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October 25, 2014
Services
Friends may visit with the family from 3 PM – 8 PM on Tuesday, October 28, 2014 at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
Funeral services will be held 9:30 AM on Wednesday, October 29, 2014 from the funeral home then to Our Lady of Consolation RC Church, 1799 Hamburg Tpk., Wayne where a 10:30 AM Funeral Mass will be offered.
Susan VerHoven age 43 of Little Falls, formerly of Wayne, passed peacefully at home on Saturday, October 25, 2014.
She was born in Pequannock and raised in Wayne before moving to Little Falls.
She graduated from Wayne Hills High School with the Class of 1989. Susan continued her education and graduated with honors from Ramapo College in Mahwah with a double major in Marketing and Business Management, she later graduated from William Paterson University in Wayne with a degree in Art.
Susan’s work history includes working at the Wayne Car Wash on Hamburg Turnpike, the Points of Light company in Fairfield, and she has been an Inventory Control Manager for the Rymax Marketing and Services, Inc. of Pine Brook for the past ten years. Susan worked from home during her recent illness which gave her a sense of pride and elevated her spirits; she worked up until two weeks before her passing.
Susan will be remembered for being: a fun loving person, honest, going to art museums, music, playing her drums, concerts, enjoying a spot of tea at tea houses, antiquing, flea markets, working out at the gym, crafts, and painting (all of her paintings depicted a cat – perhaps because of her love for her cats Patches and Bella). She also enjoyed target shooting, researching the history of the Little Falls’ Beattie Carpet Mill that was converted to condo’s and where she lived, and being a member of the Little Falls Historical Society. After hurricane Sandy and the devastation she saw Susan took the initiative to enroll herself, and her dad, in a class to become “Trained Spotters” for the National Weather Service. Susan was a member of the local CERT (Community Emergency Relief Team). She enjoyed cooking and had at least one hundred cook books. Her favorite chef was Emeril Lagasse who always cooked a “bam” into whatever he was making, and who inspired her to quit smoking many years ago. To thank him for the inspiration she gave Emeril a “Bam-Bam” doll and received Christmas Cards from him for many years thereafter. Susan enjoyed traveling and her love of art brought her to Barcelona, Spain where she truly enjoyed, and was artistically inspired by, the work of the surrealist Spanish painter, sculptor and ceramicist, Joan Miro. Many beautiful memories were also made when she traveled to New Orleans, Louisiana. As she was watching the Saint Patrick’s Day Parade she was pulled into the parade, and was literally dancing in the streets.
Susan was diagnosed with Lupus when she was just sixteen years old. She wouldn’t let the fact that her own body’s immune system was attacking her get her down. She loved life and accepted whatever was sent her way - with her chin held high. In late June of 2014 she began treatment for cancer at Memorial Sloan Kettering Hospital in New York City.
She was the loving daughter of Frances (Tatka) and Robert VerHoven of Wayne; devoted sister of Robert J. VerHoven and his wife Alicia of Elkton, MD, and Jennifer DeHope and her husband James of Hewitt; dearly loved aunt of Catherine and Bryan VerHoven, Michael Nargiso, and Jenna Sue DeHope; much loved soul mate of Brian King of Yardley, Pennsylvania; cherished granddaughter of the late: Cira and Leonard VerHoven, Albert Tatka, and Anna Tatka-Hanak and her husband Joseph Hanak.
In lieu of flowers memorial donations to the Lupus Foundation of America – NJ Chapter, PO Box 1184, Springfield, NJ 07081 would be appreciated.
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Friends may visit with the family from 3 PM – 8 PM on Tuesday, October 28, 2014 at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
Funeral services will be held 9:30 AM on Wednesday, October 29, 2014 from the funeral home then to Our Lady of Consolation RC Church, 1799 Hamburg Tpk., Wayne where a 10:30 AM Funeral Mass will be offered.
October 25, 2014
Services
Friends may visit with the family from 3 PM – 8 PM on Tuesday, October 28, 2014 at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
Funeral services will be held 9:30 AM on Wednesday, October 29, 2014 from the funeral home then to Our Lady of Consolation RC Church, 1799 Hamburg Tpk., Wayne where a 10:30 AM Funeral Mass will be offered.
Susan VerHoven age 43 of Little Falls, formerly of Wayne, passed peacefully at home on Saturday, October 25, 2014.
She was born in Pequannock and raised in Wayne before moving to Little Falls.
She graduated from Wayne Hills High School with the Class of 1989. Susan continued her education and graduated with honors from Ramapo College in Mahwah with a double major in Marketing and Business Management, she later graduated from William Paterson University in Wayne with a degree in Art.
Susan’s work history includes working at the Wayne Car Wash on Hamburg Turnpike, the Points of Light company in Fairfield, and she has been an Inventory Control Manager for the Rymax Marketing and Services, Inc. of Pine Brook for the past ten years. Susan worked from home during her recent illness which gave her a sense of pride and elevated her spirits; she worked up until two weeks before her passing.
Susan will be remembered for being: a fun loving person, honest, going to art museums, music, playing her drums, concerts, enjoying a spot of tea at tea houses, antiquing, flea markets, working out at the gym, crafts, and painting (all of her paintings depicted a cat – perhaps because of her love for her cats Patches and Bella). She also enjoyed target shooting, researching the history of the Little Falls’ Beattie Carpet Mill that was converted to condo’s and where she lived, and being a member of the Little Falls Historical Society. After hurricane Sandy and the devastation she saw Susan took the initiative to enroll herself, and her dad, in a class to become “Trained Spotters” for the National Weather Service. Susan was a member of the local CERT (Community Emergency Relief Team). She enjoyed cooking and had at least one hundred cook books. Her favorite chef was Emeril Lagasse who always cooked a “bam” into whatever he was making, and who inspired her to quit smoking many years ago. To thank him for the inspiration she gave Emeril a “Bam-Bam” doll and received Christmas Cards from him for many years thereafter. Susan enjoyed traveling and her love of art brought her to Barcelona, Spain where she truly enjoyed, and was artistically inspired by, the work of the surrealist Spanish painter, sculptor and ceramicist, Joan Miro. Many beautiful memories were also made when she traveled to New Orleans, Louisiana. As she was watching the Saint Patrick’s Day Parade she was pulled into the parade, and was literally dancing in the streets.
Susan was diagnosed with Lupus when she was just sixteen years old. She wouldn’t let the fact that her own body’s immune system was attacking her get her down. She loved life and accepted whatever was sent her way - with her chin held high. In late June of 2014 she began treatment for cancer at Memorial Sloan Kettering Hospital in New York City.
She was the loving daughter of Frances (Tatka) and Robert VerHoven of Wayne; devoted sister of Robert J. VerHoven and his wife Alicia of Elkton, MD, and Jennifer DeHope and her husband James of Hewitt; dearly loved aunt of Catherine and Bryan VerHoven, Michael Nargiso, and Jenna Sue DeHope; much loved soul mate of Brian King of Yardley, Pennsylvania; cherished granddaughter of the late: Cira and Leonard VerHoven, Albert Tatka, and Anna Tatka-Hanak and her husband Joseph Hanak.
In lieu of flowers memorial donations to the Lupus Foundation of America – NJ Chapter, PO Box 1184, Springfield, NJ 07081 would be appreciated.
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