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June 10, 2017
Services
Friends may visit with the family on Monday, June 12, 2017 from 6:30 PM - 7:30 PM at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne. A 7:30 PM funeral service will follow the visitation.
A graveside service will be held 11 AM on Tuesday June 13, 2017 in the Memorial Section of the Laurel Grove Memorial Park, 295 Totowa Road, Totowa. (please meet directly at the cemetery on Tuesday).
Peter Blankman, Jr., age 86, of Woodland Park where he resided for 58 years, passed away Saturday, June 10, 2017.
He was born to Peter and Adriana Blankman and raised on 602 Park Avenue and on 608 Garden Street. He attended the Pine Street Christian School in Passaic and traveled to school by train each day. He later attended the Eastern Academy High School on North 8th Street in Prospect Park.
At the age of seventeen Peter left home to join the US Navy. He enlisted on July 19, 1950 in New York City and attained the rank of MM2 (machinists mate 2nd class) while serving during the Korean War. Her served aboard the USS Casa Grande (LSD-13) and received the National Defense Service Medal, Navy Occupation Service Medal (“B” clasp) and Good Conduct Medal for his service. He was honorably discharged on May 13, 1954.
After Peter’s service in the Navy he attended the RCA Institute in New York City. He worked for the Western Union as a messenger while attending school. After school he worked for Albano Construction in Roselle, New Jersey, as an assembler at the Tungsten Contact Company in North Bergen and as a pipe fitter for Bethlehem Steel in Hoboken where his dad was employed. He later worked for the Curtis Wright Corporation , Electronics Division in East Paterson as a system test and calibration flight simulator trouble shoot. Kearfot Corporation in Woodland Park as electronics technician. US Postal Bulk Service Center in Jersey City, and eventually was transferred to the Postal Service Office in Paterson as a mail deliverer for a time before being accepted into the maintenance division. He retired on June 1, 1998.
Peter met Helen Oussoren in 1954 and the two soon fell in love. In 1955 Helen moved with her family to Vancouver, BC Canada. Their relationship lasted the test of distance. They were married on August 31, 1957 at the Christian Reformed Church in Hoboken.
Peter will be remembered as a personable man who was extremely hard working. He could fix anything and once he set his mind to something there was no changing it. His quiet nature was forged during the Depression years where his family lived in poverty. He always enjoyed traveling with Helen and truly loved his grandchildren.
Peter was the devoted husband of Helen Blankman; devoted father of Anita Zito of Wayne and her late husband Sal (2004), Peter J. Blankman of Vernon, and Melinda A. Evans of Wayne; he was the cherished grandfather of Tyler and Brandon Blankman and Trevor and Austin Evans; brother of Audrey Winters of Hasbrouck Heights; uncle of Lisa and Lori Napoletano.
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Friends may visit with the family on Monday, June 12, 2017 from 6:30 PM - 7:30 PM at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne. A 7:30 PM funeral service will follow the visitation.
A graveside service will be held 11 AM on Tuesday June 13, 2017 in the Memorial Section of the Laurel Grove Memorial Park, 295 Totowa Road, Totowa. (please meet directly at the cemetery on Tuesday).
June 10, 2017
Services
Friends may visit with the family on Monday, June 12, 2017 from 6:30 PM - 7:30 PM at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne. A 7:30 PM funeral service will follow the visitation.
A graveside service will be held 11 AM on Tuesday June 13, 2017 in the Memorial Section of the Laurel Grove Memorial Park, 295 Totowa Road, Totowa. (please meet directly at the cemetery on Tuesday).
Peter Blankman, Jr., age 86, of Woodland Park where he resided for 58 years, passed away Saturday, June 10, 2017.
He was born to Peter and Adriana Blankman and raised on 602 Park Avenue and on 608 Garden Street. He attended the Pine Street Christian School in Passaic and traveled to school by train each day. He later attended the Eastern Academy High School on North 8th Street in Prospect Park.
At the age of seventeen Peter left home to join the US Navy. He enlisted on July 19, 1950 in New York City and attained the rank of MM2 (machinists mate 2nd class) while serving during the Korean War. Her served aboard the USS Casa Grande (LSD-13) and received the National Defense Service Medal, Navy Occupation Service Medal (“B” clasp) and Good Conduct Medal for his service. He was honorably discharged on May 13, 1954.
After Peter’s service in the Navy he attended the RCA Institute in New York City. He worked for the Western Union as a messenger while attending school. After school he worked for Albano Construction in Roselle, New Jersey, as an assembler at the Tungsten Contact Company in North Bergen and as a pipe fitter for Bethlehem Steel in Hoboken where his dad was employed. He later worked for the Curtis Wright Corporation , Electronics Division in East Paterson as a system test and calibration flight simulator trouble shoot. Kearfot Corporation in Woodland Park as electronics technician. US Postal Bulk Service Center in Jersey City, and eventually was transferred to the Postal Service Office in Paterson as a mail deliverer for a time before being accepted into the maintenance division. He retired on June 1, 1998.
Peter met Helen Oussoren in 1954 and the two soon fell in love. In 1955 Helen moved with her family to Vancouver, BC Canada. Their relationship lasted the test of distance. They were married on August 31, 1957 at the Christian Reformed Church in Hoboken.
Peter will be remembered as a personable man who was extremely hard working. He could fix anything and once he set his mind to something there was no changing it. His quiet nature was forged during the Depression years where his family lived in poverty. He always enjoyed traveling with Helen and truly loved his grandchildren.
Peter was the devoted husband of Helen Blankman; devoted father of Anita Zito of Wayne and her late husband Sal (2004), Peter J. Blankman of Vernon, and Melinda A. Evans of Wayne; he was the cherished grandfather of Tyler and Brandon Blankman and Trevor and Austin Evans; brother of Audrey Winters of Hasbrouck Heights; uncle of Lisa and Lori Napoletano.
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