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February 18, 2012
Services
Friends may visit with the family from 2-4 and 7-9 PM on Thursday, February 23, 2012 at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Rd., Wayne.
Funeral services will be Friday, February 24, 2012 10 AM from the funeral home then to Our Lady of Consolation RC Church, 1799 Hamburg Tpk., Wayne where an 11 AM Funeral Mass will be offered.
Rose L. Kumalac (nee Birkner) age 65, died Saturday, February 18, 2012.
She was born in Paterson and raised in Clifton having graduated from Clifton High School with the Class of 1964. She continued her education at St Vincent’s Nursing School in Montclair having graduated with the Class of 1965. In 1984 she graduated from Felician College School of Nursing in Lodi and received her credentials as a Registered Nurse.
She lived in Clifton, Lakewood and Howell before moving to Wayne to be closer to family.
Rose was active in nursing from 1965 through 1986 when she formally retired. She has worked at St. Joseph’s Hospital in Paterson where she was on of the starting staff of the Hemodialysis Unit, was one of the founding nurses for the A.P. Meile Dialysis Unit in East Orange through 1982 and from 1982 through 1986 she worked as a Private Duty Nurse for Meridian Health Care in Toms River.
She was an excellent seamstress, enjoyed needlepoint and gardening and was also a great cook and baker. She enjoyed making traditional Czechoslovakian foods and prided herself in using the original methods of cooking and baking. Some of her specialties were Easter Babka’s and Kipfel’s.
Rose was the loving wife of the late F. Joseph Kumalac(2000). She met Joe through a dating service and they married on November 11, 1978 at Our Lady of Consolation RC Church in Wayne with Fr. Peter Doody officiating. They had their reception in the hall at St. Marys Church in Pompton Lakes and honeymooned at Mohonk Mountain House in New Paltz New York. They enjoyed twenty-two years of a loving marriage, and it was said they were like “two peas in a pod”, before Joe’s passing in 2000.
She adopted two children through Holt International and was the proud, loving, mother of Thomas now of Utah, and Rosemary Kumalac currently of Toms River; loved sister of the late David B. Birkner and the late John Birkner(2010) and his surviving wife Dorothy of Wayne; cherished aunt of Jeffrey Birkner of Belleville and Sharon Kelly and her husband Joseph and their children Ryan and Evan of Pompton Lakes.
In lieu of flowers memorial donations to Our Lady of Consolation RC Church, 1799 Hamburg Tpk., Wayne, NJ 07470 or the Hospice of NJ, 400 Broad Acres Drive, 1st Floor, Bloomfield, NJ 07003 would be appreciated.
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Friends may visit with the family from 2-4 and 7-9 PM on Thursday, February 23, 2012 at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Rd., Wayne.
Funeral services will be Friday, February 24, 2012 10 AM from the funeral home then to Our Lady of Consolation RC Church, 1799 Hamburg Tpk., Wayne where an 11 AM Funeral Mass will be offered.
February 18, 2012
Services
Friends may visit with the family from 2-4 and 7-9 PM on Thursday, February 23, 2012 at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Rd., Wayne.
Funeral services will be Friday, February 24, 2012 10 AM from the funeral home then to Our Lady of Consolation RC Church, 1799 Hamburg Tpk., Wayne where an 11 AM Funeral Mass will be offered.
Rose L. Kumalac (nee Birkner) age 65, died Saturday, February 18, 2012.
She was born in Paterson and raised in Clifton having graduated from Clifton High School with the Class of 1964. She continued her education at St Vincent’s Nursing School in Montclair having graduated with the Class of 1965. In 1984 she graduated from Felician College School of Nursing in Lodi and received her credentials as a Registered Nurse.
She lived in Clifton, Lakewood and Howell before moving to Wayne to be closer to family.
Rose was active in nursing from 1965 through 1986 when she formally retired. She has worked at St. Joseph’s Hospital in Paterson where she was on of the starting staff of the Hemodialysis Unit, was one of the founding nurses for the A.P. Meile Dialysis Unit in East Orange through 1982 and from 1982 through 1986 she worked as a Private Duty Nurse for Meridian Health Care in Toms River.
She was an excellent seamstress, enjoyed needlepoint and gardening and was also a great cook and baker. She enjoyed making traditional Czechoslovakian foods and prided herself in using the original methods of cooking and baking. Some of her specialties were Easter Babka’s and Kipfel’s.
Rose was the loving wife of the late F. Joseph Kumalac(2000). She met Joe through a dating service and they married on November 11, 1978 at Our Lady of Consolation RC Church in Wayne with Fr. Peter Doody officiating. They had their reception in the hall at St. Marys Church in Pompton Lakes and honeymooned at Mohonk Mountain House in New Paltz New York. They enjoyed twenty-two years of a loving marriage, and it was said they were like “two peas in a pod”, before Joe’s passing in 2000.
She adopted two children through Holt International and was the proud, loving, mother of Thomas now of Utah, and Rosemary Kumalac currently of Toms River; loved sister of the late David B. Birkner and the late John Birkner(2010) and his surviving wife Dorothy of Wayne; cherished aunt of Jeffrey Birkner of Belleville and Sharon Kelly and her husband Joseph and their children Ryan and Evan of Pompton Lakes.
In lieu of flowers memorial donations to Our Lady of Consolation RC Church, 1799 Hamburg Tpk., Wayne, NJ 07470 or the Hospice of NJ, 400 Broad Acres Drive, 1st Floor, Bloomfield, NJ 07003 would be appreciated.
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