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December 16, 2014
Services
Friends may visit with the family at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne, on Sunday, December 21, 2014 from 2:00 to 5:30 PM.
Funeral Services will immediately follow the time of visitation and begin at 5:30 PM.
James H. Shaw, age 70 of Wayne, died peacefully on Tuesday, December 16, 2014 after a twenty-year battle with declining health.
Born in Paterson, Jim graduated from Wayne Valley High School with the Class of 1964. It was in that school that he met Edythe “Edie” Sheridan. She was friends with Jim’s sister Eleanor and Jim and Edie became high school sweethearts. When their school days were past they wasted no time, marrying on September 4, 1965 at Holy Cross Church in the Mountainview section of Wayne. Following the wedding ceremony, they hosted a reception at the Wayne Manor and it was the first wedding reception ever held there. They honeymooned locally in Atlantic City because Jim had just been drafted by the U.S. Army and wasn’t allowed to venture too far away from home. It’s a matter-of-fact, he and Edie had to change their wedding date because of the draft. The newlyweds settled in Wayne in 1966 and have lived there ever since. They recently celebrated their 49th wedding anniversary.
Jim began his service in the U.S. Army in early 1966 and he was an expert rifleman. He came home a few months later to the best prize a man could ask for – a baby boy which he and Edie named James, Jr. In a few short years, he was blessed with two more children: a little girl named Edythe and another little boy named Joseph. Jim loved his kids more than anything. When his boys were young, he was their baseball coach through the Wayne P.A.L. youth recreation program. Jim coached his boys on two different sponsoring teams – Vander May Funeral Home and Milk Barn, and for every game that they won, they always went to the Milk Barn for ice cream.
As a young man, Jim initially worked for his father’s business – S&S Auto Recyclers in Wayne. It was there that he displayed a great interest and talent for fixing cars. He soon got a job working for United Parcel Service as a fleet mechanic. He was an excellent mechanic for UPS for twenty-eight years until illness forced him to retire in 1995. Throughout the years Jim was the neighborhood guy you went to if you needed your car fixed. He generously fixed anyone’s car.
In his spare time, Jim was a golf fanatic. He played on numerous courses including the Knoll Country Club in Parsippany, the Passaic County Golf Course, and with his buddies in Myrtle Beach, North Carolina and in Florida. Jim also enjoyed being a member of the Knights of Columbus where he was a Fourth Degree Knight. He loved sports and he loved his grandchildren so he really enjoyed going to their different sporting events. Through the magic of internet, Jim was able to watch his grandson Ryan’s team, the Parsippany Hills Vikings win the football championship at Giant’s Stadium from his hospital bed just this past December 7th. A proud moment for Grandpa Jim indeed!
Jim was cherished by his family and many friends. Everyone loved his happy, easy-going disposition. He always felt he knew a better way to do whatever it was you were doing and he had no problem telling you. He was a kidder and a teaser but he always teased in a loving way.
Surviving are his beloved wife of Edie; three children: James, Jr. and wife Denise of Parsippany, Edythe and husband Steve Sich of Haskell, and Joseph and wife Bonnie of Fairfield; nine cherished grandchildren: Tyler, Casey, Nikole, Kerri, Ryan, Steven, Brandon, Megan, and Riley; two adored great-grandchildren: Meah and Max; and his brother Tom and wife Frances Shaw of Wayne. Jim was predeceased by his two brothers: George and Harold Shaw, and his sister Eleanor Shaw.
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Friends may visit with the family at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne, on Sunday, December 21, 2014 from 2:00 to 5:30 PM.
Funeral Services will immediately follow the time of visitation and begin at 5:30 PM.
December 16, 2014
Services
Friends may visit with the family at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne, on Sunday, December 21, 2014 from 2:00 to 5:30 PM.
Funeral Services will immediately follow the time of visitation and begin at 5:30 PM.
James H. Shaw, age 70 of Wayne, died peacefully on Tuesday, December 16, 2014 after a twenty-year battle with declining health.
Born in Paterson, Jim graduated from Wayne Valley High School with the Class of 1964. It was in that school that he met Edythe “Edie” Sheridan. She was friends with Jim’s sister Eleanor and Jim and Edie became high school sweethearts. When their school days were past they wasted no time, marrying on September 4, 1965 at Holy Cross Church in the Mountainview section of Wayne. Following the wedding ceremony, they hosted a reception at the Wayne Manor and it was the first wedding reception ever held there. They honeymooned locally in Atlantic City because Jim had just been drafted by the U.S. Army and wasn’t allowed to venture too far away from home. It’s a matter-of-fact, he and Edie had to change their wedding date because of the draft. The newlyweds settled in Wayne in 1966 and have lived there ever since. They recently celebrated their 49th wedding anniversary.
Jim began his service in the U.S. Army in early 1966 and he was an expert rifleman. He came home a few months later to the best prize a man could ask for – a baby boy which he and Edie named James, Jr. In a few short years, he was blessed with two more children: a little girl named Edythe and another little boy named Joseph. Jim loved his kids more than anything. When his boys were young, he was their baseball coach through the Wayne P.A.L. youth recreation program. Jim coached his boys on two different sponsoring teams – Vander May Funeral Home and Milk Barn, and for every game that they won, they always went to the Milk Barn for ice cream.
As a young man, Jim initially worked for his father’s business – S&S Auto Recyclers in Wayne. It was there that he displayed a great interest and talent for fixing cars. He soon got a job working for United Parcel Service as a fleet mechanic. He was an excellent mechanic for UPS for twenty-eight years until illness forced him to retire in 1995. Throughout the years Jim was the neighborhood guy you went to if you needed your car fixed. He generously fixed anyone’s car.
In his spare time, Jim was a golf fanatic. He played on numerous courses including the Knoll Country Club in Parsippany, the Passaic County Golf Course, and with his buddies in Myrtle Beach, North Carolina and in Florida. Jim also enjoyed being a member of the Knights of Columbus where he was a Fourth Degree Knight. He loved sports and he loved his grandchildren so he really enjoyed going to their different sporting events. Through the magic of internet, Jim was able to watch his grandson Ryan’s team, the Parsippany Hills Vikings win the football championship at Giant’s Stadium from his hospital bed just this past December 7th. A proud moment for Grandpa Jim indeed!
Jim was cherished by his family and many friends. Everyone loved his happy, easy-going disposition. He always felt he knew a better way to do whatever it was you were doing and he had no problem telling you. He was a kidder and a teaser but he always teased in a loving way.
Surviving are his beloved wife of Edie; three children: James, Jr. and wife Denise of Parsippany, Edythe and husband Steve Sich of Haskell, and Joseph and wife Bonnie of Fairfield; nine cherished grandchildren: Tyler, Casey, Nikole, Kerri, Ryan, Steven, Brandon, Megan, and Riley; two adored great-grandchildren: Meah and Max; and his brother Tom and wife Frances Shaw of Wayne. Jim was predeceased by his two brothers: George and Harold Shaw, and his sister Eleanor Shaw.
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