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July 21, 2008
Services
Funeral services will be held Thursday, July 24, 2008 at 8 AM from the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne then to Our Lady of The Valley RC Church, Wayne where at 9 AM a Funeral Mass will be offered.
Friends may visit with the family at the funeral home on Wednesday from 2-4, 7-9 PM.
Interment will be in Saint Mary's Cemetery in Saddle Brook.
Walter E. Kropelnitski age 90 of Wayne died Monday, July 21, 2008 at the Saint Joseph’s Wayne Hospital in Wayne. His passing was quiet and peaceful while receiving the loving care of his family who were at his bedside.
He was born in Mocanaqua, Pennsylvania where he lived his early years later living in Garfield and Passaic Park before moving to Wayne fifty-three years ago.
Walter worked at Eastern Overall Company in Garfield as a truck driver before his retirement in 1980.
He served in the Navy during World War II much of that time spent on the destroyer USS Ericsson as a Senior Water Tender for Steam power and fuel oil pumping.
For hobbies he enjoyed deer hunting and was successful on many occasion. He also had a green thumb and maintained a very prolific vegetable garden featuring beautiful tomatoes and many vegetables.
Walt was a league bowler and often bowled at Parkway Lanes and Wallington Lanes.
He was a founding parishioner of Our Lady of The Valley RC Church in Wayne and especially enjoyed volunteering in the kitchen serving food and coffee at picnics and other church events.
Walter and Ann met at a dance and when Walt was discharged from the Navy they married and had a “good married life with a lot of fun thrown in” for sixty-two years.
He leaves his family with a wonderful basket of memories of a husband, father and grandfather who loved them with all of his heart and soul and expressed that love by always saying “I love you and I am proud of you.”
Surviving are his loving wife Ann (nee Piesecki) Kropelnitski; two daughters Linda Mau and her husband Gregory of Verona, Sharon Schneider and her husband Robert of Wantage; one son Wayne Kropelnitski of Virginia Beach, Virginia; one brother Edward Kropiewnicki of Farmington, Michigan; one sister Ada Lapinski of Mocanaqua, Pennsylvania; two grandchildren Michelle and Andrea Mau.
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Funeral services will be held Thursday, July 24, 2008 at 8 AM from the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne then to Our Lady of The Valley RC Church, Wayne where at 9 AM a Funeral Mass will be offered.
Friends may visit with the family at the funeral home on Wednesday from 2-4, 7-9 PM.
Interment will be in Saint Mary's Cemetery in Saddle Brook.
July 21, 2008
Services
Funeral services will be held Thursday, July 24, 2008 at 8 AM from the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne then to Our Lady of The Valley RC Church, Wayne where at 9 AM a Funeral Mass will be offered.
Friends may visit with the family at the funeral home on Wednesday from 2-4, 7-9 PM.
Interment will be in Saint Mary's Cemetery in Saddle Brook.
Walter E. Kropelnitski age 90 of Wayne died Monday, July 21, 2008 at the Saint Joseph’s Wayne Hospital in Wayne. His passing was quiet and peaceful while receiving the loving care of his family who were at his bedside.
He was born in Mocanaqua, Pennsylvania where he lived his early years later living in Garfield and Passaic Park before moving to Wayne fifty-three years ago.
Walter worked at Eastern Overall Company in Garfield as a truck driver before his retirement in 1980.
He served in the Navy during World War II much of that time spent on the destroyer USS Ericsson as a Senior Water Tender for Steam power and fuel oil pumping.
For hobbies he enjoyed deer hunting and was successful on many occasion. He also had a green thumb and maintained a very prolific vegetable garden featuring beautiful tomatoes and many vegetables.
Walt was a league bowler and often bowled at Parkway Lanes and Wallington Lanes.
He was a founding parishioner of Our Lady of The Valley RC Church in Wayne and especially enjoyed volunteering in the kitchen serving food and coffee at picnics and other church events.
Walter and Ann met at a dance and when Walt was discharged from the Navy they married and had a “good married life with a lot of fun thrown in” for sixty-two years.
He leaves his family with a wonderful basket of memories of a husband, father and grandfather who loved them with all of his heart and soul and expressed that love by always saying “I love you and I am proud of you.”
Surviving are his loving wife Ann (nee Piesecki) Kropelnitski; two daughters Linda Mau and her husband Gregory of Verona, Sharon Schneider and her husband Robert of Wantage; one son Wayne Kropelnitski of Virginia Beach, Virginia; one brother Edward Kropiewnicki of Farmington, Michigan; one sister Ada Lapinski of Mocanaqua, Pennsylvania; two grandchildren Michelle and Andrea Mau.
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