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February 27, 2007
Services
Funeral services will be held Saturday, March 3, 2007 at 7:30 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 8:30 AM a Funeral Mass will be celebrated.
Friends may visit with the family at the funeral home on Friday from 2-4, 7-9 PM.
Interment will be in Christ the King Cemetery, Franklin Lakes.
Rita Irene Knapp (nee Carrier) age 80 of Wayne died Tuesday, February 27, 2007 at home. At her passing she was receiving the loving care of her family.
She was born in Plymouth, Massachusetts and at age fifteen she moved with her family to South Portland Maine. When she married she moved to Paterson later living in North Haledon before moving to Wayne twelve years ago.
Rita was a self employed Beautician having received her education at the Beauty School of South Portland in Maine.
She was a former member of the Veterans of Foreign Wars Auxiliary in North Haledon as well as the American Legion Women’s Auxiliary, the North Haledon Seniors and the Paterson Elks Lodge Women’s Auxiliary.
Her family will always hold fond memories of a very loving wife, mother, grandmother and great grandmother. She loved her children and encouraged them in their life endeavors. Mom was a wonderful cook and her chicken ala king, beef stew and corn beef hash were a family delight.
Leonard and Rita Knapp met in Portland, Maine while Leonard was serving in the United States Coast Guard during World War II. They fell in love and had a fifty-two year “loving marriage” together until Leonard’s passing in October of 1998.
Surviving are three sons Bruce Knapp and his wife Donna of Ridgefield Park, Lenny Knapp and his wife Cindy of Wayne, Brian Knapp and his wife Alecia of Meridian, Idaho; three brothers Gene Carrier and Bob Carrier of Scarboro, Maine, Don Carrier of Augusta, Maine; six grandchildren Heather Knapp-Hoch of Pullaran, Washington, Elizabeth Knapp of Teaneck, Megan Knapp of Wayne, Alicia Knapp and Bruce Knapp Jr. both of Ridgefield Park, Anna Rose Knapp of Meridian, Idaho; one great grand child Skyla of Teaneck.
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Funeral services will be held Saturday, March 3, 2007 at 7:30 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 8:30 AM a Funeral Mass will be celebrated.
Friends may visit with the family at the funeral home on Friday from 2-4, 7-9 PM.
Interment will be in Christ the King Cemetery, Franklin Lakes.
February 27, 2007
Services
Funeral services will be held Saturday, March 3, 2007 at 7:30 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 8:30 AM a Funeral Mass will be celebrated.
Friends may visit with the family at the funeral home on Friday from 2-4, 7-9 PM.
Interment will be in Christ the King Cemetery, Franklin Lakes.
Rita Irene Knapp (nee Carrier) age 80 of Wayne died Tuesday, February 27, 2007 at home. At her passing she was receiving the loving care of her family.
She was born in Plymouth, Massachusetts and at age fifteen she moved with her family to South Portland Maine. When she married she moved to Paterson later living in North Haledon before moving to Wayne twelve years ago.
Rita was a self employed Beautician having received her education at the Beauty School of South Portland in Maine.
She was a former member of the Veterans of Foreign Wars Auxiliary in North Haledon as well as the American Legion Women’s Auxiliary, the North Haledon Seniors and the Paterson Elks Lodge Women’s Auxiliary.
Her family will always hold fond memories of a very loving wife, mother, grandmother and great grandmother. She loved her children and encouraged them in their life endeavors. Mom was a wonderful cook and her chicken ala king, beef stew and corn beef hash were a family delight.
Leonard and Rita Knapp met in Portland, Maine while Leonard was serving in the United States Coast Guard during World War II. They fell in love and had a fifty-two year “loving marriage” together until Leonard’s passing in October of 1998.
Surviving are three sons Bruce Knapp and his wife Donna of Ridgefield Park, Lenny Knapp and his wife Cindy of Wayne, Brian Knapp and his wife Alecia of Meridian, Idaho; three brothers Gene Carrier and Bob Carrier of Scarboro, Maine, Don Carrier of Augusta, Maine; six grandchildren Heather Knapp-Hoch of Pullaran, Washington, Elizabeth Knapp of Teaneck, Megan Knapp of Wayne, Alicia Knapp and Bruce Knapp Jr. both of Ridgefield Park, Anna Rose Knapp of Meridian, Idaho; one great grand child Skyla of Teaneck.
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