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Services
Friends may visit with the family at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne, on Wednesday, July 8, 2015 from 2-4 & 7-9 PM.
A funeral service will be held at the Wayne Presbyterian Church, 1200 Alps Rd., Wayne, at 10 AM on Thursday, July 9, 2015. Burial will follow at the Pompton Reformed Church Cemetery, Pompton Lakes.
Kenneth A. Kardux, age 84 of Wayne, died peacefully at home on Saturday, July 4, 2015 with his loving family gathered at his bedside. He had been a resident of Wayne since 1963.
Ken was born in Hawthorne, NJ on Sept. 16, 1930 to Mina (nee) Bosland and Aaron Kardux. He started his first life path to be an architect. After 2 years he was drafted into the US Army where in the engineering school he finished first in his graduating class. After his two years in the Army he went back to his previous job at Fanning and Shaw. After one day he quit realizing that architecture was not for him anymore.
The GI Bill paid for 3 days of extensive evaluation and testing. The recommendations were for Ken to be a minister or be in sales. He selected sales and applied for a job at Jersey Carpet Corp in Clifton, NJ. He got the job and met a girl, Jean Ryan, who worked there also. They started going out but he had a dilemma, he could not concentrate on work while he was with Jean. He decided to quit his job to avoid being distracted by her while working.
His next job was the start of his career in the weighing industry. Ken became a mechanical engineer at Richardson Scale Co. in Clifton, NJ. After six months as an engineer he was promoted to salesman.
After his first year in the scale business, Ken and Jean were married. He was transferred to Syracuse NY and developed new customers for Richardson. Ken and Jean bought a house in Camillus, a suburb of Syracuse and started a family. Their 2 oldest children were born there. When Ken designed and had a home built in Wayne, NJ in 1963.
Ken sold for Richardson for 18 years. He sold automatic scales to various industries such as grain, concrete block, food (Gerber, Nabisco, and Pillsbury), rubber and plastics. His customers were located around the world. The products he sold were mechanical and electronic automatic scales.
Richardson Scale merged with Howe Scale Co. During the changes, Ken left Richardson and became Vice President of Sales and Marketing for Henderson Industries. After 14 years at Henderson, Ken moved on to Ohaus Corp where he started the Ohaus Automated System Division. Here Ken met Dan Garlen and they turned Ohaus products into systems. Ken patented a dual auger feeder. This was very special since it improved the accuracy by a factor of 100 times. Ken and Dan decided to become partners and started Kg Systems. The name is comprised of the first letter of their names.
The scale industry now awards the Kardux Cup which is named after Ken and awarded for the Outstanding New Product Award and is a sought after award given at ISWM Scale Conference every 2 years. Ken has many awards, either in the scale industry or in his personal life. He received the Woody Woodland Award that is awarded to honor a person who by his own efforts and services has contributed in an outstanding manner in the scale and weighing industry.
Ken was named “Wayne Man of the Year” for his work in his Church, the Scouts, and for starting a program in a nursing home to adopt patients that never had a visitor, which he did for twenty years till he got ill.
Ken loved to travel with his beloved “Bride”. They had a wonderful life together with love and happiness every day. They were to every state and all 7 continents, and many, many cruises. He loved adventure, flying in hot air balloons, white water rafting, going on safaris, sailing a house boat. Whatever it was and as long as he was with Jean, he was happy. When the children were younger, they vacationed for the month of August in Long Beach Island. After the Grandchildren came, he would take the whole family on cruises to the Bahamas and Canada, and finally going to Keuka Lake for years with the whole family. His favorite place in the whole world was his loved deck, which in his last days he was on all day. He was first a man of God. He loved his family and was so proud of his grandchildren going to their games as much as he could.
He was a past Elder of Wayne Presbyterian Church where he preached when his former pastors took some needed time off.
He leaves his wife of 60 years; Jean (Nee) Ryan Kardux, his son; Kenneth Kardux II and his wife Joyce, of Wayne, his daughters; Karen Stefanski and her husband Michael, of Syracuse, NY, and Kathleen Grenoble and her husband Glenn of Dauphin PA. His five Grandchildren: K.C. & Ryan Kardux, Rachel and Drew Stefanski, and Abigail Grenoble. He also leaves a sister; Marye Heatley, and nieces and nephews.
His family would like to acknowledge the wonderful help and support they received from two wonderful ladies, Jackie and Jasmine Gladden and also Passaic Valley Hospice. We don't know what we would have done without them. With them, we were able to keep him home where he had the love he deserved.
In lieu of flowers, please donate in Ken's memory to Passaic Valley Hospice, 783 Riverview Drive, Box 1007, Totowa, NJ 07511 or to Wayne Presbyterian Church, 1200 Alps Road, Wayne, NJ 07470.
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Friends may visit with the family at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne, on Wednesday, July 8, 2015 from 2-4 & 7-9 PM.
