Pat Bancroft
Age - 87
March 26, 2023
Mary Patricia "Pat" Bancroft (nee Hade) of Riverdale, NJ passed away peacefully in her home Saturday, March 25, 2023. She was 87 years old. Pat was born February 9, 1936 in Fort Dodge, Iowa and moved to Santa Clara, California, where she graduated from San Jose State University with a degree in English. After a year of teaching abroad in Okinawa Pat, with her life-long friend Pat Galloway, moved cross-country to New York City. From there, she commenced teaching generations of students, for 20 years in the East Orange public school system, and for another 25 years at Our Lady of the Valley catholic school in Wayne, NJ. At the same time Pat raised her five children, known as "Hade's Herd," helped manage her husband Don's law practice, worked summers at Flynn O'Hara Uniforms, and actively participated in her church and her communities in Verona and Pompton Plains, NJ. She hosted bridge games, multiple book clubs, kept up with a broad circle of friends, and often traveled to New York for dinner and a Broadway show. In her last 20 years Pat served as unofficial "mayor" of the Powder Mill Condominiums in Riverdale, NJ, where she could be seen tending to her flower garden and greeting countless friends and neighbors. Pat cherished her friends and family, she was a voracious reader, she cheered on the New York Yankees in the summer and the New York Giants in the winter, and never missed an opportunity to engage anyone and everyone in conversation. Pat was beloved by all, and lived her life with a joyful heart. Pat is survived by her brother, Tom Hade, her children Megan, Shane, Keir, Erin and Ryan, her daughters-in-law Erika Bancroft, Rolaine Bancroft and Jessica Lopez, her son-in-law, Barry Lydon, her brother and sister-in-law, Brian and Janet Bancroft, 19 nieces and nephews, her grandchildren Samantha, Jillian, Dawson, Kaitlyn, Alessandra, Zoe, Connor, Kerry, Dylan and Finn, countless friends, former students, and neighbors. Pat is predeceased by her parents, Laurel and Opal, her husband, Don, her son-in-law Dave Hollberg, her nephews Michael Hade, Keith Bancroft, and Michael Kane, her niece Luanne Kane and her brother-and-sister in laws Shalah Hade, Eugene and Jeanne Bancroft, Robert and Joan Kane, and Neil and Carolyn Bancroft. In lieu of flowers, please consider donating to St. Jude's Children's Research Hospital. A viewing for Pat will be held from 5:00 - 9:00 pm Tuesday, March 28, 2023 at Scanlan's Funeral Home, Pompton Plains, NJ. A funeral mass will be held at 10:00 am on Wednesday, March 29, 2023 at Our Lady of Good Counsel R. C. Church, Pompton Plains, NJ.Show more
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