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July 6, 2012
Services
**Please note: the funeral has changed to a graveside service at 10 AM on Wednesday followed by a memorial service at the church at 12 noon.**
Friends may visit with the family at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne, on Tuesday, July 10, 2012 from 2-4 & 7-9 PM. A graveside service will be held at 10 AM on Wednesday at the Laurel Grove Memorial Park (Forest Lawn section), Totowa, NJ and a memorial service will follow at the Grace Evangelical Free Church, 5550 Berkshire Valley Road Oak Ridge, NJ 07438, beginning at 12 noon.
Jean May Kline, (nee Onderdonk), age 77 of Oak Ridge, went home to the Lord on Friday, July 6, 2012 at the St. Clare’s Hospital in Dover. She had been a resident of Oak Ridge since 1964.
Jean was born and grew up in the Mountain View section of Wayne. She began her career with Mack Molding in Wayne and loved working there for thirty five years, at which point the company moved from the area. She then began working at Viva International and stayed there for nine years before retiring in 1999.
Jean was a very athletic woman and was always involved in sports. She played softball for many years, was a great bowler, did a lot of walking and was generally very active. Around the house, she never seemed to stop cleaning! Maintaining a clean home was very important to her and you knew it if you ever visited. In fact, her family recalls vacations to the Outer Banks where they would all spend the first day of vacation cleaning their rented home with Aunt Jean. They would vacuum, wash all the windows, clean the kitchen and bathrooms all on the first day of vacation, and then do it all again on the last day, leaving the home impeccably spotless for the next renters. She loved her vacations to the Outer Banks, with all of her family gathered together. She was a bit of a ham and loved to perform in the family skits they would put on during vacation. She has blessed her family with so many cherished memories, most of which make them all laugh, including the time she ran over her seven-year-old niece with a bicycle, by accident, of course. Aunt Jean was like the glue that bonded their family together. She was very loving, had a great sense of humor and enjoyed a good prank from time to time. She was well liked by the wild animals of the Outer Banks too, as feeding them all was one of her favorite pastimes when they vacationed there. The local fox would enjoy a plate of chicken and the turtles were sure to get their fill of crackers whenever Aunt Jean was in town. At home she always had a pet cat and she became very attached to her hamsters. It all began with “Bubba.” She had a big heart and loved all animals.
Jean was active with the Grace Evangelical Free Church of Oak Ridge and her faith in Jesus was the pillar of her life. She devoted her time to the children’s church, the Bible school, and the White Cross Ministry Missions program.
Jean met her husband Kenneth while working at Mack Molding in Wayne. On one particular day in 1955, they saw each other while ice skating on the pond near to where William Paterson University is now. It was Jean’s intention to skate into Ken and knock him down, in order make his acquaintance, but that wasn’t necessary in the end. Skating on the pond that day became their first date and after Ken was discharged from the Marine Corps, they married on July 29, 1960. They enjoyed a wonderful honeymoon at Niagara Falls and were blessed with nearly fifty two years of a loving, amazing, and perfect marriage. For their fiftieth anniversary celebration, Jean chose a Biblical verse from Song of Songs 3:4; “I found the one my heart loves”, and that says it all about how they felt towards one another.
Jean is survived by her beloved husband Kenneth of Oak Ridge, and many loving nieces and nephews. She was predeceased by her two sisters; Millie Shaw in 1984 and Margie Ballard in 1995, as well as her brother Herbert Hoover Onderdonk in 2005.
Donations in Jean’s memory, if friends so wish, to the American Bible Society, P.O. Box 96812, Washington, D.C. 20090-6812, would be greatly appreciated.
