Lillian F. Corcoran of Montvale, 93, wife of the late Donald G. Corcoran, passed away peacefully surrounded by her family on Saturday June 1, 2019.
Born in Carbondale, Penn., daughter of the late Helen E. (Quinn) and John Fryer. She began working in Washington, D.C. for the Department of Agriculture and the FBI before raising a family as a homemaker. She volunteered for the church, was a Girl Scout leader, roller skated and skied. She retired from a long career as office manager from Lehn and Fink and enjoyed retirement trying many new activities including parasailing, hang gliding, snorkeling and horseback riding. She organized many trips to interesting places through the Montvale Senior Club. Lillian studied and taught ballroom and line dancing at Midland Park, Montvale, River Edge and Woodcliff Lake senior centers.
Surviving are her four sisters, Mary Fryer and Frances Erzen and husband James, of Carbondale, PA; Jean Ewing and husband Bill of Waukeagan, Ill.; Helen Campbell of Winter Park, Fla.; children Michael J. Corcoran, Mary Ann Collins, Donna McBride and Diana Laing along with their husbands/partners; grandchildren Sally Williams, Daniel, Michelle and Barbara Michelle McBride with husband Ryan Johns and two great-grandchildren, Greta Jane and Jacqueline Michelle Johns; along with 15 nieces and nephews; and many nieces and nephews.
Visitation was on June 6 at the Robert Spearing Funeral Home, Park Ridge. Funeral Mass was on Friday, June 7 at Our Lady of Mercy R.C. Church, Park Ridge. Interment took place in Our Mother of Sorrows R.C. Church Cemetery, Carbondale.
