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October 20, 2018
Services
A Memorial Mass will be held on Thursday, November 8 at 10:30 am at Immaculate Heart of Mary Church at 580 Ratzer Road, Wayne with a “Celebration of Life” to follow at the Packanack Lake Club House at 52 Lake Drive West, Wayne.
Rose T. Weinpel, age 90, of Wayne passed on Saturday, October 20, 2018.
She was born in Paterson to the late John and Pauline Morozewicz and raised at the family home in South Paterson. She graduated from Central High School in Paterson with the Class of 1945.
Just out of high school, Rose worked at Grant’s Department Store in Paterson. She then went to school to be trained in typing and clerical work before marrying Charles Weinpel in 1951. Her first son Charles Jr. was born in 1952 and her second son Philip was born in 1961. Oh, how she loved her two boys and four grandchildren! She returned to work for the Wayne Township Board of Health years later as their Registrar of Vital Statistics. She worked there for seventeen years before retiring in 1992.
Rose was married to and divorced Charles Weinpel, the loving mother of Charles Jr. Weinpel / (Maria) of Wanaque and Philip Weinpel / (Diane) of Succasunna; cherished grandmother of Jason, Kevin, Victor, and Emily Weinpel; loved sister of the late John Morrow, Frances McGee, Pauline “Pinky” Morozewicz, and Edward “Eddie” Morozewicz; much loved aunt of Pat Hornby, Priscilla Restaino, Lorraine Poltarak, Bob Morrow and John Morrow; and an adored aunt and great aunt to many more.
She especially loved doing things with her family. She loved family holidays, birthday parties and BBQs. She also liked going with her family to Dorney Park, Radio City Music Hall Christmas shows, Cub and Boy Scout events, Sesame Place, or simply to watch her kids and grandchildren play one of their sports or go to see them in whatever they were involved in at the time.
Rose was always on the move going somewhere doing something. Her friends and all the other residents at Edward Sisco Village in Wayne (where she lived for over 25 years) were amazed by how she never seemed to stop. So much so that they nicknamed her “Go-Go Rosie!” She used to love to go for walks around her local, beloved Packanack Lake, go line dancing up until a few years ago, vacation at Eddy Farms in New York with friends for years. And when she was in The Atrium in Wayne (her nursing home for about one year) she amazed everyone there too with her nonstop energy and activity. When she wasn’t zipping around the halls with her walker not only did she go for her scheduled therapy sessions, but she also went down to the therapy department to exercise on a stationary bicycle or worked on stretching out her arms and shoulders that were tight and injured from a fall. And when she wasn’t exercising her body she was busy furiously writing letter after letter to all of her friends and family.
One thing Rose was extremely proud of was that her mind was always sharp as a tack even up to the day of her passing. For years she was famous for saying, “At least I still have all of my marbles!” Another one of her favorite expressions was, “Age is a number and mine is unlisted.” She said these things countless times with a big smile on her face because she knew that both of them were 100% true and she was extremely proud of them. Rose was an extremely caring and generous person. She loved being a mother, grandmother, aunt, great aunt and friend to many. She always gave her grandchildren little treats and goodies and would also “slip them a few bucks”, as she put it, to buy whatever they wanted. And when they were older she would say “to put it towards a little gas for your car.” She was deeply grateful for any little thing you did for her and was a master at the lost art of sending thank you notes. You were guaranteed to receive a beautiful thank you note from her within a few days if you did even the littlest thing for her. She would sometimes include a scratch-off lottery ticket with them and a scratch-off was guaranteed to come with your birthday card and check. She also loved to make and send handwritten cards and letters to the troops overseas, especially during the holidays. Another special relationship Rose had was being a pen pal with the granddaughter of one of her best friends after her friend passed away nine years ago. Rose and the granddaughter had been pen pals ever since. The granddaughter tells us that Rose helped her tremendously in grieving for her grandmother. And when she had a son seven years ago something really special began. At first Rose sent her son little notes and treats since he was born. And then, about three years ago, when he was old enough she included or began pen paling with him too. Rose used to sign her letters to him, “Rose, Grandma up in Heaven’s Best Friend.” Oh, how Rose treasured all the letters, pictures, and projects little Calvin made and sent to her along with all the photos of him through the years!
