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September 8, 2014
Services
Friends may visit with the family on Thursday, September 11, 2014 from 4-7:30PM at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
Interment will take place privately at the Brig. General William C. Doyle Cemetery, Wrightstown.
Harold C. Coyle age 96 of Wayne passed peacefully on Monday, September 8, 2014.
He was born in the family home at 35 Washington Ave., and raised on 3rd Street, in Clifton. He attended Seton Hall Prep school for two years and finished his last two years of high school at Clifton High School with the Class of 1936.
Just out of high school Harold worked at the Clifton Savings Bank as a teller. He soon found work at the Curtis Wright Corporation’s propeller division in Caldwell. During his time at Curtis Wright he was sent to Indiana to help get a new manufacturing plant going. He had lots of time to think while in Indiana and decided to propose marriage to Grace Ruuth. He proposed over the telephone and had his father place the wedding ring on Grace’s finger. They married at the family home on 3rd Street in Clifton and honeymooned in Philadelphia.
They rented a home in the Packanack Lake section of Wayne early in their marriage. During this time many of Harold’s friends were signing up to join the military and Harold followed suit. He went home to tell Grace he’d signed up to join the Army and Grace informed him she was pregnant with their second child. Grace moved in with her in-laws while Harold served in the US Army’s Air Corps. He attained the rank of Corporal and was a gunnery instructor on B-29’s at “Rattlesnake Bomber Base” in Peyote, Texas. He was awarded the American Service Medal, the Good Conduct Medal, and the WWII Victory Medal.
After his service in the military he returned to work for the Curtis Wright Corporation in Caldwell and the family returned to the Packanack Lake section of Wayne to buy a home. Grace got into a conversation with the milk man who said he was selling his business. Grace told him her husband may be interested. Harold purchased the business, Blue Ribbon Dairy, and delivered milk in Wayne and Pompton Plains before selling the business in 1970. After selling the dairy business, he worked for the Township of Wayne as the Chief Fire Inspector for many years before retiring in 1983.
Harold was a former Chief of the Packanack Lake Fire Company #5 in Wayne. He joined the fire department after being at a party in Packanack when flames were spotted coming from a home. He witnessed a large group from the party leave to put out the fire. He admired them for their bravery and commitment and decided joining the fire department was for him.
Harold and his wife Grace retired to Crestwood Village in Whiting where they lived until Grace’s passing in 2010. After Grace’s passing Harold moved in with his son Doug and his wife Donna in Wayne.
He is survived by his five children Harold C. Coyle, Jr. (Buz) of Ocean View, Sandy Coyle-Coyle and her husband Ed of Wayne, Ken Coyle and his wife Ginger of Tempe, AZ, Doug Coyle and his wife Donna of Wayne, and Wayne Coyle and his wife Sissy of Parkesburg, PA; cherished grandfather of fifteen grand-children and sixteen great-grandchildren; loved brother of the late Ruth Boardman and the late James B. Coyle.
In lieu of flowers memorial donations to the Wayne Memorial First Aid Squad, PO Box 2004, Wayne, NJ 07474 would be appreciated.
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Friends may visit with the family on Thursday, September 11, 2014 from 4-7:30PM at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
Interment will take place privately at the Brig. General William C. Doyle Cemetery, Wrightstown.
September 8, 2014
Services
Friends may visit with the family on Thursday, September 11, 2014 from 4-7:30PM at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
Interment will take place privately at the Brig. General William C. Doyle Cemetery, Wrightstown.
Harold C. Coyle age 96 of Wayne passed peacefully on Monday, September 8, 2014.
He was born in the family home at 35 Washington Ave., and raised on 3rd Street, in Clifton. He attended Seton Hall Prep school for two years and finished his last two years of high school at Clifton High School with the Class of 1936.
Just out of high school Harold worked at the Clifton Savings Bank as a teller. He soon found work at the Curtis Wright Corporation’s propeller division in Caldwell. During his time at Curtis Wright he was sent to Indiana to help get a new manufacturing plant going. He had lots of time to think while in Indiana and decided to propose marriage to Grace Ruuth. He proposed over the telephone and had his father place the wedding ring on Grace’s finger. They married at the family home on 3rd Street in Clifton and honeymooned in Philadelphia.
They rented a home in the Packanack Lake section of Wayne early in their marriage. During this time many of Harold’s friends were signing up to join the military and Harold followed suit. He went home to tell Grace he’d signed up to join the Army and Grace informed him she was pregnant with their second child. Grace moved in with her in-laws while Harold served in the US Army’s Air Corps. He attained the rank of Corporal and was a gunnery instructor on B-29’s at “Rattlesnake Bomber Base” in Peyote, Texas. He was awarded the American Service Medal, the Good Conduct Medal, and the WWII Victory Medal.
After his service in the military he returned to work for the Curtis Wright Corporation in Caldwell and the family returned to the Packanack Lake section of Wayne to buy a home. Grace got into a conversation with the milk man who said he was selling his business. Grace told him her husband may be interested. Harold purchased the business, Blue Ribbon Dairy, and delivered milk in Wayne and Pompton Plains before selling the business in 1970. After selling the dairy business, he worked for the Township of Wayne as the Chief Fire Inspector for many years before retiring in 1983.
Harold was a former Chief of the Packanack Lake Fire Company #5 in Wayne. He joined the fire department after being at a party in Packanack when flames were spotted coming from a home. He witnessed a large group from the party leave to put out the fire. He admired them for their bravery and commitment and decided joining the fire department was for him.
Harold and his wife Grace retired to Crestwood Village in Whiting where they lived until Grace’s passing in 2010. After Grace’s passing Harold moved in with his son Doug and his wife Donna in Wayne.
He is survived by his five children Harold C. Coyle, Jr. (Buz) of Ocean View, Sandy Coyle-Coyle and her husband Ed of Wayne, Ken Coyle and his wife Ginger of Tempe, AZ, Doug Coyle and his wife Donna of Wayne, and Wayne Coyle and his wife Sissy of Parkesburg, PA; cherished grandfather of fifteen grand-children and sixteen great-grandchildren; loved brother of the late Ruth Boardman and the late James B. Coyle.
In lieu of flowers memorial donations to the Wayne Memorial First Aid Squad, PO Box 2004, Wayne, NJ 07474 would be appreciated.
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