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Services
Friends may visit with the family from 9-11 AM on Wednesday, October 19, 2016 at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne. An 11 AM Funeral Service will be held just after the visitation hours on Wednesday.
Interment will be in Laurel Grove Cemetery, Totowa.
Tunis DeHeer, age 95 of Wayne passed peacefully on Sunday, October 16, 2016.
He was born in Paterson and lived in Oakland, West Milford, Glen Rock before moving to Wayne 60 years ago.
Tunis served in the US Army during WWII and attained the rank of Corporal. During his military service he stayed stateside as Military Policeman transporting prisoners from Syracuse to Buffalo, New York. He received the American Service Medal and World War II Victory Medal for his service. He was honorably discharged from military service the day before Christmas in 1945.
He served in the CCC (Civilian Conservation Corp) and was sent to Idaho to be a forest firefighter. Tunis was a Union Ironworker in the Bronx, New York for many years.
Tunis was a faith filled man who was a member of the 2nd Reformed Dutch Church of Totowa that later moved to Paterson calling itself the 2nd Reformed Church of Paterson. He was introduced to his wife Dorothy by a cousin at the church and they married there on September 6, 1941.
Tunis and Dorothy lost a son Lonnie when he was just seven years old. Lonnie wrote in his school journal how he loved to slide on the ice by the Great Falls in Paterson. He was sliding on the ice and went through and drowned. His passing left a huge hole in both Tunis and Dorothy’s heart.
Tunis was the loving husband of the late Dorothy DeHeer(2004); devoted father of Dorothy Hope and her husband Tom of Wayne, Shirley O’Rourke and her husband John of Wayne, Ricky DeHeer and his wife Debbie of Maywood, and Margaret “Peggy” Kronke of Kenilworth; cherished grandfather of ten grandchildren, fifteen great-grandchildren and two great-great grandchildren. He was predeceased by four brothers Albert, Abe, Marty, and Henry.
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Friends may visit with the family from 9-11 AM on Wednesday, October 19, 2016 at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne. An 11 AM Funeral Service will be held just after the visitation hours on Wednesday.
Interment will be in Laurel Grove Cemetery, Totowa.
Services
Friends may visit with the family from 9-11 AM on Wednesday, October 19, 2016 at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne. An 11 AM Funeral Service will be held just after the visitation hours on Wednesday.
Interment will be in Laurel Grove Cemetery, Totowa.
Tunis DeHeer, age 95 of Wayne passed peacefully on Sunday, October 16, 2016.
He was born in Paterson and lived in Oakland, West Milford, Glen Rock before moving to Wayne 60 years ago.
Tunis served in the US Army during WWII and attained the rank of Corporal. During his military service he stayed stateside as Military Policeman transporting prisoners from Syracuse to Buffalo, New York. He received the American Service Medal and World War II Victory Medal for his service. He was honorably discharged from military service the day before Christmas in 1945.
He served in the CCC (Civilian Conservation Corp) and was sent to Idaho to be a forest firefighter. Tunis was a Union Ironworker in the Bronx, New York for many years.
Tunis was a faith filled man who was a member of the 2nd Reformed Dutch Church of Totowa that later moved to Paterson calling itself the 2nd Reformed Church of Paterson. He was introduced to his wife Dorothy by a cousin at the church and they married there on September 6, 1941.
Tunis and Dorothy lost a son Lonnie when he was just seven years old. Lonnie wrote in his school journal how he loved to slide on the ice by the Great Falls in Paterson. He was sliding on the ice and went through and drowned. His passing left a huge hole in both Tunis and Dorothy’s heart.
Tunis was the loving husband of the late Dorothy DeHeer(2004); devoted father of Dorothy Hope and her husband Tom of Wayne, Shirley O’Rourke and her husband John of Wayne, Ricky DeHeer and his wife Debbie of Maywood, and Margaret “Peggy” Kronke of Kenilworth; cherished grandfather of ten grandchildren, fifteen great-grandchildren and two great-great grandchildren. He was predeceased by four brothers Albert, Abe, Marty, and Henry.
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