MILDRED S. WOOD

July 29, 1916 - December 3, 2016

Mildred S. Wood, 100, of Pompton Lakes, NJ, passed away on Saturday, December 3, 2016. She was born on July 29, 1916 in her home in Pompton Lakes, NJ to Elizabeth (Schneider) and William Seipp. Mildred was a member of the first graduating class of Pompton Lakes High School after attending Butler High School until her senior year. She remembered her years at Butler High School as having been difficult with her last year at Pompton Lakes High School being far more pleasurable. Following graduation she attended The Sherwood Secretarial School in Paterson finding employment as a legal secretary with Evans, Hand, and Evans in Paterson, NJ. In 1950 an employment offer was made by Garret Halman, Esq. to work at his firm at 109 Wanaque Avenue in Pompton Lakes, where she remained employed by Slingland, Bernstein, and VanHartogh until the year 2001 working for Donald Bancroft, Esq., until his retirement at which time the office was closed and Mildred was out of work. Mildred was a member of the Pompton Reformed Church in which she was married on April 12, 1941 to Eric Wood of Pompton Lakes, NJ and where they raised their daughter Carolyn. She was predeceased by her beloved husband Eric in 1997. Mildred is survived by her loving daughter Carolyn Wood Noble and her husband Robert of Oak Ridge, NJ, her cherished grandchildren Susan Noble and James Noble, both of Oak Ridge, NJ, as well as her cat Lucy. The family will receive visitors on Wednesday, December 7, 2016 from 10am to 11am with a prayer service at 11am at the Stickle-Soltesz Funeral Home, 187 La Rue Road, Newfoundland, NJ 07435 (GPS use 1 Post Place). Mildred will be interred beside her husband immediately following the prayer service at the Pompton Reformed Church Cemetery in Pompton Lakes, NJ. In lieu of flowers memorial donations may be made to: BASSshelterpets.org, P.O. Box 24, Bloomingdale, NJ 07403 or to People for Animals, 401 Hillside Avenue, Hillside, NJ 07205. Log onto www.sticklesolteszfuneralhome.com tribute wall to personally post your condolences, memories, photos, and videos, as well as obtaining driving directions to the funeral home.