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Services
Friends may visit with the family at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne on Friday, May 8, 2015 from 6-8 PM.
Funeral services will be held on Saturday, May 9, 2015, 11:00 AM at the funeral home. Interment at Somerset Hills Memorial Park, Basking Ridge, will be private.
Ruth Margaret Conlan (nee Shauger) age 99 of Wayne on Monday, May 4, 2015. Her passing was quiet and peaceful but she would like everyone to know that she now rests in the arms of her Lord and Savior and that there is a new name in Heaven today and it is Ruth Conlan.
She was born in Denville and had lived her formative years in Lyons. After her marriage to Jack Conlan she lived in Morristown, Montclair, and Passaic before moving to Wayne in 1950.
Ruth received her formal education at Bernardsville High School graduating with the Class of 1934.
Jack and Ruth Conlan where high school sweethearts having met at a Christmas party, and they married in 1937. They had fifty years of “loving marriage” together until Jack’s passing in October, 1987.
Ruth was a member of Grace Bible Church in Pompton Plains and previously was a member of the Calvary Gospel Church in Wayne.
It is historically notable that the Conlan’s arrived in Wayne in 1950 after reading an advertisement by Kadel Builders of a new housing development in Wayne. They purchased their home for $10,000. A princely sum in that day, the purchase was made possible by the GI bill, a special government mortgage program for WW II veterans. That development was alongside the east side of Church Lane in Wayne. Historically this was the beginning of a big change for Wayne from a farm community to a residential community.
Perhaps the highlight of Jack and Ruth Conlan’s life was the adoption of their daughter Nancy Conlan. A distant family member in Massachusetts had a situation that she could not raise her new baby and allowed Jack and Ruth to adopt their little girl. Ruth at first did not know a whole lot about babies but she soon learned and Jack and Ruth were wonderful parents. They loved Nancy with all of their hearts.
Ruth had hobbies including sewing, gardening, and travel. Her favorite activity was travel and she visited almost all of the United States, China, Japan, Africa, Russia, Hawaii, islands of the Caribbean, all of Europe, and many other places. Wherever Ruth went throughout the USA and many other countries, she always witnessed, so she will have many people in heaven waiting to see her.
Those planning an expression of sympathy in Ruth’s memory are asked to consider The Grace Bible Church, 150 Sunset Road, Pompton Plains 07444.
If you would like to send a private condolence directly to the family use this condolence section.
Friends may visit with the family at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne on Friday, May 8, 2015 from 6-8 PM.
Funeral services will be held on Saturday, May 9, 2015, 11:00 AM at the funeral home. Interment at Somerset Hills Memorial Park, Basking Ridge, will be private.
Services
Friends may visit with the family at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne on Friday, May 8, 2015 from 6-8 PM.
Funeral services will be held on Saturday, May 9, 2015, 11:00 AM at the funeral home. Interment at Somerset Hills Memorial Park, Basking Ridge, will be private.
Ruth Margaret Conlan (nee Shauger) age 99 of Wayne on Monday, May 4, 2015. Her passing was quiet and peaceful but she would like everyone to know that she now rests in the arms of her Lord and Savior and that there is a new name in Heaven today and it is Ruth Conlan.
She was born in Denville and had lived her formative years in Lyons. After her marriage to Jack Conlan she lived in Morristown, Montclair, and Passaic before moving to Wayne in 1950.
Ruth received her formal education at Bernardsville High School graduating with the Class of 1934.
Jack and Ruth Conlan where high school sweethearts having met at a Christmas party, and they married in 1937. They had fifty years of “loving marriage” together until Jack’s passing in October, 1987.
Ruth was a member of Grace Bible Church in Pompton Plains and previously was a member of the Calvary Gospel Church in Wayne.
It is historically notable that the Conlan’s arrived in Wayne in 1950 after reading an advertisement by Kadel Builders of a new housing development in Wayne. They purchased their home for $10,000. A princely sum in that day, the purchase was made possible by the GI bill, a special government mortgage program for WW II veterans. That development was alongside the east side of Church Lane in Wayne. Historically this was the beginning of a big change for Wayne from a farm community to a residential community.
Perhaps the highlight of Jack and Ruth Conlan’s life was the adoption of their daughter Nancy Conlan. A distant family member in Massachusetts had a situation that she could not raise her new baby and allowed Jack and Ruth to adopt their little girl. Ruth at first did not know a whole lot about babies but she soon learned and Jack and Ruth were wonderful parents. They loved Nancy with all of their hearts.
Ruth had hobbies including sewing, gardening, and travel. Her favorite activity was travel and she visited almost all of the United States, China, Japan, Africa, Russia, Hawaii, islands of the Caribbean, all of Europe, and many other places. Wherever Ruth went throughout the USA and many other countries, she always witnessed, so she will have many people in heaven waiting to see her.
Those planning an expression of sympathy in Ruth’s memory are asked to consider The Grace Bible Church, 150 Sunset Road, Pompton Plains 07444.
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