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December 21, 2011
Services
Friends may visit with the family on Monday, December 26, 2011 from 2-4 and 7-9 at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
A 10 AM funeral service will be held on Tuesday, December 27, 2011 at the Preakness Baptist Church, 1441 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
Interment will be in George Washington Memorial Park, Paramus.
Joanne Custer (nee Conklin) age 55 of Pompton Plains died peacefully on Wednesday, December 21, 2011 at home.
She was born in Ridgewood and raised in Oakland having attended Indian Hills High School with the Class of 1974. She later lived in Wayne before moving to Pompton Plains fourteen years ago.
Joanne worked for Budd Vacuum in Wyckoff for ten years, the Kids Stuff clothing store in Wayne and for the last twenty years the Clarins USA Corporation in Orangeburg New York.
She met her husband Ben at Finnegan’s in Wayne and he proposed to her on Christmas Eve in 1989. They married at the Ramapo Valley Baptist Church in Oakland on August 19, 1990 and honeymooned on a cruise through the Caribbean. They have enjoyed a loving and caring marriage for the past twenty-one years.
Joanne was a very giving person who had a strong faith. She was loving, caring person who always put others before herself. For many years she bowled and played on the Bojangles softball team of Wayne. Joanne was a devoted member of the Preakness Baptist Church in Wayne where she was a founding member of the knitting and crocheting group that provided blankets for patients at Chilton Memorial Hospital and for other sick and shut-in’s. Joanne was an avid animal lover and was the mother to Jesse & the late Missy & Zena. She was also the grandmother to cats Bailey and Hunter. She enjoyed helping with animal rescue in any way that she was able.
She was the loving wife of Benjamin Custer; devoted mother of Kimberly Megnin of Pompton Plains, and Christopher Megnin and his wife Andrea of New Providence; cherished grandmother of Ryan and Elena Megnin of New Providence; loving daughter of Barbara (Post) Conklin and the late Abram Conklin; dear sister of Nancy Conklin Dukeshire and her husband Robert of Bloomingdale, and David Conklin and his wife Darlene of Chelmsford, MA; loving niece of Carol Post. Loving aunt of Steven and Ashley Conklin.
In lieu of flowers memorial donations to the Preakness Baptist Church, 1441 Ratzer Road, Wayne, NJ 07470 would be appreciated.
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Friends may visit with the family on Monday, December 26, 2011 from 2-4 and 7-9 at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
A 10 AM funeral service will be held on Tuesday, December 27, 2011 at the Preakness Baptist Church, 1441 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
Interment will be in George Washington Memorial Park, Paramus.
December 21, 2011
Services
Friends may visit with the family on Monday, December 26, 2011 from 2-4 and 7-9 at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
A 10 AM funeral service will be held on Tuesday, December 27, 2011 at the Preakness Baptist Church, 1441 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
Interment will be in George Washington Memorial Park, Paramus.
Joanne Custer (nee Conklin) age 55 of Pompton Plains died peacefully on Wednesday, December 21, 2011 at home.
She was born in Ridgewood and raised in Oakland having attended Indian Hills High School with the Class of 1974. She later lived in Wayne before moving to Pompton Plains fourteen years ago.
Joanne worked for Budd Vacuum in Wyckoff for ten years, the Kids Stuff clothing store in Wayne and for the last twenty years the Clarins USA Corporation in Orangeburg New York.
She met her husband Ben at Finnegan’s in Wayne and he proposed to her on Christmas Eve in 1989. They married at the Ramapo Valley Baptist Church in Oakland on August 19, 1990 and honeymooned on a cruise through the Caribbean. They have enjoyed a loving and caring marriage for the past twenty-one years.
Joanne was a very giving person who had a strong faith. She was loving, caring person who always put others before herself. For many years she bowled and played on the Bojangles softball team of Wayne. Joanne was a devoted member of the Preakness Baptist Church in Wayne where she was a founding member of the knitting and crocheting group that provided blankets for patients at Chilton Memorial Hospital and for other sick and shut-in’s. Joanne was an avid animal lover and was the mother to Jesse & the late Missy & Zena. She was also the grandmother to cats Bailey and Hunter. She enjoyed helping with animal rescue in any way that she was able.
She was the loving wife of Benjamin Custer; devoted mother of Kimberly Megnin of Pompton Plains, and Christopher Megnin and his wife Andrea of New Providence; cherished grandmother of Ryan and Elena Megnin of New Providence; loving daughter of Barbara (Post) Conklin and the late Abram Conklin; dear sister of Nancy Conklin Dukeshire and her husband Robert of Bloomingdale, and David Conklin and his wife Darlene of Chelmsford, MA; loving niece of Carol Post. Loving aunt of Steven and Ashley Conklin.
In lieu of flowers memorial donations to the Preakness Baptist Church, 1441 Ratzer Road, Wayne, NJ 07470 would be appreciated.
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