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December 22, 2014
Services
Friends may visit with the family from 2-6 PM on Sunday, December 28, 2014 at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
Funeral services will be held 8:45 AM from the funeral home then to Our Lady of Fatima Church, 32 West Franklin Ave. and the corner of First Street, Pequannock where a 10 AM Funeral Mass will be offered.
Patricia Dorothy Fox (nee Frazer) age 79 of Wayne passed Monday, December 22, 2014.
She was born in Brooklyn, NY and raised in East Paterson having graduated from Lodi High School with the Class of 1953. She also lived in Clifton, Paterson, Oakland, and Fullerton, California before moving to Wayne in 1975.
She met her husband on a blind date. When Bill showed up at the house Pat was cutting the lawn. She was wearing red shorts and a white top and Bill was wearing Levi jeans. Pat thought Bill looked goofy in his jeans. Their first date was a drive to Fort Lee and a walk across the George Washington Bridge. They eventually fell in love with Bill proposing marriage in his 1952 Kaiser-Frazer Henry J parked in front of her family home on Augusta Street in East Paterson. They married on May 26, 1956 at Saint Leo’s Church in East Paterson, had a reception at the Koenig’s Hoffbrau in Westwood and a honeymoon in Bermuda. Pat and Bill have enjoyed fifty-eight years of loving and devoted marriage.
Pat worked in the cafeteria at the DePaul High School in Wayne for the past thirty-six years.
She was a roll up your sleeves and get to it worker. She raised six children and was very involved with her children’s schools while they were attending them. She enjoyed crocheting afghans, reading, and cooking for a gang. Family picnics and holiday gatherings were always a two meal occasion. The family will greatly miss her special touch on mashed potatoes and Swedish meatballs. After hearing about the passing of his grandmother one of her grandsons asked “who's going to make the mashed potatoes?”
Pat was a member of Our Lady of Fatima Church in Pequannock for over thirty years.
Pat's husband Bill is a member of the Barbershop Harmony Society and Pat supported his hobby by volunteering to perform many of the functions required to operate such organizations. For example, Pat gladly spent her weekends during the Christmas Season at the South Street Seaport in New York City as the Big Apple Barbershop Chorus sang its annual Christmas Tree performance where they were known as the South Street Seaport Christmas Tree. With the Montclair Chapter of the Society she participated with the Dapper Dans Chorus at its many functions throughout the year including shows, sing-outs and other events. She was the beloved wife of William Fox; devoted mother of William Fox, Jr. and his wife Sandra of Piscataway, Andrew Fox and his companion Cary of North Bergen, Thomas Fox and his wife Lynn of Monmouth Junction, Nancy Meyer and her husband Robert of Oakland, Mary Sabo and her husband Michael of Kinnelon, and Timothy Fox and his wife Elizabeth of Coplay, PA; cherished grandmother of Matthew, Michelle, John, Daniel, Dana, Drew, Michael, Christoffer, and the late Derek; loved sister of Barbara Feist of Florida and George Frazer of Texas.
In lieu of flowers memorial donations to DePaul Catholic High School, 1512 Alps Road, Wayne, NJ 07470 would be appreciated-please be sure to include “In memory of Pat Fox” in your memo.
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Friends may visit with the family from 2-6 PM on Sunday, December 28, 2014 at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
Funeral services will be held 8:45 AM from the funeral home then to Our Lady of Fatima Church, 32 West Franklin Ave. and the corner of First Street, Pequannock where a 10 AM Funeral Mass will be offered.
December 22, 2014
Services
Friends may visit with the family from 2-6 PM on Sunday, December 28, 2014 at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
Funeral services will be held 8:45 AM from the funeral home then to Our Lady of Fatima Church, 32 West Franklin Ave. and the corner of First Street, Pequannock where a 10 AM Funeral Mass will be offered.
Patricia Dorothy Fox (nee Frazer) age 79 of Wayne passed Monday, December 22, 2014.
She was born in Brooklyn, NY and raised in East Paterson having graduated from Lodi High School with the Class of 1953. She also lived in Clifton, Paterson, Oakland, and Fullerton, California before moving to Wayne in 1975.
She met her husband on a blind date. When Bill showed up at the house Pat was cutting the lawn. She was wearing red shorts and a white top and Bill was wearing Levi jeans. Pat thought Bill looked goofy in his jeans. Their first date was a drive to Fort Lee and a walk across the George Washington Bridge. They eventually fell in love with Bill proposing marriage in his 1952 Kaiser-Frazer Henry J parked in front of her family home on Augusta Street in East Paterson. They married on May 26, 1956 at Saint Leo’s Church in East Paterson, had a reception at the Koenig’s Hoffbrau in Westwood and a honeymoon in Bermuda. Pat and Bill have enjoyed fifty-eight years of loving and devoted marriage.
Pat worked in the cafeteria at the DePaul High School in Wayne for the past thirty-six years.
She was a roll up your sleeves and get to it worker. She raised six children and was very involved with her children’s schools while they were attending them. She enjoyed crocheting afghans, reading, and cooking for a gang. Family picnics and holiday gatherings were always a two meal occasion. The family will greatly miss her special touch on mashed potatoes and Swedish meatballs. After hearing about the passing of his grandmother one of her grandsons asked “who's going to make the mashed potatoes?”
Pat was a member of Our Lady of Fatima Church in Pequannock for over thirty years.
Pat's husband Bill is a member of the Barbershop Harmony Society and Pat supported his hobby by volunteering to perform many of the functions required to operate such organizations. For example, Pat gladly spent her weekends during the Christmas Season at the South Street Seaport in New York City as the Big Apple Barbershop Chorus sang its annual Christmas Tree performance where they were known as the South Street Seaport Christmas Tree. With the Montclair Chapter of the Society she participated with the Dapper Dans Chorus at its many functions throughout the year including shows, sing-outs and other events. She was the beloved wife of William Fox; devoted mother of William Fox, Jr. and his wife Sandra of Piscataway, Andrew Fox and his companion Cary of North Bergen, Thomas Fox and his wife Lynn of Monmouth Junction, Nancy Meyer and her husband Robert of Oakland, Mary Sabo and her husband Michael of Kinnelon, and Timothy Fox and his wife Elizabeth of Coplay, PA; cherished grandmother of Matthew, Michelle, John, Daniel, Dana, Drew, Michael, Christoffer, and the late Derek; loved sister of Barbara Feist of Florida and George Frazer of Texas.
In lieu of flowers memorial donations to DePaul Catholic High School, 1512 Alps Road, Wayne, NJ 07470 would be appreciated-please be sure to include “In memory of Pat Fox” in your memo.
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