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October 13, 2012
Services
Friends may visit with the family from 4 – 8 PM on Tuesday, October 16, 2012 at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
A Funeral Service will take place on Wednesday, October 17, 2012, 11:00 AM at the funeral home followed by entombment at Laurel Grove Cemetery in Totowa.
Rudolph Ernst Kieselat “Rudy”, age 84 of Pompton Plains died peacefully on Saturday, October 13, 2012.
Rudy was born in Wyandotte, MI. As a young man, it was his greatest desire to be a farmer and he used his high school education to prepare himself for that vocation. Upon seeking work, he was quickly discouraged by some local farmers who told him that there was no future in farming.
At the age of seventeen, Rudy enlisted into the U.S. Marines and served in Hawaii, China and Guam over the next three years. After his honorable discharge from the service, he returned home and worked with his father raising homes in flood plains and lowering them back down on newly raised foundations.
One day, at the age of twenty five, while driving his powder-blue Cadillac convertible past the Postal Diner in Bloomfield, Rudy saw two attractive young ladies and couldn’t resist the compulsion to honk his horn. To his delight one of them waived back. Rudy took this as an invitation to pull into the diner and introduce himself. He ended up dating the one who didn’t waive….beautiful Eleanore Bischoff who prompted her sister Evelyn to waive because she was too shy. After five years of dating they got engaged and five years later, on December 14, 1963, they married at Wesminster Church in Bloomfield. They enjoyed a beautiful honeymoon in Florida.
Following marriage, Rudy, along with his partner Bill Marcy opened up their first used car dealership, Rudy Motors, on Route 46 in Little Ferry. They later incorporated as William Rudolph, Inc. Over the years, they provided many happy customers with fine automobiles.
Rudy loved to create and invent. After retiring, he loved to do carpentry jobs at his own house and the houses of his three children: Rudy, Darlene and Randy. If he wasn’t doing that he was working on an invention. He most recently had been trying to get a patent on a self-braking shopping cart. It was a shopping cart where you had to push down on the handle to release a brake. Let go of the handle and the brake would engage preventing the cart from rolling across a parking lot into your new car. This invention was inspired by his love of cars. In his leisure Rudy loved to shoot pool….so much so that he bought his son Rudy a house that was big enough to fit a pool table in the basement so that he could come over and play. He also loved to gamble and would often go to Atlantic City or Mount Airy Lodge, and every Monday, he was off to the store to purchase his lottery tickets.
Rudy will be remembered by those who loved him as a quiet man who didn’t talk much but when he did, he spoke with conviction. He stood for honesty, strong morals and treating people with dignity and fairness. He always told his kids and grandkids, “Don’t ever deal with a dishonest person because when you do, you inadvertently support and encourage them to be more dishonest.” Rudy was all about family. He loved to be with his grandchildren and, being a car guy, he loved to buy them those battery operated toy cars they could drive in their driveways. Rudy was often described as a very giving, generous and kind person.
Surviving is his beloved wife Eleanore, his son Rudy and wife Sue of Dingmans Ferry, PA, his daughter Darlene Donnelly and husband Patrick of Pequannock Township, his son Randy and wife Angela of Pequannock Township, his five grandchildren: Kyle, Corinne, Rachel, Vanessa and Billy; his sister Gladys Fehrenbach of Pequannock Township and his sister Yvonne Ludwick of Crystal River, FL. He was predeceased by his two brothers and four sisters.
In lieu of flowers memorial donations to Smile Train, PO Box 96231
Washington, D.C. 20090-6231 or online at www.smiletrain.org, would be appreciated. Smile Train is an organization that provides life changing, life healing surgery to children born with cleft.
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Friends may visit with the family from 4 – 8 PM on Tuesday, October 16, 2012 at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
A Funeral Service will take place on Wednesday, October 17, 2012, 11:00 AM at the funeral home followed by entombment at Laurel Grove Cemetery in Totowa.
October 13, 2012
Services
Friends may visit with the family from 4 – 8 PM on Tuesday, October 16, 2012 at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
A Funeral Service will take place on Wednesday, October 17, 2012, 11:00 AM at the funeral home followed by entombment at Laurel Grove Cemetery in Totowa.
Rudolph Ernst Kieselat “Rudy”, age 84 of Pompton Plains died peacefully on Saturday, October 13, 2012.
Rudy was born in Wyandotte, MI. As a young man, it was his greatest desire to be a farmer and he used his high school education to prepare himself for that vocation. Upon seeking work, he was quickly discouraged by some local farmers who told him that there was no future in farming.
At the age of seventeen, Rudy enlisted into the U.S. Marines and served in Hawaii, China and Guam over the next three years. After his honorable discharge from the service, he returned home and worked with his father raising homes in flood plains and lowering them back down on newly raised foundations.
One day, at the age of twenty five, while driving his powder-blue Cadillac convertible past the Postal Diner in Bloomfield, Rudy saw two attractive young ladies and couldn’t resist the compulsion to honk his horn. To his delight one of them waived back. Rudy took this as an invitation to pull into the diner and introduce himself. He ended up dating the one who didn’t waive….beautiful Eleanore Bischoff who prompted her sister Evelyn to waive because she was too shy. After five years of dating they got engaged and five years later, on December 14, 1963, they married at Wesminster Church in Bloomfield. They enjoyed a beautiful honeymoon in Florida.
Following marriage, Rudy, along with his partner Bill Marcy opened up their first used car dealership, Rudy Motors, on Route 46 in Little Ferry. They later incorporated as William Rudolph, Inc. Over the years, they provided many happy customers with fine automobiles.
Rudy loved to create and invent. After retiring, he loved to do carpentry jobs at his own house and the houses of his three children: Rudy, Darlene and Randy. If he wasn’t doing that he was working on an invention. He most recently had been trying to get a patent on a self-braking shopping cart. It was a shopping cart where you had to push down on the handle to release a brake. Let go of the handle and the brake would engage preventing the cart from rolling across a parking lot into your new car. This invention was inspired by his love of cars. In his leisure Rudy loved to shoot pool….so much so that he bought his son Rudy a house that was big enough to fit a pool table in the basement so that he could come over and play. He also loved to gamble and would often go to Atlantic City or Mount Airy Lodge, and every Monday, he was off to the store to purchase his lottery tickets.
Rudy will be remembered by those who loved him as a quiet man who didn’t talk much but when he did, he spoke with conviction. He stood for honesty, strong morals and treating people with dignity and fairness. He always told his kids and grandkids, “Don’t ever deal with a dishonest person because when you do, you inadvertently support and encourage them to be more dishonest.” Rudy was all about family. He loved to be with his grandchildren and, being a car guy, he loved to buy them those battery operated toy cars they could drive in their driveways. Rudy was often described as a very giving, generous and kind person.
Surviving is his beloved wife Eleanore, his son Rudy and wife Sue of Dingmans Ferry, PA, his daughter Darlene Donnelly and husband Patrick of Pequannock Township, his son Randy and wife Angela of Pequannock Township, his five grandchildren: Kyle, Corinne, Rachel, Vanessa and Billy; his sister Gladys Fehrenbach of Pequannock Township and his sister Yvonne Ludwick of Crystal River, FL. He was predeceased by his two brothers and four sisters.
In lieu of flowers memorial donations to Smile Train, PO Box 96231
Washington, D.C. 20090-6231 or online at www.smiletrain.org, would be appreciated. Smile Train is an organization that provides life changing, life healing surgery to children born with cleft.
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