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May 6, 2010
Services
Funeral services will be held at 10:30 AM Tuesday, May 11, 2010 at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne. Friends may visit with the family on Monday, May 10, 2010 from 7-9 PM at the funeral home. Interment will be in Laurel Grove Cemetery, Totowa.
Joseph Vogt age 83 of Wayne died peacefully at home with the comfort of his family by his side.
Joseph was born in Kries Sharky Lithuania and moved to Germany. He served in the Germany Army and was stationed on the Russian front during WWII. He always talked about when the two fronts received word that the WWII was over the soldiers on both sides came out of their trenches and greeted each other with handshakes. He lived in East Germany and tried to sneak across the border, with his brother, to West Germany in 1947. After several failed attempts, and even being shot at, the brothers finally made it into West Germany. Once in West Germany he got a job as a laborer on the Wigger family farm in Stenum, Germany. While working on the farm, there was a restaurant close by called Backenkoeler.
At the Backenkohler Hotel's restaurant they would have dances and that is where Joseph met the love of his life; Minna Roewfsaat. She was a maid at the hotel and she caught the eye of Joeseph. One of her responsibilities was milking cows for the restaurant. She would take a bicycle, with milk cans attached to the side, and ride out to the pastures to milk the cows. Adjacent to one of the pastures was the Wigger family farm where she would see Joseph working. They often would exchange waves as they went about their chores. At the living quarters attached to the Backenkohler Restaurant, where Minna lived, Joseph got down on his knees and told Minna how much he loved her and wanted to marry her.
In 1952, at the age of twenty-five and soon after his proposal, Joseph immigrated to the United States where he got a job working for a packaging company in Paterson making cardboard boxes. Minna followed Joseph to the United States in 1954. They married on April 24, 1954 at St. Pauls Lutheran Church on Smith Street in Paterson. They have enjoyed fifty-six years of caring and devoted marriage. After they married he got a job at the Continental Can Corporation in Paterson where he worked for twenty-nine years before taking early retirement. He then took a job at the Joe Kobar Machine Shop in Hawthorne until his retirement.
Surviving are his loving wife Minna (Roewfsaat) Vogt; one daughter Waltraud “Wally” Petteway of Moonachie; cherished grandchildren Lesley Fencik and her husband Joel of Moonachie, Scott Petteway of Moonachie and Marc Petteway and his wife Stephanie of Chesapeake, VA; loving great-grandfather of Aaron Fencik and Adriana Petteway; one sister Adele Kaleda of FL; two brothers Gustav Vogt of Wayne and Henry Vogt and his wife Theresa of Wayne.
In lieu of flowers, donations to the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, 1274 York Avenue, New York, NY 10021 would be appreciated.
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Funeral services will be held at 10:30 AM Tuesday, May 11, 2010 at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne. Friends may visit with the family on Monday, May 10, 2010 from 7-9 PM at the funeral home. Interment will be in Laurel Grove Cemetery, Totowa.
May 6, 2010
Services
Funeral services will be held at 10:30 AM Tuesday, May 11, 2010 at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne. Friends may visit with the family on Monday, May 10, 2010 from 7-9 PM at the funeral home. Interment will be in Laurel Grove Cemetery, Totowa.
Joseph Vogt age 83 of Wayne died peacefully at home with the comfort of his family by his side.
Joseph was born in Kries Sharky Lithuania and moved to Germany. He served in the Germany Army and was stationed on the Russian front during WWII. He always talked about when the two fronts received word that the WWII was over the soldiers on both sides came out of their trenches and greeted each other with handshakes. He lived in East Germany and tried to sneak across the border, with his brother, to West Germany in 1947. After several failed attempts, and even being shot at, the brothers finally made it into West Germany. Once in West Germany he got a job as a laborer on the Wigger family farm in Stenum, Germany. While working on the farm, there was a restaurant close by called Backenkoeler.
At the Backenkohler Hotel's restaurant they would have dances and that is where Joseph met the love of his life; Minna Roewfsaat. She was a maid at the hotel and she caught the eye of Joeseph. One of her responsibilities was milking cows for the restaurant. She would take a bicycle, with milk cans attached to the side, and ride out to the pastures to milk the cows. Adjacent to one of the pastures was the Wigger family farm where she would see Joseph working. They often would exchange waves as they went about their chores. At the living quarters attached to the Backenkohler Restaurant, where Minna lived, Joseph got down on his knees and told Minna how much he loved her and wanted to marry her.
In 1952, at the age of twenty-five and soon after his proposal, Joseph immigrated to the United States where he got a job working for a packaging company in Paterson making cardboard boxes. Minna followed Joseph to the United States in 1954. They married on April 24, 1954 at St. Pauls Lutheran Church on Smith Street in Paterson. They have enjoyed fifty-six years of caring and devoted marriage. After they married he got a job at the Continental Can Corporation in Paterson where he worked for twenty-nine years before taking early retirement. He then took a job at the Joe Kobar Machine Shop in Hawthorne until his retirement.
Surviving are his loving wife Minna (Roewfsaat) Vogt; one daughter Waltraud “Wally” Petteway of Moonachie; cherished grandchildren Lesley Fencik and her husband Joel of Moonachie, Scott Petteway of Moonachie and Marc Petteway and his wife Stephanie of Chesapeake, VA; loving great-grandfather of Aaron Fencik and Adriana Petteway; one sister Adele Kaleda of FL; two brothers Gustav Vogt of Wayne and Henry Vogt and his wife Theresa of Wayne.
In lieu of flowers, donations to the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, 1274 York Avenue, New York, NY 10021 would be appreciated.
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