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September 14, 2008
Services
Funeral services will be held 10 AM on Thursday, September 18, 2008 at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
Friends may visit with the family from 2-4 and 7-9 PM on Wednesday, September 17, 2008 at the funeral home.
Interment will be in Maryrest Cemetery, Darlington.
Harold “Hal” Meagher, age 84 of Toms River, died Sunday, September 14, 2008 in the loving arms of his wife.
He was born in New Brunswick and lived in Lodi, Oakland and Bloomingdale before moving to Toms River twenty years ago.
He was a United States Army Air Corp Veteran of WWII having served in the Normandy, Northern France, Ardennes, Rhineland, Central Europe and the Air Offensive of Europe campaigns; attaining the rank of Corporal with the 234th Army Air Force Base Unit. He received the European-African-Middle Eastern Ribbon with six Bronze Stars and a Good Conduct Medal. He was a past Commander of VFW Post 9384, Ernest A. Rutter Post of Oakland.
He was a member of Our Lady of Perpetual Help RC Church, Oakland and for the past thirty years was a member of the Free Reformed Church of Pompton Plains.
He worked for the Bendix Corporation, Bendix, NJ for several years having worked for the Swiss Precision Instrument Corporation, Carlstadt from 1974 through1998 when he went to work for the Murphy Bus Company, Brick where he was still working.
Hal is best described as a person who was easy to talk to, had a great sense of humor, very patriotic and very Irish. He always had an Irish catch-phrase to offer such as: “Top of the Mornin’ to ya”.
He is the beloved husband of thirty-eight years to Elizabeth (Beversluis) Meagher and was predeceased by his first wife Audrey Pauline(Sherwood) Meagher in 1968; loving father of Mary Bancala and her husband Lou of Towaco, the late Kenneth Vincent Meagher(1989), Michael Meagher of Franklin, Pat Wagoner of Franklin Lakes, Kathleen Friedhoff and her husband Steve of Mt. Laurel; devoted step-father of Don Rogers Sr. and his wife Helen of Pompton Plains, Arlene Cooper and her husband John of Pompton Plains and John Rogers and his wife Cindy of Sebastian, FL; loved brother of the late Kenneth Vincent Meagher, Jr.(1987); cherished grandfather of twenty-four grandchildren and fourteen great-grandchildren.
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Funeral services will be held 10 AM on Thursday, September 18, 2008 at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
Friends may visit with the family from 2-4 and 7-9 PM on Wednesday, September 17, 2008 at the funeral home.
Interment will be in Maryrest Cemetery, Darlington.
September 14, 2008
Services
Funeral services will be held 10 AM on Thursday, September 18, 2008 at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
Friends may visit with the family from 2-4 and 7-9 PM on Wednesday, September 17, 2008 at the funeral home.
Interment will be in Maryrest Cemetery, Darlington.
Harold “Hal” Meagher, age 84 of Toms River, died Sunday, September 14, 2008 in the loving arms of his wife.
He was born in New Brunswick and lived in Lodi, Oakland and Bloomingdale before moving to Toms River twenty years ago.
He was a United States Army Air Corp Veteran of WWII having served in the Normandy, Northern France, Ardennes, Rhineland, Central Europe and the Air Offensive of Europe campaigns; attaining the rank of Corporal with the 234th Army Air Force Base Unit. He received the European-African-Middle Eastern Ribbon with six Bronze Stars and a Good Conduct Medal. He was a past Commander of VFW Post 9384, Ernest A. Rutter Post of Oakland.
He was a member of Our Lady of Perpetual Help RC Church, Oakland and for the past thirty years was a member of the Free Reformed Church of Pompton Plains.
He worked for the Bendix Corporation, Bendix, NJ for several years having worked for the Swiss Precision Instrument Corporation, Carlstadt from 1974 through1998 when he went to work for the Murphy Bus Company, Brick where he was still working.
Hal is best described as a person who was easy to talk to, had a great sense of humor, very patriotic and very Irish. He always had an Irish catch-phrase to offer such as: “Top of the Mornin’ to ya”.
He is the beloved husband of thirty-eight years to Elizabeth (Beversluis) Meagher and was predeceased by his first wife Audrey Pauline(Sherwood) Meagher in 1968; loving father of Mary Bancala and her husband Lou of Towaco, the late Kenneth Vincent Meagher(1989), Michael Meagher of Franklin, Pat Wagoner of Franklin Lakes, Kathleen Friedhoff and her husband Steve of Mt. Laurel; devoted step-father of Don Rogers Sr. and his wife Helen of Pompton Plains, Arlene Cooper and her husband John of Pompton Plains and John Rogers and his wife Cindy of Sebastian, FL; loved brother of the late Kenneth Vincent Meagher, Jr.(1987); cherished grandfather of twenty-four grandchildren and fourteen great-grandchildren.
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