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May 8, 2012
Services
Friends may visit with the family at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne, on Saturday from 3-7 PM. An Eastern Star service will be held at 6 PM. Funeral Services will be held at 11 AM on Monday, May 14, 2012 at the United Methodist Church of Wayne, 99 Parish Drive, Wayne.
Shirley S. Menendez, age 89 of Pompton Plains died on Tuesday, May 8, 2012 at the Morristown Memorial Hospital.
Shirley was born and raised in Jersey City, NJ and graduated from Snyder High School in 1940. At that time, it was customary for her to spend the summers at her Uncle Phil’s farm in Neshanic Station, NJ. It was at a barn dance there that she met Henry Menendez. Henry had actually come to the dance with a date, but by the time the evening was over, he had become acquainted with Shirley. The two of them hit it off right from the start and were married in 1942.
After getting married, they first settled in Jersey City but traded in their tiny apartment in 1955 for a home in Pompton Plains. They loved it there and enjoyed raising their two daughters in what was truly the ‘country’ back then. Shirley never left that home and has lived there for the past fifty- seven years. She also had long career as an executive assistant at Edwards Engineering in Pompton Plains, retiring after nearly thirty years in 1990
Shirley and Henry enjoyed fifty-seven years together before he passed in 1999. They had been very active members of the Masons, Shriners, and Shirley was a 60-year member of the Order of the Eastern Star, Past Matron of Mountain View Chapter No.205 and a Past Grand Officer of the State of New Jersey. She was also a member of the Daughters of the Nile, Malaas 20, Livingston, NJ.
Shirley was an avid reader and a huge Yankees fan. During the past few weeks in the hospital, her family would make sure her TV was tuned to the game and the speaker on her pillow so she could listen.
She was also a member of the United Methodist Church in Wayne where she would drive every Sunday for services.
Shirley is survived by her loving and devoted daughter, Janet Blum of Vernon, three grandchildren; Suzanne Meredith and her husband John of Rochester, NY, Steven Blum of Spring Hill, FL, and Wendy Rafferty and her husband Charles of Sandy Hook, CT, and three great-grandchildren; Cora Meredith, Callan and Chatham Rafferty. She was predeceased by her husband Henry in 1999, her daughter Elaine Mitchell in 1975, one sister and three brothers.
In lieu of flowers, memorial donations to the Shriners Hospitals for Children, Office of Development, 2900 Rocky Point Drive, Tampa, FL, 33607 or the United Methodist Church of Wayne, 99 Parish Drive, Wayne, NJ 07470 would be greatly appreciated.
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Friends may visit with the family at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne, on Saturday from 3-7 PM. An Eastern Star service will be held at 6 PM. Funeral Services will be held at 11 AM on Monday, May 14, 2012 at the United Methodist Church of Wayne, 99 Parish Drive, Wayne.
May 8, 2012
Services
Friends may visit with the family at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne, on Saturday from 3-7 PM. An Eastern Star service will be held at 6 PM. Funeral Services will be held at 11 AM on Monday, May 14, 2012 at the United Methodist Church of Wayne, 99 Parish Drive, Wayne.
Shirley S. Menendez, age 89 of Pompton Plains died on Tuesday, May 8, 2012 at the Morristown Memorial Hospital.
Shirley was born and raised in Jersey City, NJ and graduated from Snyder High School in 1940. At that time, it was customary for her to spend the summers at her Uncle Phil’s farm in Neshanic Station, NJ. It was at a barn dance there that she met Henry Menendez. Henry had actually come to the dance with a date, but by the time the evening was over, he had become acquainted with Shirley. The two of them hit it off right from the start and were married in 1942.
After getting married, they first settled in Jersey City but traded in their tiny apartment in 1955 for a home in Pompton Plains. They loved it there and enjoyed raising their two daughters in what was truly the ‘country’ back then. Shirley never left that home and has lived there for the past fifty- seven years. She also had long career as an executive assistant at Edwards Engineering in Pompton Plains, retiring after nearly thirty years in 1990
Shirley and Henry enjoyed fifty-seven years together before he passed in 1999. They had been very active members of the Masons, Shriners, and Shirley was a 60-year member of the Order of the Eastern Star, Past Matron of Mountain View Chapter No.205 and a Past Grand Officer of the State of New Jersey. She was also a member of the Daughters of the Nile, Malaas 20, Livingston, NJ.
Shirley was an avid reader and a huge Yankees fan. During the past few weeks in the hospital, her family would make sure her TV was tuned to the game and the speaker on her pillow so she could listen.
She was also a member of the United Methodist Church in Wayne where she would drive every Sunday for services.
Shirley is survived by her loving and devoted daughter, Janet Blum of Vernon, three grandchildren; Suzanne Meredith and her husband John of Rochester, NY, Steven Blum of Spring Hill, FL, and Wendy Rafferty and her husband Charles of Sandy Hook, CT, and three great-grandchildren; Cora Meredith, Callan and Chatham Rafferty. She was predeceased by her husband Henry in 1999, her daughter Elaine Mitchell in 1975, one sister and three brothers.
In lieu of flowers, memorial donations to the Shriners Hospitals for Children, Office of Development, 2900 Rocky Point Drive, Tampa, FL, 33607 or the United Methodist Church of Wayne, 99 Parish Drive, Wayne, NJ 07470 would be greatly appreciated.
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