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Services
Friends may visit with the family on Saturday, January 16, 2015 from 10:00 to 11:00 a.m. at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
A memorial service will follow at 11:00 a.m., led by the Reverend Andrew Kadzban of Wyckoff Reformed Church.
Anthony “Tony” J. Froio, age 89, of Wayne passed peacefully on Friday, January 8, 2016.
Tony was raised in Totowa by his Italian-born parents, Josephine and Dominic, who also ran a salumeria (Italian grocery) out of their house on Union Boulevard. After Dominic passed when Tony was very young, Josephine continued to run the store for many years with the aid of both her children. Tony graduated from Passaic Valley High School, studied engineering at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York for his service as a radio engineer in the Navy during WWII, and completed his college education at Lafayette College in Easton, Pennsylvania, earning a Bachelor of Arts in English.
With that background, Tony entered the work force well equipped to create and direct advertising and marketing campaigns for companies manufacturing consumer electronics as well as publications serving that industry. His long career began in the early days of television when he was ad manager for picture tubes at Allen B. Dumont Laboratories. Subsequently he worked as an executive for advertising agencies and publishers including J. Walter Thompson, Tatham-Laird & Kudner, Regis McKenna, Ries Cappiello Colwell, Penton Publishing and McGraw-Hill. On the client side, he served as advertising and sales promotion manager for RCA Corporation’s solid state division.
In these roles and in his personal life Tony won success and admiration as an astute, wise, versatile and talented man of character and integrity. Given his keen interest in technology and the well balanced visual and verbal aptitudes that he brought to all his work, it was inevitable that he became an early adopter and power user of Apple Macintosh computers. Long after he retired, his family and friends were still turning to him for help with digital design and presentation.
In his spare time Tony demonstrated quite a bit of talent in the kitchen as well, and the requests for his spinach lasagna, Bolognese sauce, pies and biscotti never stopped coming. His adopted grandchildren will always remember the pancakes he made with their initials in them, among the many ways he so often delighted them. As relentless as the clamor for his cooking and baking was his own quest for the perfect pizza.
He was the devoted father of Kathi Froio of Montclair, cherished brother of Elizabeth (Betty) Mainardi, and loved partner of Becky McAdams of Wyckoff, whose daughters and their families will always treasure his memory.
Guests are encouraged to make a memorial donation (in lieu of flowers, if desired) to a charity special to them.
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Friends may visit with the family on Saturday, January 16, 2015 from 10:00 to 11:00 a.m. at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
A memorial service will follow at 11:00 a.m., led by the Reverend Andrew Kadzban of Wyckoff Reformed Church.
Services
Friends may visit with the family on Saturday, January 16, 2015 from 10:00 to 11:00 a.m. at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
A memorial service will follow at 11:00 a.m., led by the Reverend Andrew Kadzban of Wyckoff Reformed Church.
Anthony “Tony” J. Froio, age 89, of Wayne passed peacefully on Friday, January 8, 2016.
Tony was raised in Totowa by his Italian-born parents, Josephine and Dominic, who also ran a salumeria (Italian grocery) out of their house on Union Boulevard. After Dominic passed when Tony was very young, Josephine continued to run the store for many years with the aid of both her children. Tony graduated from Passaic Valley High School, studied engineering at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York for his service as a radio engineer in the Navy during WWII, and completed his college education at Lafayette College in Easton, Pennsylvania, earning a Bachelor of Arts in English.
With that background, Tony entered the work force well equipped to create and direct advertising and marketing campaigns for companies manufacturing consumer electronics as well as publications serving that industry. His long career began in the early days of television when he was ad manager for picture tubes at Allen B. Dumont Laboratories. Subsequently he worked as an executive for advertising agencies and publishers including J. Walter Thompson, Tatham-Laird & Kudner, Regis McKenna, Ries Cappiello Colwell, Penton Publishing and McGraw-Hill. On the client side, he served as advertising and sales promotion manager for RCA Corporation’s solid state division.
In these roles and in his personal life Tony won success and admiration as an astute, wise, versatile and talented man of character and integrity. Given his keen interest in technology and the well balanced visual and verbal aptitudes that he brought to all his work, it was inevitable that he became an early adopter and power user of Apple Macintosh computers. Long after he retired, his family and friends were still turning to him for help with digital design and presentation.
In his spare time Tony demonstrated quite a bit of talent in the kitchen as well, and the requests for his spinach lasagna, Bolognese sauce, pies and biscotti never stopped coming. His adopted grandchildren will always remember the pancakes he made with their initials in them, among the many ways he so often delighted them. As relentless as the clamor for his cooking and baking was his own quest for the perfect pizza.
He was the devoted father of Kathi Froio of Montclair, cherished brother of Elizabeth (Betty) Mainardi, and loved partner of Becky McAdams of Wyckoff, whose daughters and their families will always treasure his memory.
Guests are encouraged to make a memorial donation (in lieu of flowers, if desired) to a charity special to them.
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