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Friends may visit with the family at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne, on Monday, May 4, 2015 from 2-4 and 7-9 PM.
Funeral Services will be held at 10:30 AM on Tuesday, May 5, 2015 from the funeral home, then to Our Lady of the Valley RC Church, 630 Valley Road, Wayne, where at 11:30 AM a Funeral Mass will be offered. Interment will take place on Wednesday, 12:00 Noon at St. John Neumann Cemetery, Chalfont, PA. If you will be joining the family, please meet at the cemetery.
Frances Tarnacki Dollbaum, age 80, of Wayne, passed away on Friday, May 1, 2015.
Fran was born and raised in Jersey City. As a young girl, she loved to roller skate. It’s in Jersey City that she lovingly raised her four children.
While working at a commercial cleaner called Consolidated Laundry in Jersey City, Fran met a kind gentleman named Norman Dollbaum who was the business’s manager. Fran and Norm took a liking to each other and Norman eventually asked Fran if she’d like to join him for dinner. Their love for each other grew and, shortly after moving to Sussex in 1980, they were joined in marriage by Sussex’s Mayor Hough.
Shortly after their wedding, Fran and Norm opened a new business in Sussex called Country Butcher. Fran wore many hats in this business venture – purchaser, book keeper, counter clerk, coffee server, waitress, and cashier to name a few, leaving the butcher work exclusively to Norm. For thirteen years, they established a fine reputation, supplying the finest cuts of meat to the Sussex locals. Then in 1993, this hard working couple decided to move that year to Willow Grove, PA so Fran could be closer to her sisters. They also began enjoying a more carefree life afforded by ship cruises in the Caribbean, sun and fun splashing in the water down the Jersey Shore at Wildwood Crest, and participating in a little bit of friendly gambling in Atlantic City, Parx, and Bethlehem PA.
After eighteen years of calling Pennsylvania home, Fran and Norm moved back to NJ, this time settling in Wayne so they could be closer to their children and grandchildren. Fran loved holidays with hers and Norm’s family gathered. She always got so excited about decorating for all the holidays but especially for Halloween and Christmas. She’d deck the whole house out – both indoors and outside too reflect the fun and festivity of these special days.
Fran was very skilled at crocheting and she made many beautiful things including communion shawls, bed spreads as well as a crocheted blankets for many of her grandchildren. Creative by nature, she had a lot of fun scrap-booking. Her scrap book creations always were beautifully made with lots of fun pictures, poems and funny jokes. She donated these scrap books to children who were patients at Abbington Memorial Hospital in Pennsylvania in hopes that they would bring the children some cheer and smiles. Fran loved doing word puzzles because she wanted to keep her mind sharp, and she loved butterflies and music boxes because they made her happy. They must have made her very happy because she had over 200 of those music boxes!
Fran and Norm enjoyed attending Our Lady of the Valley Parish in Wayne. Her genuine warmth and good-hearted nature will always be remembered and missed by those who had the privilege of knowing her including her friends at Siena Village.
Fran is survived by her loving husband Norman; three dear daughters: Doreen and husband Bruce Gesslein, Diane and husband John Schaefer, and Darlene Niniger; one son: Dennis and wife Denise Niniger; six grandchildren, Jessica, Danielle, John, Nicholas, Jeremy, and Cassandra; and six great-grandchildren Jazmin, Alexander, Kyle, Cody, Allison, and Layla, along with her brother Richard Tarnacki.
Frances is also survived by Norman's children, Edvie Canavan, Norman and his wife Marilyn, Karen Rapole, Cynthia Dollbaum, Christine and husband Robert Calafiore, and Michelle with husband Christopher Cullen, ten grandchildren Edvie Marie, Peter, Joseph, Stephen, Thomas, David, Jordan, Bobby, Anthony, and Jessica, and great-grandson Colyn.
She will be laid to rest with her sisters Helen Tarnacki and Joan Ginunas in eternal peace in Pennsylvania.
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Friends may visit with the family at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne, on Monday, May 4, 2015 from 2-4 and 7-9 PM.
