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May 15, 2012
Gertrude “Trudy” Spann (nee Reinecke), age 89 of Wayne, died on Tuesday, May 15, 2012. She was born in West New York, NJ and raised in River Edge, NJ having graduated from Hackensack High School with the Class of 1940.
She met the love of her life Edward Spann at a Lutheran Church convention in Trenton, NJ. He left the convention and went home and told his mother “I met the girl I’m going to marry”. After a stint in the military Edward returned and began dating Trudy once again. Their first date was to a movie and then to Rutt’s Hut for a hamburger. He proposed in the car with Trudy’s mom flicking the front light-the signal that enough private time had been spent in the car. They married on December 1, 1945 at the Grace Lutheran Church, River Edge. They spent their honeymoon in Washington DC and incorporated a visit to Trudy’s sister Anita who was serving time in the United States Navy and was stationed in the Washington area. Trudy stated that during the first year of their marriage they would have starved if Edward hadn’t done the cooking. They lived in Clifton, Wayne, and Parsippany before retiring to Brooksville, FL in 1984. Edward passed away on November 16, 2009 and Trudy returned to Wayne, NJ in 2010 to be closer to her family.
Before graduating High School Trudy was recruited by the Bell Telephone Company to work as an receptionist and telephone operator from 1945-1955 for NJ Bell Telephone in Hackensack, NJ. From 1955-1965 she sold Tupperware door to door and from 1970 – 1985 she worked as a receptionist for the Becton Dickinson Corporation in West Caldwell, NJ.
Trudy and her late husband Edward were founding members of St. Timothy Evangelical Lutheran Church, Wayne where Trudy was always a reliable volunteer.
She loved to travel and has been to Hawaii twice, Alaska, California, Florida and on five cruises. She enjoyed spending time at the Community Social Club and the Garden Club in Brooksville, FL but most of all she enjoyed writing letters, sending cards and shopping from catalogs. Her special touch on German Potato Salad was a family favorite.
She was predeceased by her loving husband of sixty-four years Edward Spann (2009); loving mother of Jeffrey and April Spann of Rockaway and Richard and Janet Spann of Bethel, CT; cherished grandmother of Kelly, Ryan, Lauren and Craig; loved sister of Anita Phoenix and her husband Lee of North Carolina and Henriette Anderson of Whiting, NJ.
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May 15, 2012
Gertrude “Trudy” Spann (nee Reinecke), age 89 of Wayne, died on Tuesday, May 15, 2012. She was born in West New York, NJ and raised in River Edge, NJ having graduated from Hackensack High School with the Class of 1940.
She met the love of her life Edward Spann at a Lutheran Church convention in Trenton, NJ. He left the convention and went home and told his mother “I met the girl I’m going to marry”. After a stint in the military Edward returned and began dating Trudy once again. Their first date was to a movie and then to Rutt’s Hut for a hamburger. He proposed in the car with Trudy’s mom flicking the front light-the signal that enough private time had been spent in the car. They married on December 1, 1945 at the Grace Lutheran Church, River Edge. They spent their honeymoon in Washington DC and incorporated a visit to Trudy’s sister Anita who was serving time in the United States Navy and was stationed in the Washington area. Trudy stated that during the first year of their marriage they would have starved if Edward hadn’t done the cooking. They lived in Clifton, Wayne, and Parsippany before retiring to Brooksville, FL in 1984. Edward passed away on November 16, 2009 and Trudy returned to Wayne, NJ in 2010 to be closer to her family.
Before graduating High School Trudy was recruited by the Bell Telephone Company to work as an receptionist and telephone operator from 1945-1955 for NJ Bell Telephone in Hackensack, NJ. From 1955-1965 she sold Tupperware door to door and from 1970 – 1985 she worked as a receptionist for the Becton Dickinson Corporation in West Caldwell, NJ.
Trudy and her late husband Edward were founding members of St. Timothy Evangelical Lutheran Church, Wayne where Trudy was always a reliable volunteer.
She loved to travel and has been to Hawaii twice, Alaska, California, Florida and on five cruises. She enjoyed spending time at the Community Social Club and the Garden Club in Brooksville, FL but most of all she enjoyed writing letters, sending cards and shopping from catalogs. Her special touch on German Potato Salad was a family favorite.
She was predeceased by her loving husband of sixty-four years Edward Spann (2009); loving mother of Jeffrey and April Spann of Rockaway and Richard and Janet Spann of Bethel, CT; cherished grandmother of Kelly, Ryan, Lauren and Craig; loved sister of Anita Phoenix and her husband Lee of North Carolina and Henriette Anderson of Whiting, NJ.
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