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February 24, 2011
Services
Friends may visit with the family from 2-4 and 7-9 PM on Tuesday, March 1, 2011at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
A funeral service will be held at 8 PM on Tuesday evening.
Marilyn Willa Smith (nee Waye) age 86 of Wayne died peacefully with the comfort of family by her side.
She was born and raised in Madison where she graduated from Madison High School with the Class of 1945. Marilyn married and moved to Verona before moving to Wayne in 1950.
Marilyn was very active in the Wayne area having belonged to the Golden Key Club of the VFW in Wayne, the Golden Age Circle of Wayne, and the Senior Center in Totowa. She also loved history and was active with the North Jersey Historical Society, Highlands Historical Group, Morris Canal project, and was a volunteer at Ringwood Manor for many years.
She met the love of her life, Art Smith, at the Florham Park Roller Rink. Marilyn worked as a telephone operator in Newark at the time and came out of her building to find Art standing next to his car waiting to take her home. They married at Our Lady of the Lake RC Church, Verona on July 1, 1946 and enjoyed sixty-four years of loving marriage until Art’s passing on December 19, 2010.
Marilyn was the loving wife of the late Art Smith(2010); loving mother of Art W. Smith, Jr. and his wife Caryn of Apopka, FL, Lynda Gauthier and her husband Ken of Snellville, GA, Barbara Suberati of Pompton Lakes, and Beverly Fuduli of Wayne; cherished grandmother of Art W. Smith, III, Brian Gauthier and his wife Victoria, Wesley Gauthier, Mark A. Suberati, Jr. and his wife Jill, Jason C. Suberati and his wife Gina, Heather Fuduli, and Robert F. Fuduli, Jr.; devoted great-grandmother of Gavin Gauthier.
In lieu of flowers memorial donations to Feline’s In Need, PO Box 2586, Wayne, NJ 07470 would be appreciated.
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Friends may visit with the family from 2-4 and 7-9 PM on Tuesday, March 1, 2011at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
A funeral service will be held at 8 PM on Tuesday evening.
February 24, 2011
Services
Friends may visit with the family from 2-4 and 7-9 PM on Tuesday, March 1, 2011at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
A funeral service will be held at 8 PM on Tuesday evening.
Marilyn Willa Smith (nee Waye) age 86 of Wayne died peacefully with the comfort of family by her side.
She was born and raised in Madison where she graduated from Madison High School with the Class of 1945. Marilyn married and moved to Verona before moving to Wayne in 1950.
Marilyn was very active in the Wayne area having belonged to the Golden Key Club of the VFW in Wayne, the Golden Age Circle of Wayne, and the Senior Center in Totowa. She also loved history and was active with the North Jersey Historical Society, Highlands Historical Group, Morris Canal project, and was a volunteer at Ringwood Manor for many years.
She met the love of her life, Art Smith, at the Florham Park Roller Rink. Marilyn worked as a telephone operator in Newark at the time and came out of her building to find Art standing next to his car waiting to take her home. They married at Our Lady of the Lake RC Church, Verona on July 1, 1946 and enjoyed sixty-four years of loving marriage until Art’s passing on December 19, 2010.
Marilyn was the loving wife of the late Art Smith(2010); loving mother of Art W. Smith, Jr. and his wife Caryn of Apopka, FL, Lynda Gauthier and her husband Ken of Snellville, GA, Barbara Suberati of Pompton Lakes, and Beverly Fuduli of Wayne; cherished grandmother of Art W. Smith, III, Brian Gauthier and his wife Victoria, Wesley Gauthier, Mark A. Suberati, Jr. and his wife Jill, Jason C. Suberati and his wife Gina, Heather Fuduli, and Robert F. Fuduli, Jr.; devoted great-grandmother of Gavin Gauthier.
In lieu of flowers memorial donations to Feline’s In Need, PO Box 2586, Wayne, NJ 07470 would be appreciated.
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