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Services
Friends may visit with the family from 4-7 PM on Thursday, September 1, 2016 at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Rd., Wayne.
Funeral services will be held 9:30 AM on Friday, September 2, 2016 from the funeral home then to Immaculate Heart of Mary RC Church, 580 Ratzer Road, Wayne where a 10:30 AM Funeral Mass will be offered.
Interment will be in Holy Cross Cemetery, North Arlington.
Tessie Sokolowski, age 93, of Wayne, passed Sunday, August 28, 2016.
She was born and raised in Bayonne having attended Bayonne High School. She was the last surviving child of the eight children of John and Honorata Bajor. Tessie’s first job was working at the Western Electric Corporation in Kearny’s assembly line. She assembled electric communication components for military radios and telephones. While working at Western Electric she was introduced to Stanley Sokolowski by his brother Walter who worked at Western Electric with Tessie. They fell in love and married on November 27, 1947 at Mount Carmel Church in Bayonne. They honeymooned in the Pocono Mountains of Pennsylvania and Stan would recount how his car had bald tires and he wasn’t sure if they were going to make it. They were married for forty-six years before Stan’s passing in 1993.
She was devoted to her Catholic faith and was a long time parishioner of Immaculate Heart of Mary Church in Wayne.
Tessie will be remembered as a loving wife, mother, grandmother, and great-grandmother. Her formative years had their foundation molded during the Great Depression. This influenced Tessie to be frugal, thrifty, and a collector of just about anything. Nothing went to waste. She was always there for family, friends, or others in need. She was fluent in Polish, loved word search puzzles, and had a love of knitting and crocheting.
She was the loving wife of the late Stanley (1993), devoted mother of Nora Sokolowski , Stanley and his wife deAnna Sokolowski, and Robert Sokolowski all of Wayne; she was the cherished grandmother of Mindy and her husband Ryan Musillo of Howell, and Lauren and her husband Scott Stelzer of New York City; she was the much loved great-grandmother of Willem and Sydney Stelzer, and Grayson Musillo.
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 from 4-7 PM on Thursday, September 1, 2016 at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Rd., Wayne.
Funeral services will be held 9:30 AM on Friday, September 2, 2016 from the funeral home then to Immaculate Heart of Mary RC Church, 580 Ratzer Road, Wayne where a 10:30 AM Funeral Mass will be offered.
Interment will be in Holy Cross Cemetery, North Arlington.
Services
Friends may visit with the family from 4-7 PM on Thursday, September 1, 2016 at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Rd., Wayne.
Funeral services will be held 9:30 AM on Friday, September 2, 2016 from the funeral home then to Immaculate Heart of Mary RC Church, 580 Ratzer Road, Wayne where a 10:30 AM Funeral Mass will be offered.
Interment will be in Holy Cross Cemetery, North Arlington.
Tessie Sokolowski, age 93, of Wayne, passed Sunday, August 28, 2016.
She was born and raised in Bayonne having attended Bayonne High School. She was the last surviving child of the eight children of John and Honorata Bajor. Tessie’s first job was working at the Western Electric Corporation in Kearny’s assembly line. She assembled electric communication components for military radios and telephones. While working at Western Electric she was introduced to Stanley Sokolowski by his brother Walter who worked at Western Electric with Tessie. They fell in love and married on November 27, 1947 at Mount Carmel Church in Bayonne. They honeymooned in the Pocono Mountains of Pennsylvania and Stan would recount how his car had bald tires and he wasn’t sure if they were going to make it. They were married for forty-six years before Stan’s passing in 1993.
She was devoted to her Catholic faith and was a long time parishioner of Immaculate Heart of Mary Church in Wayne.
Tessie will be remembered as a loving wife, mother, grandmother, and great-grandmother. Her formative years had their foundation molded during the Great Depression. This influenced Tessie to be frugal, thrifty, and a collector of just about anything. Nothing went to waste. She was always there for family, friends, or others in need. She was fluent in Polish, loved word search puzzles, and had a love of knitting and crocheting.
She was the loving wife of the late Stanley (1993), devoted mother of Nora Sokolowski , Stanley and his wife deAnna Sokolowski, and Robert Sokolowski all of Wayne; she was the cherished grandmother of Mindy and her husband Ryan Musillo of Howell, and Lauren and her husband Scott Stelzer of New York City; she was the much loved great-grandmother of Willem and Sydney Stelzer, and Grayson Musillo.
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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