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April 2, 2012
Services
Friends may visit with the family from 2-4 and 7-9 PM on Friday, April 6, 2012 at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne. An 8 PM Masonic Funeral Service will be held during the visitation hours.
John Paul Ireland, Jr. age 83 of Wyckoff died peacefully on Monday, April 2, 2012.
He was born and raised in Paulsboro and graduated from Paulsboro High School with the Class of 1946.
Paul graduated from Ursinus College, Collegeville, PA with a Bachelor of Science Degree with the Class of 1950.
He worked as a Technical Superintendent for the DuPont Corporation in Pompton Lakes for 34 years before retiring in 1984.
Paul enjoyed bowling, travel, playing cards, loved gadgets and had a great sense of humor. He had a very calm disposition and never complained.
Paul was pursued by a cute girl from his rival high school named Margaret Yust. In speaking to one of the members of her high school band she asked who that tall Drum Major was. By happenstance he knew Paul and introduced them a few weeks later. Their first date was roller skating on a Friday night and on Saturday night they attended the Paulsboro High School Dance. Paul graduated from college in June of 1950 and they married on September 9, 1950 at St. Paul’s Methodist Church in Paulsboro. They honeymooned at Lake George, NY and then went to Lake Winnipesauke, NH. They have enjoyed sixty-one years of loving and devoted marriage.
Paul enjoyed being a Mason for 56 years and was a member of Genesis Lodge No. 88 F&M of Pompton Lakes, Mountain View Lodge No. 154 F&M of Wayne, member at large of the Tall Cedars of Lebanon, member of the Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite, Valley of Northern New Jersey, Salaam Temple AAONMS where he was a member of the Potentate’s Aides and the Executive Club, Past President of the Lakeland Shrine Club, was a member and Past Director of the Royal Order of Jesters, Newark Court No. 37, and a member of the Kachina Klub.
He was the devoted husband of Margaret “Peggy” (nee Yust) Ireland; loving father of Paul W. Ireland and his wife Sherry of Wayne, and Margaret “Betsy” Kiess and her husband Michael of Hewitt; cherished grandfather of Matthew, Caitlin and Carly Kiess and Sean and Ryan Ireland; loved brother of the late Mabel and Mary Ireland.
In lieu of flowers memorial donations to the Shriner’s Hospitals for Children, Office of Development, 2900 Rocky Point Drive, Tampa, FL 33607 would be appreciated.
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Friends may visit with the family from 2-4 and 7-9 PM on Friday, April 6, 2012 at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne. An 8 PM Masonic Funeral Service will be held during the visitation hours.
April 2, 2012
Services
Friends may visit with the family from 2-4 and 7-9 PM on Friday, April 6, 2012 at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne. An 8 PM Masonic Funeral Service will be held during the visitation hours.
John Paul Ireland, Jr. age 83 of Wyckoff died peacefully on Monday, April 2, 2012.
He was born and raised in Paulsboro and graduated from Paulsboro High School with the Class of 1946.
Paul graduated from Ursinus College, Collegeville, PA with a Bachelor of Science Degree with the Class of 1950.
He worked as a Technical Superintendent for the DuPont Corporation in Pompton Lakes for 34 years before retiring in 1984.
Paul enjoyed bowling, travel, playing cards, loved gadgets and had a great sense of humor. He had a very calm disposition and never complained.
Paul was pursued by a cute girl from his rival high school named Margaret Yust. In speaking to one of the members of her high school band she asked who that tall Drum Major was. By happenstance he knew Paul and introduced them a few weeks later. Their first date was roller skating on a Friday night and on Saturday night they attended the Paulsboro High School Dance. Paul graduated from college in June of 1950 and they married on September 9, 1950 at St. Paul’s Methodist Church in Paulsboro. They honeymooned at Lake George, NY and then went to Lake Winnipesauke, NH. They have enjoyed sixty-one years of loving and devoted marriage.
Paul enjoyed being a Mason for 56 years and was a member of Genesis Lodge No. 88 F&M of Pompton Lakes, Mountain View Lodge No. 154 F&M of Wayne, member at large of the Tall Cedars of Lebanon, member of the Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite, Valley of Northern New Jersey, Salaam Temple AAONMS where he was a member of the Potentate’s Aides and the Executive Club, Past President of the Lakeland Shrine Club, was a member and Past Director of the Royal Order of Jesters, Newark Court No. 37, and a member of the Kachina Klub.
He was the devoted husband of Margaret “Peggy” (nee Yust) Ireland; loving father of Paul W. Ireland and his wife Sherry of Wayne, and Margaret “Betsy” Kiess and her husband Michael of Hewitt; cherished grandfather of Matthew, Caitlin and Carly Kiess and Sean and Ryan Ireland; loved brother of the late Mabel and Mary Ireland.
In lieu of flowers memorial donations to the Shriner’s Hospitals for Children, Office of Development, 2900 Rocky Point Drive, Tampa, FL 33607 would be appreciated.
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