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April 16, 2018
Services
Friends may visit with the family on Thursday, April 19, 2018 from 3-5 and 7-9 PM at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
A Funeral Service will be held on Friday, April 20, 2018 beginning 10:00 AM, at Ebenezer Netherlands Reformed Church, 875 Ewing Ave., Franklin Lakes. Please meet directly at the church. Interment will follow at East Ridgelawn Cemetery, Clifton.
William Densel, age 82, of Wayne, died on Monday, April 16, 2018.
Bill was born and raised in Passaic and lived there until the age of sixteen when his family moved to Clifton. Bill graduated from Clifton High School with the Class of 1953.
After high school, Bill enlisted in the U.S. Army and proudly served stateside in the Army Signal Corps for two years. He was honorably discharged in 1957, returned home to Clifton, and began a long and rewarding career as a highway and bridge construction manager, most recently employed by Schiavone Construction Company of Secaucus until retiring in 2010. Bill really loved his work and oftentimes, when traveling with his family, he would proudly say something like, “I built this bridge, kids.” He enjoyed going to work every day until the age of 70 and even then he was only semi-retired, continuing to work part time until age 75.
Bill met his beloved wife Pearl De Young at the Free Reformed Church in Clifton where his father, Reverend Benjamin Densel, was the minister and Pearl played the organ. They married on June 19, 1956 while he was still serving in the Army. They initially lived in Clifton before moving to Wayne in 1972. Bill and Pearl were blessed with sixty-one years in a loving marriage. They especially enjoyed traveling together on vacations throughout the Canadian Rockies, to Hawaii, and on cruises in Bermuda, Nassau and even a five-river cruise in Europe. When closer to home, they loved visiting their children and grandchildren in Connecticut and Massachusetts.
Bill was a long-time member of the Ebenezer Netherlands Reformed Church of Franklin Lakes where he loved to sing in the choir. Family and friends would best describe Bill as a generous and outgoing man and a real gentleman. His sense of humor made him a joy to be around and, as a constant giver of his time, talents, and treasures, his generosity was one of his most memorable virtues.
Bill was the beloved husband of Pearl (nee De Young); loving father of Marilyn Fulton and husband Bill of Wilton, CT, Dr. Donna Densel of Greenwich, CT, and William Densel, Jr. and wife Christiane of Sudbury, MA; and beloved grandfather of William Benjamin, Madeleine, Christopher, Caroline, McKendree, and Allison. He is also survived by his brother-in-law Henry Reganess and sister-in-laws Alice De Young and Marie Hooper. Bill was predeceased by his sister and brother: Gertrude Reganess and Benjamin Densel, II.
In lieu of flowers, those planning an expression of sympathy in William’s name are asked to consider the Netherlands Reformed Christian School Endowment Fund, 164 Jacksonville Road, Pompton Plains, NJ 07444 or the Wounded Warrior Project, PO Box 758517, Topeka, KS 66675. (www.WoundedWarriorProject.org).
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Friends may visit with the family on Thursday, April 19, 2018 from 3-5 and 7-9 PM at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
A Funeral Service will be held on Friday, April 20, 2018 beginning 10:00 AM, at Ebenezer Netherlands Reformed Church, 875 Ewing Ave., Franklin Lakes. Please meet directly at the church. Interment will follow at East Ridgelawn Cemetery, Clifton.
April 16, 2018
Services
Friends may visit with the family on Thursday, April 19, 2018 from 3-5 and 7-9 PM at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
A Funeral Service will be held on Friday, April 20, 2018 beginning 10:00 AM, at Ebenezer Netherlands Reformed Church, 875 Ewing Ave., Franklin Lakes. Please meet directly at the church. Interment will follow at East Ridgelawn Cemetery, Clifton.
William Densel, age 82, of Wayne, died on Monday, April 16, 2018.
Bill was born and raised in Passaic and lived there until the age of sixteen when his family moved to Clifton. Bill graduated from Clifton High School with the Class of 1953.
After high school, Bill enlisted in the U.S. Army and proudly served stateside in the Army Signal Corps for two years. He was honorably discharged in 1957, returned home to Clifton, and began a long and rewarding career as a highway and bridge construction manager, most recently employed by Schiavone Construction Company of Secaucus until retiring in 2010. Bill really loved his work and oftentimes, when traveling with his family, he would proudly say something like, “I built this bridge, kids.” He enjoyed going to work every day until the age of 70 and even then he was only semi-retired, continuing to work part time until age 75.
Bill met his beloved wife Pearl De Young at the Free Reformed Church in Clifton where his father, Reverend Benjamin Densel, was the minister and Pearl played the organ. They married on June 19, 1956 while he was still serving in the Army. They initially lived in Clifton before moving to Wayne in 1972. Bill and Pearl were blessed with sixty-one years in a loving marriage. They especially enjoyed traveling together on vacations throughout the Canadian Rockies, to Hawaii, and on cruises in Bermuda, Nassau and even a five-river cruise in Europe. When closer to home, they loved visiting their children and grandchildren in Connecticut and Massachusetts.
Bill was a long-time member of the Ebenezer Netherlands Reformed Church of Franklin Lakes where he loved to sing in the choir. Family and friends would best describe Bill as a generous and outgoing man and a real gentleman. His sense of humor made him a joy to be around and, as a constant giver of his time, talents, and treasures, his generosity was one of his most memorable virtues.
Bill was the beloved husband of Pearl (nee De Young); loving father of Marilyn Fulton and husband Bill of Wilton, CT, Dr. Donna Densel of Greenwich, CT, and William Densel, Jr. and wife Christiane of Sudbury, MA; and beloved grandfather of William Benjamin, Madeleine, Christopher, Caroline, McKendree, and Allison. He is also survived by his brother-in-law Henry Reganess and sister-in-laws Alice De Young and Marie Hooper. Bill was predeceased by his sister and brother: Gertrude Reganess and Benjamin Densel, II.
In lieu of flowers, those planning an expression of sympathy in William’s name are asked to consider the Netherlands Reformed Christian School Endowment Fund, 164 Jacksonville Road, Pompton Plains, NJ 07444 or the Wounded Warrior Project, PO Box 758517, Topeka, KS 66675. (www.WoundedWarriorProject.org).
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