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February 10, 2013
Services
Friends may visit with the family at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne, on Wednesday, February 13, 2013 from 2-4 & 7-9 PM. Funeral Services will be held at 10:30 AM on Thursday, February 14, 2013 at the funeral home. Burial will follow at the Preakness Reformed Church Cemetery, Church Lane, in Wayne.
Joyce Ottens, age 81 of Wayne, died peacefully at home, surrounded by her family, on Sunday, February 10, 2013.
Joyce was born in East Rutherford and grew up in Woodridge. She graduated from Woodridge High School in 1949. Joyce worked at Becton-Dickinson during her early career and later she was payroll manager for Universal Magnatec in Paramus before retiring in 1989.
On one particular day shortly after high school, while roller skating with her friends in Paramus, Joyce met Richard Ottens. They skated together that day and never parted. Although it isn’t clear exactly what attracted them to each other, Joyce had often told her mother “I’m going to marry a guy with a Buick”, and Richard just happened to be driving a Buick at the time. They were married in 1950 and moved to Wayne to raise their family. They enjoyed nearly fifty years together before Richard passed in 2000.
Joyce was an active member of the Preakness Reformed Church in Wayne where she taught Sunday school and was very involved in several aspects of the church. She loved her church and will be laid to rest in the cemetery there.
Joyce enjoyed gardening, making Eucalyptus wreaths, and all sorts of crafts. She also loved reading and found great joy as a volunteer at the Wayne Public Library. She had a sense of adventure from her earliest years and liked to ride on her son’s motorcycle, go flying in their Cessna, and have her grandchildren take her for rides on their quads at the family Christmas tree farm. Raising her four children was perhaps her greatest joy, and seeing fifteen grandchildren and two great-grandchildren added to her legacy all made her very happy.
Joyce is survived by her four loving children: Richard and his wife Peg of New Egypt, NJ, Joyce Bozik and her husband Larry of Wayne, Elizabeth Morse and her husband Rick of Owego, NY, and Paul and his wife Mary Anne of Hawthorne; fifteen grandchildren, two great-grandchildren and one sister; Rosary DiBiasi and her husband Vincent of Naples, FL. She was predeceased by her husband Richard in 2000, her granddaughter Kate Ottens in 1992, and her brothers John and Emanuel Laudicina.
Donations in Joyce’s memory, if friends so wish, would be greatly appreciated. Please consider the Preakness Reformed Church, 131 Church Lane, Wayne, NJ 07470 or Passaic Valley Hospice, P.O. 783 Riverview Drive, Totowa, NJ 07511.
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Friends may visit with the family at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne, on Wednesday, February 13, 2013 from 2-4 & 7-9 PM. Funeral Services will be held at 10:30 AM on Thursday, February 14, 2013 at the funeral home. Burial will follow at the Preakness Reformed Church Cemetery, Church Lane, in Wayne.
February 10, 2013
Services
Friends may visit with the family at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne, on Wednesday, February 13, 2013 from 2-4 & 7-9 PM. Funeral Services will be held at 10:30 AM on Thursday, February 14, 2013 at the funeral home. Burial will follow at the Preakness Reformed Church Cemetery, Church Lane, in Wayne.
Joyce Ottens, age 81 of Wayne, died peacefully at home, surrounded by her family, on Sunday, February 10, 2013.
Joyce was born in East Rutherford and grew up in Woodridge. She graduated from Woodridge High School in 1949. Joyce worked at Becton-Dickinson during her early career and later she was payroll manager for Universal Magnatec in Paramus before retiring in 1989.
On one particular day shortly after high school, while roller skating with her friends in Paramus, Joyce met Richard Ottens. They skated together that day and never parted. Although it isn’t clear exactly what attracted them to each other, Joyce had often told her mother “I’m going to marry a guy with a Buick”, and Richard just happened to be driving a Buick at the time. They were married in 1950 and moved to Wayne to raise their family. They enjoyed nearly fifty years together before Richard passed in 2000.
Joyce was an active member of the Preakness Reformed Church in Wayne where she taught Sunday school and was very involved in several aspects of the church. She loved her church and will be laid to rest in the cemetery there.
Joyce enjoyed gardening, making Eucalyptus wreaths, and all sorts of crafts. She also loved reading and found great joy as a volunteer at the Wayne Public Library. She had a sense of adventure from her earliest years and liked to ride on her son’s motorcycle, go flying in their Cessna, and have her grandchildren take her for rides on their quads at the family Christmas tree farm. Raising her four children was perhaps her greatest joy, and seeing fifteen grandchildren and two great-grandchildren added to her legacy all made her very happy.
Joyce is survived by her four loving children: Richard and his wife Peg of New Egypt, NJ, Joyce Bozik and her husband Larry of Wayne, Elizabeth Morse and her husband Rick of Owego, NY, and Paul and his wife Mary Anne of Hawthorne; fifteen grandchildren, two great-grandchildren and one sister; Rosary DiBiasi and her husband Vincent of Naples, FL. She was predeceased by her husband Richard in 2000, her granddaughter Kate Ottens in 1992, and her brothers John and Emanuel Laudicina.
Donations in Joyce’s memory, if friends so wish, would be greatly appreciated. Please consider the Preakness Reformed Church, 131 Church Lane, Wayne, NJ 07470 or Passaic Valley Hospice, P.O. 783 Riverview Drive, Totowa, NJ 07511.
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