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October 19, 2010
Services
A memorial service will be held 1:00 PM on Saturday, October 23, 2010 at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
Friends may visit with the family from 12 -1 PM prior to the service.
Stella Johanna Downer (nee Pryll) age 97 of Wayne died peacefully on Tuesday, October 19, 2010.
She was born in Brooklyn, NY, lived in Bloomfield and Irvington, attended Central High School, Newark, living in Wayne before moving to Toms River seventeen years ago.
Stella was an extremely astute proprietor who helped administrate the financial end of her husband John’s varied businesses. They owned and operated the Global Machine Shop in Bloomfield for many years. Several years after the fact they found out they had been manufacturing prototype parts for the atomic bomb. When they sold this business they bought a nursery in Bernardsville and named it “Downer’s Nursery”. They sold the nursery after several years when John’s health took a turn for the worse.
She was the beloved wife of forty-seven years to the late John Downer(1970); loving mother of Marion Botbyl and her husband Howard of Wayne and the late Bernard Downer(1999); devoted sister of the late Theodore Pryll, Alex Pryll, Viola Pyrll, and Helen Stonack; cherished grandmother of nine grandchildren and seventeen great-grandchildren.
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A memorial service will be held 1:00 PM on Saturday, October 23, 2010 at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
Friends may visit with the family from 12 -1 PM prior to the service.
October 19, 2010
Services
A memorial service will be held 1:00 PM on Saturday, October 23, 2010 at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
Friends may visit with the family from 12 -1 PM prior to the service.
Stella Johanna Downer (nee Pryll) age 97 of Wayne died peacefully on Tuesday, October 19, 2010.
She was born in Brooklyn, NY, lived in Bloomfield and Irvington, attended Central High School, Newark, living in Wayne before moving to Toms River seventeen years ago.
Stella was an extremely astute proprietor who helped administrate the financial end of her husband John’s varied businesses. They owned and operated the Global Machine Shop in Bloomfield for many years. Several years after the fact they found out they had been manufacturing prototype parts for the atomic bomb. When they sold this business they bought a nursery in Bernardsville and named it “Downer’s Nursery”. They sold the nursery after several years when John’s health took a turn for the worse.
She was the beloved wife of forty-seven years to the late John Downer(1970); loving mother of Marion Botbyl and her husband Howard of Wayne and the late Bernard Downer(1999); devoted sister of the late Theodore Pryll, Alex Pryll, Viola Pyrll, and Helen Stonack; cherished grandmother of nine grandchildren and seventeen great-grandchildren.
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