She passed peacefully at the Atrium Assisted living facility in Park Ridge, NJ.
She was predeceased by her parents Harry and Dorothy Monroe, her husband Joseph Kearns and her son Michael Kearns.
Harriet was the devoted mother of Joseph Kearns and his wife Diane of Vernon NJ and Rosanne Berg and her husband Ron of Emerson, NJ.
Harriet was also the devoted and proud grandmother of Kelly and Megan Kearns, Phillip Berg, Victoria Keene and Michael, Sean and Kayleigh Kearns.
She is also survived by her sister Rosalind Kielty
and many nieces and nephews.
Married for 53 years, she and Joseph raised their family in New Milford, NJ, finally moving to Vernon, NJ in 1978.
Her early working life started at the candy counter at Woolworth’s in Jersey City, quality inspector at RCA corporation in Harrison NJ and finished up at Parents Magazine in Bergenfield, NJ. The latter while a homemaker and Mom of her three children.
Harriet was also an avid gardener with quite the green thumb which she attributed to her father who planted gardens wherever the family lived.
She was finally a parishioner at St Andrew’s Church in Westwood, NJ
The family will receive visitors on Monday, October 26 from 10-11:15 AM at Becker Funeral Home at 219 Kinderkamack Road, Westwood, N.J. A Mass of Christian burial will be held at St Andrew’s Church in Westwood, NJ at 11:30 AM.
The cemetery service will be at St Joseph’s Cemetery on US 206 Newton, NJ
In order to help in the research and treatment of Dementia and Alzheimer’s, the family requests, in lieu of flowers, that donations can be made in honor of Harriet, to the Alzheimer’s Association.
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