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Friends may visit with the family from 4-8 PM on Thursday, January 28, 2016 at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
Funeral services will be held 9:30 AM on Friday, January 29, 2016 from the funeral home then to Immaculate Heart of Mary RC Church, 580 Ratzer Road, Wayne where a 10:30 AM Funeral Mass will be offered.
Interment will be in the Van Liew Cemetery, 585 Georges Road, North Brunswick, NJ 08902.
Marie A. Novak (nee Dunn) age 94 of Wayne passed peacefully on Tuesday, January 26, 2016.
Marie was born in South River and lived in Newark, Bloomfield and Holiday City in Toms River before moving to Wayne eighteen years ago.
During her working years Marie was a crossing guard in Bloomfield, worked at the Hahnes and Bamburgers Department stores in Newark.
Marie met her husband to be Ernest Novak through her cousin Jimmy Farley. They married on February 29, 1944 in Fort Picket, Virginia just before Ernest was to ship out to Arizona, and then the Philippines, during WWII. They enjoyed over fifty years of a loving and devoted marriage.
She was a parishioner of Immaculate Heart of Mary RC Church, Wayne.
Marie was the loving wife of over fifty years to the late Ernest Novak (1996); devoted mother of Alan Novak and his wife Elizabeth of Piscataway, and Kim Rom and her husband Domenic of Wayne; cherished grandmother of Alexander Rom and his wife Megan, Gregory Rom, and Christopher Novak; much loved great-grandmother of Wyatt Rom; dear sister of Evelyn Bocchino of Montville; she was predeceased by her siblings: Ellen Murphy (John), Peter Dunn, James Dunn (surviving wife Dina), Muriel Black, and Rita Kirby; endeared sister-in-law of Rose Holdsworth of Lamoine, ME.
In lieu of flowers memorial donations to Passaic County Para Transit, 1310 Route 23 North, Wayne, NJ 07470 would be appreciated.
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Friends may visit with the family from 4-8 PM on Thursday, January 28, 2016 at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
Funeral services will be held 9:30 AM on Friday, January 29, 2016 from the funeral home then to Immaculate Heart of Mary RC Church, 580 Ratzer Road, Wayne where a 10:30 AM Funeral Mass will be offered.
Interment will be in the Van Liew Cemetery, 585 Georges Road, North Brunswick, NJ 08902.
Services
Friends may visit with the family from 4-8 PM on Thursday, January 28, 2016 at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
Funeral services will be held 9:30 AM on Friday, January 29, 2016 from the funeral home then to Immaculate Heart of Mary RC Church, 580 Ratzer Road, Wayne where a 10:30 AM Funeral Mass will be offered.
Interment will be in the Van Liew Cemetery, 585 Georges Road, North Brunswick, NJ 08902.
Marie A. Novak (nee Dunn) age 94 of Wayne passed peacefully on Tuesday, January 26, 2016.
Marie was born in South River and lived in Newark, Bloomfield and Holiday City in Toms River before moving to Wayne eighteen years ago.
During her working years Marie was a crossing guard in Bloomfield, worked at the Hahnes and Bamburgers Department stores in Newark.
Marie met her husband to be Ernest Novak through her cousin Jimmy Farley. They married on February 29, 1944 in Fort Picket, Virginia just before Ernest was to ship out to Arizona, and then the Philippines, during WWII. They enjoyed over fifty years of a loving and devoted marriage.
She was a parishioner of Immaculate Heart of Mary RC Church, Wayne.
Marie was the loving wife of over fifty years to the late Ernest Novak (1996); devoted mother of Alan Novak and his wife Elizabeth of Piscataway, and Kim Rom and her husband Domenic of Wayne; cherished grandmother of Alexander Rom and his wife Megan, Gregory Rom, and Christopher Novak; much loved great-grandmother of Wyatt Rom; dear sister of Evelyn Bocchino of Montville; she was predeceased by her siblings: Ellen Murphy (John), Peter Dunn, James Dunn (surviving wife Dina), Muriel Black, and Rita Kirby; endeared sister-in-law of Rose Holdsworth of Lamoine, ME.
In lieu of flowers memorial donations to Passaic County Para Transit, 1310 Route 23 North, Wayne, NJ 07470 would be appreciated.
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