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June 28, 2018
Services
Friends may visit with the family at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne, on Monday, July 2, 2018 from 3-7 PM.
Funeral Services will be held on Tuesday, July 3, 2018 at 9 AM from the funeral home, then to Our Lady of Consolation Church, 1700 Hamburg Turnpike, Wayne, where at 10:00 AM, a Funeral Mass will be offered. Interment will follow at Christ the King Cemetery, Franklin Lakes.
Evelyn Marie Pringle (nee Karross), of Wayne, passed away peacefully on Thursday, June 28, 2018.
Raised in Clifton, after high school, Evelyn attended business school then took her first job with the Curtis-Wright Corporation in Fairfield.
It was at a Civil Defense Committee meeting that Evelyn was encountered by a young gentleman named Robert “Bob” Pringle. As the story goes, it was at the end of the meeting which Bob had attended as a representative of the local fire department and, as he so wonderfully described, he kept an eye on the nicely-dressed young secretary who was still sitting at her desk going over her meeting minute notes. Bob knew he had to find some excuse to speak to Evelyn. Refreshments had been brought to the rear of the room and committee members were helping themselves. Perhaps, Bob thought, he could get something for Evelyn since she was still working. And then it hit him. He went over to ask her if she needed the spelling of his name - for the minutes of course. Little did either of them realize at that moment that one day, his name would be her name. That day came on September 22, 1957, when Evelyn and Bob exchanged their wedding promises before God, family and friends at the St. Mary’s R.C. Church in Pompton Lakes.
After the wedding, Evelyn and Bob initially settled into a temporary living situation in Packanack Lake while their new home was being built. They moved into that new home – a beautiful sugar-maple split level on Garvey Road in Wayne on August 29, 1959.
Prior to marriage, while still employed in purchasing at Curtis Wright, Evelyn also took a part-time job as secretary for the Wayne Township Board of Health. This involved a couple of meetings a month and, it was at one of those meetings that she met an official of a company that was building a new pharmaceutical company building in town – The Chemway Corporation on Fairfield Road. The official came before the board to discuss plans, obtain permits, and arrange other related business with the Health Department. He was impressed with Evelyn and ended up hiring her as Assistant Purchasing Director. It was a significant move-up in her career from both a prestige and salary standpoint. She remained there for several years which she very much enjoyed until the blessing of two boys called her to her new role of motherhood. After her sons were in their teens, Evelyn returned to the workplace, this time as office manager for Dr. Roger Laauwe, an eye doctor in Wayne. It proved to be a place where she would work for many years until retirement in 1994.
Evelyn poured herself into raising their two sons – Robert “Rob” and Scott. She volunteered at Our Lady of Consolation School when they were attending and she taught CCD classes at the church too. Rob and Scott will always have good memories of Mom spending hot summer days with them at the Robert Rowe Swimming Pool in town. The boys would splash around in the water while Evelyn enjoyed talking for hours with the other mothers. Anyone who knew Evelyn knew that she was extremely sociable, so conversing for hours, whether at the pool or at home on the phone with a friend, was nothing unusual for her. She just loved people of all ages!
In the early 1980’s, Evelyn and Bob purchased a home down the shore in Barnegat Township. Summer weekends and vacations were enjoyed there and in the winter, they loved spending free time in Naples Florida. While in Naples they’d explore a bit, and those explorations led them to Bonita Springs. Falling in love with the area, they purchased their own condo there in 1992. Three years later, when Bob retired from his job as Chief of Police in Wayne, Bonita Springs became the place where you could find Evelyn and Bob, wintering there for the next fifteen years. Nothing made them happier than when their sons and grandchildren would come visit. Evelyn simply adored her grandchildren always fondly recalling that, when they were little, they’d be so excited about coming over Grandma and Grandpa’s house for a “sleep-oh-va.”
Evelyn was the beloved wife of Robert; loving mother of Robert C. and wife Elizabeth Pringle, and Scott and wife Robin Pringle; cherished grandmother of Robbie, Marie, Aaron, Heather, and Evan; dear sister of the late Charles Karross; dear aunt of Jack and wife Mary Ellen Joynson of Spotsylvania, VA, and Diane and husband Richard Thompson of Lake Ariel, PA.
In lieu of flowers, those planning an expression of sympathy in Evelyn’s name are asked to consider Our Lady of Consolation Church.
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Friends may visit with the family at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne, on Monday, July 2, 2018 from 3-7 PM.
