WALDWICK, N.J. -- Thomas J. McLaughlin, of Waldwick, died Thursday, Nov. 17. He was 86.
Born in the Bronx, in 1930, he was a longtime resident of Waldwick. He was a construction supervisor at AJ Contracting in Manhattan, before retiring. He served in the U.S. Army during peacetime.
He is survived by his wife, Theresa F. McLaughlin; children, Thomas J. McLaughlin Jr. and his wife Jayne, Theresa Karole, Michael McLaughlin, Maureen McGinle and her husband Lawrence and Ellen M. McLaughlin; grandchildren, Katherine, Devin, Thomas, John, Michael and Ashley; and sister, Mary Kate Jensen.
Visitation will from 2-5 p.m. Sunday at the Vander Plaat Funeral Home, 257 Godwin Ave., Wyckoff. A funeral Mass will be celebrated at 11 a.m. Monday at Church of the Nativity, 315 Prospect St., Midland Park. Interment will follow at Ascension Cemetery in Monsey, N.Y.