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Services
Friends may visit with the family from 4-8 PM on Thursday, October 27, 2016 at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
Funeral services will be held at 9 AM on Friday, October 28, 2016 from the funeral home then to Our Lady of Consolation RC Church, 1799 Hamburg Tpk., Wayne where a 10 AM Funeral Mass will be offered.
Interment will be in Christ the King Cemetery, Franklin Lakes.
Leonard “Len” Boniface, age 82 of Wayne, passed peacefully at home surrounded with the comfort of his family, on Monday, October 24, 2016.
Len was born at St. Vincent’s Hospital in Montclair, NJ, the fifth of seven children of the late Peter and Ida Boniface (nee Ossi), immigrants from the Veneto region of northern Italy. He was raised at 105 Cedar Hill Avenue in Belleville and graduated from Bellville High School in 1952. While at Belleville High he rowed on the crew team, played football and boxed in the Golden Gloves amateur boxing league. After high school he worked as a union sheet metal worker and attended Newark College of Engineering.
Len was drafted into the US Army and served from 1957 through 1959.
After his service in the Army, Len worked for Harris Upham & Company in Newark and mastered the field of financial planning. He later worked as a financial advisor for Prudential Bache in Wayne and then moved to Merrill Lynch, also in Wayne. At Merrill Lynch he enjoyed a long career of over thirty five years, before retiring in the Spring of 2016.
Len was a member of the Wayne Rotary Club and also a long standing member of the YMHA in Wayne. He will be remembered for his extraordinary sense of humor, kind heart, sound advice, love of family, and many family memories from summers on Cape Cod.
Leonard Boniface met the love of his life, Margaret “Peggy” McAloney at a church dance. In 1957, Len was drafted into the U.S. Army and following his return, he and Peggy married on June 26, 1959 at St. Peters Church in Bellville. Following their honeymoon to Cape Cod, they settled in Verona where they remained until they started a family and moved to Wayne in 1961. They had a loving and devoted marriage of fifty-four years before Margaret’s passing in July of 2013.
Len was the loving husband of 54 years to the late Margaret “Peggy”(McAloney) (2013); devoted father of six children - David and his partner Christopher Ferrara of Kinnelon, Laura Pheloung Levy and her husband David of Essex Fells, John and his wife Kristina of Wayne, Diana Hatton and her husband Christopher of Mountain Lakes, Charles of Wayne and Leonard James, Jr. and his wife Jenessa of Kinnelon; Cherished grandfather of William, Brigette and Danielle Pheloung, Ryan, Meg and Owen Hatton, and Lennox and Lachlan Boniface. Dear brother of Louise Rafter of Walnut Creek, CA, Ernest (Margaret) Boniface of Wayne, Rudy (Mina) Boniface of Paris, France; Peter (Delores) Boniface of East Sandwich, MA; and Thomas (Sigrid) Boniface of Wayne. Len was predeceased by his sister Theresa McGuire in 2014.
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Friends may visit with the family from 4-8 PM on Thursday, October 27, 2016 at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
Funeral services will be held at 9 AM on Friday, October 28, 2016 from the funeral home then to Our Lady of Consolation RC Church, 1799 Hamburg Tpk., Wayne where a 10 AM Funeral Mass will be offered.
Interment will be in Christ the King Cemetery, Franklin Lakes.
Services
Friends may visit with the family from 4-8 PM on Thursday, October 27, 2016 at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
Funeral services will be held at 9 AM on Friday, October 28, 2016 from the funeral home then to Our Lady of Consolation RC Church, 1799 Hamburg Tpk., Wayne where a 10 AM Funeral Mass will be offered.
Interment will be in Christ the King Cemetery, Franklin Lakes.
Leonard “Len” Boniface, age 82 of Wayne, passed peacefully at home surrounded with the comfort of his family, on Monday, October 24, 2016.
Len was born at St. Vincent’s Hospital in Montclair, NJ, the fifth of seven children of the late Peter and Ida Boniface (nee Ossi), immigrants from the Veneto region of northern Italy. He was raised at 105 Cedar Hill Avenue in Belleville and graduated from Bellville High School in 1952. While at Belleville High he rowed on the crew team, played football and boxed in the Golden Gloves amateur boxing league. After high school he worked as a union sheet metal worker and attended Newark College of Engineering.
Len was drafted into the US Army and served from 1957 through 1959.
After his service in the Army, Len worked for Harris Upham & Company in Newark and mastered the field of financial planning. He later worked as a financial advisor for Prudential Bache in Wayne and then moved to Merrill Lynch, also in Wayne. At Merrill Lynch he enjoyed a long career of over thirty five years, before retiring in the Spring of 2016.
Len was a member of the Wayne Rotary Club and also a long standing member of the YMHA in Wayne. He will be remembered for his extraordinary sense of humor, kind heart, sound advice, love of family, and many family memories from summers on Cape Cod.
Leonard Boniface met the love of his life, Margaret “Peggy” McAloney at a church dance. In 1957, Len was drafted into the U.S. Army and following his return, he and Peggy married on June 26, 1959 at St. Peters Church in Bellville. Following their honeymoon to Cape Cod, they settled in Verona where they remained until they started a family and moved to Wayne in 1961. They had a loving and devoted marriage of fifty-four years before Margaret’s passing in July of 2013.
Len was the loving husband of 54 years to the late Margaret “Peggy”(McAloney) (2013); devoted father of six children - David and his partner Christopher Ferrara of Kinnelon, Laura Pheloung Levy and her husband David of Essex Fells, John and his wife Kristina of Wayne, Diana Hatton and her husband Christopher of Mountain Lakes, Charles of Wayne and Leonard James, Jr. and his wife Jenessa of Kinnelon; Cherished grandfather of William, Brigette and Danielle Pheloung, Ryan, Meg and Owen Hatton, and Lennox and Lachlan Boniface. Dear brother of Louise Rafter of Walnut Creek, CA, Ernest (Margaret) Boniface of Wayne, Rudy (Mina) Boniface of Paris, France; Peter (Delores) Boniface of East Sandwich, MA; and Thomas (Sigrid) Boniface of Wayne. Len was predeceased by his sister Theresa McGuire in 2014.
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