Obituary of Teresa Varda

VARDA, Teresa (nee Pajakowski) age 87 of Wyckoff, NJ, died Friday, December 26, 2014. Born in South Bend, IN, Teresa and her husband, Roy, moved to Wyckoff in 1965, where they raised their six children. Teresa was an Admissions Clerk at The Valley Hospital in Ridgewood, NJ for many years before her retirement in 1994. She was a devoted parishioner of St. Elizabeth's R.C. Church in Wyckoff, where she was a member of the Rosary Society. She drove for many years for Wyckoff Meals-on-Wheels. Teresa was a lifetime fan of the University of Notre Dame Football team (Go Irish!). Surviving are her loving children, Cecile and her husband Martin Bacola; Carol and her husband Douglas Hill, Jr.; Michael and his wife Adriane; Paul; John and his wife Kathleen. Teresa also leaves 13 cherished grandchildren, Gina and Anthony Bacola; Casey and Alexander Hill; Daniel and his wife Katie, Melissa, Scott and Adam Varda; Elizabeth and Nathanial Varda; Shawna Fitzgerald, Chelsea Fitzgerald Mosier and her husband Kevin, Lydon Fitzgerald, his wife Sarah, and their son Jayce, Teresa's first great grandchild. Teresa was pre-deceased by her husband Roy in 1998; her daughter, Susan Varda Fitzgerald in 1990; her parents Stephan and Helen (nee Kalamaja); her sister, Virginia Krol and her 4 brothers, Casimir, Leo, Roman and Ernest Pajakowski. The Varda family will receive friends on Tuesday, December 30, 2014, 2:00 until 4:00 and 7:00 until 9:00 PM at the Vander Plaat Funeral Home (www.vpfh.com), 257 Godwin Avenue, Wyckoff, NJ. Funeral mass will be Wednesday, December 31, 2014 at 10:00 AM from St. Elizabeth's R.C. Church, 700 Wyckoff Avenue, Wyckoff, NJ. Interment will follow in Maryrest Cemetery in Mahwah, NJ. Mass requests in Teresa's name may be made to St. Elizabeth's R. C. Church in Wyckoff, NJ.