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July 22, 2009
Services
Funeral services will be held 9AM on Tuesday, July 28, 2009 from the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne then to Our Lady of Good Counsel Church, 155 West Parkway, Pompton Plains where a 10 AM Funeral Mass will be offered.
Friends may visit with the family on Monday, July 27, 2009 from 2-4, 7-9 PM at the funeral home.
Interment will be in Laurel Grove Memorial Park, Totowa.
Vincent “Les” L. Jelleme age 91 of Wayne died peacefully at home on Wednesday, July 22, 2009.
He was born in Paterson, raised in Passaic and returned to Paterson, having lived in Hackensack and Maywood before moving to Wayne in 1957.
Les graduated from Eastside High School, Paterson with the Class of 1936.
He joined the US Army during WWII and was an infantryman at the Battle of the Bulge. He received two Purple Hearts during his service.
Les met the love of his life, Alice L. White, who lived across the street, after her brother asked Vincent to walk her home after school. They enjoyed a loving seventy years of marriage until Alice’s passing in January of 2005.
Mr. Jelleme was employed in the collection department of PSE&G, Passaic for twenty-nine years before retiring in 1980.
Always a hard worker, he was employed and bringing money into the home since he was eleven years old. Up until this past Monday he cut his lawn and the lawn next door.
He was the loving husband of seventy years to the late Alice L. (nee White) Jelleme (2005); loving father of Ruth J. Yannitte of Bound Brook and Thomas R. Jelleme and his wife Nancy of Pequannock; cherished grandfather of Thomas Yannitte, Clare Kaye and her husband Richard, Kate Monagle and her husband Jim, Meredith Panik and her husband Jonathan and David Jelleme and his wife Sharon; devoted great-grandfather of Brielinn Yannitte, Richie, Nicholas and Anthony Kaye, Kiera Monagle, Audrey and Reagan Panik and Emily and Matthew Jelleme; loved brother of Jack Jelleme and his wife Maureen of Paterson.
Those considering a memorial donation are asked to donate to Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, Development Office, PO Box 27106, NY, NY 10087-7106.
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Funeral services will be held 9AM on Tuesday, July 28, 2009 from the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne then to Our Lady of Good Counsel Church, 155 West Parkway, Pompton Plains where a 10 AM Funeral Mass will be offered.
Friends may visit with the family on Monday, July 27, 2009 from 2-4, 7-9 PM at the funeral home.
Interment will be in Laurel Grove Memorial Park, Totowa.
July 22, 2009
Services
Funeral services will be held 9AM on Tuesday, July 28, 2009 from the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne then to Our Lady of Good Counsel Church, 155 West Parkway, Pompton Plains where a 10 AM Funeral Mass will be offered.
Friends may visit with the family on Monday, July 27, 2009 from 2-4, 7-9 PM at the funeral home.
Interment will be in Laurel Grove Memorial Park, Totowa.
Vincent “Les” L. Jelleme age 91 of Wayne died peacefully at home on Wednesday, July 22, 2009.
He was born in Paterson, raised in Passaic and returned to Paterson, having lived in Hackensack and Maywood before moving to Wayne in 1957.
Les graduated from Eastside High School, Paterson with the Class of 1936.
He joined the US Army during WWII and was an infantryman at the Battle of the Bulge. He received two Purple Hearts during his service.
Les met the love of his life, Alice L. White, who lived across the street, after her brother asked Vincent to walk her home after school. They enjoyed a loving seventy years of marriage until Alice’s passing in January of 2005.
Mr. Jelleme was employed in the collection department of PSE&G, Passaic for twenty-nine years before retiring in 1980.
Always a hard worker, he was employed and bringing money into the home since he was eleven years old. Up until this past Monday he cut his lawn and the lawn next door.
He was the loving husband of seventy years to the late Alice L. (nee White) Jelleme (2005); loving father of Ruth J. Yannitte of Bound Brook and Thomas R. Jelleme and his wife Nancy of Pequannock; cherished grandfather of Thomas Yannitte, Clare Kaye and her husband Richard, Kate Monagle and her husband Jim, Meredith Panik and her husband Jonathan and David Jelleme and his wife Sharon; devoted great-grandfather of Brielinn Yannitte, Richie, Nicholas and Anthony Kaye, Kiera Monagle, Audrey and Reagan Panik and Emily and Matthew Jelleme; loved brother of Jack Jelleme and his wife Maureen of Paterson.
Those considering a memorial donation are asked to donate to Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, Development Office, PO Box 27106, NY, NY 10087-7106.
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