October 28, 2012

Margaret Cockett

Wayne

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due to the storm, visiting hours have been cancelled. The Funeral Services will be held at the funeral home, 11 AM on Friday, November 2. Burial will follow at the Laurel Grove Cemetery, Totowa.

Margaret Cockett (nee Van Allen), age 96 of Wayne and formerly of Hawthorne, NJ died peacefully in Oakland on Sunday, October 28, 2012.

Margaret was born in Paterson and graduated from East Side High School with the class of 1934. She married Richard Cockett on January 13, 1935 and they settled in Paterson where they lived until moving to Hawthorne in 1952. After fifty eight years of marriage, Richard passed in 1993 and Margaret then moved to Wayne, living in Brittany Chase.

Margaret is survived by her loving son; George Cockett and his wife Jean of Wayne, her four grandchildren; Nancy Reinke and her husband Gary of West Milford, Barbara Stienstra and her husband Peter of Bloomingdale, Beth Burt and her husband Michael of Oakland, and Lynn Cockett of Huntingdon, PA, six great-grandchildren; Ryan, David and Anna Stienstra, Jenna and Steven Burt, and Hannah White, and one nephew; Robert Davis of Ringwood. She was predeceased by her husband Richard in 1993, her sister Ethel Davis of Delray Beach, FL in 2005, and one nephew Paul Davis in 2007.

Donations in Margaret’s memory to the Hawthorne Gospel Church, 2000 Route 208, Hawthorne, NJ 07506 would be greatly appreciated.

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due to the storm, visiting hours have been cancelled. The Funeral Services will be held at the funeral home, 11 AM on Friday, November 2. Burial will follow at the Laurel Grove Cemetery, Totowa.

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