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Friends may visit with the family from 4-8 PM on Wednesday, January 28, 2015 at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
Funeral services will be held 10 AM on Thursday, January 29, 2015 at the funeral home.
Entombment will be in Laurel Grove Cemetery, Totowa.
Gladys S. Foerster age 79 of Wayne passed peacefully at home on Sunday, January 25, 2015.
She was born in the family home on Lanza Avenue in Garfield and graduated from Garfield High School with the Class of 1953.
Gladys and Gary were high school sweethearts who married at the Hungarian Reformed Church in Passaic on May 8, 1954. Gary was in the service and they had to live on base at the White Sands Proving Grounds in New Mexico. Gladys cried all the way to New Mexico when they moved there and she cried harder when they had to move back to New Jersey. They have enjoyed sixty-one years of a loving and caring marriage.
Gladys worked in a secretarial capacity for the Civil Service in New Mexico and New Jersey until the birth of her first child. After the birth of her first child she dedicated herself to raising her family. Gladys was outgoing, personable and the mom that was involved in the PTA, snow closing phone chain for the school, and according to her son Gary all the boys on the block thought she was the prettiest mom. For many years her husband served at the Boys and Girls Club in Clifton and was president for four years; always one to stand by her husband’s side she helped organize the ladies of the annual golf tournament. She was a pretty good golfer herself and was a member of the Upper Montclair Country Club in Clifton for many years. Each year the Christmas spirit would be evidenced with her extensive decorations and cookies. She was a great cook that was schooled in the recipes of Hungarian specialties by her mother. The most important ingredient in her pantry was the love she cooked into everything she made; her stuffed cabbage and chicken paprikash recipes will be forever missed…only her husband will miss her liver recipe.
She was the beloved wife of Gary O. Foerster; beloved mother of Gary A. Foerster and his wife Jane of Blairstown, and Gayle B. Foerster Hine and her husband John of Bloomsburg, PA; cherished grandmother of Paige Dwyer, Dylan Hine, Carley Foerster, and Connor Foerster; loved sister of the late Yolanda Ressler.
In lieu of flowers memorial donations to the Boys and Girls Club of Clifton, 181 Colfax Ave., Clifton, NJ 07103 would be appreciated.
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Friends may visit with the family from 4-8 PM on Wednesday, January 28, 2015 at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
Funeral services will be held 10 AM on Thursday, January 29, 2015 at the funeral home.
Entombment will be in Laurel Grove Cemetery, Totowa.
Services
Friends may visit with the family from 4-8 PM on Wednesday, January 28, 2015 at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
Funeral services will be held 10 AM on Thursday, January 29, 2015 at the funeral home.
Entombment will be in Laurel Grove Cemetery, Totowa.
Gladys S. Foerster age 79 of Wayne passed peacefully at home on Sunday, January 25, 2015.
She was born in the family home on Lanza Avenue in Garfield and graduated from Garfield High School with the Class of 1953.
Gladys and Gary were high school sweethearts who married at the Hungarian Reformed Church in Passaic on May 8, 1954. Gary was in the service and they had to live on base at the White Sands Proving Grounds in New Mexico. Gladys cried all the way to New Mexico when they moved there and she cried harder when they had to move back to New Jersey. They have enjoyed sixty-one years of a loving and caring marriage.
Gladys worked in a secretarial capacity for the Civil Service in New Mexico and New Jersey until the birth of her first child. After the birth of her first child she dedicated herself to raising her family. Gladys was outgoing, personable and the mom that was involved in the PTA, snow closing phone chain for the school, and according to her son Gary all the boys on the block thought she was the prettiest mom. For many years her husband served at the Boys and Girls Club in Clifton and was president for four years; always one to stand by her husband’s side she helped organize the ladies of the annual golf tournament. She was a pretty good golfer herself and was a member of the Upper Montclair Country Club in Clifton for many years. Each year the Christmas spirit would be evidenced with her extensive decorations and cookies. She was a great cook that was schooled in the recipes of Hungarian specialties by her mother. The most important ingredient in her pantry was the love she cooked into everything she made; her stuffed cabbage and chicken paprikash recipes will be forever missed…only her husband will miss her liver recipe.
She was the beloved wife of Gary O. Foerster; beloved mother of Gary A. Foerster and his wife Jane of Blairstown, and Gayle B. Foerster Hine and her husband John of Bloomsburg, PA; cherished grandmother of Paige Dwyer, Dylan Hine, Carley Foerster, and Connor Foerster; loved sister of the late Yolanda Ressler.
In lieu of flowers memorial donations to the Boys and Girls Club of Clifton, 181 Colfax Ave., Clifton, NJ 07103 would be appreciated.
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