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February 3, 2017
Services
Friends may visit with the family at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne, on Sunday, Feb. 12, 2017 from 3-5 PM. A funeral service will be held at 5 PM on Sunday, following the visiting hours.
Phyllis A. Devlin (nee Di Petrillo), 72 of Pompton Lakes, died Friday, Feb. 3, 2017. She had lived in West Paterson for thirty years before moving to Pompton Lakes in 2014.
“Tidz,” as she was affectionately known to many, grew up in Paterson and graduated from Eastside High School with the class of 1962. She began her career at Brogan Cadillac and retired from their Accounts Payable department after forty years of service. More recently she had also worked for WASCO (Wholesale Auto Supply, Co.) in South Hackensack.
Tidz was one of the most impatient people you could have ever met and always in a rush to get where she was going (usually nowhere important). Her passionate love of family was self-evident and she was the proverbial “glue” that held them all together. In fact, she was more like Superglue sometimes! She truly loved her family and always wanted to be together with each of them. She never needed a reason to get together, but the holidays were especially important to her, and dancing together on Christmas made for many great memories. She spoiled her nieces and nephews rotten, but her generosity didn’t stop there. She loved to spoil her great-nieces and nephews too. She loved to play board games, do puzzles, and or course; dance! She was an excellent cook and her family always looked forward to her Christmas cookies! She also enjoyed watching NCIS, Law & Order SVU, and just about any TV crime drama, as well as reading David Baldacci novels. Anyone who knew her could certainly tell you that her greatest hobby of all…was smoking. She loved her Marlboro Light 100’s and even after beating lung cancer nearly ten years ago, she wasn’t interested in quitting her favorite pastime.
Phyllis met the love of her life, Thomas Devlin, while working at Brogan Cadillac during the 1970’s. They dated for nearly thirty years before deciding to get married on November 5, 2008. Their marriage could be described as a comical love affair. They were inseparable and never left each other’s side, doing the food shopping together, visiting the laundromat, and everything else. They enjoyed visiting Washington, D.C., the Amish country in Pennsylvania, and other historically themed vacations. Just like two squawking crows, they never parted. To Tom, she was his whole world.
Phyllis is survived by her beloved Thomas of Pompton Lakes, by her two sisters; Julia Di Petrillo Kuryla and her husband Joseph of Hoptacong, NJ, and Lorraine Coccari of Wayne, four nieces; Janet Nelemans and her husband Greg of Tampa, FL, Jennifer Herd and her husband Ryan of Pompton Plains, Wendy Grecco and her husband Ken of Wayne, and Jo Anne Cobb and her husband John of Apollo Beach, FL, one nephew; Joseph Kuryla, Jr. of Ledgewood, NJ, her stepson; Tim Devlin and his wife Barbara of Vernon, NJ, a granddaughter; Kyla Devlin, and eight great-nieces and nephews; Lorenzo Kuryla, Cierra Kuryla, Brooklynn Nelemans, Kaedyn Cobb, Stella Grecco, Riley Herd, Toby Herd, and Peyton Herd.
Donations in Phyllis’ memory would be appreciated to the Lung Cancer Research Foundation, 155 East 55th Street, Suite 6H, New York, NY 10022, or visit www.lungcancerresearchfoundation.org.
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Friends may visit with the family at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne, on Sunday, Feb. 12, 2017 from 3-5 PM. A funeral service will be held at 5 PM on Sunday, following the visiting hours.
February 3, 2017
Services
Friends may visit with the family at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne, on Sunday, Feb. 12, 2017 from 3-5 PM. A funeral service will be held at 5 PM on Sunday, following the visiting hours.
Phyllis A. Devlin (nee Di Petrillo), 72 of Pompton Lakes, died Friday, Feb. 3, 2017. She had lived in West Paterson for thirty years before moving to Pompton Lakes in 2014.
“Tidz,” as she was affectionately known to many, grew up in Paterson and graduated from Eastside High School with the class of 1962. She began her career at Brogan Cadillac and retired from their Accounts Payable department after forty years of service. More recently she had also worked for WASCO (Wholesale Auto Supply, Co.) in South Hackensack.
Tidz was one of the most impatient people you could have ever met and always in a rush to get where she was going (usually nowhere important). Her passionate love of family was self-evident and she was the proverbial “glue” that held them all together. In fact, she was more like Superglue sometimes! She truly loved her family and always wanted to be together with each of them. She never needed a reason to get together, but the holidays were especially important to her, and dancing together on Christmas made for many great memories. She spoiled her nieces and nephews rotten, but her generosity didn’t stop there. She loved to spoil her great-nieces and nephews too. She loved to play board games, do puzzles, and or course; dance! She was an excellent cook and her family always looked forward to her Christmas cookies! She also enjoyed watching NCIS, Law & Order SVU, and just about any TV crime drama, as well as reading David Baldacci novels. Anyone who knew her could certainly tell you that her greatest hobby of all…was smoking. She loved her Marlboro Light 100’s and even after beating lung cancer nearly ten years ago, she wasn’t interested in quitting her favorite pastime.
Phyllis met the love of her life, Thomas Devlin, while working at Brogan Cadillac during the 1970’s. They dated for nearly thirty years before deciding to get married on November 5, 2008. Their marriage could be described as a comical love affair. They were inseparable and never left each other’s side, doing the food shopping together, visiting the laundromat, and everything else. They enjoyed visiting Washington, D.C., the Amish country in Pennsylvania, and other historically themed vacations. Just like two squawking crows, they never parted. To Tom, she was his whole world.
Phyllis is survived by her beloved Thomas of Pompton Lakes, by her two sisters; Julia Di Petrillo Kuryla and her husband Joseph of Hoptacong, NJ, and Lorraine Coccari of Wayne, four nieces; Janet Nelemans and her husband Greg of Tampa, FL, Jennifer Herd and her husband Ryan of Pompton Plains, Wendy Grecco and her husband Ken of Wayne, and Jo Anne Cobb and her husband John of Apollo Beach, FL, one nephew; Joseph Kuryla, Jr. of Ledgewood, NJ, her stepson; Tim Devlin and his wife Barbara of Vernon, NJ, a granddaughter; Kyla Devlin, and eight great-nieces and nephews; Lorenzo Kuryla, Cierra Kuryla, Brooklynn Nelemans, Kaedyn Cobb, Stella Grecco, Riley Herd, Toby Herd, and Peyton Herd.
Donations in Phyllis’ memory would be appreciated to the Lung Cancer Research Foundation, 155 East 55th Street, Suite 6H, New York, NY 10022, or visit www.lungcancerresearchfoundation.org.
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