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September 11, 2009
Services
Funeral services will be held 10 AM on Thursday, September 17, 2009 at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
Friends may visit with the family on Wednesday, September 16, 2009 from 2-4 and 7-9 PM at the funeral home.
Interment will be in Laurel Grove Memorial Park, Totowa.
Lawrence Reinauer age 98 of Cedar Crest Village, Pompton Plains died Friday, September 11, 2009, peacefully with his family by his side.
He was born in Paterson having lived in Hawthorne, Clifton, Paterson, North Haledon and Toms River before moving to Cedar Crest Village six years ago.
Lawrence was self-employed in the petroleum transport business for over fifty years having been associated with the Reinauer Brothers Fuel Distribution Company, Hackensack before his retirement in 1973.
He was a member of the 1st Presbyterian Church, Elmwood Park, Manahawkin Baptist Church where he served as an usher and most recently the Hawthorne Gospel Church, Hawthorne, NJ. Although unable to attend church in recent years, you could always find him on Sunday mornings in front of the television watching all the church services all day long. He loved hearing the different services and the music.
He met the love of his life, Margaret MacGowan, through a mutual friend and they married on September 5, Lawrence’s birthday. They honeymooned as they traveled for one month across the United States with California being their destination. Up until recently he was able to recall the exact route they took. They enjoyed a loving marriage for seventy-one years before Margaret’s passing in November of 2007.
Lawrence was the youngest and last surviving of eight children. He was a very hard worker and loved spontaneous travel. He would always travel to a destination one way and take a different route on the way home. On one occasion he came home on Friday, gathered Margaret, three kids and grandma into the car and set off for Virginia Beach, VA. They arrived with no hotel reservations and there was no vacancy in the area. They wound up sleeping in the car and on the beach. He loved to swim and purchased a home at Ocean Beach III at the NJ Shore. The family has many fond memories of summers with the Barnegat Bay as their front yard. He loved sailing and taught his grandchildren how to sail his sailboat-The Mayflower. The grandchildren all learned to use the row boat/motor boat--Lulumay. Of course, Duke, our white boxer, went swimming in the bay with all the kids and also joined everyone in the boat. Another fond memory was Lawrence’s “ps” which stood for his desert…he loved his sweets.
He was the beloved husband of the late Margaret (nee MacGowan) Reinauer(2007); loving father of Iris Hascup of Totowa, Wayne Reinauer and his wife Nancy of Scottsdale, AZ and Bonnie Bornkamp of Marlboro; cherished grandfather of Darren and his wife Kelly Hascup, Lauren Dale and her husband Jim, Bradley Bornkamp and his wife Dawn, Todd, David and Timothy Reinauer; devoted great-grandfather of Jacqueline and Christopher Hascup, Cassia and Nicholas Bornkamp, Peter and Robert Dale and Samuel Reinauer; he was predeceased by two sisters and five brothers.
In lieu of flowers memorial donations to Food for the Hungry, 1224 E. Washington St., Phoenix, AZ 85034 or the Jacksonville Chapel, 264 Jacksonville Rd., Lincoln Park, NJ 07035 would be appreciated.
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Funeral services will be held 10 AM on Thursday, September 17, 2009 at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
Friends may visit with the family on Wednesday, September 16, 2009 from 2-4 and 7-9 PM at the funeral home.
Interment will be in Laurel Grove Memorial Park, Totowa.
September 11, 2009
Services
Funeral services will be held 10 AM on Thursday, September 17, 2009 at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
Friends may visit with the family on Wednesday, September 16, 2009 from 2-4 and 7-9 PM at the funeral home.
Interment will be in Laurel Grove Memorial Park, Totowa.
Lawrence Reinauer age 98 of Cedar Crest Village, Pompton Plains died Friday, September 11, 2009, peacefully with his family by his side.
He was born in Paterson having lived in Hawthorne, Clifton, Paterson, North Haledon and Toms River before moving to Cedar Crest Village six years ago.
Lawrence was self-employed in the petroleum transport business for over fifty years having been associated with the Reinauer Brothers Fuel Distribution Company, Hackensack before his retirement in 1973.
He was a member of the 1st Presbyterian Church, Elmwood Park, Manahawkin Baptist Church where he served as an usher and most recently the Hawthorne Gospel Church, Hawthorne, NJ. Although unable to attend church in recent years, you could always find him on Sunday mornings in front of the television watching all the church services all day long. He loved hearing the different services and the music.
He met the love of his life, Margaret MacGowan, through a mutual friend and they married on September 5, Lawrence’s birthday. They honeymooned as they traveled for one month across the United States with California being their destination. Up until recently he was able to recall the exact route they took. They enjoyed a loving marriage for seventy-one years before Margaret’s passing in November of 2007.
Lawrence was the youngest and last surviving of eight children. He was a very hard worker and loved spontaneous travel. He would always travel to a destination one way and take a different route on the way home. On one occasion he came home on Friday, gathered Margaret, three kids and grandma into the car and set off for Virginia Beach, VA. They arrived with no hotel reservations and there was no vacancy in the area. They wound up sleeping in the car and on the beach. He loved to swim and purchased a home at Ocean Beach III at the NJ Shore. The family has many fond memories of summers with the Barnegat Bay as their front yard. He loved sailing and taught his grandchildren how to sail his sailboat-The Mayflower. The grandchildren all learned to use the row boat/motor boat--Lulumay. Of course, Duke, our white boxer, went swimming in the bay with all the kids and also joined everyone in the boat. Another fond memory was Lawrence’s “ps” which stood for his desert…he loved his sweets.
He was the beloved husband of the late Margaret (nee MacGowan) Reinauer(2007); loving father of Iris Hascup of Totowa, Wayne Reinauer and his wife Nancy of Scottsdale, AZ and Bonnie Bornkamp of Marlboro; cherished grandfather of Darren and his wife Kelly Hascup, Lauren Dale and her husband Jim, Bradley Bornkamp and his wife Dawn, Todd, David and Timothy Reinauer; devoted great-grandfather of Jacqueline and Christopher Hascup, Cassia and Nicholas Bornkamp, Peter and Robert Dale and Samuel Reinauer; he was predeceased by two sisters and five brothers.
In lieu of flowers memorial donations to Food for the Hungry, 1224 E. Washington St., Phoenix, AZ 85034 or the Jacksonville Chapel, 264 Jacksonville Rd., Lincoln Park, NJ 07035 would be appreciated.
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