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January 30, 2010
Services
Funeral services will be held Friday, February 5, 2010 at 9am from Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne then to Annunciation RC Church, Wayne where at 10am a funeral mass will be offered.
Friends may visit with the family at the funeral home on Thursday, February 4th from 2-4, 7-9pm.
Thomas J. McBride “Pop-Pop” age 98 of Wayne, New Jersey, passed on January 30, 2010 at the Chilton Memorial hospital in Pompton Plains. At that time, twenty-one loving family members were by his bedside as he peacefully entered into Heaven.
It all started on December 7, 1912, when Tom was born in Paterson, New Jersey into a strong Irish family. He was very proud about his Irish heritage. He received his education in Paterson at Saint Agnes’s Grammar School and graduated from Saint Joseph’s High School in 1927.
During the Great Depression, Tom landed a job with the Lehigh Valley Railroad stationed in New York City. He enjoyed his commute each day playing pinochle with his co-riders. During his lunch hour, he enjoyed the sites of the City. Tom started at the age of eighteen and retired forty-four years later as a Clerk Estimator in 1975.
Soon after, he met his wife, Wilma Christ who he adored. They were happily married for sixty-seven years until her passing in May of 1999.
When it came to his family, Tom had a wonderful sense of pride. He loved his family and they meant the world to him. The arrival of his six grandchildren was a highlight in his life. With the arrival of his thirteen great-grandchildren, he was ecstatic to be able to enjoy three generations of his family.
Throughout his life thoroughly enjoyed horseshoes and was a member of the Paterson Horseshoe League. Some of his hobbies included monitoring police radios, taking walks at Garret Mountain, listening to music, and playing records from his substantial collection. Tom was a natural musician and enjoyed “tickling the ivories” for himself and family.
Every summer, Tom and his family packed up and headed for Wildwood Crest, New Jersey of vacation. A favorite spot was the Crusader room 107, where Tom enjoyed watching the ocean with his binoculars and his family at the beach and pool.
Tom was wonderful father, grandfather, and great-grandfather. He never missed any of the events and all of his families lives and leaves us with wonderful memories.
Surviving Tom are is one daughter Joan Schmitt and her husband George and his six grandchildren Debra Mirabelli and her husband Rich, George T Schmitt, Edward Schmitt, Diane Brennan and her husband Dave, Lisa Schmitt and Frank Manghisi and his wife Danielle; and his thirteen great-grandchildren Melissa Welch and her husband Denis, Dana and Michele Mirabelli, Scott and Kayla Schmitt, Ashley, Casey and Shannon Brennan, Mel Green, and Olivia, Paige, Brooke and Luke Manghisi. Also, included are Tom’s niece, Karen McBride and extended family.
He was predeceased by his brother Charles McBride and his daughter Elizabeth “Betty” Manghisi in 2007 and again his wife “Wilma” in 1999.
He will be laid to rest at Holy Sepulcher Cemetery in Totowa, New Jersey beside his beloved wife, Wilma.
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Funeral services will be held Friday, February 5, 2010 at 9am from Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne then to Annunciation RC Church, Wayne where at 10am a funeral mass will be offered.
Friends may visit with the family at the funeral home on Thursday, February 4th from 2-4, 7-9pm.
January 30, 2010
Services
Funeral services will be held Friday, February 5, 2010 at 9am from Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne then to Annunciation RC Church, Wayne where at 10am a funeral mass will be offered.
Friends may visit with the family at the funeral home on Thursday, February 4th from 2-4, 7-9pm.
Thomas J. McBride “Pop-Pop” age 98 of Wayne, New Jersey, passed on January 30, 2010 at the Chilton Memorial hospital in Pompton Plains. At that time, twenty-one loving family members were by his bedside as he peacefully entered into Heaven.
It all started on December 7, 1912, when Tom was born in Paterson, New Jersey into a strong Irish family. He was very proud about his Irish heritage. He received his education in Paterson at Saint Agnes’s Grammar School and graduated from Saint Joseph’s High School in 1927.
During the Great Depression, Tom landed a job with the Lehigh Valley Railroad stationed in New York City. He enjoyed his commute each day playing pinochle with his co-riders. During his lunch hour, he enjoyed the sites of the City. Tom started at the age of eighteen and retired forty-four years later as a Clerk Estimator in 1975.
Soon after, he met his wife, Wilma Christ who he adored. They were happily married for sixty-seven years until her passing in May of 1999.
When it came to his family, Tom had a wonderful sense of pride. He loved his family and they meant the world to him. The arrival of his six grandchildren was a highlight in his life. With the arrival of his thirteen great-grandchildren, he was ecstatic to be able to enjoy three generations of his family.
Throughout his life thoroughly enjoyed horseshoes and was a member of the Paterson Horseshoe League. Some of his hobbies included monitoring police radios, taking walks at Garret Mountain, listening to music, and playing records from his substantial collection. Tom was a natural musician and enjoyed “tickling the ivories” for himself and family.
Every summer, Tom and his family packed up and headed for Wildwood Crest, New Jersey of vacation. A favorite spot was the Crusader room 107, where Tom enjoyed watching the ocean with his binoculars and his family at the beach and pool.
Tom was wonderful father, grandfather, and great-grandfather. He never missed any of the events and all of his families lives and leaves us with wonderful memories.
Surviving Tom are is one daughter Joan Schmitt and her husband George and his six grandchildren Debra Mirabelli and her husband Rich, George T Schmitt, Edward Schmitt, Diane Brennan and her husband Dave, Lisa Schmitt and Frank Manghisi and his wife Danielle; and his thirteen great-grandchildren Melissa Welch and her husband Denis, Dana and Michele Mirabelli, Scott and Kayla Schmitt, Ashley, Casey and Shannon Brennan, Mel Green, and Olivia, Paige, Brooke and Luke Manghisi. Also, included are Tom’s niece, Karen McBride and extended family.
He was predeceased by his brother Charles McBride and his daughter Elizabeth “Betty” Manghisi in 2007 and again his wife “Wilma” in 1999.
He will be laid to rest at Holy Sepulcher Cemetery in Totowa, New Jersey beside his beloved wife, Wilma.
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