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October 29, 2020
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Friends may visit with the family on Monday, November 2, 2020 from 12-1 PM at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne. A time for family to share memories will follow visitation and begin at 1 PM. Interment will follow at Cedar Lawn Cemetery, Paterson.
Lydia Hoitsma (nee Caroselli), 98, a longtime resident of Wayne, NJ, passed away on Thursday, October 29, 2020.
Born November 12, 1921 in Jersey City to Ernesto Caroselli and Marie (nee Egle), Lydia graduated from Henry Snyder High School in 1939 and worked for Bendix Aviation Corporation in Teterboro during WWII. After the war, she was a secretary at Diebold Inc. in New York City. She also worked for ten years in the credit department of Meyer Brothers Department Store in Wayne before retiring in 1984. Married in 1951, Lydia was a devoted wife and mother to her loving family.
Lydia was the beloved wife of Peter who passed away in 1998. She is survived by her two sons, Gary of Washington D.C. and Jeffrey and daughter-in-law Sharon of Pompton Plains, her daughter Christine and son-in-law William Kirk of York, PA; five grandchildren: Steven Hoitsma and wife Kyle, Justin Hoitsma, Doug Kirk and wife Kelsey, Michelle Kirk, and Michael Kirk; great-granddaughter Aubrey Hoitsma; and her brother Edwin Carrell of The Villages, FL. She is predeceased by her brothers Enrico (Rick) Carell and Julius Carell, and sisters Claudia Ascough and Eugenia (Jean) Murphy.
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Friends may visit with the family on Monday, November 2, 2020 from 12-1 PM at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne. A time for family to share memories will follow visitation and begin at 1 PM. Interment will follow at Cedar Lawn Cemetery, Paterson.
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