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November 3, 2008
Services
A memorial service will be held Friday, November 14, 2008 at 10 AM at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne. Friends may visit with the family at the funeral home prior to the memorial service from 9-10 AM.
Helen F. Caldwell (nee Forbes) age 87 of Midland, Texas on Monday, November 3, 2008 at the Manor Park Mabee Center Assisted Living in Midland, Texas. Her passing was quiet and peaceful.
She was born in East Hartford, Connecticut and spent her formative years in Vernon, Connecticut where she graduated from Vernon High School with the Class of 1938. She then went on to study at Mount Holyoke College graduating with the Class of 1942 with a Bachelor of Arts Honors Degree in English Literature. Her career choice in life was to be a mom and homemaker all to the benefit of her family. She was always very attentive to her familyʼs needs.
She moved to Packanack Lake in Wayne where she spent many years before moving to Bradenton, Florida where she lived for twenty five years before moving to Midland, Texas a year and one half ago to be near her daughter Diana Miracle and her first great grand child.
Helen was gifted with intelligence and was especially adept at intellectual pursuits. Her personality was reserved and serious but when she made a friend she was very loyal to that relationship. Her thinking skills made her very good at the game of Bridge and she was a member of several Bridge clubs.
Richard (Dick) and Helen Caldwell met as professionals in the Metropolitan area and soon became a couple. They married and had close to forty years of "happy loving" marriage together. As they went through their married life she was always assisting Dick with his business and when he joined an organization she often accompanied him to his meetings and joined the ladies auxiliary of that organization.
In Bradenton Florida she was a member of the Palma Sola Presbyterian Church of Bradenton and while in Wayne she was a member of the Packanack Community Church.
Perhaps her favorite hobby was golf. She was a member of the Packanack Golf Club as well as in her retirement years in Bradenton, Florida where she was a member of the Palma Sola Golf Course.
She also enjoyed reading, her daily cross-word puzzles and traveling with Dick. They both loved the Jersey Shore and had a summer home in Chadwick Beach and later rented on Long Beach Island where the family spent many happy summers. She made photo composite picture frames filled with memories of days spent at the beach, time spent together as a family, playing cards and participating in miniature golf.
Throughout her life she was very active within her community. She volunteered with the American Red Cross and served many years as a "Pink Lady" volunteer at the Chilton Memorial Hospital in Pompton Plains.
She and Dick had a beloved miniature pedigreed dachshund pet named "Heir Hans of Hillside" as well as a cat named "Whisper". Later to be followed by a Boston Bulldog named "Benji"
Surviving are her daughter Diana Miracle and her husband Lynn of Midland, Texas, two sons Duncan Caldwell and his wife Bonnie of Newton, NJ and Richard Caldwell and his wife Kathy of Rockaway, NJ,; one brother Frank Forbes of South Carolina; seven grandchildren Andrew, Brandon, Randall Whan, Kathy, Richard, Kevin and Kelly Caldwell and one great granddaughter Emily Whan.
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A memorial service will be held Friday, November 14, 2008 at 10 AM at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne. Friends may visit with the family at the funeral home prior to the memorial service from 9-10 AM.
November 3, 2008
Services
A memorial service will be held Friday, November 14, 2008 at 10 AM at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne. Friends may visit with the family at the funeral home prior to the memorial service from 9-10 AM.
Helen F. Caldwell (nee Forbes) age 87 of Midland, Texas on Monday, November 3, 2008 at the Manor Park Mabee Center Assisted Living in Midland, Texas. Her passing was quiet and peaceful.
She was born in East Hartford, Connecticut and spent her formative years in Vernon, Connecticut where she graduated from Vernon High School with the Class of 1938. She then went on to study at Mount Holyoke College graduating with the Class of 1942 with a Bachelor of Arts Honors Degree in English Literature. Her career choice in life was to be a mom and homemaker all to the benefit of her family. She was always very attentive to her familyʼs needs.
She moved to Packanack Lake in Wayne where she spent many years before moving to Bradenton, Florida where she lived for twenty five years before moving to Midland, Texas a year and one half ago to be near her daughter Diana Miracle and her first great grand child.
Helen was gifted with intelligence and was especially adept at intellectual pursuits. Her personality was reserved and serious but when she made a friend she was very loyal to that relationship. Her thinking skills made her very good at the game of Bridge and she was a member of several Bridge clubs.
Richard (Dick) and Helen Caldwell met as professionals in the Metropolitan area and soon became a couple. They married and had close to forty years of "happy loving" marriage together. As they went through their married life she was always assisting Dick with his business and when he joined an organization she often accompanied him to his meetings and joined the ladies auxiliary of that organization.
In Bradenton Florida she was a member of the Palma Sola Presbyterian Church of Bradenton and while in Wayne she was a member of the Packanack Community Church.
Perhaps her favorite hobby was golf. She was a member of the Packanack Golf Club as well as in her retirement years in Bradenton, Florida where she was a member of the Palma Sola Golf Course.
She also enjoyed reading, her daily cross-word puzzles and traveling with Dick. They both loved the Jersey Shore and had a summer home in Chadwick Beach and later rented on Long Beach Island where the family spent many happy summers. She made photo composite picture frames filled with memories of days spent at the beach, time spent together as a family, playing cards and participating in miniature golf.
Throughout her life she was very active within her community. She volunteered with the American Red Cross and served many years as a "Pink Lady" volunteer at the Chilton Memorial Hospital in Pompton Plains.
She and Dick had a beloved miniature pedigreed dachshund pet named "Heir Hans of Hillside" as well as a cat named "Whisper". Later to be followed by a Boston Bulldog named "Benji"
Surviving are her daughter Diana Miracle and her husband Lynn of Midland, Texas, two sons Duncan Caldwell and his wife Bonnie of Newton, NJ and Richard Caldwell and his wife Kathy of Rockaway, NJ,; one brother Frank Forbes of South Carolina; seven grandchildren Andrew, Brandon, Randall Whan, Kathy, Richard, Kevin and Kelly Caldwell and one great granddaughter Emily Whan.
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