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November 24, 2013
Services
Friends may visit with the family at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne, on Tuesday, November 26, 2013 from 2-4 and 6-8 PM.
Funeral Service will be Wednesday, 12:30 PM, with visitation preceding the service from 12 Noon - 12:30 PM, at Cedar Crest Chapel Rt. 23 Pompton Plains NJ. Burial will follow at Fair Lawn Cemetery.
Matilda “Til” Dunning (Ackershoek), age 90 of Pompton Plains, passed peacefully on Sunday November 24, 2013.
She was born in Paterson and graduated from Eastside High School with the Class of 1942. She lived in Lake Iosco for 38 years before moving to Pompton Plains 9 years ago.
Til was a secretary at the Prudential Insurance Company of Newark, later the Prudential Insurance Company in Paterson, Cooper Laboratories in Wayne and an Executive Secretary at the Trends Newspaper in Butler before retiring in 1988.
She was a member of the People’s Park Reformed Church of Paterson where she taught Sunday School and served as Treasurer of the Sunday School. She was currently head usher of the Cedar Crest Protestant Community. Til loved her family and prayed for them daily by name. She was reading through the Bible this year up until November 9, when she became ill. Just this past weekend, Til was fortunate to FaceTime with her grandchildren and great-grandchildren.
Til met her late husband Cornelius “Neal” Dunning as both attended People’s Park Reformed Church in Paterson. They married March 27, 1948 at the church where Til carried a Callalily bouquet and had a life-long love of that flower. They honeymooned in Pottstown, PA and then to Washington, D.C. to see the cherry blossoms. They enjoyed fifty-seven years of loving marriage before Neal’s passing on November 14, 2005.
Surviving are her two daughters, Dr. Carol Hanse of Clifton and her husband John, and Grace and Tom Schwanda of Wheaton IL, her grandchildren John, Deborah, Rebecca and Steve, and 10 great grandchildren and her brother Tunis Ackershoek of Wayne and sister in law, Irma Ackershoek, also of Wayne.
In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to Eastern Christian Children’s Retreat, 700 Mountain Ave., Wyckoff, NJ 07481.
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Friends may visit with the family at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne, on Tuesday, November 26, 2013 from 2-4 and 6-8 PM.
Funeral Service will be Wednesday, 12:30 PM, with visitation preceding the service from 12 Noon - 12:30 PM, at Cedar Crest Chapel Rt. 23 Pompton Plains NJ. Burial will follow at Fair Lawn Cemetery.
November 24, 2013
Services
Friends may visit with the family at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne, on Tuesday, November 26, 2013 from 2-4 and 6-8 PM.
Funeral Service will be Wednesday, 12:30 PM, with visitation preceding the service from 12 Noon - 12:30 PM, at Cedar Crest Chapel Rt. 23 Pompton Plains NJ. Burial will follow at Fair Lawn Cemetery.
Matilda “Til” Dunning (Ackershoek), age 90 of Pompton Plains, passed peacefully on Sunday November 24, 2013.
She was born in Paterson and graduated from Eastside High School with the Class of 1942. She lived in Lake Iosco for 38 years before moving to Pompton Plains 9 years ago.
Til was a secretary at the Prudential Insurance Company of Newark, later the Prudential Insurance Company in Paterson, Cooper Laboratories in Wayne and an Executive Secretary at the Trends Newspaper in Butler before retiring in 1988.
She was a member of the People’s Park Reformed Church of Paterson where she taught Sunday School and served as Treasurer of the Sunday School. She was currently head usher of the Cedar Crest Protestant Community. Til loved her family and prayed for them daily by name. She was reading through the Bible this year up until November 9, when she became ill. Just this past weekend, Til was fortunate to FaceTime with her grandchildren and great-grandchildren.
Til met her late husband Cornelius “Neal” Dunning as both attended People’s Park Reformed Church in Paterson. They married March 27, 1948 at the church where Til carried a Callalily bouquet and had a life-long love of that flower. They honeymooned in Pottstown, PA and then to Washington, D.C. to see the cherry blossoms. They enjoyed fifty-seven years of loving marriage before Neal’s passing on November 14, 2005.
Surviving are her two daughters, Dr. Carol Hanse of Clifton and her husband John, and Grace and Tom Schwanda of Wheaton IL, her grandchildren John, Deborah, Rebecca and Steve, and 10 great grandchildren and her brother Tunis Ackershoek of Wayne and sister in law, Irma Ackershoek, also of Wayne.
In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to Eastern Christian Children’s Retreat, 700 Mountain Ave., Wyckoff, NJ 07481.
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