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February 12, 2010
Services
Funeral services will be held 9 AM on Thursday, February 18, 2010 from the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne then to Holy Spirit RC Church, Pompton Plains where at 10 AM a Funeral Mass will be offered. Friends may visit with the family on Wednesday, February 17, 2010 from 7-9 PM at the funeral home. Interment will be in Christ the King Cemetery, Franklin Lakes.
Patrick Joseph Hickey age 71 of Wayne died peacefully on Friday, February 12, 2010 at the Chilton Memorial Hospital, Pompton Plains.
He was born in County Cork, Ireland and attended the following schools: Boys National School, Millstreet, County Cork from September of 1944 through July of 1951, Colaiste Mhuire, Douglas Road, Cord City from August 1951 through June of 1953, Colaiste Theresa Passage West, County Cork from August 1953 through June 1954, St Patricks College, Millstreet, County Cork from September 1954 through June of 1956 and the Wandsworth Technical College, London, England from September 1956 through April of 1957.
He worked in England for the Ford Motor Company before moving to the United States of America in 1960. He settled in the New Brunswick, NJ area and worked in the upholstery department of the Ford Motor Company in New Brunswick, NJ.
In 1961 he joined the United States Air Force. He met the love of his life Catherine Dillane through friends and took her to Central Park in New York City for their first date. He proposed to her at the Park Avenue Hotel in New York City and they married at St. Catherine of Genoa RC Church, Brooklyn, NY in 1961. Pat was serving in the US Air Force when they were married and was sent back to Oklahoma so they never had a chance to have a honeymoon.
When he returned from his service in the Air Force he saw an opportunity to start his own business. He founded the North American Business Machines Corporation in New York City and ran that company for many years. He later bought and sold real estate and managed, owned and developed real estate in Northern New Jersey.
Pat was an outgoing guy who loved to work, loved history, was generous, caring, had a great sense of humor and was a terrific story teller. He traveled extensively through Europe, enjoyed a good steak and a beer, loved the American holidays Thanksgiving, Fourth of July and was a skilled carpenter having made all types of furniture including book cases, tables and cabinets.
He was the beloved husband of forty-nine years to Catherine (Dillane) Hickey; devoted father of Patrick Joseph Hickey, JR and his wife Karen of Wayne, Deirdre Ann Maine and her husband Patrice of Dole, France and John Douglas Hickey of West Milford; cherished grandfather of Patrick and Colin Hickey; brother of Kiernan, Cornelius and Donal Hickey, Evelyn McEvily of San Francisco and Finola Beaty of Australia.
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Funeral services will be held 9 AM on Thursday, February 18, 2010 from the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne then to Holy Spirit RC Church, Pompton Plains where at 10 AM a Funeral Mass will be offered. Friends may visit with the family on Wednesday, February 17, 2010 from 7-9 PM at the funeral home. Interment will be in Christ the King Cemetery, Franklin Lakes.
February 12, 2010
Services
Funeral services will be held 9 AM on Thursday, February 18, 2010 from the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne then to Holy Spirit RC Church, Pompton Plains where at 10 AM a Funeral Mass will be offered. Friends may visit with the family on Wednesday, February 17, 2010 from 7-9 PM at the funeral home. Interment will be in Christ the King Cemetery, Franklin Lakes.
Patrick Joseph Hickey age 71 of Wayne died peacefully on Friday, February 12, 2010 at the Chilton Memorial Hospital, Pompton Plains.
He was born in County Cork, Ireland and attended the following schools: Boys National School, Millstreet, County Cork from September of 1944 through July of 1951, Colaiste Mhuire, Douglas Road, Cord City from August 1951 through June of 1953, Colaiste Theresa Passage West, County Cork from August 1953 through June 1954, St Patricks College, Millstreet, County Cork from September 1954 through June of 1956 and the Wandsworth Technical College, London, England from September 1956 through April of 1957.
He worked in England for the Ford Motor Company before moving to the United States of America in 1960. He settled in the New Brunswick, NJ area and worked in the upholstery department of the Ford Motor Company in New Brunswick, NJ.
In 1961 he joined the United States Air Force. He met the love of his life Catherine Dillane through friends and took her to Central Park in New York City for their first date. He proposed to her at the Park Avenue Hotel in New York City and they married at St. Catherine of Genoa RC Church, Brooklyn, NY in 1961. Pat was serving in the US Air Force when they were married and was sent back to Oklahoma so they never had a chance to have a honeymoon.
When he returned from his service in the Air Force he saw an opportunity to start his own business. He founded the North American Business Machines Corporation in New York City and ran that company for many years. He later bought and sold real estate and managed, owned and developed real estate in Northern New Jersey.
Pat was an outgoing guy who loved to work, loved history, was generous, caring, had a great sense of humor and was a terrific story teller. He traveled extensively through Europe, enjoyed a good steak and a beer, loved the American holidays Thanksgiving, Fourth of July and was a skilled carpenter having made all types of furniture including book cases, tables and cabinets.
He was the beloved husband of forty-nine years to Catherine (Dillane) Hickey; devoted father of Patrick Joseph Hickey, JR and his wife Karen of Wayne, Deirdre Ann Maine and her husband Patrice of Dole, France and John Douglas Hickey of West Milford; cherished grandfather of Patrick and Colin Hickey; brother of Kiernan, Cornelius and Donal Hickey, Evelyn McEvily of San Francisco and Finola Beaty of Australia.
In lieu of flowers memorial donations to the American Red Cross, PO Box 4002018, Des Moines, IA 50340-2018 – please write Haiti Relief & Development in your checks memo section or go to www.redcross.org and click on the Donate Now button.
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