August 25, 2017

Robert Kueppers

Wayne

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Friends may visit with the family from 9:30 AM – 11 AM on Friday, September 1, 2017 at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne. An 11:30 AM Funeral Mass will be held on Friday at Our Lady of the Valley RC Church, 630 Valley Road, Wayne.

Interment will be in Calvary Cemetery, Paterson.

Robert E. Kueppers, age 91 of Wayne, passed peacefully at home on Friday, August 25, 2017.

He was born in Passaic and raised at 146 Dundee Avenue in Paterson. He had been a Wayne resident for over sixty years.

Bob was a proud WWII Veteran having served with the 329th Infantry of the 83rd Division. He was a Technician Fifth Grade and Light Tank Crewman with campaigns in Ardennes Central Europe. For his service he received the Combat Infantry Badge, African Middle Eastern Campaign Medal, the Good Conduct Medal, and the WWII Victory Medal. He was Honorably Discharged on June 2, 1946. As a young boy he served in the Oakland Military Academy in Oakland NJ.

While driving in Paterson with the roof down in a convertible Bob spotted a classmate from high school named Edith Warren. They waved to each other and as fate would have it they fell in love. Bob and Edith married on May 8, 1948 at Saint Brendan’s RC Church in Clifton and honeymooned in Florida. They have enjoyed sixty-nine years of a loving and caring marriage.

Robert was the loving husband of Edith Kueppers; devoted father of Lorraine Kueppers of Beachwood, and the late Robert Kueppers; beloved grandfather of Jeffrey and Jennifer Kueppers; cherished great-grandfather of Adrianna Kueppers.

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Friends may visit with the family from 9:30 AM – 11 AM on Friday, September 1, 2017 at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne. An 11:30 AM Funeral Mass will be held on Friday at Our Lady of the Valley RC Church, 630 Valley Road, Wayne.

Interment will be in Calvary Cemetery, Paterson.

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