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July 30, 2014
Services
Friends may visit with the family at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne, on Thursday, July 31, 2014 from 3-8 PM.
Funeral Services will be held on Friday, August 1, 2014 at 9:15 AM from the funeral home, then to Our Lady of Consolation R.C. Church, 1799 Hamburg Turnpike, Wayne, where at 10:30 AM a Funeral Mass will be offered. Entombment will follow at Laurel Grove Cemetery, Totowa.
John Christopher “Jack” Halpin, age 96, of Wayne and Palm City, FL, died peacefully on Wednesday, July 30, 2014. His loved ones were by his side at the time of his passing.
Jack was born in Orange, NJ and was a resident of Wayne since 1952. As a young man, he worked in the Bayonne shipyards, fabricating ships for the U.S. efforts during World War II.
In 1944, Jack leveraged his ship-building experience becoming the founder and president of Industrial Metal Fabricating Company, Incorporated. He began the business in a tent on Bloomfield Avenue in Clifton and, as it grew he moved operations to Wayne in 1957. Industrial Metal Fabricating Company was involved in many large-scale projects including fabrication of the toll booths for the George Washington Bridge, all the toll booths for the New York Thruway and New Jersey and Pennsylvania Turnpikes, and fabrication of missile containers.
A young lady named June Peters was working for Jack as a secretary and payroll processor. Jack and June took a liking to each other and, after a first date to lunch followed by a second to a Broadway play in New York City, their love grew. They married on Saturday, May 25, 1974 at Our Lady of the Valley Church in Wayne. Following a garden reception in June’s back yard in Wayne, the newlyweds enjoyed a honeymoon in Puerto Rico. They returned home and began their life together as husband and wife, continuing to live in Wayne to the present time.
In 1991, Jack sold his business and he and June enjoyed trips to Palm City, FL where they lived part of each year at Harbour Ridge Dolphin Yacht and Country Club while always maintaining their residence in Wayne. An avid golfer, Jack played a lot of courses in Florida as well as all over the world. He was a member of The Knoll Country Club, Panther Valley and Harbour Ridge Yacht and Golf Club.
In his spare time, Jack also liked to work around Halpin’s Ponderosa Country Estate, a gentlemen’s farm he owned and liked to escape to for relaxation. He played hard building a horse barn, pasturing his horses, and tinkering around doing whatever needed to be done.
Jack is survived by his beloved wife of 40 years, June (nee Peters); his three children, six grandchildren and two great-grandsons: Ryan and Kyle; and loving nieces and nephews including Barry and wife Darlena Schiro of Woodland Park. He was predeceased by his first wife Mildred.
Those planning an expression of sympathy in Jack’s name are asked to consider the St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, P.O Box 1000, Dept. 142, Memphis, TN 38148-0142, or the Friends of Wayne Animals (FOWA) P.O. Box 3701, Wayne, NJ 07474.
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Friends may visit with the family at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne, on Thursday, July 31, 2014 from 3-8 PM.
Funeral Services will be held on Friday, August 1, 2014 at 9:15 AM from the funeral home, then to Our Lady of Consolation R.C. Church, 1799 Hamburg Turnpike, Wayne, where at 10:30 AM a Funeral Mass will be offered. Entombment will follow at Laurel Grove Cemetery, Totowa.
July 30, 2014
Services
Friends may visit with the family at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne, on Thursday, July 31, 2014 from 3-8 PM.
Funeral Services will be held on Friday, August 1, 2014 at 9:15 AM from the funeral home, then to Our Lady of Consolation R.C. Church, 1799 Hamburg Turnpike, Wayne, where at 10:30 AM a Funeral Mass will be offered. Entombment will follow at Laurel Grove Cemetery, Totowa.
John Christopher “Jack” Halpin, age 96, of Wayne and Palm City, FL, died peacefully on Wednesday, July 30, 2014. His loved ones were by his side at the time of his passing.
Jack was born in Orange, NJ and was a resident of Wayne since 1952. As a young man, he worked in the Bayonne shipyards, fabricating ships for the U.S. efforts during World War II.
In 1944, Jack leveraged his ship-building experience becoming the founder and president of Industrial Metal Fabricating Company, Incorporated. He began the business in a tent on Bloomfield Avenue in Clifton and, as it grew he moved operations to Wayne in 1957. Industrial Metal Fabricating Company was involved in many large-scale projects including fabrication of the toll booths for the George Washington Bridge, all the toll booths for the New York Thruway and New Jersey and Pennsylvania Turnpikes, and fabrication of missile containers.
A young lady named June Peters was working for Jack as a secretary and payroll processor. Jack and June took a liking to each other and, after a first date to lunch followed by a second to a Broadway play in New York City, their love grew. They married on Saturday, May 25, 1974 at Our Lady of the Valley Church in Wayne. Following a garden reception in June’s back yard in Wayne, the newlyweds enjoyed a honeymoon in Puerto Rico. They returned home and began their life together as husband and wife, continuing to live in Wayne to the present time.
In 1991, Jack sold his business and he and June enjoyed trips to Palm City, FL where they lived part of each year at Harbour Ridge Dolphin Yacht and Country Club while always maintaining their residence in Wayne. An avid golfer, Jack played a lot of courses in Florida as well as all over the world. He was a member of The Knoll Country Club, Panther Valley and Harbour Ridge Yacht and Golf Club.
In his spare time, Jack also liked to work around Halpin’s Ponderosa Country Estate, a gentlemen’s farm he owned and liked to escape to for relaxation. He played hard building a horse barn, pasturing his horses, and tinkering around doing whatever needed to be done.
Jack is survived by his beloved wife of 40 years, June (nee Peters); his three children, six grandchildren and two great-grandsons: Ryan and Kyle; and loving nieces and nephews including Barry and wife Darlena Schiro of Woodland Park. He was predeceased by his first wife Mildred.
Those planning an expression of sympathy in Jack’s name are asked to consider the St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, P.O Box 1000, Dept. 142, Memphis, TN 38148-0142, or the Friends of Wayne Animals (FOWA) P.O. Box 3701, Wayne, NJ 07474.
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