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September 25, 2012
Services
Friends and Family will gather to visit on Saturday, September 29, 2012 from 10:00 AM to 12:00 Noon at Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne, NJ. A Funeral Service, celebrating Nina's life will follow, immediately, 12:00 Noon at the funeral home.
Nina Husseyn (nee Mitus), age 85 of Wayne, died peacefully on Tuesday, September 25, 2012.
Nina was born in the city of Kiev in the Ukraine. At the tender age of sixteen, she was ripped from her home by Nazi soldiers and transported to a war camp in Gelsenkirchen, Germany where she remained until the American forces liberated Germany in 1945.
Soon after World War II, she met a handsome man named Mamed Husseyn at a dance. They fell in love, Nina changed her last name to Husseyn, and Mamed and Nina embarked upon their married life together. They had four beautiful children while remaining in Germany, but they had greater dreams for themselves and in 1956, with just $12 in their pockets, they boarded a ship called the General Taylor and together with their four children, ages eleven, six, three and eleven months, they headed for the United States of America! They arrived in the New York City ports and met their American sponsors who took them to their first home on Market Street in Paterson. Nina was aghast by this first impression of the “New Country.” She cried and wished so much that she could go home.
Nina stayed, worked hard so she could help Mamed provide a wonderful home for her family. One day, Nina received an opportunity to clean house for some good folks from Franklin Lakes. What made the job especially enticing was that it came with separate living quarters for her whole family. Between this new job and Mamed’s several jobs, the Husseyn’s continued to work hard and that hard work was beginning to pay off. They were beginning to realize the American Dream! Their biggest goal was to gain American citizenship within five years of arriving in the U.S.A. Nina and Mamed reached that goal, to the day! Upon gaining citizenship they exclaimed “we are not ouslanders anymore!”
After five years in Franklin Lakes, the family reached another milestone – home ownership. They purchased their first home in Wayne in 1963. Mamed made the living and Nina kept things humming at the new homestead. Every night, she had a home cooked meal waiting when Mamed and the kids came home. And oh boy, could she cook and bake! Everything was homemade! Perogis one night, stuffed cabbage or stuffed grape leaves the next. Some of her children’s favorite recipes were chicken wrapped in cheese and bobkas. At Christmas, Nina was famous for her homemade stoelen, plumb cakes and rhubarb. Lots of what she cooked came from that which she grew in her own gardens. When the growing season was over, Nina could be found in the kitchen canning and jarring the excess crops. The Husseyn’s enjoyed fresh garden-grown tomatoes and other fruits and vegetables all winter long. Nina was a great hostess too and often times the house would be filled with family and friends, eating, drinking and having a great time. Nina had a rule though, if she and Mamed were invited to someone else’s house, they would only go if their children were invited too.
Nina’s was as a wonderful mother who fiercely protected her children like a mamma bear. She never went to bed until all of them were tucked safe and sound in their beds. This proved to be quite inconvenient as the kids got older as sometimes they wouldn’t get home till the wee hours of the morning. She got her revenge though. She didn’t preach to them. Instead, at 7:00 AM the following day, she’d be right outside their bedroom doors running that vacuum. She believed in working for what you got and tried to instill those same values in her children. It must have paid off because today they are all early risers and hard workers.
While Nina was tough on her own children, she was just the opposite with her grandchildren. She would beg to take them for the day, and when she got them, she’d let them sit on the table and she’d take them to McDonald’s at Wayne Hill Mall and let them have whatever they wanted. When it was time for their parents to pick them up, Nina would bring them into her closet in her room and as she handed them a twenty dollar bill she would say, “Don’t tell your grandfather I’m giving you this!” Unbeknownst to her, Grandpa was sneaking money to his grandchildren behind her back too. Those kids went home rich!
Nina was predeceased by her husband Mamed and her son John, both in 2006. She is survived by her daughter Laila Farnow and husband Richard of Chatham, NJ, her son Adil and wife Karen of North Prairie, WS, her daughter Tamella Hassell and husband KJ of Budd Lake; six grandchildren: Nicole, Cassandra, Jamie, Sasha, Alex and Tyler; two great-grandchildren: Ryan and Alicia and her sister Dasha Mitus of the Ukraine.
In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be made to the Alzheimer’s Association, P.O. Box 96011, Washington, DC 20090-6011 or online at www.alz.org.
