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December 26, 2011
Services
Friends may visit with the family on Wednesday, December 28, 2011 from 2:00 to 4:00 and 7:00 to 9:00 pm at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
A 10 AM Funeral Service will be held on Thursday, December 29, 2011 at the First Reformed Church, Newark Pompton Tpk., Pompton Plains.
Interment will be in the First Reformed Church Cemetery, Pompton Plains.
Jeanne E. Kuehm (nee VanWagenen) age 94 of Wayne died peacefully at home on Monday, December 26, 2011.
She was born and raised in Ridgewood having graduated from Ridgewood High School with the Class of 1935 and lived in Wayne for the past fifty-five years.
During WWII Jeanne was a spotter having climbed a tower at the corner of Hamburg Turnpike and Alps Road to watch for incoming aircraft. She had a pair of binoculars and a chart of what friendly and enemy aircraft looked like.
Jeanne was a caring, loving and adventurous woman who loved a good party. She met her husband Edgar when shopping for a Christmas tree. She was waiting in line to be helped and Edgar spied her. He bypassed the next person in line and said “this one’s for me”. They fell in love and married on October 28, 1950 at the Ridgewood Presbyterian Church, had a reception at the Hanson House (now Portobello Restaurant in Oakland), and honeymooned at the Roosevelt Hotel in New York City. The enjoyed fifty years of loving and dedicated marriage until Edgar’s passing in November of 2000. Her memory of their first meeting inspired her to have an evergreen engraved into his monument at the cemetery.
Jeanne had a love for travel and she and Dad traveled often, but her favorite place was their home in Kona, Hawaii. They spent the winters there and also, traveled there during other times of the year. Through the years they made many new friends, with the friendships continuing on. Jeanne was lucky enough to spend time with her family and friends on the Big Island up until 5 years ago.
She was the loving wife of the late Edgar Kuehm(2000); loving mother of Michael Looney and his wife Kristyn of Indianapolis, IN, Carol Connolly and her husband Terry of Clifton, Karen Frederick and her husband Norman of Pequannock, and Lauren Hermann and her husband Nick of Wayne; loving grandmother of ten grandchildren, seven great-grandchildren and one great-great granddaughter. She was predeceased by two grandchildren.
In lieu of flowers memorial donations to St. Judes Children's Hospital, 501 St. Jude Place, Memphis, TN 38105-2729 or the Make-A-Wish Foundation of New Jersey, 1034 Salem Road, Union, New Jersey 07083-7058 would be appreciated.
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Friends may visit with the family on Wednesday, December 28, 2011 from 2:00 to 4:00 and 7:00 to 9:00 pm at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
A 10 AM Funeral Service will be held on Thursday, December 29, 2011 at the First Reformed Church, Newark Pompton Tpk., Pompton Plains.
Interment will be in the First Reformed Church Cemetery, Pompton Plains.
December 26, 2011
Services
Friends may visit with the family on Wednesday, December 28, 2011 from 2:00 to 4:00 and 7:00 to 9:00 pm at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
A 10 AM Funeral Service will be held on Thursday, December 29, 2011 at the First Reformed Church, Newark Pompton Tpk., Pompton Plains.
Interment will be in the First Reformed Church Cemetery, Pompton Plains.
Jeanne E. Kuehm (nee VanWagenen) age 94 of Wayne died peacefully at home on Monday, December 26, 2011.
She was born and raised in Ridgewood having graduated from Ridgewood High School with the Class of 1935 and lived in Wayne for the past fifty-five years.
During WWII Jeanne was a spotter having climbed a tower at the corner of Hamburg Turnpike and Alps Road to watch for incoming aircraft. She had a pair of binoculars and a chart of what friendly and enemy aircraft looked like.
Jeanne was a caring, loving and adventurous woman who loved a good party. She met her husband Edgar when shopping for a Christmas tree. She was waiting in line to be helped and Edgar spied her. He bypassed the next person in line and said “this one’s for me”. They fell in love and married on October 28, 1950 at the Ridgewood Presbyterian Church, had a reception at the Hanson House (now Portobello Restaurant in Oakland), and honeymooned at the Roosevelt Hotel in New York City. The enjoyed fifty years of loving and dedicated marriage until Edgar’s passing in November of 2000. Her memory of their first meeting inspired her to have an evergreen engraved into his monument at the cemetery.
Jeanne had a love for travel and she and Dad traveled often, but her favorite place was their home in Kona, Hawaii. They spent the winters there and also, traveled there during other times of the year. Through the years they made many new friends, with the friendships continuing on. Jeanne was lucky enough to spend time with her family and friends on the Big Island up until 5 years ago.
She was the loving wife of the late Edgar Kuehm(2000); loving mother of Michael Looney and his wife Kristyn of Indianapolis, IN, Carol Connolly and her husband Terry of Clifton, Karen Frederick and her husband Norman of Pequannock, and Lauren Hermann and her husband Nick of Wayne; loving grandmother of ten grandchildren, seven great-grandchildren and one great-great granddaughter. She was predeceased by two grandchildren.
In lieu of flowers memorial donations to St. Judes Children's Hospital, 501 St. Jude Place, Memphis, TN 38105-2729 or the Make-A-Wish Foundation of New Jersey, 1034 Salem Road, Union, New Jersey 07083-7058 would be appreciated.
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