September 7, 2009

Karen L. Bennett

West Milford

Services

A Funeral Mass will be offered 10:30 AM on Friday, September 11, 2009 at St. Josephs Church, 454 Germantown Rd., West Milford. (please meet directly at the church on Friday)

Friends may visit with the family on Thursday from 2-4, 7-9 PM at Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne. Interment will be in St. Nicholas Cemetery, Lodi.

Karen L. Bennett age 50 of West Milford died Monday, September 7, 2009 at the St. Josephs Wayne Hospital, Wayne.

She was born in Paterson and lived in Franklin Lakes and Ringwood before moving to West Milford twenty-six years ago.

Karen graduated from Ramapo High School, Franklin Lakes with the Class of 1977.

She met her husband, James Douglas Bennett III, through friends and had their first date at Staznies in Waldwick. They married on June 19, 1983 at the Wyckoff Reformed Church and honeymooned at the Jersey Shore.

Karen always had a special place in her heart for the Jersey Shore, especially Seaside Park, and enjoyed time there with her family for many years.

She was a Real Estate Agent for Coldwell Banker Realtors, West Milford and most recently Kinnelon, for the past seventeen years.

Karen was a parishioner of St. Josephs RC Church, West Milford.

She was the beloved wife of James Douglas Bennett III; loving mother of James Douglas Bennett IV and Steven Michael Bennett both of West Milford; cherished daughter of Louis Macaluso of Toms River and the late Virginia Macaluso; loved sister of Vicki Clauss and her husband Jay of Randolph, Nancy Majkowicz of Lodi and Andrea Westra and her husband Andrew of Colorado Springs, CO.

In lieu of flowers donations to the family, James Bennett IV & Steven Bennett c/o Vander May Wayne Colonial F.H., 567 Ratzer Rd., Wayne, NJ 07470 would be appreciated.

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Services

A Funeral Mass will be offered 10:30 AM on Friday, September 11, 2009 at St. Josephs Church, 454 Germantown Rd., West Milford. (please meet directly at the church on Friday)

Friends may visit with the family on Thursday from 2-4, 7-9 PM at Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne. Interment will be in St. Nicholas Cemetery, Lodi.

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