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June 23, 2014
Services
Friends may visit with the family from 2-4 PM on Sunday, July 13, 2014 at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Rd., Wayne. A 4 PM funeral service will follow the visitation hours on Sunday.
Josephine L. Famette (Walenczyk) age 89 of Wayne passed peacefully on Monday, June 23, 2014.
She was born in Montville, CT to Walter and Helen Walenczyk and spent her formative years in Garfield, NJ having graduated from Garfield High School.
Josephine, lovingly known as “Grandma Jo,” “Grammy,” or “Jo,” was the consummate hostess and known for her parties and family entertaining. Christmas along with caroling were always made extra special by her and will never be the same. She will be fondly remembered for annual family gatherings at her home in Sea Crest at the Jersey Shore, her love of dancing – just a few weeks before she passed she was dancing with the residents at her assisted living home, and her love of anything with a leopard print – to many she was known as the “leopard woman.”
While at a dance many years ago she met a cute man named Robert ("Bob") Famette. They danced and she later confessed to her girlfriends, "I met the man I'm going to marry!" They were married on April 24, 1948 and honeymooned out West where they visited the Grand Canyon. They had a loving and caring marriage of 45 years before Bob's passing in 1993.
She was the loving mother of Aimee Brash and her husband George of Wayne, and Audrey Famette of Montpelier, VT; cherished grandmother of Gregory Brash and his wife Alison of Chatham, Heather Thomas and her husband Sean of Wayne, Sara and Emily Hassard both of Montpelier, VT; dear great-grandmother of Brayden and Briella Thomas, and Miles and Ryan Brash; loved sister of Benjamin Walenczyk of Collegeville, PA, Albin Walenczyk of Berkeley Twp, and the late Viola Bajek, Stanley and Henry Walenczyk; much loved aunt to many nieces and nephews.
In lieu of flowers memorial donations to Compassionate Care Foundation, 11 Independence Way, Newark, Delaware, 19713 would be appreciated.
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Friends may visit with the family from 2-4 PM on Sunday, July 13, 2014 at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Rd., Wayne. A 4 PM funeral service will follow the visitation hours on Sunday.
June 23, 2014
Services
Friends may visit with the family from 2-4 PM on Sunday, July 13, 2014 at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Rd., Wayne. A 4 PM funeral service will follow the visitation hours on Sunday.
Josephine L. Famette (Walenczyk) age 89 of Wayne passed peacefully on Monday, June 23, 2014.
She was born in Montville, CT to Walter and Helen Walenczyk and spent her formative years in Garfield, NJ having graduated from Garfield High School.
Josephine, lovingly known as “Grandma Jo,” “Grammy,” or “Jo,” was the consummate hostess and known for her parties and family entertaining. Christmas along with caroling were always made extra special by her and will never be the same. She will be fondly remembered for annual family gatherings at her home in Sea Crest at the Jersey Shore, her love of dancing – just a few weeks before she passed she was dancing with the residents at her assisted living home, and her love of anything with a leopard print – to many she was known as the “leopard woman.”
While at a dance many years ago she met a cute man named Robert ("Bob") Famette. They danced and she later confessed to her girlfriends, "I met the man I'm going to marry!" They were married on April 24, 1948 and honeymooned out West where they visited the Grand Canyon. They had a loving and caring marriage of 45 years before Bob's passing in 1993.
She was the loving mother of Aimee Brash and her husband George of Wayne, and Audrey Famette of Montpelier, VT; cherished grandmother of Gregory Brash and his wife Alison of Chatham, Heather Thomas and her husband Sean of Wayne, Sara and Emily Hassard both of Montpelier, VT; dear great-grandmother of Brayden and Briella Thomas, and Miles and Ryan Brash; loved sister of Benjamin Walenczyk of Collegeville, PA, Albin Walenczyk of Berkeley Twp, and the late Viola Bajek, Stanley and Henry Walenczyk; much loved aunt to many nieces and nephews.
In lieu of flowers memorial donations to Compassionate Care Foundation, 11 Independence Way, Newark, Delaware, 19713 would be appreciated.
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