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November 3, 2013
Services
Friends may visit with the family from 2-4 and 7-9 PM on Thursday, November 7, 2013 at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
Funeral services will be held 9 AM on Friday, November 8, 2013 from the funeral home then to Our Lady of Consolation RC Church, 1799 Hamburg Turnpike, Wayne where a 10 AM Funeral Mass will be offered.
Interment will be in the First Reformed Church Cemetery, Pompton Plains.
James Carlon age 82, a fifty-one year resident of Wayne, passed peacefully at home on Sunday, November 3, 2013.
He was born and raised in Totowa having graduated from Passaic Valley High School, Little Falls with the Class of 1948. He continued his education at Farleigh Dickinson University in Rutherford for two years and then served in the United States Army during the Korean War. After returning from his service he continued his education at Farleigh Dickinson University graduating with a Bachelor of Science degree with the Class of 1962.
During his service in the United States Army he trained German Shepherd dogs in Germany. He was awarded the Occupation Medal (Germany) and the National Defense Service Medal for his service.
James work history includes a job at the Passaic County Jail, a buyer for Singer-Kearfot Corporation in Clifton, and as a salesman for G.I. Haerer Printing in New York City. In 1978 he started his own company J. E. Carlon Company Inc. in Wayne where he was a printing broker for thirty four years before retiring in 2012.
James met the love of his life Mary Schauder during the summer in Belmar, NJ. Their first date was to a movie and a restaurant in Cedar Grove. On Easter Sunday the couple left Mary’s home and he proposed to her in a blue Ford convertible. They married at Sacred Heart RC Church in Bloomfield on November 26, 1955 and drove to Florida for their honeymoon. They have enjoyed fifty-eight years of a loving and devoted marriage.
He was dedicated to his Catholic faith and was a founding parishioner of Our Lady of Consolation RC Church in Wayne. James sang in the church choir, and was devoted to the church’s mission of saint Pablo Ecuador. He also dedicated himself to DePaul High School in Wayne where he was the voice of DePaul Football for twenty-five years and an inaugural member of the DePaul Athletic Hall of Fame.
James was a friend to everyone and would give you the shirt off his back. He was a member of the Ridgewood Cavaliers of Harmony for many years. He was a dedicated NY Giants and NY Mets fan who loved annual, August, trips to Hilton Head Island.
He was the loving husband of fifty-eight years to Mary (Schauder) Carlon; loving father of Kathleen Bionde and her husband Jim, Ann Feeney and her husband Kevin, Patti Ringen and her husband Jeff, Liz Stockinger, Michael Carlon and his wife Joanne, Mary Thomas and her husband Ben, and John Carlon and his wife Jenene all of Pompton Plains, and James Carlon, Jr. and his wife Dawn of Allentown, PA; cherished grandfather of twenty-six grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren; loved brother of Elisabeth Brady of York, ME.
In lieu of flowers memorial donations to Our Lady of Consolation Legacy Foundation or the Ecuador Quilt Inc. both c/o 1799 Hamburg Tpk., Wayne, NJ 07470 would be appreciated.
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Friends may visit with the family from 2-4 and 7-9 PM on Thursday, November 7, 2013 at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
Funeral services will be held 9 AM on Friday, November 8, 2013 from the funeral home then to Our Lady of Consolation RC Church, 1799 Hamburg Turnpike, Wayne where a 10 AM Funeral Mass will be offered.
Interment will be in the First Reformed Church Cemetery, Pompton Plains.
November 3, 2013
Services
Friends may visit with the family from 2-4 and 7-9 PM on Thursday, November 7, 2013 at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
Funeral services will be held 9 AM on Friday, November 8, 2013 from the funeral home then to Our Lady of Consolation RC Church, 1799 Hamburg Turnpike, Wayne where a 10 AM Funeral Mass will be offered.
Interment will be in the First Reformed Church Cemetery, Pompton Plains.
James Carlon age 82, a fifty-one year resident of Wayne, passed peacefully at home on Sunday, November 3, 2013.
He was born and raised in Totowa having graduated from Passaic Valley High School, Little Falls with the Class of 1948. He continued his education at Farleigh Dickinson University in Rutherford for two years and then served in the United States Army during the Korean War. After returning from his service he continued his education at Farleigh Dickinson University graduating with a Bachelor of Science degree with the Class of 1962.
During his service in the United States Army he trained German Shepherd dogs in Germany. He was awarded the Occupation Medal (Germany) and the National Defense Service Medal for his service.
James work history includes a job at the Passaic County Jail, a buyer for Singer-Kearfot Corporation in Clifton, and as a salesman for G.I. Haerer Printing in New York City. In 1978 he started his own company J. E. Carlon Company Inc. in Wayne where he was a printing broker for thirty four years before retiring in 2012.
James met the love of his life Mary Schauder during the summer in Belmar, NJ. Their first date was to a movie and a restaurant in Cedar Grove. On Easter Sunday the couple left Mary’s home and he proposed to her in a blue Ford convertible. They married at Sacred Heart RC Church in Bloomfield on November 26, 1955 and drove to Florida for their honeymoon. They have enjoyed fifty-eight years of a loving and devoted marriage.
He was dedicated to his Catholic faith and was a founding parishioner of Our Lady of Consolation RC Church in Wayne. James sang in the church choir, and was devoted to the church’s mission of saint Pablo Ecuador. He also dedicated himself to DePaul High School in Wayne where he was the voice of DePaul Football for twenty-five years and an inaugural member of the DePaul Athletic Hall of Fame.
James was a friend to everyone and would give you the shirt off his back. He was a member of the Ridgewood Cavaliers of Harmony for many years. He was a dedicated NY Giants and NY Mets fan who loved annual, August, trips to Hilton Head Island.
He was the loving husband of fifty-eight years to Mary (Schauder) Carlon; loving father of Kathleen Bionde and her husband Jim, Ann Feeney and her husband Kevin, Patti Ringen and her husband Jeff, Liz Stockinger, Michael Carlon and his wife Joanne, Mary Thomas and her husband Ben, and John Carlon and his wife Jenene all of Pompton Plains, and James Carlon, Jr. and his wife Dawn of Allentown, PA; cherished grandfather of twenty-six grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren; loved brother of Elisabeth Brady of York, ME.
In lieu of flowers memorial donations to Our Lady of Consolation Legacy Foundation or the Ecuador Quilt Inc. both c/o 1799 Hamburg Tpk., Wayne, NJ 07470 would be appreciated.
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