Lillian E. Lougheed (nee Horchak), age 80 of Wayne, died peacefully at home on August 31, 2018.  She had lived in Wayne since 1964.

Lillian grew up in Passaic and graduated from Passaic High School with the class of 1956.  Shortly thereafter, she met Bob Lougheed on a blind date.  He took her to the Palisades Park that day, and they hit it off.  Bob soon proposed and they were married on July 9, 1960.  Four years later they moved to Wayne to raise their family.  Lillian began working as a teacher’s aid at the Theunis Dey elementary school and then as her children became older, she became a bank teller at the First National Bank in the Preakness Shopping Center.  This evolved into a lengthy banking career in which she rose to the rank of Manager.  Her employers included Wachovia Bank, Wells Fargo, and she even worked at the bank branch located within the American Cyanamid headquarters in Wayne.

Lillian’s interests were varied.  She loved bowling, and had became quite good at it.  She was in several leagues at the T-Bowl lanes throughout the years.  She loved reading murder mystery novels and watching British comedies on PBS.  Lillian’s dry sense of humor was right on par with those British shows.  She loved animals very much and typically had two cats and a dog in the house.  She even rescued a baby squirrel once, nursing it back to health and kept it as a house pet!  “Peanuts” was his name, and he would sit on Bob’s shoulder, eating from their hands.  Lillian was a huge baseball fan, devoted to the NY Mets right up until they committed an unforgivable sin by releasing Justin Turner.  This made her furious and she had no choice but to become a Dodgers fan the moment Justin Turner joined their roster.  She has followed him throughout his career and written to him on a few occasions.  Recently, Justin was kind enough to send her a personal video of encouragement which brought her immeasurable joy.  Knowing that he took time out of his busy schedule to do that for her meant so much, and she was very grateful to him.

Lillian was also a wonderful mother, always there for her kids.  She coached softball for years and was the score-keeper for all the PAL baseball games during the years her kids were involved.  More recently, she enjoyed traveling with her daughter and the two of them have had some great trips together.  Her children and grandchildren will all miss her dearly.

Lillian is survived by her three children; Wayne A. Lougheed of Wayne, Robert “Scott” Lougheed and his wife Deborah of Wayne, and Kathleen Mayer and her husband Joseph of Wayne, five grandchildren; Sean, Ryan, Christina, Nicole, and Scott, one sister; Joan Kelly of Passaic, and a brother; Andrew Dragwa of Toms River.  She was predeceased by her husband Robert in 2008, by her sister Rosie Fisher, and by her brother John Horchak.