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November 28, 2010
Services
Friends may visit with the family from 2-6 PM with a 3:00 PM remembrance service on Sunday, December 5, 2010 at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
Funeral services will be held Monday 10 AM at the funeral home. Interment will be in Mount Rest Cemetery, Butler.
Hedwig A. “Heddy” “Omi” Lauber (Franke) age 91 of Wayne passed away on Sunday, November 28, 2010.
She was raised in Duisburg, Germany, and later lived in Buchenbronn, in Germany's Black Forest. While working the graveyard shift in a factory in Walzrode, Germany, she fainted and fell into the arms of Karl Lauber. They fell in love and married at the Buchenbronn Evangelical Lutheran Church on January 10, 1942. At the suggestion of Karl’s sister Friedel Bohsner, who lived in Elmont, New York, the couple came with their daughter, Ingrid, to the United States on September 21, 1953 aboard the USS America. It was 101 degrees that day as they entered this country! They settled in Elmont, where they had their second daughter, Annette, and later moved to Ridgewood, Queens, New York, before moving to Wayne in 1964. The family joined the Wayne Presbyterian Church.
Heddy was an athletic person who excelled in gymnastics. She won a regional competition in Germany, receiving a first place laurel wreath in the long jump.
While in Germany, the family lived through some very difficult years, but that never shaded Heddy’s wonderful sense of humor. She was feisty, outgoing, and generous. She loved knitting, crocheting, completing puzzles, and playing games like chinese checkers, backgammon and her favorite: Mensch Argere Dich Nicht. A passionate gardener, she also enjoyed anything to do with nature. She especially enjoyed car trips and toured many United States National Parks. She loved the change of seasons and often drove to view the fall foliage. She was an amazing cook and made many traditional German foods including roladen, spaetzle, and the best gravy in the world.
She was the loving and devoted wife of fifty-eight years to the late Karl Lauber (2000); loving mother of Ingrid Lauber of Wayne, and Annette Casey of West Paterson; and cherished grandmother of Tiffany and Krystina Casey. She was much loved by her five siblings, who all predeceased her.
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Friends may visit with the family from 2-6 PM with a 3:00 PM remembrance service on Sunday, December 5, 2010 at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
Funeral services will be held Monday 10 AM at the funeral home. Interment will be in Mount Rest Cemetery, Butler.
November 28, 2010
Services
Friends may visit with the family from 2-6 PM with a 3:00 PM remembrance service on Sunday, December 5, 2010 at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
Funeral services will be held Monday 10 AM at the funeral home. Interment will be in Mount Rest Cemetery, Butler.
Hedwig A. “Heddy” “Omi” Lauber (Franke) age 91 of Wayne passed away on Sunday, November 28, 2010.
She was raised in Duisburg, Germany, and later lived in Buchenbronn, in Germany's Black Forest. While working the graveyard shift in a factory in Walzrode, Germany, she fainted and fell into the arms of Karl Lauber. They fell in love and married at the Buchenbronn Evangelical Lutheran Church on January 10, 1942. At the suggestion of Karl’s sister Friedel Bohsner, who lived in Elmont, New York, the couple came with their daughter, Ingrid, to the United States on September 21, 1953 aboard the USS America. It was 101 degrees that day as they entered this country! They settled in Elmont, where they had their second daughter, Annette, and later moved to Ridgewood, Queens, New York, before moving to Wayne in 1964. The family joined the Wayne Presbyterian Church.
Heddy was an athletic person who excelled in gymnastics. She won a regional competition in Germany, receiving a first place laurel wreath in the long jump.
While in Germany, the family lived through some very difficult years, but that never shaded Heddy’s wonderful sense of humor. She was feisty, outgoing, and generous. She loved knitting, crocheting, completing puzzles, and playing games like chinese checkers, backgammon and her favorite: Mensch Argere Dich Nicht. A passionate gardener, she also enjoyed anything to do with nature. She especially enjoyed car trips and toured many United States National Parks. She loved the change of seasons and often drove to view the fall foliage. She was an amazing cook and made many traditional German foods including roladen, spaetzle, and the best gravy in the world.
She was the loving and devoted wife of fifty-eight years to the late Karl Lauber (2000); loving mother of Ingrid Lauber of Wayne, and Annette Casey of West Paterson; and cherished grandmother of Tiffany and Krystina Casey. She was much loved by her five siblings, who all predeceased her.
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