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September 4, 2008
Services
Funeral services will be held Sunday, September 7, 2008 at 5 PM at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne. A Vasa Order of America service will he held at 4:00 PM.
Friends may visit with the family at the funeral home on Sunday from 2-5 PM.
Mildred M. Tomkins age 87 of Wayne died on Thursday, September 4, 2008 at the Saint Joseph’s Hospital in Wayne. Her passing was quiet and peaceful.
She was born in Weehawken and had lived in West New York, Leonia and Toms River before moving to Wayne six years ago.
Mildred spent her formative years in West New York graduating at a young age from Memorial High School in West New York with the Class of 1936.
She was employed as a secretary for the Leonia borough administrator where she worked for seventeen years before her retirement in 1988.
She was a 63-year member of the Vasa Order of America, a Swedish-American Fraternal Organization, Baltic-Framat Lodge 360. Mildred was very proud of her Swedish heritage.
In 1949 she married Albert R. Tomkins and they had a loving and happy life together for forty-two years until Albert’s passing in 1991.
She enjoyed playing the piano and organ, solving crossword puzzles, and traveling and vacationing with family and friends.
Surviving are three daughters Virginia Sturmfels and her husband Paul of Totowa, Linda Fonti and her husband Albert of Wayne, Ellen Schaper and her husband Peter of Pompton Lakes; one brother Raymond Pearson and his wife Arlene of Hackensack. The arrival of five grandchildren Peter and Emily Schaper, Christopher, Michael and Thomas Fonti, were especially important highlights of her life.
Those planning an expression of sympathy in Mildred’s memory are asked to consider a donation to the organization of their choice.
If you would like to send a private condolence directly to the family use this condolence section.
Funeral services will be held Sunday, September 7, 2008 at 5 PM at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne. A Vasa Order of America service will he held at 4:00 PM.
Friends may visit with the family at the funeral home on Sunday from 2-5 PM.
September 4, 2008
Services
Funeral services will be held Sunday, September 7, 2008 at 5 PM at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne. A Vasa Order of America service will he held at 4:00 PM.
Friends may visit with the family at the funeral home on Sunday from 2-5 PM.
Mildred M. Tomkins age 87 of Wayne died on Thursday, September 4, 2008 at the Saint Joseph’s Hospital in Wayne. Her passing was quiet and peaceful.
She was born in Weehawken and had lived in West New York, Leonia and Toms River before moving to Wayne six years ago.
Mildred spent her formative years in West New York graduating at a young age from Memorial High School in West New York with the Class of 1936.
She was employed as a secretary for the Leonia borough administrator where she worked for seventeen years before her retirement in 1988.
She was a 63-year member of the Vasa Order of America, a Swedish-American Fraternal Organization, Baltic-Framat Lodge 360. Mildred was very proud of her Swedish heritage.
In 1949 she married Albert R. Tomkins and they had a loving and happy life together for forty-two years until Albert’s passing in 1991.
She enjoyed playing the piano and organ, solving crossword puzzles, and traveling and vacationing with family and friends.
Surviving are three daughters Virginia Sturmfels and her husband Paul of Totowa, Linda Fonti and her husband Albert of Wayne, Ellen Schaper and her husband Peter of Pompton Lakes; one brother Raymond Pearson and his wife Arlene of Hackensack. The arrival of five grandchildren Peter and Emily Schaper, Christopher, Michael and Thomas Fonti, were especially important highlights of her life.
Those planning an expression of sympathy in Mildred’s memory are asked to consider a donation to the organization of their choice.
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