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Hedwig Herzog (nee Kosakowski) age 92 of the Packanack Lake section of Wayne died peacefully at home on Saturday, August 25, 2012.
She was born in Philadelphia Pennsylvania and raised in Coatesville Pennsylvania having graduated from Coatesville High School with the Class of 1936. She graduated from Beaver College, now known as Arcadia University, in Glenside Pennsylvania with a Bachelor of Science Degree in English with the Class of 1940. She went on to receive her Masters Degree in Library Science from Drexel University in Philadelphia Pennsylvania.
After college she got a job with the Brooklyn Library in New York City where she worked from 1951 – 1953. She married and raised her family returning to the workforce in 1963 working for the Pompton Lakes Board of Education in New Jersey until 1966 and for the Little Falls Board of Education from 1966 – 1972. She then worked for the Singer Kearfott Corporation in Totowa until her retirement in 1984.
She met her husband William G. Herzog while on a blind date. Their first date was in Morristown and they soon fell in love. They married at Saint Stanislaus Church in Coatesville Pennsylvania on June 21, 1953 and honeymooned at Niagara Falls New York. They enjoyed fifty-two years of a loving, complimentary, opposites attract marriage until William’s passing on January 30, 2005.
Hedwig enjoyed bowling in her younger years but her true passion was playing Pinochle, Bridge, and doing crossword puzzles. She even won $25.00 in a New York Times crossword challenge many years ago.
She was the loving wife of the late William G. Herzog (2005); devoted mother of Carol Herzog of Wayne, and Timothy Herzog and his wife Rosalind of Ridgewood; cherished grandmother of Laura Herzog, Teresa Rose Herzog, William Herzog, and Claire Herzog; dear sister of Helen Alejko of Ephrata Pennsylvania, and the late Raymond Kasakowski.
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Funeral services are being held privately.
August 25, 2012
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Funeral services are being held privately.
Hedwig Herzog (nee Kosakowski) age 92 of the Packanack Lake section of Wayne died peacefully at home on Saturday, August 25, 2012.
She was born in Philadelphia Pennsylvania and raised in Coatesville Pennsylvania having graduated from Coatesville High School with the Class of 1936. She graduated from Beaver College, now known as Arcadia University, in Glenside Pennsylvania with a Bachelor of Science Degree in English with the Class of 1940. She went on to receive her Masters Degree in Library Science from Drexel University in Philadelphia Pennsylvania.
After college she got a job with the Brooklyn Library in New York City where she worked from 1951 – 1953. She married and raised her family returning to the workforce in 1963 working for the Pompton Lakes Board of Education in New Jersey until 1966 and for the Little Falls Board of Education from 1966 – 1972. She then worked for the Singer Kearfott Corporation in Totowa until her retirement in 1984.
She met her husband William G. Herzog while on a blind date. Their first date was in Morristown and they soon fell in love. They married at Saint Stanislaus Church in Coatesville Pennsylvania on June 21, 1953 and honeymooned at Niagara Falls New York. They enjoyed fifty-two years of a loving, complimentary, opposites attract marriage until William’s passing on January 30, 2005.
Hedwig enjoyed bowling in her younger years but her true passion was playing Pinochle, Bridge, and doing crossword puzzles. She even won $25.00 in a New York Times crossword challenge many years ago.
She was the loving wife of the late William G. Herzog (2005); devoted mother of Carol Herzog of Wayne, and Timothy Herzog and his wife Rosalind of Ridgewood; cherished grandmother of Laura Herzog, Teresa Rose Herzog, William Herzog, and Claire Herzog; dear sister of Helen Alejko of Ephrata Pennsylvania, and the late Raymond Kasakowski.
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