Years ago when her sons had friends over she used to love to cook for them. Her sons and friends still reminisce on how she used to cook the most delicious meatball sandwiches for them during their all-night marathon Risk games. Rose was known for her brownies that she would sometimes sprinkle with a bunch of Andes mints for an added treat! She was also known for baking THE BEST chocolate chip cookies. Hers were the most amazing crunchy, coffee-dunking kind! Her family so looked forward each year to when she baked them for Christmas and also for their birthdays. She also used to ship a batch of them to her grandsons when they were in college as part of her care packages to them. Shipping home-baked cookies was something that she and her sisters also used to do many years ago to her brother Eddie when he was serving in World War II.
When Rose was only sixteen years old she and her family were devastated by the loss of her brother Edward “Eddie” Morozewicz. Eddie was a Combat Medic with the 16th Infantry Regiment, 1st Infantry Division in WWII. He was a member of the first wave in the D-Day invasion or the infamous “Big Red One” on Omaha Beach in Normandy France. Eddie was killed in battle on the June 6, 1944. Rose and her family longed many years for details on how Eddie was killed and if he suffered much or died on the battlefield all alone. Rose was the only one in her family to live long enough to finally find out exactly how Eddie was killed and to thankfully hear that he did not suffer much or die all alone thanks to an amazing man named Charles Norman Shay. Charles was a fellow Army medic and Eddie’s best buddy during the war. Charles told Rose that he himself was with Eddie right before he died and that he personally gave him a shot of Morphine to help ease the pain when they finally spoke with each other for the first time. Rose was extremely relieved and happy to finally hear these things. She only wished that the rest of her family could have heard them too before they died.
Rose has always said, “Eddie’s death was the first of three tragedies for my family.” Her young family went through an unimaginable time back in the 40’s. Four years after Eddie was killed on D-Day in 1944 her older sister “Pinky” passed away of Lobar Pneumonia in 1948. And then only two months later “Pops”, or her father, also passed away. The doctors told her family that the cause of his death was “Broken Heart Syndrome.” Her beautiful family of seven that was once so happy was now suddenly a family of only four leaving just Rose, her mother, her younger sister Fran and oldest brother John. As Rose used to say, “They had each other and they made the best of it.”
Rose was literally on Cloud 9 ever since she met Charles Norman Shay in September of 2016. She was so excited and proud! She told everyone that meeting him was, “The Highlight of Her Life!” She was extremely proud of being Eddie’s little sister and for all the “history”, as she put it, that she and Eddie were making because of their connection to Charles. How Rose and Charles miraculously met in 2016 (73 years after Eddie’s death) and all the amazing things that have happened since then not only with Charles, but also with The First Division Museum at Cantigny Park in Chicago, IL, Marie-Pascale LEGRAND, Didier GLADIEUX and his family, Russ Butler and all the other members of “The 2017 Charles Norman Shay Delegation” and Isabelle, Florent PLANO and many others since that day is what Rose and many others refer to it as “an amazing story!” How does one begin to explain or best summarize it all?
