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January 12, 2011
Services
Funeral services will be held Monday, January 17, 2011 at 10 AM from the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne then to Our Lady of Consolation RC Church, Wayne where at 11 AM a Funeral Mass will be offered. Friends may visit with the family at the funeral home on Sunday from 2-6 PM.
Othelea G. Holzl “Tillie” (nee Munich) age 98 of Wayne passed away on Wednesday, January 12, 2011 at the Saint Joseph’s Hospital in Wayne. Her passing was graciously peaceful after having the love of her family who spent much time at her bedside in anticipation of her passing.
She was born on July 10, 1912 in Garfield. Eldest child of Andrew and Margaret Munich, immigrants who came to Garfield from Hungary. Although they came here through Czechoslovakia they were of Hungarian heritage. Her parents arrived on these shores as young people and met each other here in America. They found great joy in the freedoms and opportunities to make a living and live your own dream in this land called America.
Tillie spent her childhood years with her sisters Olga, Ella, and Margaret in Garfield at 22 Willard Street and later on Pershing Street. She used to tell us that the home didn't have heat upstairs at first, and that she went to bed with a brick that had been warmed in the oven to put at the foot of the bed. She received her formal education at Garfield Grammar School up to the eighth grade. In that part of her personal history America also was in financial distress and as soon as possible you had to get a job to help support the family. She started work right out of Grammar School and her first job was as a very young nanny taking care of neighbor’s children while their parents went to work. Being very determined and hardworking she continued to be self-employed, cleaning homes, baby sitting, and hairdressing. She was later employed at Botany Woolen Mills in Passaic where her parents also worked and tended very large weaving machines. Her job was to keep the threads on those machines in order. She often spoke of her work there, and remembered that it kept her continually on her feet, running from machine to machine to restart them when a thread had broken. She recalled many times when all the looms she was tending would be off at the same time. One of the "bonuses" of her employment there was the wool scraps she would bring home and weave into the braided rugs many of us remember seeing.
On September 28, 1935 she and Frank Holzl were married. She was married in a silk dress made by her mother. Othelea and Frank first lived in Garfield, and then built a home in Saddle River on Saddle River Road where they raised their children Carol and Frank with the river in their backyard. This was the home which the state purchased to build Route 80, which now runs through where their living room once stood. They then lived in Paramus on Farview Avenue where the backyard backed up almost to her daughter's home. She continued to work outside the home for a time as they established the family business, Lodi Lumber, on Main Street in Lodi. In time she became a homemaker and full time wife and mother. When the children matured and her husband Frank passed away she got a job in E.J. Korvettes Clothing Store on Route 4 in Paramus where she made and kept several new friends whom she was still in touch with. She finally retired from work in 1970 and was able to concentrate on spending time with friends, family and her hobbies. She had always been artistic and started to take oil painting lessons and making ceramics. At the same time she moved in with her daughter Carol and her family also in Paramus, around the corner. She and Frank had thirty-three years of a devoted “two peas in a pod” marriage together. She still has many of the cards, poems and personal notes he sent to her in those years. It is interesting to note that she met her future husband in the baby nursery at the hospital where they were both born in the same day and date minutes apart in the same year. Their mother's both worked on the same woolen mill together, left to have their babies and when they returned to work discovered that their children had been born the same day. In 1990 she relocated with her daughter's family to Anderson, South Carolina for ten years. There she continued to make numerous new friends in her neighborhood and church. Here she continued her independent lifestyle and was driving until just before the return to New Jersey in 2000 to Wayne, on Parkside Court.
As we sift through the memories of photos we will remember the stories she told of the family, some her mother had told her. As we cook from her many recipes we will remember the great cook and the great eater who insisted we could always find room for "just one more bite". We will especially remember her stuffed cabbage and nut cake. When we look on the walls of our homes and see her oil paintings often created especially for the recipient we'll remember the artist at her easel on the kitchen table. Each cold night we curl on the sofa cocooned in the warmth of one of her many crocheted afghans we will remember her loving embrace, and recall visions of her in her armchair with the growing blanket spread on her lap. Those who travel will remember the world traveler as they retrace her footsteps gone before them. We will be reminded of her presence each June when her favorite flower, the purple iris's bloom in our gardens and as we turn the soil for the new young plants as she so often did year after year in her own garden.
