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August 14, 2018
Services
Friends may visit with the family at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne, on Sunday, August 19, 2018 from 2-5 PM. A funeral service will be held at 5 PM on Sunday, at the funeral home, following the visiting hours.
Max A. Huber, age 88, long-time resident of Wayne, died on Tuesday, August 14, 2018. He had been the owner of Max’s Deli in Wayne from 1981-1998.
Max was born and raised in Munich, Germany. His childhood was defined by the events of World War II, and he experienced things that kids of today could hardly understand. For example; there was an 88 mm gun emplacement outside of his home in Munich where Max and his young friends would lay on the ground. Each time the gun fired, their bodies would bounce up into the air from the shockwave! It was so much fun, they could hardly wait for the next blast! After the war ended, the local airport was full of abandoned war planes, and no soldiers to guard them. Max and his buddies would climb into the planes and play with the controls, pretending to be pilots! His uncle towed one of the planes home with a horse and wagon, stashing it in his barn. There was also an abandoned armory nearby Max’s home, full of unsecured weapons. Max and his friends collected all sorts of “toys” from there, most of which no young boy should play with…but they did. He brought home a sack full of hand grenades on one occasion, and they turned out to be rather useful for fishing. In the post-war atmosphere that existed in Germany, there was simply no one around to stop them. Eventually, Max apprenticed in a small restaurant in Munich, and became a cook for U.S. Army officers stationed there during the occupation. He made a reputation for himself as being an excellent cook. He went on to culinary school in Munich and worked at several different venues, including the Moulin Rouge in Paris, where he cooked a meal for Charles De Gaulle.
At twenty-seven years old, Max was able to secure a sponsor and he immigrated to the United States. Settling in Port Jervis, he began cooking at a German restaurant there. The location was a little too isolated for him, so he moved to Pequannock and began cooking at the Triangle Hofbrau Restaurant on Rt. 23. He also worked at The Bethwood Restaurant where he was the executive chef for many years before opening Max’s Deli in 1981, at the Packanack Lake shopping center on Rt. 23. He was such a personable guy and all the customers loved him. He ran the deli for seventeen years before selling it and retiring in 1998.
In his leisure time, Max enjoyed the outdoors; hunting, fishing, and deep-sea fishing. He had a home up in the Catskills where he loved to take care of the lawn and property. He also had a place in Long Key, Florida for many years where he spent as much time as he could fishing. He has visited every one of the contiguous United States, traveling around with his slide-on pickup camper. It wasn’t exactly spacious, but he covered many, many miles with that rig.
Max is survived by his two children; Max J. Huber and his wife Carolle of Morristown, NJ, and his daughter; Christina Huber and her husband Darryl Eason of Valley Cottage, New York, and one granddaughter; Ruby Linden Huber of Los Angeles, California.
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Friends may visit with the family at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne, on Sunday, August 19, 2018 from 2-5 PM. A funeral service will be held at 5 PM on Sunday, at the funeral home, following the visiting hours.
August 14, 2018
Services
Friends may visit with the family at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne, on Sunday, August 19, 2018 from 2-5 PM. A funeral service will be held at 5 PM on Sunday, at the funeral home, following the visiting hours.
Max A. Huber, age 88, long-time resident of Wayne, died on Tuesday, August 14, 2018. He had been the owner of Max’s Deli in Wayne from 1981-1998.
Max was born and raised in Munich, Germany. His childhood was defined by the events of World War II, and he experienced things that kids of today could hardly understand. For example; there was an 88 mm gun emplacement outside of his home in Munich where Max and his young friends would lay on the ground. Each time the gun fired, their bodies would bounce up into the air from the shockwave! It was so much fun, they could hardly wait for the next blast! After the war ended, the local airport was full of abandoned war planes, and no soldiers to guard them. Max and his buddies would climb into the planes and play with the controls, pretending to be pilots! His uncle towed one of the planes home with a horse and wagon, stashing it in his barn. There was also an abandoned armory nearby Max’s home, full of unsecured weapons. Max and his friends collected all sorts of “toys” from there, most of which no young boy should play with…but they did. He brought home a sack full of hand grenades on one occasion, and they turned out to be rather useful for fishing. In the post-war atmosphere that existed in Germany, there was simply no one around to stop them. Eventually, Max apprenticed in a small restaurant in Munich, and became a cook for U.S. Army officers stationed there during the occupation. He made a reputation for himself as being an excellent cook. He went on to culinary school in Munich and worked at several different venues, including the Moulin Rouge in Paris, where he cooked a meal for Charles De Gaulle.
At twenty-seven years old, Max was able to secure a sponsor and he immigrated to the United States. Settling in Port Jervis, he began cooking at a German restaurant there. The location was a little too isolated for him, so he moved to Pequannock and began cooking at the Triangle Hofbrau Restaurant on Rt. 23. He also worked at The Bethwood Restaurant where he was the executive chef for many years before opening Max’s Deli in 1981, at the Packanack Lake shopping center on Rt. 23. He was such a personable guy and all the customers loved him. He ran the deli for seventeen years before selling it and retiring in 1998.
In his leisure time, Max enjoyed the outdoors; hunting, fishing, and deep-sea fishing. He had a home up in the Catskills where he loved to take care of the lawn and property. He also had a place in Long Key, Florida for many years where he spent as much time as he could fishing. He has visited every one of the contiguous United States, traveling around with his slide-on pickup camper. It wasn’t exactly spacious, but he covered many, many miles with that rig.
Max is survived by his two children; Max J. Huber and his wife Carolle of Morristown, NJ, and his daughter; Christina Huber and her husband Darryl Eason of Valley Cottage, New York, and one granddaughter; Ruby Linden Huber of Los Angeles, California.
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