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Friends may visit with the family at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne, on Sunday, February 8, 2015 from 2-6 PM.
Private funeral services will be held 10 AM on Monday, February 8, 2015 at the funeral home. Interment will follow at Laurel Grove Cemetery, Totowa.
Madeline L. Kelly “Madge”, age 89 of Lakewood and formerly of Wayne, died peacefully on Thursday, February 5, 2015.
Madge was born in Midland Park. During her childhood she lived in Passaic and Paterson where she attended Central High School. At age seventeen she began a long career as a linotype operator on the giant printing machines at the Paterson Evening News. It was 1943. With newspapers being the average person’s medium for receiving all the news of the day, Madge always knew she had job security. In fact, she worked all of her career with the Paterson Evening News, a total of 43 years, until retiring in 1987 at the age of sixty-one.
Madge met her beloved husband John “Jack” Kelly while out with friends at the local park. They were married on Saturday, June 28, 1947 and enjoyed a loving marriage that spanned almost 60 years. As newlyweds, they initially settled down in Clifton and lived there until 1955. That year they moved into a new home that they built in Wayne on MacDonald Drive. Madge was just tough enough during the home construction phase to build rock walls at the house and to help her husband Jack work the other side of a two-man saw, while pregnant! That house became home for thirty-three years and proved to be a wonderful place for Madge to raise her three daughters. In 1988 with the girls all grown up, she and Jack moved to Boynton Beach, FL. They enjoyed the Florida sun for 17 years before moving back to NJ in October of 2005. Madge and Jack lived in Lakewood until Jack’s passing in April 2006. As much as Madge liked to cook she didn’t miss it when first moving there. In fact she got a great kick out of calling her daughter, three months after first arriving in Lakewood, to tell her that she just found the pots and pans – in the stove. Madge remained in Lakewood until Christmas, 2014
Speaking of Christmas, Madge loved that holiday! Her home was often the place of large family get-togethers of twenty or more people including her brothers and all her nieces and nephews. The house was always filled with the delicious aroma of Madge’s fresh-baked Christmas cookies including Dutch treats like spekulaas and krakelingen. When she lived in Florida, she often baked these same delicious cookies for the local neighborhood kids.
Madge had several hobbies, one being dancing which she and Jack shared a mutual love for. Her children remember that it was a somewhat regular practice for their parents to head out with friends on Friday or Saturday night to go dancing and, for many years, it was part of many a New Year’s Eve celebration too. Although she didn’t get to do it as much as she would have preferred, Madge also liked to travel. She and Jack took one great trip together to Alaska and she especially loved the Viking river boat cruise that she made to Holland with her daughters Shawn and Lynne and son-in-law Kent. When Madge moved to Leisure Park in Lakewood, she rediscovered an old hobby – bowling! She created a bowling team and recruited anyone who was willing to join. She also took great pride in her role as treasurer of the Leisure Park Residents Association and chairperson of their hospitality team. Madge was also such a proud grandmother. Her eyes lit up every time she had the opportunity to see her grandson Adam Matthew England, a Physician Assistant at a Philadelphia E.R.
Madge was a loving woman. She had a humble spirit and she always put everyone else’s happiness before her own needs and desires. In 1985, when her beloved Jack suffered a paralyzing stroke, Madge dedicated herself to being his nurturing care giver.
Madge is survived by her three loving daughters: Madeline “Lynne” Hollingsworth and husband Kent of Highland Lakes, Barbara Fitzmaurice and husband John of Toms River, and Shawn Kelly of Long Beach, CA; her adored grandson Adam Matthew England and wife Elizabeth of Philadelphia, PA; and her dear brother Jay Hanenberg of Delaware. She was predeceased by her beloved husband John J. “Jack” in 2006; her dear son Brian Kelly in 1955; and her brother William Hanenberg, Jr.
In lieu of flowers, those planning an expression of sympathy in Madge’s name are asked to consider Compassionate Care Hospice 350 Sparta Avenue, Building B, Suite 2, Sparta, NJ 07871.
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Friends may visit with the family at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne, on Sunday, February 8, 2015 from 2-6 PM.
