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November 10, 2010
Services
A memorial service will be held Saturday, November 20, 2010 at 11 AM at the Preakness Reformed Church, 131 Church Lane, Wayne. Just after the memorial service all are invited to a reception in the church's parlor.
Wilma Jean Spatz “Willie” (nee Pettigrew) age 76 of Wayne died on Wednesday, November 10, 2010 at the Saint Joseph’s Hospital in Wayne. Her passing was quiet and peaceful after having received the loving care of her husband Victor who was constantly at her bedside.
She was born in Newark and had lived her formative years in Nutley, later after her marriage in 1956 she lived in Belleville before moving to a farm town called Wayne fifty two years ago.
Wilma received her formal education at Nutley grammar school and Nutley High School graduating with the Class of 1952. She then went on to study business at Berkely Business School in Newark where she certified as a professional secretary.
She was employed at Ameriprise Financial in Paramus where she worked for twenty years before her retirement in 2005.
She was a dedicated member of the Preakness Reformed Church in Wayne.
Wilma was blessed with and outgoing personality that made friends easily. She also had a joyous heart about helping others in need and she enthusiastically volunteered at the Wayne Public Library, the New Jersey Developmental School in Totowa as well as very often in her church. You could best describe her church volunteer work as an eager church volunteer for all kinds of events. You could depend on her to have a reserve of homemade cookies and baked goods at home to provide a finished treat for her fellow church members.
She was truly a dedicated family oriented wife, mother and grandmother. Wilma cherished the role of motherhood and especially being a grandmother. She loved to have her family gathered around her and was not shy about providing them with the best meat loaf dinners and baked goods.
It was in 1954 that she was outside of her home in Nutley with her parents and they were struggling to get their lawn mower going. This handsome fellow named Victor Spatz came to the rescue and got that beast humming. It was on that occasion that he set eyes on Wilma and started a two year courtship. When Victor returned from four years in the Air Force they married on September 22, 1956 and had fifty four years of “exciting and loving “ marriage together.
Surviving to mourn this special wife, mother and grandmother are her husband Victor Spatz; one daughter Laura Jean Beuckman of Jupiter, Florida; two sons Mark Alexander Spatz and his wife Christine of Cumberland, Rhode Island and Steven Victor Spatz of West Buxton, Maine; three grandchildren Alexandra L. Beuckman, Timothy Victor Spatz and Christopher Spatz.
Sadness came into her life when her brother Donald Pettigrew predeceased her and her son in law William Beuckman died in April of 2010.
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A memorial service will be held Saturday, November 20, 2010 at 11 AM at the Preakness Reformed Church, 131 Church Lane, Wayne. Just after the memorial service all are invited to a reception in the church's parlor.
November 10, 2010
Services
A memorial service will be held Saturday, November 20, 2010 at 11 AM at the Preakness Reformed Church, 131 Church Lane, Wayne. Just after the memorial service all are invited to a reception in the church's parlor.
Wilma Jean Spatz “Willie” (nee Pettigrew) age 76 of Wayne died on Wednesday, November 10, 2010 at the Saint Joseph’s Hospital in Wayne. Her passing was quiet and peaceful after having received the loving care of her husband Victor who was constantly at her bedside.
She was born in Newark and had lived her formative years in Nutley, later after her marriage in 1956 she lived in Belleville before moving to a farm town called Wayne fifty two years ago.
Wilma received her formal education at Nutley grammar school and Nutley High School graduating with the Class of 1952. She then went on to study business at Berkely Business School in Newark where she certified as a professional secretary.
She was employed at Ameriprise Financial in Paramus where she worked for twenty years before her retirement in 2005.
She was a dedicated member of the Preakness Reformed Church in Wayne.
Wilma was blessed with and outgoing personality that made friends easily. She also had a joyous heart about helping others in need and she enthusiastically volunteered at the Wayne Public Library, the New Jersey Developmental School in Totowa as well as very often in her church. You could best describe her church volunteer work as an eager church volunteer for all kinds of events. You could depend on her to have a reserve of homemade cookies and baked goods at home to provide a finished treat for her fellow church members.
She was truly a dedicated family oriented wife, mother and grandmother. Wilma cherished the role of motherhood and especially being a grandmother. She loved to have her family gathered around her and was not shy about providing them with the best meat loaf dinners and baked goods.
It was in 1954 that she was outside of her home in Nutley with her parents and they were struggling to get their lawn mower going. This handsome fellow named Victor Spatz came to the rescue and got that beast humming. It was on that occasion that he set eyes on Wilma and started a two year courtship. When Victor returned from four years in the Air Force they married on September 22, 1956 and had fifty four years of “exciting and loving “ marriage together.
Surviving to mourn this special wife, mother and grandmother are her husband Victor Spatz; one daughter Laura Jean Beuckman of Jupiter, Florida; two sons Mark Alexander Spatz and his wife Christine of Cumberland, Rhode Island and Steven Victor Spatz of West Buxton, Maine; three grandchildren Alexandra L. Beuckman, Timothy Victor Spatz and Christopher Spatz.
Sadness came into her life when her brother Donald Pettigrew predeceased her and her son in law William Beuckman died in April of 2010.
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