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March 16, 2010
Services
Funeral services will be held Saturday 11 AM at the Cedar Crest Chapel at Cedar Crest Village in Pompton Plains. Friends may visit with the family at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne Friday from 4-8 PM.
Jane “Nickie” Wallin (nee Bucher), of Pompton Plains and formerly of Packanack Lake in Wayne passed on Tuesday, March 16, 2010 at the age of 85. Nickie’s passing took place quietly and peacefully at the Ware Presbyterian Village in Oxford, Pennsylvania. Many of her autumn days were spent at the home of her daughter Pamela Scheese in Oxford, Pennsylvania where she received the loving care of her devoted daughter.
She was born in Newark and moved to Packanack Lake in 1952. Nickie moved to Cedar Crest Village in Pompton Plains nine years ago. At Cedar Crest Village, she was very active on many committees. She was the first vice-president of the resident association and on its council.
Nickie spent her formative years in Maplewood where she graduated from Columbia High School with the Class of 1942. She then went to the University of Syracuse and graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in both Journalism and Business Administration with the Class of 1946. In college she was very active in the Alpha Gamma Delta Sorority and managed the New Member indoctrination for her Sorority.
Nickie was an active member of Packanack Lake Country Club, and the American Association of University Women of North Jersey. Previously she had been a member of the Packanack Garden Club, a Den Mother for Cub Scouts, a leader for the Brownies, a substitute teacher in the Wayne School System for ten years, and was a very active member of the Packanack Community Church in Wayne and spent many years in charge of the Church Life Committee.
She was employed for many years as an Executive Secretary at the Martin Insurance Agency located in the Packanack Shopping Center in Wayne and retired in 1985.
She was gifted with a very kind and sharing personality and was admired and loved by many people. Nickie was profoundly gifted in the art of interpersonal communication that caused her to be admired by many. Perhaps her greatest gift of friendship was being a good listener and responding to the issue at hand with genuine concern. She had a way of lighting up a room with her wonderful upbeat personality.
She was a New York Giant football fan as well as a fan of all the teams on which her children and grandchildren played.
One day in the 1940’s on a Sunday afternoon, Nickie was at home in Maplewood and her cousin came to visit bringing a friend. That friend was Tom Wallin who she married on September 17, 1948. They had thirty-seven years of “perfectly wonderful” marriage together until Tom’s passing in June of 1985.
Tom and Nickie took many vacations and enjoyed traveling by car across the United States. They also enjoyed wintering in Pompano Beach, Florida.
She had a motherly humanity coupled with an intense concern for the hearts and souls of her children and grandchildren. When interviewed for a story of her life she expressed great pride in all of her grandchildren and their achievements. When asked what message would be important to tell them after her passing she said “develop a good humor and enjoy life to the fullest.”
She said she always cherishes the memory of a special event in her life when the children, with Tom’s help, treated Nickie and Tom to a very wonderful surprise thirty-fifth wedding anniversary party. It was two years later when Tom passed away after a valiant battle with cancer.
Surviving are one daughter Pamela Scheese and her husband Joseph of Oxford, Pennsylvania; one son Russell “Rusty” W. Wallin and his wife Eileen of Mountain Lakes, and four grandchildren Thomas R. Wallin, Michael Wallin, Sean Wallin, and Shannon Wallin.
Those planning an expression of sympathy in Nickie’s memory are asked to please consider Compassion & Choices, PO Box 101810, Denver, CO 80250, or www.compassionandchoices.org.
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Funeral services will be held Saturday 11 AM at the Cedar Crest Chapel at Cedar Crest Village in Pompton Plains. Friends may visit with the family at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne Friday from 4-8 PM.
March 16, 2010
Services
Funeral services will be held Saturday 11 AM at the Cedar Crest Chapel at Cedar Crest Village in Pompton Plains. Friends may visit with the family at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne Friday from 4-8 PM.
Jane “Nickie” Wallin (nee Bucher), of Pompton Plains and formerly of Packanack Lake in Wayne passed on Tuesday, March 16, 2010 at the age of 85. Nickie’s passing took place quietly and peacefully at the Ware Presbyterian Village in Oxford, Pennsylvania. Many of her autumn days were spent at the home of her daughter Pamela Scheese in Oxford, Pennsylvania where she received the loving care of her devoted daughter.
She was born in Newark and moved to Packanack Lake in 1952. Nickie moved to Cedar Crest Village in Pompton Plains nine years ago. At Cedar Crest Village, she was very active on many committees. She was the first vice-president of the resident association and on its council.
Nickie spent her formative years in Maplewood where she graduated from Columbia High School with the Class of 1942. She then went to the University of Syracuse and graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in both Journalism and Business Administration with the Class of 1946. In college she was very active in the Alpha Gamma Delta Sorority and managed the New Member indoctrination for her Sorority.
Nickie was an active member of Packanack Lake Country Club, and the American Association of University Women of North Jersey. Previously she had been a member of the Packanack Garden Club, a Den Mother for Cub Scouts, a leader for the Brownies, a substitute teacher in the Wayne School System for ten years, and was a very active member of the Packanack Community Church in Wayne and spent many years in charge of the Church Life Committee.
She was employed for many years as an Executive Secretary at the Martin Insurance Agency located in the Packanack Shopping Center in Wayne and retired in 1985.
She was gifted with a very kind and sharing personality and was admired and loved by many people. Nickie was profoundly gifted in the art of interpersonal communication that caused her to be admired by many. Perhaps her greatest gift of friendship was being a good listener and responding to the issue at hand with genuine concern. She had a way of lighting up a room with her wonderful upbeat personality.
She was a New York Giant football fan as well as a fan of all the teams on which her children and grandchildren played.
One day in the 1940’s on a Sunday afternoon, Nickie was at home in Maplewood and her cousin came to visit bringing a friend. That friend was Tom Wallin who she married on September 17, 1948. They had thirty-seven years of “perfectly wonderful” marriage together until Tom’s passing in June of 1985.
Tom and Nickie took many vacations and enjoyed traveling by car across the United States. They also enjoyed wintering in Pompano Beach, Florida.
She had a motherly humanity coupled with an intense concern for the hearts and souls of her children and grandchildren. When interviewed for a story of her life she expressed great pride in all of her grandchildren and their achievements. When asked what message would be important to tell them after her passing she said “develop a good humor and enjoy life to the fullest.”
She said she always cherishes the memory of a special event in her life when the children, with Tom’s help, treated Nickie and Tom to a very wonderful surprise thirty-fifth wedding anniversary party. It was two years later when Tom passed away after a valiant battle with cancer.
Surviving are one daughter Pamela Scheese and her husband Joseph of Oxford, Pennsylvania; one son Russell “Rusty” W. Wallin and his wife Eileen of Mountain Lakes, and four grandchildren Thomas R. Wallin, Michael Wallin, Sean Wallin, and Shannon Wallin.
Those planning an expression of sympathy in Nickie’s memory are asked to please consider Compassion & Choices, PO Box 101810, Denver, CO 80250, or www.compassionandchoices.org.
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