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March 7, 2011
Services
Friends may visit with the family on Wednesday, March 9, 2011 from 6-8 PM at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
Friends and family are asked to gather at Saint Josephs RC Church, 454 Germantown Rd., West Milford on Thursday, March 10, 2011 for a 10:30 AM Funeral Mass.
Interment will be St. Josephs Cemetery directly behind the church.
Thomas Wayne Gillespie age 67 of Stockholm died Saturday, March 5, 2011 with the comfort of family by his side.
He was born in Paterson and was a resident of Wayne for many years. He graduated from Wayne Valley High School with the Class of 1961 and continued his education at Rutgers University, New Brunswick where he received his Bachelor of Science Degree in Business with the Class of 1965.
During his high school and college years Tom worked as a carpenter. After college he found employment at the Great American Insurance Company, Paterson where he worked as an Insurance Adjuster. He later worked for the Sarasohn & Company as a Public Insurance Adjuster. He later joined with his two sons to form the Gillespie & Gibson Corporation, Totowa before retiring in 2007.
Tom first met the love of his life Susanne Kirchner when they were in 5th grade. Their first date was to the Totowa Drive In movie theatre followed by a trip to the Milk Barn on Hamburg Turnpike in Wayne. They were high school sweethearts and during his third year of college they married. The wedding was held at the Preakness Reformed Church, Wayne on March 21, 1964. Tom and Susanne have enjoyed forty-seven years of devoted marriage.
Tom was an avid outdoorsman who enjoyed hunting and fishing. He was also an avid sportsman having played four years of high school football, enjoyed tennis and was a very competitive golfer. He delighted in being the champion of the Eagle Ridge Golf, Lakewood, a title he held for a couple of years. Another of Tom’s loves was his dogs. Over the years he has had a German Retriever, two Golden Retrievers, an Irish Setter and currently his faithful English Setter “Archer” who will miss him dearly.
Tom was the loving husband of Susanne Gillespie; devoted father of Todd Gillespie and his wife Theresa of West Milford, and Timothy Gillespie of West Milford; cherished grandfather of Alexandra and Thomas Gillespie; loved brother of Judith Mett and her husband Otto of Hardyston and Herbert Lees of Wayne.
In lieu of flowers memorial donations to the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF), 26 Broadway, 14th Floor, NY, NY, 10004 would be appreciated.
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Friends may visit with the family on Wednesday, March 9, 2011 from 6-8 PM at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
Friends and family are asked to gather at Saint Josephs RC Church, 454 Germantown Rd., West Milford on Thursday, March 10, 2011 for a 10:30 AM Funeral Mass.
Interment will be St. Josephs Cemetery directly behind the church.
March 7, 2011
Services
Friends may visit with the family on Wednesday, March 9, 2011 from 6-8 PM at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
Friends and family are asked to gather at Saint Josephs RC Church, 454 Germantown Rd., West Milford on Thursday, March 10, 2011 for a 10:30 AM Funeral Mass.
Interment will be St. Josephs Cemetery directly behind the church.
Thomas Wayne Gillespie age 67 of Stockholm died Saturday, March 5, 2011 with the comfort of family by his side.
He was born in Paterson and was a resident of Wayne for many years. He graduated from Wayne Valley High School with the Class of 1961 and continued his education at Rutgers University, New Brunswick where he received his Bachelor of Science Degree in Business with the Class of 1965.
During his high school and college years Tom worked as a carpenter. After college he found employment at the Great American Insurance Company, Paterson where he worked as an Insurance Adjuster. He later worked for the Sarasohn & Company as a Public Insurance Adjuster. He later joined with his two sons to form the Gillespie & Gibson Corporation, Totowa before retiring in 2007.
Tom first met the love of his life Susanne Kirchner when they were in 5th grade. Their first date was to the Totowa Drive In movie theatre followed by a trip to the Milk Barn on Hamburg Turnpike in Wayne. They were high school sweethearts and during his third year of college they married. The wedding was held at the Preakness Reformed Church, Wayne on March 21, 1964. Tom and Susanne have enjoyed forty-seven years of devoted marriage.
Tom was an avid outdoorsman who enjoyed hunting and fishing. He was also an avid sportsman having played four years of high school football, enjoyed tennis and was a very competitive golfer. He delighted in being the champion of the Eagle Ridge Golf, Lakewood, a title he held for a couple of years. Another of Tom’s loves was his dogs. Over the years he has had a German Retriever, two Golden Retrievers, an Irish Setter and currently his faithful English Setter “Archer” who will miss him dearly.
Tom was the loving husband of Susanne Gillespie; devoted father of Todd Gillespie and his wife Theresa of West Milford, and Timothy Gillespie of West Milford; cherished grandfather of Alexandra and Thomas Gillespie; loved brother of Judith Mett and her husband Otto of Hardyston and Herbert Lees of Wayne.
In lieu of flowers memorial donations to the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF), 26 Broadway, 14th Floor, NY, NY, 10004 would be appreciated.
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