Private funeral services will be held 10 AM on Monday, February 8, 2015 at the funeral home. Interment will follow at Laurel Grove Cemetery, Totowa.
Services
Friends may visit with the family at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne, on Sunday, February 8, 2015 from 2-6 PM.
Private funeral services will be held 10 AM on Monday, February 8, 2015 at the funeral home. Interment will follow at Laurel Grove Cemetery, Totowa.
Madeline L. Kelly “Madge”, age 89 of Lakewood and formerly of Wayne, died peacefully on Thursday, February 5, 2015.
Madge was born in Midland Park. During her childhood she lived in Passaic and Paterson where she attended Central High School. At age seventeen she began a long career as a linotype operator on the giant printing machines at the Paterson Evening News. It was 1943. With newspapers being the average person’s medium for receiving all the news of the day, Madge always knew she had job security. In fact, she worked all of her career with the Paterson Evening News, a total of 43 years, until retiring in 1987 at the age of sixty-one.
Madge met her beloved husband John “Jack” Kelly while out with friends at the local park. They were married on Saturday, June 28, 1947 and enjoyed a loving marriage that spanned almost 60 years. As newlyweds, they initially settled down in Clifton and lived there until 1955. That year they moved into a new home that they built in Wayne on MacDonald Drive. Madge was just tough enough during the home construction phase to build rock walls at the house and to help her husband Jack work the other side of a two-man saw, while pregnant! That house became home for thirty-three years and proved to be a wonderful place for Madge to raise her three daughters. In 1988 with the girls all grown up, she and Jack moved to Boynton Beach, FL. They enjoyed the Florida sun for 17 years before moving back to NJ in October of 2005. Madge and Jack lived in Lakewood until Jack’s passing in April 2006. As much as Madge liked to cook she didn’t miss it when first moving there. In fact she got a great kick out of calling her daughter, three months after first arriving in Lakewood, to tell her that she just found the pots and pans – in the stove. Madge remained in Lakewood until Christmas, 2014
Speaking of Christmas, Madge loved that holiday! Her home was often the place of large family get-togethers of twenty or more people including her brothers and all her nieces and nephews. The house was always filled with the delicious aroma of Madge’s fresh-baked Christmas cookies including Dutch treats like spekulaas and krakelingen. When she lived in Florida, she often baked these same delicious cookies for the local neighborhood kids.
Madge had several hobbies, one being dancing which she and Jack shared a mutual love for. Her children remember that it was a somewhat regular practice for their parents to head out with friends on Friday or Saturday night to go dancing and, for many years, it was part of many a New Year’s Eve celebration too. Although she didn’t get to do it as much as she would have preferred, Madge also liked to travel. She and Jack took one great trip together to Alaska and she especially loved the Viking river boat cruise that she made to Holland with her daughters Shawn and Lynne and son-in-law Kent. When Madge moved to Leisure Park in Lakewood, she rediscovered an old hobby – bowling! She created a bowling team and recruited anyone who was willing to join. She also took great pride in her role as treasurer of the Leisure Park Residents Association and chairperson of their hospitality team. Madge was also such a proud grandmother. Her eyes lit up every time she had the opportunity to see her grandson Adam Matthew England, a Physician Assistant at a Philadelphia E.R.
Madge was a loving woman. She had a humble spirit and she always put everyone else’s happiness before her own needs and desires. In 1985, when her beloved Jack suffered a paralyzing stroke, Madge dedicated herself to being his nurturing care giver.
Madge is survived by her three loving daughters: Madeline “Lynne” Hollingsworth and husband Kent of Highland Lakes, Barbara Fitzmaurice and husband John of Toms River, and Shawn Kelly of Long Beach, CA; her adored grandson Adam Matthew England and wife Elizabeth of Philadelphia, PA; and her dear brother Jay Hanenberg of Delaware. She was predeceased by her beloved husband John J. “Jack” in 2006; her dear son Brian Kelly in 1955; and her brother William Hanenberg, Jr.
In lieu of flowers, those planning an expression of sympathy in Madge’s name are asked to consider Compassionate Care Hospice 350 Sparta Avenue, Building B, Suite 2, Sparta, NJ 07871.
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