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December 1, 2013
Services
Friends may visit with the family at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne, on Wednesday, December 4, 2013 from 2-4 & 6-8 PM. Funeral Services will be held at 11 AM on Thursday, December 5, 2013 at the Preakness Reformed Church, 131 Church Lane, Wayne, NJ.
Frances E. Von Glahn (nee Templin), age 80 of Wayne, died peacefully on Sunday, December 1, 2013. She had been a Wayne resident since 1957.
Fran was born in Hackensack and graduated from Lodi High School with the class of 1951. She worked as a nurse practitioner at a local hospital upon graduating. She met Henry (Hank) Von Glahn on a triple blind date back in 1955. They went bowling with two other couples and hit it off during that first date. They married just a few months later, on June 30, 1956. Once they began their family, Fran chose to be a stay at home mother and homemaker. Fran and Hank had a great marriage and loved being together. They were members of the “Spinning Wheels of Wayne”, a square dancing group with which they would go dancing every Monday night. Fran was a golfer too, after Hank encouraged her to learn the game when he retired. This allowed them to spend even more quality time with one another. They enjoyed fifty two years together before Hank passed in 2008.
Fran was a good cook and her Swedish meatballs are renowned amongst her family and friends, and she was a wonderful baker. Celebrating birthdays was one of her specialties and she always made a fuss around anyone’s birthday. Within her immediate family, she would always plan a family meal and party for your birthday, even if it was weeks later; birthdays were to be celebrated no matter what. Fran also loved sewing, knitting, crocheting and doing all sorts of arts and crafts projects.
Fran was active with the Preakness Reformed Church Women’s Club and she knitted countless items over the years to be donated through the Helping Hands program there. She was excellent at making quilts, prayer blankets and shawls, hats, gloves, and scarves. Just one year ago she asked all of her grandchildren what their favorite colors were. She proceeded to knit each of them a quilt in their chosen color scheme. Those gifts will surely be treasured throughout their lifetimes.
Fran is survived by her four children; Hank and his wife Sandra of Hackettstown, NJ, Linda Laidlaw and her husband Tom of Parsippany, NJ, Janet Dean of Wayne, and Willa Kippert and her husband Rick of St. Petersburg, FL, five grandchildren; Lynne and Carl Von Glahn of Hackettstown, Shawn Laidlaw of Parsippany, and Jonathan and Karla Kippert of St. Petersburg, FL, and one sister; Ann Ferguson of St. Cloud, FL.
As expressions of sympathy, if friends so wish, donations may be made in Fran’s memory to “Multiple Sclerosis Swim-In,” c/o Barbara Lightbody, 31 Margie Ave, Cresskill NJ 07626.
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Friends may visit with the family at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne, on Wednesday, December 4, 2013 from 2-4 & 6-8 PM. Funeral Services will be held at 11 AM on Thursday, December 5, 2013 at the Preakness Reformed Church, 131 Church Lane, Wayne, NJ.
December 1, 2013
Services
Friends may visit with the family at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne, on Wednesday, December 4, 2013 from 2-4 & 6-8 PM. Funeral Services will be held at 11 AM on Thursday, December 5, 2013 at the Preakness Reformed Church, 131 Church Lane, Wayne, NJ.
Frances E. Von Glahn (nee Templin), age 80 of Wayne, died peacefully on Sunday, December 1, 2013. She had been a Wayne resident since 1957.
Fran was born in Hackensack and graduated from Lodi High School with the class of 1951. She worked as a nurse practitioner at a local hospital upon graduating. She met Henry (Hank) Von Glahn on a triple blind date back in 1955. They went bowling with two other couples and hit it off during that first date. They married just a few months later, on June 30, 1956. Once they began their family, Fran chose to be a stay at home mother and homemaker. Fran and Hank had a great marriage and loved being together. They were members of the “Spinning Wheels of Wayne”, a square dancing group with which they would go dancing every Monday night. Fran was a golfer too, after Hank encouraged her to learn the game when he retired. This allowed them to spend even more quality time with one another. They enjoyed fifty two years together before Hank passed in 2008.
Fran was a good cook and her Swedish meatballs are renowned amongst her family and friends, and she was a wonderful baker. Celebrating birthdays was one of her specialties and she always made a fuss around anyone’s birthday. Within her immediate family, she would always plan a family meal and party for your birthday, even if it was weeks later; birthdays were to be celebrated no matter what. Fran also loved sewing, knitting, crocheting and doing all sorts of arts and crafts projects.
Fran was active with the Preakness Reformed Church Women’s Club and she knitted countless items over the years to be donated through the Helping Hands program there. She was excellent at making quilts, prayer blankets and shawls, hats, gloves, and scarves. Just one year ago she asked all of her grandchildren what their favorite colors were. She proceeded to knit each of them a quilt in their chosen color scheme. Those gifts will surely be treasured throughout their lifetimes.
Fran is survived by her four children; Hank and his wife Sandra of Hackettstown, NJ, Linda Laidlaw and her husband Tom of Parsippany, NJ, Janet Dean of Wayne, and Willa Kippert and her husband Rick of St. Petersburg, FL, five grandchildren; Lynne and Carl Von Glahn of Hackettstown, Shawn Laidlaw of Parsippany, and Jonathan and Karla Kippert of St. Petersburg, FL, and one sister; Ann Ferguson of St. Cloud, FL.
As expressions of sympathy, if friends so wish, donations may be made in Fran’s memory to “Multiple Sclerosis Swim-In,” c/o Barbara Lightbody, 31 Margie Ave, Cresskill NJ 07626.
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