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August 23, 2012
Services
As per Fran’s direction all funeral services will be held privately.
Frances Kapp (nee Bennett) “Mom Mom” age 86 of the Packanack Lake Section of Wayne died peacefully, with the comfort of holding her granddaughter Sara’s hand, on Thursday, August 23, 2012.
She was born in Scranton Pennsylvania and raised in New Jersey having graduated from Barringer High School in Newark with the Class of 1943.
She met John Kapp at Joe Keeleys’ Tavern in Newark “only 72 steps from Broad Street”. John was told to propose to Fran by his mother who said “marry that girl and make it legal.” They married on September 29, 1945 at Saint Bridget’s Church on Plane Street in Newark. They honeymooned in Virginia Beach and have enjoyed sixty-seven years of loving and devoted marriage.
Having moved many times as a young girl it was Fran’s desire to have one place to call home. Fran and John bought their home in the Packanack Lake Section of Wayne for $14,200.00 sixty years ago. They have raised their family and lived into their retirement years in this same home.
Fran loved theatre and has directed and acted in many local plays. The Packanack Players was very dear to her heart. During the 1960’s and 1970’s she also helped to run the Miss Wayne Pageant. She volunteered for the Dystonia Medical Research Foundation’s Northern New Jersey Chapter and also taught CCD for several years at Holy Spirit RC Church in Pequannock.
Raising eight children would be a challenge for most but with her “iron hand, a wire hanger, or the large metal spoon from the kitchen” she had no trouble keeping her kids on the straight and narrow. Fran was also an excellent cook and her special touch on Pot Roast and Potato Pancakes (John’s favorite) will be greatly missed.
Fran was the loving wife of John Kapp; devoted mother of the late Joanne E. Kapp (1955), and late J. Fred Kapp (1996), Anita A. Kapp, Gordon Kapp and his wife Gail, Melanie Walk and her husband John, Andrew Kapp, Gregory Kapp, Suzanne Mahoney and her husband Robert, and Pamela Sachs-Kapp; cherished grandmother of Joanne, Billy, Brian, Justin, Morgan, Logan, Emily, and Elizabeth Kapp, Sara and Kaity Walk, Shannon and Jake Mahoney; dear great-grandmother of Maggie Grace Kapp; loved sister of Jack A. Bennett.
Those considering a gesture of kindness such as flowers or food are asked to consider St. Jude Children’s Hospital, 501 St. Jude Place, Memphis, TN 38105 or the Wayne Memorial First Aid Squad, PO Box 291, Wayne, NJ 07474.
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As per Fran’s direction all funeral services will be held privately.
August 23, 2012
Services
As per Fran’s direction all funeral services will be held privately.
Frances Kapp (nee Bennett) “Mom Mom” age 86 of the Packanack Lake Section of Wayne died peacefully, with the comfort of holding her granddaughter Sara’s hand, on Thursday, August 23, 2012.
She was born in Scranton Pennsylvania and raised in New Jersey having graduated from Barringer High School in Newark with the Class of 1943.
She met John Kapp at Joe Keeleys’ Tavern in Newark “only 72 steps from Broad Street”. John was told to propose to Fran by his mother who said “marry that girl and make it legal.” They married on September 29, 1945 at Saint Bridget’s Church on Plane Street in Newark. They honeymooned in Virginia Beach and have enjoyed sixty-seven years of loving and devoted marriage.
Having moved many times as a young girl it was Fran’s desire to have one place to call home. Fran and John bought their home in the Packanack Lake Section of Wayne for $14,200.00 sixty years ago. They have raised their family and lived into their retirement years in this same home.
Fran loved theatre and has directed and acted in many local plays. The Packanack Players was very dear to her heart. During the 1960’s and 1970’s she also helped to run the Miss Wayne Pageant. She volunteered for the Dystonia Medical Research Foundation’s Northern New Jersey Chapter and also taught CCD for several years at Holy Spirit RC Church in Pequannock.
Raising eight children would be a challenge for most but with her “iron hand, a wire hanger, or the large metal spoon from the kitchen” she had no trouble keeping her kids on the straight and narrow. Fran was also an excellent cook and her special touch on Pot Roast and Potato Pancakes (John’s favorite) will be greatly missed.
Fran was the loving wife of John Kapp; devoted mother of the late Joanne E. Kapp (1955), and late J. Fred Kapp (1996), Anita A. Kapp, Gordon Kapp and his wife Gail, Melanie Walk and her husband John, Andrew Kapp, Gregory Kapp, Suzanne Mahoney and her husband Robert, and Pamela Sachs-Kapp; cherished grandmother of Joanne, Billy, Brian, Justin, Morgan, Logan, Emily, and Elizabeth Kapp, Sara and Kaity Walk, Shannon and Jake Mahoney; dear great-grandmother of Maggie Grace Kapp; loved sister of Jack A. Bennett.
Those considering a gesture of kindness such as flowers or food are asked to consider St. Jude Children’s Hospital, 501 St. Jude Place, Memphis, TN 38105 or the Wayne Memorial First Aid Squad, PO Box 291, Wayne, NJ 07474.
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