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April 28, 2013
Services
Friends may visit with the family on Thursday, May 2, 2013 from 4-7 PM at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
Funeral services will be held 7 PM on Thursday evening just after the visitation hours.
James T. Boyle, Jr., age 87, a fifty-five year resident of the Packanack Lake Section of Wayne, died Sunday, April 28, 2013.
He was born in Paterson and raised in Prospect Park having graduated from Central High School in Paterson with the Class of 1944. His passion during his youth was sports, especially tennis, a sport that he excelled at and continued to play regularly into his 70’s. He won numerous local and regional tournaments in his teens and was a competitor in the Junior Davis Cup. In addition to tennis, he also was the center for the Central High varsity basketball team, where the arch-rival was Eastside High in Paterson. Jim’s opposing center on the Eastside team was Larry Doby, who went on to become the first African-American player in the American League with the Cleveland Indians.
After high school he attended Stevens Technical Institute in Hoboken. After less than a year he enlisted in the United States Navy where he served at the Navy Pier in Chicago and after basic training, he was selected to participate in the Navy’s V-12 Officer Training Program at Yale University. World War II ended before he was scheduled to be sent to the Pacific theater. After being honorably discharged in 1946 he remained at Yale and graduated with a Bachelor of Science Degree in Engineering in 1948. Jim attended Trumbull College at Yale and competed with the intercollegiate tennis team.
Following college, Jim worked for several years in New York City selling machine tools, before taking a position with New Jersey Bell Telephone, where he spent the balance of his working career, starting as a salesperson, moving on to engineering and eventually to the traffic department. He retired in 1988.
Jim met his wife Ruth E. Eagle while on a double date in New York City. At the time, Ruth was a young head nurse at the Harkness Pavilion of the Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center in Manhattan. They married on July 25, 1954 at the Toms River (NJ) Methodist Church and honeymooned in Lake George, New York. The hotel they were staying in burned down during their honeymoon. Jim had taken a movie camera on the honeymoon and had a homemade film of the ruins of the hotel which he showed to friends and family. Ruth stopped work once she became a mother, and returned to the nursing field after their children were grown. The family moved to Packanack Lake in 1958. Jim and Ruth enjoyed fifty-four years of a loving, devoted, marriage before Ruth’s passing in 2008.
Jim, Ruth and the family were longtime members of at the Packanack Community Church in Wayne. He ushered at the church regularly until recent years.
He was a member, past president, and a Paul Harris Fellow of the Wayne Rotary Club. He loved his time at Rotary and attended a meeting most recently on April 10 of this year. He was a member of the Packanack Lake Country Club, and for several years coached basketball with the Packanack Rec program. For a number of years his tennis was curtailed due to severe back problems. After surgery in the 1960’s, he resumed playing tennis competitively for the Packanack club, and even won a number of tournaments playing doubles in the senior division into his mid-70’s. He and Ruth were active in the tennis club for over four decades.
He was the loving husband of the late Ruth E. (nee Eagle) Boyle; devoted father of James T. Boyle III and his wife Bridget of Marlton, Kenneth C. Boyle and his wife Pilar of New Providence, and Rick Boyle and his fiancé Cheryl of Cranford; cherished grandfather of James T. IV, Elizabeth Ann, John C., Allison, Kenneth C. II, and Alexa A. Boyle.
In lieu of flowers memorial donations to the Packanack Community Church, 120 Lake Drive East, Wayne, NJ 07470 would be appreciated.
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Friends may visit with the family on Thursday, May 2, 2013 from 4-7 PM at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
Funeral services will be held 7 PM on Thursday evening just after the visitation hours.
April 28, 2013
Services
Friends may visit with the family on Thursday, May 2, 2013 from 4-7 PM at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
Funeral services will be held 7 PM on Thursday evening just after the visitation hours.
James T. Boyle, Jr., age 87, a fifty-five year resident of the Packanack Lake Section of Wayne, died Sunday, April 28, 2013.
He was born in Paterson and raised in Prospect Park having graduated from Central High School in Paterson with the Class of 1944. His passion during his youth was sports, especially tennis, a sport that he excelled at and continued to play regularly into his 70’s. He won numerous local and regional tournaments in his teens and was a competitor in the Junior Davis Cup. In addition to tennis, he also was the center for the Central High varsity basketball team, where the arch-rival was Eastside High in Paterson. Jim’s opposing center on the Eastside team was Larry Doby, who went on to become the first African-American player in the American League with the Cleveland Indians.
After high school he attended Stevens Technical Institute in Hoboken. After less than a year he enlisted in the United States Navy where he served at the Navy Pier in Chicago and after basic training, he was selected to participate in the Navy’s V-12 Officer Training Program at Yale University. World War II ended before he was scheduled to be sent to the Pacific theater. After being honorably discharged in 1946 he remained at Yale and graduated with a Bachelor of Science Degree in Engineering in 1948. Jim attended Trumbull College at Yale and competed with the intercollegiate tennis team.
Following college, Jim worked for several years in New York City selling machine tools, before taking a position with New Jersey Bell Telephone, where he spent the balance of his working career, starting as a salesperson, moving on to engineering and eventually to the traffic department. He retired in 1988.
Jim met his wife Ruth E. Eagle while on a double date in New York City. At the time, Ruth was a young head nurse at the Harkness Pavilion of the Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center in Manhattan. They married on July 25, 1954 at the Toms River (NJ) Methodist Church and honeymooned in Lake George, New York. The hotel they were staying in burned down during their honeymoon. Jim had taken a movie camera on the honeymoon and had a homemade film of the ruins of the hotel which he showed to friends and family. Ruth stopped work once she became a mother, and returned to the nursing field after their children were grown. The family moved to Packanack Lake in 1958. Jim and Ruth enjoyed fifty-four years of a loving, devoted, marriage before Ruth’s passing in 2008.
Jim, Ruth and the family were longtime members of at the Packanack Community Church in Wayne. He ushered at the church regularly until recent years.
He was a member, past president, and a Paul Harris Fellow of the Wayne Rotary Club. He loved his time at Rotary and attended a meeting most recently on April 10 of this year. He was a member of the Packanack Lake Country Club, and for several years coached basketball with the Packanack Rec program. For a number of years his tennis was curtailed due to severe back problems. After surgery in the 1960’s, he resumed playing tennis competitively for the Packanack club, and even won a number of tournaments playing doubles in the senior division into his mid-70’s. He and Ruth were active in the tennis club for over four decades.
He was the loving husband of the late Ruth E. (nee Eagle) Boyle; devoted father of James T. Boyle III and his wife Bridget of Marlton, Kenneth C. Boyle and his wife Pilar of New Providence, and Rick Boyle and his fiancé Cheryl of Cranford; cherished grandfather of James T. IV, Elizabeth Ann, John C., Allison, Kenneth C. II, and Alexa A. Boyle.
In lieu of flowers memorial donations to the Packanack Community Church, 120 Lake Drive East, Wayne, NJ 07470 would be appreciated.
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