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Friends may visit with the family at Holy Resurrection Orthodox Church, 285 French Hill Rd, Wayne, on Tuesday, May 5, 2015 from 2-4 & 7-9 PM with a Memorial Service concluding the time of visitation and beginning at 8:00 PM.
Funeral Services will be held on Wednesday, May 6, 2015, 10:00 AM at Holy Resurrection Orthodox Church. Interment will follow at Laurel Grove Cemetery, Totowa.
Natalie “Lee” Patterson (nee Kosachook) of Wayne passed away peacefully on Friday, May 1, 2015 after a brave battle with cancer. She passed away at her home while receiving the loving care of her family.
Lee was born and raised in Little Falls, she also lived in Wyckoff for twenty years before moving to Wayne in 1995. She graduated from Passaic Valley High School in 1943, then married her high school sweetheart, George Patterson in 1945. George was in the Navy during WWII. His ship was struck by a kamikaze plane and was towed back to California for repairs. During a two week leave, Lee and George were united in marriage. Lee always told the story to her children of having to get permission from her family to get married. Nonetheless they exchanged their vows in New Jersey, then they took several Greyhound buses from New Jersey back to California so that George could return and finish his service in the Navy.
One of Lee’s first jobs was working as a secretary for the National Broadcasting Corporation (NBC). She worked there for a few years until accepting another position at Rensselaer University in Troy, NY where she served as Secretary to the Dean of Students. She held various other secretarial positions until she took on her most important role - a full time mother and homemaker. It was the job of caring for her husband and children that would become her life’s work, and she flourished in it. Natalie and George’s hearts were broken in a very deep and profound way in 1966 when their baby daughter Hope passed away suddenly from cardiac complications. Natalie was a devoted wife and loving mother and she and George cherished 69 years of loving marriage.
Lee was quite an accomplished singer and was president of the Ridgewood Choral Group. She also belonged to a Choral group while working at NBC when she was younger. She was a member of the Wyckoff Women’s Club as well as the Little Falls Junior Women’s Club. Lee was also an avid golfer and could be found many-a-day playing rounds of golf with her friends at High Mountain Golf Course in Franklin Lakes. She was very devoted to her faith and was active at Holy Resurrection Church in Wayne. Her family remembers her as being loving and caring to everyone that she knew. Lee touched the lives of many people and she will be missed by everyone who knew her.
Lee is survived by her husband George of Wayne, her daughter Joan Patterson of Oakland, her daughter Elizabeth Patterson of Philadelphia, her son G. Douglas Patterson, Jr. and his wife Ann of Lake Forrest, IL, and her daughter Faith Patterson of South Bend, IN; four grandchildren: Douglas, Katharine, Daniel, and Caraline; and her brother John Kosachook and wife Winifred of Little Falls. She was pre-deceased by her daughter Hope in 1966; one brother William Kosachook; and four sisters: Olga Vassilowitch, Johanna Clancy, Hope Dutko, and Faith Daniels.
Those planning an expression of sympathy in Natalie’s name are asked to consider Holy Resurrection Orthodox Church 285 French Hill Rd, Wayne, NJ 07470 or Valley Hospice 15 Essex Rd, Suite 301, Paramus, NJ 07652.
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Friends may visit with the family at Holy Resurrection Orthodox Church, 285 French Hill Rd, Wayne, on Tuesday, May 5, 2015 from 2-4 & 7-9 PM with a Memorial Service concluding the time of visitation and beginning at 8:00 PM.
Funeral Services will be held on Wednesday, May 6, 2015, 10:00 AM at Holy Resurrection Orthodox Church. Interment will follow at Laurel Grove Cemetery, Totowa.
Services
Friends may visit with the family at Holy Resurrection Orthodox Church, 285 French Hill Rd, Wayne, on Tuesday, May 5, 2015 from 2-4 & 7-9 PM with a Memorial Service concluding the time of visitation and beginning at 8:00 PM.
Funeral Services will be held on Wednesday, May 6, 2015, 10:00 AM at Holy Resurrection Orthodox Church. Interment will follow at Laurel Grove Cemetery, Totowa.
Natalie “Lee” Patterson (nee Kosachook) of Wayne passed away peacefully on Friday, May 1, 2015 after a brave battle with cancer. She passed away at her home while receiving the loving care of her family.
Lee was born and raised in Little Falls, she also lived in Wyckoff for twenty years before moving to Wayne in 1995. She graduated from Passaic Valley High School in 1943, then married her high school sweetheart, George Patterson in 1945. George was in the Navy during WWII. His ship was struck by a kamikaze plane and was towed back to California for repairs. During a two week leave, Lee and George were united in marriage. Lee always told the story to her children of having to get permission from her family to get married. Nonetheless they exchanged their vows in New Jersey, then they took several Greyhound buses from New Jersey back to California so that George could return and finish his service in the Navy.
One of Lee’s first jobs was working as a secretary for the National Broadcasting Corporation (NBC). She worked there for a few years until accepting another position at Rensselaer University in Troy, NY where she served as Secretary to the Dean of Students. She held various other secretarial positions until she took on her most important role - a full time mother and homemaker. It was the job of caring for her husband and children that would become her life’s work, and she flourished in it. Natalie and George’s hearts were broken in a very deep and profound way in 1966 when their baby daughter Hope passed away suddenly from cardiac complications. Natalie was a devoted wife and loving mother and she and George cherished 69 years of loving marriage.
Lee was quite an accomplished singer and was president of the Ridgewood Choral Group. She also belonged to a Choral group while working at NBC when she was younger. She was a member of the Wyckoff Women’s Club as well as the Little Falls Junior Women’s Club. Lee was also an avid golfer and could be found many-a-day playing rounds of golf with her friends at High Mountain Golf Course in Franklin Lakes. She was very devoted to her faith and was active at Holy Resurrection Church in Wayne. Her family remembers her as being loving and caring to everyone that she knew. Lee touched the lives of many people and she will be missed by everyone who knew her.
Lee is survived by her husband George of Wayne, her daughter Joan Patterson of Oakland, her daughter Elizabeth Patterson of Philadelphia, her son G. Douglas Patterson, Jr. and his wife Ann of Lake Forrest, IL, and her daughter Faith Patterson of South Bend, IN; four grandchildren: Douglas, Katharine, Daniel, and Caraline; and her brother John Kosachook and wife Winifred of Little Falls. She was pre-deceased by her daughter Hope in 1966; one brother William Kosachook; and four sisters: Olga Vassilowitch, Johanna Clancy, Hope Dutko, and Faith Daniels.
Those planning an expression of sympathy in Natalie’s name are asked to consider Holy Resurrection Orthodox Church 285 French Hill Rd, Wayne, NJ 07470 or Valley Hospice 15 Essex Rd, Suite 301, Paramus, NJ 07652.
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