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February 10, 2014
Services
Friends may visit with the family from 3-6 PM on Wednesday, February 12, 2014 at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Rd., Wayne.
Funeral services will be held 10 AM on Friday, February 14, 2014 at the funeral home.
Interment will be in Fair Lawn Cemetery, Fair Lawn.
Henry Cauwenberghs age 88, of Wayne for over sixty years, passed peacefully on Monday, February 10, 2014.
He was born and raised in Midland Park having moved to Wayne in 1951. Henry met a pretty girl named Ada DeRuyscher when she was serving as a Lab Technician at the Bergen Pines Hospital in Paramus and he had been admitted as a TB patient. When Henry was well enough he checked himself out of the hospital and took Ada to the movies. They fell in love and Henry asked Ada's mother for her hand in marriage and then asked to borrow the $2.00 it would cost to secure the wedding license. They married at the Preakness Christian Reformed Church on Valley Road in Wayne on January 16, 1949. They drove to Fairfax Virginia for their honeymoon in an Oldsmobile that was so old they prayed every mile that it would make it. They had a loving, devoted, and as Henry stated a "perfect" sixty-three years of marriage before Ada's passing on August 26, 2012.
Henry enlisted in the United States Navy at the age of seventeen when he and a friend forged their parents's signatures on the enlistment documents that were required when a person enlisted under the age of eighteen. He served from July of 1943 through February of 1947. Henry served mostly in the South Pacific Theatre of the war and upon the USS San Carlos, a Barnegat-class seaplane tender. He received the United States Navy Honorable Service Button, Honorable Service Lapel, and Honorable Service Emblem.
After his service in the US Navy he worked for the Ridgewood Shade Tree Commission and from 1955 through his retirement in 1990 he worked as an inspector in the aerospace division of Singer-Kearfott Corporation at plant 1 in West Paterson.
Henry was a longstanding active member of the Preakness Valley United Reformed Church in Wayne. He enjoyed being outdoors and loved hunting and fishing. For many years he would fly to Montana to hunt Elk and Antelope. He developed a close friendship with a rancher in Montana and was privileged to hunt his property and even bunk with the cowboys that worked his ranch. An avid gardener he would grow tomatoes, squash, beans and all other kinds of vegetables that he would bring in to work and share with his co-workers. Henry also enjoyed beekeeping and had up to twenty-six hives in his yard. He would gather the honey and also share that with his co-workers. In his latter years the deer and squirrels became his friends with deer staring into his kitchen window waiting for him to come out and feed them.
Henry was the loving husband of over sixty years to the late Ada (DeRuyscher) Cauwenberghs (8/2012); devoted father of Henry Cauwenberghs and his wife Judy of Canajoharie, NY, Dawn DiPaola and her husband John of Wayne, and the late Diana Cauwenberghs (1974); loved brother of Albert Cauwenberghs and his wife Carol of Sunrise, FL, and the late Peter Cauwenberghs; cherished grandfather of Jennifer, Joseph, and Daniel Cauwenberghs, Jeffrey, Kristen, and Stephen DiPaola, and four great-grandchildren.
In lieu of flowers memorial donations to the Preakness Valley United Reformed Church, 480 Valley Road, Wayne, NJ 07470 would be appreciated.
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Friends may visit with the family from 3-6 PM on Wednesday, February 12, 2014 at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Rd., Wayne.
Funeral services will be held 10 AM on Friday, February 14, 2014 at the funeral home.
Interment will be in Fair Lawn Cemetery, Fair Lawn.
February 10, 2014
Services
Friends may visit with the family from 3-6 PM on Wednesday, February 12, 2014 at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Rd., Wayne.
Funeral services will be held 10 AM on Friday, February 14, 2014 at the funeral home.
Interment will be in Fair Lawn Cemetery, Fair Lawn.
Henry Cauwenberghs age 88, of Wayne for over sixty years, passed peacefully on Monday, February 10, 2014.
He was born and raised in Midland Park having moved to Wayne in 1951. Henry met a pretty girl named Ada DeRuyscher when she was serving as a Lab Technician at the Bergen Pines Hospital in Paramus and he had been admitted as a TB patient. When Henry was well enough he checked himself out of the hospital and took Ada to the movies. They fell in love and Henry asked Ada's mother for her hand in marriage and then asked to borrow the $2.00 it would cost to secure the wedding license. They married at the Preakness Christian Reformed Church on Valley Road in Wayne on January 16, 1949. They drove to Fairfax Virginia for their honeymoon in an Oldsmobile that was so old they prayed every mile that it would make it. They had a loving, devoted, and as Henry stated a "perfect" sixty-three years of marriage before Ada's passing on August 26, 2012.
Henry enlisted in the United States Navy at the age of seventeen when he and a friend forged their parents's signatures on the enlistment documents that were required when a person enlisted under the age of eighteen. He served from July of 1943 through February of 1947. Henry served mostly in the South Pacific Theatre of the war and upon the USS San Carlos, a Barnegat-class seaplane tender. He received the United States Navy Honorable Service Button, Honorable Service Lapel, and Honorable Service Emblem.
After his service in the US Navy he worked for the Ridgewood Shade Tree Commission and from 1955 through his retirement in 1990 he worked as an inspector in the aerospace division of Singer-Kearfott Corporation at plant 1 in West Paterson.
Henry was a longstanding active member of the Preakness Valley United Reformed Church in Wayne. He enjoyed being outdoors and loved hunting and fishing. For many years he would fly to Montana to hunt Elk and Antelope. He developed a close friendship with a rancher in Montana and was privileged to hunt his property and even bunk with the cowboys that worked his ranch. An avid gardener he would grow tomatoes, squash, beans and all other kinds of vegetables that he would bring in to work and share with his co-workers. Henry also enjoyed beekeeping and had up to twenty-six hives in his yard. He would gather the honey and also share that with his co-workers. In his latter years the deer and squirrels became his friends with deer staring into his kitchen window waiting for him to come out and feed them.
Henry was the loving husband of over sixty years to the late Ada (DeRuyscher) Cauwenberghs (8/2012); devoted father of Henry Cauwenberghs and his wife Judy of Canajoharie, NY, Dawn DiPaola and her husband John of Wayne, and the late Diana Cauwenberghs (1974); loved brother of Albert Cauwenberghs and his wife Carol of Sunrise, FL, and the late Peter Cauwenberghs; cherished grandfather of Jennifer, Joseph, and Daniel Cauwenberghs, Jeffrey, Kristen, and Stephen DiPaola, and four great-grandchildren.
In lieu of flowers memorial donations to the Preakness Valley United Reformed Church, 480 Valley Road, Wayne, NJ 07470 would be appreciated.
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