Gloria M. Boyle

Gloria La Sala Boyle (nee Du Bois) age 89 of Wayne passed peacefully, with the comfort of family by her side, on Tuesday, December 11, 2018.

She was born in Paterson and lived in the same house in Wayne for fifty-five years having lived in Lincoln Park for sixteen years before returning in 2000 to her childhood home in Wayne. She graduated from Pompton Lakes High School with the Class of 1947.

Gloria’s first job was picking strawberries on her Aunt Marie VanRiper’s farm.  She was paid 5 cents/quart.  She also babysat for 25 cents/hour regardless of the number of children she was watching. She later got a job with the A&P Tea Company of Belleville in the payroll department. Before retiring in 1999 she was the assistant supervisor for the S.B. Thomas Bakery in Totowa where she worked for thirty-one years.

She was a lifelong member of the United Methodist Church in Wayne and a member of the church’s Ruth Circle.

Gloria was very active in her community having belonged to the Order of the Eastern Star Mountain View Chapter 205, the Golden Key, Fellowship Club of Pequannock, and helped sew sleeping bags for the homeless at the Packanack Community Church in Wayne.

Her first husband William La Sala was her high school sweetheart.  Their first date was to see a movie and after William took Gloria to “The Wheel” where they served pizza and alcohol.  As a Methodist she was supposed to avoid establishments that served alcohol and she remembers being very nervous about being spotted in such a place. Gloria remembers not wanting to be criticized for marrying too young so she dated William until she was twenty-one. They married at the United Methodist Church in Wayne in October of 1950 and enjoyed twenty-four years of loving and devoted marriage until William had a heart attack and passed in 1974.  After his passing she joined the group “Parents Without Partners” and met Kevin Boyle. Their first date was to an Indian Pow Wow in Oakland.  Kevin was in need of an operation to fuse the vertebrae in his neck, a procedure only done in Canada at the time. Once Kevin had his operation he would need to be nursed back to health at home. Gloria felt the only befitting  way to give him the care he would need was to marry him before the operation.  This way she could bring him to her home without criticism. They married on June 18, 1976 and spent their honeymoon week at the hospital in Canada. They enjoyed thirty-four years of marriage before his passing in 2010.

Gloria was the loving wife of the late William J. La Sala (1974) and the late Kevin E. Boyle (2010); devoted mother of William J. La Sala, Jr. and his wife Deborah of Wantage, the late Patrick Boyle (1973), Kathleen Jurewicz and her husband Mark of Pompton Plains, Maureen Duthie and her husband Wade of Hewitt, John Boyle of Manchester, the late Sharon Boyle, Timothy Boyle of Bedford, NH, and Brian Boyle and his wife Kristin of Allendale; sister of the late Richard DuBois; cherished grandmother of thirteen grandchildren.  She was predeceased by her son, Kevin earlier this year.