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January 2, 2012
Services
Friends may visit with the family at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne on Thursday evening from 7-9 PM.
Funeral services will be held Friday, January 6, 2012 at 9:30 AM at the funeral home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne then to Immaculate Heart of Mary RC Church (directly across the street from the funeral home) where at 10:30 AM a Funeral Mass will be offered.
Interment will be in Christ the King Cemetery, Franklin Lakes next to her husband Wallace.
Professor Ruth Fern
Ruth Kane Fern age 92 of Wayne died Monday, January 2, 2012 at the Seabrook Village Assisted Living in Tinton Falls. Her passing was graciously peaceful after a wonderful life journey.
She was born in Somerville to the late James A Kane and Marguerite (Carberry) Kane and had lived there and Newark before moving to Wayne in 1958. Ruth graduated from Somerville High School with the Class of 1937 and received a car as a graduation present from her parents. She is pictured with friends Helen Holcombe(left), Mary Masker(middle), and Ruth(right) in front of that car which she named “Geraldine”.
She received her formal education at Trenton State College where she received a Bachelor of Arts Degree in History, English and Secondary School Education. In 1944 she received a Masters of English at the Graduate School of Arts and Science in of New York University and in 1953 she received a Masters in Administration and Supervision from Montclair State University. Mrs. Fern studied also for her Doctorate in Education also studying at New College at Oxford University in England as well as Bedford College at the University Of London, England.
Mrs. Fern was a college professor of English and Education at William Paterson University where she worked for thirty-seven years before her retirement in 1995.
Mrs. Fern was past president of the Passaic and Morris County Historical Societies. She was a member of Alpha Chapter Delta Kappa Gamma Honor Society for distinguished women, was a member of Pi Lamb Da Theta International Honor Society.
She was the devoted wife of the late Wallace E. Fern (1988); loving second cousin of Mary Carberry Meek Tutko of Rockaway and her husband William, the late James Kane(2003), and several other loving cousins.
Those planning an expression of sympathy in Ruth Fern’s memory are asked to consider the William Paterson University Scholarship Fund.
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 Thursday evening from 7-9 PM.
Funeral services will be held Friday, January 6, 2012 at 9:30 AM at the funeral home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne then to Immaculate Heart of Mary RC Church (directly across the street from the funeral home) where at 10:30 AM a Funeral Mass will be offered.
Interment will be in Christ the King Cemetery, Franklin Lakes next to her husband Wallace.
January 2, 2012
Services
Friends may visit with the family at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne on Thursday evening from 7-9 PM.
Funeral services will be held Friday, January 6, 2012 at 9:30 AM at the funeral home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne then to Immaculate Heart of Mary RC Church (directly across the street from the funeral home) where at 10:30 AM a Funeral Mass will be offered.
Interment will be in Christ the King Cemetery, Franklin Lakes next to her husband Wallace.
Professor Ruth Fern
Ruth Kane Fern age 92 of Wayne died Monday, January 2, 2012 at the Seabrook Village Assisted Living in Tinton Falls. Her passing was graciously peaceful after a wonderful life journey.
She was born in Somerville to the late James A Kane and Marguerite (Carberry) Kane and had lived there and Newark before moving to Wayne in 1958. Ruth graduated from Somerville High School with the Class of 1937 and received a car as a graduation present from her parents. She is pictured with friends Helen Holcombe(left), Mary Masker(middle), and Ruth(right) in front of that car which she named “Geraldine”.
She received her formal education at Trenton State College where she received a Bachelor of Arts Degree in History, English and Secondary School Education. In 1944 she received a Masters of English at the Graduate School of Arts and Science in of New York University and in 1953 she received a Masters in Administration and Supervision from Montclair State University. Mrs. Fern studied also for her Doctorate in Education also studying at New College at Oxford University in England as well as Bedford College at the University Of London, England.
Mrs. Fern was a college professor of English and Education at William Paterson University where she worked for thirty-seven years before her retirement in 1995.
Mrs. Fern was past president of the Passaic and Morris County Historical Societies. She was a member of Alpha Chapter Delta Kappa Gamma Honor Society for distinguished women, was a member of Pi Lamb Da Theta International Honor Society.
She was the devoted wife of the late Wallace E. Fern (1988); loving second cousin of Mary Carberry Meek Tutko of Rockaway and her husband William, the late James Kane(2003), and several other loving cousins.
Those planning an expression of sympathy in Ruth Fern’s memory are asked to consider the William Paterson University Scholarship Fund.
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