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October 10, 2010
Services
Funeral service will be Tuesday, October 12, 2010 at 1 PM at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne. Friends may visit at the funeral home Tuesday from 12 – 1 PM.
She will be laid to rest with her late husband Henry at the George Washington Memorial Park in Paramus.
Louise B. Kaulf (nee Bowen) age 86 of the Packanack Lake area of Wayne
passed away on Sunday, October 10, 2010 at Cedar Crest Village in Pompton Plains. Her passing was quiet and peaceful.
She was born in Scranton, Pennsylvania where she lived her early years through high school and then she moved to New York City. In those difficult economic days of the 1920’s and ‘30s there was much stress on the population to find work and to support themselves. It so happened that Louise went to the Scranton Technical High School and learned secretarial skills. She excelled at her schooling and became quite assured of her office abilities.
Louise was by nature an ambitious self starter that was gifted with a go for it drive. She simply wanted a better life and she put her best effort forward and moved in her late teens to New York City and applied for a job at Bloomingdale’s Department Store and worked there then changed jobs to work for Sinclair Oil Company and finally worked her way up to be an Executive Secretary at J.C. Penny Department Store. Her employers recognized her skills and abilities and promoted her to be an Executive Secretary.
This happened in the days when ladies were not often given jobs that required executive skills but she, with determination, took on many difficult challenges and excelled at her work. Her personality was characterized by a strong will, intense determined spirit coupled with persistence. As a result she was highly respected in her profession and in today’s terms broke the glass ceiling of females in the work place. As a result she enjoyed a good financial living.
She met and courted Henry Kaulf who was an administrator for the New York Transit Authority and in her 40’s they married and set up their home in Packanack Lake. As a couple they thoroughly enjoyed traveling especially on the many Caribbean cruises that they took together. They had a good and loving marriage for fifteen years until Henry’s sudden and unexpected passing in January 1978.
She was devoted to her Roman Catholic faith and was a parishioner of the Immaculate Heart of Mary Church in Wayne.
Louise had no children and would always have companion dogs and especially a cat. Her favorite and last cat “Maxi” predeceased her several years ago.
Being of a good and practical business like nature she sought a relative who could be of good help to her in her autumn years. She chose her nephew Richard Semian whom she put in charge of her affairs soon after her husband’s passing. She has experienced great comfort and satisfaction in Richard’s efforts on her behalf.
Surviving are her favorite nephew Richard Semian and his wife Laurie of Mertztown, Pennsylvania and several other nieces and nephews.
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Funeral service will be Tuesday, October 12, 2010 at 1 PM at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne. Friends may visit at the funeral home Tuesday from 12 – 1 PM.
She will be laid to rest with her late husband Henry at the George Washington Memorial Park in Paramus.
October 10, 2010
Services
Funeral service will be Tuesday, October 12, 2010 at 1 PM at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne. Friends may visit at the funeral home Tuesday from 12 – 1 PM.
She will be laid to rest with her late husband Henry at the George Washington Memorial Park in Paramus.
Louise B. Kaulf (nee Bowen) age 86 of the Packanack Lake area of Wayne
passed away on Sunday, October 10, 2010 at Cedar Crest Village in Pompton Plains. Her passing was quiet and peaceful.
She was born in Scranton, Pennsylvania where she lived her early years through high school and then she moved to New York City. In those difficult economic days of the 1920’s and ‘30s there was much stress on the population to find work and to support themselves. It so happened that Louise went to the Scranton Technical High School and learned secretarial skills. She excelled at her schooling and became quite assured of her office abilities.
Louise was by nature an ambitious self starter that was gifted with a go for it drive. She simply wanted a better life and she put her best effort forward and moved in her late teens to New York City and applied for a job at Bloomingdale’s Department Store and worked there then changed jobs to work for Sinclair Oil Company and finally worked her way up to be an Executive Secretary at J.C. Penny Department Store. Her employers recognized her skills and abilities and promoted her to be an Executive Secretary.
This happened in the days when ladies were not often given jobs that required executive skills but she, with determination, took on many difficult challenges and excelled at her work. Her personality was characterized by a strong will, intense determined spirit coupled with persistence. As a result she was highly respected in her profession and in today’s terms broke the glass ceiling of females in the work place. As a result she enjoyed a good financial living.
She met and courted Henry Kaulf who was an administrator for the New York Transit Authority and in her 40’s they married and set up their home in Packanack Lake. As a couple they thoroughly enjoyed traveling especially on the many Caribbean cruises that they took together. They had a good and loving marriage for fifteen years until Henry’s sudden and unexpected passing in January 1978.
She was devoted to her Roman Catholic faith and was a parishioner of the Immaculate Heart of Mary Church in Wayne.
Louise had no children and would always have companion dogs and especially a cat. Her favorite and last cat “Maxi” predeceased her several years ago.
Being of a good and practical business like nature she sought a relative who could be of good help to her in her autumn years. She chose her nephew Richard Semian whom she put in charge of her affairs soon after her husband’s passing. She has experienced great comfort and satisfaction in Richard’s efforts on her behalf.
Surviving are her favorite nephew Richard Semian and his wife Laurie of Mertztown, Pennsylvania and several other nieces and nephews.
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