A funeral service will be held at the Wayne Presbyterian Church, 1200 Alps Rd., Wayne, at 10 AM on Thursday, July 9, 2015. Burial will follow at the Pompton Reformed Church Cemetery, Pompton Lakes.
Services
Friends may visit with the family at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne, on Wednesday, July 8, 2015 from 2-4 & 7-9 PM.
A funeral service will be held at the Wayne Presbyterian Church, 1200 Alps Rd., Wayne, at 10 AM on Thursday, July 9, 2015. Burial will follow at the Pompton Reformed Church Cemetery, Pompton Lakes.
Kenneth A. Kardux, age 84 of Wayne, died peacefully at home on Saturday, July 4, 2015 with his loving family gathered at his bedside. He had been a resident of Wayne since 1963.
Ken was born in Hawthorne, NJ on Sept. 16, 1930 to Mina (nee) Bosland and Aaron Kardux. He started his first life path to be an architect. After 2 years he was drafted into the US Army where in the engineering school he finished first in his graduating class. After his two years in the Army he went back to his previous job at Fanning and Shaw. After one day he quit realizing that architecture was not for him anymore.
The GI Bill paid for 3 days of extensive evaluation and testing. The recommendations were for Ken to be a minister or be in sales. He selected sales and applied for a job at Jersey Carpet Corp in Clifton, NJ. He got the job and met a girl, Jean Ryan, who worked there also. They started going out but he had a dilemma, he could not concentrate on work while he was with Jean. He decided to quit his job to avoid being distracted by her while working.
His next job was the start of his career in the weighing industry. Ken became a mechanical engineer at Richardson Scale Co. in Clifton, NJ. After six months as an engineer he was promoted to salesman.
After his first year in the scale business, Ken and Jean were married. He was transferred to Syracuse NY and developed new customers for Richardson. Ken and Jean bought a house in Camillus, a suburb of Syracuse and started a family. Their 2 oldest children were born there. When Ken designed and had a home built in Wayne, NJ in 1963.
Ken sold for Richardson for 18 years. He sold automatic scales to various industries such as grain, concrete block, food (Gerber, Nabisco, and Pillsbury), rubber and plastics. His customers were located around the world. The products he sold were mechanical and electronic automatic scales.
Richardson Scale merged with Howe Scale Co. During the changes, Ken left Richardson and became Vice President of Sales and Marketing for Henderson Industries. After 14 years at Henderson, Ken moved on to Ohaus Corp where he started the Ohaus Automated System Division. Here Ken met Dan Garlen and they turned Ohaus products into systems. Ken patented a dual auger feeder. This was very special since it improved the accuracy by a factor of 100 times. Ken and Dan decided to become partners and started Kg Systems. The name is comprised of the first letter of their names.
The scale industry now awards the Kardux Cup which is named after Ken and awarded for the Outstanding New Product Award and is a sought after award given at ISWM Scale Conference every 2 years. Ken has many awards, either in the scale industry or in his personal life. He received the Woody Woodland Award that is awarded to honor a person who by his own efforts and services has contributed in an outstanding manner in the scale and weighing industry.
Ken was named “Wayne Man of the Year” for his work in his Church, the Scouts, and for starting a program in a nursing home to adopt patients that never had a visitor, which he did for twenty years till he got ill.
Ken loved to travel with his beloved “Bride”. They had a wonderful life together with love and happiness every day. They were to every state and all 7 continents, and many, many cruises. He loved adventure, flying in hot air balloons, white water rafting, going on safaris, sailing a house boat. Whatever it was and as long as he was with Jean, he was happy. When the children were younger, they vacationed for the month of August in Long Beach Island. After the Grandchildren came, he would take the whole family on cruises to the Bahamas and Canada, and finally going to Keuka Lake for years with the whole family. His favorite place in the whole world was his loved deck, which in his last days he was on all day. He was first a man of God. He loved his family and was so proud of his grandchildren going to their games as much as he could.
He was a past Elder of Wayne Presbyterian Church where he preached when his former pastors took some needed time off.
He leaves his wife of 60 years; Jean (Nee) Ryan Kardux, his son; Kenneth Kardux II and his wife Joyce, of Wayne, his daughters; Karen Stefanski and her husband Michael, of Syracuse, NY, and Kathleen Grenoble and her husband Glenn of Dauphin PA. His five Grandchildren: K.C. & Ryan Kardux, Rachel and Drew Stefanski, and Abigail Grenoble. He also leaves a sister; Marye Heatley, and nieces and nephews.
His family would like to acknowledge the wonderful help and support they received from two wonderful ladies, Jackie and Jasmine Gladden and also Passaic Valley Hospice. We don't know what we would have done without them. With them, we were able to keep him home where he had the love he deserved.
In lieu of flowers, please donate in Ken's memory to Passaic Valley Hospice, 783 Riverview Drive, Box 1007, Totowa, NJ 07511 or to Wayne Presbyterian Church, 1200 Alps Road, Wayne, NJ 07470.
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