Marleen J. Fauerbach

Marleen J Fauerbach, age 79, of Wayne, passed peacefully on Wednesday, December 30, 2021.

She was born in Paterson to the late Frederick and Margaret Moore. The family lived in North Haledon and Marleen graduated from Hawthorne High School with the Class of 1959 where she was voted Class Flirt.  She continued her education at William Paterson University where she met the love of her life, William Henry Fauerbach.

Marleen was a member of the Wayne Presbyterian Church for over forty years.  Most recently she was involved with the Seniors Group but will always be remembered for the purses loaded with all kinds of essentials she made for women in crisis.

Marleen spied William (Bill) when he was crossing a street with some friends.  She promptly told her friends that the man over there was the guy she was going to marry.  They married on August 24, 1963 and Marleen, at 5’2”and 80 lbs. and Bill at 6’2” and 180 lbs., let there be no doubt she was the one in-charge for the next 50 years. They married at the Cedar Cliff Methodist Church in Haledon and honeymooned at Niagara Falls, New York. Marleen used to share a story about how Bill woke her up in the middle of the night and insisted she go sign their names to the fence outside. She complied and went outside to find the fence was actually a rope.  When she went back to the room and confronted Bill about this she realized that he had been talking in his sleep. That was just the start of their fifty wonderful years together which included many trips to New York City, polka dancing in Germantown on the East-side of Manhattan and always lots of fun.  They celebrated their Golden Anniversary in August of 2013 and Bill passed just seven months later on March 3, 2014.

She will be remembered for her loving and caring way, as well as her strong will and determination. She was devoted to her family and generous to a fault.  When one of her sons gave her the nickname “Stubby” she embraced it and even got vanity plates making her car the Stubby Mobile. She was a fantastic cook and her loving touch on Goulash, Pot Roast, and Holland Potato Salad will be greatly missed. For many years the family had a home in Ocean Beach III at the Jersey Shore where the family would spend entire summers together. She was a four time cancer survivor who beat breast cancer twice.  She transformed her knowledge and experience with cancer and would help others going through the difficulties of the disease.  She would spend hours on the phone speaking to people going through cancer treatment, some of whom she didn’t even know.  Her empathetic ear was a true comfort to many.

Marleen was predeceased by her loving husband of fifty years William Henry Fauerbach (2014); she was the devoted mother of Kurt Fauerbach and his wife Donna of Verona, Eric Fauerbach and his wife Alison of Roseland, Marc Fauerbach and his wife Darlene of Wayne, and Lauri Fauerbach-Adams and her husband Chris of Philadelphia, PA; she was the cherished grandmother of Billy, Cole, Faith, Angel, Zach, Connor, Emilie, and Zoe; she was also the loved sister of Frederick Moore, Jr. and his wife Sandy of Flemington.

In lieu of flowers memorial donations to Positive For Life Foundation positiveforlife.org or the Lustgarten Foundation lustgarten.org/donate/ would be greatly appreciated.