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August 20, 2013
Services
Friends may visit with the family at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne, on Saturday, August 24, 2013 from 8-10 AM.
A Funeral Service will immediately follow the visitation time and begin at 10:00 AM at the funeral home.
Virginia C., “Ginny” Schelling, age 85 of Pompton Plains, went home to be with her Lord and Savior Jesus Christ as her family gathered by her bedside and supported her with great love, on Tuesday, August 20, 2013.
Born in Hasbrouk Heights, Ginny was growing up in Jersey City before eventually moving to Midland Park. Back then, kids of Midland Park attended high school in Pompton Lakes, so each day, Ginny and her girlfriends would meet at the train station in the town’s Wortendyke section to take the train to Pompton Lakes High School. Before she graduated, her parents moved to Lincoln Park. This saddened Ginny as she loved those rides to school on the train with friends. Ginny was encouraged and greatly appreciative of her father Ernie Williams who, being a guy who loved his two little girls, drove Ginny to that same train station and picked her up at the end of the day so she could be with her girlfriends.
Ginny met her husband George as he was the landlord to property her family was renting along the river in Pequannock. One hot afternoon Virginia invited her high school friends over to the river for a swim. George was there to rescue Virginia after she ventured into the water and couldn’t swim. George gave Virginia his high school ring but ground the year of graduation off so she couldn’t tell his age. They fell in love and right after Ginny graduated high school, they married on July 12, 1947 at St. Joseph Church in Lincoln Park. In 1953 they built a home in Pompton Plains where they remained till taking residence in there heavenly home. They had a loving and devoted marriage for 65 years. Most recently they stayed in separate hospital beds in the same room at home. George would reach his hand through the bed rails and Virginia would extend hers as they touched to say goodnight to each other.
Soon after marriage, Ginny was invited to a bible study by her husband George’s Aunt Elsie Van Riper. That bible study eventually grew into the Grace Bible Church in Pompton Plains and Ginny grew in her knowledge and love of the Lord. Eventually George started attending too and together they became active members for the rest of their lives. Ginny loved serving her Lord in her church and in all aspects of her life! She taught Sunday School, hosted and led a bible study in her home for the ladies in her neighborhood, led Pioneer Girls, and led a separate after-school bible study for the neighborhood kids. If the church was involved in any type of missionary project, Ginny would roll up her sleeves and do anything she could to help.
Ginny was a completely selfless person. She believed in selling her possessions and giving to those in need. Once, she sold a prized pitcher so she could give the proceeds to a missionary in need. While she was more of a home-body, her dear George was never one to sit still. In 1954 George gathered Ginny and their little daughter Kathy into the station wagon and drove to Alaska. While there, Ginny became pregnant with their daughter Carol. The trip home from Alaska to New Jersey was no easy trek for an expectant mother as many of the highways that we take for granted weren’t built yet or were just dirt roads. When all grown up, Ginny and George’s daughter Kathy moved to Alaska and over the ensuing twenty years, Ginny and George took several more trips to visit.
After George passed away this past January, Ginny’s faith sustained her and helped her to be brave. Her daughters would help her to bed. Despite her failing health, she was always cheerful and thankful. The girls would get her tucked in and, before closing her eyes, Ginny would often look at the picture of George and her and also at George’s veteran flag and explain, “I have so much to be thankful for!” In spite of that thankful spirit, she recently expressed that she was tired, that she missed George, and that she wanted to leave her earthly tent to join George in the heavenly mansion that had been prepared for her by her loving Savior, Jesus Christ. God graciously granted her wish!
Ginny was the loving wife of 65 years to the late George Schelling (2013); loving mother of the late Robert Schelling(1980), Kathy Hibbard and her husband Jim residing in Pompton Plains, and Carol Magazino and her husband John of Pompton Plains; dear sister of the late Arlene Estelle; cherished grandmother of Scott, Christopher, and Joshua Hibbard, Gwen, Stephen, and Kevin Lopez; much loved great-grandmother of Schelling, Andrew, Wade, Harrington, Quinn, Paysen, Audrey, and Lucas; loved aunt of Judy Toronchuk and husband Tim, Jim Van Lenten, John Estelle and wife Sharon and Donna Tubbs and husband Bryon.
In lieu of flowers, those planning an expression of sympathy in Virginia’s name are asked to consider supporting her grandson Stephen and wife Deborah Lopez, missionaries in Argentina, by giving to Word of Life International Ministries, P.O. Box 600, Schroon Lake, NY 12870. When making donations, please reference 090K2C. Online donations are accepted at www.wol.org/giving.
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Friends may visit with the family at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne, on Saturday, August 24, 2013 from 8-10 AM.
