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April 15, 2011
Services
Funeral services will be held Wednesday, April 20, 2011 at 8:30 AM from the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne then to Our Lady of the Valley RC Church, 630 Valley Rd., Wayne where at 9;30 AM a Funeral Mass will be celebrated.
Friends may visit with the family on Tuesday from 2-4, 7-9 PM at the funeral home.
Interment will be in Christ the King Cemetery, Franklin Lakes.
Raymond Slonieski age 85 of Wayne passed into life eternal on Friday, April 15, 2011 at the Regency Gardens Health Care Center in Wayne. His passing was peaceful after receiving the loving care of his wife Theresa who was at his bedside.
He was born and raised in Nanticoke, PA having attended Nanticoke High School with the Class of 1943. After high school Raymond entered the United States Air Force. After serving in the military he moved in with his grandmother in Jersey City as he didn’t want to be a coal miner like his father. He got a job as a machinist for the Bendix Corporation, Teterboro where he worked for many years before opening his own machine shop with a partner, Hugh Brogan in Wayne. They traded as Edco before closing in 1987.
While still living in Nanticoke, PA Raymond met Theresa Bezdziecki at a corner tavern. She snuck in as she was only sixteen years old at the time. They fell in love and Raymond proposed to her on Christmas Eve at her parents’ home. They married on October 23, 1948 at Holy Trinity Church in Nanticoke. The had no money for a honeymoon and have had a loving and devoted marriage for sixty-three years.
Ray was gifted with a wonderful extraverted personality that was always reaching out to help those less fortunate than himself. As a result he assembled a host of good friends who held him in high respect.
Raymond was a dedicated member of the Wayne Elks Lodge 2181 where he served through the ranks and eventually became the Exalted Ruler. He went on to serve as the District Deputy and the Secretary for the State Crippled Children’s Fund and was very influential in helping to establish Elk’s Camp Moore in Haskell and was a dedicated volunteer on the Wayne Elks Crippled Children’s Committee.
He will be remembered as a loving husband, father and grandfather. He could fix anything and was also pretty handy in the kitchen. His special touch on chicken soup and spaghetti will be greatly missed by his family.
Surviving are his wife Theresa (Bezdziecki) Slonieski; loving father of Patricia Hoey and her husband Chris of Wayne and Raymond Slonieski and his wife Anne Marie of Toms River; cherished grandfather of Christopher Slonieski of Toms River and Kelsey Slonieski of Morristown; loved brother of the late Irene Dougil.
In lieu of flowers memorial donations to Elks Camp Moore c/o Wayne Elks Lodge or the Special Needs Children’s Fund at the Wayne Elks Lodge, 50 Hinchman Avenue, Wayne, NJ 07470.
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Funeral services will be held Wednesday, April 20, 2011 at 8:30 AM from the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne then to Our Lady of the Valley RC Church, 630 Valley Rd., Wayne where at 9;30 AM a Funeral Mass will be celebrated.
Friends may visit with the family on Tuesday from 2-4, 7-9 PM at the funeral home.
Interment will be in Christ the King Cemetery, Franklin Lakes.
April 15, 2011
Services
Funeral services will be held Wednesday, April 20, 2011 at 8:30 AM from the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne then to Our Lady of the Valley RC Church, 630 Valley Rd., Wayne where at 9;30 AM a Funeral Mass will be celebrated.
Friends may visit with the family on Tuesday from 2-4, 7-9 PM at the funeral home.
Interment will be in Christ the King Cemetery, Franklin Lakes.
Raymond Slonieski age 85 of Wayne passed into life eternal on Friday, April 15, 2011 at the Regency Gardens Health Care Center in Wayne. His passing was peaceful after receiving the loving care of his wife Theresa who was at his bedside.
He was born and raised in Nanticoke, PA having attended Nanticoke High School with the Class of 1943. After high school Raymond entered the United States Air Force. After serving in the military he moved in with his grandmother in Jersey City as he didn’t want to be a coal miner like his father. He got a job as a machinist for the Bendix Corporation, Teterboro where he worked for many years before opening his own machine shop with a partner, Hugh Brogan in Wayne. They traded as Edco before closing in 1987.
While still living in Nanticoke, PA Raymond met Theresa Bezdziecki at a corner tavern. She snuck in as she was only sixteen years old at the time. They fell in love and Raymond proposed to her on Christmas Eve at her parents’ home. They married on October 23, 1948 at Holy Trinity Church in Nanticoke. The had no money for a honeymoon and have had a loving and devoted marriage for sixty-three years.
Ray was gifted with a wonderful extraverted personality that was always reaching out to help those less fortunate than himself. As a result he assembled a host of good friends who held him in high respect.
Raymond was a dedicated member of the Wayne Elks Lodge 2181 where he served through the ranks and eventually became the Exalted Ruler. He went on to serve as the District Deputy and the Secretary for the State Crippled Children’s Fund and was very influential in helping to establish Elk’s Camp Moore in Haskell and was a dedicated volunteer on the Wayne Elks Crippled Children’s Committee.
He will be remembered as a loving husband, father and grandfather. He could fix anything and was also pretty handy in the kitchen. His special touch on chicken soup and spaghetti will be greatly missed by his family.
Surviving are his wife Theresa (Bezdziecki) Slonieski; loving father of Patricia Hoey and her husband Chris of Wayne and Raymond Slonieski and his wife Anne Marie of Toms River; cherished grandfather of Christopher Slonieski of Toms River and Kelsey Slonieski of Morristown; loved brother of the late Irene Dougil.
In lieu of flowers memorial donations to Elks Camp Moore c/o Wayne Elks Lodge or the Special Needs Children’s Fund at the Wayne Elks Lodge, 50 Hinchman Avenue, Wayne, NJ 07470.
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