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February 10, 2014
Services
Friends may visit with the family from 3-7 PM on Friday, February 14, 2014 at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
Funeral services will be held 9 AM on Saturday, February 15, 2014 from the funeral home then to Our Lady of Consolation RC Church, 1799 Hamburg Tpk., Wayne where a 10 AM Funeral Mass will be offered.
Interment will be in Christ the King Cemetery, Franklin Lakes.
Kathleen M. (nee O’Toole) Ahearn age 80 of Wayne passed peacefully on Monday, February 10, 2014.
She was born and raised in the Saint Nicholas Parish in Jersey City having lived in Wayne for over fifty years.
After high school Kathleen found work as a secretary for the Electrolux Corporation in New York City taking the bus to work and then after moving to Wayne she would take the train to work. Shortly after getting married and moving to Wayne she committed herself to raising her family. When her children were in grammar school she found work as a library assistant at Theunis Dey School in Wayne, worked as a floor manager for the Meyer Brothers Department Store in Wayne, and finally served as a secretary for the medical devices division at the American Cyanamid Corporation which was acquired by the American Home Products Corporation in Wayne before retiring in 1996.
Kathleen met a handsome man named Charles J. Ahearn at a church dance and married him on September 16, 1961. They honeymooned in Niagara Falls.
She was a founding parishioner of Our Lady of Consolation RC Church in Wayne having attended the first Masses of the church at the Schuyler Colfax School in Wayne while the church was being built. She also served as a reader at the church for many years. Kathleen was dedicated to her Catholic faith and to the church she helped to found. At Sunday Mass she would go early and sit with her family for just a few minutes before announcing she was going to the church door to greet those coming to Mass. She was a member of the Amity Club at the church for many years and felt honored to receive a prayer shawl from them as an expression of their care and concern.
She taught her children that having faith in their lives was very important and also taught them that dessert was the best part of any meal. After Mass on Sunday she would go to the diner with friends and family and as all others were ordering breakfast she would order dessert. If the dessert arrived and was visible beneath the whipped cream she would send it back for more whipped cream. Kathleen thought the person who invented the first piece of candy should be made a saint. She would often give up candy for Lent but she would explain there is a little known Sunday Candy Exemption during Lent that she would take full advantage of. Her 4 pm ritual of having five, not four or six, but five cheese pretzels and a Coors Light was a daily routing that was not to be missed. As a matter of fact she passed away at 3:58 in the afternoon - perhaps in order to continue her 4 pm ritual in Heaven. Another of her daily routines was to have many cups of tea. She always had a grateful “God Love You” for those who served her; the waiter at the diner, or anyone who went out of their way for her. That personality changed a bit when you interrupted her when she was watching her beloved New York Yankees. She would answer the phone with her Jersey City attitude “Yankees are on…what do you want.” She also enjoyed all types of crafts, making wreaths, and ribbons that she would sell at craft shows. Another of her joys was playing computer games – she was an expert at Tetris. Her truly unassuming, teasing, joy to be around, personality will be greatly missed.
She was the loving wife of Charles J. Ahearn; devoted mother of Rosemary Ahearn and her husband Don Hasara of Phillipsburg, Charles E. Ahearn and his wife Kathleen of Wayne, Carolyn Willis and her husband Dave of Franklin Lakes, and Joseph Ahearn and his wife Kelly of Edison; cherished grandmother of Charles “CJ” Ahearn, Brendan, Colm, and Deirdre Hasara; loved sister of the late Thomas O’Toole.
In lieu of flowers memorial donations to the Wayne First Aid Squad, PO Box 2004, Wayne, NJ 07474 would be appreciated.
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Friends may visit with the family from 3-7 PM on Friday, February 14, 2014 at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
Funeral services will be held 9 AM on Saturday, February 15, 2014 from the funeral home then to Our Lady of Consolation RC Church, 1799 Hamburg Tpk., Wayne where a 10 AM Funeral Mass will be offered.
Interment will be in Christ the King Cemetery, Franklin Lakes.
February 10, 2014
Services
Friends may visit with the family from 3-7 PM on Friday, February 14, 2014 at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
Funeral services will be held 9 AM on Saturday, February 15, 2014 from the funeral home then to Our Lady of Consolation RC Church, 1799 Hamburg Tpk., Wayne where a 10 AM Funeral Mass will be offered.
Interment will be in Christ the King Cemetery, Franklin Lakes.
Kathleen M. (nee O’Toole) Ahearn age 80 of Wayne passed peacefully on Monday, February 10, 2014.
She was born and raised in the Saint Nicholas Parish in Jersey City having lived in Wayne for over fifty years.
After high school Kathleen found work as a secretary for the Electrolux Corporation in New York City taking the bus to work and then after moving to Wayne she would take the train to work. Shortly after getting married and moving to Wayne she committed herself to raising her family. When her children were in grammar school she found work as a library assistant at Theunis Dey School in Wayne, worked as a floor manager for the Meyer Brothers Department Store in Wayne, and finally served as a secretary for the medical devices division at the American Cyanamid Corporation which was acquired by the American Home Products Corporation in Wayne before retiring in 1996.
Kathleen met a handsome man named Charles J. Ahearn at a church dance and married him on September 16, 1961. They honeymooned in Niagara Falls.
She was a founding parishioner of Our Lady of Consolation RC Church in Wayne having attended the first Masses of the church at the Schuyler Colfax School in Wayne while the church was being built. She also served as a reader at the church for many years. Kathleen was dedicated to her Catholic faith and to the church she helped to found. At Sunday Mass she would go early and sit with her family for just a few minutes before announcing she was going to the church door to greet those coming to Mass. She was a member of the Amity Club at the church for many years and felt honored to receive a prayer shawl from them as an expression of their care and concern.
She taught her children that having faith in their lives was very important and also taught them that dessert was the best part of any meal. After Mass on Sunday she would go to the diner with friends and family and as all others were ordering breakfast she would order dessert. If the dessert arrived and was visible beneath the whipped cream she would send it back for more whipped cream. Kathleen thought the person who invented the first piece of candy should be made a saint. She would often give up candy for Lent but she would explain there is a little known Sunday Candy Exemption during Lent that she would take full advantage of. Her 4 pm ritual of having five, not four or six, but five cheese pretzels and a Coors Light was a daily routing that was not to be missed. As a matter of fact she passed away at 3:58 in the afternoon - perhaps in order to continue her 4 pm ritual in Heaven. Another of her daily routines was to have many cups of tea. She always had a grateful “God Love You” for those who served her; the waiter at the diner, or anyone who went out of their way for her. That personality changed a bit when you interrupted her when she was watching her beloved New York Yankees. She would answer the phone with her Jersey City attitude “Yankees are on…what do you want.” She also enjoyed all types of crafts, making wreaths, and ribbons that she would sell at craft shows. Another of her joys was playing computer games – she was an expert at Tetris. Her truly unassuming, teasing, joy to be around, personality will be greatly missed.
She was the loving wife of Charles J. Ahearn; devoted mother of Rosemary Ahearn and her husband Don Hasara of Phillipsburg, Charles E. Ahearn and his wife Kathleen of Wayne, Carolyn Willis and her husband Dave of Franklin Lakes, and Joseph Ahearn and his wife Kelly of Edison; cherished grandmother of Charles “CJ” Ahearn, Brendan, Colm, and Deirdre Hasara; loved sister of the late Thomas O’Toole.
In lieu of flowers memorial donations to the Wayne First Aid Squad, PO Box 2004, Wayne, NJ 07474 would be appreciated.
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