Maryann Patterson, 88, of the Menlo Park Terrace section of Woodbridge Twp., passed peacefully on Thursday morning, September 19, 2024, at the JFK Medical Center in Edison.

She was born on May 31, 1936, in Elizabeth, NJ and had resided in Menlo Park Terrace for the last 55 years.

She was a retired employee of the finance department of JC Penney Department Store in Woodbridge Center for many years.

She was predeceased by her beloved husband, Richard Patterson, who died in 2003, and her son, Joseph Patterson, who died  2017, her parents, William and Helen Harris, her 2 brothers, Charles and William Harris and three sisters, Helen Wilson, Martha Zimmerman and Shirley Swaen Van Pelt.

She leaves behind her three beloved daughters, MaryAnn Meka and her husband Peter of Flemington, NJ, Janice Hawley of Howell, NJ, Teresa Sansone and her husband John, of Somerville and her son Richard Patterson of  Greensboro, NC, also surviving are her 7 grandchildren and many great-grandchildren and great-great grandchildren and many nieces and nephews.

Visitation will be on Monday, September 23, 2024, from 2 pm until 6 pm, with a funeral service at 5:30 pm, with Rev. Joseph Desmond officiating at the Flynn and Son/ Koyen Funeral Home, 319 Amboy Avenue Metuchen, NJ 08840.

A private cremation will follow.

Her cremated remains will be laid to rest in a niche at St Gertrude Cemetery Mausoleum in Colonia, NJ along with the cremated remains of her husband and son in the near future.