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May 6, 2010
Services
Funeral services will be held 8:30 AM on Tuesday, May 11, 2010 from the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne then to Our Lady of the Valley RC Church, 630 Valley Rd., Wayne where a 9:30 AM Funeral Mass will be offered.
Friends may visit with the family on Monday, May 10, 2010 from 4 - 8 PM at the funeral home.
Interment will be in Christ the King Cemetery, Franklin Lakes.
Francis Joseph McGovern age 79 of Wayne died peacefully on May, 6, 2010 at the Morristown Memorial Hospital with the comfort of his family by his side.
Joe worked at the Public Service Electric & Gas Company as a lineman for five years. He then took a job with NJ Bell Telephone, which later became Verizon, where he worked for thirty five years having retired as a Lineman Supervisor. After leaving the phone company he worked for the Township of Wayne for eight years having retired in 1998 as a Recycling Supervisor.
He was a member of the Wayne Elks Lodge 2181, the NJ Irish Festival, the Brian Boru Association and was a Library Trustee for Wayne Township for many years.
He was the beloved husband of fifty-three years to Veronica “Ronnie” (Moriarty) McGovern; loving father of Patrick McGovern and his wife Allison of Wayne and Mary Anne MacNeill and her husband Mark of Hanover, MA; cherished grandfather of Kevin and Lauren McGovern, Kristin and Samantha Smith, and Mark, Trevor, Jack and Molly MacNeill; loved brother of Terrence McGovern and his wife Peggy, the late Thomas McGovern and his surviving wife Virginia, and the late John McGovern and his surviving wife Elizabeth.
In lieu of flowers memorial donations to the Wayne First Aid Squad, PO Box 291, Wayne, NJ 07470 would be appreciated.
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Funeral services will be held 8:30 AM on Tuesday, May 11, 2010 from the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne then to Our Lady of the Valley RC Church, 630 Valley Rd., Wayne where a 9:30 AM Funeral Mass will be offered.
Friends may visit with the family on Monday, May 10, 2010 from 4 - 8 PM at the funeral home.
Interment will be in Christ the King Cemetery, Franklin Lakes.
May 6, 2010
Services
Funeral services will be held 8:30 AM on Tuesday, May 11, 2010 from the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne then to Our Lady of the Valley RC Church, 630 Valley Rd., Wayne where a 9:30 AM Funeral Mass will be offered.
Friends may visit with the family on Monday, May 10, 2010 from 4 - 8 PM at the funeral home.
Interment will be in Christ the King Cemetery, Franklin Lakes.
Francis Joseph McGovern age 79 of Wayne died peacefully on May, 6, 2010 at the Morristown Memorial Hospital with the comfort of his family by his side.
Joe worked at the Public Service Electric & Gas Company as a lineman for five years. He then took a job with NJ Bell Telephone, which later became Verizon, where he worked for thirty five years having retired as a Lineman Supervisor. After leaving the phone company he worked for the Township of Wayne for eight years having retired in 1998 as a Recycling Supervisor.
He was a member of the Wayne Elks Lodge 2181, the NJ Irish Festival, the Brian Boru Association and was a Library Trustee for Wayne Township for many years.
He was the beloved husband of fifty-three years to Veronica “Ronnie” (Moriarty) McGovern; loving father of Patrick McGovern and his wife Allison of Wayne and Mary Anne MacNeill and her husband Mark of Hanover, MA; cherished grandfather of Kevin and Lauren McGovern, Kristin and Samantha Smith, and Mark, Trevor, Jack and Molly MacNeill; loved brother of Terrence McGovern and his wife Peggy, the late Thomas McGovern and his surviving wife Virginia, and the late John McGovern and his surviving wife Elizabeth.
In lieu of flowers memorial donations to the Wayne First Aid Squad, PO Box 291, Wayne, NJ 07470 would be appreciated.
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