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January 1, 2008
Services
Funeral services will be held Friday 10 AM at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
Friends may visit with the family at the funeral home on Thursday from 2-4, 7-9 PM.
Tunis Boyce age 87 of Wayne died Tuesday, January 1, 2008 at the Atrium Health Care Center In Wayne. His passing was quiet and peaceful.
He was born in Newark and had lived in Passaic Park, Clifton, Kinnelon, Pompton Lakes and had maintained a residence in Sebring Florida before moving to Wayne nine years ago.
Tunis spent his formative years in Passaic Park and had attended Passaic High School.
He was an Electronics Assembler for Bendix Corporation in Teterboro for twenty-six years before his retirement in 1976.
Mr. Boyce was gifted with an affable personality that made him a delight to be with. He often ended up as the “life of the party” when he socialized. He loved to dance and sing and in general shed his personality plus demeanor on those around him.
While in Sebring, Florida he was an active member of the Elks Lodge and at home he would often head for Atlantic City to play his favorite slot machines. He also enjoyed Las Vegas and the accompanying atmosphere.
For his spare time he would often go fishing, play golf and formerly participated in the Passaic Archers Club. He was skilled in making his own arrows.
He served in the Army as a Private in Company “C”, Fourth Infantry during World War II.
He leaves his family with many fond memories of a very loving and devoted husband, father, grandfather, great grandfather and a friend to many. His title of “grandpa” was very special in his life.
Jeannette and Tunis had fifty-one years of “sweethearts together” marriage and delighted in each other’s company until Jeannette’s passing in 1993.
Surviving are daughter Diane Mahoney and her husband Edward of Wayne; two sons Thomas Boyce and his wife Peggy of Barnegat, Robert Boyce and his wife Carol of Lanoka Harbor; one sister Doris Morrell of Allendale; six grandchildren Scott Mahoney and his wife Deborah of Pompton Plains, Jaime Cornell and her husband Jerry of Las Vegas, Nevada, Adam Boyce of Ettera, Pennsylvania, Daniel Boyce of Bethesda, Maryland, Michelle Boyce of New York City and Matthew Boyce of Lavallette; three great grandchildren Logan, Samantha and Heather Mahoney.
Those planning an expression of sympathy in Tunis’ memory are asked to consider the Chilton Memorial Hospital Foundation, 97 W. Parkway, Pompton Plains, NJ 07444 or the Wayne Memorial First Aid Squad, PO Box 291, Wayne, NJ 07470.
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Funeral services will be held Friday 10 AM at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
Friends may visit with the family at the funeral home on Thursday from 2-4, 7-9 PM.
January 1, 2008
Services
Funeral services will be held Friday 10 AM at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
Friends may visit with the family at the funeral home on Thursday from 2-4, 7-9 PM.
Tunis Boyce age 87 of Wayne died Tuesday, January 1, 2008 at the Atrium Health Care Center In Wayne. His passing was quiet and peaceful.
He was born in Newark and had lived in Passaic Park, Clifton, Kinnelon, Pompton Lakes and had maintained a residence in Sebring Florida before moving to Wayne nine years ago.
Tunis spent his formative years in Passaic Park and had attended Passaic High School.
He was an Electronics Assembler for Bendix Corporation in Teterboro for twenty-six years before his retirement in 1976.
Mr. Boyce was gifted with an affable personality that made him a delight to be with. He often ended up as the “life of the party” when he socialized. He loved to dance and sing and in general shed his personality plus demeanor on those around him.
While in Sebring, Florida he was an active member of the Elks Lodge and at home he would often head for Atlantic City to play his favorite slot machines. He also enjoyed Las Vegas and the accompanying atmosphere.
For his spare time he would often go fishing, play golf and formerly participated in the Passaic Archers Club. He was skilled in making his own arrows.
He served in the Army as a Private in Company “C”, Fourth Infantry during World War II.
He leaves his family with many fond memories of a very loving and devoted husband, father, grandfather, great grandfather and a friend to many. His title of “grandpa” was very special in his life.
Jeannette and Tunis had fifty-one years of “sweethearts together” marriage and delighted in each other’s company until Jeannette’s passing in 1993.
Surviving are daughter Diane Mahoney and her husband Edward of Wayne; two sons Thomas Boyce and his wife Peggy of Barnegat, Robert Boyce and his wife Carol of Lanoka Harbor; one sister Doris Morrell of Allendale; six grandchildren Scott Mahoney and his wife Deborah of Pompton Plains, Jaime Cornell and her husband Jerry of Las Vegas, Nevada, Adam Boyce of Ettera, Pennsylvania, Daniel Boyce of Bethesda, Maryland, Michelle Boyce of New York City and Matthew Boyce of Lavallette; three great grandchildren Logan, Samantha and Heather Mahoney.
Those planning an expression of sympathy in Tunis’ memory are asked to consider the Chilton Memorial Hospital Foundation, 97 W. Parkway, Pompton Plains, NJ 07444 or the Wayne Memorial First Aid Squad, PO Box 291, Wayne, NJ 07470.
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