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March 25, 2013
Services
Friends may visit with the family on Thursday, March 28, 2013 from 2-4 and 7-9 PM at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
Funeral services will be held 10 AM on Friday, March 29, 2013 at the funeral home.
Entombment will be in George Washington Memorial Park, Paramus.
Richard E. Gass age 72 of Lincoln Park passed, peacefully, after a brief illness, on Monday, March 25, 2013.
He was born in New York City and raised in Riveredge, NJ having graduated from Riverdell High School with the Class of 1959. Soon after high school Richard enlisted in the United States Army National Guard and served from 1960 through 1966 with a military occupational specialty of Armor Crewman/Tank Commander attaining the rank of Sergeant.
Richard worked for Singer Kearfott Corporation in Wayne as a Technical Illustrator. Eventually the group he worked with at Singer Kearfott was sold to the GEC Marconi Corporation, then the Plessey Corporation. and finally the BAE Corporation before he retired in 2005.
Richard’s great sense of humor and his ability to make just about any sound endeared him to many. He was known as “Problem Rich” in The Program and recently celebrated twenty-four years of sobriety. His loving, caring way will be greatly missed as he made a difference in many people’s lives just being there for them as a good friend.
He met his wife, Diane Beardsmore, at work and their first date was to Red Lobster with the intention of going to see the movie Pretty Woman. The movie was sold out so they went for desert instead. They soon fell in love and Rich would leave bunches of flowers on the bench by Diane’s front door to let her know he had stopped by. He proposed marriage about ten times before Diane said yes. They married on September 4, 1992 and have enjoyed twenty years of a wonderful, exciting, and caring marriage.
Richard was the loving husband of Diane Gass; devoted father of Michael Gass of Hewitt, Gregory Gass and his wife Cynthia of Paramus, Jeffrey Gass and his wife Lauren of Paramus, and David Gass and his wife Alyson of Wayne; cherished grandfather of Sean, Christopher, Ryan, Mark, Eileen, Daniel, and Gabriel.
In lieu of flowers memorial donations to the Lincoln Park First Aid Squad, 34 Chapel Hill Road, PO Box 332, Lincoln Park, NJ 07035-0332 would be appreciated.
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Friends may visit with the family on Thursday, March 28, 2013 from 2-4 and 7-9 PM at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
Funeral services will be held 10 AM on Friday, March 29, 2013 at the funeral home.
Entombment will be in George Washington Memorial Park, Paramus.
March 25, 2013
Services
Friends may visit with the family on Thursday, March 28, 2013 from 2-4 and 7-9 PM at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
Funeral services will be held 10 AM on Friday, March 29, 2013 at the funeral home.
Entombment will be in George Washington Memorial Park, Paramus.
Richard E. Gass age 72 of Lincoln Park passed, peacefully, after a brief illness, on Monday, March 25, 2013.
He was born in New York City and raised in Riveredge, NJ having graduated from Riverdell High School with the Class of 1959. Soon after high school Richard enlisted in the United States Army National Guard and served from 1960 through 1966 with a military occupational specialty of Armor Crewman/Tank Commander attaining the rank of Sergeant.
Richard worked for Singer Kearfott Corporation in Wayne as a Technical Illustrator. Eventually the group he worked with at Singer Kearfott was sold to the GEC Marconi Corporation, then the Plessey Corporation. and finally the BAE Corporation before he retired in 2005.
Richard’s great sense of humor and his ability to make just about any sound endeared him to many. He was known as “Problem Rich” in The Program and recently celebrated twenty-four years of sobriety. His loving, caring way will be greatly missed as he made a difference in many people’s lives just being there for them as a good friend.
He met his wife, Diane Beardsmore, at work and their first date was to Red Lobster with the intention of going to see the movie Pretty Woman. The movie was sold out so they went for desert instead. They soon fell in love and Rich would leave bunches of flowers on the bench by Diane’s front door to let her know he had stopped by. He proposed marriage about ten times before Diane said yes. They married on September 4, 1992 and have enjoyed twenty years of a wonderful, exciting, and caring marriage.
Richard was the loving husband of Diane Gass; devoted father of Michael Gass of Hewitt, Gregory Gass and his wife Cynthia of Paramus, Jeffrey Gass and his wife Lauren of Paramus, and David Gass and his wife Alyson of Wayne; cherished grandfather of Sean, Christopher, Ryan, Mark, Eileen, Daniel, and Gabriel.
In lieu of flowers memorial donations to the Lincoln Park First Aid Squad, 34 Chapel Hill Road, PO Box 332, Lincoln Park, NJ 07035-0332 would be appreciated.
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