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October 1, 2007
Services
Funeral services will be held on Saturday, October 6, from the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne then to St. Brendan’s RC Church, Clifton, where at 8:30 AM a Funeral Mass will be offered.
Interment will be at Holy Cross Cemetery, Brooklyn, NY following the mass.
Friends may visit with the family at the funeral home on Friday from 2-4, 7-9 PM.
Raymond C. Austin Sr., age 80 of Wayne, died on Monday October 1, 2007. Ray was born in Brooklyn and lived in Park Slope, the St. Saviours Parish section, for most of his life, before moving to Wayne four years ago.
Ray served in the US Army Air Force during WWII as an Air Transport Technician with the 314th Troop Carrier Group. He received the WWII Victory Medal for his service. He was called back in 1950 to serve in the newly formed US Air Force as a Senior Air Transport Specialist during the Korean War. After his service he became a member of the McFadden Bros American Legion Post 1380 in Brooklyn.
He worked as a phone technician and installer for Bell Telephone and Nynex until his retirement in 1987.
He enjoyed building model planes and ships, as well as Lionel Trains. He was also an avid history reader and he had incredible recall ability – he was a “fountain of information”. Most of all, Ray was a BIG Mets fan. His son Ray recalls fun times going to both Mets and Yankees games with his dad, as well as participating in Boy Scouts, fishing, and playing ball at their vacation home in Cutchogue, on the north shore.
Ray enjoyed 41 years of marriage to his wife Ann before her passing in 1991. He now joins her once again, having passed away on what would have been their fifty-eighth wedding anniversary.
He is survived by one son; Raymond Jr. and his wife Linda of Wayne; two grandchildren, Lauren Austin and Raymond Austin of Wayne; one sister, Joan-Ann Finneran of Pompton Plains; and one sister-in-law, Joan Perchman of Park Slope, Brooklyn.
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Funeral services will be held on Saturday, October 6, from the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne then to St. Brendan’s RC Church, Clifton, where at 8:30 AM a Funeral Mass will be offered.
Interment will be at Holy Cross Cemetery, Brooklyn, NY following the mass.
Friends may visit with the family at the funeral home on Friday from 2-4, 7-9 PM.
October 1, 2007
Services
Funeral services will be held on Saturday, October 6, from the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne then to St. Brendan’s RC Church, Clifton, where at 8:30 AM a Funeral Mass will be offered.
Interment will be at Holy Cross Cemetery, Brooklyn, NY following the mass.
Friends may visit with the family at the funeral home on Friday from 2-4, 7-9 PM.
Raymond C. Austin Sr., age 80 of Wayne, died on Monday October 1, 2007. Ray was born in Brooklyn and lived in Park Slope, the St. Saviours Parish section, for most of his life, before moving to Wayne four years ago.
Ray served in the US Army Air Force during WWII as an Air Transport Technician with the 314th Troop Carrier Group. He received the WWII Victory Medal for his service. He was called back in 1950 to serve in the newly formed US Air Force as a Senior Air Transport Specialist during the Korean War. After his service he became a member of the McFadden Bros American Legion Post 1380 in Brooklyn.
He worked as a phone technician and installer for Bell Telephone and Nynex until his retirement in 1987.
He enjoyed building model planes and ships, as well as Lionel Trains. He was also an avid history reader and he had incredible recall ability – he was a “fountain of information”. Most of all, Ray was a BIG Mets fan. His son Ray recalls fun times going to both Mets and Yankees games with his dad, as well as participating in Boy Scouts, fishing, and playing ball at their vacation home in Cutchogue, on the north shore.
Ray enjoyed 41 years of marriage to his wife Ann before her passing in 1991. He now joins her once again, having passed away on what would have been their fifty-eighth wedding anniversary.
He is survived by one son; Raymond Jr. and his wife Linda of Wayne; two grandchildren, Lauren Austin and Raymond Austin of Wayne; one sister, Joan-Ann Finneran of Pompton Plains; and one sister-in-law, Joan Perchman of Park Slope, Brooklyn.
For a photo and more information visit vandermay.com.
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