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December 8, 2012
Services
Funeral services will be held Thursday, December 13, 2012, 10:30 AM from the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne. Interment will follow in St. Michael’s Cemetery, S. Hackensack.
Friends may visit with the family on Wednesday, December 12, 2012, from 2-4 and 7-9 PM at the funeral home.
Robin Theresa Gavlak, age 50, died suddenly at her home in Bloomingdale on the morning of Saturday, December 8, 2012.
Born in Passaic, she grew up in West Milford and had been a resident of Bloomingdale for the past eighteen years.
Robin met the love of her life, Brian Gavlak on a beautiful summer evening in 1995 at Big John’s in Newfoundland. They kissed that very night and exchanged vows two months later on October 28, 1995 at Our Lady Queen of Peace Church in Hewitt. On the day of their wedding the forecast called for horrific weather, but it only rained lightly followed by a double rainbow which symbolized Robin and Brian’s love for each other. The wedding was followed by a beautiful, celebrative reception at the Regency House in Wayne and honeymoon in Aruba.
Robin had a great love for the outdoors. Each winter, she and Brian would snowmobile in Pittsburg, NH where her favorite memories included seeing the pristine, sparkly snow, feeling the thirty-degree-below-zero temperature on her face and enjoying the utter silence of that beautiful place! In the summer Robin loved swimming in her pool (as long as it was 86 degrees or hotter), going fishing on the surf at Island Beach State Park with Brian, and enjoying the vintage rides at Knoebels Amusement Resort in Elysburg, PA.
Robin also loved her kitty cats: Schotzi, Taz and, most recently, Doogie and Fraulein. Eeyore was her favorite Disney character and she reportedly had over three dozen different Eeyore figures. She collected trolls from Norway in Epcot, and, true to her German ancestry, Robin also collected Hummels.
Robin is survived by her beloved husband Brian, her father and mother Oscar and Theresa Beyenberg, her brother Glen Beyenberg, her cousins Dawn and Mark, her father-in-law and mother-in-law Ray and Lola Gavlak and her sister-in-law Susan Gavlak.
In lieu of flowers, as expressions of sympathy, if friends so wish, donations may be made in Robin’s memory to Bloomingdale Regional Animal Shelter Society (B.A.S.S.) 23 Brandt Lane, Bloomingdale, NJ 07403.
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Funeral services will be held Thursday, December 13, 2012, 10:30 AM from the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne. Interment will follow in St. Michael’s Cemetery, S. Hackensack.
Friends may visit with the family on Wednesday, December 12, 2012, from 2-4 and 7-9 PM at the funeral home.
December 8, 2012
Services
Funeral services will be held Thursday, December 13, 2012, 10:30 AM from the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne. Interment will follow in St. Michael’s Cemetery, S. Hackensack.
Friends may visit with the family on Wednesday, December 12, 2012, from 2-4 and 7-9 PM at the funeral home.
Robin Theresa Gavlak, age 50, died suddenly at her home in Bloomingdale on the morning of Saturday, December 8, 2012.
Born in Passaic, she grew up in West Milford and had been a resident of Bloomingdale for the past eighteen years.
Robin met the love of her life, Brian Gavlak on a beautiful summer evening in 1995 at Big John’s in Newfoundland. They kissed that very night and exchanged vows two months later on October 28, 1995 at Our Lady Queen of Peace Church in Hewitt. On the day of their wedding the forecast called for horrific weather, but it only rained lightly followed by a double rainbow which symbolized Robin and Brian’s love for each other. The wedding was followed by a beautiful, celebrative reception at the Regency House in Wayne and honeymoon in Aruba.
Robin had a great love for the outdoors. Each winter, she and Brian would snowmobile in Pittsburg, NH where her favorite memories included seeing the pristine, sparkly snow, feeling the thirty-degree-below-zero temperature on her face and enjoying the utter silence of that beautiful place! In the summer Robin loved swimming in her pool (as long as it was 86 degrees or hotter), going fishing on the surf at Island Beach State Park with Brian, and enjoying the vintage rides at Knoebels Amusement Resort in Elysburg, PA.
Robin also loved her kitty cats: Schotzi, Taz and, most recently, Doogie and Fraulein. Eeyore was her favorite Disney character and she reportedly had over three dozen different Eeyore figures. She collected trolls from Norway in Epcot, and, true to her German ancestry, Robin also collected Hummels.
Robin is survived by her beloved husband Brian, her father and mother Oscar and Theresa Beyenberg, her brother Glen Beyenberg, her cousins Dawn and Mark, her father-in-law and mother-in-law Ray and Lola Gavlak and her sister-in-law Susan Gavlak.
In lieu of flowers, as expressions of sympathy, if friends so wish, donations may be made in Robin’s memory to Bloomingdale Regional Animal Shelter Society (B.A.S.S.) 23 Brandt Lane, Bloomingdale, NJ 07403.
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