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December 13, 2014
Services
Friends may visit with the family at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne, on Wednesday, December 17, 2014 from 2-4 and 7-9 PM. A funeral Mass will be offered at 12:30 PM on Thursday, December 18, 2014 at the Chapel at Cedar Crest, Pompton Plains, NJ.
Violet M. Polzer, age 89, of Pompton Plains and formerly of Wayne, died on Saturday, December 13, 2014 after a short illness. She had been a Wayne resident for 40 years before moving to Cedar Crest Village in 2004.
Violet grew up in Paterson, attending local schools and St. Joseph’s Church. She went on to graduate from Eastside High School in Paterson with the class of 1943. After high school, she attended secretarial school and became a skilled operator of the comptometer, the earliest mechanical calculators.
Violet was the wife of Edward Polzer for 63 years. Violet met her husband Ed at a dance in the 1940’s. They wed on February 7, 1947, at St. Joseph’s RC Church in Paterson. They were married sixty-two years before Ed’s passing in 2009.
After getting married, Vi resided in Totowa, NJ with her family, becoming a full-time mom. The family moved to Wayne in 1964. Vi didn’t start working again until the children had all grown up. She began volunteering for the Passaic County Adult Day Care Center on Hamburg Turnpike in Wayne, where she then accepted a full-time position as “Craft Director.” Using her natural gifts for design, craftsmanship, and color coordination, she was responsible for selecting and facilitating all projects suited to the talents of the seniors, including knitting, crocheting, quilting, and sewing, in addition to a whole variety of other crafts. Each year would bring the annual craft sale at the Center where the seniors sold all the crafts they created with Vi throughout the year. The sales brought eager crowds from the surrounding communities! She retired from that position but continued friendships with her fellow workers.
After moving to Cedar Crest, Vi renewed acquaintances with several friends from her childhood in Paterson, her early years in Totowa and those from the Wayne area. In addition she made many new friends, especially from the 5th floor of Madison Green. She was an active participant in the Catholic Community at Cedar Crest where she was part of the choir at Saturday Mass for many years. She enjoyed the exercise programs, clubs, and Friday Happy Hours. For her 80th birthday, she traveled with the Cedar Crest Catholic Community to Rome marking her first time in Europe.
She loved being a mom to her four children, and was even ‘honorary mom’ to others who knew her. She was caring, comforting, loving, and simply had a wonderful ‘motherly’ quality about her. She had a great sense of humor and loved to make other people laugh. She also enjoyed traveling to the Caribbean, Hawaii, and throughout the US. Vi was an excellent cook and her recipes have been passed to children and grandchildren as well. Holiday meals were especially important to her. This year, in fact, she offered the prayer at Thanksgiving dinner with her whole family gathered at the table or via Facetime – a special blessing they are sure to cherish for many years to come.
Violet is survived by three children: Mary Ann McAdams and her husband, Robert, of Jefferson; Diann Jinks and her husband, Peter, of Bernardsville; and Mark and his wife, Lisa, of Wayne; six grandchildren: Mara McAdams DeMarco and her husband, Mario; Justin and Drew Bader; and Shara and Jessica Boote, and Kimberly Boote Peterson and her husband Jon; one great-grandchild; Adalin DeMarco; and by her brother, William DeMauex of Greenville, SC. Violet was predeceased by her daughter Sue Ann Boote of Park Ridge, NJ, in 2007, and by her husband, Edward, in 2009.
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Friends may visit with the family at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne, on Wednesday, December 17, 2014 from 2-4 and 7-9 PM. A funeral Mass will be offered at 12:30 PM on Thursday, December 18, 2014 at the Chapel at Cedar Crest, Pompton Plains, NJ.
December 13, 2014
Services
Friends may visit with the family at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne, on Wednesday, December 17, 2014 from 2-4 and 7-9 PM. A funeral Mass will be offered at 12:30 PM on Thursday, December 18, 2014 at the Chapel at Cedar Crest, Pompton Plains, NJ.
Violet M. Polzer, age 89, of Pompton Plains and formerly of Wayne, died on Saturday, December 13, 2014 after a short illness. She had been a Wayne resident for 40 years before moving to Cedar Crest Village in 2004.
Violet grew up in Paterson, attending local schools and St. Joseph’s Church. She went on to graduate from Eastside High School in Paterson with the class of 1943. After high school, she attended secretarial school and became a skilled operator of the comptometer, the earliest mechanical calculators.
Violet was the wife of Edward Polzer for 63 years. Violet met her husband Ed at a dance in the 1940’s. They wed on February 7, 1947, at St. Joseph’s RC Church in Paterson. They were married sixty-two years before Ed’s passing in 2009.
After getting married, Vi resided in Totowa, NJ with her family, becoming a full-time mom. The family moved to Wayne in 1964. Vi didn’t start working again until the children had all grown up. She began volunteering for the Passaic County Adult Day Care Center on Hamburg Turnpike in Wayne, where she then accepted a full-time position as “Craft Director.” Using her natural gifts for design, craftsmanship, and color coordination, she was responsible for selecting and facilitating all projects suited to the talents of the seniors, including knitting, crocheting, quilting, and sewing, in addition to a whole variety of other crafts. Each year would bring the annual craft sale at the Center where the seniors sold all the crafts they created with Vi throughout the year. The sales brought eager crowds from the surrounding communities! She retired from that position but continued friendships with her fellow workers.
After moving to Cedar Crest, Vi renewed acquaintances with several friends from her childhood in Paterson, her early years in Totowa and those from the Wayne area. In addition she made many new friends, especially from the 5th floor of Madison Green. She was an active participant in the Catholic Community at Cedar Crest where she was part of the choir at Saturday Mass for many years. She enjoyed the exercise programs, clubs, and Friday Happy Hours. For her 80th birthday, she traveled with the Cedar Crest Catholic Community to Rome marking her first time in Europe.
She loved being a mom to her four children, and was even ‘honorary mom’ to others who knew her. She was caring, comforting, loving, and simply had a wonderful ‘motherly’ quality about her. She had a great sense of humor and loved to make other people laugh. She also enjoyed traveling to the Caribbean, Hawaii, and throughout the US. Vi was an excellent cook and her recipes have been passed to children and grandchildren as well. Holiday meals were especially important to her. This year, in fact, she offered the prayer at Thanksgiving dinner with her whole family gathered at the table or via Facetime – a special blessing they are sure to cherish for many years to come.
Violet is survived by three children: Mary Ann McAdams and her husband, Robert, of Jefferson; Diann Jinks and her husband, Peter, of Bernardsville; and Mark and his wife, Lisa, of Wayne; six grandchildren: Mara McAdams DeMarco and her husband, Mario; Justin and Drew Bader; and Shara and Jessica Boote, and Kimberly Boote Peterson and her husband Jon; one great-grandchild; Adalin DeMarco; and by her brother, William DeMauex of Greenville, SC. Violet was predeceased by her daughter Sue Ann Boote of Park Ridge, NJ, in 2007, and by her husband, Edward, in 2009.
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