Funeral Services will be held on Tuesday, July 3, 2018 at 9 AM from the funeral home, then to Our Lady of Consolation Church, 1700 Hamburg Turnpike, Wayne, where at 10:00 AM, a Funeral Mass will be offered. Interment will follow at Christ the King Cemetery, Franklin Lakes.
June 28, 2018
Services
Friends may visit with the family at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne, on Monday, July 2, 2018 from 3-7 PM.
Funeral Services will be held on Tuesday, July 3, 2018 at 9 AM from the funeral home, then to Our Lady of Consolation Church, 1700 Hamburg Turnpike, Wayne, where at 10:00 AM, a Funeral Mass will be offered. Interment will follow at Christ the King Cemetery, Franklin Lakes.
Evelyn Marie Pringle (nee Karross), of Wayne, passed away peacefully on Thursday, June 28, 2018.
Raised in Clifton, after high school, Evelyn attended business school then took her first job with the Curtis-Wright Corporation in Fairfield.
It was at a Civil Defense Committee meeting that Evelyn was encountered by a young gentleman named Robert “Bob” Pringle. As the story goes, it was at the end of the meeting which Bob had attended as a representative of the local fire department and, as he so wonderfully described, he kept an eye on the nicely-dressed young secretary who was still sitting at her desk going over her meeting minute notes. Bob knew he had to find some excuse to speak to Evelyn. Refreshments had been brought to the rear of the room and committee members were helping themselves. Perhaps, Bob thought, he could get something for Evelyn since she was still working. And then it hit him. He went over to ask her if she needed the spelling of his name - for the minutes of course. Little did either of them realize at that moment that one day, his name would be her name. That day came on September 22, 1957, when Evelyn and Bob exchanged their wedding promises before God, family and friends at the St. Mary’s R.C. Church in Pompton Lakes.
After the wedding, Evelyn and Bob initially settled into a temporary living situation in Packanack Lake while their new home was being built. They moved into that new home – a beautiful sugar-maple split level on Garvey Road in Wayne on August 29, 1959.
Prior to marriage, while still employed in purchasing at Curtis Wright, Evelyn also took a part-time job as secretary for the Wayne Township Board of Health. This involved a couple of meetings a month and, it was at one of those meetings that she met an official of a company that was building a new pharmaceutical company building in town – The Chemway Corporation on Fairfield Road. The official came before the board to discuss plans, obtain permits, and arrange other related business with the Health Department. He was impressed with Evelyn and ended up hiring her as Assistant Purchasing Director. It was a significant move-up in her career from both a prestige and salary standpoint. She remained there for several years which she very much enjoyed until the blessing of two boys called her to her new role of motherhood. After her sons were in their teens, Evelyn returned to the workplace, this time as office manager for Dr. Roger Laauwe, an eye doctor in Wayne. It proved to be a place where she would work for many years until retirement in 1994.
Evelyn poured herself into raising their two sons – Robert “Rob” and Scott. She volunteered at Our Lady of Consolation School when they were attending and she taught CCD classes at the church too. Rob and Scott will always have good memories of Mom spending hot summer days with them at the Robert Rowe Swimming Pool in town. The boys would splash around in the water while Evelyn enjoyed talking for hours with the other mothers. Anyone who knew Evelyn knew that she was extremely sociable, so conversing for hours, whether at the pool or at home on the phone with a friend, was nothing unusual for her. She just loved people of all ages!
In the early 1980’s, Evelyn and Bob purchased a home down the shore in Barnegat Township. Summer weekends and vacations were enjoyed there and in the winter, they loved spending free time in Naples Florida. While in Naples they’d explore a bit, and those explorations led them to Bonita Springs. Falling in love with the area, they purchased their own condo there in 1992. Three years later, when Bob retired from his job as Chief of Police in Wayne, Bonita Springs became the place where you could find Evelyn and Bob, wintering there for the next fifteen years. Nothing made them happier than when their sons and grandchildren would come visit. Evelyn simply adored her grandchildren always fondly recalling that, when they were little, they’d be so excited about coming over Grandma and Grandpa’s house for a “sleep-oh-va.”
Evelyn was the beloved wife of Robert; loving mother of Robert C. and wife Elizabeth Pringle, and Scott and wife Robin Pringle; cherished grandmother of Robbie, Marie, Aaron, Heather, and Evan; dear sister of the late Charles Karross; dear aunt of Jack and wife Mary Ellen Joynson of Spotsylvania, VA, and Diane and husband Richard Thompson of Lake Ariel, PA.
In lieu of flowers, those planning an expression of sympathy in Evelyn’s name are asked to consider Our Lady of Consolation Church.
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