The last time Charles saw Eddie was many years ago on the D-Day battlefield in 1944 when he, as an Army medic, gave him a shot of Morphine to help ease his pain because there was unfortunately nothing he could do to save his life. Charles says that he has never forgotten Eddie, his fellow Army medic and best buddy, all these years and felt very strongly that he deserved the same 70th Anniversary D-Day medals that he received back in 2014. He asked the First Division Museum to help him find us, Eddie’s family, so he could honor Eddie by getting his medals to us. How they found us was an amazing story. A story that was made possible thanks to the ancestry.com website and a totally amazing chain of events. Rose’s daughter-in-law Diane has a cousin named Artiste Parsons and Artiste has a very dear friend named Mary Ann Man. Mary Ann did an amazing thing for Artiste with her expertise using the ancestry.com website. She made Artiste’s family or the “Parsons Family Tree” on the website documenting over, would you believe, 1700 relatives for her. At first Rose was only documented as being Diane’s husband’s mother including only her married name. But thankfully her grandson Jason needed to have more of his paternal side on his family tree for a class project in college. That’s when Rose’s maiden name of “Morozewicz” and a lot of her family, most importantly her brother Eddie, was added to the Parsons’ family tree. If it wasn’t for that and the museum’s research historian named Andrew Woods who never gave up trying to find us Charles and the museum never would have found us. Luckily Andrew searched for us that one last time after Rose’s family information was added. When he did he finally got a “hit”, as they refer to it on the website, he was looking for because Rose was now documented with her maiden name and as Edward Morozewicz’s sister. Charles and the museum were so excited! So much so that after Rose and Charles spoke on the phone Charles, at the age of 93, drove himself from his Penobscot Indian Reservation on Indian Island in Maine all the way to Boston, Massachusetts where he met up with his good friend Russ Butler. It’s also an amazing story how Russ and Charles met, but much too long to explain. Russ then rode the rest of the way with him to where Rose lived with her family in New Jersey for a medal ceremony that was posthumously held for Eddie on September 16, 2016. The First Division Museum in Chicago flew two representatives named Laura Sears and Ana Myers to the medal ceremony. Charles and Laura both spoke and presented the medals and Ana helped photograph and videotaped it and the rest of the events that weekend to officially document everything. Laura and Ana also interviewed Rose.
Marie and Didier have both vowed to flourish, or put flowers and decorate, Eddie’s grave in The Normandy American Cemetery in Colleville-sur-Mer, France for the rest of their lives. They are two amazing French citizens who continually do so much to show their appreciation to all the American solders that risked their lives and, in many cases, paid the ultimate price like Eddie many years ago fighting for the freedom their country. And can you believe that when they pass away both their families have vowed to carry on their tradition? That’s Didier’s wife Nicole and their two daughters Sarah and Laura and Marie’s nephew Antione and niece Alice. Oh, how that comforted Rose! To know that Eddie’s grave would always be visited and not forgotten, especially since it’s so far away in France so she and her family and friends here in the US cannot.
Another amazing honor Rose received was being interviewed by a very dedicated French historian named Florent Plano. Florent came to the United States in 2014 to begin working on an amazing project called “The World War II Veterans’ Memories Project”. For his project he traveled around the United States for months interviewing World War II veterans. His mission was to document “the untold stories” or personal experiences of the soldiers that are not usually included in the history books. While he interviewed many veterans when he was here in 2014, he knew that there were also many more veterans that he could/should interview. He worried that one day soon it would be impossible or too late to interview them since all the WWII veterans are now in their 80s and 90s. He returned to the United States this past year and continued working on his project by interviewing even more veterans. Rose was extremely honored to be the only woman included in his project. Her “story” was sharing the experiences that she and her family went through on a day-to-day basis having a family member serve overseas during the war and especially sharing how totally devastated they all were when they received the telegram informing them that Eddie was killed on D-Day. While it was very emotional for her to do she was extremely proud to represent not only her family, but also many other American families that unfortunately experienced it too. When he interviews them he also takes a very powerful black and white portrait of them holding a framed photo of their deceased serviceperson’s framed picture or another pose. Rose was again honored for having her photo chosen to be part of Florent’s Black & White WWII Portrait Exhibition that was on display in the Ste Mère Église Museum in France this past summer. And as an added honor, her photo was hung right next to Charles’!
Everything somehow miraculously came together to form the most amazing and unique bond between Eddie, Rose and Charles many years after Eddie’s horrific death. One in which Rose and Charles lovingly referred to each other as their “adopted brother or sister!”
Rest in peace with Eddie and the rest of your family, Rose. God bless you all until we meet again! Resurgam or “I will rise again”.
In lieu of flowers a memorial donation to the First Division Museum at
Cantigny would be greatly appreciated. Please make checks out to:
The Cantigny Foundation with the note
“IMO Rose Morozewicz Weinpel” and mail to:
The First Division Museum at Cantigny
1s151 Winfield Road
Wheaton, IL 60189
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A Memorial Mass will be held on Thursday, November 8 at 10:30 am at Immaculate Heart of Mary Church at 580 Ratzer Road, Wayne with a “Celebration of Life” to follow at the Packanack Lake Club House at 52 Lake Drive West, Wayne.