A Funeral Service will immediately follow the visitation time and begin at 10:00 AM at the funeral home.
August 20, 2013
Services
Friends may visit with the family at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne, on Saturday, August 24, 2013 from 8-10 AM.
A Funeral Service will immediately follow the visitation time and begin at 10:00 AM at the funeral home.
Virginia C., “Ginny” Schelling, age 85 of Pompton Plains, went home to be with her Lord and Savior Jesus Christ as her family gathered by her bedside and supported her with great love, on Tuesday, August 20, 2013.
Born in Hasbrouk Heights, Ginny was growing up in Jersey City before eventually moving to Midland Park. Back then, kids of Midland Park attended high school in Pompton Lakes, so each day, Ginny and her girlfriends would meet at the train station in the town’s Wortendyke section to take the train to Pompton Lakes High School. Before she graduated, her parents moved to Lincoln Park. This saddened Ginny as she loved those rides to school on the train with friends. Ginny was encouraged and greatly appreciative of her father Ernie Williams who, being a guy who loved his two little girls, drove Ginny to that same train station and picked her up at the end of the day so she could be with her girlfriends.
Ginny met her husband George as he was the landlord to property her family was renting along the river in Pequannock. One hot afternoon Virginia invited her high school friends over to the river for a swim. George was there to rescue Virginia after she ventured into the water and couldn’t swim. George gave Virginia his high school ring but ground the year of graduation off so she couldn’t tell his age. They fell in love and right after Ginny graduated high school, they married on July 12, 1947 at St. Joseph Church in Lincoln Park. In 1953 they built a home in Pompton Plains where they remained till taking residence in there heavenly home. They had a loving and devoted marriage for 65 years. Most recently they stayed in separate hospital beds in the same room at home. George would reach his hand through the bed rails and Virginia would extend hers as they touched to say goodnight to each other.
Soon after marriage, Ginny was invited to a bible study by her husband George’s Aunt Elsie Van Riper. That bible study eventually grew into the Grace Bible Church in Pompton Plains and Ginny grew in her knowledge and love of the Lord. Eventually George started attending too and together they became active members for the rest of their lives. Ginny loved serving her Lord in her church and in all aspects of her life! She taught Sunday School, hosted and led a bible study in her home for the ladies in her neighborhood, led Pioneer Girls, and led a separate after-school bible study for the neighborhood kids. If the church was involved in any type of missionary project, Ginny would roll up her sleeves and do anything she could to help.
Ginny was a completely selfless person. She believed in selling her possessions and giving to those in need. Once, she sold a prized pitcher so she could give the proceeds to a missionary in need. While she was more of a home-body, her dear George was never one to sit still. In 1954 George gathered Ginny and their little daughter Kathy into the station wagon and drove to Alaska. While there, Ginny became pregnant with their daughter Carol. The trip home from Alaska to New Jersey was no easy trek for an expectant mother as many of the highways that we take for granted weren’t built yet or were just dirt roads. When all grown up, Ginny and George’s daughter Kathy moved to Alaska and over the ensuing twenty years, Ginny and George took several more trips to visit.
After George passed away this past January, Ginny’s faith sustained her and helped her to be brave. Her daughters would help her to bed. Despite her failing health, she was always cheerful and thankful. The girls would get her tucked in and, before closing her eyes, Ginny would often look at the picture of George and her and also at George’s veteran flag and explain, “I have so much to be thankful for!” In spite of that thankful spirit, she recently expressed that she was tired, that she missed George, and that she wanted to leave her earthly tent to join George in the heavenly mansion that had been prepared for her by her loving Savior, Jesus Christ. God graciously granted her wish!
Ginny was the loving wife of 65 years to the late George Schelling (2013); loving mother of the late Robert Schelling(1980), Kathy Hibbard and her husband Jim residing in Pompton Plains, and Carol Magazino and her husband John of Pompton Plains; dear sister of the late Arlene Estelle; cherished grandmother of Scott, Christopher, and Joshua Hibbard, Gwen, Stephen, and Kevin Lopez; much loved great-grandmother of Schelling, Andrew, Wade, Harrington, Quinn, Paysen, Audrey, and Lucas; loved aunt of Judy Toronchuk and husband Tim, Jim Van Lenten, John Estelle and wife Sharon and Donna Tubbs and husband Bryon.
In lieu of flowers, those planning an expression of sympathy in Virginia’s name are asked to consider supporting her grandson Stephen and wife Deborah Lopez, missionaries in Argentina, by giving to Word of Life International Ministries, P.O. Box 600, Schroon Lake, NY 12870. When making donations, please reference 090K2C. Online donations are accepted at www.wol.org/giving.
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