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March 31, 2013
Services
Friends may visit with the family from 2-4 and 7-9 Pm on Thursday, April 4, 2013 at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
Funeral services will be held 10:30 AM on Friday, April 5, 2013 at the funeral home.
Kathleen “Kathe” Crimmins age 64 of Wayne passed, peacefully at home with the comfort of family by her side, on Sunday, March 31, 2013.
She was born in Paterson and raised in Totowa having graduated from DePaul High School in Wayne with the Class of 1967.
Kathe helped open and worked at Fortunoff’s in Wayne as a manager and transitioned to the Tri-County Chamber of Commerce where she worked for several years before retiring.
She was a member of the Wayne Rotary Club and served as treasurer of the St. Joseph's Wayne Hospital Foundation.
Kathe leaves behind special family memories of summer vacations at the New Jersey shore in Lavallette, family trips to Disney World in Florida, and day trips to Sunrise Mountain at Stokes State Forest. She also enjoyed trips to Vermont and Maine where she could take in the simplicity, and slower pace of life there. She received her MBA (Masters of Beer Appreciation) from the Cloverleaf Tavern in Caldwell and loved meeting with a group of Margarita aficionados at Chili’s where she could oversee one of her two sons who worked there as managers.
She met her husband, Bill Crimmins, at a party in Spring Lake Heights where he had rented a house with a group of guys. Their first formal date was to see the show Hair on Broadway. They married on January 9, 1970 at Saint James RC Church in Totowa, had their reception at The Tides in North Haledon, and honeymooned in Bermuda. They initially settled in the Bronx New York and soon moved to Wayne New Jersey to raise their family. Initially Kathe was a New York Mets fan but was converted to a Yankee fan after being influenced by living in the Bronx and Bill’s unwavering loyalty to the Yankees. They enjoyed twenty years of a loving and caring marriage before Bill’s passing in 1990.
Kathe’s greatest love was caring for her two grandchildren Kyle and Owen. Anything that happened at grandma’s - stayed at grandma’s…except for the boy’s inability to keep a secret. When they returned home they would talk about how they had soda for breakfast, Pez, or other candy at all hours of the day and night. She adored the boys and they could do nothing wrong.
Kathe was the loving wife of the late Bill Crimmins(1990); devoted mother of Tracy Crimmins of Wayne, the late Ali Crimmins (1999); Christian M. Crimmins and his wife Stephanie of Middlesex, and Justin M. Crimmins of Rutherford; cherished grandmother of Kyle and Owen Crimmins; loved sister-in-law of Susan Crimmins of Santa Monica, CA; dear daughter of Harold Condon and the late Margaret (Garbe) Condon (2006). Kathe also enjoyed many years of wonderful companionship with Mr. Terry Dwyer.
In lieu of flowers memorial donations to the Alliance for Lupus Research, 28 West 44th Street, Suite 501, NY, NY 10036 http://www.lupusresearch.org ; or the Wayne Rotary Foundation, PO Box 2022, Wayne, NJ 07470-2022 would be appreciated.
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Friends may visit with the family from 2-4 and 7-9 Pm on Thursday, April 4, 2013 at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
Funeral services will be held 10:30 AM on Friday, April 5, 2013 at the funeral home.
March 31, 2013
Services
Friends may visit with the family from 2-4 and 7-9 Pm on Thursday, April 4, 2013 at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
Funeral services will be held 10:30 AM on Friday, April 5, 2013 at the funeral home.
Kathleen “Kathe” Crimmins age 64 of Wayne passed, peacefully at home with the comfort of family by her side, on Sunday, March 31, 2013.
She was born in Paterson and raised in Totowa having graduated from DePaul High School in Wayne with the Class of 1967.
Kathe helped open and worked at Fortunoff’s in Wayne as a manager and transitioned to the Tri-County Chamber of Commerce where she worked for several years before retiring.
She was a member of the Wayne Rotary Club and served as treasurer of the St. Joseph's Wayne Hospital Foundation.
Kathe leaves behind special family memories of summer vacations at the New Jersey shore in Lavallette, family trips to Disney World in Florida, and day trips to Sunrise Mountain at Stokes State Forest. She also enjoyed trips to Vermont and Maine where she could take in the simplicity, and slower pace of life there. She received her MBA (Masters of Beer Appreciation) from the Cloverleaf Tavern in Caldwell and loved meeting with a group of Margarita aficionados at Chili’s where she could oversee one of her two sons who worked there as managers.
She met her husband, Bill Crimmins, at a party in Spring Lake Heights where he had rented a house with a group of guys. Their first formal date was to see the show Hair on Broadway. They married on January 9, 1970 at Saint James RC Church in Totowa, had their reception at The Tides in North Haledon, and honeymooned in Bermuda. They initially settled in the Bronx New York and soon moved to Wayne New Jersey to raise their family. Initially Kathe was a New York Mets fan but was converted to a Yankee fan after being influenced by living in the Bronx and Bill’s unwavering loyalty to the Yankees. They enjoyed twenty years of a loving and caring marriage before Bill’s passing in 1990.
Kathe’s greatest love was caring for her two grandchildren Kyle and Owen. Anything that happened at grandma’s - stayed at grandma’s…except for the boy’s inability to keep a secret. When they returned home they would talk about how they had soda for breakfast, Pez, or other candy at all hours of the day and night. She adored the boys and they could do nothing wrong.
Kathe was the loving wife of the late Bill Crimmins(1990); devoted mother of Tracy Crimmins of Wayne, the late Ali Crimmins (1999); Christian M. Crimmins and his wife Stephanie of Middlesex, and Justin M. Crimmins of Rutherford; cherished grandmother of Kyle and Owen Crimmins; loved sister-in-law of Susan Crimmins of Santa Monica, CA; dear daughter of Harold Condon and the late Margaret (Garbe) Condon (2006). Kathe also enjoyed many years of wonderful companionship with Mr. Terry Dwyer.
In lieu of flowers memorial donations to the Alliance for Lupus Research, 28 West 44th Street, Suite 501, NY, NY 10036 http://www.lupusresearch.org ; or the Wayne Rotary Foundation, PO Box 2022, Wayne, NJ 07470-2022 would be appreciated.
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