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Services
Friends are invited to visit with the family from 4-8 PM on Thursday, March 17, 2016 at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
Funeral services will be held 9 AM on Friday, March 18, 2016 at Saint John the Baptist Russian Orthodox Church, 29 Weaver Street, Little Falls.
Interment will be in the Pleasant View Cemetery in Pleasant Mount, PA following the funeral service on Friday.
John Hatala, Jr., age 79, of Wayne, passed Monday, March 14, 2016.
He was born in Passaic General Hospital and raised at number eighteen Guenther Place in Passaic. He graduated from Passaic High School with the Class of 1954. After he married Eleanor Bundas they moved to Wayne where they have lived for the past fifty-four years. As a young man in Passaic he delivered newspapers for the Herald & News Newspaper and would often talk of the days when he would transfer money between bank branches carrying the cash inside a paint bucket. Just after high school John joined the United States Army and was sent to Korea. During his time in the service he attained the rank of corporal and served as a code interceptor deciphering messages from North Korea and China. He was honorably discharged and received the Good Conduct Medal. He took advantage of the GI Bill and enrolled in the Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken where he received his degree in Engineering with the Class of 1960. While in college he was a brother of the Theta Xi fraternity.
During John’s college years he worked for the Weather Tite Storm Window company. After graduating from college he put his engineering degree to work for a cinder block manufacturing company in Hackettstown, the I.O. Corporation in Montville, Perkin-Elmer Company in Randolph, and served as an engineering consultant for corporations like Ricoh of Japan, General Motors of California and Texas, and finally retired in 2001 from the Bel Art Company in Pequannock. Some will also remember him owning a share in the Red Vest Tavern in Wayne where he worked for two years.
John was a member of Saint John the Baptist Russian Orthodox Church in Little Falls.
John will be remembered for his sense of humor, friendly, outgoing way, and for telling jokes.
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Friends are invited to visit with the family from 4-8 PM on Thursday, March 17, 2016 at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
Funeral services will be held 9 AM on Friday, March 18, 2016 at Saint John the Baptist Russian Orthodox Church, 29 Weaver Street, Little Falls.
Interment will be in the Pleasant View Cemetery in Pleasant Mount, PA following the funeral service on Friday.
Services
Friends are invited to visit with the family from 4-8 PM on Thursday, March 17, 2016 at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
Funeral services will be held 9 AM on Friday, March 18, 2016 at Saint John the Baptist Russian Orthodox Church, 29 Weaver Street, Little Falls.
Interment will be in the Pleasant View Cemetery in Pleasant Mount, PA following the funeral service on Friday.
John Hatala, Jr., age 79, of Wayne, passed Monday, March 14, 2016.
He was born in Passaic General Hospital and raised at number eighteen Guenther Place in Passaic. He graduated from Passaic High School with the Class of 1954. After he married Eleanor Bundas they moved to Wayne where they have lived for the past fifty-four years. As a young man in Passaic he delivered newspapers for the Herald & News Newspaper and would often talk of the days when he would transfer money between bank branches carrying the cash inside a paint bucket. Just after high school John joined the United States Army and was sent to Korea. During his time in the service he attained the rank of corporal and served as a code interceptor deciphering messages from North Korea and China. He was honorably discharged and received the Good Conduct Medal. He took advantage of the GI Bill and enrolled in the Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken where he received his degree in Engineering with the Class of 1960. While in college he was a brother of the Theta Xi fraternity.
During John’s college years he worked for the Weather Tite Storm Window company. After graduating from college he put his engineering degree to work for a cinder block manufacturing company in Hackettstown, the I.O. Corporation in Montville, Perkin-Elmer Company in Randolph, and served as an engineering consultant for corporations like Ricoh of Japan, General Motors of California and Texas, and finally retired in 2001 from the Bel Art Company in Pequannock. Some will also remember him owning a share in the Red Vest Tavern in Wayne where he worked for two years.
John was a member of Saint John the Baptist Russian Orthodox Church in Little Falls.
John will be remembered for his sense of humor, friendly, outgoing way, and for telling jokes.
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