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June 8, 2010
Services
Friends may visit with the family at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne, on Friday, June 11, 2010 from 2-4 & 7-9 PM. Funeral Services will be held at 9 AM on Saturday, June 12, 2010 from the funeral home, then to Annunciation RC Church, Urban Club Road, Wayne, where at 10 AM a Funeral Mass will be offered.
Terri Kaetzel (nee Royko), age 50 of Bloomingdale, NJ died quietly on Tuesday, June 8, 2010 with her loving family at her side.
Terri was a teacher’s aide at the Martha B. Day Elementary School in Bloomingdale where her students affectionately called her “Miss Terri”. She loved helping with the children and was, by her very nature, a caring and giving person.
Terri was born in Binghamton, New York and had lived in Johnson City, New York and North Brunswick, New Jersey. She moved to Wayne when she was thirteen years old and graduated from Wayne Hills High School with the class of 1978. She attended Annunciation RC Church and it was here that she met Glenn Kaetzel. They quickly became high school sweethearts and were married in 1981. Glenn recalls their very-memorable first date to the beach where Terri proceeded to pass-out while they strolled along the boardwalk. Glenn stood by her side, revived her with some cold water and the rest is history, as they say. On a subsequent date, he proposed to her on the beach in Lavallette and they enjoyed nearly thirty years of a loving and fun marriage together, filled with lots of laughter.
Terri was an excellent cook and could make anything well. She loved to cook for her family. She also loved to go shopping, but would rarely buy anything for herself. She would spoil her daughters, or buy gifts for others. She enjoyed day-trips on Glenn’s motorcycle, watching MASH, Survivor, or the Amazing Race on TV, and playing games online like Mahjong. She especially liked Tricky-Trays. If there was a Tricky-Tray going on, she would be there.
Terri was devoted to her two daughters. There wasn’t anything she wouldn’t do for them. The times they spent playing Rummy together, shopping, or trying to decipher their mom’s made-up vocabulary words, will give them memories to cherish for the rest of their lives.
Terri will also be dearly missed by her beloved cocker spaniel; Ginger. The family often joked that Ginger was her third child, and Terri spoiled her as well.
Terri is survived by her devoted husband Glenn Kaetzel of Bloomingdale, her two loving daughters; Nicole and Karen Kaetzel of Bloomingdale, her mother; Hedy Royko of Hamburg, NJ, four sisters; Janet Royko of Dingmans Ferry, PA, Kathy Garrett and her husband Ron of Hamburg, NJ, Patti Hreha and her husband Al of Wayne, NJ, and Joann Salvatore of Langhorne, PA, her loving father-in-law; Gilbert Kaetzel of Wayne, one brother-in-law; Gary Kaetzel and his wife Rose of Wayne. Terri was predeceased by her father Joseph Royko. She was also blessed with a large, loving, extended family of thirteen nieces, nephews, and many more.
As expressions of sympathy, if friends so wish, donations may be made in Terri’s memory to St. Jude’s Children’s Research Hospital, 501 St. Jude Place, Memphis, TN 38105.
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Friends may visit with the family at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne, on Friday, June 11, 2010 from 2-4 & 7-9 PM. Funeral Services will be held at 9 AM on Saturday, June 12, 2010 from the funeral home, then to Annunciation RC Church, Urban Club Road, Wayne, where at 10 AM a Funeral Mass will be offered.
June 8, 2010
Services
Friends may visit with the family at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne, on Friday, June 11, 2010 from 2-4 & 7-9 PM. Funeral Services will be held at 9 AM on Saturday, June 12, 2010 from the funeral home, then to Annunciation RC Church, Urban Club Road, Wayne, where at 10 AM a Funeral Mass will be offered.
Terri Kaetzel (nee Royko), age 50 of Bloomingdale, NJ died quietly on Tuesday, June 8, 2010 with her loving family at her side.
Terri was a teacher’s aide at the Martha B. Day Elementary School in Bloomingdale where her students affectionately called her “Miss Terri”. She loved helping with the children and was, by her very nature, a caring and giving person.
Terri was born in Binghamton, New York and had lived in Johnson City, New York and North Brunswick, New Jersey. She moved to Wayne when she was thirteen years old and graduated from Wayne Hills High School with the class of 1978. She attended Annunciation RC Church and it was here that she met Glenn Kaetzel. They quickly became high school sweethearts and were married in 1981. Glenn recalls their very-memorable first date to the beach where Terri proceeded to pass-out while they strolled along the boardwalk. Glenn stood by her side, revived her with some cold water and the rest is history, as they say. On a subsequent date, he proposed to her on the beach in Lavallette and they enjoyed nearly thirty years of a loving and fun marriage together, filled with lots of laughter.
Terri was an excellent cook and could make anything well. She loved to cook for her family. She also loved to go shopping, but would rarely buy anything for herself. She would spoil her daughters, or buy gifts for others. She enjoyed day-trips on Glenn’s motorcycle, watching MASH, Survivor, or the Amazing Race on TV, and playing games online like Mahjong. She especially liked Tricky-Trays. If there was a Tricky-Tray going on, she would be there.
Terri was devoted to her two daughters. There wasn’t anything she wouldn’t do for them. The times they spent playing Rummy together, shopping, or trying to decipher their mom’s made-up vocabulary words, will give them memories to cherish for the rest of their lives.
Terri will also be dearly missed by her beloved cocker spaniel; Ginger. The family often joked that Ginger was her third child, and Terri spoiled her as well.
Terri is survived by her devoted husband Glenn Kaetzel of Bloomingdale, her two loving daughters; Nicole and Karen Kaetzel of Bloomingdale, her mother; Hedy Royko of Hamburg, NJ, four sisters; Janet Royko of Dingmans Ferry, PA, Kathy Garrett and her husband Ron of Hamburg, NJ, Patti Hreha and her husband Al of Wayne, NJ, and Joann Salvatore of Langhorne, PA, her loving father-in-law; Gilbert Kaetzel of Wayne, one brother-in-law; Gary Kaetzel and his wife Rose of Wayne. Terri was predeceased by her father Joseph Royko. She was also blessed with a large, loving, extended family of thirteen nieces, nephews, and many more.
As expressions of sympathy, if friends so wish, donations may be made in Terri’s memory to St. Jude’s Children’s Research Hospital, 501 St. Jude Place, Memphis, TN 38105.
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