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September 22, 2018
Services
Friends may visit with the family from 1:30 – 3:00 on Saturday, September 29, 2018 at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne. A Memorial Service will be held 3:00 on Saturday at the conclusion of the visitation hours.
June I. Wackwitz, age 91, of the Packanack Lake section of Wayne, passed peacefully at home with the comfort of her family by her side.
June was born in Passaic and raised in Lyndhurst. She first lived in a duplex on Livingston Avenue and later lived at 169 Page Avenue in Lyndhurst. She graduated from Lyndhurst High School with the class of 1945.
June met the love of her life William "Bill" H. Wackwitz through a neighborhood friend, Walter Gleason. Walter owned a print shop where friends would meet and this is where June and Bill met as Bill was also a friend of Walter and had experience as a printer as he worked for the Commercial Leader. After Bill's service in the Army in WWII, Bill and his brother helped Walter expand his printing business by building an addition to the print shop. During June and Bill's dating, one of their favorite spots was Rutt's Hut in Clifton and during this time Bill thought to himself that this girl June is for me. After Bill secured a good job at the Nutley Sun newspaper, he had marriage on his mind and asked June to marry him while standing in the street in front of his house on Weart Avenue in Lyndhurst. They married on November 29, 1947 in the rectory of Sacred Heart Church in Lyndhurst, had a wedding reception at the American Legion Hall in Lyndhurst and honeymooned in Washington, D.C. and enjoyed a loving and devoted marriage of seventy one years.
Out of high school, June worked for the Lombardi Company on Stuyvesant Avenue in Lyndhurst sewing. She did this work sewing into her married years until she stopped to raise her children. June was very involved with the Girl Scouts of America while living in Lyndhurst. In 1963 June and Bill moved to the Packanack Lake section of Wayne where June was involved with the Woman's Club of Packanack Lake. When Willowbrook Shopping Center opened, June became a merchandise receiving clerk in the new Sears store placing price tags on all types of conceivable merchandise, then in the business office, until she retired in 1989.
June will be lovingly remembered as someone everyone loved. She was quick with a laugh or smile, loving, easy-going, caring and loved jigsaw puzzles and reading.
June was the loving wife of William H. Wackwitz; devoted mother of Judith (George) Gerasimenko of Kinnelon and William D. (Cathy) Wackwitz of Wayne; cherished grandmother of Lauren Hout (Charlie LaMantia), Christine McDevitt (Dan), Michael Gerasimenko (Geralanne Maglione), William D. Wackwitz, Jr. (Michelle), and Brian Wackwitz; much loved great-grandmother of Brendan Hout and Paige Erekat. She was predeceased by her sister Gladys Fondy, and brothers Walter and Richard Davies.
In lieu of flowers memorial donations to the Wayne First Aid Squad would be greatly appreciated.
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Friends may visit with the family from 1:30 – 3:00 on Saturday, September 29, 2018 at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne. A Memorial Service will be held 3:00 on Saturday at the conclusion of the visitation hours.
September 22, 2018
Services
Friends may visit with the family from 1:30 – 3:00 on Saturday, September 29, 2018 at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne. A Memorial Service will be held 3:00 on Saturday at the conclusion of the visitation hours.
June I. Wackwitz, age 91, of the Packanack Lake section of Wayne, passed peacefully at home with the comfort of her family by her side.
June was born in Passaic and raised in Lyndhurst. She first lived in a duplex on Livingston Avenue and later lived at 169 Page Avenue in Lyndhurst. She graduated from Lyndhurst High School with the class of 1945.
June met the love of her life William "Bill" H. Wackwitz through a neighborhood friend, Walter Gleason. Walter owned a print shop where friends would meet and this is where June and Bill met as Bill was also a friend of Walter and had experience as a printer as he worked for the Commercial Leader. After Bill's service in the Army in WWII, Bill and his brother helped Walter expand his printing business by building an addition to the print shop. During June and Bill's dating, one of their favorite spots was Rutt's Hut in Clifton and during this time Bill thought to himself that this girl June is for me. After Bill secured a good job at the Nutley Sun newspaper, he had marriage on his mind and asked June to marry him while standing in the street in front of his house on Weart Avenue in Lyndhurst. They married on November 29, 1947 in the rectory of Sacred Heart Church in Lyndhurst, had a wedding reception at the American Legion Hall in Lyndhurst and honeymooned in Washington, D.C. and enjoyed a loving and devoted marriage of seventy one years.
Out of high school, June worked for the Lombardi Company on Stuyvesant Avenue in Lyndhurst sewing. She did this work sewing into her married years until she stopped to raise her children. June was very involved with the Girl Scouts of America while living in Lyndhurst. In 1963 June and Bill moved to the Packanack Lake section of Wayne where June was involved with the Woman's Club of Packanack Lake. When Willowbrook Shopping Center opened, June became a merchandise receiving clerk in the new Sears store placing price tags on all types of conceivable merchandise, then in the business office, until she retired in 1989.
June will be lovingly remembered as someone everyone loved. She was quick with a laugh or smile, loving, easy-going, caring and loved jigsaw puzzles and reading.
June was the loving wife of William H. Wackwitz; devoted mother of Judith (George) Gerasimenko of Kinnelon and William D. (Cathy) Wackwitz of Wayne; cherished grandmother of Lauren Hout (Charlie LaMantia), Christine McDevitt (Dan), Michael Gerasimenko (Geralanne Maglione), William D. Wackwitz, Jr. (Michelle), and Brian Wackwitz; much loved great-grandmother of Brendan Hout and Paige Erekat. She was predeceased by her sister Gladys Fondy, and brothers Walter and Richard Davies.
In lieu of flowers memorial donations to the Wayne First Aid Squad would be greatly appreciated.
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