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August 15, 2013
Services
Funeral services were held privately at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
Interment was in Holy Cross Cemetery, North Arlington.
Patricia Hughes of Wayne passed peacefully on Thursday, August 15, 2013.
She was born in Passaic and raised on E. 20th Street near 20th Avenue in Paterson. At the age of seventeen she moved to 3rd Street in Clifton where she lived until 1993 when she moved to Wayne. Patricia graduated from Eastside High School in Paterson with the Class of 1961. She continued her education at Caldwell College where she received her certification for teaching.
She worked with the South River Board of Education for twenty five years having worked as a Social Studies teacher in both the Middle School and High School before retiring in 1991.
Patricia was a very giving person who enjoyed volunteering in her spare time for the Visiting Dogs Program at the Ocean County Medical Center. Her heart filled with joy as she witnessed the comfort the dogs brought the patients. She was an extremely intelligent person who was great at trivia and always answering the questions on the television show Jeopardy before the contestants. An avid fan of all types of sports she especially loved the NY Mets.
Patricia was predeceased by her parents Margaret (Hartnett) and Robert G. Hughes; she was the loved sister of Robert Hughes and his wife Barbara of Wayne; dear aunt of Kathleen Hughes of Woodridge, and Thomas Hughes and his wife Maori of Stamford, CT; loved great-aunt of Theodore and Maya Hughes.
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Funeral services were held privately at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
Interment was in Holy Cross Cemetery, North Arlington.
August 15, 2013
Services
Funeral services were held privately at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
Interment was in Holy Cross Cemetery, North Arlington.
Patricia Hughes of Wayne passed peacefully on Thursday, August 15, 2013.
She was born in Passaic and raised on E. 20th Street near 20th Avenue in Paterson. At the age of seventeen she moved to 3rd Street in Clifton where she lived until 1993 when she moved to Wayne. Patricia graduated from Eastside High School in Paterson with the Class of 1961. She continued her education at Caldwell College where she received her certification for teaching.
She worked with the South River Board of Education for twenty five years having worked as a Social Studies teacher in both the Middle School and High School before retiring in 1991.
Patricia was a very giving person who enjoyed volunteering in her spare time for the Visiting Dogs Program at the Ocean County Medical Center. Her heart filled with joy as she witnessed the comfort the dogs brought the patients. She was an extremely intelligent person who was great at trivia and always answering the questions on the television show Jeopardy before the contestants. An avid fan of all types of sports she especially loved the NY Mets.
Patricia was predeceased by her parents Margaret (Hartnett) and Robert G. Hughes; she was the loved sister of Robert Hughes and his wife Barbara of Wayne; dear aunt of Kathleen Hughes of Woodridge, and Thomas Hughes and his wife Maori of Stamford, CT; loved great-aunt of Theodore and Maya Hughes.
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