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May 10, 2018
Services
Friends may visit with the family on Monday, May 14, 2018 from 7-9 PM at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
Funeral services will be held on Tuesday, May 15, 2018, beginning 10:30 AM at the funeral home.
Interment will be in the First Reformed Church Cemetery, Pompton Plains.
Pauline Peer, age 93, of North Haledon and formerly, a longtime resident of Wayne, passed away peacefully at home on Thursday, May 10, 2018 with the comfort of family by her side.
Pauline was born in Singac. As a young woman, she was employed by the Instrument Specialties Company as an assembler. Pauline met her future husband, Harold “Timer” Peer, on a front porch in Singac. After dating for a while Pauline would say to him “let’s get married” and Harold would simply wait for the topic to go away. Eventually Harold proposed to Pauline and she said she wasn’t sure. She soon said yes and they married on February 10, 1946.
Soon after marriage, Pauline and Harold worked together to build their own home in the Mountain View section of Wayne. During those early years of marriage, the blessing of two beautiful baby girls also arrived and Pauline happily settled into life as a homemaker and mother. As the saying goes, she wore a lot of hats – one of them being assisting her husband Harold in his plumbing business. If you called the business line it was Pauline’s voice that you’d hear announce “Harold Peer Plumbing, how may I help you?” She also managed all scheduling and billing and pretty much anything else that needed to be done to support the business. In between, she managed the household too. She was an accomplished seamstress who sewed most of her own outfits as well as the ones for her daughters. For many years, their home in Wayne became the “go-to” place for summer picnics and other gatherings for family and friends. Pauline was an excellent hostess and an even more excellent cook who did most, if not all, of the cooking for these parties including get-togethers for the members of Harold’s metal detectors club.
Pauline enjoyed taking a break from daily responsibilities by heading out for a night of line dancing and socializing at the Wayne Civic Center (former Preakness School) on Hamburg Turnpike. She was also a member of the senior citizen group where she was always ready to take part in sponsored day trips including outings to Atlantic City to catch a show and a delicious buffet dinner. Her daughter Barbara Jean’s move down to the Jersey shore to South Seaside Park turned out to be a great thing for Pauline too as she loved to visit and spend time on the bay, watching the beautiful boats sail in and out while warming herself on a beautiful sunny day. Those vacations turned into staycations as she loved it down the shore and her daughter, son-in-law, and grandchildren were all too happy to let Grandma stay for a while.
In 2010, Pauline’s beloved husband Harold passed away suddenly after sixty-four years of wedded blessing. The next year she downsized to an apartment in Hawthorne before moving into her daughter Denise’s house in North Haledon in 2015. Pauline will always be loved and cherished and remembered for gentle, kind, loving and caring disposition.
Pauline was predeceased in 2010 by her beloved husband Harold “Timer” Peer. She was the loving mother of Barbara Jean Hatrak and her husband Michael of Columbus, and Denise VanVlaanderen and her husband Robert of North Haledon; cherished grandmother of Deanna and Matthew Hatrak and Jade Macfarlane VanVlaanderen and Codi Basile VanVlaanderen; and dear sister of Willie, Olga, Helen, Nick, and Johnny.
In lieu of flowers memorial donations to the American Heart Association, P.O. Box 417005, Boston, MA 02241-7005, would be appreciated.
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Friends may visit with the family on Monday, May 14, 2018 from 7-9 PM at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
Funeral services will be held on Tuesday, May 15, 2018, beginning 10:30 AM at the funeral home.
Interment will be in the First Reformed Church Cemetery, Pompton Plains.
May 10, 2018
Services
Friends may visit with the family on Monday, May 14, 2018 from 7-9 PM at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
Funeral services will be held on Tuesday, May 15, 2018, beginning 10:30 AM at the funeral home.
Interment will be in the First Reformed Church Cemetery, Pompton Plains.
Pauline Peer, age 93, of North Haledon and formerly, a longtime resident of Wayne, passed away peacefully at home on Thursday, May 10, 2018 with the comfort of family by her side.
Pauline was born in Singac. As a young woman, she was employed by the Instrument Specialties Company as an assembler. Pauline met her future husband, Harold “Timer” Peer, on a front porch in Singac. After dating for a while Pauline would say to him “let’s get married” and Harold would simply wait for the topic to go away. Eventually Harold proposed to Pauline and she said she wasn’t sure. She soon said yes and they married on February 10, 1946.
Soon after marriage, Pauline and Harold worked together to build their own home in the Mountain View section of Wayne. During those early years of marriage, the blessing of two beautiful baby girls also arrived and Pauline happily settled into life as a homemaker and mother. As the saying goes, she wore a lot of hats – one of them being assisting her husband Harold in his plumbing business. If you called the business line it was Pauline’s voice that you’d hear announce “Harold Peer Plumbing, how may I help you?” She also managed all scheduling and billing and pretty much anything else that needed to be done to support the business. In between, she managed the household too. She was an accomplished seamstress who sewed most of her own outfits as well as the ones for her daughters. For many years, their home in Wayne became the “go-to” place for summer picnics and other gatherings for family and friends. Pauline was an excellent hostess and an even more excellent cook who did most, if not all, of the cooking for these parties including get-togethers for the members of Harold’s metal detectors club.
Pauline enjoyed taking a break from daily responsibilities by heading out for a night of line dancing and socializing at the Wayne Civic Center (former Preakness School) on Hamburg Turnpike. She was also a member of the senior citizen group where she was always ready to take part in sponsored day trips including outings to Atlantic City to catch a show and a delicious buffet dinner. Her daughter Barbara Jean’s move down to the Jersey shore to South Seaside Park turned out to be a great thing for Pauline too as she loved to visit and spend time on the bay, watching the beautiful boats sail in and out while warming herself on a beautiful sunny day. Those vacations turned into staycations as she loved it down the shore and her daughter, son-in-law, and grandchildren were all too happy to let Grandma stay for a while.
In 2010, Pauline’s beloved husband Harold passed away suddenly after sixty-four years of wedded blessing. The next year she downsized to an apartment in Hawthorne before moving into her daughter Denise’s house in North Haledon in 2015. Pauline will always be loved and cherished and remembered for gentle, kind, loving and caring disposition.
Pauline was predeceased in 2010 by her beloved husband Harold “Timer” Peer. She was the loving mother of Barbara Jean Hatrak and her husband Michael of Columbus, and Denise VanVlaanderen and her husband Robert of North Haledon; cherished grandmother of Deanna and Matthew Hatrak and Jade Macfarlane VanVlaanderen and Codi Basile VanVlaanderen; and dear sister of Willie, Olga, Helen, Nick, and Johnny.
In lieu of flowers memorial donations to the American Heart Association, P.O. Box 417005, Boston, MA 02241-7005, would be appreciated.
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