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April 19, 2008
Services
Friends may visit with the family at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne on Tuesday, April 22, 2008 from 2-4, 7-9 PM.
Funeral services will be held on Wednesday April 23, 2008 at 11 AM at St. Timothy’s Lutheran Church, 395 Valley Road, Wayne, NJ.
Henry H. Neumann, age 83 of Wayne, died peacefully on Saturday April 19, 2008, while surrounded by his family.
Henry, a mason all of his life, came to America with his wife, Irma, and their two daughters ages 3 and 1 1/2, in 1957. They initially settled in Passaic before moving to Wayne in 1963.
Henry was born in the Ukraine and lived in Germany from 1940 to 1957. At the end of World War II, He spent 3 years in a prisoner of war camp and, upon his release, found himself alone in Germany, struggling to survive. His mother and three siblings had all been taken by the Russians to a Siberian coal mine where they were forced to work for eighteen years. Henry’s father was also captured by the Russians and sent to Afghanistan to work in a prison there for eight years. At the mere age of 23, Henry had endured more hardship and heartache than many see in their whole lives, but this didn’t seem to slow him down.
He settled in Lebenstedt, Germany in 1948 and began working again. He walked the same route to work every day, passing the house that Irma lived in. They didn’t yet know each other, but Irma saw him passing in the same clothes day after day. He was a handsome young man, so she knitted him some socks. They began to court and were married five years later. Their love for one another has strengthened each day since knitting those socks.
Together, Henry and Irma enjoyed fifty-five wonderful years of marriage together. Since his retirement in 1991, they traveled to all corners of the world, including three trips to Hawaii, an Alaskan cruise, Bermuda, Cancun, Aruba, Portugal, and a total of nineteen trips to Germany. Despite all that travel, Henry was most content when he was with his family, and in his garden.
Henry leaves his wife Irma (nee Balko) of Wayne, two daughters; Hannelore ‘Lori’ Grieder and her husband John of Oak Ridge and Ute Mowry and her husband Wayne of Lincoln Park, as well as four granddaughters whom he loved dearly; Erin and Megan Grieder of Oak Ridge and Kenna and Kara Mowry of Lincoln Park. He has one surviving sister; Meta Melmann of Lebenstedt, Germany, and her husband Ernst. Henry was predeceased by his brothers Adolph Neumann and Oscar Neumann, both of Germany.
Those planning an expression of sympathy in Henry’s name are asked to consider donations to the St. Timothy’s Memorial Garden where the family will have Henry’s name inscribed.
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Friends may visit with the family at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne on Tuesday, April 22, 2008 from 2-4, 7-9 PM.
Funeral services will be held on Wednesday April 23, 2008 at 11 AM at St. Timothy’s Lutheran Church, 395 Valley Road, Wayne, NJ.
April 19, 2008
Services
Friends may visit with the family at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne on Tuesday, April 22, 2008 from 2-4, 7-9 PM.
Funeral services will be held on Wednesday April 23, 2008 at 11 AM at St. Timothy’s Lutheran Church, 395 Valley Road, Wayne, NJ.
Henry H. Neumann, age 83 of Wayne, died peacefully on Saturday April 19, 2008, while surrounded by his family.
Henry, a mason all of his life, came to America with his wife, Irma, and their two daughters ages 3 and 1 1/2, in 1957. They initially settled in Passaic before moving to Wayne in 1963.
Henry was born in the Ukraine and lived in Germany from 1940 to 1957. At the end of World War II, He spent 3 years in a prisoner of war camp and, upon his release, found himself alone in Germany, struggling to survive. His mother and three siblings had all been taken by the Russians to a Siberian coal mine where they were forced to work for eighteen years. Henry’s father was also captured by the Russians and sent to Afghanistan to work in a prison there for eight years. At the mere age of 23, Henry had endured more hardship and heartache than many see in their whole lives, but this didn’t seem to slow him down.
He settled in Lebenstedt, Germany in 1948 and began working again. He walked the same route to work every day, passing the house that Irma lived in. They didn’t yet know each other, but Irma saw him passing in the same clothes day after day. He was a handsome young man, so she knitted him some socks. They began to court and were married five years later. Their love for one another has strengthened each day since knitting those socks.
Together, Henry and Irma enjoyed fifty-five wonderful years of marriage together. Since his retirement in 1991, they traveled to all corners of the world, including three trips to Hawaii, an Alaskan cruise, Bermuda, Cancun, Aruba, Portugal, and a total of nineteen trips to Germany. Despite all that travel, Henry was most content when he was with his family, and in his garden.
Henry leaves his wife Irma (nee Balko) of Wayne, two daughters; Hannelore ‘Lori’ Grieder and her husband John of Oak Ridge and Ute Mowry and her husband Wayne of Lincoln Park, as well as four granddaughters whom he loved dearly; Erin and Megan Grieder of Oak Ridge and Kenna and Kara Mowry of Lincoln Park. He has one surviving sister; Meta Melmann of Lebenstedt, Germany, and her husband Ernst. Henry was predeceased by his brothers Adolph Neumann and Oscar Neumann, both of Germany.
Those planning an expression of sympathy in Henry’s name are asked to consider donations to the St. Timothy’s Memorial Garden where the family will have Henry’s name inscribed.
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