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Friends may visit with the family on Friday, October 23, 2015 from 6 – 8 PM and on Saturday, October 24, 2015 from 2-5 PM at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne. A memorial service will be held on Saturday evening at 4:30pm .
Lois Dath (nee Bader) age 83, a forty-two year resident of Pompton Lakes, passed peacefully on Friday, October 16, 2015.
She was born in Orange, NJ and raised at the family home on Elm Street in West Orange. She graduated from West Orange High School with the Class of 1950 and went on to receive a degree from the Berkley Business School in East Orange. She worked as a secretary on Maiden Lane in Manhattan and at the Mass Mutual Insurance Company in Newark . After raising her family she returned to work many years later after as an administrative assistant at the Union Camp Corporation in Wayne and later found work at the Midlantic Bank in West Paterson, a job she truly loved.
Lois met her future husband Warren Robert Alt at a square dance at the Hilltop Barn in Bloomfield NJ. He proposed to Lois at the Meadowbrook Dance Club in Cedar Grove. They were married in February 1953 at Holy Trinity Episcopal Church in West Orange and honeymooned in Atlantic City. Lois and Warren, following his US Navy enlistment, lived for a short while at Yorktown Virginia Naval Base. They eventually returned to New Jersey settling in Clifton. Warren was soon employed as a truck driver for the Flying A Company. He was killed in an accident on Route 1 in Woodbridge, New Jersey with his truck and died on October 31, 1961. Lois had three children ages 7, 5, and 6 months old at the time. She found love again and married Emile Dath Jr. on November 7, 1962 at the Methodist Church in Little Falls. They had a reception at the Friar Tuck Inn in Cedar Grove and honeymooned at the famed Mount Airy Lodge in Pennsylvania. Lois had a fourth child, Emile III (EJ) with Emile in 1964. The family Resided on Kirk St. in West Orange until the spring of 1973 when Lois and Emile moved their family to Pompton Lakes. Emile worked as a teacher in Paramus NJ and passed away in 1988 after twenty-six years of marriage.
A few years after, Lois met a lifetime companion, Mike Pagana of Wanaque. For almost 20 years Mike and Lois enjoyed travel , companionship and their large families of which both were integrally a part of.
Lois was a very social person who was easy to talk to and energetic. She enjoyed sewing, gardening, traveling and loved having family over for the holidays. She was a member of the Pompton Lakes Women’s Club for over twenty years and was an Honor Award recipient 2015. She was also a past vice-president and served as the head of the culinary arts committee of the club.
She was the loving wife of the late Warren Robert Alt (1961) and the late Emile Dath Jr. (1988); beloved mother of Janice Mae Sund and her husband Steven of Greensboro, N.C., Andrew R. Alt and his wife Deborah of Ramsey, Laura Alt and her husband Philip Lacher of Pompton Plains, and Emile Dath III and his wife Kara of Gilbert, AZ; cherished grandmother of Stephanie Vukovich and her husband John, Diana Doss and her husband Rob, Jenna Marden and her husband Allen, Joely Alt, Olivia Lacher, Benjamin Lacher, Kirk Dath, Jake Dath, Lexington Dath, Madeline Johnson and Gwendolyn Johnson; much loved great-grandmother of Nova Stairs, Calvin Stairs, Kellan Vukovich, and Kallie Vukovich; dear sister of Gladys Yates and her husband Ernest of Randolph, and Barbara Bonnet of Rockaway.
She was also the loving ‘Aunt Lois’ of Emile’s children from his first marriage, Joy Viera Dath, Linda Dath Heilig, and David Dath.
In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be sent to the Pompton Lakes Women’s Club Scholarship Fund . Please make checks payable to the “Pompton Lakes Women’s Club” and write “In Memory of Lois Dath” in the memo section of your check. Please mail to: Pompton Lakes Women’s Club, c/o Judi Pivirotto, 220 Riverdale Road, Pompton Lakes, NJ 07442.
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Friends may visit with the family on Friday, October 23, 2015 from 6 – 8 PM and on Saturday, October 24, 2015 from 2-5 PM at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne. A memorial service will be held on Saturday evening at 4:30pm .
