Morrissey Garage Doors celebrates 27 years

Published Sep 19, 2014 at 6:01 am (Updated Sep 19, 2014)

Morrissey Overhead Garage Doors 3 Marion St., West Milford, NJ 07480 Telephone: 973-728-8788 Cell: 973-445-2381 Fax: 973-728-2655 Web site: http://morrissey.chiohd.com Business hours: Monday-Friday 9 a.m. 5 p.m. Saturday and Sunday 9 a.m.-1 p.m.

BY GINNY RAUE Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success. Henry Ford

WEST MILFORD Wayne and Diane Morrissey appear to be living according to Henry Fords words. Married for 33 years this month, the couple has shared the workload and success of a business partnership for 27 of those years, as well.

The Morrisseys have resided in West Milford for 33 years, raising their family, enjoying life in the township and operating Morrissey Overhead Garage Doors from their home. They are the parents of three daughters and grandparents of one little one with another expected any day now.

Wayne Morrissey wears many hats, quite literally. Besides being a husband, father, grandpa and business owner, he has been a firefighter with West Milford Volunteer Fire Co. #6 for 27 years, serving as chief for the last five years. He has also been a West Milford Police Department Special Officer for 16 years, working special events and traffic and crowd control.

On the job Morrissey, 56, learned everything he knows from his father-in-law, a garage door business owner. He was employed in technology at the Meadowlands and working part-time with Dianes father when he decided to take the plunge and open his own business.

I enjoyed the work so I figured Id try it, Id be better with my own business. It was a big jump and Diane and I did it together, he said.

As it has turned out, it was a good move.

Its been phenomenal. When I first started out the business was in West Milford, now Im in five counties. Its grown nicely and Diane and I get along great in business. What she doesnt do, I do, and vice-versa.

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Morrissey Garage Doors celebrates 27 years