July 27, 2009

Robert H. Shanahan

Wayne

Services

Funeral services will be held will be held 11AM on Friday, July 31, 2009 at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Rd., Wayne.

Interment will be in Christ the King Cemetery, Franklin Lakes.

Robert H. Shanahan of Wayne died Monday, July 27, 2009 peacefully at St. Josephs Wayne Hospital.

He was born in Hackensack and has lived in Wayne for the past thirty-six years.

Robert worked for PSE&G’s gas division in Clifton for thirty-seven years before retiring in 1996.

He met the love of his life Ingeborg Augustin in Germany. She came to this country with a job offer at the German Embassy in Washington, DC. Instead of going for the job she stayed in New Jersey and dated Bob for one year before marrying him on February 7, 1959. They honeymooned in Washington, DC and have enjoyed fifty years of a loving and caring marriage.

Surviving him are his wife Ingeborg (Augustin) Shanahan; one sister Barbara Hansen and her husband Robert of Richmond, VA and four loving nieces Denise, Kristen, Tara and Christine. He was predeceased by his parents Hugh and Catherine(Ridosh) Shanahan.

In lieu of flowers memorial donations to the Wayne Animal Shelter, 187 Dey Rd., Wayne, NJ 07470 would be appreciated.

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Funeral services will be held will be held 11AM on Friday, July 31, 2009 at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Rd., Wayne.

Interment will be in Christ the King Cemetery, Franklin Lakes.

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