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September 1, 2006
Services
Funeral services will be held Wednesday, September 6, 2006 at 1 PM at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
Friends may visit with the family at the funeral home on Tuesday from 2-4, 7-9 PM.
Robert S. Cromley age 99 of the Packanack Lake section of Wayne, NJ died Friday, September 1, 2006 at the Atrium Health Care Center in Wayne. He passed away quietly and peacefully after living a full, happy and rich life.
He was born in Lyndhurst and had lived in the Packanack Lake section of Wayne from 1949 to 1960 then moving to Pompano Beach, Florida for twenty-four years before moving back to Wayne twenty-two years ago.
Robert received his formal education at the Newark College of Engineering Night School receiving a degree in Mechanical Engineering with the Class of 1929 while working daytime in the New York City building trades. He was employed by Socony-Vacuum in NYC as an engineer in 1931 where he worked for five years and in 1936 he was promoted to assistant building manager. During that time he took an evening course in real estate management at Columbia University and also completed the building management course given by the Real Estate Board of New York. After taking over the management of the Albany Standard Building in 1938, he studied business law for two years in the evening courses a Siena College in Loudenville, NY. During this time he was made president of the Building owners and Managers Association of Albany. Following World War II Mr. Cromley returned to Real Estate Management at 26 Broadway, New York City. He also served on the New York Real Estate Board and Downtown Owners Committee.
Mr. Cromley was a Mechanical Engineer for Mobil Oil Company in New York City where he worked for thirty years before his retirement in 1960.
He was a Navy Veteran who signed up for the Navy in 1923 in the Asiatic Station at the age of seventeen and served in the Submarine Division 17 in China and the Philippines. He rejoined the Navy again in 1943 and served in the United States Navy Sea Bees as a Chief Warrant Officer in charge of earth moving and heavy construction equipment. He saw service in the Hawaiian Islands, Eniwetok, Tinian, Saipan and Okinawa. He received the World War II Victory Medal, the Asiatic Pacific Medal with two Stars, Yangtze Patrol Ribbon and the American Theatre Ribbon. He was a member of the Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 1931 in Wayne.
He was a member of the Packanack Community Church in Wayne, the Golden Age Circle of Wayne and the Wayne Adults at Schuyler Colfax School.
Bob served on the Wayne Board of Education and was a member and Past President of the Packanack Lake Volunteer Fire Company Five all of Wayne, NJ.
His wife Louise J. Cromley predeceased him in 1984 and his son Robert Cromley Jr. died in 1994.
Surviving are his daughter Lorraine Martin of Union, his daughter in law Jeanne Cromley of Riverdale; seven grandchildren, Karl Martin and his wife Lori of Spotswood, Paul Cromley and his wife Cathi of Vernon, NJ, Robert and his wife Hilary of Greenville, SC and Mark Cromley and his wife Maria of Butler, Kathleen Greenberg and her husband Michael of Monroe, NY, Debbie Martin of Cedar Grove and Laura Cromley of Pompton Plains and Great Grandchildren Lindsay, Alison and Jennifer Greenberg, Robbie, Jonathan, Matthew, Anna Marie, Caitlin, Emily, Sarah and Amanda Cromley, Kevin, Jonathan, Shannon and Tara Martin.
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Funeral services will be held Wednesday, September 6, 2006 at 1 PM at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
Friends may visit with the family at the funeral home on Tuesday from 2-4, 7-9 PM.
September 1, 2006
Services
Funeral services will be held Wednesday, September 6, 2006 at 1 PM at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
Friends may visit with the family at the funeral home on Tuesday from 2-4, 7-9 PM.
Robert S. Cromley age 99 of the Packanack Lake section of Wayne, NJ died Friday, September 1, 2006 at the Atrium Health Care Center in Wayne. He passed away quietly and peacefully after living a full, happy and rich life.
He was born in Lyndhurst and had lived in the Packanack Lake section of Wayne from 1949 to 1960 then moving to Pompano Beach, Florida for twenty-four years before moving back to Wayne twenty-two years ago.
Robert received his formal education at the Newark College of Engineering Night School receiving a degree in Mechanical Engineering with the Class of 1929 while working daytime in the New York City building trades. He was employed by Socony-Vacuum in NYC as an engineer in 1931 where he worked for five years and in 1936 he was promoted to assistant building manager. During that time he took an evening course in real estate management at Columbia University and also completed the building management course given by the Real Estate Board of New York. After taking over the management of the Albany Standard Building in 1938, he studied business law for two years in the evening courses a Siena College in Loudenville, NY. During this time he was made president of the Building owners and Managers Association of Albany. Following World War II Mr. Cromley returned to Real Estate Management at 26 Broadway, New York City. He also served on the New York Real Estate Board and Downtown Owners Committee.
Mr. Cromley was a Mechanical Engineer for Mobil Oil Company in New York City where he worked for thirty years before his retirement in 1960.
He was a Navy Veteran who signed up for the Navy in 1923 in the Asiatic Station at the age of seventeen and served in the Submarine Division 17 in China and the Philippines. He rejoined the Navy again in 1943 and served in the United States Navy Sea Bees as a Chief Warrant Officer in charge of earth moving and heavy construction equipment. He saw service in the Hawaiian Islands, Eniwetok, Tinian, Saipan and Okinawa. He received the World War II Victory Medal, the Asiatic Pacific Medal with two Stars, Yangtze Patrol Ribbon and the American Theatre Ribbon. He was a member of the Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 1931 in Wayne.
He was a member of the Packanack Community Church in Wayne, the Golden Age Circle of Wayne and the Wayne Adults at Schuyler Colfax School.
Bob served on the Wayne Board of Education and was a member and Past President of the Packanack Lake Volunteer Fire Company Five all of Wayne, NJ.
His wife Louise J. Cromley predeceased him in 1984 and his son Robert Cromley Jr. died in 1994.
Surviving are his daughter Lorraine Martin of Union, his daughter in law Jeanne Cromley of Riverdale; seven grandchildren, Karl Martin and his wife Lori of Spotswood, Paul Cromley and his wife Cathi of Vernon, NJ, Robert and his wife Hilary of Greenville, SC and Mark Cromley and his wife Maria of Butler, Kathleen Greenberg and her husband Michael of Monroe, NY, Debbie Martin of Cedar Grove and Laura Cromley of Pompton Plains and Great Grandchildren Lindsay, Alison and Jennifer Greenberg, Robbie, Jonathan, Matthew, Anna Marie, Caitlin, Emily, Sarah and Amanda Cromley, Kevin, Jonathan, Shannon and Tara Martin.
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