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October 14, 2023
Services
Friends may visit with the family on Wednesday, October 18, 2023 from 4-8 PM at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
A Funeral Service will be offered on Thursday, October 19, 2023, beginning 10:30 AM at the funeral home. Following the service, Jennie will be laid to rest at Laurel Grove Memorial Park in Totowa.
Jennie Christina Hosier, age 91, of Wayne, passed away peacefully at home and with her loving family by her side, on Saturday, October 14, 2023.
Jennie was born and raised in Paterson, the second of James and Josephine (Stanzio) Jarvis’ three children. She attended Paterson’s Central High School and worked at Yardley of London, maker of personal care and beauty products, in Totowa. She was employed there for ten years after high school and then Jennie went to work as a factory line worker at Hoffman LaRoche in Nutley for another twenty years before retiring in 1994. During all the years she worked fulltime, Jennie also managed to raise five children, albeit with a little help from some friends as well as her older children helping to care for the younger ones.
Jennie was the devoted and truly loved wife of Norman Hosier. They met for the first time when Norman came home from U.S. Navy service, only to discover that Jennie, this beautiful seventeen-year-old, had moved in next door to Norm’s parents at 147 Garfield Ave. in Paterson. Wasting no precious time, Norm asked Jennie to go out with him and the chemistry was just right. They fell in love and married just three weeks before Jennie’s eighteenth birthday on Saturday, September 16, 1950 at Pascack Reformed Church in Park Ridge. After a reception in the family’s home, Jennie and Norman jumped into his light green Nash and headed for Sarasota Springs, NY for a heavenly honeymoon.
Married life began on the first floor of the home at 147 Garfield Avenue that Norm grew up in. Jennie and Norm shared the apartment with his parents. It was there that they were blessed with the first of their five children, a baby girl which they named Deborah. They eventually moved next door into Jennie’s parent’s home in which they had an apartment upstairs, all to themselves. There, they were blessed with two more baby girls, first Janice and then Norma Jean. From there they moved to Genessee Ave. in Paterson where baby boys Norman, Jr. and James were born. In 1962, they moved to their present home in Wayne.
One of Jennie’s favorite pastimes was bowling. She bowled for many years in various houses in the area. In the 1970’s she bowled at Little Falls Lanes where she sported a 156 average and at the Garden Place Lanes in Clifton where her average was 151. She also bowled at Astro Bowl and at the Brunswick Lanes in Bellville where she bowled in the Hoffmann LaRoche League. Jennie instilled a great love of bowling in her children by taking them to Leisure Lanes in Fairfield. Her son James especially took a love to the game and eventually went pro.
Jennie’s greatest love was for her family. She and her husband Norm made sure to supply their children with a great upbringing filled with fun and special memories. They enjoyed annual tent camping trips and vacations every summer for a week down the Jersey Shore where Jennie especially loved to go crabbing. Jennie was a longtime member of Pequannock Reformed Church in Wayne, and she saw to it that her children dressed in their Sunday best for church each week and that they all attended Sunday school. She herself enjoyed her weeknight bible studies at the church. She loved an impeccably clean home and she left the cooking to husband Norm. Instead, she found great satisfaction in knitting and crocheting scarves, mittens, hats, and afghans for her children and much-adored five grandsons. She loved those boys, felt very close to them and enjoyed favoring them with little acts of love to spoil them. The only thing she never did was babysit them. Her philosophy was always, “I raised mine, now you raise yours.”
In between work and family, Jennie enjoyed working outside in her gardens and enjoying the company of her two favorite pooches – miniature poodles named Misty and Minka.
Jennie could best be described as feisty and outspoken. She was also very loving and, if she liked you, she’d give you the shirt off of her back if you needed it. Her mere presence will be dearly missed by her family and friends. Rest in peace Jennie!
Jennie was the beloved wife of Norman, blessed in marriage for 73 years. She was the proud and loving mother of five children: Deborah LaSala and husband William of Wantage, Janice Nolan and husband Thomas of Pompton Plains, Norma Jean Johnson and husband Scott of Newton, Norman Hosier, Jr. and wife Maryrose of Newton, and James Hosier of Wayne; adoring grandmother of five grandsons: Jason Grieves, Billy LaSala, the late Christopher Grieves (2007), Michael Hosier and Matthew Hosier; dear aunt of several nieces and nephews and four great grandchildren. Jennie was also predeceased by her sister Rose McAteer and her brother Sonny Jarvis.
In lieu of flowers, those planning an expression of sympathy in Jennie’s name are asked to consider:
Alzheimer’s New Jersey
Attention Development Dept.
425 Eagle Rock Avenue, #203
Roseland, NJ 07068
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Friends may visit with the family on Wednesday, October 18, 2023 from 4-8 PM at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
A Funeral Service will be offered on Thursday, October 19, 2023, beginning 10:30 AM at the funeral home. Following the service, Jennie will be laid to rest at Laurel Grove Memorial Park in Totowa.
