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December 8, 2013
Services
Friends may visit with the family from 2-4, and 7-9 PM on Thursday, December 12, 2013 at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Rd., Wayne.
Funeral services will be held 9 AM on Friday, December 13, 2013 from the funeral home then to Our Lady of Consolation RC Church, 1799 Hamburg Tpk., Wayne where a 10 AM Funeral Mass will be offered.
Interment will be in Laurel Grove Memorial Park, Totowa.
Thomas L. Voelkner age 78, of Naples, FL, a forty-three year resident of Wayne, died peacefully on Sunday, December 8, 2013.
His first job was working the grill and counter at The Coral in Paterson where he met his future wife Ms. Jean Budnik. Tom was working and Jean was sitting, as a customer, at the counter. They soon started dating and fell in love. They married on October 23, 1960 in Clifton and honeymooned in Washington, DC. Later in 1960 they bought their first home in Wayne and spent the next forty-three years in the township before moving to Naples Florida in 2003.
Tom and his wife Jean were founding parishioners of Our Lady of Consolation RC Church in Wayne.
He was active within his community and was a longstanding member of the Wayne Rotary, and served on the Wayne Board of Adjustment for many years.
When Tom was just five years old he lost his father in a truck accident. He had an older brother Herman and his mom was nine months pregnant with his brother William. His mother never remarried and they all worked to support the family. Just out of high school Tom found a job with the Beechnut Foods Company as a candy and gum salesman. With this job he had a company car that was loaded with goodies and was always getting broken into. During his restocking of many and varied locations a man from State Farm Insurance Company recognized how hard Tom was working and asked for his contact information. Soon Tom owned his own State Farm Insurance Agency in Wayne where he worked for thirty-eight years before retiring in 1999.
Tom was an honest, generous, and friendly person. He was known to have a special place in his heart for anyone he heard was trying to further their education.
He was the loving husband of fifty-three years to Jean; devoted father of Robert and his wife Sharon, Karen, and Marianne and her husband Greg; cherished grandfather of nine grandchildren; brother of Herman and William.
In lieu of flowers memorial donations to the Wayne Rotary, PO Box 2022, Wayne, NJ 07470 would be appreciated
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Friends may visit with the family from 2-4, and 7-9 PM on Thursday, December 12, 2013 at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Rd., Wayne.
Funeral services will be held 9 AM on Friday, December 13, 2013 from the funeral home then to Our Lady of Consolation RC Church, 1799 Hamburg Tpk., Wayne where a 10 AM Funeral Mass will be offered.
Interment will be in Laurel Grove Memorial Park, Totowa.
December 8, 2013
Services
Friends may visit with the family from 2-4, and 7-9 PM on Thursday, December 12, 2013 at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Rd., Wayne.
Funeral services will be held 9 AM on Friday, December 13, 2013 from the funeral home then to Our Lady of Consolation RC Church, 1799 Hamburg Tpk., Wayne where a 10 AM Funeral Mass will be offered.
Interment will be in Laurel Grove Memorial Park, Totowa.
Thomas L. Voelkner age 78, of Naples, FL, a forty-three year resident of Wayne, died peacefully on Sunday, December 8, 2013.
His first job was working the grill and counter at The Coral in Paterson where he met his future wife Ms. Jean Budnik. Tom was working and Jean was sitting, as a customer, at the counter. They soon started dating and fell in love. They married on October 23, 1960 in Clifton and honeymooned in Washington, DC. Later in 1960 they bought their first home in Wayne and spent the next forty-three years in the township before moving to Naples Florida in 2003.
Tom and his wife Jean were founding parishioners of Our Lady of Consolation RC Church in Wayne.
He was active within his community and was a longstanding member of the Wayne Rotary, and served on the Wayne Board of Adjustment for many years.
When Tom was just five years old he lost his father in a truck accident. He had an older brother Herman and his mom was nine months pregnant with his brother William. His mother never remarried and they all worked to support the family. Just out of high school Tom found a job with the Beechnut Foods Company as a candy and gum salesman. With this job he had a company car that was loaded with goodies and was always getting broken into. During his restocking of many and varied locations a man from State Farm Insurance Company recognized how hard Tom was working and asked for his contact information. Soon Tom owned his own State Farm Insurance Agency in Wayne where he worked for thirty-eight years before retiring in 1999.
Tom was an honest, generous, and friendly person. He was known to have a special place in his heart for anyone he heard was trying to further their education.
He was the loving husband of fifty-three years to Jean; devoted father of Robert and his wife Sharon, Karen, and Marianne and her husband Greg; cherished grandfather of nine grandchildren; brother of Herman and William.
In lieu of flowers memorial donations to the Wayne Rotary, PO Box 2022, Wayne, NJ 07470 would be appreciated
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