We'll remember her quirks too. She always had to have a mug where the inside was white, because she wanted to see what she was drinking.
Tillie’s most important dedication in her life was family. They were the most important thing in her life and she adored them. In our family we have the "afghan factor"; the increased number of gram's afghans you posses indicates increased closeness. There is no doubt that every day of motherhood including grandchildren were uppermost in her mind. No matter how many birthdays they had she remained the matriarch of the family and she never ceased in her guidance and concern for their well being.
We will always remember Tillie for her compassion and humor. Tillie was gifted in life with an upbeat personality and a great sense of humor that caused her to be a welcome person at any gathering. As a result she made and kept many friends. She was an avid letter writer for many years, especially when she was in South Carolina, often painting her own stationary cards with watercolors of flowers for her letters. We also have the evidence of her fun-loving side in the photos she and her sisters took on vacations; where they "dressed-up" in the hotel at night and took joke photos.
Thanks mom and grandma for all of your love and devotion to our family.
Surviving this very special wife, mother and grandmother are one daughter Carol Polito of Wayne; one son Frank Holzl of Wayne; four grandchildren Margaret Sabino and her husband Joseph, Emil Polito and his wife Kathey, Frank Polito and Dawn Holzl; three great grandchildren Paul Sabino, Ian and Anya Polito.
She was predeceased by her husband Frank Holzl in 1969, her daughter-in-law Leanore Holzl in 2001 and her son-in-law Emil Polito in 2008.
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Funeral services will be held Monday, January 17, 2011 at 10 AM from the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne then to Our Lady of Consolation RC Church, Wayne where at 11 AM a Funeral Mass will be offered. Friends may visit with the family at the funeral home on Sunday from 2-6 PM.
January 12, 2011
Services
Funeral services will be held Monday, January 17, 2011 at 10 AM from the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne then to Our Lady of Consolation RC Church, Wayne where at 11 AM a Funeral Mass will be offered. Friends may visit with the family at the funeral home on Sunday from 2-6 PM.
Othelea G. Holzl “Tillie” (nee Munich) age 98 of Wayne passed away on Wednesday, January 12, 2011 at the Saint Joseph’s Hospital in Wayne. Her passing was graciously peaceful after having the love of her family who spent much time at her bedside in anticipation of her passing.
She was born on July 10, 1912 in Garfield. Eldest child of Andrew and Margaret Munich, immigrants who came to Garfield from Hungary. Although they came here through Czechoslovakia they were of Hungarian heritage. Her parents arrived on these shores as young people and met each other here in America. They found great joy in the freedoms and opportunities to make a living and live your own dream in this land called America.
Tillie spent her childhood years with her sisters Olga, Ella, and Margaret in Garfield at 22 Willard Street and later on Pershing Street. She used to tell us that the home didn't have heat upstairs at first, and that she went to bed with a brick that had been warmed in the oven to put at the foot of the bed. She received her formal education at Garfield Grammar School up to the eighth grade. In that part of her personal history America also was in financial distress and as soon as possible you had to get a job to help support the family. She started work right out of Grammar School and her first job was as a very young nanny taking care of neighbor’s children while their parents went to work. Being very determined and hardworking she continued to be self-employed, cleaning homes, baby sitting, and hairdressing. She was later employed at Botany Woolen Mills in Passaic where her parents also worked and tended very large weaving machines. Her job was to keep the threads on those machines in order. She often spoke of her work there, and remembered that it kept her continually on her feet, running from machine to machine to restart them when a thread had broken. She recalled many times when all the looms she was tending would be off at the same time. One of the "bonuses" of her employment there was the wool scraps she would bring home and weave into the braided rugs many of us remember seeing.
