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January 4, 2014
Services
Friends may visit with the family from 9-11 AM on Wednesday, January 8, 2014 at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne. An 11 AM Funeral Service will be held just after the visitation hours on Wednesday. Entombment will be in Garden of Memories Mausoleum in Washington Township.
Peter “Pete” T. Daly, former Chief of Wayne PD, age 83 passed peacefully on Saturday, January 4, 2014.
He was born in Paterson and in 1935 when he was just five years old his family moved to Wayne. The Township was so unpopulated at the time that they named the street they bought their home on after them. When Pete was in seventh grade he met a cute girl named Eleanor Springwaldt who would be his date to the senior prom at Pompton Lakes High School - there was no high school in Wayne at the time. After high school Pete enlisted in the United States Marine Corps and soon asked Eleanor for her hand in marriage. Peter was granted a leave from his service in Korea and he and Eleanor married, on January 12, 1952 at Saint Marys RC Church in Pompton Lakes, and drove a green four door Ford to Washington, DC where they honeymooned for a week. When asked about their marriage Eleanor said they had a loving relationship and never fought – they just worked things out together. He was honorably discharged in May of 1952. Soon he was operating a crane and after two years joined the Wayne Township Police Department in 1954. Pete was one of twelve officers in the Township and worked his way up to Chief before retiring in 1981.
He was a member of the Police Chiefs Association, graduate of the FBI Police Academy, a member of the American Legion – Greenwood Lake Post 1443, and a member of the FBI Alumni Group. Pete will be remembered as a genuine gentleman who had a great sense of humor, was meticulous, methodical, never complained, and enjoyed being around people and they enjoyed being around him. He loved boating, working with stained glass, target shooting competitions. He especially enjoyed life in Greenwood Lake Village, was a member of the Greenwood Lake Gaelic Society, and served on the Greenwood Lake Planning Board for many years.
He was the loving husband of sixty two years to Eleanor (Springwaldt) Daly; devoted father of Colleen Daly of Greenwood Lake; loved brother of the late Joseph Daly, Jr.; dear uncle of Katherine Rupprecht and her husband Thomas of Colorado Springs, CO.
In lieu of flowers memorial donations to Saint Judes Children’s Research Hospital, PO Box 1000, Dept. 142, Memphis, TN 38148-0142 would be appreciated.
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Friends may visit with the family from 9-11 AM on Wednesday, January 8, 2014 at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne. An 11 AM Funeral Service will be held just after the visitation hours on Wednesday. Entombment will be in Garden of Memories Mausoleum in Washington Township.
January 4, 2014
Services
Friends may visit with the family from 9-11 AM on Wednesday, January 8, 2014 at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne. An 11 AM Funeral Service will be held just after the visitation hours on Wednesday. Entombment will be in Garden of Memories Mausoleum in Washington Township.
Peter “Pete” T. Daly, former Chief of Wayne PD, age 83 passed peacefully on Saturday, January 4, 2014.
He was born in Paterson and in 1935 when he was just five years old his family moved to Wayne. The Township was so unpopulated at the time that they named the street they bought their home on after them. When Pete was in seventh grade he met a cute girl named Eleanor Springwaldt who would be his date to the senior prom at Pompton Lakes High School - there was no high school in Wayne at the time. After high school Pete enlisted in the United States Marine Corps and soon asked Eleanor for her hand in marriage. Peter was granted a leave from his service in Korea and he and Eleanor married, on January 12, 1952 at Saint Marys RC Church in Pompton Lakes, and drove a green four door Ford to Washington, DC where they honeymooned for a week. When asked about their marriage Eleanor said they had a loving relationship and never fought – they just worked things out together. He was honorably discharged in May of 1952. Soon he was operating a crane and after two years joined the Wayne Township Police Department in 1954. Pete was one of twelve officers in the Township and worked his way up to Chief before retiring in 1981.
He was a member of the Police Chiefs Association, graduate of the FBI Police Academy, a member of the American Legion – Greenwood Lake Post 1443, and a member of the FBI Alumni Group. Pete will be remembered as a genuine gentleman who had a great sense of humor, was meticulous, methodical, never complained, and enjoyed being around people and they enjoyed being around him. He loved boating, working with stained glass, target shooting competitions. He especially enjoyed life in Greenwood Lake Village, was a member of the Greenwood Lake Gaelic Society, and served on the Greenwood Lake Planning Board for many years.
He was the loving husband of sixty two years to Eleanor (Springwaldt) Daly; devoted father of Colleen Daly of Greenwood Lake; loved brother of the late Joseph Daly, Jr.; dear uncle of Katherine Rupprecht and her husband Thomas of Colorado Springs, CO.
In lieu of flowers memorial donations to Saint Judes Children’s Research Hospital, PO Box 1000, Dept. 142, Memphis, TN 38148-0142 would be appreciated.
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