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March 5, 2011
Services
Friends may visit with the family at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne, on Tuesday, March 15, 2011 from 2-4 & 7-9 PM.
Funeral Services will be held at 10 AM on Wednesday, March 16, 2011, at the funeral home.
Roy William Odell, age 82 of Wayne, died peacefully on Saturday, March 5, 2011 with his family gathered at his bedside.
Roy William was born in Forest Gate, London, England. He grew up in nearby Ilford, before joining the British Army at age eighteen. He was stationed throughout Europe and in Egypt during the reconstruction that followed World War II.
Upon returning from the Army, Roy took a ballroom dancing class at a local studio in Ilford where he met a lovely young lady, Jeanne Reed. Their dancing lessons turned into a romance and they were married in 1953 at St. Clements Church in Ilford. They have enjoyed fifty eight years of devoted marriage ever since. Roy would always sign his notes to Jeanne, “Your ever loving sweetheart.” They lived in Ilford, England and also in Holland before moving to Packanack Lake in Wayne in 1980.
Roy was trained as a chemist and became a well known Representative of the gold, copper, and other precious metals industry. His career took him to mining and foundry operations around the world and he’s visited about forty eight different nations along the way. He thoroughly enjoyed his career, spanning 6 decades and especially the people he was fortunate to have worked with over the years.
Roy is survived by his devoted wife of fifty eight years; Jeanne (nee Reed) of Wayne, his three loving daughters; Christine Bruinewoud and her husband Rik of Emmen, Holland, Angela Lancefield and her husband Terry of East Mersea, England, and Diane Yazdi and her husband Peyman of Bloomingdale, NJ, six grandchildren; Martin and Melissa Bruinewoud, Peter and David Lancefield, Michael and Thomas Yazdi, as well as one sister; Joyce Hearson of England.
Donations in Roy’s memory would be greatly appreciated to the American Cancer Society, P.O. Box 22718, Oklahoma City, OK 73123-1718 or the Chilton Memorial Hospital Foundation, 97 West Parkway, Pompton Plains, NJ 07444.
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Friends may visit with the family at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne, on Tuesday, March 15, 2011 from 2-4 & 7-9 PM.
Funeral Services will be held at 10 AM on Wednesday, March 16, 2011, at the funeral home.
March 5, 2011
Services
Friends may visit with the family at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne, on Tuesday, March 15, 2011 from 2-4 & 7-9 PM.
Funeral Services will be held at 10 AM on Wednesday, March 16, 2011, at the funeral home.
Roy William Odell, age 82 of Wayne, died peacefully on Saturday, March 5, 2011 with his family gathered at his bedside.
Roy William was born in Forest Gate, London, England. He grew up in nearby Ilford, before joining the British Army at age eighteen. He was stationed throughout Europe and in Egypt during the reconstruction that followed World War II.
Upon returning from the Army, Roy took a ballroom dancing class at a local studio in Ilford where he met a lovely young lady, Jeanne Reed. Their dancing lessons turned into a romance and they were married in 1953 at St. Clements Church in Ilford. They have enjoyed fifty eight years of devoted marriage ever since. Roy would always sign his notes to Jeanne, “Your ever loving sweetheart.” They lived in Ilford, England and also in Holland before moving to Packanack Lake in Wayne in 1980.
Roy was trained as a chemist and became a well known Representative of the gold, copper, and other precious metals industry. His career took him to mining and foundry operations around the world and he’s visited about forty eight different nations along the way. He thoroughly enjoyed his career, spanning 6 decades and especially the people he was fortunate to have worked with over the years.
Roy is survived by his devoted wife of fifty eight years; Jeanne (nee Reed) of Wayne, his three loving daughters; Christine Bruinewoud and her husband Rik of Emmen, Holland, Angela Lancefield and her husband Terry of East Mersea, England, and Diane Yazdi and her husband Peyman of Bloomingdale, NJ, six grandchildren; Martin and Melissa Bruinewoud, Peter and David Lancefield, Michael and Thomas Yazdi, as well as one sister; Joyce Hearson of England.
Donations in Roy’s memory would be greatly appreciated to the American Cancer Society, P.O. Box 22718, Oklahoma City, OK 73123-1718 or the Chilton Memorial Hospital Foundation, 97 West Parkway, Pompton Plains, NJ 07444.
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