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July 31, 2014
Services
Friends may visit with the family from 2-5 PM on Sunday, August 3, 2014 at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
Funeral services will be held 9 AM on Monday from the funeral home then to Saint Marys RC Church, 17 Pompton Avenue, Pompton Lakes where a 10 AM Funeral Mass will be offered.
Interment will be in George Washington Memorial Park, Paramus.
James B. Cronin age 78 passed peacefully at home on Thursday, July 31, 2014.
He was born in Chicago, Illinois and when he was a teenager the family moved to Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Just out of high school he enlisted in the US Army having served during the Korean War.
He graduated from the University of Florida with a Bachelor of Electrical Engineering with the Class of 1962 and later graduated from the Stevens Institute of Technology with a Masters Degree in Electrical Engineering with the Class of 1970.
James’ lifelong work was in the aerospace/defense industry having worked for the Singer Kearfott Corporation in Little Falls, and the Bendix Corporation in Wayne, that eventually was acquired by the Honeywell Corporation, before retiring in 1992.
He met his future wife Eileen McCabe while on line at the airport. Eileen had purchased a ticket six weeks prior and was being told by the ticket agent she had been bumped off the flight. She was arguing with the agent when James, a seasoned traveler who was also being bumped to a later flight, leaned over her shoulder and said “you’re not going to get there any quicker doing this.” They eventually wound up on the same flight but sat nowhere near each other. After the flight James, who Eileen assumed was a married man, approached and asked for her phone number. Realized James wasn’t married she gave him her number with their first date being in Saint Louis, Missouri. The couple was planning a trip to Hawaii when James said “let’s do it.” This proposal led to a marriage at Holy Angels RC Church in Little Falls on September 27, 1980 with a honeymoon in Hawaii. They had a loving and devoted marriage of thirty-four years that was filled with as many laughs and cries as life would allow.
James was the loving husband of Eileen ( McCabe ) Cronin; loved brother of the late Constance Cronin; beloved son of the late James and Mildred Cronin; cherished uncle of three nephews and several great nieces and nephews; dear sister-in-laws Kathleen Boisits of Rutherford, and Sister Margaret McCabe of Astoria, NY.
In lieu of flowers memorial donations to the charity of your choice would be appreciated.
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Friends may visit with the family from 2-5 PM on Sunday, August 3, 2014 at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
Funeral services will be held 9 AM on Monday from the funeral home then to Saint Marys RC Church, 17 Pompton Avenue, Pompton Lakes where a 10 AM Funeral Mass will be offered.
Interment will be in George Washington Memorial Park, Paramus.
July 31, 2014
Services
Friends may visit with the family from 2-5 PM on Sunday, August 3, 2014 at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
Funeral services will be held 9 AM on Monday from the funeral home then to Saint Marys RC Church, 17 Pompton Avenue, Pompton Lakes where a 10 AM Funeral Mass will be offered.
Interment will be in George Washington Memorial Park, Paramus.
James B. Cronin age 78 passed peacefully at home on Thursday, July 31, 2014.
He was born in Chicago, Illinois and when he was a teenager the family moved to Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Just out of high school he enlisted in the US Army having served during the Korean War.
He graduated from the University of Florida with a Bachelor of Electrical Engineering with the Class of 1962 and later graduated from the Stevens Institute of Technology with a Masters Degree in Electrical Engineering with the Class of 1970.
James’ lifelong work was in the aerospace/defense industry having worked for the Singer Kearfott Corporation in Little Falls, and the Bendix Corporation in Wayne, that eventually was acquired by the Honeywell Corporation, before retiring in 1992.
He met his future wife Eileen McCabe while on line at the airport. Eileen had purchased a ticket six weeks prior and was being told by the ticket agent she had been bumped off the flight. She was arguing with the agent when James, a seasoned traveler who was also being bumped to a later flight, leaned over her shoulder and said “you’re not going to get there any quicker doing this.” They eventually wound up on the same flight but sat nowhere near each other. After the flight James, who Eileen assumed was a married man, approached and asked for her phone number. Realized James wasn’t married she gave him her number with their first date being in Saint Louis, Missouri. The couple was planning a trip to Hawaii when James said “let’s do it.” This proposal led to a marriage at Holy Angels RC Church in Little Falls on September 27, 1980 with a honeymoon in Hawaii. They had a loving and devoted marriage of thirty-four years that was filled with as many laughs and cries as life would allow.
James was the loving husband of Eileen ( McCabe ) Cronin; loved brother of the late Constance Cronin; beloved son of the late James and Mildred Cronin; cherished uncle of three nephews and several great nieces and nephews; dear sister-in-laws Kathleen Boisits of Rutherford, and Sister Margaret McCabe of Astoria, NY.
In lieu of flowers memorial donations to the charity of your choice would be appreciated.
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