Mrs. Patricia (Byrne) Dubeck

Mrs. Patricia Dubeck, nee Byrne, age 92, died on Monday, April 13, 2015, in Utica, after a long illness. She was a resident of Essex County, N.J. for 89 years before moving to the loving home of her son and daughter-in-law, Drs. Frank Dubeck and Marybeth McCall, in Utica. Pat was born to Maurice and Lucile Byrne in Newark, N.J. on August 4, 1922 and grew up in Essex Fells. She graduated from Grover Cleveland High School in Caldwell where she was Captain of the Cheerleaders, and a member of the Northern New Jersey All Star Field Hockey Team. She also graduated from the Berkeley School in East Orange. Pat was a creative wife and mother who loved a party—and her parties were exceptional: the “talking pumpkin” at Halloween, the Thanksgiving dinners for which she started cooking in September, and the “Playday” she organized for 1000 Girl Scouts in the South Mountain Reservation, South Orange to name a few. Pat was a parishioner in New Jersey of both St. Aloysius and of Our Lady of Lourdes Churches and in New York of Our Lady of the Rosary Church, New Hartford. She participated in both the St. Benedict’s and Seton Hall preparatory schools’ theater programs as a volunteer costume designer, the Girl Scouts, as troop leader for 9 years, the Boy Scouts, as den mother for 9 years, the West Caldwell Board of Elections and the Spa Lady therapeutic water aerobic class which she last attended when she was 89 years old. She worked at Western Electric in Kearney, N.J. as an executive secretary during World War II and for Dr. Dante Alexander, Optometrist, Caldwell as office manager and Fieldmaster technician during the 1980s and 1990s. Pat was a caregiver; she cared for her aging parents for 11 years, her widowed mother for 12 years and her husband with Parkinson’s Disease for 17 years. Pat was the beloved wife of 53 years to the late Frank Dubeck whom she met on a blind date. She is deeply missed by her children Jo-Ann Farley and husband Don, John and wife Susan Hotine, Frank and wife Marybeth McCall and Michael; her grandchildren, Claire Flynn, Sarah Farley, Beth Schiller, and Tom, Matthew, Leslie, Owen, and Julian Dubeck; and great grandchildren, Emmet, and Lillian Dubeck, Adelaide, and Winston Tilove, Abigail, and David Schiller, and John Flynn; and her sister Maureen Kobayashi and husband Yutaka. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made in Pat’s memory to the American Kidney Fund, 11921 Rockville Pike, Suite 300, Rockville, Md. 20852; the Parkinson’s Disease Foundation, 1359 Broadway, Suite 1509, New York, New York 10018 or Hospice & Palliative Care, Inc., 4277 Middle Settlement Rd., New Hartford, NY 13413. Visitation will be held on Friday, May 8th from 4-8 pm at the Paul Ippolito-Dancy Memorial Funeral Home, 9 Small Avenue, Caldwell, NJ. A funeral service will be held on Saturday, May 9th at St. Aloysius Church, 219 Bloomfield Avenue, Caldwell, NJ, with burial following at the Gate of Heaven Cemetery in East Hanover. A Memorial Mass will be celebrated on Saturday morning, April 25th at 10:00 at Our Lady of the Rosary Church, 1736 Burrstone Road, New Hartford, NY. Local arrangements have been entrusted to the Eannace Funeral Home, Inc. 932 South St., corner of Hammond Ave.

Mrs. Patricia (Byrne) Dubeck

August 4, 1922 - April 13, 2015