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April 6, 2009
Services
Funeral services will be held on Thursday, April 9, 2009 12 Noon at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne. Friends may visit with the family from 10 AM – 12 Noon prior to the service.
Interment will be in Laurel Grove Memorial Park, Totowa.
Mildred Martha Padreza (Demarest) age 93 of Wayne died Monday, April 6, 2009 at the Regency Gardens Nursing Home, Wayne.
She was born and raised in Paterson. She attended Central High School and was part of the class of 1933. She lived with her husband , Charles, in Wayne for the past of fifty-nine years. Mildred met her husband, Charles Padreza, while working as an elevator operator at the Meyer Brothers Department Store in Paterson. She was introduced to him by her best friend June on a blind date. They fell in love and married on June 21, 1941. They had a garden wedding in Dover and honeymooned in Niagara Falls, NY.
She was a member of the Preakness Reformed Church, Wayne.
Mildred will be remembered as a kind, caring, loving, and giving mother. She could always find the good in anyone and who’s daughter’s were the light of her life. She didn’t want anyone to worry about her and one of the things she could often be heard saying, even in the hours preceding her passing, were: “I’m fine, I’m good, I’m OK”.
She was the beloved wife of sixty-seven years to Charles Padreza; devoted mother to Jane Helen Gut and her husband Edward Gut of Wayne, Gail A. deLeeuw and her husband Dr. Neil deLeeuw of Centreville, DE and Karen M. Padreza and her husband Judge Ariel A. Rodríguez of Ramsey; cherished grandmother of Jennifer Gut, Lieutenant Jeffrey Gut, Major Jason deLeeuw, Peter Bradford deLeeuw, Esq, Hillary Spruance, Katherine deLeeuw, Alison deLeeuw, Makeida D. Hewitt,daughter of Karen Padreza; and eight great grandchildren; beloved sister of the late Helen Demerast Kara.
In lieu of flowers, memorial donations to the Parent Information Center of Delaware(who provide support for families with disabilities), 5570 Kirkwood Highway, Wilmington, DE 19808 or Autism Delaware, 924 Old Harmony Road, Suite 201, Newark, DE 19713 would be appreciated.
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Funeral services will be held on Thursday, April 9, 2009 12 Noon at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne. Friends may visit with the family from 10 AM – 12 Noon prior to the service.
Interment will be in Laurel Grove Memorial Park, Totowa.
April 6, 2009
Services
Funeral services will be held on Thursday, April 9, 2009 12 Noon at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne. Friends may visit with the family from 10 AM – 12 Noon prior to the service.
Interment will be in Laurel Grove Memorial Park, Totowa.
Mildred Martha Padreza (Demarest) age 93 of Wayne died Monday, April 6, 2009 at the Regency Gardens Nursing Home, Wayne.
She was born and raised in Paterson. She attended Central High School and was part of the class of 1933. She lived with her husband , Charles, in Wayne for the past of fifty-nine years. Mildred met her husband, Charles Padreza, while working as an elevator operator at the Meyer Brothers Department Store in Paterson. She was introduced to him by her best friend June on a blind date. They fell in love and married on June 21, 1941. They had a garden wedding in Dover and honeymooned in Niagara Falls, NY.
She was a member of the Preakness Reformed Church, Wayne.
Mildred will be remembered as a kind, caring, loving, and giving mother. She could always find the good in anyone and who’s daughter’s were the light of her life. She didn’t want anyone to worry about her and one of the things she could often be heard saying, even in the hours preceding her passing, were: “I’m fine, I’m good, I’m OK”.
She was the beloved wife of sixty-seven years to Charles Padreza; devoted mother to Jane Helen Gut and her husband Edward Gut of Wayne, Gail A. deLeeuw and her husband Dr. Neil deLeeuw of Centreville, DE and Karen M. Padreza and her husband Judge Ariel A. Rodríguez of Ramsey; cherished grandmother of Jennifer Gut, Lieutenant Jeffrey Gut, Major Jason deLeeuw, Peter Bradford deLeeuw, Esq, Hillary Spruance, Katherine deLeeuw, Alison deLeeuw, Makeida D. Hewitt,daughter of Karen Padreza; and eight great grandchildren; beloved sister of the late Helen Demerast Kara.
In lieu of flowers, memorial donations to the Parent Information Center of Delaware(who provide support for families with disabilities), 5570 Kirkwood Highway, Wilmington, DE 19808 or Autism Delaware, 924 Old Harmony Road, Suite 201, Newark, DE 19713 would be appreciated.
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