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September 11, 2011
Services
Friends may visit with the family on Tuesday, September 20, 2011 from 11 AM – 12 Noon at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
A 12 noon funeral service will be held just following the visiting hours on Tuesday.
Lillian Villee (nee Longson) age 94 of the Packanack Lake Section of Wayne died peacefully on Sunday, September 11, 2011.
She was born in Upper Gornal, England in 1917 and her family moved to the United States in 1919 having settled in Hawthorne, New Jersey as her aunt owned several homes there. Lillian was raised in Hawthorne and graduated with the Class of 1935, the first graduating class, from Hawthorne High School.
Just out of high school Lillian got a job with the Internal Revenue Service assisting people with filing their taxes. While on a lunch break and sitting outside reading a book, a Mr. Richard Villee, from upstairs in her building, took the book out of her hands and said “you have to talk to me today”. They soon fell in love and married on June 6, 1940 at the Presbyterian Church in Hawthorne and honeymooned in the Smokey Mountains of West Virginia. Richard was soon called into the military during WWII and Lillian moved back and forth between her parents and Richard’s parents homes. In 1945 Richard was discharged from the US Navy and the young couple soon moved to Wayne, NJ and started their family.
Lillian left her job at the Internal Revenue Service and had her first son Richard “Rick” and soon thereafter she had a daughter Valerie. After her children were in high school she got a job with the NJ Bell Telephone Company in the accounts receivable department. After a few years she went to work for the Standard Metal Corporation on Route 23 in Wayne before formally retiring.
Lillian was very active in her community. She was a member of the Packanack Community Church, the Packanack Golf Club where she golfed with a group of ladies known as the “fun bunch”, and was a member of the Ladies Auxiliary of the Packanack Lake Fire Company #5.
Lillian was the loving and devoted wife of fifty-four years to the late Richard Villee(1994); loving mother of Richard “Rick” Villee of Wayne, and Valerie Carlin and her husband Ray of Fresno, TX; cherished grandmother of Bryan Villee, Chris and Tracy Carlin; loved sister of the late Ethel Schwamm (2002).
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Friends may visit with the family on Tuesday, September 20, 2011 from 11 AM – 12 Noon at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
A 12 noon funeral service will be held just following the visiting hours on Tuesday.
September 11, 2011
Services
Friends may visit with the family on Tuesday, September 20, 2011 from 11 AM – 12 Noon at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
A 12 noon funeral service will be held just following the visiting hours on Tuesday.
Lillian Villee (nee Longson) age 94 of the Packanack Lake Section of Wayne died peacefully on Sunday, September 11, 2011.
She was born in Upper Gornal, England in 1917 and her family moved to the United States in 1919 having settled in Hawthorne, New Jersey as her aunt owned several homes there. Lillian was raised in Hawthorne and graduated with the Class of 1935, the first graduating class, from Hawthorne High School.
Just out of high school Lillian got a job with the Internal Revenue Service assisting people with filing their taxes. While on a lunch break and sitting outside reading a book, a Mr. Richard Villee, from upstairs in her building, took the book out of her hands and said “you have to talk to me today”. They soon fell in love and married on June 6, 1940 at the Presbyterian Church in Hawthorne and honeymooned in the Smokey Mountains of West Virginia. Richard was soon called into the military during WWII and Lillian moved back and forth between her parents and Richard’s parents homes. In 1945 Richard was discharged from the US Navy and the young couple soon moved to Wayne, NJ and started their family.
Lillian left her job at the Internal Revenue Service and had her first son Richard “Rick” and soon thereafter she had a daughter Valerie. After her children were in high school she got a job with the NJ Bell Telephone Company in the accounts receivable department. After a few years she went to work for the Standard Metal Corporation on Route 23 in Wayne before formally retiring.
Lillian was very active in her community. She was a member of the Packanack Community Church, the Packanack Golf Club where she golfed with a group of ladies known as the “fun bunch”, and was a member of the Ladies Auxiliary of the Packanack Lake Fire Company #5.
Lillian was the loving and devoted wife of fifty-four years to the late Richard Villee(1994); loving mother of Richard “Rick” Villee of Wayne, and Valerie Carlin and her husband Ray of Fresno, TX; cherished grandmother of Bryan Villee, Chris and Tracy Carlin; loved sister of the late Ethel Schwamm (2002).
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