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November 9, 2008
Services
Funeral services will be held 9AM on Thursday, November 13, 2008 then to Saint John the Baptist Cathedral, Paterson where at 10 AM a Funeral Mass will be offered. Friends may visit with the family on Wednesday from 2-4 and 7-9 PM at the funeral home. Interment will be in Holy Sepulchre Cemetery, Totowa.
Ruth V. McAllister(nee Werner) age 95 of Wayne died peacefully on Sunday, November 9, 2008 at the Arbor Glen Center, Cedar Grove.
She was born in Bridgeport, CT and lived in Paterson and Clifton before moving to Wayne fifteen years ago.
She graduated from High School in Bridgeport, CT and immediately entered the Passaic General Nursing School, Passaic, NJ where she earned her certification as a Registered Nurse with the class of 1931.
Mrs. McAllister was a Registered Nurse having worked in area hospitals, Straight and Narrow of Paterson and area nursing homes for the past fifty-four years before retiring in 1985.
Ruth was affectionately known as the “Matriarch” of the family. Although she was small in stature she was a tough lady with an extremely soft heart. It is said that up until the day of her passing she hadn’t lost an argument. She enjoyed traveling and has been all over the world. Most of all she loved her children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren and was extremely proud of all their accomplishments. She had an especially close, “best friends”, relationship with her daughter Ruthann.
She was predeceased by her husband of forty-two years, David McAllister, Sr. in 1982. Together, they owned the McAllister’s Meat Market, 489 Market St., Paterson having later moved the market to Huron Avenue in Clifton.
Ruth was the loving mother of the late David McAllister, Jr.(1966), Ruthann Hughes of Wayne and Robert McAllister and his wife Joan of Rumson; she was predeceased by two sisters Dorothy Phalen and Shirley Collins; she is the devoted grandmother of Brian, Sean and the late Kevin(1992) Burns, Kyle and Erin Hughes, Sean and David McAllister, Kelly Branin, Robert Jr., Meaghan, and Kate McAllister; cherished great-grandmother of twelve.
In lieu of flowers memorial donations to St. Judes Children's Hospital, 501 St. Jude Place, Memphis, TN 38105-2729 would be appreciated.
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Funeral services will be held 9AM on Thursday, November 13, 2008 then to Saint John the Baptist Cathedral, Paterson where at 10 AM a Funeral Mass will be offered. Friends may visit with the family on Wednesday from 2-4 and 7-9 PM at the funeral home. Interment will be in Holy Sepulchre Cemetery, Totowa.
November 9, 2008
Services
Funeral services will be held 9AM on Thursday, November 13, 2008 then to Saint John the Baptist Cathedral, Paterson where at 10 AM a Funeral Mass will be offered. Friends may visit with the family on Wednesday from 2-4 and 7-9 PM at the funeral home. Interment will be in Holy Sepulchre Cemetery, Totowa.
Ruth V. McAllister(nee Werner) age 95 of Wayne died peacefully on Sunday, November 9, 2008 at the Arbor Glen Center, Cedar Grove.
She was born in Bridgeport, CT and lived in Paterson and Clifton before moving to Wayne fifteen years ago.
She graduated from High School in Bridgeport, CT and immediately entered the Passaic General Nursing School, Passaic, NJ where she earned her certification as a Registered Nurse with the class of 1931.
Mrs. McAllister was a Registered Nurse having worked in area hospitals, Straight and Narrow of Paterson and area nursing homes for the past fifty-four years before retiring in 1985.
Ruth was affectionately known as the “Matriarch” of the family. Although she was small in stature she was a tough lady with an extremely soft heart. It is said that up until the day of her passing she hadn’t lost an argument. She enjoyed traveling and has been all over the world. Most of all she loved her children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren and was extremely proud of all their accomplishments. She had an especially close, “best friends”, relationship with her daughter Ruthann.
She was predeceased by her husband of forty-two years, David McAllister, Sr. in 1982. Together, they owned the McAllister’s Meat Market, 489 Market St., Paterson having later moved the market to Huron Avenue in Clifton.
Ruth was the loving mother of the late David McAllister, Jr.(1966), Ruthann Hughes of Wayne and Robert McAllister and his wife Joan of Rumson; she was predeceased by two sisters Dorothy Phalen and Shirley Collins; she is the devoted grandmother of Brian, Sean and the late Kevin(1992) Burns, Kyle and Erin Hughes, Sean and David McAllister, Kelly Branin, Robert Jr., Meaghan, and Kate McAllister; cherished great-grandmother of twelve.
In lieu of flowers memorial donations to St. Judes Children's Hospital, 501 St. Jude Place, Memphis, TN 38105-2729 would be appreciated.
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