Office Hours: Monday – Friday, 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM
Calls outside of office hours? No worries! Our team will respond within 10–15 minutes.
July 1, 2008
Services
Funeral services will be held Monday, July 7, 2008 at 9 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 10 AM a Funeral Mass will be offered.
Friends may visit with the family at the funeral home on Sunday from 2-5 PM.
Robert E. Phalon age 74 of Wayne on Tuesday, July 1, 2008. He had his loving wife constantly at his side and his passing was quiet and peaceful after a courageous battle with cancer.
He was born in Newton and had lived many years in Paterson before moving to Wayne twenty years ago.
Bob received his formal education at Saint John’s High School in Paterson.
He served in the Navy during the Korean conflict and received the National Defense Service Medal and the Navy Occupation Service Medal.
He was employed at Johnson Controls in Union for thirty-five years until his retirement in 1995. After retirement he performed many part time jobs to keep himself busy and when he had no work to do he went fishing at his favorite fishing hole.
Bob was gifted with a wonderfully extraverted personality and made friends easily with his quiet outgoing ways. He had a special trademark or perhaps a unique expression as he made conversation or just listened to others. He would vocalize “beep beep”. Folks around him would find humor in his response of “beep beep” to whatever they said.
He leaves his family with many wonderful memories of a loving husband, father and grandfather. As a parent he maintained strict discipline as his way of expressing love and sheltering concern for his children and their well being. The arrival of grandchildren was a very special highlight of his life and he loved them with all of his heart.
Robert and Monica had fifty-two years of “loving companionship” marriage together.
One of his favorite and memorable activities involved two trips to Ireland one in 1986 and the other in 1995. He wanted to explore his roots and delighted in that beautiful, enchanted and picturesque land called Ireland. His family had originated in Cork and he got to explore that phase of his family origins.
Surviving are his loving wife Monica (nee Madigan) Phalon; three children Suzanne McArdle and her husband Greg of Pompano Beach, Florida, Michael E. Phalon and his wife Colleen of Highland Lakes and Robert D. Phalon and his wife Antoinette of Hardyston; two sisters Mary M. Phalon of Paterson, Rose Marie Kirwan and her husband Bill of Bayshore, Long Island; one brother Richard M. Phalon of Whiting.
Tragedy struck the family in 1986 when his daughter Patrice Phalon-Fraone passed away.
Those planning an expression of sympathy in Robert’s memory are asked to consider "Hospice of New Jersey" c/o Saint Joseph's Hospital, 220-224 Hamburg Turnpike, 6th Fl., Wayne, NJ 07470
If you would like to send a private condolence directly to the family use this condolence section.
Funeral services will be held Monday, July 7, 2008 at 9 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 10 AM a Funeral Mass will be offered.
Friends may visit with the family at the funeral home on Sunday from 2-5 PM.
July 1, 2008
Services
Funeral services will be held Monday, July 7, 2008 at 9 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 10 AM a Funeral Mass will be offered.
Friends may visit with the family at the funeral home on Sunday from 2-5 PM.
Robert E. Phalon age 74 of Wayne on Tuesday, July 1, 2008. He had his loving wife constantly at his side and his passing was quiet and peaceful after a courageous battle with cancer.
He was born in Newton and had lived many years in Paterson before moving to Wayne twenty years ago.
Bob received his formal education at Saint John’s High School in Paterson.
He served in the Navy during the Korean conflict and received the National Defense Service Medal and the Navy Occupation Service Medal.
He was employed at Johnson Controls in Union for thirty-five years until his retirement in 1995. After retirement he performed many part time jobs to keep himself busy and when he had no work to do he went fishing at his favorite fishing hole.
Bob was gifted with a wonderfully extraverted personality and made friends easily with his quiet outgoing ways. He had a special trademark or perhaps a unique expression as he made conversation or just listened to others. He would vocalize “beep beep”. Folks around him would find humor in his response of “beep beep” to whatever they said.
He leaves his family with many wonderful memories of a loving husband, father and grandfather. As a parent he maintained strict discipline as his way of expressing love and sheltering concern for his children and their well being. The arrival of grandchildren was a very special highlight of his life and he loved them with all of his heart.
Robert and Monica had fifty-two years of “loving companionship” marriage together.
One of his favorite and memorable activities involved two trips to Ireland one in 1986 and the other in 1995. He wanted to explore his roots and delighted in that beautiful, enchanted and picturesque land called Ireland. His family had originated in Cork and he got to explore that phase of his family origins.
Surviving are his loving wife Monica (nee Madigan) Phalon; three children Suzanne McArdle and her husband Greg of Pompano Beach, Florida, Michael E. Phalon and his wife Colleen of Highland Lakes and Robert D. Phalon and his wife Antoinette of Hardyston; two sisters Mary M. Phalon of Paterson, Rose Marie Kirwan and her husband Bill of Bayshore, Long Island; one brother Richard M. Phalon of Whiting.
Tragedy struck the family in 1986 when his daughter Patrice Phalon-Fraone passed away.
Those planning an expression of sympathy in Robert’s memory are asked to consider "Hospice of New Jersey" c/o Saint Joseph's Hospital, 220-224 Hamburg Turnpike, 6th Fl., Wayne, NJ 07470
Guestbook