October 20, 2018
Services
A Memorial Mass will be held on Thursday, November 8 at 10:30 am at Immaculate Heart of Mary Church at 580 Ratzer Road, Wayne with a “Celebration of Life” to follow at the Packanack Lake Club House at 52 Lake Drive West, Wayne.
Rose T. Weinpel, age 90, of Wayne passed on Saturday, October 20, 2018.
She was born in Paterson to the late John and Pauline Morozewicz and raised at the family home in South Paterson. She graduated from Central High School in Paterson with the Class of 1945.
Just out of high school, Rose worked at Grant’s Department Store in Paterson. She then went to school to be trained in typing and clerical work before marrying Charles Weinpel in 1951. Her first son Charles Jr. was born in 1952 and her second son Philip was born in 1961. Oh, how she loved her two boys and four grandchildren! She returned to work for the Wayne Township Board of Health years later as their Registrar of Vital Statistics. She worked there for seventeen years before retiring in 1992.
Rose was married to and divorced Charles Weinpel, the loving mother of Charles Jr. Weinpel / (Maria) of Wanaque and Philip Weinpel / (Diane) of Succasunna; cherished grandmother of Jason, Kevin, Victor, and Emily Weinpel; loved sister of the late John Morrow, Frances McGee, Pauline “Pinky” Morozewicz, and Edward “Eddie” Morozewicz; much loved aunt of Pat Hornby, Priscilla Restaino, Lorraine Poltarak, Bob Morrow and John Morrow; and an adored aunt and great aunt to many more.
She especially loved doing things with her family. She loved family holidays, birthday parties and BBQs. She also liked going with her family to Dorney Park, Radio City Music Hall Christmas shows, Cub and Boy Scout events, Sesame Place, or simply to watch her kids and grandchildren play one of their sports or go to see them in whatever they were involved in at the time.
Rose was always on the move going somewhere doing something. Her friends and all the other residents at Edward Sisco Village in Wayne (where she lived for over 25 years) were amazed by how she never seemed to stop. So much so that they nicknamed her “Go-Go Rosie!” She used to love to go for walks around her local, beloved Packanack Lake, go line dancing up until a few years ago, vacation at Eddy Farms in New York with friends for years. And when she was in The Atrium in Wayne (her nursing home for about one year) she amazed everyone there too with her nonstop energy and activity. When she wasn’t zipping around the halls with her walker not only did she go for her scheduled therapy sessions, but she also went down to the therapy department to exercise on a stationary bicycle or worked on stretching out her arms and shoulders that were tight and injured from a fall. And when she wasn’t exercising her body she was busy furiously writing letter after letter to all of her friends and family.
One thing Rose was extremely proud of was that her mind was always sharp as a tack even up to the day of her passing. For years she was famous for saying, “At least I still have all of my marbles!” Another one of her favorite expressions was, “Age is a number and mine is unlisted.” She said these things countless times with a big smile on her face because she knew that both of them were 100% true and she was extremely proud of them. Rose was an extremely caring and generous person. She loved being a mother, grandmother, aunt, great aunt and friend to many. She always gave her grandchildren little treats and goodies and would also “slip them a few bucks”, as she put it, to buy whatever they wanted. And when they were older she would say “to put it towards a little gas for your car.” She was deeply grateful for any little thing you did for her and was a master at the lost art of sending thank you notes. You were guaranteed to receive a beautiful thank you note from her within a few days if you did even the littlest thing for her. She would sometimes include a scratch-off lottery ticket with them and a scratch-off was guaranteed to come with your birthday card and check. She also loved to make and send handwritten cards and letters to the troops overseas, especially during the holidays. Another special relationship Rose had was being a pen pal with the granddaughter of one of her best friends after her friend passed away nine years ago. Rose and the granddaughter had been pen pals ever since. The granddaughter tells us that Rose helped her tremendously in grieving for her grandmother. And when she had a son seven years ago something really special began. At first Rose sent her son little notes and treats since he was born. And then, about three years ago, when he was old enough she included or began pen paling with him too. Rose used to sign her letters to him, “Rose, Grandma up in Heaven’s Best Friend.” Oh, how Rose treasured all the letters, pictures, and projects little Calvin made and sent to her along with all the photos of him through the years!
