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June 15, 2009
Services
Funeral services will be held Tuesday, June 23, 2009 at 10 AM at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
Friends may visit with the family at the funeral home on Monday, June 22nd from 2-4, 7-9 PM.
Everyone who lives this life journey touches the world in some unique manner and in turn leaves an everlasting fingerprint. Robert’s life was like that.
Robert Karl Thorpe age 79 of Columbus, New Jersey passed into the presence of his creator on Monday, June 15, 2009 at the Virtua Memorial Hospital in Mount Holly. His passing took place quietly and peacefully while receiving the loving care of his family who were constantly at his bedside.
He was born in Paterson where he spent his formative years later living in Clifton and Wayne for over thirty years before moving to his retirement home in Columbus.
Bob received his formal education at Paterson Grammar School No. 21 and then a Paterson Eastside High School where he graduated with the Class of 1947. He was very interested in electronics and studied the subject of “Radio Technology” by means of a correspondence school at Deforest Radio School.
He joined the United States Marine Corp in 1950 and became Staff Sergeant Thorpe using his Radio Operation skills for a Lieutenant Colonel.
When he was discharged from the Marine Corp he went to work for Public Service Electric and Gas Company in Clifton where he worked for thirty-five years before his retirement in 1985.
He was a member of The Boy Scouts of America Troop No. 1 in Paterson and spent many years as a Scout Master. While living in Wayne he enjoyed being a PAL Baseball Coach.
During his Paterson years he was a member of Saint Paul’s Episcopal Church in Paterson and when living in Wayne at Saint Michael’s Episcopal Church. At both churches he served as a Sunday School Teacher. In his autumn years at the Columbus Retirement Community he was active in the local community governance association.
He leaves his family with many cherished memories of a very loving husband, father and grandfather who devoted himself to being very special for his family. Dad especially enjoyed loving and nurturing his family and when grandchildren arrived on the scene life became perfect for him. He loved them with all of his heart and soul and burst with pride when talking about them. Thanks grandpa for being so special and loving us so much.
He took the family on many vacations for thirty years with a favorite spot being the Jersey Shore at Ortley Beach and Ocean Beach.
Bob and Barbara met each other as children playing in their Paterson neighborhood. Barbara was only eight years old and lived two doors away when she first set eyes on Bob. They at first just played with all the other kids but Barbara and Bob developed a beautiful friendship together and at the age of sixteen they decided to become a couple. On March 17, 1951 they married and have had fifty-eight years of “wonderful marriage” together.
Those planning an expression of sympathy in Robert’s memory are asked to consider The Samaritan Inpatient Hospice Center, 175 Madison Avenue, Mt. Holly, NJ 08060 or St. Jude’s Children’s Hospital, 501 St. Jude Place, Memphis, TN 38105
If you would like to send a private condolence directly to the family use this condolence section.
Funeral services will be held Tuesday, June 23, 2009 at 10 AM at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
Friends may visit with the family at the funeral home on Monday, June 22nd from 2-4, 7-9 PM.
June 15, 2009
Services
Funeral services will be held Tuesday, June 23, 2009 at 10 AM at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
Friends may visit with the family at the funeral home on Monday, June 22nd from 2-4, 7-9 PM.
Everyone who lives this life journey touches the world in some unique manner and in turn leaves an everlasting fingerprint. Robert’s life was like that.
Robert Karl Thorpe age 79 of Columbus, New Jersey passed into the presence of his creator on Monday, June 15, 2009 at the Virtua Memorial Hospital in Mount Holly. His passing took place quietly and peacefully while receiving the loving care of his family who were constantly at his bedside.
He was born in Paterson where he spent his formative years later living in Clifton and Wayne for over thirty years before moving to his retirement home in Columbus.
Bob received his formal education at Paterson Grammar School No. 21 and then a Paterson Eastside High School where he graduated with the Class of 1947. He was very interested in electronics and studied the subject of “Radio Technology” by means of a correspondence school at Deforest Radio School.
He joined the United States Marine Corp in 1950 and became Staff Sergeant Thorpe using his Radio Operation skills for a Lieutenant Colonel.
When he was discharged from the Marine Corp he went to work for Public Service Electric and Gas Company in Clifton where he worked for thirty-five years before his retirement in 1985.
He was a member of The Boy Scouts of America Troop No. 1 in Paterson and spent many years as a Scout Master. While living in Wayne he enjoyed being a PAL Baseball Coach.
During his Paterson years he was a member of Saint Paul’s Episcopal Church in Paterson and when living in Wayne at Saint Michael’s Episcopal Church. At both churches he served as a Sunday School Teacher. In his autumn years at the Columbus Retirement Community he was active in the local community governance association.
He leaves his family with many cherished memories of a very loving husband, father and grandfather who devoted himself to being very special for his family. Dad especially enjoyed loving and nurturing his family and when grandchildren arrived on the scene life became perfect for him. He loved them with all of his heart and soul and burst with pride when talking about them. Thanks grandpa for being so special and loving us so much.
He took the family on many vacations for thirty years with a favorite spot being the Jersey Shore at Ortley Beach and Ocean Beach.
Bob and Barbara met each other as children playing in their Paterson neighborhood. Barbara was only eight years old and lived two doors away when she first set eyes on Bob. They at first just played with all the other kids but Barbara and Bob developed a beautiful friendship together and at the age of sixteen they decided to become a couple. On March 17, 1951 they married and have had fifty-eight years of “wonderful marriage” together.
Those planning an expression of sympathy in Robert’s memory are asked to consider The Samaritan Inpatient Hospice Center, 175 Madison Avenue, Mt. Holly, NJ 08060 or St. Jude’s Children’s Hospital, 501 St. Jude Place, Memphis, TN 38105
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