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September 29, 2009
Services
Funeral services will be held Saturday October 3, 2009 at 11 AM from the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne then to Our Lady of The Valley RC Church, Wayne where at 12 PM a Funeral Mass will be offered. Friends may visit with the family at the funeral home on Friday, October 2, 2009 from 2-4, 7-9 PM.
Raymond V. Maksuta age 84 of Wayne went home on Tuesday, September 29, 2009 at the St. Joseph’s Hospital in Wayne. His passing took place peacefully after having received the loving care of his family.
He was born in Cliffside Park where he lived his formative years. Ray received his formal education at Cliffside Park Grammar School and High School. In the later years of high school he joined the Navy and served in World War II for three years. While serving, he was stationed on the USS Ranger, CV-4. This was the first US ship designed and built as an aircraft carrier. During one engagement, Ray’s ship was attacked and hit with a bomb which penetrated through several decks to the magazine where he was, but it didn’t explode. Luck was sure with him that day. A few years later, Ray was summoned by the Navy Reserve to go to Korea. An officer reviewing his service record remarked that Ray had sacrificed enough for his country during World War II and sent him back home to his family.
Ray enrolled under the GI Bill at Manhattan College in New York City and received a Bachelor of Science degree in Civil Engineering.
He started out his career as an entrepreneur. He founded Everlast Construction Company, which was based in Secaucus. His first jobs where in paving and later he did commercial building construction. In the 1970’s, an opportunity arose for him to work at the New York City Housing Authority as their Principal Engineer for housing and preservation. He then transferred to the Newark New Jersey Housing Authority and continued the same work, finally retiring in 1990.
Ray was a member of the Wayne Elks Lodge 2181 and had served as Exalted Ruler of the lodge.
He very much enjoyed dancing and would attend dances at the Roseland Ballroom located on Broadway in New York City. It was at a dance that he met the love of his life; a beautiful platinum blond with wonderful blue eyes, Mitzi Schweitzer. They soon became a couple and married on December 2, 1951. The end result was fifty-eight years of the “best two peas in a pod marriage that could be”. Ray and Mitzi are honored at the Roseland Ballroom to this day, their names engraved on a plaque for married couples who first met at the ballroom.
Ray was gifted with an extraverted, friendly personality that was always reaching out in kindness to others.
He leaves his daughter Sue with wonderful memories of a kind, loving, nurturing and understanding Dad.
He experienced sadness in his life having lost his son Raymond at the age of thirty-nine from cancer in 1994.
Left to cherish fond memories of this very special husband and father are Mitzi Maksuta his wife and one daughter Susan Maksuta of Wayne; one brother also survives; John Maksuta of Cliffside Park.
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Funeral services will be held Saturday October 3, 2009 at 11 AM from the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne then to Our Lady of The Valley RC Church, Wayne where at 12 PM a Funeral Mass will be offered. Friends may visit with the family at the funeral home on Friday, October 2, 2009 from 2-4, 7-9 PM.
September 29, 2009
Services
Funeral services will be held Saturday October 3, 2009 at 11 AM from the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne then to Our Lady of The Valley RC Church, Wayne where at 12 PM a Funeral Mass will be offered. Friends may visit with the family at the funeral home on Friday, October 2, 2009 from 2-4, 7-9 PM.
Raymond V. Maksuta age 84 of Wayne went home on Tuesday, September 29, 2009 at the St. Joseph’s Hospital in Wayne. His passing took place peacefully after having received the loving care of his family.
He was born in Cliffside Park where he lived his formative years. Ray received his formal education at Cliffside Park Grammar School and High School. In the later years of high school he joined the Navy and served in World War II for three years. While serving, he was stationed on the USS Ranger, CV-4. This was the first US ship designed and built as an aircraft carrier. During one engagement, Ray’s ship was attacked and hit with a bomb which penetrated through several decks to the magazine where he was, but it didn’t explode. Luck was sure with him that day. A few years later, Ray was summoned by the Navy Reserve to go to Korea. An officer reviewing his service record remarked that Ray had sacrificed enough for his country during World War II and sent him back home to his family.
Ray enrolled under the GI Bill at Manhattan College in New York City and received a Bachelor of Science degree in Civil Engineering.
He started out his career as an entrepreneur. He founded Everlast Construction Company, which was based in Secaucus. His first jobs where in paving and later he did commercial building construction. In the 1970’s, an opportunity arose for him to work at the New York City Housing Authority as their Principal Engineer for housing and preservation. He then transferred to the Newark New Jersey Housing Authority and continued the same work, finally retiring in 1990.
Ray was a member of the Wayne Elks Lodge 2181 and had served as Exalted Ruler of the lodge.
He very much enjoyed dancing and would attend dances at the Roseland Ballroom located on Broadway in New York City. It was at a dance that he met the love of his life; a beautiful platinum blond with wonderful blue eyes, Mitzi Schweitzer. They soon became a couple and married on December 2, 1951. The end result was fifty-eight years of the “best two peas in a pod marriage that could be”. Ray and Mitzi are honored at the Roseland Ballroom to this day, their names engraved on a plaque for married couples who first met at the ballroom.
Ray was gifted with an extraverted, friendly personality that was always reaching out in kindness to others.
He leaves his daughter Sue with wonderful memories of a kind, loving, nurturing and understanding Dad.
He experienced sadness in his life having lost his son Raymond at the age of thirty-nine from cancer in 1994.
Left to cherish fond memories of this very special husband and father are Mitzi Maksuta his wife and one daughter Susan Maksuta of Wayne; one brother also survives; John Maksuta of Cliffside Park.
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