Years ago when her sons had friends over she used to love to cook for them. Her sons and friends still reminisce on how she used to cook the most delicious meatball sandwiches for them during their all-night marathon Risk games. Rose was known for her brownies that she would sometimes sprinkle with a bunch of Andes mints for an added treat! She was also known for baking THE BEST chocolate chip cookies. Hers were the most amazing crunchy, coffee-dunking kind! Her family so looked forward each year to when she baked them for Christmas and also for their birthdays. She also used to ship a batch of them to her grandsons when they were in college as part of her care packages to them. Shipping home-baked cookies was something that she and her sisters also used to do many years ago to her brother Eddie when he was serving in World War II.
When Rose was only sixteen years old she and her family were devastated by the loss of her brother Edward “Eddie” Morozewicz. Eddie was a Combat Medic with the 16th Infantry Regiment, 1st Infantry Division in WWII. He was a member of the first wave in the D-Day invasion or the infamous “Big Red One” on Omaha Beach in Normandy France. Eddie was killed in battle on the June 6, 1944. Rose and her family longed many years for details on how Eddie was killed and if he suffered much or died on the battlefield all alone. Rose was the only one in her family to live long enough to finally find out exactly how Eddie was killed and to thankfully hear that he did not suffer much or die all alone thanks to an amazing man named Charles Norman Shay. Charles was a fellow Army medic and Eddie’s best buddy during the war. Charles told Rose that he himself was with Eddie right before he died and that he personally gave him a shot of Morphine to help ease the pain when they finally spoke with each other for the first time. Rose was extremely relieved and happy to finally hear these things. She only wished that the rest of her family could have heard them too before they died.
Rose has always said, “Eddie’s death was the first of three tragedies for my family.” Her young family went through an unimaginable time back in the 40’s. Four years after Eddie was killed on D-Day in 1944 her older sister “Pinky” passed away of Lobar Pneumonia in 1948. And then only two months later “Pops”, or her father, also passed away. The doctors told her family that the cause of his death was “Broken Heart Syndrome.” Her beautiful family of seven that was once so happy was now suddenly a family of only four leaving just Rose, her mother, her younger sister Fran and oldest brother John. As Rose used to say, “They had each other and they made the best of it.”
Rose was literally on Cloud 9 ever since she met Charles Norman Shay in September of 2016. She was so excited and proud! She told everyone that meeting him was, “The Highlight of Her Life!” She was extremely proud of being Eddie’s little sister and for all the “history”, as she put it, that she and Eddie were making because of their connection to Charles. How Rose and Charles miraculously met in 2016 (73 years after Eddie’s death) and all the amazing things that have happened since then not only with Charles, but also with The First Division Museum at Cantigny Park in Chicago, IL, Marie-Pascale LEGRAND, Didier GLADIEUX and his family, Russ Butler and all the other members of “The 2017 Charles Norman Shay Delegation” and Isabelle, Florent PLANO and many others since that day is what Rose and many others refer to it as “an amazing story!” How does one begin to explain or best summarize it all?