Services
Friends may visit with the family on Friday, October 23, 2015 from 6 – 8 PM and on Saturday, October 24, 2015 from 2-5 PM at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne. A memorial service will be held on Saturday evening at 4:30pm .
Lois Dath (nee Bader) age 83, a forty-two year resident of Pompton Lakes, passed peacefully on Friday, October 16, 2015.
She was born in Orange, NJ and raised at the family home on Elm Street in West Orange. She graduated from West Orange High School with the Class of 1950 and went on to receive a degree from the Berkley Business School in East Orange. She worked as a secretary on Maiden Lane in Manhattan and at the Mass Mutual Insurance Company in Newark . After raising her family she returned to work many years later after as an administrative assistant at the Union Camp Corporation in Wayne and later found work at the Midlantic Bank in West Paterson, a job she truly loved.
Lois met her future husband Warren Robert Alt at a square dance at the Hilltop Barn in Bloomfield NJ. He proposed to Lois at the Meadowbrook Dance Club in Cedar Grove. They were married in February 1953 at Holy Trinity Episcopal Church in West Orange and honeymooned in Atlantic City. Lois and Warren, following his US Navy enlistment, lived for a short while at Yorktown Virginia Naval Base. They eventually returned to New Jersey settling in Clifton. Warren was soon employed as a truck driver for the Flying A Company. He was killed in an accident on Route 1 in Woodbridge, New Jersey with his truck and died on October 31, 1961. Lois had three children ages 7, 5, and 6 months old at the time. She found love again and married Emile Dath Jr. on November 7, 1962 at the Methodist Church in Little Falls. They had a reception at the Friar Tuck Inn in Cedar Grove and honeymooned at the famed Mount Airy Lodge in Pennsylvania. Lois had a fourth child, Emile III (EJ) with Emile in 1964. The family Resided on Kirk St. in West Orange until the spring of 1973 when Lois and Emile moved their family to Pompton Lakes. Emile worked as a teacher in Paramus NJ and passed away in 1988 after twenty-six years of marriage.
A few years after, Lois met a lifetime companion, Mike Pagana of Wanaque. For almost 20 years Mike and Lois enjoyed travel , companionship and their large families of which both were integrally a part of.
Lois was a very social person who was easy to talk to and energetic. She enjoyed sewing, gardening, traveling and loved having family over for the holidays. She was a member of the Pompton Lakes Women’s Club for over twenty years and was an Honor Award recipient 2015. She was also a past vice-president and served as the head of the culinary arts committee of the club.
She was the loving wife of the late Warren Robert Alt (1961) and the late Emile Dath Jr. (1988); beloved mother of Janice Mae Sund and her husband Steven of Greensboro, N.C., Andrew R. Alt and his wife Deborah of Ramsey, Laura Alt and her husband Philip Lacher of Pompton Plains, and Emile Dath III and his wife Kara of Gilbert, AZ; cherished grandmother of Stephanie Vukovich and her husband John, Diana Doss and her husband Rob, Jenna Marden and her husband Allen, Joely Alt, Olivia Lacher, Benjamin Lacher, Kirk Dath, Jake Dath, Lexington Dath, Madeline Johnson and Gwendolyn Johnson; much loved great-grandmother of Nova Stairs, Calvin Stairs, Kellan Vukovich, and Kallie Vukovich; dear sister of Gladys Yates and her husband Ernest of Randolph, and Barbara Bonnet of Rockaway.
She was also the loving ‘Aunt Lois’ of Emile’s children from his first marriage, Joy Viera Dath, Linda Dath Heilig, and David Dath.
In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be sent to the Pompton Lakes Women’s Club Scholarship Fund . Please make checks payable to the “Pompton Lakes Women’s Club” and write “In Memory of Lois Dath” in the memo section of your check. Please mail to: Pompton Lakes Women’s Club, c/o Judi Pivirotto, 220 Riverdale Road, Pompton Lakes, NJ 07442.
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