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March 1, 2011
Dolores “Dee” Sarf, 81, of Riverdale, N.J., died Tuesday, March 1, 2011, in Riverdale.
Born Dolores Regina Zike, in Duryea, Mrs. Sarf attended Duryea High School and Marywood College.
She taught music in Pleasant Mount and was a pianist in the big band Charlie Masters Orchestra. She later joined the Frankie Reynolds Orchestra, and it was while playing the piano and singing for this big band that she met her future husband, saxophonist and World War II veteran, Peter F. Sarf. After the couple’s marriage in 1953, they moved to Pompton Plains, N.J., and two years later to Riverdale.
Mrs. Sarf taught music in the Pequannock school system as well as in Caldwell’s system, and until recently was for three decades the piano accompanist for the student choir at Riverdale School, playing at many musical events.
She was preceded in death by her mother and father, Helen and William Zike.
A beloved wife and mother, she is survived by her husband, Pete; daughter Lynn and son-in-law, Richard Watkins, of Claremont, Calif.; sons, Wayne of Riverdale, and Peter of West Milford, N.J.; and sisters, Anna Mae Carlacci and Constance Smirne, both of Clarks Summit, Pa.
In lieu of flowers, gifts in Mrs. Sarf’s memory, can be made to Riverdale School, Student Activity Fund for Music, 52 Newark Pompton Turnpike, Riverdale, NJ 07457-1499.