RAHWAY HIGH SCHOOL
CLASS of 1953
 

          Ellen Corey Crane

 





A dear friend and classmate has passed on. A bunch of us from the Seminary Ave/Hamilton St. area used to spend our summers playing in Shotwell Park. Ellen , her brothers, the Baceks, Dick Litchko, Lefty Lutz ,... we all had a good time doing whatever. May peace be with her.


ELLEN CRANE, AGE 69, COLONIA

Published in the Home News Tribune 3/8/04
Ellen N. (Corey) Crane, 69, of the Colonia section of Woodbridge died peacefully yesterday, March 7, 2004, at home.

Born in New York, Mrs. Crane resided in Rahway for most of her life before moving to Colonia five years ago. She was a graduate of Rahway High School Class of 1953. Prior to her retirement in 1994, Mrs. Crane was a respiratory technician for 25 years at Rahway Hospital. She was a communicant of St. Mary's R.C. Church in Rahway and a volunteer with the church CYO program.

Mrs. Crane was predeceased by her father, James E. Corey Sr., and mother, Marie McCamley Corey, and by her devoted husband, Harold M. Crane, and a brother, John Travis Corey.

She is survived by her son, Stephen Crane and his wife, Patricia, of Florham Park; three daughters, Sharon Wells and her husband, Gene, of Colonia, Shavaun Crane, also of Colonia, and Sheila Crane of Rahway; a brother, James E. Corey Jr. of Rahway, and seven grandchildren.

Funeral services will be held at 9:15 a.m. Wednesday at The Corey & Corey Funeral Home, 259 Elm Ave., Rahway, thence to St. Mary's R.C. Church in Rahway for a 10 a.m. funeral liturgy. Burial will be at St. Mary's Cemetery in Clark. Visitation will be from 2 p.m.-4 p.m. and 7 p.m.-9 p.m. Tuesday at the funeral home. Memorial gifts may be made to the Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital at Rahway Hospice, 865 Stone St., Rahway, NJ 07065 or to your favorite charity.

 

 


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