The last time Charles saw Eddie was many years ago on the D-Day battlefield in 1944 when he, as an Army medic, gave him a shot of Morphine to help ease his pain because there was unfortunately nothing he could do to save his life. Charles says that he has never forgotten Eddie, his fellow Army medic and best buddy, all these years and felt very strongly that he deserved the same 70th Anniversary D-Day medals that he received back in 2014. He asked the First Division Museum to help him find us, Eddie’s family, so he could honor Eddie by getting his medals to us. How they found us was an amazing story. A story that was made possible thanks to the ancestry.com website and a totally amazing chain of events. Rose’s daughter-in-law Diane has a cousin named Artiste Parsons and Artiste has a very dear friend named Mary Ann Man. Mary Ann did an amazing thing for Artiste with her expertise using the ancestry.com website. She made Artiste’s family or the “Parsons Family Tree” on the website documenting over, would you believe, 1700 relatives for her. At first Rose was only documented as being Diane’s husband’s mother including only her married name. But thankfully her grandson Jason needed to have more of his paternal side on his family tree for a class project in college. That’s when Rose’s maiden name of “Morozewicz” and a lot of her family, most importantly her brother Eddie, was added to the Parsons’ family tree. If it wasn’t for that and the museum’s research historian named Andrew Woods who never gave up trying to find us Charles and the museum never would have found us. Luckily Andrew searched for us that one last time after Rose’s family information was added. When he did he finally got a “hit”, as they refer to it on the website, he was looking for because Rose was now documented with her maiden name and as Edward Morozewicz’s sister. Charles and the museum were so excited! So much so that after Rose and Charles spoke on the phone Charles, at the age of 93, drove himself from his Penobscot Indian Reservation on Indian Island in Maine all the way to Boston, Massachusetts where he met up with his good friend Russ Butler. It’s also an amazing story how Russ and Charles met, but much too long to explain. Russ then rode the rest of the way with him to where Rose lived with her family in New Jersey for a medal ceremony that was posthumously held for Eddie on September 16, 2016. The First Division Museum in Chicago flew two representatives named Laura Sears and Ana Myers to the medal ceremony. Charles and Laura both spoke and presented the medals and Ana helped photograph and videotaped it and the rest of the events that weekend to officially document everything. Laura and Ana also interviewed Rose.
Marie and Didier have both vowed to flourish, or put flowers and decorate, Eddie’s grave in The Normandy American Cemetery in Colleville-sur-Mer, France for the rest of their lives. They are two amazing French citizens who continually do so much to show their appreciation to all the American solders that risked their lives and, in many cases, paid the ultimate price like Eddie many years ago fighting for the freedom their country. And can you believe that when they pass away both their families have vowed to carry on their tradition? That’s Didier’s wife Nicole and their two daughters Sarah and Laura and Marie’s nephew Antione and niece Alice. Oh, how that comforted Rose! To know that Eddie’s grave would always be visited and not forgotten, especially since it’s so far away in France so she and her family and friends here in the US cannot.
Another amazing honor Rose received was being interviewed by a very dedicated French historian named Florent Plano. Florent came to the United States in 2014 to begin working on an amazing project called “The World War II Veterans’ Memories Project”. For his project he traveled around the United States for months interviewing World War II veterans. His mission was to document “the untold stories” or personal experiences of the soldiers that are not usually included in the history books. While he interviewed many veterans when he was here in 2014, he knew that there were also many more veterans that he could/should interview. He worried that one day soon it would be impossible or too late to interview them since all the WWII veterans are now in their 80s and 90s. He returned to the United States this past year and continued working on his project by interviewing even more veterans. Rose was extremely honored to be the only woman included in his project. Her “story” was sharing the experiences that she and her family went through on a day-to-day basis having a family member serve overseas during the war and especially sharing how totally devastated they all were when they received the telegram informing them that Eddie was killed on D-Day. While it was very emotional for her to do she was extremely proud to represent not only her family, but also many other American families that unfortunately experienced it too. When he interviews them he also takes a very powerful black and white portrait of them holding a framed photo of their deceased serviceperson’s framed picture or another pose. Rose was again honored for having her photo chosen to be part of Florent’s Black & White WWII Portrait Exhibition that was on display in the Ste Mère Église Museum in France this past summer. And as an added honor, her photo was hung right next to Charles’!
Everything somehow miraculously came together to form the most amazing and unique bond between Eddie, Rose and Charles many years after Eddie’s horrific death. One in which Rose and Charles lovingly referred to each other as their “adopted brother or sister!”
Rest in peace with Eddie and the rest of your family, Rose. God bless you all until we meet again! Resurgam or “I will rise again”.
In lieu of flowers a memorial donation to the First Division Museum at
Cantigny would be greatly appreciated. Please make checks out to:
The Cantigny Foundation with the note
“IMO Rose Morozewicz Weinpel” and mail to:
The First Division Museum at Cantigny
1s151 Winfield Road
Wheaton, IL 60189
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