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June 19, 2018
Services
Friends may visit with the family from 2-4 and 6-8PM on Friday June 22, 2018 at the VanderMay Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Rd, Wayne, NJ. Funeral services will be held 9AM at the funeral home then to Immaculate Heart of Mary RC Church 582 Ratzer Rd, Wayne where at 10AM a funeral mass will be celebrated.
Interment will be in Christ the King Cemetery in Franklin Lakes, NJ.
Rosemary I. Finnegan (nee Reynolds) of Packanack Lake in Wayne passed away peacefully on June 19, 2018.
She was born in New York City spending her formative years in Jackson Heights, Queens, NY later living in Syracuse, NY and Millinocket, Maine for eight years before moving to Packanack Lake in Wayne in 1961.
Rosemary received her formal education at Saint Joan of Arc Grammar School in Jackson Heights and also at Saint Bartholomew’s High School in Elmhurst, NY graduating at sixteen. She also attended Fordham University and Syracuse University.
She was a parishioner of Immaculate Heart of Mary RC Church in Wayne where she served as a Eucharistic Minister.
Rosemary loved the outdoors and was an avid skier frequenting slopes in Maine and Vermont.
She had six children whom she loved with all her heart. However tragedy struck three of her children at an early age. She lost her newborn son John in 1958, her son James Gerard in July of 1999 to a heart attack, and her daughter Rosemary Finnegan-Agostino died in 2006 at age fifty. Rosemary was a wonderful lady of faith and she would often say that “God gave me the strength to handle the loss of these three children.
Donald and Rosemary Finnegan had forty-two years of “wonderful marriage together” until Donald’s passing in December 1992.
Surviving are three sons Donald R. Finnegan and his wife Mary, Thomas M. Finnegan and his wife Janine and Robert C. Finnegan and his wife Anna all of Packanack Lake in Wayne, thirteen grandchildren; Alyson Heron and her husband Jason of West Milford, Donald P., Thomas H., Haley, Christina and her husband Brian Sebak of West Orange, James J., Megan, Liam, Jake, Ryan, Caileigh, Matthew, Alexa and two great-grandchildren; Patrick and Sophia.
Rosemary was predeceased by her sisters Catherine MacDonald in 1997 and Eileen Power in 2016.
Those planning an expression of sympathy are asked to consider Straight and Narrow, 396 Straight St., Paterson NJ 07501.
If you would like to send a private condolence directly to the family use this condolence section.
Friends may visit with the family from 2-4 and 6-8PM on Friday June 22, 2018 at the VanderMay Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Rd, Wayne, NJ. Funeral services will be held 9AM at the funeral home then to Immaculate Heart of Mary RC Church 582 Ratzer Rd, Wayne where at 10AM a funeral mass will be celebrated.
Interment will be in Christ the King Cemetery in Franklin Lakes, NJ.
June 19, 2018
Services
Friends may visit with the family from 2-4 and 6-8PM on Friday June 22, 2018 at the VanderMay Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Rd, Wayne, NJ. Funeral services will be held 9AM at the funeral home then to Immaculate Heart of Mary RC Church 582 Ratzer Rd, Wayne where at 10AM a funeral mass will be celebrated.
Interment will be in Christ the King Cemetery in Franklin Lakes, NJ.
Rosemary I. Finnegan (nee Reynolds) of Packanack Lake in Wayne passed away peacefully on June 19, 2018.
She was born in New York City spending her formative years in Jackson Heights, Queens, NY later living in Syracuse, NY and Millinocket, Maine for eight years before moving to Packanack Lake in Wayne in 1961.
Rosemary received her formal education at Saint Joan of Arc Grammar School in Jackson Heights and also at Saint Bartholomew’s High School in Elmhurst, NY graduating at sixteen. She also attended Fordham University and Syracuse University.
She was a parishioner of Immaculate Heart of Mary RC Church in Wayne where she served as a Eucharistic Minister.
Rosemary loved the outdoors and was an avid skier frequenting slopes in Maine and Vermont.
She had six children whom she loved with all her heart. However tragedy struck three of her children at an early age. She lost her newborn son John in 1958, her son James Gerard in July of 1999 to a heart attack, and her daughter Rosemary Finnegan-Agostino died in 2006 at age fifty. Rosemary was a wonderful lady of faith and she would often say that “God gave me the strength to handle the loss of these three children.
Donald and Rosemary Finnegan had forty-two years of “wonderful marriage together” until Donald’s passing in December 1992.
Surviving are three sons Donald R. Finnegan and his wife Mary, Thomas M. Finnegan and his wife Janine and Robert C. Finnegan and his wife Anna all of Packanack Lake in Wayne, thirteen grandchildren; Alyson Heron and her husband Jason of West Milford, Donald P., Thomas H., Haley, Christina and her husband Brian Sebak of West Orange, James J., Megan, Liam, Jake, Ryan, Caileigh, Matthew, Alexa and two great-grandchildren; Patrick and Sophia.
Rosemary was predeceased by her sisters Catherine MacDonald in 1997 and Eileen Power in 2016.
Those planning an expression of sympathy are asked to consider Straight and Narrow, 396 Straight St., Paterson NJ 07501.
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