Elizabeth McGivern

   Elizabeth F. McGivern (nee Bein), 98, passed away peacefully on Sat., June 18, 2016 at Inglemoor Care Center, Livingston, NJ

   Relatives and friends are invited to attend the funeral from the O’Boyle Funeral Home, 309 Broad Street, Bloomfield, NJ on Friday, June 24, 9 a.m. The Funeral Mass will be offered at Sacred Heart Church in Bloomfield at 10 a.m. Interment will take place at Holy Cross Cemetery in North Arlington, NJ. Visitation is on Thursday, June 23, from 3 to 7 p.m. Condolences may be expressed at www.oboylefuneralhome.com.

   Born in Arnot, PA, Mrs. McGivern lived her early years in Simpson, PA. She graduated from Fells Township High School and worked as a women’s clothing sales associate and then an optometrist’s assistant before moving to Washington, DC where she worked as an administrative assistant at the Pentagon during WWII.

   Mrs. McGivern married James McGivern in 1944, first moving to Kearny, NJ and then, for 60 years, making a home in Bloomfield, NJ. After raising five children, she returned to the workforce, retiring from Midlantic-PNC Bank, in 1981, where she was a banking instructor.

   She was a member of VOR, an advocacy group for the intellectually disabled, and Friends of New Lisbon Developmental Center. In her earlier years, she had been an active member of Fairview School (Bloomfield) PTO and the Sacred Heart Rosary Society.

   Mrs. McGivern was pre-deceased by her husband of 69 years, James E. McGivern, and her son, James J. McGivern.

  She was the mother of Teresa Castellano and her husband, Michael Castellano, of Weston, CT; Donna Marie Churchill and her husband, John, of Brick, NJ; Joseph of New Lisbon, NJ; and Edward and his wife Myra Corbett, of Milford, NJ.

  She was the grandmother of Rebecca, Mark, Andrew, Michael, Jonathan, Kevin, James Albert and James Andrew, and the great grandmother of Eleanore, Lucinda, Courtney and Samantha.

   Elizabeth McGivern was described by Inglemoor’s Assistant Recreation Director Latrice Gillon as “the cookie that never crumbles,” referring to her strength of physical and spiritual fortitude. Her family and friends would agree.