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March 23, 2011
Services
A memorial service will be held at 1 PM on Saturday, 2 April 2011, at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
John Philip “Jack” Wiegand, age 82 of Wayne, died on Wednesday, 23 March 2011, at home after a year-long battle with kidney cancer.
Jack was born in Paterson, NJ, on 17 July 1928. He was awarded a BS in Mechanical Engineering and an MS in Management Engineering from New Jersey Institute of Technology. In a career in the aerospace industry that spanned over 60 years, he served as a senior engineer and marketing strategist at both Curtiss Wright and Rolls Royce, and as Senior Industry and Government Liaison for the Forecast Consulting Group. He was active in both the Air Transportation Research International Forum, serving a term as President, and the Transportation Research Board, serving many years as a committee chairman.
During the early years of his career, Jack was on a work assignment in Tennessee where he met a computer programmer named Mary Frances Teal. They married in 1957 and enjoyed nearly fifty-four years together. One of Jack’s favorite pastimes was to stroll along the beach at Spring Lake. He would drop whatever he was doing to spend time at the beach. Together, they would take weekend trips to the Jersey Shore, and occasionally sneak in a day trip. Jack also loved his yard work; trimming the hedges and maintaining the lawn, and he even did most of his own home repairs. During the past twenty years, while Jack was a consultant and working from home, he and Frances cherished their time together.
Since 1982, Jack and Frances have been active members in the Fairlawn Church of Christ, where they have been involved in the congregation’s benevolent work particularly in the assistance of recent immigrants from countries as diverse as Haiti and South Korea. Jack was extremely kind and loved helping people. In fact, as his last act of generosity, Jack donated his body to the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in the hope that someone else might be healed or aided by the research being conducted there. It is also his express desire that anyone planning to send flowers please refrain and instead make a donation to the Renal Cancer Research Fund at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, Attn: Preston Curtis, Suite 2800, 633 Third Ave., New York, NY 10017.
Jack is survived by his wife Frances of Wayne, NJ; two sons; John of Burlingame, California and Walter and his wife Emily of Clarendon Hills, Illinois, two grandsons; Nathan and Joel also of Clarendon Hills, Illinois, and two sisters; Eleanor Wiegand of West Caldwell, New Jersey and Marion Patrick of Little Falls, New Jersey.
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A memorial service will be held at 1 PM on Saturday, 2 April 2011, at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
March 23, 2011
Services
A memorial service will be held at 1 PM on Saturday, 2 April 2011, at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
John Philip “Jack” Wiegand, age 82 of Wayne, died on Wednesday, 23 March 2011, at home after a year-long battle with kidney cancer.
Jack was born in Paterson, NJ, on 17 July 1928. He was awarded a BS in Mechanical Engineering and an MS in Management Engineering from New Jersey Institute of Technology. In a career in the aerospace industry that spanned over 60 years, he served as a senior engineer and marketing strategist at both Curtiss Wright and Rolls Royce, and as Senior Industry and Government Liaison for the Forecast Consulting Group. He was active in both the Air Transportation Research International Forum, serving a term as President, and the Transportation Research Board, serving many years as a committee chairman.
During the early years of his career, Jack was on a work assignment in Tennessee where he met a computer programmer named Mary Frances Teal. They married in 1957 and enjoyed nearly fifty-four years together. One of Jack’s favorite pastimes was to stroll along the beach at Spring Lake. He would drop whatever he was doing to spend time at the beach. Together, they would take weekend trips to the Jersey Shore, and occasionally sneak in a day trip. Jack also loved his yard work; trimming the hedges and maintaining the lawn, and he even did most of his own home repairs. During the past twenty years, while Jack was a consultant and working from home, he and Frances cherished their time together.
Since 1982, Jack and Frances have been active members in the Fairlawn Church of Christ, where they have been involved in the congregation’s benevolent work particularly in the assistance of recent immigrants from countries as diverse as Haiti and South Korea. Jack was extremely kind and loved helping people. In fact, as his last act of generosity, Jack donated his body to the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in the hope that someone else might be healed or aided by the research being conducted there. It is also his express desire that anyone planning to send flowers please refrain and instead make a donation to the Renal Cancer Research Fund at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, Attn: Preston Curtis, Suite 2800, 633 Third Ave., New York, NY 10017.
Jack is survived by his wife Frances of Wayne, NJ; two sons; John of Burlingame, California and Walter and his wife Emily of Clarendon Hills, Illinois, two grandsons; Nathan and Joel also of Clarendon Hills, Illinois, and two sisters; Eleanor Wiegand of West Caldwell, New Jersey and Marion Patrick of Little Falls, New Jersey.
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