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Friends may visit with the family from 4:30 – 8:30 PM on Friday, March 6, 2015 at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
Funeral services will be held 8:45 AM on Saturday, March 7, 2015 from the funeral home then to Saint Marys RC Church, 17 Pompton Avenue, Pompton Lakes where a 10 AM Funeral Mass will be offered.
Interment will be in Christ the King Cemetery, Franklin Lakes.
Mary J. Reynolds (nee Crowley) age 89 of Wayne, formerly of Toms River, passed peacefully on Friday, February 27, 2015.
Mary J. Reynolds (nee Crowley) age 89 of Wayne, formerly of Toms River, passed peacefully on Friday, February 27, 2015. She was born in Brooklyn, New York and raised in the Park Slope section of Brooklyn having graduated from Bishop McDonnell Memorial High School with the Class of 1943. She graduated from high school on a Saturday and began working that Monday at the Brooklyn Army Base. She worked as the administrative assistant to the base commander for thirteen years.
In 1948, Mary met Gene Reynolds at a Sunday afternoon Knights of Columbus dance in Park Slope. A year later they were married. They enjoyed nearly sixty two loving years together until Gene’s passing in January of 2011. The family has fond memories of vacations in the Catskills, at the Jersey shore, and summers at the beach in Breezy Point, Queens. They lived in Park Slope until 1962 when they moved to the Marine Park section of Brooklyn. Mary returned to the workforce in 1973 taking a job as an administrative assistant to the director of Quality Assurance at the VA Hospital at Fort Hamilton, Brooklyn. Marine Park was home until 1994 when both Mary and Gene were retired. They moved to Toms River, New Jersey and wintered in Gulfport, Florida. Mary moved to Wayne, New Jersey in 2011 after Gene’s passing.
Mary was dedicated to her Catholic faith and for many years she was active with the Good Shepherd Roman Catholic Church in Brooklyn, New York. She was a member of the church’s Rosary Society and had a special devotion to her namesake Mary.
She will be remembered as a kind, sweet, and smart person whose primary dedication was to her family. Mary’s family meant everything to her and in her heart she shared the joys and grief life sent their way, as only a loving and dedicated mother and grandmother can do. Growing up during the Great Depression, as the second oldest of seven children, Mary was made confident, independent and strong by her life experiences.
She was the loving wife of the late Eugene Reynolds (January 2011); devoted mother of Eugene Reynolds and his wife Kathleen of Wayne, Michael Reynolds and his wife Joyce of Clifton, and Maureen Lynn and her husband Timothy of Nanuet, NY; cherished grandmother of Mary Beth, Claire, Meghan, Kelly, Michael, Cara, and Colleen Reynolds, Jennifer Sailer and her husband Craig, and Katherine, Brian, and Kevin Lynn; dear sister of Edward Crowley of Staten Island, and the late John, Joseph, Thomas and James Crowley and Theresa Dunne.
In lieu of flowers memorial donations to the Alzheimer’s Association, 400 Morris Avenue, #251, Denville, NJ 07834 would be appreciated.
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Friends may visit with the family from 4:30 – 8:30 PM on Friday, March 6, 2015 at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
Funeral services will be held 8:45 AM on Saturday, March 7, 2015 from the funeral home then to Saint Marys RC Church, 17 Pompton Avenue, Pompton Lakes where a 10 AM Funeral Mass will be offered.
Interment will be in Christ the King Cemetery, Franklin Lakes.
Services
Friends may visit with the family from 4:30 – 8:30 PM on Friday, March 6, 2015 at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
Funeral services will be held 8:45 AM on Saturday, March 7, 2015 from the funeral home then to Saint Marys RC Church, 17 Pompton Avenue, Pompton Lakes where a 10 AM Funeral Mass will be offered.
Interment will be in Christ the King Cemetery, Franklin Lakes.
Mary J. Reynolds (nee Crowley) age 89 of Wayne, formerly of Toms River, passed peacefully on Friday, February 27, 2015.
Mary J. Reynolds (nee Crowley) age 89 of Wayne, formerly of Toms River, passed peacefully on Friday, February 27, 2015. She was born in Brooklyn, New York and raised in the Park Slope section of Brooklyn having graduated from Bishop McDonnell Memorial High School with the Class of 1943. She graduated from high school on a Saturday and began working that Monday at the Brooklyn Army Base. She worked as the administrative assistant to the base commander for thirteen years.
In 1948, Mary met Gene Reynolds at a Sunday afternoon Knights of Columbus dance in Park Slope. A year later they were married. They enjoyed nearly sixty two loving years together until Gene’s passing in January of 2011. The family has fond memories of vacations in the Catskills, at the Jersey shore, and summers at the beach in Breezy Point, Queens. They lived in Park Slope until 1962 when they moved to the Marine Park section of Brooklyn. Mary returned to the workforce in 1973 taking a job as an administrative assistant to the director of Quality Assurance at the VA Hospital at Fort Hamilton, Brooklyn. Marine Park was home until 1994 when both Mary and Gene were retired. They moved to Toms River, New Jersey and wintered in Gulfport, Florida. Mary moved to Wayne, New Jersey in 2011 after Gene’s passing.
Mary was dedicated to her Catholic faith and for many years she was active with the Good Shepherd Roman Catholic Church in Brooklyn, New York. She was a member of the church’s Rosary Society and had a special devotion to her namesake Mary.
She will be remembered as a kind, sweet, and smart person whose primary dedication was to her family. Mary’s family meant everything to her and in her heart she shared the joys and grief life sent their way, as only a loving and dedicated mother and grandmother can do. Growing up during the Great Depression, as the second oldest of seven children, Mary was made confident, independent and strong by her life experiences.
She was the loving wife of the late Eugene Reynolds (January 2011); devoted mother of Eugene Reynolds and his wife Kathleen of Wayne, Michael Reynolds and his wife Joyce of Clifton, and Maureen Lynn and her husband Timothy of Nanuet, NY; cherished grandmother of Mary Beth, Claire, Meghan, Kelly, Michael, Cara, and Colleen Reynolds, Jennifer Sailer and her husband Craig, and Katherine, Brian, and Kevin Lynn; dear sister of Edward Crowley of Staten Island, and the late John, Joseph, Thomas and James Crowley and Theresa Dunne.
In lieu of flowers memorial donations to the Alzheimer’s Association, 400 Morris Avenue, #251, Denville, NJ 07834 would be appreciated.
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