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April 30, 2014
Services
Friends may visit with the family at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne, on Saturday, May 3, 2014 from 1-4 PM. A funeral service will be held at the funeral home at 4 PM on Saturday, following the visiting hours.
Robert B. Hook, age 88 and formerly of Prospect Park, died peacefully on Wednesday, April 30, 2014. He had been residing at the New Jersey Fireman’s Home in Boonton for the past two years.
Bob was raised in Prospect Park and sadly lost his mother when he was just seventeen years old and decided to join the U.S. Navy soon thereafter. His older brother was already serving in the U.S. Army and suggested that the Navy would be a better option. At least in the Navy, Bob would have a dry bunk to sleep in every night, as opposed to a muddy fox hole. However, the first time Bob encountered rough seas, with waves much taller than his own ship, he questioned his brother’s advice. Nevertheless, Bob served proudly for nearly four years throughout the South Pacific.
Upon his return from the service, Bob settled in Prospect Park again and began a lifelong career as a painter, trading as Robert Hook Painting. He also believed strongly in taking an active role in his community and he joined the volunteer fire department. He served in excess of twenty five years with the Prospect Park Volunteer Fire Department, and loved every bit of it.
Bob was predeceased by his wife Loretta Hook in 2011. He is survived by his three children; Robert Hook and his wife Deborah, Charlene Brauch and her husband Dean, and Connie Gravinese and her husband John, ten grandchildren and eleven great-grandchildren, and his loving wife’s children; Barbara and Danny Capozzoli, Johnny and Joan Reid, and their children and grandchildren.
In lieu of flowers, friends are asked to consider a memorial donation in Bob’s honor to the New Jersey Fireman’s Home, 565 Lathrop Ave., Boonton, NJ 07005.
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Friends may visit with the family at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne, on Saturday, May 3, 2014 from 1-4 PM. A funeral service will be held at the funeral home at 4 PM on Saturday, following the visiting hours.
April 30, 2014
Services
Friends may visit with the family at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne, on Saturday, May 3, 2014 from 1-4 PM. A funeral service will be held at the funeral home at 4 PM on Saturday, following the visiting hours.
Robert B. Hook, age 88 and formerly of Prospect Park, died peacefully on Wednesday, April 30, 2014. He had been residing at the New Jersey Fireman’s Home in Boonton for the past two years.
Bob was raised in Prospect Park and sadly lost his mother when he was just seventeen years old and decided to join the U.S. Navy soon thereafter. His older brother was already serving in the U.S. Army and suggested that the Navy would be a better option. At least in the Navy, Bob would have a dry bunk to sleep in every night, as opposed to a muddy fox hole. However, the first time Bob encountered rough seas, with waves much taller than his own ship, he questioned his brother’s advice. Nevertheless, Bob served proudly for nearly four years throughout the South Pacific.
Upon his return from the service, Bob settled in Prospect Park again and began a lifelong career as a painter, trading as Robert Hook Painting. He also believed strongly in taking an active role in his community and he joined the volunteer fire department. He served in excess of twenty five years with the Prospect Park Volunteer Fire Department, and loved every bit of it.
Bob was predeceased by his wife Loretta Hook in 2011. He is survived by his three children; Robert Hook and his wife Deborah, Charlene Brauch and her husband Dean, and Connie Gravinese and her husband John, ten grandchildren and eleven great-grandchildren, and his loving wife’s children; Barbara and Danny Capozzoli, Johnny and Joan Reid, and their children and grandchildren.
In lieu of flowers, friends are asked to consider a memorial donation in Bob’s honor to the New Jersey Fireman’s Home, 565 Lathrop Ave., Boonton, NJ 07005.
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