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July 22, 2008
Services
Funeral services will be held 9 AM on Friday, July 25, 2008 from the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne then to Our Lady of Consolation RC Church, Wayne where at 10 AM a Funeral Mass will be offered.
Friends may visit with the family on Thursday, July 24, 2008 from 2-4 and 7-9 PM at the funeral home.
Interment will be in Cedar Lawn Cemetery, Paterson.
Patricia Mae Shenton age 76, of Wayne and Wildwood Crest, died Tuesday, July 22, 2008 at Care One of Wayne.
She was born, the daughter of the late Mae and Edward Varetoni, raised in Clifton, and as a teenager moved to Hasbrouck Heights before moving to Wayne forty-five years ago.
Pat graduated from Hasbrouck Heights High School with the class of 1949 and went on to Farleigh Dickenson University, Rutherford where she received her degree in Dental Hygiene with the class of 1952. She was part of the pioneering first class of Dental Hygienists in New Jersey. Generations of New Jersey residents have benefited from the excellence of her work.
Pat met her husband Walter years before they ever courted as he was a friend of one of her girlfriends. She was four years younger than Walter and in those formative years that age difference kept them from even considering a relationship. Years later, after Walter came out of the service, he ran into Pat at Farleigh Dickenson University. They began dating and two years after graduating from college, and after formally asking her father, Walter asked for her hand in marriage on the Fourth of July. They have had a loving and devoted marriage for the past fifty-six years.
Through the years she has worked as a dental hygienist for Dr Hal Gardy in Maywood and more recently Dr. Anthony Cipriano of Ridgewood before her retirement in 1993.
She was a parishioner of Our Lady of Consolation RC Church, Wayne.
Pat is best described as the kind of person who would light up a room with just her personality. She affected each person that she touched and was active in community, church, family and friendships throughout all of her years. She could create a connection with people of all ages, and was much treasured by all who had the privilege to be close to her. She was a great mother, wonderful wife and an excellent cook – a skill and passion she learned from her mother.
Beloved wife of Walter R. Shenton; loving mother of Kathleen E. Shenton of Shelton, CT.
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Funeral services will be held 9 AM on Friday, July 25, 2008 from the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne then to Our Lady of Consolation RC Church, Wayne where at 10 AM a Funeral Mass will be offered.
Friends may visit with the family on Thursday, July 24, 2008 from 2-4 and 7-9 PM at the funeral home.
Interment will be in Cedar Lawn Cemetery, Paterson.
July 22, 2008
Services
Funeral services will be held 9 AM on Friday, July 25, 2008 from the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne then to Our Lady of Consolation RC Church, Wayne where at 10 AM a Funeral Mass will be offered.
Friends may visit with the family on Thursday, July 24, 2008 from 2-4 and 7-9 PM at the funeral home.
Interment will be in Cedar Lawn Cemetery, Paterson.
Patricia Mae Shenton age 76, of Wayne and Wildwood Crest, died Tuesday, July 22, 2008 at Care One of Wayne.
She was born, the daughter of the late Mae and Edward Varetoni, raised in Clifton, and as a teenager moved to Hasbrouck Heights before moving to Wayne forty-five years ago.
Pat graduated from Hasbrouck Heights High School with the class of 1949 and went on to Farleigh Dickenson University, Rutherford where she received her degree in Dental Hygiene with the class of 1952. She was part of the pioneering first class of Dental Hygienists in New Jersey. Generations of New Jersey residents have benefited from the excellence of her work.
Pat met her husband Walter years before they ever courted as he was a friend of one of her girlfriends. She was four years younger than Walter and in those formative years that age difference kept them from even considering a relationship. Years later, after Walter came out of the service, he ran into Pat at Farleigh Dickenson University. They began dating and two years after graduating from college, and after formally asking her father, Walter asked for her hand in marriage on the Fourth of July. They have had a loving and devoted marriage for the past fifty-six years.
Through the years she has worked as a dental hygienist for Dr Hal Gardy in Maywood and more recently Dr. Anthony Cipriano of Ridgewood before her retirement in 1993.
She was a parishioner of Our Lady of Consolation RC Church, Wayne.
Pat is best described as the kind of person who would light up a room with just her personality. She affected each person that she touched and was active in community, church, family and friendships throughout all of her years. She could create a connection with people of all ages, and was much treasured by all who had the privilege to be close to her. She was a great mother, wonderful wife and an excellent cook – a skill and passion she learned from her mother.
Beloved wife of Walter R. Shenton; loving mother of Kathleen E. Shenton of Shelton, CT.
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