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Friends and Family will gather to visit on Saturday, September 29, 2012 from 10:00 AM to 12:00 Noon at Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne, NJ. A Funeral Service, celebrating Nina's life will follow, immediately, 12:00 Noon at the funeral home.
September 25, 2012
Services
Friends and Family will gather to visit on Saturday, September 29, 2012 from 10:00 AM to 12:00 Noon at Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne, NJ. A Funeral Service, celebrating Nina's life will follow, immediately, 12:00 Noon at the funeral home.
Nina Husseyn (nee Mitus), age 85 of Wayne, died peacefully on Tuesday, September 25, 2012.
Nina was born in the city of Kiev in the Ukraine. At the tender age of sixteen, she was ripped from her home by Nazi soldiers and transported to a war camp in Gelsenkirchen, Germany where she remained until the American forces liberated Germany in 1945.
Soon after World War II, she met a handsome man named Mamed Husseyn at a dance. They fell in love, Nina changed her last name to Husseyn, and Mamed and Nina embarked upon their married life together. They had four beautiful children while remaining in Germany, but they had greater dreams for themselves and in 1956, with just $12 in their pockets, they boarded a ship called the General Taylor and together with their four children, ages eleven, six, three and eleven months, they headed for the United States of America! They arrived in the New York City ports and met their American sponsors who took them to their first home on Market Street in Paterson. Nina was aghast by this first impression of the “New Country.” She cried and wished so much that she could go home.
Nina stayed, worked hard so she could help Mamed provide a wonderful home for her family. One day, Nina received an opportunity to clean house for some good folks from Franklin Lakes. What made the job especially enticing was that it came with separate living quarters for her whole family. Between this new job and Mamed’s several jobs, the Husseyn’s continued to work hard and that hard work was beginning to pay off. They were beginning to realize the American Dream! Their biggest goal was to gain American citizenship within five years of arriving in the U.S.A. Nina and Mamed reached that goal, to the day! Upon gaining citizenship they exclaimed “we are not ouslanders anymore!”
After five years in Franklin Lakes, the family reached another milestone – home ownership. They purchased their first home in Wayne in 1963. Mamed made the living and Nina kept things humming at the new homestead. Every night, she had a home cooked meal waiting when Mamed and the kids came home. And oh boy, could she cook and bake! Everything was homemade! Perogis one night, stuffed cabbage or stuffed grape leaves the next. Some of her children’s favorite recipes were chicken wrapped in cheese and bobkas. At Christmas, Nina was famous for her homemade stoelen, plumb cakes and rhubarb. Lots of what she cooked came from that which she grew in her own gardens. When the growing season was over, Nina could be found in the kitchen canning and jarring the excess crops. The Husseyn’s enjoyed fresh garden-grown tomatoes and other fruits and vegetables all winter long. Nina was a great hostess too and often times the house would be filled with family and friends, eating, drinking and having a great time. Nina had a rule though, if she and Mamed were invited to someone else’s house, they would only go if their children were invited too.
Nina’s was as a wonderful mother who fiercely protected her children like a mamma bear. She never went to bed until all of them were tucked safe and sound in their beds. This proved to be quite inconvenient as the kids got older as sometimes they wouldn’t get home till the wee hours of the morning. She got her revenge though. She didn’t preach to them. Instead, at 7:00 AM the following day, she’d be right outside their bedroom doors running that vacuum. She believed in working for what you got and tried to instill those same values in her children. It must have paid off because today they are all early risers and hard workers.
While Nina was tough on her own children, she was just the opposite with her grandchildren. She would beg to take them for the day, and when she got them, she’d let them sit on the table and she’d take them to McDonald’s at Wayne Hill Mall and let them have whatever they wanted. When it was time for their parents to pick them up, Nina would bring them into her closet in her room and as she handed them a twenty dollar bill she would say, “Don’t tell your grandfather I’m giving you this!” Unbeknownst to her, Grandpa was sneaking money to his grandchildren behind her back too. Those kids went home rich!
Nina was predeceased by her husband Mamed and her son John, both in 2006. She is survived by her daughter Laila Farnow and husband Richard of Chatham, NJ, her son Adil and wife Karen of North Prairie, WS, her daughter Tamella Hassell and husband KJ of Budd Lake; six grandchildren: Nicole, Cassandra, Jamie, Sasha, Alex and Tyler; two great-grandchildren: Ryan and Alicia and her sister Dasha Mitus of the Ukraine.
In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be made to the Alzheimer’s Association, P.O. Box 96011, Washington, DC 20090-6011 or online at www.alz.org.
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