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February 29, 2012
Services
Friends may visit with the family on Friday, March 2, 2012 from 2-4 and 7-9 PM at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne. Funeral services will be held Saturday, March 3, 2012 10AM from the funeral home then to Holy Cross RC Church, Wayne where at 11 AM a Funeral Mass will be offered. Entombment will be in Laurel Grove Cemetery, Totowa.
Mary Elizabeth Ostrowski (nee Clemens) age 72 of Wayne died Wednesday, February 29, 2012.
She was born in Luzerne, PA and raised in Pittston, PA having graduated from the Pittston High School with the Class of 1958.
In 1962 she moved to Wayne, NJ after marrying D. Stanley “Stan” Ostrowski after a chance meeting in a cemetery. Stan had been married previously and lost his first wife to an early death. Being proper in social terms he insisted that he wait three years before looking for a girl. After their meeting in the cemetery they soon fell in love and married on April 28, 1962 at Sacred Heart Church in Luzern, Pennsylvania. They enjoyed forty-eight years of loving “good buddies” marriage together before Stan’s passing in November of 2010.
Mary was a bus driver for the Wayne Board of Education for many years before retiring in 1997.
She was a parishioner of Holy Cross RC Church in Wayne and was a member of the Columbiettes.
Mary enjoyed camping with Stan in their “travel trailer” and had many fond memories of their stays in the Poconos and Cape May. She had an outgoing personality and many will recall her willingness to share her opinion. In her heart she was very “motherly” and was a mother to everybody. An excellent cook her special touch on Pot Roast, Meatloaf, and Blueberry Pies will be greatly missed. It is also said Mary loved sewing, crafts, and had a true love of making jewelry.
She was the loving wife of the late D. Stanley Ostrowski(2010); loving mother of David Ostrowski of Scranton, PA, Kevin Ostrowski of Wayne, Marlaine Brunner and her husband Jeff of Pequannock, Krista Toth and her husband Tom of Wayne, and Kristen Snook and her husband Nick of Pequannock; cherished grandmother of Brett and Madalyn Brunner, Justin and Olivia Toth, and Benjamin Snook; she was blessed with two sets of parents Arthur and Elizabeth (nee Fey) Clemens, and Joseph and Madeline (nee Fey) Savokinas; loved sister of Rosemarie and Jasper Butera of Jenkins, PA, the late Lawrence & Deanna Savokinas of West Lake Village CA, Joseph and the late Nancy Savokinas of Pittston, PA, James and Dianne Savokinas of Hughestown, PA, Michael and Georgia Savokinas of Pittston, PA, Raymond and Marie Savokinas of West Pittston, PA, Dorothy and Robert Kroll of Plains, PA, and Cynthia and B. William Hrobuchak of Old Forge, PA; many loving nieces and nephews; and two devoted aunts Christine Dogal and Agnes Stuckart.
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Friends may visit with the family on Friday, March 2, 2012 from 2-4 and 7-9 PM at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne. Funeral services will be held Saturday, March 3, 2012 10AM from the funeral home then to Holy Cross RC Church, Wayne where at 11 AM a Funeral Mass will be offered. Entombment will be in Laurel Grove Cemetery, Totowa.
February 29, 2012
Services
Friends may visit with the family on Friday, March 2, 2012 from 2-4 and 7-9 PM at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne. Funeral services will be held Saturday, March 3, 2012 10AM from the funeral home then to Holy Cross RC Church, Wayne where at 11 AM a Funeral Mass will be offered. Entombment will be in Laurel Grove Cemetery, Totowa.
Mary Elizabeth Ostrowski (nee Clemens) age 72 of Wayne died Wednesday, February 29, 2012.
She was born in Luzerne, PA and raised in Pittston, PA having graduated from the Pittston High School with the Class of 1958.
In 1962 she moved to Wayne, NJ after marrying D. Stanley “Stan” Ostrowski after a chance meeting in a cemetery. Stan had been married previously and lost his first wife to an early death. Being proper in social terms he insisted that he wait three years before looking for a girl. After their meeting in the cemetery they soon fell in love and married on April 28, 1962 at Sacred Heart Church in Luzern, Pennsylvania. They enjoyed forty-eight years of loving “good buddies” marriage together before Stan’s passing in November of 2010.
Mary was a bus driver for the Wayne Board of Education for many years before retiring in 1997.
She was a parishioner of Holy Cross RC Church in Wayne and was a member of the Columbiettes.
Mary enjoyed camping with Stan in their “travel trailer” and had many fond memories of their stays in the Poconos and Cape May. She had an outgoing personality and many will recall her willingness to share her opinion. In her heart she was very “motherly” and was a mother to everybody. An excellent cook her special touch on Pot Roast, Meatloaf, and Blueberry Pies will be greatly missed. It is also said Mary loved sewing, crafts, and had a true love of making jewelry.
She was the loving wife of the late D. Stanley Ostrowski(2010); loving mother of David Ostrowski of Scranton, PA, Kevin Ostrowski of Wayne, Marlaine Brunner and her husband Jeff of Pequannock, Krista Toth and her husband Tom of Wayne, and Kristen Snook and her husband Nick of Pequannock; cherished grandmother of Brett and Madalyn Brunner, Justin and Olivia Toth, and Benjamin Snook; she was blessed with two sets of parents Arthur and Elizabeth (nee Fey) Clemens, and Joseph and Madeline (nee Fey) Savokinas; loved sister of Rosemarie and Jasper Butera of Jenkins, PA, the late Lawrence & Deanna Savokinas of West Lake Village CA, Joseph and the late Nancy Savokinas of Pittston, PA, James and Dianne Savokinas of Hughestown, PA, Michael and Georgia Savokinas of Pittston, PA, Raymond and Marie Savokinas of West Pittston, PA, Dorothy and Robert Kroll of Plains, PA, and Cynthia and B. William Hrobuchak of Old Forge, PA; many loving nieces and nephews; and two devoted aunts Christine Dogal and Agnes Stuckart.
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