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June 19, 2014
Services
Friends may visit with the family on Sunday, June 22, 2014 from 2-5 PM at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne. A funeral service will be held 5 PM on Sunday just after the visitation hours.
Joan K. Sager (Knapp) age 78 of Fairfield passed peacefully on Thursday, June 19, 2014.
She was born in the family home on 51st in North Bergen, where she was raised, having graduated from Union Hill High School with the Class of 1953.
Her first job was as a bank teller in North Bergen, having later worked in New York City as secretary in the insurance industry. After dedicating herself to raising her family for several years she again entered the workforce working as a bookkeeper for Dicar Corporation in Montville, EME Trucking in Passaic, and finally for the accounting firm Massood & Company in Fairfield before retiring in 1988.
Joan will be remembered as a bubbly, loving, caring, fantastic person. She was a great baker and her special touch on blueberry, apple, and rhubarb pies, and the multitude of Christmas cookies will be greatly missed. She was also very skilled in the kitchen making comfort food like meatloaf and stuffed peppers. All who saw her in the kitchen will remember she could never be rushed and was meticulous with her preparation of all ingredients. That attention to detail carried over into her housekeeping and whether it was laundry, dusting, or even cleaning the windows she was fastidious.
Joan met her future husband Wayne Sager through mutual friends. Their first date was bowling in North Bergen. They soon fell in love and Wayne asked Joan to marry him. Joan told him he had better ask her dad first. With a little sweat on his brow Wayne asked Joan’s father Marshall for his daughter’s hand in marriage. With her dad’s blessing they married on March 22, 1964 at the Grove Reformed Church in North Bergen. They honeymooned in Miami, Florida and had a loving, caring, and devoted marriage of fifty years.
Joan was the loving wife of Wayne Sager; devoted mother of Marsha Sager-Kurzweil and her loving companion Frank Sykes of Pequannock; cherished grandmother of Jennifer Kurzweil; dear sister of the late Marshall Knapp.
In lieu of flowers memorial donations to the Wounded Warriors Project, PO Box 758517, Topeka, KS 66675 would be appreciated.
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Friends may visit with the family on Sunday, June 22, 2014 from 2-5 PM at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne. A funeral service will be held 5 PM on Sunday just after the visitation hours.
June 19, 2014
Services
Friends may visit with the family on Sunday, June 22, 2014 from 2-5 PM at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne. A funeral service will be held 5 PM on Sunday just after the visitation hours.
Joan K. Sager (Knapp) age 78 of Fairfield passed peacefully on Thursday, June 19, 2014.
She was born in the family home on 51st in North Bergen, where she was raised, having graduated from Union Hill High School with the Class of 1953.
Her first job was as a bank teller in North Bergen, having later worked in New York City as secretary in the insurance industry. After dedicating herself to raising her family for several years she again entered the workforce working as a bookkeeper for Dicar Corporation in Montville, EME Trucking in Passaic, and finally for the accounting firm Massood & Company in Fairfield before retiring in 1988.
Joan will be remembered as a bubbly, loving, caring, fantastic person. She was a great baker and her special touch on blueberry, apple, and rhubarb pies, and the multitude of Christmas cookies will be greatly missed. She was also very skilled in the kitchen making comfort food like meatloaf and stuffed peppers. All who saw her in the kitchen will remember she could never be rushed and was meticulous with her preparation of all ingredients. That attention to detail carried over into her housekeeping and whether it was laundry, dusting, or even cleaning the windows she was fastidious.
Joan met her future husband Wayne Sager through mutual friends. Their first date was bowling in North Bergen. They soon fell in love and Wayne asked Joan to marry him. Joan told him he had better ask her dad first. With a little sweat on his brow Wayne asked Joan’s father Marshall for his daughter’s hand in marriage. With her dad’s blessing they married on March 22, 1964 at the Grove Reformed Church in North Bergen. They honeymooned in Miami, Florida and had a loving, caring, and devoted marriage of fifty years.
Joan was the loving wife of Wayne Sager; devoted mother of Marsha Sager-Kurzweil and her loving companion Frank Sykes of Pequannock; cherished grandmother of Jennifer Kurzweil; dear sister of the late Marshall Knapp.
In lieu of flowers memorial donations to the Wounded Warriors Project, PO Box 758517, Topeka, KS 66675 would be appreciated.
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