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March 28, 2011
Services
Funeral services will be held Friday, April 1, 2011 at 1 PM at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
Friends may visit with the family at the funeral home on Friday from 11 - 1 PM. Interment will be in East Ridgelawn Cemetery in Clifton.
Mary Alice Brightman (nee DeGroot) age 87of Wayne died Monday, March 28, 2011 at the Chilton Memorial Hospital in Pompton Plains.
She was born in Paterson and had lived her formative years in Paterson later living in Lodi and Ringwood before moving to Wayne twenty two years ago.
Mary received her formal education at School No. 23 in Paterson which was located at Prince and Grand Street at that time.
She was a long time member of the Third Presbyterian Church of Paterson.
Mary met Daniel Brightman at the Paterson Skating Rink and about four months thereafter they married. Their marriage was a devoted and loving marriage until Dan was taken ill with a stroke at age forty-nine in July of 1983. He first expressed concern that he was experiencing a bad cold but developments proved otherwise and he passed away.
Mary was a person who truly enjoyed life and participated in roller skating, rock and roll music and dancing. Being the extrovert and friendly personality that she was she soon made many friends out of the lives she touched and counted many people as friends. One of her finest qualities of living was always helping others in their time of need. She also loved to travel and she recalled the fun she had with the Pompton Lakes Seniors when they went on a trip to Hawaii. She joined the late Ray Van Noort as his companion for over nineteen years as part of their time together they very much enjoyed travel to Puerto Rico and then two trips to Hawaii. Mary laughs with joy about her first trip to Hawaii which was her very first plane trip experience. The flight was over thirteen hours and she enjoyed it immensely.
At home she found personal solace and joy in reading, the history channel and the many television programs that featured animals.
Surviving are one daughter Lois Danny and her husband Frank Sr. of Lodi, and one son James Brightman and his wife Lee of Ringwood; two brothers George DeGroot of Franklin, Charles “Chuck” DeGroot and his wife Barbara of Paterson ; one sister Esther Salmanowitz of Paterson; six grandchildren Frank Danny Jr., Kevin and his wife Sharmaine Danny, Kim Murray and her husband Larry, Denise Davis, Derek and Jimmy Brightman; three Great Grandchildren including Devone, Danielle and Janelle.
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Funeral services will be held Friday, April 1, 2011 at 1 PM at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
Friends may visit with the family at the funeral home on Friday from 11 - 1 PM. Interment will be in East Ridgelawn Cemetery in Clifton.
March 28, 2011
Services
Funeral services will be held Friday, April 1, 2011 at 1 PM at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
Friends may visit with the family at the funeral home on Friday from 11 - 1 PM. Interment will be in East Ridgelawn Cemetery in Clifton.
Mary Alice Brightman (nee DeGroot) age 87of Wayne died Monday, March 28, 2011 at the Chilton Memorial Hospital in Pompton Plains.
She was born in Paterson and had lived her formative years in Paterson later living in Lodi and Ringwood before moving to Wayne twenty two years ago.
Mary received her formal education at School No. 23 in Paterson which was located at Prince and Grand Street at that time.
She was a long time member of the Third Presbyterian Church of Paterson.
Mary met Daniel Brightman at the Paterson Skating Rink and about four months thereafter they married. Their marriage was a devoted and loving marriage until Dan was taken ill with a stroke at age forty-nine in July of 1983. He first expressed concern that he was experiencing a bad cold but developments proved otherwise and he passed away.
Mary was a person who truly enjoyed life and participated in roller skating, rock and roll music and dancing. Being the extrovert and friendly personality that she was she soon made many friends out of the lives she touched and counted many people as friends. One of her finest qualities of living was always helping others in their time of need. She also loved to travel and she recalled the fun she had with the Pompton Lakes Seniors when they went on a trip to Hawaii. She joined the late Ray Van Noort as his companion for over nineteen years as part of their time together they very much enjoyed travel to Puerto Rico and then two trips to Hawaii. Mary laughs with joy about her first trip to Hawaii which was her very first plane trip experience. The flight was over thirteen hours and she enjoyed it immensely.
At home she found personal solace and joy in reading, the history channel and the many television programs that featured animals.
Surviving are one daughter Lois Danny and her husband Frank Sr. of Lodi, and one son James Brightman and his wife Lee of Ringwood; two brothers George DeGroot of Franklin, Charles “Chuck” DeGroot and his wife Barbara of Paterson ; one sister Esther Salmanowitz of Paterson; six grandchildren Frank Danny Jr., Kevin and his wife Sharmaine Danny, Kim Murray and her husband Larry, Denise Davis, Derek and Jimmy Brightman; three Great Grandchildren including Devone, Danielle and Janelle.
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