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June 23, 2014
Services
Friends may visit with the family from 4-8 PM on Thursday, June 26, 2014 at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
Funeral services will be held 8:30 AM on Friday, June 27, 2014 from the funeral home then to Our Lady of the Valley RC Church, 630 Valley Road, Wayne where a 9:30 AM Funeral Mass will be offered.
Interment will be in Laurel Grove Memorial Park, Totowa.
Jerome “Jerry” Bernard Mahon, Jr. age 82 of Wayne, a forty-seven year resident of Little Falls, passed peacefully on Monday, June 23, 2014.
He was born in Paterson and raised in Clifton having graduated from Saint John’s High School in Paterson with the Class of 1950. Soon after graduating from high school Jerry enlisted in the United States Marine Corps and served during the Korean War. He attained the rank of Corporal and was awarded the Korean Service Medal with two stars, the United Nations Service Medal and the National Defense Medal before being honorably discharged in 1954.
His work history includes time as a soda jerk, working a stamping machine at the Haband Tie Company in Paterson, a bus driver for the Greyhound Bus Company in New York City, as a part time driver for the Exxon Corporation delivering heating fuel with eventually rolled into a full time position driving a fuel tanker to gas stations throughout New Jersey. His son Matthew remembers his dad driving the truck through Little Falls several times to pick him up so he could ride along with his dad. Based out of Linden, he worked for the Exxon Corporation for thirty years before retiring in 1993.
Jerry enjoyed all kinds of reading but especially enjoyed history, military, and read National Geographic religiously. He had a real talent for painting and drawing, especially animated characters. He was a fun loving guy who enjoyed a good party, barbeques with family and friends, beer, scotch, family trips to Jones Beach in New York, and Wildwood Crest in New Jersey. Always a sports enthusiast he was a true New York Mets and Giants fan. Many times he brought his family to Shea, Giants, and Yankee stadiums to watch games.
He went on a blind, double date with his best friend Jim Archer and met a cute girl named Martha Ann Torres. They soon fell in love and married at Our Lady of Lourdes RC Church on 139th Street in New York City. His uncle Leo Benedict Mahon married them on November 30, 1957 and they honeymooned at Niagara Falls, New York. They enjoyed fifty-seven years of a loving and caring marriage.
Jerry was the loving husband of Martha Ann Mahon; devoted father of James Mahon of Bayville, Stephen Mahon and his wife Jami of Highland Lakes, Matthew Mahon and his wife Maryann of Wayne, and Kathleen Mahon of Washington; cherished grandfather of Melissa, Jessica, Lisa, Nicole, and Rachel Mahon; loved brother of Dolores Primavera of Pompton Lakes, Leo Mahon and his wife Janet of Brick, Donald Mahon and his wife Agnes of Vernon, and William Mahon of Arizona.
In lieu of flowers memorial donations to the Wayne Memorial First Aid Squad, P.O. Box 2004, Wayne, N.J. 07474 would be appreciated.
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Friends may visit with the family from 4-8 PM on Thursday, June 26, 2014 at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
Funeral services will be held 8:30 AM on Friday, June 27, 2014 from the funeral home then to Our Lady of the Valley RC Church, 630 Valley Road, Wayne where a 9:30 AM Funeral Mass will be offered.
Interment will be in Laurel Grove Memorial Park, Totowa.
June 23, 2014
Services
Friends may visit with the family from 4-8 PM on Thursday, June 26, 2014 at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
Funeral services will be held 8:30 AM on Friday, June 27, 2014 from the funeral home then to Our Lady of the Valley RC Church, 630 Valley Road, Wayne where a 9:30 AM Funeral Mass will be offered.
Interment will be in Laurel Grove Memorial Park, Totowa.
Jerome “Jerry” Bernard Mahon, Jr. age 82 of Wayne, a forty-seven year resident of Little Falls, passed peacefully on Monday, June 23, 2014.
He was born in Paterson and raised in Clifton having graduated from Saint John’s High School in Paterson with the Class of 1950. Soon after graduating from high school Jerry enlisted in the United States Marine Corps and served during the Korean War. He attained the rank of Corporal and was awarded the Korean Service Medal with two stars, the United Nations Service Medal and the National Defense Medal before being honorably discharged in 1954.
His work history includes time as a soda jerk, working a stamping machine at the Haband Tie Company in Paterson, a bus driver for the Greyhound Bus Company in New York City, as a part time driver for the Exxon Corporation delivering heating fuel with eventually rolled into a full time position driving a fuel tanker to gas stations throughout New Jersey. His son Matthew remembers his dad driving the truck through Little Falls several times to pick him up so he could ride along with his dad. Based out of Linden, he worked for the Exxon Corporation for thirty years before retiring in 1993.
Jerry enjoyed all kinds of reading but especially enjoyed history, military, and read National Geographic religiously. He had a real talent for painting and drawing, especially animated characters. He was a fun loving guy who enjoyed a good party, barbeques with family and friends, beer, scotch, family trips to Jones Beach in New York, and Wildwood Crest in New Jersey. Always a sports enthusiast he was a true New York Mets and Giants fan. Many times he brought his family to Shea, Giants, and Yankee stadiums to watch games.
He went on a blind, double date with his best friend Jim Archer and met a cute girl named Martha Ann Torres. They soon fell in love and married at Our Lady of Lourdes RC Church on 139th Street in New York City. His uncle Leo Benedict Mahon married them on November 30, 1957 and they honeymooned at Niagara Falls, New York. They enjoyed fifty-seven years of a loving and caring marriage.
Jerry was the loving husband of Martha Ann Mahon; devoted father of James Mahon of Bayville, Stephen Mahon and his wife Jami of Highland Lakes, Matthew Mahon and his wife Maryann of Wayne, and Kathleen Mahon of Washington; cherished grandfather of Melissa, Jessica, Lisa, Nicole, and Rachel Mahon; loved brother of Dolores Primavera of Pompton Lakes, Leo Mahon and his wife Janet of Brick, Donald Mahon and his wife Agnes of Vernon, and William Mahon of Arizona.
In lieu of flowers memorial donations to the Wayne Memorial First Aid Squad, P.O. Box 2004, Wayne, N.J. 07474 would be appreciated.
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