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November 2, 2007
Services
Funeral services will be held Wednesday, November 7, 2007 at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
Friends may visit with the family at the funeral home on Tuesday, November 6, 2007 from 2-4 and 7-9 PM.
Entombment will be in Laurel Grove Mausoleum in Totowa.
James A. Main Sr. age 83 of Wayne died peacefully on Friday, November 2, 2007 at the Hospice of New Jersey in Wayne.
He was born in Evansville, IN and lived in Paterson and Totowa before moving to Wayne forty-five years ago.
Mr. Main was a milk deliveryman for Farmland Dairies, Fairlawn for thirty-four years before retiring in 1986.
He was a Marine Corps veteran of WW II. In February of 1944 he entered Marine Boot Camp and spent ten weeks at Parris Island, S.C., he spent seven weeks in Cherry Point, NC. Here he was assigned to VMF(N) 541, a Marine “Bat Eye” squadron, and went by train to San Diego, CA to be deployed to the Pacific Fleet. VMF(N) 541 covered twilight PT boat operations, flew daytime CAP over the beachhead, and attacked Japanese shipping.. He served on the USS Long Island Aircraft Carrier, the USS Tryon Troop Transport, and the Peleliu, Faraulep and Ulithi islands. It’s existence kept secret throughout the war, the US naval base at Ulithi was for a time the world’s largest naval facility. After nineteen months in the Pacific Theatre, he returned to San Diego, CA and was discharged in March of 1946.
James and Ann (nee Bello) had a “wonderful marriage” for fifty-two years together. He is the beloved father of James A. Main, Jr. and his wife Trudy and Sharon Trent and her husband Bob; cherished grandfather of Kerry and Jay Main and Eric and Amy Trent; brother of Katheryn Jefferies of Totowa.
In Lieu of Flowers memorial donations to The Parkinsons Disease Foundation, c/o Columbia University, 710 W. 168th Street, New York, NY 10032 would be appreciated. For a photo and more information visit vandermay.com.
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Funeral services will be held Wednesday, November 7, 2007 at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
Friends may visit with the family at the funeral home on Tuesday, November 6, 2007 from 2-4 and 7-9 PM.
Entombment will be in Laurel Grove Mausoleum in Totowa.
November 2, 2007
Services
Funeral services will be held Wednesday, November 7, 2007 at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
Friends may visit with the family at the funeral home on Tuesday, November 6, 2007 from 2-4 and 7-9 PM.
Entombment will be in Laurel Grove Mausoleum in Totowa.
James A. Main Sr. age 83 of Wayne died peacefully on Friday, November 2, 2007 at the Hospice of New Jersey in Wayne.
He was born in Evansville, IN and lived in Paterson and Totowa before moving to Wayne forty-five years ago.
Mr. Main was a milk deliveryman for Farmland Dairies, Fairlawn for thirty-four years before retiring in 1986.
He was a Marine Corps veteran of WW II. In February of 1944 he entered Marine Boot Camp and spent ten weeks at Parris Island, S.C., he spent seven weeks in Cherry Point, NC. Here he was assigned to VMF(N) 541, a Marine “Bat Eye” squadron, and went by train to San Diego, CA to be deployed to the Pacific Fleet. VMF(N) 541 covered twilight PT boat operations, flew daytime CAP over the beachhead, and attacked Japanese shipping.. He served on the USS Long Island Aircraft Carrier, the USS Tryon Troop Transport, and the Peleliu, Faraulep and Ulithi islands. It’s existence kept secret throughout the war, the US naval base at Ulithi was for a time the world’s largest naval facility. After nineteen months in the Pacific Theatre, he returned to San Diego, CA and was discharged in March of 1946.
James and Ann (nee Bello) had a “wonderful marriage” for fifty-two years together. He is the beloved father of James A. Main, Jr. and his wife Trudy and Sharon Trent and her husband Bob; cherished grandfather of Kerry and Jay Main and Eric and Amy Trent; brother of Katheryn Jefferies of Totowa.
In Lieu of Flowers memorial donations to The Parkinsons Disease Foundation, c/o Columbia University, 710 W. 168th Street, New York, NY 10032 would be appreciated. For a photo and more information visit vandermay.com.
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