On September 28, 1935 she and Frank Holzl were married. She was married in a silk dress made by her mother. Othelea and Frank first lived in Garfield, and then built a home in Saddle River on Saddle River Road where they raised their children Carol and Frank with the river in their backyard. This was the home which the state purchased to build Route 80, which now runs through where their living room once stood. They then lived in Paramus on Farview Avenue where the backyard backed up almost to her daughter's home. She continued to work outside the home for a time as they established the family business, Lodi Lumber, on Main Street in Lodi. In time she became a homemaker and full time wife and mother. When the children matured and her husband Frank passed away she got a job in E.J. Korvettes Clothing Store on Route 4 in Paramus where she made and kept several new friends whom she was still in touch with. She finally retired from work in 1970 and was able to concentrate on spending time with friends, family and her hobbies. She had always been artistic and started to take oil painting lessons and making ceramics. At the same time she moved in with her daughter Carol and her family also in Paramus, around the corner. She and Frank had thirty-three years of a devoted “two peas in a pod” marriage together. She still has many of the cards, poems and personal notes he sent to her in those years. It is interesting to note that she met her future husband in the baby nursery at the hospital where they were both born in the same day and date minutes apart in the same year. Their mother's both worked on the same woolen mill together, left to have their babies and when they returned to work discovered that their children had been born the same day. In 1990 she relocated with her daughter's family to Anderson, South Carolina for ten years. There she continued to make numerous new friends in her neighborhood and church. Here she continued her independent lifestyle and was driving until just before the return to New Jersey in 2000 to Wayne, on Parkside Court.
As we sift through the memories of photos we will remember the stories she told of the family, some her mother had told her. As we cook from her many recipes we will remember the great cook and the great eater who insisted we could always find room for "just one more bite". We will especially remember her stuffed cabbage and nut cake. When we look on the walls of our homes and see her oil paintings often created especially for the recipient we'll remember the artist at her easel on the kitchen table. Each cold night we curl on the sofa cocooned in the warmth of one of her many crocheted afghans we will remember her loving embrace, and recall visions of her in her armchair with the growing blanket spread on her lap. Those who travel will remember the world traveler as they retrace her footsteps gone before them. We will be reminded of her presence each June when her favorite flower, the purple iris's bloom in our gardens and as we turn the soil for the new young plants as she so often did year after year in her own garden.
We'll remember her quirks too. She always had to have a mug where the inside was white, because she wanted to see what she was drinking.
Tillie’s most important dedication in her life was family. They were the most important thing in her life and she adored them. In our family we have the "afghan factor"; the increased number of gram's afghans you posses indicates increased closeness. There is no doubt that every day of motherhood including grandchildren were uppermost in her mind. No matter how many birthdays they had she remained the matriarch of the family and she never ceased in her guidance and concern for their well being.
We will always remember Tillie for her compassion and humor. Tillie was gifted in life with an upbeat personality and a great sense of humor that caused her to be a welcome person at any gathering. As a result she made and kept many friends. She was an avid letter writer for many years, especially when she was in South Carolina, often painting her own stationary cards with watercolors of flowers for her letters. We also have the evidence of her fun-loving side in the photos she and her sisters took on vacations; where they "dressed-up" in the hotel at night and took joke photos.
Thanks mom and grandma for all of your love and devotion to our family.
Surviving this very special wife, mother and grandmother are one daughter Carol Polito of Wayne; one son Frank Holzl of Wayne; four grandchildren Margaret Sabino and her husband Joseph, Emil Polito and his wife Kathey, Frank Polito and Dawn Holzl; three great grandchildren Paul Sabino, Ian and Anya Polito.
She was predeceased by her husband Frank Holzl in 1969, her daughter-in-law Leanore Holzl in 2001 and her son-in-law Emil Polito in 2008.
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