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June 10, 2010
Services
Friends may visit with the family on Tuesday, June 15, 2010 from 2-4, 7-9 PM at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
Funeral services will be held 9 AM on Wednesday, June 16 from the funeral home then to St. Marys Church, 17 Pompton Ave., Pompton Lakes where a 10 AM Funeral Mass will be offered.
Interment will be in Cedar Lawn Cemetery, Paterson.
Thomas John Geary, age 53 of Pompton Lakes died suddenly at home on Thursday, June 10, 2010.
He was born in Passaic and raised and lived in Clifton before moving to Pompton Lakes seventeen years ago.
Tom graduated from DonBosco Technical High School, Paterson with the Class of 1976.
He worked with his dad at Geary Landscaping, Inc. for over thirty five years and most recently was the owner of Wel Dun Landscaping, Pompton Lakes.
Tom was a member of the Garfield Cadets Drum & Bugle Corps and had sang in the Clifton Boys Club Choir’s Glee Club. It was with the Clifton Boys Club Choir that he sang at the Worlds Fair.
He loved car racing and raced in Pine Brook before moving to remote control car racing having been a member of the Dirty Burners RC Car Club, Jefferson Township.
He met the love of his life Diane Hazekamp at the Hot Grill in Clifton. Their first date was to Cubby’s in Hackensack. Tom proposed to Diane at his parents 40th wedding anniversary party. They married in the First Lutheran Church, Clifton on Saturday, February 15, 1992, honeymooned on a Caribbean Cruise, and have enjoyed a loving and fun marriage.
Tom was the loving husband of Diane (Hazekamp) Geary; loving father of Michael and Christopher Geary both of Pompton Lakes; devoted son of Mary Geary and her late husband Charles; loved brother of Charles Geary of Pocono Lake, PA; cherished uncle of Kimberly Scott and her husband Jason, Jaime Orsillo and great-uncle of Adeline Bella Scott all of Ringwood.
An education fund is being established for Tom’s boys. In lieu of flowers memorial donations to Diane Geary, c/o 567 Ratzer Rd., Wayne, NJ 07470 would be appreciated.
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Friends may visit with the family on Tuesday, June 15, 2010 from 2-4, 7-9 PM at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
Funeral services will be held 9 AM on Wednesday, June 16 from the funeral home then to St. Marys Church, 17 Pompton Ave., Pompton Lakes where a 10 AM Funeral Mass will be offered.
Interment will be in Cedar Lawn Cemetery, Paterson.
June 10, 2010
Services
Friends may visit with the family on Tuesday, June 15, 2010 from 2-4, 7-9 PM at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
Funeral services will be held 9 AM on Wednesday, June 16 from the funeral home then to St. Marys Church, 17 Pompton Ave., Pompton Lakes where a 10 AM Funeral Mass will be offered.
Interment will be in Cedar Lawn Cemetery, Paterson.
Thomas John Geary, age 53 of Pompton Lakes died suddenly at home on Thursday, June 10, 2010.
He was born in Passaic and raised and lived in Clifton before moving to Pompton Lakes seventeen years ago.
Tom graduated from DonBosco Technical High School, Paterson with the Class of 1976.
He worked with his dad at Geary Landscaping, Inc. for over thirty five years and most recently was the owner of Wel Dun Landscaping, Pompton Lakes.
Tom was a member of the Garfield Cadets Drum & Bugle Corps and had sang in the Clifton Boys Club Choir’s Glee Club. It was with the Clifton Boys Club Choir that he sang at the Worlds Fair.
He loved car racing and raced in Pine Brook before moving to remote control car racing having been a member of the Dirty Burners RC Car Club, Jefferson Township.
He met the love of his life Diane Hazekamp at the Hot Grill in Clifton. Their first date was to Cubby’s in Hackensack. Tom proposed to Diane at his parents 40th wedding anniversary party. They married in the First Lutheran Church, Clifton on Saturday, February 15, 1992, honeymooned on a Caribbean Cruise, and have enjoyed a loving and fun marriage.
Tom was the loving husband of Diane (Hazekamp) Geary; loving father of Michael and Christopher Geary both of Pompton Lakes; devoted son of Mary Geary and her late husband Charles; loved brother of Charles Geary of Pocono Lake, PA; cherished uncle of Kimberly Scott and her husband Jason, Jaime Orsillo and great-uncle of Adeline Bella Scott all of Ringwood.
An education fund is being established for Tom’s boys. In lieu of flowers memorial donations to Diane Geary, c/o 567 Ratzer Rd., Wayne, NJ 07470 would be appreciated.
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