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March 7, 2018
Services
Family and friends may visit at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne, on Wednesday, March 14, 2018 from 4-8 PM.
A Funeral Mass will be offered, Thursday, March 15, 2018 beginning 10:30 AM at Our Lady of Good Council Church, 155 West Parkway, Pompton Plains. Please meet directly at the church.
Interment will be in Gate of Heaven Cemetery, East Hanover.
Theresa Darleen Zosche (nee Gwizdak), age 86, of Pine Brook, passed away on Wednesday, March 7, 2018.
After graduating from Mount Saint Vincent Academy in Newark, Theresa went to work for Prudential Life Insurance Company in Newark. She took the same bus to work every day, and there was one young man who also regularly commuted on that same bus. Terry could not help but notice him because he was very handsome and seemed like quite the gentleman. Apparently, she caught his eye too and, consequently, they began do date. His name was Raymond Zosche and, as God’s providence would have it, they married on Saturday, May 24, 1952 at Sacred Heart Church in Irvington. After the wedding, Terry and Raymond initially settled in Irvington before moving to Pine Brook into a home that Ray built with his own two hands including masonry, framing and all the finishing touches. Ray built the home and, together with Terry, they filled it with love and four beautiful children.
Creative at heart, Terry wove artistry into every facet of her honorable roll of adored wife, super mom, and homemaker. She was an amazing seamstress who used her skills for everything from creatively decorating the home to making the greatest, over-the-top Halloween costumes. A gourmet cook and baker, she enjoyed being imaginative with delicious meals and she always had fun planning themed parties to make her children’s birthdays special along with lovingly baked sky-high birthday cakes too.
Theresa wanted her kids to experience all that life could offer and she loved being with them to watch them take it all in. She was an enthusiastic Cub Scout Den Mother and Girl Scout leader and reliable taxi driver to their music lessons. Theresa and Ray were always together and they included their children in all their activities. They wanted their family to share amazing events and destinations so they took trips to many places like the World’s Fair in New York, the Expo in Montreal, Yosemite National Park in California, Arizona’s Grand Canyon, trips throughout Mexico, Spain and Hawaii, and events surrounding the bicentennial of our great country in 1976.
Theresa was a parishioner of St. Mary’s RC Church in Pompton Lakes where she served as a Eucharistic Minister, much-adored Confirmation Leader and, along with her husband Raymond, she would visit nursing homes to bring fellowship and communion to the residents.
Theresa was one of the most perfect examples of what a loving wife, mother, and grandmother should be and was very much loved by her family while also enjoying the respect of many friends. While her life here has ended, it has just begun in the presence of her Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Her family mourns her loss but are so grateful for her amazing new life and that she is reunited with her beloved husband Ray.
Terry was the beloved wife for fifty years of Raymond Zosche. She is survived by two dear sons: Thomas Zosche and his wife Barbara of Byran, and Dr. Darren Zosche and his wife Karen of Mendham; two much-loved daughters: Donna Aquino and her husband Dennis of Kinnelon, and Karyn Sobieski and her husband Stan of Ringoes; one dear brother Daniel Gwizdak of East Brunswick; and nine cherished grandchildren: Christine, Dianna and husband Sean, Janette, Christopher, Alex and Natalie, Alec, Ryan and Reece. She was also predeceased by her sister Joan Machos.
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Family and friends may visit at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne, on Wednesday, March 14, 2018 from 4-8 PM.
A Funeral Mass will be offered, Thursday, March 15, 2018 beginning 10:30 AM at Our Lady of Good Council Church, 155 West Parkway, Pompton Plains. Please meet directly at the church.
Interment will be in Gate of Heaven Cemetery, East Hanover.
March 7, 2018
Services
Family and friends may visit at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne, on Wednesday, March 14, 2018 from 4-8 PM.
A Funeral Mass will be offered, Thursday, March 15, 2018 beginning 10:30 AM at Our Lady of Good Council Church, 155 West Parkway, Pompton Plains. Please meet directly at the church.
Interment will be in Gate of Heaven Cemetery, East Hanover.
Theresa Darleen Zosche (nee Gwizdak), age 86, of Pine Brook, passed away on Wednesday, March 7, 2018.
After graduating from Mount Saint Vincent Academy in Newark, Theresa went to work for Prudential Life Insurance Company in Newark. She took the same bus to work every day, and there was one young man who also regularly commuted on that same bus. Terry could not help but notice him because he was very handsome and seemed like quite the gentleman. Apparently, she caught his eye too and, consequently, they began do date. His name was Raymond Zosche and, as God’s providence would have it, they married on Saturday, May 24, 1952 at Sacred Heart Church in Irvington. After the wedding, Terry and Raymond initially settled in Irvington before moving to Pine Brook into a home that Ray built with his own two hands including masonry, framing and all the finishing touches. Ray built the home and, together with Terry, they filled it with love and four beautiful children.
Creative at heart, Terry wove artistry into every facet of her honorable roll of adored wife, super mom, and homemaker. She was an amazing seamstress who used her skills for everything from creatively decorating the home to making the greatest, over-the-top Halloween costumes. A gourmet cook and baker, she enjoyed being imaginative with delicious meals and she always had fun planning themed parties to make her children’s birthdays special along with lovingly baked sky-high birthday cakes too.
Theresa wanted her kids to experience all that life could offer and she loved being with them to watch them take it all in. She was an enthusiastic Cub Scout Den Mother and Girl Scout leader and reliable taxi driver to their music lessons. Theresa and Ray were always together and they included their children in all their activities. They wanted their family to share amazing events and destinations so they took trips to many places like the World’s Fair in New York, the Expo in Montreal, Yosemite National Park in California, Arizona’s Grand Canyon, trips throughout Mexico, Spain and Hawaii, and events surrounding the bicentennial of our great country in 1976.
Theresa was a parishioner of St. Mary’s RC Church in Pompton Lakes where she served as a Eucharistic Minister, much-adored Confirmation Leader and, along with her husband Raymond, she would visit nursing homes to bring fellowship and communion to the residents.
Theresa was one of the most perfect examples of what a loving wife, mother, and grandmother should be and was very much loved by her family while also enjoying the respect of many friends. While her life here has ended, it has just begun in the presence of her Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Her family mourns her loss but are so grateful for her amazing new life and that she is reunited with her beloved husband Ray.
Terry was the beloved wife for fifty years of Raymond Zosche. She is survived by two dear sons: Thomas Zosche and his wife Barbara of Byran, and Dr. Darren Zosche and his wife Karen of Mendham; two much-loved daughters: Donna Aquino and her husband Dennis of Kinnelon, and Karyn Sobieski and her husband Stan of Ringoes; one dear brother Daniel Gwizdak of East Brunswick; and nine cherished grandchildren: Christine, Dianna and husband Sean, Janette, Christopher, Alex and Natalie, Alec, Ryan and Reece. She was also predeceased by her sister Joan Machos.
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