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September 26, 2009
Services
Friends may visit with the family at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne, on Thursday October 1, 2009 from 5-9 PM.
Funeral Services will be held at 10 AM on Friday October 2, 2009 from the funeral home, then to Holy Spirit RC Church, Pequannock, where at 11 AM a Funeral Mass will be offered. Burial will follow at the Laurel Grove Cemetery, Totowa.
Kenneth M. Goldberg, age 74 of Pequannock, died on Saturday, September 26, 2009 at the Valley Hospital in Ridgewood, NJ after a courageous battle with lung cancer.
He was born in New York City and lived there before moving to Wayne when he was fourteen. He graduated from Wayne High School with the class of 1953 and joined the U.S. Army shortly thereafter. He proudly served from 1954 to 1956 and was in the Army Reserves until 1962.
Ken had been employed as a grocery manager at the Shop-Rite in Lincoln Park where he worked for nearly thirty years. He knew many of his customers by name and they all knew him for his kind and outgoing personality. Still others will recall him taking his daily walk along the Boulevard in Pequannock. He would walk his usual three mile route every day. During the summer season, he would also swim every single day at P.V. Park. Even this summer, while undergoing his cancer treatment, he still managed to swim at the park eleven times.
Ken met his wife Anna May after returning from the service. They married in 1962 and enjoyed forty seven years of marriage together. They travelled often including several Caribbean Islands, and an unforgettable trip to Italy in 2007 where they visited Rome, Florence, and Venice, but their favorite was Aruba. Together they visited Aruba twelve times and most recently in 2007, against his doctor’s orders, he went back for one more visit and had a wonderful, relaxing vacation.
Ken is survived by his wife Anna May (nee Mitton), two nephews; Joseph Hook and his wife Carolyn of Pompton Lakes and Marinus Hook of Bethlehem, PA, one granddaughter; Grace Pia Hook of Pompton Lakes, one sister; Germaine Goodspeed and her husband Donald of California, two dear cousins; Lorraine Laneve and her husband Fred of Wanaque, and Carol Pagano and her husband Rudy of Texas, his sister-in-law; Jean Hook of Wayne, two brother-in-laws; Jack Mitton of Wayne and William Mitton and his wife Carol of Pownal, Vermont, as well as ‘thousands’ of great friends.
In lieu of flowers, donations to Holy Spirit RC Church, 318 Newark-Pompton Turnpike, Pequannock, NJ 07440 or The Valley Hospital, 223 N. Van Dien Avenue, Ridgewood, NJ 07450 would be appreciated.
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Friends may visit with the family at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne, on Thursday October 1, 2009 from 5-9 PM.
Funeral Services will be held at 10 AM on Friday October 2, 2009 from the funeral home, then to Holy Spirit RC Church, Pequannock, where at 11 AM a Funeral Mass will be offered. Burial will follow at the Laurel Grove Cemetery, Totowa.
September 26, 2009
Services
Friends may visit with the family at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne, on Thursday October 1, 2009 from 5-9 PM.
Funeral Services will be held at 10 AM on Friday October 2, 2009 from the funeral home, then to Holy Spirit RC Church, Pequannock, where at 11 AM a Funeral Mass will be offered. Burial will follow at the Laurel Grove Cemetery, Totowa.
Kenneth M. Goldberg, age 74 of Pequannock, died on Saturday, September 26, 2009 at the Valley Hospital in Ridgewood, NJ after a courageous battle with lung cancer.
He was born in New York City and lived there before moving to Wayne when he was fourteen. He graduated from Wayne High School with the class of 1953 and joined the U.S. Army shortly thereafter. He proudly served from 1954 to 1956 and was in the Army Reserves until 1962.
Ken had been employed as a grocery manager at the Shop-Rite in Lincoln Park where he worked for nearly thirty years. He knew many of his customers by name and they all knew him for his kind and outgoing personality. Still others will recall him taking his daily walk along the Boulevard in Pequannock. He would walk his usual three mile route every day. During the summer season, he would also swim every single day at P.V. Park. Even this summer, while undergoing his cancer treatment, he still managed to swim at the park eleven times.
Ken met his wife Anna May after returning from the service. They married in 1962 and enjoyed forty seven years of marriage together. They travelled often including several Caribbean Islands, and an unforgettable trip to Italy in 2007 where they visited Rome, Florence, and Venice, but their favorite was Aruba. Together they visited Aruba twelve times and most recently in 2007, against his doctor’s orders, he went back for one more visit and had a wonderful, relaxing vacation.
Ken is survived by his wife Anna May (nee Mitton), two nephews; Joseph Hook and his wife Carolyn of Pompton Lakes and Marinus Hook of Bethlehem, PA, one granddaughter; Grace Pia Hook of Pompton Lakes, one sister; Germaine Goodspeed and her husband Donald of California, two dear cousins; Lorraine Laneve and her husband Fred of Wanaque, and Carol Pagano and her husband Rudy of Texas, his sister-in-law; Jean Hook of Wayne, two brother-in-laws; Jack Mitton of Wayne and William Mitton and his wife Carol of Pownal, Vermont, as well as ‘thousands’ of great friends.
In lieu of flowers, donations to Holy Spirit RC Church, 318 Newark-Pompton Turnpike, Pequannock, NJ 07440 or The Valley Hospital, 223 N. Van Dien Avenue, Ridgewood, NJ 07450 would be appreciated.
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