Funeral Services will be held at 10:30 AM on Tuesday, May 5, 2015 from the funeral home, then to Our Lady of the Valley RC Church, 630 Valley Road, Wayne, where at 11:30 AM a Funeral Mass will be offered. Interment will take place on Wednesday, 12:00 Noon at St. John Neumann Cemetery, Chalfont, PA. If you will be joining the family, please meet at the cemetery.
Services
Friends may visit with the family at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne, on Monday, May 4, 2015 from 2-4 and 7-9 PM.
Funeral Services will be held at 10:30 AM on Tuesday, May 5, 2015 from the funeral home, then to Our Lady of the Valley RC Church, 630 Valley Road, Wayne, where at 11:30 AM a Funeral Mass will be offered. Interment will take place on Wednesday, 12:00 Noon at St. John Neumann Cemetery, Chalfont, PA. If you will be joining the family, please meet at the cemetery.
Frances Tarnacki Dollbaum, age 80, of Wayne, passed away on Friday, May 1, 2015.
Fran was born and raised in Jersey City. As a young girl, she loved to roller skate. It’s in Jersey City that she lovingly raised her four children.
While working at a commercial cleaner called Consolidated Laundry in Jersey City, Fran met a kind gentleman named Norman Dollbaum who was the business’s manager. Fran and Norm took a liking to each other and Norman eventually asked Fran if she’d like to join him for dinner. Their love for each other grew and, shortly after moving to Sussex in 1980, they were joined in marriage by Sussex’s Mayor Hough.
Shortly after their wedding, Fran and Norm opened a new business in Sussex called Country Butcher. Fran wore many hats in this business venture – purchaser, book keeper, counter clerk, coffee server, waitress, and cashier to name a few, leaving the butcher work exclusively to Norm. For thirteen years, they established a fine reputation, supplying the finest cuts of meat to the Sussex locals. Then in 1993, this hard working couple decided to move that year to Willow Grove, PA so Fran could be closer to her sisters. They also began enjoying a more carefree life afforded by ship cruises in the Caribbean, sun and fun splashing in the water down the Jersey Shore at Wildwood Crest, and participating in a little bit of friendly gambling in Atlantic City, Parx, and Bethlehem PA.
After eighteen years of calling Pennsylvania home, Fran and Norm moved back to NJ, this time settling in Wayne so they could be closer to their children and grandchildren. Fran loved holidays with hers and Norm’s family gathered. She always got so excited about decorating for all the holidays but especially for Halloween and Christmas. She’d deck the whole house out – both indoors and outside too reflect the fun and festivity of these special days.
Fran was very skilled at crocheting and she made many beautiful things including communion shawls, bed spreads as well as a crocheted blankets for many of her grandchildren. Creative by nature, she had a lot of fun scrap-booking. Her scrap book creations always were beautifully made with lots of fun pictures, poems and funny jokes. She donated these scrap books to children who were patients at Abbington Memorial Hospital in Pennsylvania in hopes that they would bring the children some cheer and smiles. Fran loved doing word puzzles because she wanted to keep her mind sharp, and she loved butterflies and music boxes because they made her happy. They must have made her very happy because she had over 200 of those music boxes!
Fran and Norm enjoyed attending Our Lady of the Valley Parish in Wayne. Her genuine warmth and good-hearted nature will always be remembered and missed by those who had the privilege of knowing her including her friends at Siena Village.
Fran is survived by her loving husband Norman; three dear daughters: Doreen and husband Bruce Gesslein, Diane and husband John Schaefer, and Darlene Niniger; one son: Dennis and wife Denise Niniger; six grandchildren, Jessica, Danielle, John, Nicholas, Jeremy, and Cassandra; and six great-grandchildren Jazmin, Alexander, Kyle, Cody, Allison, and Layla, along with her brother Richard Tarnacki.
Frances is also survived by Norman's children, Edvie Canavan, Norman and his wife Marilyn, Karen Rapole, Cynthia Dollbaum, Christine and husband Robert Calafiore, and Michelle with husband Christopher Cullen, ten grandchildren Edvie Marie, Peter, Joseph, Stephen, Thomas, David, Jordan, Bobby, Anthony, and Jessica, and great-grandson Colyn.
She will be laid to rest with her sisters Helen Tarnacki and Joan Ginunas in eternal peace in Pennsylvania.
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