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November 24, 2010
Services
Funeral services will be held Tuesday, November 30, 2010 at 8 AM at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne then to Immaculate Heart of Mary RC Church, Wayne where at 9 AM a Funeral Mass will be offered. Friends may visit with the family at the funeral home on Monday from 7-9 PM.
Helen Bernadette Rokita (nee Muraski) age 90 of Wayne died unexpectedly at home on Wednesday, November 24, 2010. Her passing to life eternal was graciously peaceful.
She was born in Harrison and had lived in Bloomfield before moving to Wayne in 1955.
She received her formal education at Bloomfield High School graduating with the Class of 1939.
Helen was a founding charter parishioner of the Immaculate Heart of Mary RC Church in Wayne.
Mrs. Rokita was a partner with her husband Henry in Wayne Nuts and Bolts Hardware store located in the Packanack Shopping Center. They established the business in 1957. The store is a very popular well known source for everything hardware. Helen’s son Stephen continues the business as Wayne’s most a popular hardware store to this day. The store is an amazing example of a very complete hardware store that caters to homeowners, tradesman and local business. If they do not have the part you need they will either get for you or advise you how to work around your problem.
Helen started her career in Bloomfield working for H.W. Yecie’s Hardware Store where she worked from 1938 to 1945. Helen and her husband then owned Vernon Liquor Shop in Clifton which they operated for ten years and in 1955 they established Wayne Nuts and Bolts Hardware Store in Wayne with Helen finally retiring in January of 2006.
Helen and Hank had a very loving and devoted marriage together for fifty years before Hank’s passing in 1993.
Surviving are two sons Stephen Rokita of Wantage and Richard Rokita of North Miami Beach, Florida; three grandchildren Scott Rokita, Stephen Ryan Rokita and James Rokita; one sister in law Helen Muraski of Brick; one niece Susan Luchejko of Wayne; six nephews John Josieniecki of Bloomfield, George, Robert, Thomas, Richard Muraski, Thomas Rokita and his wife Laura of Trucksville, PA, Dr. John Rokita and his wife Maureen.
Her brother Walter Muraski predeceased her in December of 2005, her sister Stephanie Jasieniecki died in January 2008, her nephew Theodore Josieniecki died earlier as did her brother in law Edmund Rokita.
Helen will be laid to rest at the Mount Olivet cemetery in Bloomfield with her late husband Henry Rokita.
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Funeral services will be held Tuesday, November 30, 2010 at 8 AM at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne then to Immaculate Heart of Mary RC Church, Wayne where at 9 AM a Funeral Mass will be offered. Friends may visit with the family at the funeral home on Monday from 7-9 PM.
November 24, 2010
Services
Funeral services will be held Tuesday, November 30, 2010 at 8 AM at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne then to Immaculate Heart of Mary RC Church, Wayne where at 9 AM a Funeral Mass will be offered. Friends may visit with the family at the funeral home on Monday from 7-9 PM.
Helen Bernadette Rokita (nee Muraski) age 90 of Wayne died unexpectedly at home on Wednesday, November 24, 2010. Her passing to life eternal was graciously peaceful.
She was born in Harrison and had lived in Bloomfield before moving to Wayne in 1955.
She received her formal education at Bloomfield High School graduating with the Class of 1939.
Helen was a founding charter parishioner of the Immaculate Heart of Mary RC Church in Wayne.
Mrs. Rokita was a partner with her husband Henry in Wayne Nuts and Bolts Hardware store located in the Packanack Shopping Center. They established the business in 1957. The store is a very popular well known source for everything hardware. Helen’s son Stephen continues the business as Wayne’s most a popular hardware store to this day. The store is an amazing example of a very complete hardware store that caters to homeowners, tradesman and local business. If they do not have the part you need they will either get for you or advise you how to work around your problem.
Helen started her career in Bloomfield working for H.W. Yecie’s Hardware Store where she worked from 1938 to 1945. Helen and her husband then owned Vernon Liquor Shop in Clifton which they operated for ten years and in 1955 they established Wayne Nuts and Bolts Hardware Store in Wayne with Helen finally retiring in January of 2006.
Helen and Hank had a very loving and devoted marriage together for fifty years before Hank’s passing in 1993.
Surviving are two sons Stephen Rokita of Wantage and Richard Rokita of North Miami Beach, Florida; three grandchildren Scott Rokita, Stephen Ryan Rokita and James Rokita; one sister in law Helen Muraski of Brick; one niece Susan Luchejko of Wayne; six nephews John Josieniecki of Bloomfield, George, Robert, Thomas, Richard Muraski, Thomas Rokita and his wife Laura of Trucksville, PA, Dr. John Rokita and his wife Maureen.
Her brother Walter Muraski predeceased her in December of 2005, her sister Stephanie Jasieniecki died in January 2008, her nephew Theodore Josieniecki died earlier as did her brother in law Edmund Rokita.
Helen will be laid to rest at the Mount Olivet cemetery in Bloomfield with her late husband Henry Rokita.
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