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May 16, 2014
Services
Friends may visit with the family from 2-4 and 7-9 PM on Thursday, May 22, 2014 at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne. Funeral services will be held 8 PM during the visitation hours on Thursday evening at the funeral home.
Russell J. Ganz age 91 of Wayne passed peacefully on Friday, May 16, 2014.
He was born in Port Jervis, New York and raised between Matamoras, PA and Sparrowbush, NY. He and his siblings were raised by their aunt Catherine Mortimer who also had three children of her own. Russell graduated from Matamoras High School with the Class of 1940.
In 1942 Russell enlisted in the United States Navy and joined the Sea Bees. He recounted World War II stories of his time at Iwo Jima where he helped to build runways for the B29 bombers. He was discharged from the Navy in 1946.
He had met a pretty girl named Claire Bienskie while roller-skating and they soon fell in love. They married on September 14, 1947 at Saint Agnes Church in Paterson ad had a reception at the VFW hall in Hawthorne. They honeymooned at Niagara Falls, New York having drove the first car Russ had ever bought, a black Plymouth. They had a loving marriage of sixty-seven years.
His working years started at a silk screening company in Paterson when a man named Bill Morgan met him and got him into the Glaziers Union. Russ spent forty years as a glazier having installed windows and glass in buildings from Paterson to New York City. He worked for the American Paterson Glass Company for forty years before retiring in 1986.
He was the loving husband of Claire (Bienskie) Ganz; devoted father of Gerald Ganz and his wife Bonnie of Long Beach, CA, and Russell W. Ganz and his wife Celeste of Pompton Lakes; cherished grandfather of Kelly Orofino and her husband Tom, and Lindsay Ganz of Long Beach, CA; dear brother of the late William Ganz and Catherine Canfield.
In lieu of flowers memorial donations to the Wayne Memorial First Aid Squad, PO Box 2004, Wayne, NJ 07474 or Saint Jude Children’s Hospital, or St Jude Children's Hospital, PO Box 1000, Dept. 142, Memphis, TN 38148-0412 would be appreciated.
In lieu of flowers memorial donations to the Wayne Memorial First Aid Squad, PO Box 2004, Wayne, NJ 07474 or St Jude Children's Hospital, PO Box 1000, Dept. 142, Memphis, TN 38148-0412 would be appreciated.
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Friends may visit with the family from 2-4 and 7-9 PM on Thursday, May 22, 2014 at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne. Funeral services will be held 8 PM during the visitation hours on Thursday evening at the funeral home.
May 16, 2014
Services
Friends may visit with the family from 2-4 and 7-9 PM on Thursday, May 22, 2014 at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne. Funeral services will be held 8 PM during the visitation hours on Thursday evening at the funeral home.
Russell J. Ganz age 91 of Wayne passed peacefully on Friday, May 16, 2014.
He was born in Port Jervis, New York and raised between Matamoras, PA and Sparrowbush, NY. He and his siblings were raised by their aunt Catherine Mortimer who also had three children of her own. Russell graduated from Matamoras High School with the Class of 1940.
In 1942 Russell enlisted in the United States Navy and joined the Sea Bees. He recounted World War II stories of his time at Iwo Jima where he helped to build runways for the B29 bombers. He was discharged from the Navy in 1946.
He had met a pretty girl named Claire Bienskie while roller-skating and they soon fell in love. They married on September 14, 1947 at Saint Agnes Church in Paterson ad had a reception at the VFW hall in Hawthorne. They honeymooned at Niagara Falls, New York having drove the first car Russ had ever bought, a black Plymouth. They had a loving marriage of sixty-seven years.
His working years started at a silk screening company in Paterson when a man named Bill Morgan met him and got him into the Glaziers Union. Russ spent forty years as a glazier having installed windows and glass in buildings from Paterson to New York City. He worked for the American Paterson Glass Company for forty years before retiring in 1986.
He was the loving husband of Claire (Bienskie) Ganz; devoted father of Gerald Ganz and his wife Bonnie of Long Beach, CA, and Russell W. Ganz and his wife Celeste of Pompton Lakes; cherished grandfather of Kelly Orofino and her husband Tom, and Lindsay Ganz of Long Beach, CA; dear brother of the late William Ganz and Catherine Canfield.
In lieu of flowers memorial donations to the Wayne Memorial First Aid Squad, PO Box 2004, Wayne, NJ 07474 or Saint Jude Children’s Hospital, or St Jude Children's Hospital, PO Box 1000, Dept. 142, Memphis, TN 38148-0412 would be appreciated.
In lieu of flowers memorial donations to the Wayne Memorial First Aid Squad, PO Box 2004, Wayne, NJ 07474 or St Jude Children's Hospital, PO Box 1000, Dept. 142, Memphis, TN 38148-0412 would be appreciated.
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