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May 24, 2009
Services
Funeral services will be held Wednesday, May 27, 2009 at 9 AM from the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne then to Our Lady of The Valley RC Church, Wayne where at 10 AM a Funeral Mass will be offered.
Friends may visit with the family at the funeral home on Tuesday from 2-4, 7-9 PM.
In a house in Wayne, New Jersey a family has grown up and grown together. Their web is woven with happiness, pain, hope, laughter, hard work and now the grief of loss. They have lost someone very special in their family circle.
John B. Bator “Jack” a much loved family man has passed into life eternal on this 24th day of May 2009. His passing was attended by the love of his family who share the ultimate gift of faith that only God can provide. This family now ponders wonderful memories in their heart and are whispering prayers of thankfulness to God for having placed such a wonderful person in their lives. They know, with comfort in their hearts this day, that he is in God’s care and keeping.
John started his life journey in Newark, New Jersey, spent his formative years in Maplewood later living in Haledon, then West Milford for twenty years and finally moving to Wayne eleven years ago.
He was brought up in a devout Catholic family who guided him into a Catholic education at Seton Hall Preparatory School where he graduated with the Class of 1957 and then he went on to study at Seton Hall University in South Orange where he received a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Business Administration.
John was employed at Kohler Distributing Company in Hawthorne as a bookkeeper.
He was very devoted to his Roman Catholic faith and had been a parishioner at Saint Josephs RC Church in West Milford and more recently Our Lady of The Valley RC Church in Wayne. He was active in the Adoration Society and was a Eucharistic Minister. He was also a member of the Knights of Columbus in the Francis Koch Council in West Milford where he served as treasurer.
He was gifted with a very quiet personality and was always a positive, kind thinker when considering others. He had a special ability to see and emphasize the good in others.
John and Virginia met each other on a blind date and after a one year courtship they married on June 30, 1973 and had a “happy marriage” together for thirty-six years.
He leaves his family with many wonderful memories of a loving husband and nurturing father who genuinely cared about his family’s well being. A very special and outstanding event in his life was the arrival of Owen Joseph Bator his grandson. He loved him with all of his heart.
Surviving are his loving wife Virginia (nee Gravino) Bator; two sons John Norman Bator of Lincoln Park and James Stephen Bator and his fiance’ Nicoletti of Pocono Pines, Pennsylvania; one grandson Owen Joseph Bator; one sister, Sr. Virginia Stephanie (nee Eleanor Bator) SSJ of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania and one brother Stephen Bator and his wife Linda of Nutley.
Those planning an expression of sympathy in John Bator’s memory are asked to consider The Sisters of Saint Joseph Order, “Retirement Fund”, 9701 Germantown Avenue, Philadelphia, PA 19118-2694 or Our Lady of The Valley RC Church, 630 Valley Road, Wayne.
If you would like to send a private condolence directly to the family use this condolence section.
Funeral services will be held Wednesday, May 27, 2009 at 9 AM from the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne then to Our Lady of The Valley RC Church, Wayne where at 10 AM a Funeral Mass will be offered.
Friends may visit with the family at the funeral home on Tuesday from 2-4, 7-9 PM.
May 24, 2009
Services
Funeral services will be held Wednesday, May 27, 2009 at 9 AM from the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne then to Our Lady of The Valley RC Church, Wayne where at 10 AM a Funeral Mass will be offered.
Friends may visit with the family at the funeral home on Tuesday from 2-4, 7-9 PM.
In a house in Wayne, New Jersey a family has grown up and grown together. Their web is woven with happiness, pain, hope, laughter, hard work and now the grief of loss. They have lost someone very special in their family circle.
John B. Bator “Jack” a much loved family man has passed into life eternal on this 24th day of May 2009. His passing was attended by the love of his family who share the ultimate gift of faith that only God can provide. This family now ponders wonderful memories in their heart and are whispering prayers of thankfulness to God for having placed such a wonderful person in their lives. They know, with comfort in their hearts this day, that he is in God’s care and keeping.
John started his life journey in Newark, New Jersey, spent his formative years in Maplewood later living in Haledon, then West Milford for twenty years and finally moving to Wayne eleven years ago.
He was brought up in a devout Catholic family who guided him into a Catholic education at Seton Hall Preparatory School where he graduated with the Class of 1957 and then he went on to study at Seton Hall University in South Orange where he received a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Business Administration.
John was employed at Kohler Distributing Company in Hawthorne as a bookkeeper.
He was very devoted to his Roman Catholic faith and had been a parishioner at Saint Josephs RC Church in West Milford and more recently Our Lady of The Valley RC Church in Wayne. He was active in the Adoration Society and was a Eucharistic Minister. He was also a member of the Knights of Columbus in the Francis Koch Council in West Milford where he served as treasurer.
He was gifted with a very quiet personality and was always a positive, kind thinker when considering others. He had a special ability to see and emphasize the good in others.
John and Virginia met each other on a blind date and after a one year courtship they married on June 30, 1973 and had a “happy marriage” together for thirty-six years.
He leaves his family with many wonderful memories of a loving husband and nurturing father who genuinely cared about his family’s well being. A very special and outstanding event in his life was the arrival of Owen Joseph Bator his grandson. He loved him with all of his heart.
Surviving are his loving wife Virginia (nee Gravino) Bator; two sons John Norman Bator of Lincoln Park and James Stephen Bator and his fiance’ Nicoletti of Pocono Pines, Pennsylvania; one grandson Owen Joseph Bator; one sister, Sr. Virginia Stephanie (nee Eleanor Bator) SSJ of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania and one brother Stephen Bator and his wife Linda of Nutley.
Those planning an expression of sympathy in John Bator’s memory are asked to consider The Sisters of Saint Joseph Order, “Retirement Fund”, 9701 Germantown Avenue, Philadelphia, PA 19118-2694 or Our Lady of The Valley RC Church, 630 Valley Road, Wayne.
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