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November 14, 2014
Services
Friends may visit with the family at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne, on Tuesday, November 18, 2014 from 4-7 PM. Funeral Services will be held at 9 AM on Wednesday, November 19, from the funeral home, then to St. Mary’s RC Church, Pompton Lakes, where at 10 AM a Funeral Mass will be offered.
Kathleen M. Tooman, age 90 of Wayne, died peacefully on Friday, November 14, 2014. She had lived in Leonia for forty years before moving to Wayne in 1995.
Kathleen grew up in Jersey City and graduated from St. Aloysius Catholic High School before going on to nursing school at the Jersey City Medical Center. She became an RN and practiced for several years before becoming a full-time mom. During the early years of her marriage to Dr. John Tooman, a physician in the Navy and U.S. Air Force, they were stationed in Texas and California before John was transferred to the newly established Nellis Air Force Base in Las Vegas. Upon John’s discharge in 1955, they moved back to New Jersey where they raised their family. The two of them were high school sweethearts and enjoyed an “ideal” marriage for forty-three years before John passed in 1989.
Among Kathleen’s favorite hobbies were decorating, collecting antiques and sculpting. Kathleen was also a talented painter, completing several landscapes and nature scenes. She wrote stories for her grandchildren and was the best “Nanny” they could have wished for. She was as sweet as could be, loved to play with them, and also enjoyed spoiling them! Surely they will treasure her stories and miss her dearly.
Kathleen is survived by her two sons; John Patrick Tooman of Long Island, and Christopher Tooman and his wife Lisa of Wayne, three grandchildren; Conor, Kyle, and Scott Tooman of Wayne, and by her sister-in-law; Patricia Boardingham of Nutley. She was predeceased by her husband John in 1989, by her daughter; Mary in 2012, and by her brother; Robert Boardingham in 2013.
Memorial donations in Kathleen’s honor would be greatly appreciated to the USO, 2111 Wilson Blvd., Suite 1200, Arlington, VA 22201 or visit www.uso.org/donate.
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Friends may visit with the family at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne, on Tuesday, November 18, 2014 from 4-7 PM. Funeral Services will be held at 9 AM on Wednesday, November 19, from the funeral home, then to St. Mary’s RC Church, Pompton Lakes, where at 10 AM a Funeral Mass will be offered.
November 14, 2014
Services
Friends may visit with the family at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne, on Tuesday, November 18, 2014 from 4-7 PM. Funeral Services will be held at 9 AM on Wednesday, November 19, from the funeral home, then to St. Mary’s RC Church, Pompton Lakes, where at 10 AM a Funeral Mass will be offered.
Kathleen M. Tooman, age 90 of Wayne, died peacefully on Friday, November 14, 2014. She had lived in Leonia for forty years before moving to Wayne in 1995.
Kathleen grew up in Jersey City and graduated from St. Aloysius Catholic High School before going on to nursing school at the Jersey City Medical Center. She became an RN and practiced for several years before becoming a full-time mom. During the early years of her marriage to Dr. John Tooman, a physician in the Navy and U.S. Air Force, they were stationed in Texas and California before John was transferred to the newly established Nellis Air Force Base in Las Vegas. Upon John’s discharge in 1955, they moved back to New Jersey where they raised their family. The two of them were high school sweethearts and enjoyed an “ideal” marriage for forty-three years before John passed in 1989.
Among Kathleen’s favorite hobbies were decorating, collecting antiques and sculpting. Kathleen was also a talented painter, completing several landscapes and nature scenes. She wrote stories for her grandchildren and was the best “Nanny” they could have wished for. She was as sweet as could be, loved to play with them, and also enjoyed spoiling them! Surely they will treasure her stories and miss her dearly.
Kathleen is survived by her two sons; John Patrick Tooman of Long Island, and Christopher Tooman and his wife Lisa of Wayne, three grandchildren; Conor, Kyle, and Scott Tooman of Wayne, and by her sister-in-law; Patricia Boardingham of Nutley. She was predeceased by her husband John in 1989, by her daughter; Mary in 2012, and by her brother; Robert Boardingham in 2013.
Memorial donations in Kathleen’s honor would be greatly appreciated to the USO, 2111 Wilson Blvd., Suite 1200, Arlington, VA 22201 or visit www.uso.org/donate.
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