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March 2, 2013
Services
Funeral services will be held at 11:00am on March 5, 2013 at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne, N.J.
Visitation will be at 10:00am – 11:00am on March 5, 2013.
Interment will be in Fair Lawn Cemetery in Fair Lawn N.J.
Margaret Bannworth Ackershoek, age 87, of Wayne, N.J. died at the Memory Care Facility at Cedar Crest in Pompton Plains, N.J.
She was born in Paterson and lived in Fair Lawn and Wayne before moving to Cedar Crest in 2009.
Margaret was a student at Eastside High School in Paterson and with a concentrated area in secretarial skills. She graduated with Honors in 1943.
After graduation, Margaret was employed by N.J. Bell Telephone Company as a service representative.
April 6, 1946 Margaret married Edward Ackershoek, who was recently discharged from the U.S. Army after two and a half years’ service to his country. They began their life together in a small apartment in Fair Lawn.
Margaret continued to work for the phone company until her first child was born. Daughter Margaret was followed by the birth of Lynn three years later and son Edward arrived four years after that. After Lynn’s birth, the family moved to Wayne.
While Margaret and her husband raised their family, she began working at International Veiling Company as a bookkeeper. Mrs. Ackershoek worked with this company until her retirement in 1992.
Margaret and Edward were married for 57 years. They enjoyed traveling throughout the country and vacationing each summer at the Jersey Shore.
Mrs. Ackershoek was an avid reader and a very talented crafter. She created beautiful quilts and pillows. Knitting was her real passion, making afghans, baby blankets and sweaters for many people.
She was a member of the Sixth Reformed Church in North Haledon.
Surviving are daughters Margaret Ackershoek Hook and her husband Greg of Cincinnati, Ohio; Lynn Ackershoek Flanagan and her husband Brian of Hebron, New York. One son, Edward D. Ackershoek and his wife Patrice of Butler, N.J. Also surviving are six grandchildren, Rachel and Sara Hook, Brian and Ian Flanagan, Brittany and Matthew Ackershoek.
Her husband, Edward and her brother, Charles Bannworth, predeceased Margaret.
In lieu of flowers, memorial donations in Margaret’s memory can be made to the Ocean Grove Camp Meeting Association, 54 Pitman Avenue P.O. Box 248, Ocean Grove, N.J. 07756, would be greatly appreciated.
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Funeral services will be held at 11:00am on March 5, 2013 at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne, N.J.
Visitation will be at 10:00am – 11:00am on March 5, 2013.
Interment will be in Fair Lawn Cemetery in Fair Lawn N.J.
March 2, 2013
Services
Funeral services will be held at 11:00am on March 5, 2013 at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne, N.J.
Visitation will be at 10:00am – 11:00am on March 5, 2013.
Interment will be in Fair Lawn Cemetery in Fair Lawn N.J.
Margaret Bannworth Ackershoek, age 87, of Wayne, N.J. died at the Memory Care Facility at Cedar Crest in Pompton Plains, N.J.
She was born in Paterson and lived in Fair Lawn and Wayne before moving to Cedar Crest in 2009.
Margaret was a student at Eastside High School in Paterson and with a concentrated area in secretarial skills. She graduated with Honors in 1943.
After graduation, Margaret was employed by N.J. Bell Telephone Company as a service representative.
April 6, 1946 Margaret married Edward Ackershoek, who was recently discharged from the U.S. Army after two and a half years’ service to his country. They began their life together in a small apartment in Fair Lawn.
Margaret continued to work for the phone company until her first child was born. Daughter Margaret was followed by the birth of Lynn three years later and son Edward arrived four years after that. After Lynn’s birth, the family moved to Wayne.
While Margaret and her husband raised their family, she began working at International Veiling Company as a bookkeeper. Mrs. Ackershoek worked with this company until her retirement in 1992.
Margaret and Edward were married for 57 years. They enjoyed traveling throughout the country and vacationing each summer at the Jersey Shore.
Mrs. Ackershoek was an avid reader and a very talented crafter. She created beautiful quilts and pillows. Knitting was her real passion, making afghans, baby blankets and sweaters for many people.
She was a member of the Sixth Reformed Church in North Haledon.
Surviving are daughters Margaret Ackershoek Hook and her husband Greg of Cincinnati, Ohio; Lynn Ackershoek Flanagan and her husband Brian of Hebron, New York. One son, Edward D. Ackershoek and his wife Patrice of Butler, N.J. Also surviving are six grandchildren, Rachel and Sara Hook, Brian and Ian Flanagan, Brittany and Matthew Ackershoek.
Her husband, Edward and her brother, Charles Bannworth, predeceased Margaret.
In lieu of flowers, memorial donations in Margaret’s memory can be made to the Ocean Grove Camp Meeting Association, 54 Pitman Avenue P.O. Box 248, Ocean Grove, N.J. 07756, would be greatly appreciated.
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