October 14, 2023
Services
Friends may visit with the family on Wednesday, October 18, 2023 from 4-8 PM at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
A Funeral Service will be offered on Thursday, October 19, 2023, beginning 10:30 AM at the funeral home. Following the service, Jennie will be laid to rest at Laurel Grove Memorial Park in Totowa.
Jennie Christina Hosier, age 91, of Wayne, passed away peacefully at home and with her loving family by her side, on Saturday, October 14, 2023.
Jennie was born and raised in Paterson, the second of James and Josephine (Stanzio) Jarvis’ three children. She attended Paterson’s Central High School and worked at Yardley of London, maker of personal care and beauty products, in Totowa. She was employed there for ten years after high school and then Jennie went to work as a factory line worker at Hoffman LaRoche in Nutley for another twenty years before retiring in 1994. During all the years she worked fulltime, Jennie also managed to raise five children, albeit with a little help from some friends as well as her older children helping to care for the younger ones.
Jennie was the devoted and truly loved wife of Norman Hosier. They met for the first time when Norman came home from U.S. Navy service, only to discover that Jennie, this beautiful seventeen-year-old, had moved in next door to Norm’s parents at 147 Garfield Ave. in Paterson. Wasting no precious time, Norm asked Jennie to go out with him and the chemistry was just right. They fell in love and married just three weeks before Jennie’s eighteenth birthday on Saturday, September 16, 1950 at Pascack Reformed Church in Park Ridge. After a reception in the family’s home, Jennie and Norman jumped into his light green Nash and headed for Sarasota Springs, NY for a heavenly honeymoon.
Married life began on the first floor of the home at 147 Garfield Avenue that Norm grew up in. Jennie and Norm shared the apartment with his parents. It was there that they were blessed with the first of their five children, a baby girl which they named Deborah. They eventually moved next door into Jennie’s parent’s home in which they had an apartment upstairs, all to themselves. There, they were blessed with two more baby girls, first Janice and then Norma Jean. From there they moved to Genessee Ave. in Paterson where baby boys Norman, Jr. and James were born. In 1962, they moved to their present home in Wayne.
One of Jennie’s favorite pastimes was bowling. She bowled for many years in various houses in the area. In the 1970’s she bowled at Little Falls Lanes where she sported a 156 average and at the Garden Place Lanes in Clifton where her average was 151. She also bowled at Astro Bowl and at the Brunswick Lanes in Bellville where she bowled in the Hoffmann LaRoche League. Jennie instilled a great love of bowling in her children by taking them to Leisure Lanes in Fairfield. Her son James especially took a love to the game and eventually went pro.
Jennie’s greatest love was for her family. She and her husband Norm made sure to supply their children with a great upbringing filled with fun and special memories. They enjoyed annual tent camping trips and vacations every summer for a week down the Jersey Shore where Jennie especially loved to go crabbing. Jennie was a longtime member of Pequannock Reformed Church in Wayne, and she saw to it that her children dressed in their Sunday best for church each week and that they all attended Sunday school. She herself enjoyed her weeknight bible studies at the church. She loved an impeccably clean home and she left the cooking to husband Norm. Instead, she found great satisfaction in knitting and crocheting scarves, mittens, hats, and afghans for her children and much-adored five grandsons. She loved those boys, felt very close to them and enjoyed favoring them with little acts of love to spoil them. The only thing she never did was babysit them. Her philosophy was always, “I raised mine, now you raise yours.”
In between work and family, Jennie enjoyed working outside in her gardens and enjoying the company of her two favorite pooches – miniature poodles named Misty and Minka.
Jennie could best be described as feisty and outspoken. She was also very loving and, if she liked you, she’d give you the shirt off of her back if you needed it. Her mere presence will be dearly missed by her family and friends. Rest in peace Jennie!
Jennie was the beloved wife of Norman, blessed in marriage for 73 years. She was the proud and loving mother of five children: Deborah LaSala and husband William of Wantage, Janice Nolan and husband Thomas of Pompton Plains, Norma Jean Johnson and husband Scott of Newton, Norman Hosier, Jr. and wife Maryrose of Newton, and James Hosier of Wayne; adoring grandmother of five grandsons: Jason Grieves, Billy LaSala, the late Christopher Grieves (2007), Michael Hosier and Matthew Hosier; dear aunt of several nieces and nephews and four great grandchildren. Jennie was also predeceased by her sister Rose McAteer and her brother Sonny Jarvis.
In lieu of flowers, those planning an expression of sympathy in Jennie’s name are asked to consider:
Alzheimer’s New Jersey
Attention Development Dept.
425 Eagle Rock Avenue, #203
Roseland, NJ 07068
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