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January 24, 2011
Services
Friends may visit with the family at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne, on Thursday, January 27, 2011 from 2-4 & 7-9 PM.
Funeral Services will be held at 9 AM on Friday from the funeral home, then to Our Lady of Consolation RC Church where at 10 AM a Funeral Mass will be offered. Burial will follow at Christ the King Cemetery, Franklin Lakes.
Margaret A. Martin, age 89 of Wayne, died on Monday, January 24, 2011 at home with her loving children at her bedside. She had been receiving the best care possible from Adriana Chala, her live-in nurse, who kindly made Margaret’s last few years comfortable and dignified. Marge had been a Wayne resident, living in Lion’s Head Lake, for more than fifty years.
Margaret enjoyed a career with AFIA Insurance in Wayne from 1977 to 1985.
Marge was born in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn and graduated from high school there. She took a job working in the Pentagon, Washington, DC, and was one of the very first employees in the newly built facility. As a young, single woman living so far from home, her mother insisted she return to Brooklyn each weekend, for her own safety, of course. Fortunately for Marge, she met her husband on one of those weekends home to Brooklyn. They were at a local Irish dance and Frank was home on leave from the War. They married in 1943 and moved to Elmhurst, Queens for a few years before building their home in Wayne in 1960. They enjoyed sixty five years of marriage together before Frank’s passing in 2008.
Marge was a devoted parishioner of Our Lady of Consolation RC Church in Wayne and was active in the founding and establishment of the church back in the 1960’s. She attended some of the earliest Masses, which were held in the basement of Father Wolsin’s home in Wayne. She and her husband Frank put their heart and soul into the church and proudly raised their children in the Catholic faith. Her faith and her family were the foundations of her life.
Marge was very proud of her Irish Heritage. Her parents were both from County Mayo and Marge visited Ireland on two occasions. She was a good Irish cook and made the best soda bread, pot roast, and always enjoyed a hot cup of tea. She was a prolific reader of fiction and romance novels. She kept up on world events by reading the Daily News and The Beacon.
Marge was simply a lovely lady who never took herself too seriously and was grateful for all that she had. She was a great conversationalist with a quick wit that would often surprise you, and she’d always speak her mind without passing judgment. You always knew where you stood with Marge.
Margaret is survived by her four loving children; Bill and his wife Janet of Franklin Lakes, Eileen and her husband Bob of Wayne, Gerald and his wife Deborah of West Caldwell, and Jack and his wife Debbie of Wayne. Ten grandchildren; Brian Martin and his wife Tara of Wayne, Suzanne Ward and her husband Sean of Franklin Lakes, Michelle Joyce of Riverdale, Kevin Joyce and his wife Melissa of Bayonne, Laura Rumana and her husband Scott of Wayne, Alyson and Nicholas Martin of Wharton, and Daniel, Rachel, and Grace Martin of Wayne, three great-grandchildren; Brendan, Max and Thomas, her dear brother-in-law Edward Martin of Fort Lauderdale, and many nieces and nephews. She is pre-deceased by her beloved husband; Frank, one brother; John Mulqueen of Washington, DC, and one sister; Agnes Hickey of Massapequa, NY.
Donations in Margaret’s memory to The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research,ATTN: Tribute Gifts, Church Street Station, P.O. Box 780, New York, NY 10008-0780, would be greatly appreciated.
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Friends may visit with the family at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne, on Thursday, January 27, 2011 from 2-4 & 7-9 PM.
Funeral Services will be held at 9 AM on Friday from the funeral home, then to Our Lady of Consolation RC Church where at 10 AM a Funeral Mass will be offered. Burial will follow at Christ the King Cemetery, Franklin Lakes.
January 24, 2011
Services
Friends may visit with the family at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne, on Thursday, January 27, 2011 from 2-4 & 7-9 PM.
Funeral Services will be held at 9 AM on Friday from the funeral home, then to Our Lady of Consolation RC Church where at 10 AM a Funeral Mass will be offered. Burial will follow at Christ the King Cemetery, Franklin Lakes.
Margaret A. Martin, age 89 of Wayne, died on Monday, January 24, 2011 at home with her loving children at her bedside. She had been receiving the best care possible from Adriana Chala, her live-in nurse, who kindly made Margaret’s last few years comfortable and dignified. Marge had been a Wayne resident, living in Lion’s Head Lake, for more than fifty years.
Margaret enjoyed a career with AFIA Insurance in Wayne from 1977 to 1985.
Marge was born in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn and graduated from high school there. She took a job working in the Pentagon, Washington, DC, and was one of the very first employees in the newly built facility. As a young, single woman living so far from home, her mother insisted she return to Brooklyn each weekend, for her own safety, of course. Fortunately for Marge, she met her husband on one of those weekends home to Brooklyn. They were at a local Irish dance and Frank was home on leave from the War. They married in 1943 and moved to Elmhurst, Queens for a few years before building their home in Wayne in 1960. They enjoyed sixty five years of marriage together before Frank’s passing in 2008.
Marge was a devoted parishioner of Our Lady of Consolation RC Church in Wayne and was active in the founding and establishment of the church back in the 1960’s. She attended some of the earliest Masses, which were held in the basement of Father Wolsin’s home in Wayne. She and her husband Frank put their heart and soul into the church and proudly raised their children in the Catholic faith. Her faith and her family were the foundations of her life.
Marge was very proud of her Irish Heritage. Her parents were both from County Mayo and Marge visited Ireland on two occasions. She was a good Irish cook and made the best soda bread, pot roast, and always enjoyed a hot cup of tea. She was a prolific reader of fiction and romance novels. She kept up on world events by reading the Daily News and The Beacon.
Marge was simply a lovely lady who never took herself too seriously and was grateful for all that she had. She was a great conversationalist with a quick wit that would often surprise you, and she’d always speak her mind without passing judgment. You always knew where you stood with Marge.
Margaret is survived by her four loving children; Bill and his wife Janet of Franklin Lakes, Eileen and her husband Bob of Wayne, Gerald and his wife Deborah of West Caldwell, and Jack and his wife Debbie of Wayne. Ten grandchildren; Brian Martin and his wife Tara of Wayne, Suzanne Ward and her husband Sean of Franklin Lakes, Michelle Joyce of Riverdale, Kevin Joyce and his wife Melissa of Bayonne, Laura Rumana and her husband Scott of Wayne, Alyson and Nicholas Martin of Wharton, and Daniel, Rachel, and Grace Martin of Wayne, three great-grandchildren; Brendan, Max and Thomas, her dear brother-in-law Edward Martin of Fort Lauderdale, and many nieces and nephews. She is pre-deceased by her beloved husband; Frank, one brother; John Mulqueen of Washington, DC, and one sister; Agnes Hickey of Massapequa, NY.
Donations in Margaret’s memory to The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research,ATTN: Tribute Gifts, Church Street Station, P.O. Box 780, New York, NY 10008-0780, would be greatly appreciated.
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