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September 23, 2008
Services
Funeral services will be held Friday, September 26, 2008 at 8 PM at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne. Friends may visit with the family at the funeral home on Friday from 6-8 PM.
Fred E. Crane, “Buddy”, age 84 of Wayne died Tuesday, September 23, 2008 at the Saint Joseph’s Wayne Hospital in Wayne. His passing was quiet and peaceful. His family was at his bedside for most of the day.
He was born and grew up in Bayonne, NJ and lived in Rochelle Park for thirty-three years with his wife and family before retiring to Cape Coral, Florida for 15 years, then moving to Wayne five years ago.
Fred spent his formative years in Bayonne graduating from Bayonne High School with the Class of 1941. He then went on to trade school and learned his skills as an electrician.
Before his retirement in 1989 he was employed as an Electrician for sixty-five years with the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Union Local 164 in Paramus.
Buddy was gifted with an extraverted personality and had the knack of lighting up the room when he entered with a positive but humorous quick wit. He was very complimentary and thoughtful and admired by all for his wonderful ways.
Fred leaves his family with wonderful memories of a loving and dedicated family man. By nature he was a good man and attentive to his families every need. He can be best described as a “not to worry about anything” provider for his wife, daughter and grandchildren. He was always ready to lend a hand with any project or job that needed to be done. When given a task to do you could be assured that he was going to follow through with professionalism and perfection.
When you consider his life journey perhaps the most positive experience for him was the arrival of grandchildren whom he adored and loved to pieces.
He was a member of the Masonic Lodge of Bayonne and Jersey City.
In his leisure time you would find Buddy on his boat "My Buddy" headed out for a day’s fishing on the sea.
Fred and Muriel shared sixty good years of family togetherness, devotion and love in their marriage. "That's nice!"
Surviving are his loving wife Muriel (nee Stillwell) Crane; one daughter Gail Mesagaes of Wayne; two grandchildren Jonathan and Brieanna Mesagaes of Wayne.
He was predeceased by his two sisters Mildred Hansen and Ruth Woeckener.
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Funeral services will be held Friday, September 26, 2008 at 8 PM at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne. Friends may visit with the family at the funeral home on Friday from 6-8 PM.
September 23, 2008
Services
Funeral services will be held Friday, September 26, 2008 at 8 PM at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne. Friends may visit with the family at the funeral home on Friday from 6-8 PM.
Fred E. Crane, “Buddy”, age 84 of Wayne died Tuesday, September 23, 2008 at the Saint Joseph’s Wayne Hospital in Wayne. His passing was quiet and peaceful. His family was at his bedside for most of the day.
He was born and grew up in Bayonne, NJ and lived in Rochelle Park for thirty-three years with his wife and family before retiring to Cape Coral, Florida for 15 years, then moving to Wayne five years ago.
Fred spent his formative years in Bayonne graduating from Bayonne High School with the Class of 1941. He then went on to trade school and learned his skills as an electrician.
Before his retirement in 1989 he was employed as an Electrician for sixty-five years with the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Union Local 164 in Paramus.
Buddy was gifted with an extraverted personality and had the knack of lighting up the room when he entered with a positive but humorous quick wit. He was very complimentary and thoughtful and admired by all for his wonderful ways.
Fred leaves his family with wonderful memories of a loving and dedicated family man. By nature he was a good man and attentive to his families every need. He can be best described as a “not to worry about anything” provider for his wife, daughter and grandchildren. He was always ready to lend a hand with any project or job that needed to be done. When given a task to do you could be assured that he was going to follow through with professionalism and perfection.
When you consider his life journey perhaps the most positive experience for him was the arrival of grandchildren whom he adored and loved to pieces.
He was a member of the Masonic Lodge of Bayonne and Jersey City.
In his leisure time you would find Buddy on his boat "My Buddy" headed out for a day’s fishing on the sea.
Fred and Muriel shared sixty good years of family togetherness, devotion and love in their marriage. "That's nice!"
Surviving are his loving wife Muriel (nee Stillwell) Crane; one daughter Gail Mesagaes of Wayne; two grandchildren Jonathan and Brieanna Mesagaes of Wayne.
He was predeceased by his two sisters Mildred Hansen and Ruth Woeckener.
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