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December 15, 2008
Services
Friends may visit with the family on Thursday, December 18, 2008 from 2-4 and 7-9 PM at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Rd., Wayne.
Funeral services will be held 10 AM on Friday, December 19, 2008 at the Wayne Presbyterian Church, 1200 Alps Rd., Wayne.
Interment will be in George Washington Memorial Park, Paramus.
Harvey N. Guis age 80, of Wayne and Riverdale died on Monday, December 15, 2008 at the Care One Health Care Center in Wayne.
He was born in Ridgewood where he spent his formative years moving to Wayne where he lived for forty-three years before moving to Riverdale seven years ago.
Harvey served in the Navy twice first during WW II on the USS Fogg, a Destroyer Escort and when the Korean War broke out he was called to return to duty and served in a Shore Patrol unit in the New York City area.
He was a member of the Wayne Presbyterian Church, coached the Wayne P.A.L. Junior Rifle Program, was past president of the Northern NJ Police Revolver League, past committee chairman of the Boy Scouts of America Troop 107, Pines Lake, Wayne, was a volunteer fireman in Ho-Ho-Kus for several years in the early 50's and an accomplished bowler in Hawthorne and more recently Oakland leagues.
Harvey was a police officer in Ridgewood and once married worked for the insurance industry, eventually advancing to the vice-president of claims for the Ambassador Insurance Company in Bergen County before going into his own business Guis & Associates, Insurance Consultants and Claim investigators in Montville which he operated from 1985 – 1992. His son took over the business which still operates today in Riverdale. Harvey was certified as a CPCU by the Institute of America.
He was predeceased by his wife Ruth A. Guis(Lauber) in June of 2000. Harvey met Ruth at a family party where they hit it off as they both shared an interest in hunting, fishing, camping and bowling. They married on July 7, 1956 and had forty-four years of loving and devoted marriage.
Harvey is the loving father of Ted Guis and his wife Robbin of Riverdale and Carol Gorski and her husband Stanley of Monterey Beach, NJ; cherished grandfather of Shawn Mowla, Samantha and Kimberly Guis; loved brother of Florence Kozusko of Sacramento, California and Shirley Griffiths of Chicago, Illinois.
In lieu of flowers memorial donations to The Scholarship Fund - Wayne Presbyterian Church, 1200 Alps Rd., Wayne, NJ 07470 would be appreciated.
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Friends may visit with the family on Thursday, December 18, 2008 from 2-4 and 7-9 PM at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Rd., Wayne.
Funeral services will be held 10 AM on Friday, December 19, 2008 at the Wayne Presbyterian Church, 1200 Alps Rd., Wayne.
Interment will be in George Washington Memorial Park, Paramus.
December 15, 2008
Services
Friends may visit with the family on Thursday, December 18, 2008 from 2-4 and 7-9 PM at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Rd., Wayne.
Funeral services will be held 10 AM on Friday, December 19, 2008 at the Wayne Presbyterian Church, 1200 Alps Rd., Wayne.
Interment will be in George Washington Memorial Park, Paramus.
Harvey N. Guis age 80, of Wayne and Riverdale died on Monday, December 15, 2008 at the Care One Health Care Center in Wayne.
He was born in Ridgewood where he spent his formative years moving to Wayne where he lived for forty-three years before moving to Riverdale seven years ago.
Harvey served in the Navy twice first during WW II on the USS Fogg, a Destroyer Escort and when the Korean War broke out he was called to return to duty and served in a Shore Patrol unit in the New York City area.
He was a member of the Wayne Presbyterian Church, coached the Wayne P.A.L. Junior Rifle Program, was past president of the Northern NJ Police Revolver League, past committee chairman of the Boy Scouts of America Troop 107, Pines Lake, Wayne, was a volunteer fireman in Ho-Ho-Kus for several years in the early 50's and an accomplished bowler in Hawthorne and more recently Oakland leagues.
Harvey was a police officer in Ridgewood and once married worked for the insurance industry, eventually advancing to the vice-president of claims for the Ambassador Insurance Company in Bergen County before going into his own business Guis & Associates, Insurance Consultants and Claim investigators in Montville which he operated from 1985 – 1992. His son took over the business which still operates today in Riverdale. Harvey was certified as a CPCU by the Institute of America.
He was predeceased by his wife Ruth A. Guis(Lauber) in June of 2000. Harvey met Ruth at a family party where they hit it off as they both shared an interest in hunting, fishing, camping and bowling. They married on July 7, 1956 and had forty-four years of loving and devoted marriage.
Harvey is the loving father of Ted Guis and his wife Robbin of Riverdale and Carol Gorski and her husband Stanley of Monterey Beach, NJ; cherished grandfather of Shawn Mowla, Samantha and Kimberly Guis; loved brother of Florence Kozusko of Sacramento, California and Shirley Griffiths of Chicago, Illinois.
In lieu of flowers memorial donations to The Scholarship Fund - Wayne Presbyterian Church, 1200 Alps Rd., Wayne, NJ 07470 would be appreciated.
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