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December 2, 2008
Services
A Memorial Mass will be held on Tuesday, December 9, 2008 at 9:30AM at Our Lady of the Valley RC Church, 630 Valley Road, Wayne NJ. In lieu of flowers a memorial donation to the St. Joseph’s Medical Center Foundation, 703 Main Street, Paterson NJ 07503 would be appreciated.
Interment will be in Arlington National Cemetery on Monday April 13, 2009. A service will be held at 8:45AM in the Arlington Cemetery Chapel immediately followed by placement in the Columbarium with her husband Bob.
Joan Marie Minarick (nee Insel) age 79 of Wayne died Tuesday, December 02, 2008 peacefully at home.
She was born in Newark and raised in East Orange having lived in Glen Rock, Wayne, Laguna Niguel, CA and Wilmington, NC before returning to Wayne in 2004.
Joan attended East Orange High School but had to leave school at sixteen to work full time for New Jersey Bell Telephone as an operator to help support her family. During one of her weekend visits to the Jersey shore with friends, Joan met Bob on the beach in Belmar and following a courtship that didn’t last very long he asked her to marry him, twice. Being only eighteen at the time she said no. But when he asked her for the third time to marry him she said Yes, which was fortunate since he told her “Remember, three strikes and you’re out.” They married September 25, 1948 and enjoyed fifty-six years of loving, caring, best friend’s marriage prior to Bob’s passing in 2004.
Following her marriage Joan worked for First National Bank in Wayne at the Preakness branch. After spending a few years at Preakness she was promoted to Bank Auditor and transferred to the main office in Totowa. After fifteen years in banking she retired from First National Bank in 1981.
Joan, Bob and family were parishioners of Our Lady of the Valley RC Church in Wayne during construction of the church, when services at the time were being held at what is now Wayne Valley High School.
Joan was a stay at home mom raising her four children until her youngest entered school. It was only then that she went back to work at the bank full time for the sole purpose of giving her family two beautiful weeks of memories each year on LBI at the Jersey Shore.
Joan and Bob created twenty-one years of special memories while raising their children in their home in Wayne. In our development during the 60’s and 70’s you always knew where the party was, 16 Kimberly Place. The highlight party of the year was always the annual “Pearl Harbor” party which was attended by most of the neighborhood. All who attended had to come dressed as they were in the 1940’s. I’m sure some of you reading this smile when remembering those “Pearl Harbor” parties. Joan was a very dedicated and loving wife. She would have followed Bob to the ends of the earth and she did. Joan and Bob enjoyed life. They experienced traveling to different area’s of the United States and prior to Bob’s illness, finished their travels with a highlight three week trip to Australia in early 1990. Joan was a very outgoing and strong-willed woman which kept her with us during a very difficult past four years. She was very proud of her four children and eleven grand children and people would never have to ask her about them, she would tell them first. Joan formed a very close bond with all her grandchildren and enjoyed watching them as they grew. All of their pictures around her house were a testament to that. Joan enjoyed her life right to the end and left this world peacefully on her own terms, in her own house and on her own bed with one of her daughter’s by her side. As one of her favorite singers Michael Buble would say in one of his songs, “It will all be alright, I’ll be home tonight, I’m coming back home”, which is where she is now. So Mom, give Dad a hug for all of us. We love you and miss you.
Joan is the beloved mother of Susan Bennett and her husband Chip of Oak Ridge, Joann Dalzell and her husband Bob of Wayne, Bob Minarick and his wife Claire of Wayne and David Minarick and his wife Carol of Randolph; cherished grandmother of Leigh, Debbie, Brian, Steven and Danielle Minarick, Robert, Chris, Matt and Joanna Dalzell and Michael and Lisa Bennett; beloved sister of Ed Insel and sister-in-law Kathleen Insel. Beloved Aunt of many nieces and nephews and great nieces and nephews. Joan was predeceased by her sister Gloria Hasselbacher in 2001.
Arrangements are by the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
NOTE: In December of 2004 Joan fought her own medical battles and surgery which progressed into a very severe case of Sepsis. Attending doctors gave her at best a 5-10% chance of survival and really almost no chance to lead a normal life if she survived. Our family is convinced that aggressive cutting edge procedures, technology, and clinical trial medications such as Xigris coupled with the expertise of the Paterson St. Joseph’s Hospital surgical ICU staff and attending Intensivist’s allowed our mom, following therapy, to walk out of a nursing home in August of 2005 and return to her home, live alone and drive to visit family. We know they gave Mom back to us and our families for an additional three years and for that St. Joseph’s, Thank-you. Only when her unrelated severe COPD escalated did her health decline which finally led to her passing.
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A Memorial Mass will be held on Tuesday, December 9, 2008 at 9:30AM at Our Lady of the Valley RC Church, 630 Valley Road, Wayne NJ. In lieu of flowers a memorial donation to the St. Joseph’s Medical Center Foundation, 703 Main Street, Paterson NJ 07503 would be appreciated.
