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January 19, 2013
Services
The family will receive visitors from 10 to 11 a.m., Saturday, January 26, with a memorial service following at 11 a.m. Both will be held at the Living Word Church, 21 Pleasant View Drive, North Haledon 07508. In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to Hospice of New Jersey Foundation, 400 Broadacres Drive, Bloomfield, New Jersey 07003 or Samaritan’s Purse, Sandy Relief, PO Box 3000, Boone, North Carolina 28607.
John Schagen Dunning, age 95 years of Boonton, died Saturday, January 19, 2013, in Victoria Mews Assisted Living following a decline in health.
Born in Paterson, Mr. Dunning was a January 1936 graduate of Eastside High School where he majored in Mechanical Arts. He was a member of the Peoples Park Reformed and Madison Avenue Presbyterian Churches in Paterson, and in recent years, attended Living Word (formerly Sixth Reformed) Church in North Haledon. While a member, John served as an elder, led the singing during services and other church activities, was a Sunday School teacher, and organized church picnics in the summer at Bubbling Springs Lake.
Mr. Dunning was a machinist who spent his entire career working for Curtiss-Wright Aeronautical, beginning in Paterson in 1937 and eventually moving to the facility in Wood-Ridge. Within several years after starting, John was promoted to foreman, which job he held until retirement in 1976. He originally made pistons and then supervised those who made various mechanical parts for Wright airplane engines, especially those flying during World War II. He tried twice to enlist in the army but was denied each time because of his “necessary war occupation.”
John enjoyed sports of all kinds, but cheered most often for the New Jersey Devils and New York Giants. He played softball and basketball and was a league bowler in Paterson for many years. Mr. Dunning and his wife, Jeanette Catherine Kendall, were married 63 years before Jeanette died in 2004. They lived half their married life in a Paterson home on East 24th Street built by Mrs. Dunning’s father, George Kendall. They purchased their Lake Iosco house in 1960 as a summer bungalow, turning it into a year-round home to which they moved full-time in 1977. They enjoyed many outdoor summer parties with friends and family at “the lake” and traveled for many years from New Jersey to spend winters in Florida.
Surviving John is his beloved family: a daughter: Wilma Pierson; a son and daughter-in-law: John G/Jack and Rosemary Feller Dunning; a daughter and son-in-law: Marilyn Dunning and Alan Jacobson; grandchildren: Richard and Susan Lindemann Burman, Lynn Burman and Georgio Vuolde, Nicole Dunning and Craig Fayak, Jill Dunning, and Jaclyn Dunning and Don Jannazzo; great-grandchildren: Nicholas, Mia, Joshua, and Sophia Vuolde, Matthew and Alison Burman; Elijah Fayak; Luke and Jack Jannazzo; and Cooper and Baxter Lee. John was also surrounded by many additional relatives and dear friends.
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The family will receive visitors from 10 to 11 a.m., Saturday, January 26, with a memorial service following at 11 a.m. Both will be held at the Living Word Church, 21 Pleasant View Drive, North Haledon 07508. In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to Hospice of New Jersey Foundation, 400 Broadacres Drive, Bloomfield, New Jersey 07003 or Samaritan’s Purse, Sandy Relief, PO Box 3000, Boone, North Carolina 28607.
January 19, 2013
Services
The family will receive visitors from 10 to 11 a.m., Saturday, January 26, with a memorial service following at 11 a.m. Both will be held at the Living Word Church, 21 Pleasant View Drive, North Haledon 07508. In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to Hospice of New Jersey Foundation, 400 Broadacres Drive, Bloomfield, New Jersey 07003 or Samaritan’s Purse, Sandy Relief, PO Box 3000, Boone, North Carolina 28607.
John Schagen Dunning, age 95 years of Boonton, died Saturday, January 19, 2013, in Victoria Mews Assisted Living following a decline in health.
Born in Paterson, Mr. Dunning was a January 1936 graduate of Eastside High School where he majored in Mechanical Arts. He was a member of the Peoples Park Reformed and Madison Avenue Presbyterian Churches in Paterson, and in recent years, attended Living Word (formerly Sixth Reformed) Church in North Haledon. While a member, John served as an elder, led the singing during services and other church activities, was a Sunday School teacher, and organized church picnics in the summer at Bubbling Springs Lake.
Mr. Dunning was a machinist who spent his entire career working for Curtiss-Wright Aeronautical, beginning in Paterson in 1937 and eventually moving to the facility in Wood-Ridge. Within several years after starting, John was promoted to foreman, which job he held until retirement in 1976. He originally made pistons and then supervised those who made various mechanical parts for Wright airplane engines, especially those flying during World War II. He tried twice to enlist in the army but was denied each time because of his “necessary war occupation.”
John enjoyed sports of all kinds, but cheered most often for the New Jersey Devils and New York Giants. He played softball and basketball and was a league bowler in Paterson for many years. Mr. Dunning and his wife, Jeanette Catherine Kendall, were married 63 years before Jeanette died in 2004. They lived half their married life in a Paterson home on East 24th Street built by Mrs. Dunning’s father, George Kendall. They purchased their Lake Iosco house in 1960 as a summer bungalow, turning it into a year-round home to which they moved full-time in 1977. They enjoyed many outdoor summer parties with friends and family at “the lake” and traveled for many years from New Jersey to spend winters in Florida.
Surviving John is his beloved family: a daughter: Wilma Pierson; a son and daughter-in-law: John G/Jack and Rosemary Feller Dunning; a daughter and son-in-law: Marilyn Dunning and Alan Jacobson; grandchildren: Richard and Susan Lindemann Burman, Lynn Burman and Georgio Vuolde, Nicole Dunning and Craig Fayak, Jill Dunning, and Jaclyn Dunning and Don Jannazzo; great-grandchildren: Nicholas, Mia, Joshua, and Sophia Vuolde, Matthew and Alison Burman; Elijah Fayak; Luke and Jack Jannazzo; and Cooper and Baxter Lee. John was also surrounded by many additional relatives and dear friends.
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