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Friends may visit with the family on Friday, April 29, 2016, from 4-8 PM, at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
Funeral services will be held on Saturday, April 30, 2016 at 9:00 AM from the funeral home, then to Our Lady of the Valley RC Church, 630 Valley Road, Wayne where at 10:00 AM Funeral Mass will be offered.
Interment will be in Christ the King Cemetery, Franklin Lakes.
Sheila C. Kelly, RN, Wayne Township Public Nurse, age 82, of Wayne, passed away on Tuesday, April 26, 2016. Her family was present by her side at the time of her passing.
Sheila was born in the Jackson Heights section of Queens, New York and when she was a child her family moved out to the country to live in Lincoln Park, New Jersey. She graduated from Boonton High School with the Class of 1951 and went on to get her nursing degree from Saint Joseph Hospital School of Nursing in 1954. She later continued her education at Seton Hall University in South Orange where she earned her B.S. degree in nursing. During the span of days as a nurse, Sheila remained very active in the Greater Passaic County Public Health Nurses Association.
Sheila met the love of her life, Dr. Francis Edward Kelly, MD, while working in the operating room at Saint Joseph’s Medical center in Paterson. On their first date, Frank took Sheila to dinner, and then to an archery range where he taught her to shoot a bow and arrow. They hit it off, and were married on November 7, 1959. After a honeymoon trip by train to Miami Beach, they settled in Wayne in 1960 and raised their family. Sheila and Frank had a wonderful marriage of fifty-two years before his passing in November of 2011.
Sheila will be remembered as a strong willed, independent person who always strived to be self-sufficient. She was a career minded person and put that all on hold to raise her four boys. Being the only woman in a five-man house had Sheila doing things that weren’t necessarily her choice. Camping, a favorite activity of the boys, wasn’t her idea of a good time. She endured sleeping in tents, bugs, clothes that smelled like a campfire, and all the other joys of camping to be with her family. The family always felt safe as field stitches and wound care was always at the ready with Sheila’s nursing background and dad’s physicians training. Sheila and her husband truly enjoyed traveling together and have enjoyed vacations to Hawaii, Canada, and Ireland just to name a few. While she loved to go whale watching in Massachusetts, the closest place to heaven on earth for her was Sanibel Island in Florida.
Once the boys were old enough she resumed her career aspirations and eventually worked as the Public Health Nurse for the Township of Wayne for twenty years before retiring in 2006. Sheila was very proud of her nursing career and maintained her license as an active Registered Nurse right up until the day of her passing.
Sheila was the loving wife of the late Dr. Francis E. Kelly, MD (2011); devoted mother of Francis Kelly and his wife Dana of Wayne, John Kelly of Wayne, and Michael Kelly and his fiancé Tara of West Milford, and the late James Kelly (1990); cherished grandmother of James, Rebecca, Brooke, Megan, and Morgan; loved sister of the late Mary Smith and the late Margaret Demkowicz.
In lieu of flowers memorial donations to the Wayne Memorial First Aid Squad, PO Box 2004, Wayne, NJ 07474, would be appreciated.
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Friends may visit with the family on Friday, April 29, 2016, from 4-8 PM, at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
Funeral services will be held on Saturday, April 30, 2016 at 9:00 AM from the funeral home, then to Our Lady of the Valley RC Church, 630 Valley Road, Wayne where at 10:00 AM Funeral Mass will be offered.
Interment will be in Christ the King Cemetery, Franklin Lakes.
Services
Friends may visit with the family on Friday, April 29, 2016, from 4-8 PM, at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
Funeral services will be held on Saturday, April 30, 2016 at 9:00 AM from the funeral home, then to Our Lady of the Valley RC Church, 630 Valley Road, Wayne where at 10:00 AM Funeral Mass will be offered.
Interment will be in Christ the King Cemetery, Franklin Lakes.
Sheila C. Kelly, RN, Wayne Township Public Nurse, age 82, of Wayne, passed away on Tuesday, April 26, 2016. Her family was present by her side at the time of her passing.
Sheila was born in the Jackson Heights section of Queens, New York and when she was a child her family moved out to the country to live in Lincoln Park, New Jersey. She graduated from Boonton High School with the Class of 1951 and went on to get her nursing degree from Saint Joseph Hospital School of Nursing in 1954. She later continued her education at Seton Hall University in South Orange where she earned her B.S. degree in nursing. During the span of days as a nurse, Sheila remained very active in the Greater Passaic County Public Health Nurses Association.
Sheila met the love of her life, Dr. Francis Edward Kelly, MD, while working in the operating room at Saint Joseph’s Medical center in Paterson. On their first date, Frank took Sheila to dinner, and then to an archery range where he taught her to shoot a bow and arrow. They hit it off, and were married on November 7, 1959. After a honeymoon trip by train to Miami Beach, they settled in Wayne in 1960 and raised their family. Sheila and Frank had a wonderful marriage of fifty-two years before his passing in November of 2011.
Sheila will be remembered as a strong willed, independent person who always strived to be self-sufficient. She was a career minded person and put that all on hold to raise her four boys. Being the only woman in a five-man house had Sheila doing things that weren’t necessarily her choice. Camping, a favorite activity of the boys, wasn’t her idea of a good time. She endured sleeping in tents, bugs, clothes that smelled like a campfire, and all the other joys of camping to be with her family. The family always felt safe as field stitches and wound care was always at the ready with Sheila’s nursing background and dad’s physicians training. Sheila and her husband truly enjoyed traveling together and have enjoyed vacations to Hawaii, Canada, and Ireland just to name a few. While she loved to go whale watching in Massachusetts, the closest place to heaven on earth for her was Sanibel Island in Florida.
Once the boys were old enough she resumed her career aspirations and eventually worked as the Public Health Nurse for the Township of Wayne for twenty years before retiring in 2006. Sheila was very proud of her nursing career and maintained her license as an active Registered Nurse right up until the day of her passing.
Sheila was the loving wife of the late Dr. Francis E. Kelly, MD (2011); devoted mother of Francis Kelly and his wife Dana of Wayne, John Kelly of Wayne, and Michael Kelly and his fiancé Tara of West Milford, and the late James Kelly (1990); cherished grandmother of James, Rebecca, Brooke, Megan, and Morgan; loved sister of the late Mary Smith and the late Margaret Demkowicz.
In lieu of flowers memorial donations to the Wayne Memorial First Aid Squad, PO Box 2004, Wayne, NJ 07474, would be appreciated.
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