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Friends may visit with the family at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne, on Saturday, September 26, 2015 from 2-5 PM. A celebration of Nancy’s life will commence at 5 PM on Saturday at the funeral home, immediately following the visiting hours. Friends will all have an opportunity to participate and share their memories during the service.
Nancy A. Rovere (nee Methlie), age 69 of Wayne, died unexpectedly at her home on Saturday, September 19, 2015. She had been a Wayne resident since 1977.
Nancy grew up in the hamlet of Franklin Square, located within the town of Hempstead, Long Island. Her family moved to Oakland, NJ during her senior year in high school, a move she wasn’t particularly happy about at the time, but it all worked out rather well. She later graduated from nursing school and began working at the Valley Hospital in Ridgewood, NJ. She worked in the nursery with all of the new babies and she would often reflect on those years with pride and joy in her heart. Although she only worked there for a few short years, you would have thought she spent a lifetime in that nursery just by the stories she could tell.
In 1967, she met Ken Rovere and their romance grew quickly, and they married on May 18, 1968. They first settled in Haskell, NJ before finding a home in Packanack Lake. Nancy and Ken loved living in Packanack, immersing themselves in the community. She golfed in the Packanack women’s league, and was involved with the lake membership committee for several years. She even taught Sunday school at the Packanack Community Church. They also enjoyed annual summer vacations to Long Beach Island, NJ where they rented a house for two weeks in August. This was a tradition for more than ten years and Nancy was in heaven at LBI.
Nancy was a devoted mother, schlepping her kids, as well as many other kids, everywhere and anywhere they needed to go. She coached her daughter’s Packanack soccer teams, and was Den Mother for Cub Scout Pack 104, Den 3, hosting meetings at her home for many years. Her home was a gathering place for all the neighborhood kids, and she loved it that way. As a grandmother, she was a pro at spoiling each of them in her own way. She would always have gifts, clothes, or on very special occasions she would make her “perfect” cupcakes! She loved her grandchildren with all of her heart and they will miss her dearly.
Christmas was among her favorite holidays of the year. She insisted on hosting at her house, and she would go all-out with the decorations. It was a very happy time of year for her, in large part due to the weeks of shopping that led up to the holiday! Nancy simply loved to shop. When she went to the mall, she had to look through each and every rack, in each and every store, before she would be satisfied…and sitting down for a meal was always part of the shopping experience with Nancy. To support her shopping habit, she took a job at Charisma Boutique in Wayne and she truly enjoyed it there. When pay day came around, she became of the store’s best customers!
Sadness visited Nancy in 2012 when she lost her husband Ken after forty four years of marriage. Then just two years later, in 2014, she lost her son Kevin suddenly to illness. So much heartache and grief weighed very heavily on her, but she persevered as best as she could.
Nancy is survived by three children; Craig Rovere and his wife Gail of Wayne, Kristen Corby and her husband Jason of Monroe, NC, and Carrie Mundrick and her husband Paul of Chestertown, NY, one sister; Susan Mahoney and her husband Bill of Belmar, NJ, and fourteen grandchildren: Codie, Noah, Grant, Hunter, Carson, Avery, Jillian, Robert, Collin, Joseph, Hadden, Sara, Nicholas, and Molly. She was predeceased by her husband Ken in 2012, her son Kevin in 2014, and her brother; Russell Methlie of Ohio in 1995.
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Friends may visit with the family at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne, on Saturday, September 26, 2015 from 2-5 PM. A celebration of Nancy’s life will commence at 5 PM on Saturday at the funeral home, immediately following the visiting hours. Friends will all have an opportunity to participate and share their memories during the service.
Services
Friends may visit with the family at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne, on Saturday, September 26, 2015 from 2-5 PM. A celebration of Nancy’s life will commence at 5 PM on Saturday at the funeral home, immediately following the visiting hours. Friends will all have an opportunity to participate and share their memories during the service.
Nancy A. Rovere (nee Methlie), age 69 of Wayne, died unexpectedly at her home on Saturday, September 19, 2015. She had been a Wayne resident since 1977.
Nancy grew up in the hamlet of Franklin Square, located within the town of Hempstead, Long Island. Her family moved to Oakland, NJ during her senior year in high school, a move she wasn’t particularly happy about at the time, but it all worked out rather well. She later graduated from nursing school and began working at the Valley Hospital in Ridgewood, NJ. She worked in the nursery with all of the new babies and she would often reflect on those years with pride and joy in her heart. Although she only worked there for a few short years, you would have thought she spent a lifetime in that nursery just by the stories she could tell.
In 1967, she met Ken Rovere and their romance grew quickly, and they married on May 18, 1968. They first settled in Haskell, NJ before finding a home in Packanack Lake. Nancy and Ken loved living in Packanack, immersing themselves in the community. She golfed in the Packanack women’s league, and was involved with the lake membership committee for several years. She even taught Sunday school at the Packanack Community Church. They also enjoyed annual summer vacations to Long Beach Island, NJ where they rented a house for two weeks in August. This was a tradition for more than ten years and Nancy was in heaven at LBI.
Nancy was a devoted mother, schlepping her kids, as well as many other kids, everywhere and anywhere they needed to go. She coached her daughter’s Packanack soccer teams, and was Den Mother for Cub Scout Pack 104, Den 3, hosting meetings at her home for many years. Her home was a gathering place for all the neighborhood kids, and she loved it that way. As a grandmother, she was a pro at spoiling each of them in her own way. She would always have gifts, clothes, or on very special occasions she would make her “perfect” cupcakes! She loved her grandchildren with all of her heart and they will miss her dearly.
Christmas was among her favorite holidays of the year. She insisted on hosting at her house, and she would go all-out with the decorations. It was a very happy time of year for her, in large part due to the weeks of shopping that led up to the holiday! Nancy simply loved to shop. When she went to the mall, she had to look through each and every rack, in each and every store, before she would be satisfied…and sitting down for a meal was always part of the shopping experience with Nancy. To support her shopping habit, she took a job at Charisma Boutique in Wayne and she truly enjoyed it there. When pay day came around, she became of the store’s best customers!
Sadness visited Nancy in 2012 when she lost her husband Ken after forty four years of marriage. Then just two years later, in 2014, she lost her son Kevin suddenly to illness. So much heartache and grief weighed very heavily on her, but she persevered as best as she could.
Nancy is survived by three children; Craig Rovere and his wife Gail of Wayne, Kristen Corby and her husband Jason of Monroe, NC, and Carrie Mundrick and her husband Paul of Chestertown, NY, one sister; Susan Mahoney and her husband Bill of Belmar, NJ, and fourteen grandchildren: Codie, Noah, Grant, Hunter, Carson, Avery, Jillian, Robert, Collin, Joseph, Hadden, Sara, Nicholas, and Molly. She was predeceased by her husband Ken in 2012, her son Kevin in 2014, and her brother; Russell Methlie of Ohio in 1995.
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