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February 15, 2011
Services
Friends may visit with the family on Friday, February 18, 2011 from 2-4, 7-9 PM at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne. Funeral services will be held Saturday, February 19, 2011 8:30 AM from the funeral home then to Our Lady of Good Counsel, 155 W. Parkway, Pompton Plains where at 9:30 AM Funeral Mass will be offered. Interment will be in Holy Sepulchre Cemetery, Totowa.
Richard E. Blauvelt age 92 of Pequannock passed peacefully at home on Tuesday, February 15, 2011 with the comfort of family by his side.
Richard was born in Paterson having been raised in Hawthorne, and graduated from Hawthorne High School with the Class of 1938. He also lived in Paterson, Wayne and Suffern, NY before moving to Pequannock.
He met the love of his life Rose J. Ferraro while they were both working at a dry good manufacturing plant in Paterson. Their first date was on Valentines Day and they married at Our Lady of Victories RC Church, Paterson on September 20, 1942. They honeymooned at the Mimslyn Inn in Luray, VA. They enjoyed 30 years of loving marriage before Rose’s passing in 1973.
He served in the National Guard from August 1937 through August 1940.
He was a Veteran of WWII serving in the South Pacific, New Guinea, Northern Solomons, and Southern Philippines attached to the 13th Air Force – 319th Fighter Control Squadron. He received the Asiatic Pacific Service Medal; Good Conduct Medal; WWII Victory Medal and the Philippines Liberation Ribbon.
He enjoyed a lifelong career in the jewelry and clock making and repair business. He went to watchmaker school just after he served in WWII and soon took a job as a jeweler in Suffern, NY. In a few years he bought out the store owner and re-named the store Blauvelt Jewelers. Richard loved his work and never really retired; he was working on clocks up until this past October and still walking up to four miles a day.
Richard is best described as personable, generous, with a strong faith in the Lord, a true gentleman with a great sense humor. He will be affectionately remembered for his dapper attire, suit and hand tied bowtie. He loved to travel and Italy was his favorite place to visit. He also enjoyed fly fishing on the Flat Brook in Sussex, tying his own flies, and salt water fishing at the Jersey Shore.
Richard was the loving husband of the late Rose J.(nee Ferraro) Blauvelt(1973); loving father of Virginia Ann Hayek and her husband Richard of Wayne, Richard Blauvelt and his wife Dianne of Glen Rock, Barbara Battagliese and her husband Fred of Lakeville, PA, Patricia Gurnari and her husband Vincent of Pequannock, and Kathleen Alvino and her husband James of Virginia Beach, VA; cherished grandfather of fifteen grandchildren and sixteen great-grandchildren; loved brother of the late Addeline Abbood; and beloved uncle of many nieces and nephews.
In lieu of flowers memorial donations to Compassionate Care Hospice, 200 Lanidex Plaza, Suite 2101, Parsippany, NJ 07054 would be appreciated.
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Friends may visit with the family on Friday, February 18, 2011 from 2-4, 7-9 PM at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne. Funeral services will be held Saturday, February 19, 2011 8:30 AM from the funeral home then to Our Lady of Good Counsel, 155 W. Parkway, Pompton Plains where at 9:30 AM Funeral Mass will be offered. Interment will be in Holy Sepulchre Cemetery, Totowa.
February 15, 2011
Services
Friends may visit with the family on Friday, February 18, 2011 from 2-4, 7-9 PM at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne. Funeral services will be held Saturday, February 19, 2011 8:30 AM from the funeral home then to Our Lady of Good Counsel, 155 W. Parkway, Pompton Plains where at 9:30 AM Funeral Mass will be offered. Interment will be in Holy Sepulchre Cemetery, Totowa.
Richard E. Blauvelt age 92 of Pequannock passed peacefully at home on Tuesday, February 15, 2011 with the comfort of family by his side.
Richard was born in Paterson having been raised in Hawthorne, and graduated from Hawthorne High School with the Class of 1938. He also lived in Paterson, Wayne and Suffern, NY before moving to Pequannock.
He met the love of his life Rose J. Ferraro while they were both working at a dry good manufacturing plant in Paterson. Their first date was on Valentines Day and they married at Our Lady of Victories RC Church, Paterson on September 20, 1942. They honeymooned at the Mimslyn Inn in Luray, VA. They enjoyed 30 years of loving marriage before Rose’s passing in 1973.
He served in the National Guard from August 1937 through August 1940.
He was a Veteran of WWII serving in the South Pacific, New Guinea, Northern Solomons, and Southern Philippines attached to the 13th Air Force – 319th Fighter Control Squadron. He received the Asiatic Pacific Service Medal; Good Conduct Medal; WWII Victory Medal and the Philippines Liberation Ribbon.
He enjoyed a lifelong career in the jewelry and clock making and repair business. He went to watchmaker school just after he served in WWII and soon took a job as a jeweler in Suffern, NY. In a few years he bought out the store owner and re-named the store Blauvelt Jewelers. Richard loved his work and never really retired; he was working on clocks up until this past October and still walking up to four miles a day.
Richard is best described as personable, generous, with a strong faith in the Lord, a true gentleman with a great sense humor. He will be affectionately remembered for his dapper attire, suit and hand tied bowtie. He loved to travel and Italy was his favorite place to visit. He also enjoyed fly fishing on the Flat Brook in Sussex, tying his own flies, and salt water fishing at the Jersey Shore.
Richard was the loving husband of the late Rose J.(nee Ferraro) Blauvelt(1973); loving father of Virginia Ann Hayek and her husband Richard of Wayne, Richard Blauvelt and his wife Dianne of Glen Rock, Barbara Battagliese and her husband Fred of Lakeville, PA, Patricia Gurnari and her husband Vincent of Pequannock, and Kathleen Alvino and her husband James of Virginia Beach, VA; cherished grandfather of fifteen grandchildren and sixteen great-grandchildren; loved brother of the late Addeline Abbood; and beloved uncle of many nieces and nephews.
In lieu of flowers memorial donations to Compassionate Care Hospice, 200 Lanidex Plaza, Suite 2101, Parsippany, NJ 07054 would be appreciated.
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