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October 12, 2014
Services
Friends may visit with the family from 2-4 and 7-9 PM on Wednesday, October 15, 2014 at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
Funeral services will be held at 9 AM on Thursday, October 16, 2014 from the funeral home then to Our Lady of Consolation RC Church, 1799 Hamburg Turnpike, Wayne where a 10 AM Funeral Mass will be offered.
Interment will be in Redeemer Cemetery, Mahwah.
Henry William Wagner, age 86 of Wayne, passed peacefully on Sunday, October 12, 2014.
He was born in the family home at 101 Grand Street in Garfield and soon the family moved to Highland Avenue in Clifton where he was raised. He lived in Elmwood Park until the age of thirty when he married and moved to the Lions Head Lake Wayne to raise his family.
He graduated from Lodi High School with the Class of 1946 and continued his education at William Paterson State Teacher’s College before finishing his Bachelor of Science in Business at Rutgers Paterson campus. He later attained his Masters Degree in Industrial Engineering with the Class of 1956 from Rutgers University in Newark.
He was a United States Air Force Veteran of the Korean War.
Henry and Grace (MacFarlane) were both working at Wright Aeronautical in Woodbridge and met while attending a company softball game. Their first date was to Atlantic City in Henry’s brand new white Ford Fairlane. They soon fell in love and married on October 4, 1958 at Saint Marys RC Church on Union Avenue in Paterson. They drove to Miami, Florida in Henry’s white Fairlane and while sharing some of the driving Grace fell asleep at the wheel and awoke to the car riding half in the gravel at the side of the road. They have enjoyed fifty-six years of a loving and devoted marriage.
Henry’s first job was at Wagner Farms in Saddle Brook where he boxed eggs and made ice cream and malted shakes. He later worked at the Meyer Brothers Department Store in Paterson where he was a stock boy. His first job after college was at the Botany Mills in Passaic where he did cost accounting, job evaluations, and time studies. He worked at the Curtis Wright Corporation in Woodbridge, Hoffman LA Roche Corporation in Nutley and the Ciba Geigy Corporation in Summit before working for the United Parcel Service Company having retired in 1991.
Henry was a founding parishioner of Our Lady of Consolation RC Church in Wayne. During his children’s formative years he served as a baseball and basketball coach at the Wayne P.A.L.
He was the loving husband of Grace MacFarlane Wagner; devoted father of Henry W. Wagner, Sr. and his wife Nancy of Rockaway, Andrew Wagner and his wife Pauline of Proctorville, Ohio, William Wagner and his wife Cheryl of Wayne, and Mary Beth Chaubard and her husband Pierre of Nyack, NY; cherished grandfather of Leigh, Theresa, Melissa, Sarah, Greg, Nicole, Jackie, Meghan, and Zoe; dear brother of Rudolph of Elmwood Park, the late William, John, Mary, Veronica, and Anne.
In lieu of flowers memorial donations to St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, P.O Box 1000, Dept. 142, Memphis, TN 38148-0142 www.stjude.org or Our Lady of Consolation RC Church, 1799 Hamburg Tpk., Wayne, NJ 07470 would be appreciated.
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Friends may visit with the family from 2-4 and 7-9 PM on Wednesday, October 15, 2014 at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
Funeral services will be held at 9 AM on Thursday, October 16, 2014 from the funeral home then to Our Lady of Consolation RC Church, 1799 Hamburg Turnpike, Wayne where a 10 AM Funeral Mass will be offered.
Interment will be in Redeemer Cemetery, Mahwah.
October 12, 2014
Services
Friends may visit with the family from 2-4 and 7-9 PM on Wednesday, October 15, 2014 at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
Funeral services will be held at 9 AM on Thursday, October 16, 2014 from the funeral home then to Our Lady of Consolation RC Church, 1799 Hamburg Turnpike, Wayne where a 10 AM Funeral Mass will be offered.
Interment will be in Redeemer Cemetery, Mahwah.
Henry William Wagner, age 86 of Wayne, passed peacefully on Sunday, October 12, 2014.
He was born in the family home at 101 Grand Street in Garfield and soon the family moved to Highland Avenue in Clifton where he was raised. He lived in Elmwood Park until the age of thirty when he married and moved to the Lions Head Lake Wayne to raise his family.
He graduated from Lodi High School with the Class of 1946 and continued his education at William Paterson State Teacher’s College before finishing his Bachelor of Science in Business at Rutgers Paterson campus. He later attained his Masters Degree in Industrial Engineering with the Class of 1956 from Rutgers University in Newark.
He was a United States Air Force Veteran of the Korean War.
Henry and Grace (MacFarlane) were both working at Wright Aeronautical in Woodbridge and met while attending a company softball game. Their first date was to Atlantic City in Henry’s brand new white Ford Fairlane. They soon fell in love and married on October 4, 1958 at Saint Marys RC Church on Union Avenue in Paterson. They drove to Miami, Florida in Henry’s white Fairlane and while sharing some of the driving Grace fell asleep at the wheel and awoke to the car riding half in the gravel at the side of the road. They have enjoyed fifty-six years of a loving and devoted marriage.
Henry’s first job was at Wagner Farms in Saddle Brook where he boxed eggs and made ice cream and malted shakes. He later worked at the Meyer Brothers Department Store in Paterson where he was a stock boy. His first job after college was at the Botany Mills in Passaic where he did cost accounting, job evaluations, and time studies. He worked at the Curtis Wright Corporation in Woodbridge, Hoffman LA Roche Corporation in Nutley and the Ciba Geigy Corporation in Summit before working for the United Parcel Service Company having retired in 1991.
Henry was a founding parishioner of Our Lady of Consolation RC Church in Wayne. During his children’s formative years he served as a baseball and basketball coach at the Wayne P.A.L.
He was the loving husband of Grace MacFarlane Wagner; devoted father of Henry W. Wagner, Sr. and his wife Nancy of Rockaway, Andrew Wagner and his wife Pauline of Proctorville, Ohio, William Wagner and his wife Cheryl of Wayne, and Mary Beth Chaubard and her husband Pierre of Nyack, NY; cherished grandfather of Leigh, Theresa, Melissa, Sarah, Greg, Nicole, Jackie, Meghan, and Zoe; dear brother of Rudolph of Elmwood Park, the late William, John, Mary, Veronica, and Anne.
In lieu of flowers memorial donations to St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, P.O Box 1000, Dept. 142, Memphis, TN 38148-0142 www.stjude.org or Our Lady of Consolation RC Church, 1799 Hamburg Tpk., Wayne, NJ 07470 would be appreciated.
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