Office Hours: Monday – Friday, 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM
Calls outside of office hours? No worries! Our team will respond within 10–15 minutes.
April 27, 2013
Services
Friends may visit with the family at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne, on Wednesday, May 1, 2013 from 2-4 and 7-9 PM.
Funeral Services will be held at 9:00 AM on Thursday, May 2, 2013 from the funeral home, then to Our Lady of Consolation R.C. Church, 1799 Hamburg Turnpike, Wayne, where at 10:00 AM a Funeral Mass will be offered. Interment will follow at St. Mary's Cemetery, Saddle Brook.
Kathleen A. Toomey, age 49, of Wayne, died peacefully on Saturday, April 27, 2013.
Kathy was born with Downs Syndrome and was legally blind most of her life. Many would think that those were pretty steep odds to overcome, but not Kathy. A resident of Wayne for most of her life, Kathy attended Packanack and JFK Elementary Schools before going on to The Felician School for Exceptional Children, in Lodi. She ultimately returned to Wayne Public Schools where she graduated in 1985. Following her education, she was employed as an assembler with Easter Seals Disability Services in Franklin. She later became involved with an organization called The Center for Family Support (CFS). In 2003 Kathy moved into a group home in Clifton run by CFS and started working in one of their workshops in Hackensack. Kathy loved living in the group home and met some wonderful new friends who become like family.
Through Explorer Post 136 BSA for adults with special needs, Kathy enjoyed dancing, all kinds of music, and bowling with friends. She also loved to play bingo and was always up for a game, especially with her cousin Francis. Kathy’s family described her as an extremely loving and caring person who always smiled. She was a joy to know and to have shared life with.
Surviving Kathleen is her dear mother Dolores Toomey (nee Sefcik) of Wayne; her brother Thomas J. Toomey and wife Kay of Denver, CO and her sister Lori Derstine and husband Devin of Wayne; her two nieces: Alanna and Avery; her nephew Zachary; her two aunts, one uncle and many cousins. Her father, Thomas J. Toomey predeceased her in 2003.
As expressions of sympathy, if friends so wish, donations may be made in Kathy’s memory to The Center for Family Support, 205 Robin Road, Suite 122, Paramus, NJ 07652.
If you would like to send a private condolence directly to the family use this condolence section.
Friends may visit with the family at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne, on Wednesday, May 1, 2013 from 2-4 and 7-9 PM.
Funeral Services will be held at 9:00 AM on Thursday, May 2, 2013 from the funeral home, then to Our Lady of Consolation R.C. Church, 1799 Hamburg Turnpike, Wayne, where at 10:00 AM a Funeral Mass will be offered. Interment will follow at St. Mary's Cemetery, Saddle Brook.
April 27, 2013
Services
Friends may visit with the family at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne, on Wednesday, May 1, 2013 from 2-4 and 7-9 PM.
Funeral Services will be held at 9:00 AM on Thursday, May 2, 2013 from the funeral home, then to Our Lady of Consolation R.C. Church, 1799 Hamburg Turnpike, Wayne, where at 10:00 AM a Funeral Mass will be offered. Interment will follow at St. Mary's Cemetery, Saddle Brook.
Kathleen A. Toomey, age 49, of Wayne, died peacefully on Saturday, April 27, 2013.
Kathy was born with Downs Syndrome and was legally blind most of her life. Many would think that those were pretty steep odds to overcome, but not Kathy. A resident of Wayne for most of her life, Kathy attended Packanack and JFK Elementary Schools before going on to The Felician School for Exceptional Children, in Lodi. She ultimately returned to Wayne Public Schools where she graduated in 1985. Following her education, she was employed as an assembler with Easter Seals Disability Services in Franklin. She later became involved with an organization called The Center for Family Support (CFS). In 2003 Kathy moved into a group home in Clifton run by CFS and started working in one of their workshops in Hackensack. Kathy loved living in the group home and met some wonderful new friends who become like family.
Through Explorer Post 136 BSA for adults with special needs, Kathy enjoyed dancing, all kinds of music, and bowling with friends. She also loved to play bingo and was always up for a game, especially with her cousin Francis. Kathy’s family described her as an extremely loving and caring person who always smiled. She was a joy to know and to have shared life with.
Surviving Kathleen is her dear mother Dolores Toomey (nee Sefcik) of Wayne; her brother Thomas J. Toomey and wife Kay of Denver, CO and her sister Lori Derstine and husband Devin of Wayne; her two nieces: Alanna and Avery; her nephew Zachary; her two aunts, one uncle and many cousins. Her father, Thomas J. Toomey predeceased her in 2003.
As expressions of sympathy, if friends so wish, donations may be made in Kathy’s memory to The Center for Family Support, 205 Robin Road, Suite 122, Paramus, NJ 07652.
Guestbook