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January 25, 2008
Services
Memorial visiting hours will be held Tuesday, January 29, 2008 from 2PM – 3:30 PM at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne. A memorial funeral service will be held 3:30 PM on Tuesday immediately following the visitation.
Marcia S. "Markie" Sills (nee Smith) age 85, of Wayne, died on Friday, January 25, 2008 at the Sunrise Assisted Living, Wayne.
She was born and raised in Corning, NY having lived in Charleston, S.C. and Baltimore, MD before moving to Wayne fifty-eight years ago.
She graduated from Corning High School in 1939, and received an associates degree in Art and Drafting from Southern Virginia Technical College in Petersburg, Virginia, class of 1941.
Mrs. Sills was an active member of the Totowa Methodist Church and more recently the United Methodist Church of Wayne.
Markie was a devoted member of almost fifty years, and former officer, of the Wayne Historical Commission, giving slide lectures about the history of Wayne and helping to preserve some of its oldest houses. In 2003 the Mayor and Township Council recognized her 47 years of devoted service to the commission by granting her the title of "Historical Commissioner Emeritus" of Wayne Township. Markie worked part-time for the Herald News as a proofreader and also volunteered her time for many years with the Wayne chapter of the Red Cross.
She was the beloved wife of forty-three years to the late Kenneth George Sills(1985); loving mother of Lauren Champion and her husband Earl of Vineland, Lee Sills Turner of Princeton and Amanda Hinchman and her husband Douglas of Bend, OR; cherished grandmother of Scott Hepner, Ami Coia, Autumn Bryant, Benjamin Valle, David and Carl Hinchman; much loved great-grandmother of Henry III and Katrina Coia.
In lieu of flowers memorial donations may be made to Wayne Township Historical Commission, 533 Berden Avenue, Wayne, NJ 07470.
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Memorial visiting hours will be held Tuesday, January 29, 2008 from 2PM – 3:30 PM at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne. A memorial funeral service will be held 3:30 PM on Tuesday immediately following the visitation.
January 25, 2008
Services
Memorial visiting hours will be held Tuesday, January 29, 2008 from 2PM – 3:30 PM at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne. A memorial funeral service will be held 3:30 PM on Tuesday immediately following the visitation.
Marcia S. "Markie" Sills (nee Smith) age 85, of Wayne, died on Friday, January 25, 2008 at the Sunrise Assisted Living, Wayne.
She was born and raised in Corning, NY having lived in Charleston, S.C. and Baltimore, MD before moving to Wayne fifty-eight years ago.
She graduated from Corning High School in 1939, and received an associates degree in Art and Drafting from Southern Virginia Technical College in Petersburg, Virginia, class of 1941.
Mrs. Sills was an active member of the Totowa Methodist Church and more recently the United Methodist Church of Wayne.
Markie was a devoted member of almost fifty years, and former officer, of the Wayne Historical Commission, giving slide lectures about the history of Wayne and helping to preserve some of its oldest houses. In 2003 the Mayor and Township Council recognized her 47 years of devoted service to the commission by granting her the title of "Historical Commissioner Emeritus" of Wayne Township. Markie worked part-time for the Herald News as a proofreader and also volunteered her time for many years with the Wayne chapter of the Red Cross.
She was the beloved wife of forty-three years to the late Kenneth George Sills(1985); loving mother of Lauren Champion and her husband Earl of Vineland, Lee Sills Turner of Princeton and Amanda Hinchman and her husband Douglas of Bend, OR; cherished grandmother of Scott Hepner, Ami Coia, Autumn Bryant, Benjamin Valle, David and Carl Hinchman; much loved great-grandmother of Henry III and Katrina Coia.
In lieu of flowers memorial donations may be made to Wayne Township Historical Commission, 533 Berden Avenue, Wayne, NJ 07470.
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