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July 22, 2012
Services
Friends may visit with the family at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne, on Wednesday, July 25, 2012 from 2-4 & 7-9 PM. A memorial service will be held at 2 PM on Thursday, July 26, at the Packanack Community Church, Wayne.
Virginia “Ginny” Mullen, age 72 of Wayne, died on Sunday, July 22, 2012 at home with her family gathered at her bedside.
Ginny was born in Peoria, Illinois and moved to Polson, Montana at the age of six. She graduated from Polson High School and was named the “Future Farmers of America Queen”. She later moved with her family to Seattle. In the early 1960’s, she moved to Manhattan Beach, California, near Los Angeles. Ginny met her husband Warren there and they were married on April 2, 1966 at a chapel in Las Vegas. Warren wanted to get married on April Fool’s day, but Ginny wouldn’t have it. They enjoyed thirty six years together before Warren passed in 2002.
In 1976 Warren was transferred from California to New Jersey and they moved to Wayne. The plan was to return to California after three years, but they never left Packanack Lake. They enjoyed many family vacations to the west coast, visiting relatives. Ginny has family up and down the west coast, from California to Alaska, and her children recall many long road trips from New Jersey to visit those relatives. She’s been to Alaska, Oregon, Washington, as well as England, Europe, and Poland. More recently, she’s enjoyed some wonderful vacations with her girlfriends to Greece last year, and New Orleans just this past April. She liked being near the water and enjoyed a camping trip on the Colorado River as well as many vacations with her family and dear friends to Sacandaga Lake in Lake Pleasant, New York (where she was always in charge of the blueberry pancakes). She had also enjoyed vacationing on Nantucket Island and taking trips to Lake Tahoe to visit her son. Her favorite annual event was New Year’s Eve, enjoying a progressive dinner around Packanack with several families, and the men doing all the cooking.
Reading was Ginny’s defining passion. She also enjoyed many years volunteering at dance recitals for her daughter, and more recently for her grandchildren. She raised her daughter to dance and was also very proud to see her grandchildren taking dance lessons and performing in recitals too. She loved her grandchildren dearly and never missed a recital, or a baseball game for that matter.
Ginny is survived by her two children; Christa Cicchetti and her husband Bernard of Wayne, and David Mullen of Tahoe, California, her stepson; Michael Mullen of Gardenerville, Nevada, four grandchildren; Zachary, Jake and Keira Cicchetti of Wayne, and Cierra Mullen of Nevada, two sisters; Kathy Pallone and her husband Guy of Pompton Plains, Karen McClure and her husband Craig of Washington, three brothers; Lee Krause and his wife Tina of Sitka, Alaska, Volney Smith and his wife Linda of Sitka, Alaska, Viston Smith and his wife Susan of Oregon, and her stepmother; Evelyn Krause of Washington, as well as many nieces and nephews. She was predeceased by her husband Warren in 2002, by her father Edwin Krause in 2010, her mother Olive Kis in 1993, and by her brother Dale Krause many years ago.
Donations in Ginny’s memory, if friends so wish, can be sent to Hospice of New Jersey, 400 Broadacres Drive, First Floor, Bloomfield , NJ 07003 and would be greatly appreciated.
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Friends may visit with the family at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne, on Wednesday, July 25, 2012 from 2-4 & 7-9 PM. A memorial service will be held at 2 PM on Thursday, July 26, at the Packanack Community Church, Wayne.
July 22, 2012
Services
Friends may visit with the family at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne, on Wednesday, July 25, 2012 from 2-4 & 7-9 PM. A memorial service will be held at 2 PM on Thursday, July 26, at the Packanack Community Church, Wayne.
Virginia “Ginny” Mullen, age 72 of Wayne, died on Sunday, July 22, 2012 at home with her family gathered at her bedside.
Ginny was born in Peoria, Illinois and moved to Polson, Montana at the age of six. She graduated from Polson High School and was named the “Future Farmers of America Queen”. She later moved with her family to Seattle. In the early 1960’s, she moved to Manhattan Beach, California, near Los Angeles. Ginny met her husband Warren there and they were married on April 2, 1966 at a chapel in Las Vegas. Warren wanted to get married on April Fool’s day, but Ginny wouldn’t have it. They enjoyed thirty six years together before Warren passed in 2002.
In 1976 Warren was transferred from California to New Jersey and they moved to Wayne. The plan was to return to California after three years, but they never left Packanack Lake. They enjoyed many family vacations to the west coast, visiting relatives. Ginny has family up and down the west coast, from California to Alaska, and her children recall many long road trips from New Jersey to visit those relatives. She’s been to Alaska, Oregon, Washington, as well as England, Europe, and Poland. More recently, she’s enjoyed some wonderful vacations with her girlfriends to Greece last year, and New Orleans just this past April. She liked being near the water and enjoyed a camping trip on the Colorado River as well as many vacations with her family and dear friends to Sacandaga Lake in Lake Pleasant, New York (where she was always in charge of the blueberry pancakes). She had also enjoyed vacationing on Nantucket Island and taking trips to Lake Tahoe to visit her son. Her favorite annual event was New Year’s Eve, enjoying a progressive dinner around Packanack with several families, and the men doing all the cooking.
Reading was Ginny’s defining passion. She also enjoyed many years volunteering at dance recitals for her daughter, and more recently for her grandchildren. She raised her daughter to dance and was also very proud to see her grandchildren taking dance lessons and performing in recitals too. She loved her grandchildren dearly and never missed a recital, or a baseball game for that matter.
Ginny is survived by her two children; Christa Cicchetti and her husband Bernard of Wayne, and David Mullen of Tahoe, California, her stepson; Michael Mullen of Gardenerville, Nevada, four grandchildren; Zachary, Jake and Keira Cicchetti of Wayne, and Cierra Mullen of Nevada, two sisters; Kathy Pallone and her husband Guy of Pompton Plains, Karen McClure and her husband Craig of Washington, three brothers; Lee Krause and his wife Tina of Sitka, Alaska, Volney Smith and his wife Linda of Sitka, Alaska, Viston Smith and his wife Susan of Oregon, and her stepmother; Evelyn Krause of Washington, as well as many nieces and nephews. She was predeceased by her husband Warren in 2002, by her father Edwin Krause in 2010, her mother Olive Kis in 1993, and by her brother Dale Krause many years ago.
Donations in Ginny’s memory, if friends so wish, can be sent to Hospice of New Jersey, 400 Broadacres Drive, First Floor, Bloomfield , NJ 07003 and would be greatly appreciated.
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