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August 17, 2009
Services
A memorial service will be held Wednesday, August 19, 2009 at 2 PM at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
Friends may visit with the family at the funeral home on Wednesday from 1-2 PM.
Hobart “Hobie” Zinstein age 86 of Wayne on Monday, August 17, 2009 departed this life at the Chilton Memorial Hospital in Pompton Plains. His passing took place peacefully after receiving the continuous care of his loving family at his bedside.
He was born in Paterson and at age eight his family moved to Jersey City where he finished his grammar school years and then went to William L. Dickenson High School in Jersey City graduating with the Class of 1940.
Hobie was gifted with a gregarious and affable personality that was ingratiated with ambition. He was a fun person to all that knew him. From a very young age he had and entrepreneurial spirit and started his business career as a paper boy in Jersey City. He then at the age of nine helped his father who owned a parking lot on Sip Avenue in Jersey City. At the tender age of nine he would park the customers cars in the lot. Later in life he moved into industrial management and became Manager of Manufacturing for Jacquard Fabrics Mill in Paterson.
He met his wife June in New York City. June Hogan was a secretary at Jacquard Fabric Mills in New York City and Hobart was the plant manager in Paterson. They often communicated on the telephone and that is how they met. They had three years of courtship together and married on December 28, 1964 in Atlantic City. The end result was that they had forty-five years of “devoted – two peas in a pod” marriage together.
He very much enjoyed league bowling and at one point in his life maintained a bowling average of 278 which is quite an accomplishment for any bowler. He was also the No. one fan of the New York Yankees baseball team and the New York Giants football team.
His son recalls a very nurturing father who enjoyed his son’s profession of Talk Show Host. Dad would come to the studio and absolutely enjoy his son Alan Nathan’s radio presentations of political gadfly communication on his Syndicated Host show named Battle line with Alan Nathan. Previously he worked with his son Larry in Manhattan. He was proud to be office manager at Stanton Employment Agency.
Hobart joined the Army in November 1942 and fought in battles in central Burma. His unit was the 31st Signal Heavy Construction Battalion. He often spoke of the unbearable mud and insect life that dominates that area of the world. He was discharged in November 1945 as a Sergeant. He received the World War II Victory Medal, the Asiatic Pacific Service Medal, the distinguished unit badge, the European African Middle Eastern Service Medal.
His brother Arthur Zinstein who was a Navigator-Bombadeir in the Army Air Corp was killed during World War II.
Surviving are his loving, devoted, devoted wife June (nee Hogan) Zinstein; two sons Larry S. Zinstein and Alan Nathan Zinstein, two daughters in-laws, Alan's wife Jane S. Zinstein of Alexandria,VA and Larry's wife Shirley Barbara Zinstein,and a daughter Arlyne Sue Zinstein; one sister Marilyn Rita Ellis of Brick Town, NJ; three grandchildren Pamela Joi, David Ian, and Hope Theresa June Zinstein.
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A memorial service will be held Wednesday, August 19, 2009 at 2 PM at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
Friends may visit with the family at the funeral home on Wednesday from 1-2 PM.
August 17, 2009
Services
A memorial service will be held Wednesday, August 19, 2009 at 2 PM at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
Friends may visit with the family at the funeral home on Wednesday from 1-2 PM.
Hobart “Hobie” Zinstein age 86 of Wayne on Monday, August 17, 2009 departed this life at the Chilton Memorial Hospital in Pompton Plains. His passing took place peacefully after receiving the continuous care of his loving family at his bedside.
He was born in Paterson and at age eight his family moved to Jersey City where he finished his grammar school years and then went to William L. Dickenson High School in Jersey City graduating with the Class of 1940.
Hobie was gifted with a gregarious and affable personality that was ingratiated with ambition. He was a fun person to all that knew him. From a very young age he had and entrepreneurial spirit and started his business career as a paper boy in Jersey City. He then at the age of nine helped his father who owned a parking lot on Sip Avenue in Jersey City. At the tender age of nine he would park the customers cars in the lot. Later in life he moved into industrial management and became Manager of Manufacturing for Jacquard Fabrics Mill in Paterson.
He met his wife June in New York City. June Hogan was a secretary at Jacquard Fabric Mills in New York City and Hobart was the plant manager in Paterson. They often communicated on the telephone and that is how they met. They had three years of courtship together and married on December 28, 1964 in Atlantic City. The end result was that they had forty-five years of “devoted – two peas in a pod” marriage together.
He very much enjoyed league bowling and at one point in his life maintained a bowling average of 278 which is quite an accomplishment for any bowler. He was also the No. one fan of the New York Yankees baseball team and the New York Giants football team.
His son recalls a very nurturing father who enjoyed his son’s profession of Talk Show Host. Dad would come to the studio and absolutely enjoy his son Alan Nathan’s radio presentations of political gadfly communication on his Syndicated Host show named Battle line with Alan Nathan. Previously he worked with his son Larry in Manhattan. He was proud to be office manager at Stanton Employment Agency.
Hobart joined the Army in November 1942 and fought in battles in central Burma. His unit was the 31st Signal Heavy Construction Battalion. He often spoke of the unbearable mud and insect life that dominates that area of the world. He was discharged in November 1945 as a Sergeant. He received the World War II Victory Medal, the Asiatic Pacific Service Medal, the distinguished unit badge, the European African Middle Eastern Service Medal.
His brother Arthur Zinstein who was a Navigator-Bombadeir in the Army Air Corp was killed during World War II.
Surviving are his loving, devoted, devoted wife June (nee Hogan) Zinstein; two sons Larry S. Zinstein and Alan Nathan Zinstein, two daughters in-laws, Alan's wife Jane S. Zinstein of Alexandria,VA and Larry's wife Shirley Barbara Zinstein,and a daughter Arlyne Sue Zinstein; one sister Marilyn Rita Ellis of Brick Town, NJ; three grandchildren Pamela Joi, David Ian, and Hope Theresa June Zinstein.
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