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August 22, 2018
Services
A visitation with the family will be held at 1 PM and a service in celebration of Rita’s life will be held at 2 PM on September 22, 2018 at St. Timothy Lutheran Church, 395 Valley Road, Wayne, NJ.
Memorial contributions may be made to the Rita Laubscher Memorial Fund at St. Timothy Lutheran Church, 395 Valley Road, Wayne, NJ 07470.
Rita Laubscher, age 90 of Wayne, passed away Wednesday, August 22, 2018.
She was born to Hugo and Henriette Raunecker in Patchogue, New York and raised in the Jamaica section of Queens, New York. She graduated from Jamaica High School in Queens, New York with the Class of 1946.
Rita met a handsome young man named George Robert Laubscher, Jr. as he was a friend of her brother Dick. Their first date was to a Broadway show in New York City. They married on May12, 1951 at Holy Trinity Lutheran Church in Hollis, NY and honeymooned in Virginia Beach, Virginia. When they married they lived in Jersey City, New Jersey, New Orleans, Louisiana, the Fayson Lakes section of Kinnelon, New Jersey and settled in Wayne, New Jersey in 1964. Rita and George enjoyed fifty-eight years of a loving and devoted marriage before his passing in 2009.
Rita entered the working world as a secretary with NBC in Rockefeller Center during the launch of color TV. She later spent several years as a reading tutor at Mt. View Elementary School in Wayne. For over 50 years, she was an active committee member / volunteer at her church: St. Timothy Lutheran Church in Wayne.
She will be lovingly remembered for being outgoing, personable, meticulous and for always having a positive outlook on life She always enjoyed sewing, quilting, crocheting, and picked up Counted Cross Stitch embroidery while the family lived in The Hague, Netherlands. She lived by the motto “do it right or don’t do it at all.” Her attention to detail was exemplified by the fact that her Counted Cross Stitch creations looked as good in the back as the front. Rita also was known for her green thumb with many various house plants but especially her collection of orchids.
Rita was the loving wife of the late George Robert Laubscher, Jr. (2009); devoted mother of Paul Laubscher and his wife Esme of South Salem, NY, Gail L. Laubscher-Summer of Hickory, NC, and David A. Laubscher and his wife Linda of Chapel Hill, NC; she was the cherished grandmother of Luke Laubscher, Mark Laubscher, Jessica Summer and her husband John Szewczyk, Melissa and her husband Robert Wells, Kevin Laubscher, and Kristen and her husband Alex Bellows; she was the loved sister of the late Richard Raunecker; dearly loved aunt of Sarah Raunecker and her husband Rob Alberts.
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A visitation with the family will be held at 1 PM and a service in celebration of Rita’s life will be held at 2 PM on September 22, 2018 at St. Timothy Lutheran Church, 395 Valley Road, Wayne, NJ.
Memorial contributions may be made to the Rita Laubscher Memorial Fund at St. Timothy Lutheran Church, 395 Valley Road, Wayne, NJ 07470.
August 22, 2018
Services
A visitation with the family will be held at 1 PM and a service in celebration of Rita’s life will be held at 2 PM on September 22, 2018 at St. Timothy Lutheran Church, 395 Valley Road, Wayne, NJ.
Memorial contributions may be made to the Rita Laubscher Memorial Fund at St. Timothy Lutheran Church, 395 Valley Road, Wayne, NJ 07470.
Rita Laubscher, age 90 of Wayne, passed away Wednesday, August 22, 2018.
She was born to Hugo and Henriette Raunecker in Patchogue, New York and raised in the Jamaica section of Queens, New York. She graduated from Jamaica High School in Queens, New York with the Class of 1946.
Rita met a handsome young man named George Robert Laubscher, Jr. as he was a friend of her brother Dick. Their first date was to a Broadway show in New York City. They married on May12, 1951 at Holy Trinity Lutheran Church in Hollis, NY and honeymooned in Virginia Beach, Virginia. When they married they lived in Jersey City, New Jersey, New Orleans, Louisiana, the Fayson Lakes section of Kinnelon, New Jersey and settled in Wayne, New Jersey in 1964. Rita and George enjoyed fifty-eight years of a loving and devoted marriage before his passing in 2009.
Rita entered the working world as a secretary with NBC in Rockefeller Center during the launch of color TV. She later spent several years as a reading tutor at Mt. View Elementary School in Wayne. For over 50 years, she was an active committee member / volunteer at her church: St. Timothy Lutheran Church in Wayne.
She will be lovingly remembered for being outgoing, personable, meticulous and for always having a positive outlook on life She always enjoyed sewing, quilting, crocheting, and picked up Counted Cross Stitch embroidery while the family lived in The Hague, Netherlands. She lived by the motto “do it right or don’t do it at all.” Her attention to detail was exemplified by the fact that her Counted Cross Stitch creations looked as good in the back as the front. Rita also was known for her green thumb with many various house plants but especially her collection of orchids.
Rita was the loving wife of the late George Robert Laubscher, Jr. (2009); devoted mother of Paul Laubscher and his wife Esme of South Salem, NY, Gail L. Laubscher-Summer of Hickory, NC, and David A. Laubscher and his wife Linda of Chapel Hill, NC; she was the cherished grandmother of Luke Laubscher, Mark Laubscher, Jessica Summer and her husband John Szewczyk, Melissa and her husband Robert Wells, Kevin Laubscher, and Kristen and her husband Alex Bellows; she was the loved sister of the late Richard Raunecker; dearly loved aunt of Sarah Raunecker and her husband Rob Alberts.
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