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January 26, 2009
Services
Funeral services will be held Thursday 10 AM at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
Friends may visit with the family at the funeral home on Wednesday from 2-4, 7-9 PM.
Muriel E. Urba (nee Emmerich) age 77 of Wayne died Monday, January 26, 2009 at home. Her passing took place after a twenty-eight year courageous battle with cancer. She passed into Heaven quietly and peacefully with her loving family at her side.
She was born in Orange and had spent her formative years in Bloomfield before moving to Wayne forty-nine years ago.
Mrs. Urba was a circulation specialist at the Wayne Today Newspaper located in Butler where she worked for twenty-five years before her retirement in 2000.
Muriel received her formal education at Bloomfield High School graduating with the Class of 1948.
She leaves her family with many wonderful memories of a very loving wife, mother, grandmother and great grandmother. Perhaps the highlight of her whole life was the arrival of grandchildren. She loved them with all of her heart and was a soft touch as a grandma.
Mom was a truly dedicated family person who loved to have family gatherings especially picnics. She was a good cook and was not above using her culinary skills to make holidays special for everyone. She was the glue for keeping family together.
Richard and Muriel met at a square dance and after a courtship of two years they married and had fifty-eight years of “perfect loving” marriage together.
Surviving are her loving husband Richard J. Urba; two daughters Kathleen Lysyj and her husband Robert of Hillsborough, NJ and Valerie Ross and her husband Barry of West Caldwell; two sons Dr. Walter J. Urba and his wife Caryn of Portland, Oregon and Richard C. Urba and his wife Susan of Kinnelon; one sister Audrey Bukowski of Woodland Park; twelve grandchildren Tracy Kelly and her husband Jeremy, Brad Urba, Chris Urba and his wife Jeanine, Kim and Emily Urba, Kyra, Michael and Laura Lysyj, Matthew, Christopher, Justin and Kyle Ross; three great grandchildren Ethan Kelly, Ashlyn and Ariana Urba.
Her sister Dorothea Engelke and her grandson Steven Urba predeceased her.
Those planning an expression of sympathy in Muriel’s memory are asked to consider The Earle A. Chiles Research Institute, c/o Providence Portland Medical Center, 4805 NE Glisan Street, Portland, Oregon 97213.
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Funeral services will be held Thursday 10 AM at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
Friends may visit with the family at the funeral home on Wednesday from 2-4, 7-9 PM.
January 26, 2009
Services
Funeral services will be held Thursday 10 AM at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
Friends may visit with the family at the funeral home on Wednesday from 2-4, 7-9 PM.
Muriel E. Urba (nee Emmerich) age 77 of Wayne died Monday, January 26, 2009 at home. Her passing took place after a twenty-eight year courageous battle with cancer. She passed into Heaven quietly and peacefully with her loving family at her side.
She was born in Orange and had spent her formative years in Bloomfield before moving to Wayne forty-nine years ago.
Mrs. Urba was a circulation specialist at the Wayne Today Newspaper located in Butler where she worked for twenty-five years before her retirement in 2000.
Muriel received her formal education at Bloomfield High School graduating with the Class of 1948.
She leaves her family with many wonderful memories of a very loving wife, mother, grandmother and great grandmother. Perhaps the highlight of her whole life was the arrival of grandchildren. She loved them with all of her heart and was a soft touch as a grandma.
Mom was a truly dedicated family person who loved to have family gatherings especially picnics. She was a good cook and was not above using her culinary skills to make holidays special for everyone. She was the glue for keeping family together.
Richard and Muriel met at a square dance and after a courtship of two years they married and had fifty-eight years of “perfect loving” marriage together.
Surviving are her loving husband Richard J. Urba; two daughters Kathleen Lysyj and her husband Robert of Hillsborough, NJ and Valerie Ross and her husband Barry of West Caldwell; two sons Dr. Walter J. Urba and his wife Caryn of Portland, Oregon and Richard C. Urba and his wife Susan of Kinnelon; one sister Audrey Bukowski of Woodland Park; twelve grandchildren Tracy Kelly and her husband Jeremy, Brad Urba, Chris Urba and his wife Jeanine, Kim and Emily Urba, Kyra, Michael and Laura Lysyj, Matthew, Christopher, Justin and Kyle Ross; three great grandchildren Ethan Kelly, Ashlyn and Ariana Urba.
Her sister Dorothea Engelke and her grandson Steven Urba predeceased her.
Those planning an expression of sympathy in Muriel’s memory are asked to consider The Earle A. Chiles Research Institute, c/o Providence Portland Medical Center, 4805 NE Glisan Street, Portland, Oregon 97213.
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