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January 12, 2014
Services
A memorial service will be offered at 11AM on Friday, January 17th, 2014 at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Rd, Wayne, NJ 07470.
Friends may visit with the family on Thursday, January 16th, 2014 at the Funeral Home from 4-8PM.
James A. DeJong age 51 of Butler passed away peacefully on January 12, 2014 while receiving the loving care of his family.
James was born in Passaic and was raised in the Township of Wayne. He attended and graduated from the Eastern Christian High School in 1981. During his years there he was an avid track and field athlete and competed in numerous championship meets. Shortly after high school he enrolled in the Passaic County Technical Institute, School of Technology, where he received an Associate's degree in drafting. He then went to work for Dente Trading Co., Inc., in Cedar Grove, NJ, where he worked as a draftsman and salesman. James was dedicated and loved his job and worked there for thirty years, right up until a few weeks before his death.
In his early twenties, he was very active in the Wayne PAL; also during this time he took a part-time job at the Wayne Hills Mall. While working at the mall, he met Susan Volansky, his loving and devoted wife of 27 years, who was also working at a part-time job at the Mall. James and Susan loved to travel together; they spent many vacations in Disney World in Florida, where incidentally they also spent their Honeymoon. They also were avid cruisers.
Although James and Susan did not have children of their own, they spent a lot of time with their nieces, Julia and Kate, and truly cherished the time they spent together.
James was an avid movie fan and loved to play cards, especially poker. He was also a devoted New York Yankee fan. He was very mechanically inclined. He had an engineer's intuition and basically was self-taught in the way of electronics and technology. James was easy-going but always kept busy. He was quite a handyman and took great pride in his home. James was a dedicated and loving husband, and he will be truly missed by his family and friends alike.
James is survived by his loving wife Susan (nee Volansky) of Butler; his parents Carole and Maynard DeJong of Fort Pierce, FL; his sister Sandra Briggs and her children, Fiore and Zachary, of Maui, HI; his father-in-law and mother-in-law George and Florence Volansky of Fort Mill, SC; his four sisters-in-law Frances Lashley; Jean and her husband Frank Inzirillo; Mary Ellen and her husband Lowell Markins; and Elizabeth Ann; his two nieces Julia and Kathryn Albretsen; and many friends and loved ones.
In lieu of flowers, donation may be made in memory of James to Eastern Christian Schools Association, 50 Oakwood Ave, North Haledon, NJ 07508, or to Tri-Boro First Aid Squad, Inc., P.O. Box 222, Butler, NJ 07405.
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A memorial service will be offered at 11AM on Friday, January 17th, 2014 at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Rd, Wayne, NJ 07470.
Friends may visit with the family on Thursday, January 16th, 2014 at the Funeral Home from 4-8PM.
January 12, 2014
Services
A memorial service will be offered at 11AM on Friday, January 17th, 2014 at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Rd, Wayne, NJ 07470.
Friends may visit with the family on Thursday, January 16th, 2014 at the Funeral Home from 4-8PM.
James A. DeJong age 51 of Butler passed away peacefully on January 12, 2014 while receiving the loving care of his family.
James was born in Passaic and was raised in the Township of Wayne. He attended and graduated from the Eastern Christian High School in 1981. During his years there he was an avid track and field athlete and competed in numerous championship meets. Shortly after high school he enrolled in the Passaic County Technical Institute, School of Technology, where he received an Associate's degree in drafting. He then went to work for Dente Trading Co., Inc., in Cedar Grove, NJ, where he worked as a draftsman and salesman. James was dedicated and loved his job and worked there for thirty years, right up until a few weeks before his death.
In his early twenties, he was very active in the Wayne PAL; also during this time he took a part-time job at the Wayne Hills Mall. While working at the mall, he met Susan Volansky, his loving and devoted wife of 27 years, who was also working at a part-time job at the Mall. James and Susan loved to travel together; they spent many vacations in Disney World in Florida, where incidentally they also spent their Honeymoon. They also were avid cruisers.
Although James and Susan did not have children of their own, they spent a lot of time with their nieces, Julia and Kate, and truly cherished the time they spent together.
James was an avid movie fan and loved to play cards, especially poker. He was also a devoted New York Yankee fan. He was very mechanically inclined. He had an engineer's intuition and basically was self-taught in the way of electronics and technology. James was easy-going but always kept busy. He was quite a handyman and took great pride in his home. James was a dedicated and loving husband, and he will be truly missed by his family and friends alike.
James is survived by his loving wife Susan (nee Volansky) of Butler; his parents Carole and Maynard DeJong of Fort Pierce, FL; his sister Sandra Briggs and her children, Fiore and Zachary, of Maui, HI; his father-in-law and mother-in-law George and Florence Volansky of Fort Mill, SC; his four sisters-in-law Frances Lashley; Jean and her husband Frank Inzirillo; Mary Ellen and her husband Lowell Markins; and Elizabeth Ann; his two nieces Julia and Kathryn Albretsen; and many friends and loved ones.
In lieu of flowers, donation may be made in memory of James to Eastern Christian Schools Association, 50 Oakwood Ave, North Haledon, NJ 07508, or to Tri-Boro First Aid Squad, Inc., P.O. Box 222, Butler, NJ 07405.
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