Interment will be in Arlington National Cemetery on Monday April 13, 2009. A service will be held at 8:45AM in the Arlington Cemetery Chapel immediately followed by placement in the Columbarium with her husband Bob.
December 2, 2008
Services
A Memorial Mass will be held on Tuesday, December 9, 2008 at 9:30AM at Our Lady of the Valley RC Church, 630 Valley Road, Wayne NJ. In lieu of flowers a memorial donation to the St. Joseph’s Medical Center Foundation, 703 Main Street, Paterson NJ 07503 would be appreciated.
Interment will be in Arlington National Cemetery on Monday April 13, 2009. A service will be held at 8:45AM in the Arlington Cemetery Chapel immediately followed by placement in the Columbarium with her husband Bob.
Joan Marie Minarick (nee Insel) age 79 of Wayne died Tuesday, December 02, 2008 peacefully at home.
She was born in Newark and raised in East Orange having lived in Glen Rock, Wayne, Laguna Niguel, CA and Wilmington, NC before returning to Wayne in 2004.
Joan attended East Orange High School but had to leave school at sixteen to work full time for New Jersey Bell Telephone as an operator to help support her family. During one of her weekend visits to the Jersey shore with friends, Joan met Bob on the beach in Belmar and following a courtship that didn’t last very long he asked her to marry him, twice. Being only eighteen at the time she said no. But when he asked her for the third time to marry him she said Yes, which was fortunate since he told her “Remember, three strikes and you’re out.” They married September 25, 1948 and enjoyed fifty-six years of loving, caring, best friend’s marriage prior to Bob’s passing in 2004.
Following her marriage Joan worked for First National Bank in Wayne at the Preakness branch. After spending a few years at Preakness she was promoted to Bank Auditor and transferred to the main office in Totowa. After fifteen years in banking she retired from First National Bank in 1981.
Joan, Bob and family were parishioners of Our Lady of the Valley RC Church in Wayne during construction of the church, when services at the time were being held at what is now Wayne Valley High School.
Joan was a stay at home mom raising her four children until her youngest entered school. It was only then that she went back to work at the bank full time for the sole purpose of giving her family two beautiful weeks of memories each year on LBI at the Jersey Shore.
Joan and Bob created twenty-one years of special memories while raising their children in their home in Wayne. In our development during the 60’s and 70’s you always knew where the party was, 16 Kimberly Place. The highlight party of the year was always the annual “Pearl Harbor” party which was attended by most of the neighborhood. All who attended had to come dressed as they were in the 1940’s. I’m sure some of you reading this smile when remembering those “Pearl Harbor” parties. Joan was a very dedicated and loving wife. She would have followed Bob to the ends of the earth and she did. Joan and Bob enjoyed life. They experienced traveling to different area’s of the United States and prior to Bob’s illness, finished their travels with a highlight three week trip to Australia in early 1990. Joan was a very outgoing and strong-willed woman which kept her with us during a very difficult past four years. She was very proud of her four children and eleven grand children and people would never have to ask her about them, she would tell them first. Joan formed a very close bond with all her grandchildren and enjoyed watching them as they grew. All of their pictures around her house were a testament to that. Joan enjoyed her life right to the end and left this world peacefully on her own terms, in her own house and on her own bed with one of her daughter’s by her side. As one of her favorite singers Michael Buble would say in one of his songs, “It will all be alright, I’ll be home tonight, I’m coming back home”, which is where she is now. So Mom, give Dad a hug for all of us. We love you and miss you.
Joan is the beloved mother of Susan Bennett and her husband Chip of Oak Ridge, Joann Dalzell and her husband Bob of Wayne, Bob Minarick and his wife Claire of Wayne and David Minarick and his wife Carol of Randolph; cherished grandmother of Leigh, Debbie, Brian, Steven and Danielle Minarick, Robert, Chris, Matt and Joanna Dalzell and Michael and Lisa Bennett; beloved sister of Ed Insel and sister-in-law Kathleen Insel. Beloved Aunt of many nieces and nephews and great nieces and nephews. Joan was predeceased by her sister Gloria Hasselbacher in 2001.
Arrangements are by the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
NOTE: In December of 2004 Joan fought her own medical battles and surgery which progressed into a very severe case of Sepsis. Attending doctors gave her at best a 5-10% chance of survival and really almost no chance to lead a normal life if she survived. Our family is convinced that aggressive cutting edge procedures, technology, and clinical trial medications such as Xigris coupled with the expertise of the Paterson St. Joseph’s Hospital surgical ICU staff and attending Intensivist’s allowed our mom, following therapy, to walk out of a nursing home in August of 2005 and return to her home, live alone and drive to visit family. We know they gave Mom back to us and our families for an additional three years and for that St. Joseph’s, Thank-you. Only when her unrelated severe COPD escalated did her health decline which finally led to her passing.
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