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October 27, 2011
Services
Friends may visit with the family on Tuesday, November 1, 2011 from 4-8 PM at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Rd., Wayne.
All other services will be held privately.
Theodore “Ted” F. Payne, Jr. age 80 of Wayne died Thursday, October 27, 2011 at home, peacefully and with the comfort of his family by his side.
He was born and raised in Passaic and Clifton having graduated from Passaic High School with the Class of 1950. He received his Bachelor of Science Degree from Fairleigh Dickinson University – Rutherford with the Class of 1954. He and his wife Jackie moved to Wayne fifty years ago to raise their family.
Ted worked in the paper industry his entire career having first worked for the Lowe Paper Company, Ridgefield and later the Elish Paper Company, NYC where he became a partner. He retired in 1996.
He volunteered much of his time and was a Past President of the Wayne PAL, where he also served as Football Commissioner and coached both football and baseball. He loved the New York Yankees and the New York Giants. Ted enjoyed hunting, fishing, and boating on his beloved boat “Thumper” out of Ocean City. He looked forward to spending every summer at the jersey shore with his family. He took great pleasure and pride in watching his children’s, and more recently his grand children’s sporting events.
Ted met the love of his life Jackie Thompson and shared their first date ice skating in 3rd Ward Park in Passaic. Always the gentleman he proposed marriage to Jackie’s parents first. They married on August 22, 1953 at St. Nicholas Church, Passaic and had their reception at Gene Boyles in Passaic. They honeymooned in Florida.
He was the beloved husband of fifty-eight years to his High School sweetheart Jackie Payne; loving father of Cathy Payne, Jim Payne and his late wife JoAnn(2001), Barbara Hageman and her husband Gary, Teddy Payne, all of Wayne, Nancy Agel and her husband Charlie of Clifton, Jackie Greer and her husband Rob of Oak Ridge, and Debbie Wierciszewski and her husband Ronnie of Lyndhurst; cherished grandfather of six grandchildren, Jimmy Payne and his wife Dana, Patrick Payne, Kellyn and Taylor Hageman, and Bobby and Allie Greer, and two great-grandchildren Madison Brock and Jordyn Payne.
In lieu of flowers memorial donations to the Juvenile Diabetes Assoc., Northern NJ Chapter, 560 Sylvan Ave, Englewood, NJ 07632 would be appreciated.
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Friends may visit with the family on Tuesday, November 1, 2011 from 4-8 PM at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Rd., Wayne.
All other services will be held privately.
October 27, 2011
Services
Friends may visit with the family on Tuesday, November 1, 2011 from 4-8 PM at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Rd., Wayne.
All other services will be held privately.
Theodore “Ted” F. Payne, Jr. age 80 of Wayne died Thursday, October 27, 2011 at home, peacefully and with the comfort of his family by his side.
He was born and raised in Passaic and Clifton having graduated from Passaic High School with the Class of 1950. He received his Bachelor of Science Degree from Fairleigh Dickinson University – Rutherford with the Class of 1954. He and his wife Jackie moved to Wayne fifty years ago to raise their family.
Ted worked in the paper industry his entire career having first worked for the Lowe Paper Company, Ridgefield and later the Elish Paper Company, NYC where he became a partner. He retired in 1996.
He volunteered much of his time and was a Past President of the Wayne PAL, where he also served as Football Commissioner and coached both football and baseball. He loved the New York Yankees and the New York Giants. Ted enjoyed hunting, fishing, and boating on his beloved boat “Thumper” out of Ocean City. He looked forward to spending every summer at the jersey shore with his family. He took great pleasure and pride in watching his children’s, and more recently his grand children’s sporting events.
Ted met the love of his life Jackie Thompson and shared their first date ice skating in 3rd Ward Park in Passaic. Always the gentleman he proposed marriage to Jackie’s parents first. They married on August 22, 1953 at St. Nicholas Church, Passaic and had their reception at Gene Boyles in Passaic. They honeymooned in Florida.
He was the beloved husband of fifty-eight years to his High School sweetheart Jackie Payne; loving father of Cathy Payne, Jim Payne and his late wife JoAnn(2001), Barbara Hageman and her husband Gary, Teddy Payne, all of Wayne, Nancy Agel and her husband Charlie of Clifton, Jackie Greer and her husband Rob of Oak Ridge, and Debbie Wierciszewski and her husband Ronnie of Lyndhurst; cherished grandfather of six grandchildren, Jimmy Payne and his wife Dana, Patrick Payne, Kellyn and Taylor Hageman, and Bobby and Allie Greer, and two great-grandchildren Madison Brock and Jordyn Payne.
In lieu of flowers memorial donations to the Juvenile Diabetes Assoc., Northern NJ Chapter, 560 Sylvan Ave, Englewood, NJ 07632 would be appreciated.
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