raised six children in a very busy household and enjoyed thirty three years together before William passed in 1979. Evelyn epitomized the strength and character of the Greatest Generation.
Evelyn was a secretary for the Hackensack Schools for nearly twenty-five years before her retirement in 1990. She moved to Wayne in 1987 and after retiring, she kept herself active by volunteering at Wayne General Hospital in the nursery and in the diabetic office. Always an avid reader, she also volunteered at the “Friends Room” at the Wayne Public Library. While living in Hackensack, she was a board member of the Johnson Free Public Library for many years.
Many summer vacations on Long Beach Island in New Jersey were special times for Evelyn and her family. In fact, she just enjoyed a beautiful summer weekend on Long Beach Island a few weeks ago with her daughter and her family. She also enjoyed visiting her children and grandchildren from coast to coast.. In her retirement years, she never passed up an opportunity to travel with her family. Her family was the most important part of her life and always was. Her face, even as she neared the end of her life, never ceased to light upon seeing her children and grandchildren--nothing made her happier. She will be dearly missed by them all.
Evelyn is survived by five children; Joanne Venn of Littleton, Colorado, Thomas Mooney and his wife Jadwiga of Tucson, Arizona, Eileen Considine of Loudonville, New York, Brian Mooney of Queens, New York, and Barbara Sommer and her husband Jonathan of Wayne, seven grandchildren and 3 great-grandchildren, and one sister-in-law, Anna Nicol of Monroe, Connecticut. She was predeceased by her husband William in 1979 and by her son William, Jr.in 1985.
In lieu of flowers, memorial donations are suggested to the food pantry at Wayne Interfaith Network, P.O. Box 3341, Wayne NJ 07474-3341 or to Friends of the Wayne Public Library, 461 Valley Road, Wayne NJ 07470.
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