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February 7, 2017
Services
Friends may visit with the family on Friday, February 10, 2017 from 4-8 PM at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
Funeral services will be held at 8:30 AM on Saturday, February 11, 2017 from the funeral home then to Our Lady of the Valley RC Church, 630 Valley Road, Wayne where a 9:30 AM Mass will be offered.
Madeline, G., age 82, of Wayne, passed away on Tuesday, February 7, 2017.
Madeline was born and raised in Paterson. Already as a young girl, she knew that someday she wanted to be a school teacher. After graduation from Eastside High School Madeline pursued her dream, first earning her Bachelor of Science degree from William Paterson Teachers College, and then her Master’s degree from Columbia University. She went on to enjoy a fulfilling career, having a positive influence on the lives of many students as a special education teacher with the Wayne Board of Education. She instituted the special education program at John F. Kennedy Elementary School and mostly also taught at Pines Lake Elementary and Lafayette Elementary School during her thirty-one years of service until retiring in 1994. Even after retirement, Madeline returned often as a dedicated volunteer tutor.
Public service was an integral part of Madeline’s very being. She greatly enjoyed serving others, using her gifts as a volunteer with the Wayne WINS Nutrition Center and with the Friends of Wayne Library where she’d frequently donate some hours to help sort the many books which were donated to the library.
Madeline enjoyed extensive travel throughout the United States. She and two friends and her sister Nancy especially liked to visit national parks including Great Sand Dunes Park in Colorado, Wyoming’s Yellowstone National Park, Yosemite National Park in California, and Grand Canyon National Park in Arizona. There were also several river boat trips up and down the Mississippi River that were especially enjoyable. Madeline was the best aunt that anyone could ever wish for. She loved being Aunt Madeline to her nieces and nephews and was known to spoil them a bit. They all will cherish great memories of how she would take them on adventurous vacations to such destinations as Hershey Park in Pennsylvania, and the Thousand Islands and Niagara Falls straddling the New York and Canadian international border– all her nieces one year and all her nephews the next.
In 1979 and again in 1984, Madeline was afflicted with a benign tumor on her ocular nerve which left her blinded in one eye. While it was no-doubt a trial in her life, she took it in stride holding close to her faith, always trusting that God would see her through anything that she had to face in life. Her faith was nourished for over forty years as a parishioner of Holy Cross Church in the Mountain View section of Wayne and she prayed the rosary faithfully every day to help keep her focus on God. Her faith has now become sight, again in both eyes, as she rests in the arms of her loving savior, Jesus Christ.
Madeline is survived by dear brother George and wife Sandra Holterhoff of Manahawkin, NJ; dear sister Nancy and husband Fred Meenen of Englewood, FL; six much-loved nieces and nephews: Karen Pagliaro, Cheryl Albanese, George Holterhoff, Dr. Beth Ann Haynes, David Meenen, and Loren Barrows; and numerous great-nieces and nephews and great-great nieces and nephews.
In lieu of flowers, those planning an expression of sympathy in Madeline’s name are asked to consider St. Joseph’s School for the Blind, 761 Summit Avenue, Jersey City, NJ 07307-3831 (schoolfortheblind.org).
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Friends may visit with the family on Friday, February 10, 2017 from 4-8 PM at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
Funeral services will be held at 8:30 AM on Saturday, February 11, 2017 from the funeral home then to Our Lady of the Valley RC Church, 630 Valley Road, Wayne where a 9:30 AM Mass will be offered.
February 7, 2017
Services
Friends may visit with the family on Friday, February 10, 2017 from 4-8 PM at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
Funeral services will be held at 8:30 AM on Saturday, February 11, 2017 from the funeral home then to Our Lady of the Valley RC Church, 630 Valley Road, Wayne where a 9:30 AM Mass will be offered.
Madeline, G., age 82, of Wayne, passed away on Tuesday, February 7, 2017.
Madeline was born and raised in Paterson. Already as a young girl, she knew that someday she wanted to be a school teacher. After graduation from Eastside High School Madeline pursued her dream, first earning her Bachelor of Science degree from William Paterson Teachers College, and then her Master’s degree from Columbia University. She went on to enjoy a fulfilling career, having a positive influence on the lives of many students as a special education teacher with the Wayne Board of Education. She instituted the special education program at John F. Kennedy Elementary School and mostly also taught at Pines Lake Elementary and Lafayette Elementary School during her thirty-one years of service until retiring in 1994. Even after retirement, Madeline returned often as a dedicated volunteer tutor.
Public service was an integral part of Madeline’s very being. She greatly enjoyed serving others, using her gifts as a volunteer with the Wayne WINS Nutrition Center and with the Friends of Wayne Library where she’d frequently donate some hours to help sort the many books which were donated to the library.
Madeline enjoyed extensive travel throughout the United States. She and two friends and her sister Nancy especially liked to visit national parks including Great Sand Dunes Park in Colorado, Wyoming’s Yellowstone National Park, Yosemite National Park in California, and Grand Canyon National Park in Arizona. There were also several river boat trips up and down the Mississippi River that were especially enjoyable. Madeline was the best aunt that anyone could ever wish for. She loved being Aunt Madeline to her nieces and nephews and was known to spoil them a bit. They all will cherish great memories of how she would take them on adventurous vacations to such destinations as Hershey Park in Pennsylvania, and the Thousand Islands and Niagara Falls straddling the New York and Canadian international border– all her nieces one year and all her nephews the next.
In 1979 and again in 1984, Madeline was afflicted with a benign tumor on her ocular nerve which left her blinded in one eye. While it was no-doubt a trial in her life, she took it in stride holding close to her faith, always trusting that God would see her through anything that she had to face in life. Her faith was nourished for over forty years as a parishioner of Holy Cross Church in the Mountain View section of Wayne and she prayed the rosary faithfully every day to help keep her focus on God. Her faith has now become sight, again in both eyes, as she rests in the arms of her loving savior, Jesus Christ.
Madeline is survived by dear brother George and wife Sandra Holterhoff of Manahawkin, NJ; dear sister Nancy and husband Fred Meenen of Englewood, FL; six much-loved nieces and nephews: Karen Pagliaro, Cheryl Albanese, George Holterhoff, Dr. Beth Ann Haynes, David Meenen, and Loren Barrows; and numerous great-nieces and nephews and great-great nieces and nephews.
In lieu of flowers, those planning an expression of sympathy in Madeline’s name are asked to consider St. Joseph’s School for the Blind, 761 Summit Avenue, Jersey City, NJ 07307-3831 (schoolfortheblind.org).
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