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Friends may visit with the family at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne, on Tuesday, August 30, 2016 from 4-8 PM. Funeral Services will be held at 10:30 AM on Wednesday, August 31, 2016 at the funeral home.
Peter A. MacDonald, Jr., age 77 of Wayne, died on Friday, August 26, 2016.
He was born in Paterson and was a lifelong Wayne resident, having grown up on a farm on Valley Road. He was among the very first class to graduate from Wayne High School in 1956 and went on to serve in the U.S. Army.
Peter met his wife of forty-seven years, the late Marion Vivino MacDonald (2005), in high school. They began dating during his senior year in high school and eloped in 1958. They never had a honeymoon, as he was just out of the service and essentially had no money.
Peter was a truck driver for Henoch Oil, and later Keller Depken Oil of Passaic where he worked over forty years, retiring in 2003. He sought employment in the oil industry so he could work summers at MacDonald’s Beach on Route 23 in Pequannock, where he was a co-owner. Until just recently, he was working for his son David at Blue Mist Irrigation of Wayne.
Peter was the loving father of three children; Peter, III and his wife Susan of Hoboken, Debbie Akerly and her husband Lonnie of Erie, PA, and David and his wife Patricia of West Milford, grandfather to seven; Jessica, Samantha, Courtney, Kaylin, Carly, Peter, and Collin. He was predeceased by his wife Marion in 2005, by his brother Warren MacDonald in 1995, and by his sister Elva Echenwald just this past month.
In lieu of flowers, donations in Pete's memory would be appreciated to the Michael J. Fox Foundation. Donations can be mailed to: Donation Processing, The Michael J. Fox Foundation, P.O. Box 5014, Hagerstown, MD 21741-5014
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Friends may visit with the family at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne, on Tuesday, August 30, 2016 from 4-8 PM. Funeral Services will be held at 10:30 AM on Wednesday, August 31, 2016 at the funeral home.
Services
Friends may visit with the family at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne, on Tuesday, August 30, 2016 from 4-8 PM. Funeral Services will be held at 10:30 AM on Wednesday, August 31, 2016 at the funeral home.
Peter A. MacDonald, Jr., age 77 of Wayne, died on Friday, August 26, 2016.
He was born in Paterson and was a lifelong Wayne resident, having grown up on a farm on Valley Road. He was among the very first class to graduate from Wayne High School in 1956 and went on to serve in the U.S. Army.
Peter met his wife of forty-seven years, the late Marion Vivino MacDonald (2005), in high school. They began dating during his senior year in high school and eloped in 1958. They never had a honeymoon, as he was just out of the service and essentially had no money.
Peter was a truck driver for Henoch Oil, and later Keller Depken Oil of Passaic where he worked over forty years, retiring in 2003. He sought employment in the oil industry so he could work summers at MacDonald’s Beach on Route 23 in Pequannock, where he was a co-owner. Until just recently, he was working for his son David at Blue Mist Irrigation of Wayne.
Peter was the loving father of three children; Peter, III and his wife Susan of Hoboken, Debbie Akerly and her husband Lonnie of Erie, PA, and David and his wife Patricia of West Milford, grandfather to seven; Jessica, Samantha, Courtney, Kaylin, Carly, Peter, and Collin. He was predeceased by his wife Marion in 2005, by his brother Warren MacDonald in 1995, and by his sister Elva Echenwald just this past month.
In lieu of flowers, donations in Pete's memory would be appreciated to the Michael J. Fox Foundation. Donations can be mailed to: Donation Processing, The Michael J. Fox Foundation, P.O. Box 5014, Hagerstown, MD 21741-5014
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