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Friends may visit with the family at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne, on Monday, Dec. 14, 2015 from 2-4 & 7-9 PM.
Funeral Services will be held at 9:30 AM on Tuesday, Dec. 15 from the funeral home, then to Immaculate Heart of Mary RC Church, Wayne, where at 10:30AM a Funeral Mass will be offered. Burial will follow at the Holy Sepulchre Cemetery in Totowa, NJ.
Nanette “Nan” Smith (nee Malzone), of Wayne, died on Friday, December 11, 2015. She lived in Wayne since 1968 and had recently moved to Cedar Crest Village in Pompton Plains.
Nan was raised in Paterson and graduated from Central High School with the class of 1948. She had always wanted to be a nurse and began training as an RN at the St. Joseph’s Hospital in Paterson. Her first assignment was in the maternity ward where she loved caring for all the babies. She eventually joined the staff at the Milford Manor Nursing Home in West Milford where she became the Director of Nursing for the facility. She retired from there in 1982 to care full-time for her aging mother.
Nan was an avid reader and particularly enjoyed mystery novels. She was a selfless person who really understood the joy of giving. She loved shopping, especially for others, and she treated herself from time to time too. She and her husband Bill enjoyed socializing with their group of neighborhood friends and Bill shared a story about one evening when they all went to New York City. They had parked their car in a garage which closed at 2 AM. They arrived to retrieve their car a few minutes before 2 only to find that the staff had already locked up and gone home! Their car was locked inside, it was well below freezing outside, and they had no place to go! After finding a taxi and then a hotel room in that early morning hour, they were able to get the car back the next day and eventually made it home – with a great story to tell for years to come!
Bill and Nan met almost by chance. It was 1955 and Bill had just been discharged from the U.S. Navy, returning home that very day, and he was settling into his aunt’s apartment in Paterson. Nan just happened to be visiting her own aunt who lived in the same two-family home. Their chance encounter resulted in a first date to the Garden Theater in Paterson followed by pizza at a nearby tavern. They hit it off and were married on October 7, 1956 at St. George’s Church, Paterson, followed by a honeymoon to Florida. They settled in Hawthorne upon their return and lived in Paterson briefly before buying a new home in Wayne in 1968. Nan’s parents soon followed, buying the house next door just a few months later. Nan and Bill raised their son there, built lasting relationships with many of their neighbors, and truly enjoyed their forty five years in that home. Just three years ago they moved to Cedar Crest Village in Pompton Plains and had also been enjoying their new home there. This past October they celebrated fifty nine years of marriage, and also marked sixty years since they had first met.
Nan is survived by her husband William of Cedar Crest Village, and one son; William of New York, NY. She was predeceased by her brother Louis Malzone in 1982.
Those planning an expression of sympathy in Nan’s name are asked to consider the Cedar Crest Foundation, 1 Cedar Crest Drive, Pompton Plains, NJ 07444.
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Friends may visit with the family at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne, on Monday, Dec. 14, 2015 from 2-4 & 7-9 PM.
Funeral Services will be held at 9:30 AM on Tuesday, Dec. 15 from the funeral home, then to Immaculate Heart of Mary RC Church, Wayne, where at 10:30AM a Funeral Mass will be offered. Burial will follow at the Holy Sepulchre Cemetery in Totowa, NJ.
Services
Friends may visit with the family at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne, on Monday, Dec. 14, 2015 from 2-4 & 7-9 PM.
Funeral Services will be held at 9:30 AM on Tuesday, Dec. 15 from the funeral home, then to Immaculate Heart of Mary RC Church, Wayne, where at 10:30AM a Funeral Mass will be offered. Burial will follow at the Holy Sepulchre Cemetery in Totowa, NJ.
Nanette “Nan” Smith (nee Malzone), of Wayne, died on Friday, December 11, 2015. She lived in Wayne since 1968 and had recently moved to Cedar Crest Village in Pompton Plains.
Nan was raised in Paterson and graduated from Central High School with the class of 1948. She had always wanted to be a nurse and began training as an RN at the St. Joseph’s Hospital in Paterson. Her first assignment was in the maternity ward where she loved caring for all the babies. She eventually joined the staff at the Milford Manor Nursing Home in West Milford where she became the Director of Nursing for the facility. She retired from there in 1982 to care full-time for her aging mother.
Nan was an avid reader and particularly enjoyed mystery novels. She was a selfless person who really understood the joy of giving. She loved shopping, especially for others, and she treated herself from time to time too. She and her husband Bill enjoyed socializing with their group of neighborhood friends and Bill shared a story about one evening when they all went to New York City. They had parked their car in a garage which closed at 2 AM. They arrived to retrieve their car a few minutes before 2 only to find that the staff had already locked up and gone home! Their car was locked inside, it was well below freezing outside, and they had no place to go! After finding a taxi and then a hotel room in that early morning hour, they were able to get the car back the next day and eventually made it home – with a great story to tell for years to come!
Bill and Nan met almost by chance. It was 1955 and Bill had just been discharged from the U.S. Navy, returning home that very day, and he was settling into his aunt’s apartment in Paterson. Nan just happened to be visiting her own aunt who lived in the same two-family home. Their chance encounter resulted in a first date to the Garden Theater in Paterson followed by pizza at a nearby tavern. They hit it off and were married on October 7, 1956 at St. George’s Church, Paterson, followed by a honeymoon to Florida. They settled in Hawthorne upon their return and lived in Paterson briefly before buying a new home in Wayne in 1968. Nan’s parents soon followed, buying the house next door just a few months later. Nan and Bill raised their son there, built lasting relationships with many of their neighbors, and truly enjoyed their forty five years in that home. Just three years ago they moved to Cedar Crest Village in Pompton Plains and had also been enjoying their new home there. This past October they celebrated fifty nine years of marriage, and also marked sixty years since they had first met.
Nan is survived by her husband William of Cedar Crest Village, and one son; William of New York, NY. She was predeceased by her brother Louis Malzone in 1982.
Those planning an expression of sympathy in Nan’s name are asked to consider the Cedar Crest Foundation, 1 Cedar Crest Drive, Pompton Plains, NJ 07444.
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