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September 10, 2012
Services
Friends may visit with the family from 2-4 and 7-9 PM on Friday, September 14, 2012 at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
Funeral services will be held 9 AM on Saturday, September 15, 2012 from the funeral home then to Our Lady of Consolation RC Church, 1799 Hamburg Turnpike, Wayne where at 10 AM Funeral Mass will be offered.
Walter Robert Shenton, age 84, of Wildwood Crest, formerly of Clifton, Hasbrouck Heights, and Wayne, died in his sleep on Monday, September 10, 2012 at home.
He was born in the family home on Randolph Avenue in Clifton having graduated from Clifton High School with the Class of 1945 where he played on the football and basketball teams. He enlisted in the US Army and was part of General MacArthur’s occupation troops stationed in Japan. While stationed in Japan the US troops and Japanese played baseball together (Walter was an excellent catcher) and Walter often wondered if that is what sparked the Japanese interest with baseball.
Upon his discharge from the Army, Walter went to Fairleigh Dickenson University on the GI Bill. He received his Bachelor of Science Degree in accounting with the Class of 1952. While in college he also met the love of his life, Patricia Mae Varetoni. They married on April 19, 1953 and had their daughter Kathleen the next year in 1954. Their marriage was an unbelievable love story of two people being dedicated and devoted to each other and their daughter. They had fifty-five years of loving marriage until Patricia’s passing on July 22, 2008.
Walter and Patricia were dedicated to their Catholic faith and founding members of Our Lady of Consolation RC Church in Wayne where Walter served as an usher for over twenty years.
Walter had a very full and challenging business life. Starting at Home Insurance Company in Accounting, he embraced the role of Systems Analyst at jobs at Columbia University, Boeing Computers, Keith Prowse, and the New York Power Authority (NYPA), from which he retired in 1993.
He was the loving husband of Patricia Mae (Varetoni) Shenton; devoted father of Kathleen Edwina Shenton and her husband Jeffrey Vogel of Shelton, CT; dear brother of Edna Hughes of Elmwood Park, Joan Shane of Pompton Plains, and the late James Patrick Shenton (2003). He will also be missed dearly by his Yorkie-Poo Tory and his Mi-Ki Teddie.
In lieu of flowers, Walter would like donations to be sent in Walter’s name to Wildwood Catholic High School, 1500 Central Avenue, North Wildwood, NJ 08260.
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Friends may visit with the family from 2-4 and 7-9 PM on Friday, September 14, 2012 at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
Funeral services will be held 9 AM on Saturday, September 15, 2012 from the funeral home then to Our Lady of Consolation RC Church, 1799 Hamburg Turnpike, Wayne where at 10 AM Funeral Mass will be offered.
September 10, 2012
Services
Friends may visit with the family from 2-4 and 7-9 PM on Friday, September 14, 2012 at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
Funeral services will be held 9 AM on Saturday, September 15, 2012 from the funeral home then to Our Lady of Consolation RC Church, 1799 Hamburg Turnpike, Wayne where at 10 AM Funeral Mass will be offered.
Walter Robert Shenton, age 84, of Wildwood Crest, formerly of Clifton, Hasbrouck Heights, and Wayne, died in his sleep on Monday, September 10, 2012 at home.
He was born in the family home on Randolph Avenue in Clifton having graduated from Clifton High School with the Class of 1945 where he played on the football and basketball teams. He enlisted in the US Army and was part of General MacArthur’s occupation troops stationed in Japan. While stationed in Japan the US troops and Japanese played baseball together (Walter was an excellent catcher) and Walter often wondered if that is what sparked the Japanese interest with baseball.
Upon his discharge from the Army, Walter went to Fairleigh Dickenson University on the GI Bill. He received his Bachelor of Science Degree in accounting with the Class of 1952. While in college he also met the love of his life, Patricia Mae Varetoni. They married on April 19, 1953 and had their daughter Kathleen the next year in 1954. Their marriage was an unbelievable love story of two people being dedicated and devoted to each other and their daughter. They had fifty-five years of loving marriage until Patricia’s passing on July 22, 2008.
Walter and Patricia were dedicated to their Catholic faith and founding members of Our Lady of Consolation RC Church in Wayne where Walter served as an usher for over twenty years.
Walter had a very full and challenging business life. Starting at Home Insurance Company in Accounting, he embraced the role of Systems Analyst at jobs at Columbia University, Boeing Computers, Keith Prowse, and the New York Power Authority (NYPA), from which he retired in 1993.
He was the loving husband of Patricia Mae (Varetoni) Shenton; devoted father of Kathleen Edwina Shenton and her husband Jeffrey Vogel of Shelton, CT; dear brother of Edna Hughes of Elmwood Park, Joan Shane of Pompton Plains, and the late James Patrick Shenton (2003). He will also be missed dearly by his Yorkie-Poo Tory and his Mi-Ki Teddie.
In lieu of flowers, Walter would like donations to be sent in Walter’s name to Wildwood Catholic High School, 1500 Central Avenue, North Wildwood, NJ 08260.
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