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January 8, 2012
Services
Friends may visit with the family on Wednesday, January 11, 2011 from 2-4 and 7-9 PM at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
Funeral services will be held 10 AM on Thursday, January 12, 2012 at the Our Savior Lutheran Church, 670 Newark Pompton Turnpike, Pompton Plains.
Interment will be in the North Hardyston Cemetery.
John Martin Schoeller age 87 of Pompton Plains died peacefully at home with the comfort of his son John by his side.
He was born in the doctor’s office in Secaucus and graduated from Lincoln Junior High School in Secaucus having also graduated from Union Hill High School in Union City with the Class of 1943.
John served with the United States Army’s 78th Lightning Division during WWII. It is while serving in the Army that he learned to drive…in a tank.
He met the love of his life Annamae Shagan on a blind date setup by his cousin, Caroline. When he came home from the date he told his mother “I just met the girl I’m going to marry”. When he asked her out the next weekend she told him she was busy. Later that week she told Caroline her plans had changed and she was available that weekend. The rest is history.
He proposed on Valentines Day in that year. Having asked Annamae’s father beforehand. He placed an engagement ring in a box of chocolate and gave it to Annamae. She didn’t want to open the box as one was already open. Her father insisted he wanted a piece from John’s box and she found the ring.
They married on June 18, 1949. They honeymooned at Niagara Falls. When they returned home they settled into a two family house in the meadows of East Rutherford where they lived for one year.
John’s father gave them a piece of property adjacent to his own and they moved a boat house onto the lot and converted it into a home. They lived there, 243 Meadow Lane in Secaucus until moving to Wayne in 1959.
They lived in Wayne for twenty-seven years having lived in Bartonsville, Pennsylvania for sixteen years; most recently living at Cedar Crest Village in Pompton Plains for the past seven years.
He was an electrical foreman for the Givaudan Corporation in Clifton for 30 years before retiring in 1988. Prior to working at Givaudan he worked for the Cologate company. One of his jobs included setting the huge clock that sits on the Hudson River.
John was the kind of man who would give you the shirt off his back and if that wasn’t enough he would offer his shoes too. He always had a plan as well. Whether it was a vacation or simply just a day together he would have an agenda for the entire time. He was a take charge kinda guy who took 100’s of pictures. He enjoyed photographing birds, especially Cardinals, landscapes, and family. John loved the outdoors and made you love it with him. Whether it was sleigh riding, shuffleboard in the backyard, or building a deck for you – several for Susan as she was always moving - he always enjoyed the outdoors.
He and Annamae traveled extensively and often to a new place each year. Having visited many places in Europe, Thailand, taking several cruises - they saw the world together.
John was the loving husband of fifty-five years to the late Annamae (nee Shagan) Schoeller; loving father of Deborah Becker and her husband Robert of Pompton Plains, Susan Mueller and her husband Martin of Green Bay, WI, John Schoeller III and his wife Susan of Aspen, CO, cherished grandfather of Christopher DeLucca and his wife Michele, Heather Mueller, Martin Mueller, Jesse Schoeller, and Matthew Schoeller; loved brother of Carol Struthwolf and her husband David of East Stroudsburg, PA.
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Friends may visit with the family on Wednesday, January 11, 2011 from 2-4 and 7-9 PM at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
Funeral services will be held 10 AM on Thursday, January 12, 2012 at the Our Savior Lutheran Church, 670 Newark Pompton Turnpike, Pompton Plains.
Interment will be in the North Hardyston Cemetery.
January 8, 2012
Services
Friends may visit with the family on Wednesday, January 11, 2011 from 2-4 and 7-9 PM at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
Funeral services will be held 10 AM on Thursday, January 12, 2012 at the Our Savior Lutheran Church, 670 Newark Pompton Turnpike, Pompton Plains.
Interment will be in the North Hardyston Cemetery.
John Martin Schoeller age 87 of Pompton Plains died peacefully at home with the comfort of his son John by his side.
He was born in the doctor’s office in Secaucus and graduated from Lincoln Junior High School in Secaucus having also graduated from Union Hill High School in Union City with the Class of 1943.
John served with the United States Army’s 78th Lightning Division during WWII. It is while serving in the Army that he learned to drive…in a tank.
He met the love of his life Annamae Shagan on a blind date setup by his cousin, Caroline. When he came home from the date he told his mother “I just met the girl I’m going to marry”. When he asked her out the next weekend she told him she was busy. Later that week she told Caroline her plans had changed and she was available that weekend. The rest is history.
He proposed on Valentines Day in that year. Having asked Annamae’s father beforehand. He placed an engagement ring in a box of chocolate and gave it to Annamae. She didn’t want to open the box as one was already open. Her father insisted he wanted a piece from John’s box and she found the ring.
They married on June 18, 1949. They honeymooned at Niagara Falls. When they returned home they settled into a two family house in the meadows of East Rutherford where they lived for one year.
John’s father gave them a piece of property adjacent to his own and they moved a boat house onto the lot and converted it into a home. They lived there, 243 Meadow Lane in Secaucus until moving to Wayne in 1959.
They lived in Wayne for twenty-seven years having lived in Bartonsville, Pennsylvania for sixteen years; most recently living at Cedar Crest Village in Pompton Plains for the past seven years.
He was an electrical foreman for the Givaudan Corporation in Clifton for 30 years before retiring in 1988. Prior to working at Givaudan he worked for the Cologate company. One of his jobs included setting the huge clock that sits on the Hudson River.
John was the kind of man who would give you the shirt off his back and if that wasn’t enough he would offer his shoes too. He always had a plan as well. Whether it was a vacation or simply just a day together he would have an agenda for the entire time. He was a take charge kinda guy who took 100’s of pictures. He enjoyed photographing birds, especially Cardinals, landscapes, and family. John loved the outdoors and made you love it with him. Whether it was sleigh riding, shuffleboard in the backyard, or building a deck for you – several for Susan as she was always moving - he always enjoyed the outdoors.
He and Annamae traveled extensively and often to a new place each year. Having visited many places in Europe, Thailand, taking several cruises - they saw the world together.
John was the loving husband of fifty-five years to the late Annamae (nee Shagan) Schoeller; loving father of Deborah Becker and her husband Robert of Pompton Plains, Susan Mueller and her husband Martin of Green Bay, WI, John Schoeller III and his wife Susan of Aspen, CO, cherished grandfather of Christopher DeLucca and his wife Michele, Heather Mueller, Martin Mueller, Jesse Schoeller, and Matthew Schoeller; loved brother of Carol Struthwolf and her husband David of East Stroudsburg, PA.
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