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September 27, 2008
Services
Friends may visit with the family on Friday, October 3, 2008 from 9AM - 10:30 AM at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
A Funeral Mass will be offered 11 AM on Friday, October 3, 2008 at Our Lady of the Valley RC Church, 630 Valley Road, Wayne.
Interment will be in Holy Cross Cemetery, North Arlington.
Mary “Marion” B. Kopcha (nee Bykowsky) age 92 of Wayne died Saturday, September 27, 2008 at the Saint Clare’s Hospice in Dover. Her passing was quiet and peaceful after receiving the loving care of her family who were constantly at her bedside.
Mary was born at the family residence at 134 Morris Street in Jersey City. It was customary and considered very natural to be born at home in those days. Her parents took her to church and at the baptismal font she received the gift of faith and the promise of life eternal at her passing. She had a firm grasp on her Greek Catholic faith and was a devoted long time parishioner of the Immaculate Conception Church in Secaucus. We can be assured that Mary knows the wondrous promises of her creator this day.
She took a job as an assembler at the Radio Corporation of America in Jersey City to support her family. The company later moved to Edison and she continued her work career at that new location finally retiring in 1978. She was used to being active so after retiring she became a crossing guard for the town of Secaucus and helped school children cross the street safely from 1978 – 1983.
She had very generous and giving ways and donated much time and effort as a volunteer to the Meadowlands Memorial Hospital in Secaucus and for Deborah Heart and Lung Association of Browns Mills, NJ.
Mary and John went out for the evening to a dance and that is where they met and later married in 1939. John, quite the ladies man, approached Mary and said “I’m going to have the next dance with you” to which Mary replied “the hell you are”. This initial encounter resulted in a forty-five year “loving and devoted marriage” until John’s passing in 1984.
She was the beloved wife of forty-five years to the late John Kopcha(1984); devoted mother of Judy Radd and her husband Raymond of Hackettstown and Michael Kopcha and his wife Jean of Wayne; cherished grandmother of six grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren.
Those planning an expression of sympathy in Mary’s memory are asked to consider the Alzheimers Assoc., 225 North Michigan Ave., Fl. 17, Chicago, ILL 60601-7633.
If you would like to send a private condolence directly to the family use this condolence section.
Friends may visit with the family on Friday, October 3, 2008 from 9AM - 10:30 AM at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
A Funeral Mass will be offered 11 AM on Friday, October 3, 2008 at Our Lady of the Valley RC Church, 630 Valley Road, Wayne.
Interment will be in Holy Cross Cemetery, North Arlington.
September 27, 2008
Services
Friends may visit with the family on Friday, October 3, 2008 from 9AM - 10:30 AM at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
A Funeral Mass will be offered 11 AM on Friday, October 3, 2008 at Our Lady of the Valley RC Church, 630 Valley Road, Wayne.
Interment will be in Holy Cross Cemetery, North Arlington.
Mary “Marion” B. Kopcha (nee Bykowsky) age 92 of Wayne died Saturday, September 27, 2008 at the Saint Clare’s Hospice in Dover. Her passing was quiet and peaceful after receiving the loving care of her family who were constantly at her bedside.
Mary was born at the family residence at 134 Morris Street in Jersey City. It was customary and considered very natural to be born at home in those days. Her parents took her to church and at the baptismal font she received the gift of faith and the promise of life eternal at her passing. She had a firm grasp on her Greek Catholic faith and was a devoted long time parishioner of the Immaculate Conception Church in Secaucus. We can be assured that Mary knows the wondrous promises of her creator this day.
She took a job as an assembler at the Radio Corporation of America in Jersey City to support her family. The company later moved to Edison and she continued her work career at that new location finally retiring in 1978. She was used to being active so after retiring she became a crossing guard for the town of Secaucus and helped school children cross the street safely from 1978 – 1983.
She had very generous and giving ways and donated much time and effort as a volunteer to the Meadowlands Memorial Hospital in Secaucus and for Deborah Heart and Lung Association of Browns Mills, NJ.
Mary and John went out for the evening to a dance and that is where they met and later married in 1939. John, quite the ladies man, approached Mary and said “I’m going to have the next dance with you” to which Mary replied “the hell you are”. This initial encounter resulted in a forty-five year “loving and devoted marriage” until John’s passing in 1984.
She was the beloved wife of forty-five years to the late John Kopcha(1984); devoted mother of Judy Radd and her husband Raymond of Hackettstown and Michael Kopcha and his wife Jean of Wayne; cherished grandmother of six grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren.
Those planning an expression of sympathy in Mary’s memory are asked to consider the Alzheimers Assoc., 225 North Michigan Ave., Fl. 17, Chicago, ILL 60601-7633.
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