Margaret

Hernandez

HERNANDEZ, Margaret (nee) Zuniga, of Cliffside Park, passed away at the Daughters of Miriam Nursing Home in Clifton, NJ on August 26, 2012, age 92. Margaret was born October 1919 at Doctors Hospital in New York City, NY. She was raised by the Mothers of the Helpless, a Spanish Missionary Order of Nuns located in New York, NY during the Great Depression. Margaret went on to study at St. Johns Villa Academy, Ann Reno and Teachers College, Columbia University. She was an educator for the New York School System and for various private schools. She was also an instructor of Religious Education, a New York Elections Official, and at one point worked as a Manager for an Embroidery Company. Margaret was a proud recipient of an award given by the Bishop of the Archdiocese of Newark for teaching Religious Education. Beloved wife to the late Orlando L. Hernandez whom she married in July of 1951. Devoted mother to Lou Hernandez and his wife Mary Ellen, Mary Hernandez-Riippi and her husband Steve and to Francis Hernandez. Adored grandmother to Charles Crum and to Jessica Riippi. Also surviving are her beloved Mothers of the Helpless and her adoring family and friends. Funeral from the A.K. Macagna Funeral Home 495 Anderson Avenue Cliffside Park, N.J. on Thursday, August 30, 2012 at 9am thence to Church of the Epiphany, Cliffside Park, NJ where a Funeral Mass will be offered at 10am. Interment to follow at Maryrest Cemetery in Mahwah, NJ. The family will receive their friends on Wednesday from 4-8pm.