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**Please note: the funeral has changed to a graveside service at 10 AM on Wednesday followed by a memorial service at the church at 12 noon.**
Friends may visit with the family at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne, on Tuesday, July 10, 2012 from 2-4 & 7-9 PM. A graveside service will be held at 10 AM on Wednesday at the Laurel Grove Memorial Park (Forest Lawn section), Totowa, NJ and a memorial service will follow at the Grace Evangelical Free Church, 5550 Berkshire Valley Road Oak Ridge, NJ 07438, beginning at 12 noon.
July 6, 2012
Services
**Please note: the funeral has changed to a graveside service at 10 AM on Wednesday followed by a memorial service at the church at 12 noon.**
Friends may visit with the family at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne, on Tuesday, July 10, 2012 from 2-4 & 7-9 PM. A graveside service will be held at 10 AM on Wednesday at the Laurel Grove Memorial Park (Forest Lawn section), Totowa, NJ and a memorial service will follow at the Grace Evangelical Free Church, 5550 Berkshire Valley Road Oak Ridge, NJ 07438, beginning at 12 noon.
Jean May Kline, (nee Onderdonk), age 77 of Oak Ridge, went home to the Lord on Friday, July 6, 2012 at the St. Clare’s Hospital in Dover. She had been a resident of Oak Ridge since 1964.
Jean was born and grew up in the Mountain View section of Wayne. She began her career with Mack Molding in Wayne and loved working there for thirty five years, at which point the company moved from the area. She then began working at Viva International and stayed there for nine years before retiring in 1999.
Jean was a very athletic woman and was always involved in sports. She played softball for many years, was a great bowler, did a lot of walking and was generally very active. Around the house, she never seemed to stop cleaning! Maintaining a clean home was very important to her and you knew it if you ever visited. In fact, her family recalls vacations to the Outer Banks where they would all spend the first day of vacation cleaning their rented home with Aunt Jean. They would vacuum, wash all the windows, clean the kitchen and bathrooms all on the first day of vacation, and then do it all again on the last day, leaving the home impeccably spotless for the next renters. She loved her vacations to the Outer Banks, with all of her family gathered together. She was a bit of a ham and loved to perform in the family skits they would put on during vacation. She has blessed her family with so many cherished memories, most of which make them all laugh, including the time she ran over her seven-year-old niece with a bicycle, by accident, of course. Aunt Jean was like the glue that bonded their family together. She was very loving, had a great sense of humor and enjoyed a good prank from time to time. She was well liked by the wild animals of the Outer Banks too, as feeding them all was one of her favorite pastimes when they vacationed there. The local fox would enjoy a plate of chicken and the turtles were sure to get their fill of crackers whenever Aunt Jean was in town. At home she always had a pet cat and she became very attached to her hamsters. It all began with “Bubba.” She had a big heart and loved all animals.
Jean was active with the Grace Evangelical Free Church of Oak Ridge and her faith in Jesus was the pillar of her life. She devoted her time to the children’s church, the Bible school, and the White Cross Ministry Missions program.
Jean met her husband Kenneth while working at Mack Molding in Wayne. On one particular day in 1955, they saw each other while ice skating on the pond near to where William Paterson University is now. It was Jean’s intention to skate into Ken and knock him down, in order make his acquaintance, but that wasn’t necessary in the end. Skating on the pond that day became their first date and after Ken was discharged from the Marine Corps, they married on July 29, 1960. They enjoyed a wonderful honeymoon at Niagara Falls and were blessed with nearly fifty two years of a loving, amazing, and perfect marriage. For their fiftieth anniversary celebration, Jean chose a Biblical verse from Song of Songs 3:4; “I found the one my heart loves”, and that says it all about how they felt towards one another.
Jean is survived by her beloved husband Kenneth of Oak Ridge, and many loving nieces and nephews. She was predeceased by her two sisters; Millie Shaw in 1984 and Margie Ballard in 1995, as well as her brother Herbert Hoover Onderdonk in 2005.
Donations in Jean’s memory, if friends so wish, to the American Bible Society, P.O. Box 96812, Washington, D.C. 20090-6812, would be greatly appreciated.
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