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October 18, 2010
Services
Friends may visit with the family on Wednesday, October 20, 2010 from 2-4, 7-9 PM at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
Funeral services will be held 10 AM on Thursday, October 21, 2010 from the funeral home then to St. Mary’s RC Church, 17 Pompton Ave., Pompton Lakes where an 11 AM Funeral Mass will be offered.
Helen Marie O’Connor age 81 of Wayne died peacefully on Monday, October 18, 2010.
She was born in Brooklyn, NY and raised in Staten Island, NY having lived in Bronx, NY before moving to Wayne fifty-five years ago.
Mrs. O’Connor was a Registered Nurse having been trained by Lenox Hill Hospital, NYC with the Class of 1950. She served as an RN for Lenox Hill Hospital, NYC for fifteen years and later practiced at Saint Joseph’s Hospital, Paterson where she worked before retiring in 1966.
She was a parishioner of Our Lady of Consolation RC Church, Wayne for many years and most recently was a member of St. Mary’s RC Church, Pompton Lakes.
She will be remembered as a vibrant, active, selfless, gracious person who just recently stated to her family that she had a “great life”. She enjoyed sewing, was a member of a local sewing club, and will be remembered for the many Baptismal Bonnets that could be used in the future as a something old bridal kerchief. She rarely watched television but would read several books a week. She has read so many books that she started keeping a log of the books she read to avoid re-reading a book. Helen played tennis in Wayne for many years before moving to Naples, FL.
Helen first met her husband to be, John O’Connor, when he went to visit his Aunt Carol who was being treated at Lenox Hill Hospital. They met again at a dance at the hospital. John had to be dragged to the dance by a friend and Helen just happened to swing by the dance after her shift. Their first date was a visit to the Empire State Building and they married at Blessed Sacrament RC Church, Bronx, NY on February 3, 1951. They honeymooned in a cottage at Mount Airy Lodge in the Pocono's and enjoyed a loving, supportive, caring and devoted forty-nine years of marriage before Johns passing on December 6, 2000.
She was the loving wife of the late John Francis O’Connor(2000); loving mother of Patricia A. O’Connor and her husband Kenneth Hefferle of Pompton Plains, Nancy J. Lavorgna and her husband Larry of Kinnelon, and John O’Connor and his wife Maryam of Wayne; cherished grandmother of Emily Lavorgna, Alexandra and Andrew O’Connor; devoted sister of Paul Joseph Harris of Raleigh, NC, and the late Dorothy Begley, Vernon Collette, and Midge Harris.
In lieu of flowers memorial donations to the Hospice of the Visiting Nurse Assoc. of Northern NJ, 175 South Street, Morristown, NJ 07960 would be appreciated.
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Friends may visit with the family on Wednesday, October 20, 2010 from 2-4, 7-9 PM at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
Funeral services will be held 10 AM on Thursday, October 21, 2010 from the funeral home then to St. Mary’s RC Church, 17 Pompton Ave., Pompton Lakes where an 11 AM Funeral Mass will be offered.
October 18, 2010
Services
Friends may visit with the family on Wednesday, October 20, 2010 from 2-4, 7-9 PM at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
Funeral services will be held 10 AM on Thursday, October 21, 2010 from the funeral home then to St. Mary’s RC Church, 17 Pompton Ave., Pompton Lakes where an 11 AM Funeral Mass will be offered.
Helen Marie O’Connor age 81 of Wayne died peacefully on Monday, October 18, 2010.
She was born in Brooklyn, NY and raised in Staten Island, NY having lived in Bronx, NY before moving to Wayne fifty-five years ago.
Mrs. O’Connor was a Registered Nurse having been trained by Lenox Hill Hospital, NYC with the Class of 1950. She served as an RN for Lenox Hill Hospital, NYC for fifteen years and later practiced at Saint Joseph’s Hospital, Paterson where she worked before retiring in 1966.
She was a parishioner of Our Lady of Consolation RC Church, Wayne for many years and most recently was a member of St. Mary’s RC Church, Pompton Lakes.
She will be remembered as a vibrant, active, selfless, gracious person who just recently stated to her family that she had a “great life”. She enjoyed sewing, was a member of a local sewing club, and will be remembered for the many Baptismal Bonnets that could be used in the future as a something old bridal kerchief. She rarely watched television but would read several books a week. She has read so many books that she started keeping a log of the books she read to avoid re-reading a book. Helen played tennis in Wayne for many years before moving to Naples, FL.
Helen first met her husband to be, John O’Connor, when he went to visit his Aunt Carol who was being treated at Lenox Hill Hospital. They met again at a dance at the hospital. John had to be dragged to the dance by a friend and Helen just happened to swing by the dance after her shift. Their first date was a visit to the Empire State Building and they married at Blessed Sacrament RC Church, Bronx, NY on February 3, 1951. They honeymooned in a cottage at Mount Airy Lodge in the Pocono's and enjoyed a loving, supportive, caring and devoted forty-nine years of marriage before Johns passing on December 6, 2000.
She was the loving wife of the late John Francis O’Connor(2000); loving mother of Patricia A. O’Connor and her husband Kenneth Hefferle of Pompton Plains, Nancy J. Lavorgna and her husband Larry of Kinnelon, and John O’Connor and his wife Maryam of Wayne; cherished grandmother of Emily Lavorgna, Alexandra and Andrew O’Connor; devoted sister of Paul Joseph Harris of Raleigh, NC, and the late Dorothy Begley, Vernon Collette, and Midge Harris.
In lieu of flowers memorial donations to the Hospice of the Visiting Nurse Assoc. of Northern NJ, 175 South Street, Morristown, NJ 07960 would be appreciated.
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