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May 28, 2008
Services
Funeral services will be held Saturday, May 31, 2008 at 10:15 AM from the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne then to Immaculate Heart of Mary RC Church, Wayne where a 10:30 AM Funeral Mass will be offered.
Friends may visit with the family at the funeral home on Saturday from 8:30 AM to 10:15 AM.
Mary Anna Knoch (nee Christoph) age 85 of Packanack Lake, Wayne, on Wednesday, May 28, 2008. Her passing was quiet and peaceful with her loving family at her bedside.
She was born in Brazil, while her parents were on a business trip, and lived in Maplewood during her childhood. She was the seventh of eight children.
Mary received her formal education first at Columbia High School in South Orange and then at The College of Saint Elizabeth in Convent Station where she received her Bachelor’s Degree and later her teaching credentials. She was a Home Economics teacher in the Wayne School System at George Washington Junior High School before her retirement in 1983.
Mary married Arthur P. Knoch in February of 1949, and they settled in the Packanack Lake section of Wayne in 1953. They were original members and active participants at Immaculate Heart of Mary RC Church and active members of the Packanack Lake Golf Club. Mary thoroughly enjoyed gardening and was an excellent cook who excelled in baking. Her specialties were Christmas cookies. Mary and Artie enjoyed traveling and they visited much of Europe including England, Ireland, Italy, Greece, Germany and Austria. They also saw much of the United States including a memorable trip to Alaska. They had fifty-six years of a “good and loving” marriage together until Artie’s passing in May of 2005.
Mary leaves her family with many fond memories of a very loving wife, mother, grandmother and great-grandmother.
Surviving are two daughters, Kathleen Mills and her husband Thomas of Oak Ridge and Theresa King and her husband Timothy of Morristown; six grandchildren, Brian Mills and his wife Robyn of Merritt Island, Florida, Steven Mills and his wife Kristen of Charlotte, North Carolina, Debbie Mills of Packanack Lake, Jennifer King of Madison, Lauren and Katie King of Morristown; and six great-grandchildren, Ellie, Carrie, Adam, Becca, Anna and Emily Mills.
Those planning an expression of sympathy in Mary’s memory are asked to consider Eva's Kitchen, 392 Main Street, Paterson, NJ 07505.
If you would like to send a private condolence directly to the family use this condolence section.
Funeral services will be held Saturday, May 31, 2008 at 10:15 AM from the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne then to Immaculate Heart of Mary RC Church, Wayne where a 10:30 AM Funeral Mass will be offered.
Friends may visit with the family at the funeral home on Saturday from 8:30 AM to 10:15 AM.
May 28, 2008
Services
Funeral services will be held Saturday, May 31, 2008 at 10:15 AM from the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne then to Immaculate Heart of Mary RC Church, Wayne where a 10:30 AM Funeral Mass will be offered.
Friends may visit with the family at the funeral home on Saturday from 8:30 AM to 10:15 AM.
Mary Anna Knoch (nee Christoph) age 85 of Packanack Lake, Wayne, on Wednesday, May 28, 2008. Her passing was quiet and peaceful with her loving family at her bedside.
She was born in Brazil, while her parents were on a business trip, and lived in Maplewood during her childhood. She was the seventh of eight children.
Mary received her formal education first at Columbia High School in South Orange and then at The College of Saint Elizabeth in Convent Station where she received her Bachelor’s Degree and later her teaching credentials. She was a Home Economics teacher in the Wayne School System at George Washington Junior High School before her retirement in 1983.
Mary married Arthur P. Knoch in February of 1949, and they settled in the Packanack Lake section of Wayne in 1953. They were original members and active participants at Immaculate Heart of Mary RC Church and active members of the Packanack Lake Golf Club. Mary thoroughly enjoyed gardening and was an excellent cook who excelled in baking. Her specialties were Christmas cookies. Mary and Artie enjoyed traveling and they visited much of Europe including England, Ireland, Italy, Greece, Germany and Austria. They also saw much of the United States including a memorable trip to Alaska. They had fifty-six years of a “good and loving” marriage together until Artie’s passing in May of 2005.
Mary leaves her family with many fond memories of a very loving wife, mother, grandmother and great-grandmother.
Surviving are two daughters, Kathleen Mills and her husband Thomas of Oak Ridge and Theresa King and her husband Timothy of Morristown; six grandchildren, Brian Mills and his wife Robyn of Merritt Island, Florida, Steven Mills and his wife Kristen of Charlotte, North Carolina, Debbie Mills of Packanack Lake, Jennifer King of Madison, Lauren and Katie King of Morristown; and six great-grandchildren, Ellie, Carrie, Adam, Becca, Anna and Emily Mills.
Those planning an expression of sympathy in Mary’s memory are asked to consider Eva's Kitchen, 392 Main Street, Paterson, NJ 07505.
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