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April 27, 2012
Services
A memorial service will be held 1 PM on Saturday, May 5, 2012 at the Packanack Community Church, 120 Lake Drive East, Wayne.
Arthur H. Dardia, Sr. age 93 of Wayne died Friday, April 27, 2012 at St. Joseph’s Hospital, Wayne.
He was born in Clifton and raised in Paterson having graduated from Eastside High School with the Class of 1937. He has lived in Wayne for the past 62 years.
Arthur met his future wife Edythe Wylie through family acquaintances and took her ice skating on their first date. Edythe fell on the ice and got soaking wet. They went to Arthur’s aunt’s home where Edythe was given a robe and her clothes were all laid on radiators to dry. After taking her home, he told his mom “that’s the girl I’m gonna marry” which got a big laugh from his mom. They married four years later on September 21, 1940 at the Totowa Memorial Church in Paterson. After the wedding they boarded a bus to New York City with $80.00 in their pockets. They stayed at the New Yorker Hotel, saw the movie Gone With The Wind, and attended the World’s Fair. In 1990 the family re-created their wedding day, down to their wedding colors of Alice Blue and Peach, at the Brownstone House in Paterson.
In 1942, two years after he was married, a surge of patriotism flowed through Arthur after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. He enlisted in the Army and was assigned to the Army Air Corps. He was known as “Pappy” as he was considered “the old guy” at the age of 24. Arthur would speak of being stationed in San Antonio Texas where there wasn’t a single traffic light and learning to fly in a plywood airplane at Goodfellow Air Base in Texas. He was honorably discharged in 1944.
Before and after going into the military, Arthur worked as a butcher at the A&P Supermarket on Union Boulevard in the Totowa section of Paterson. Upon his return from the military, one of his old customers, Charlie Neil, came into the A&P and asked him to run one of his seven one man hardware stores at 449 East 18th Street in Paterson. He took off his butcher’s apron and has been a hardware man ever since. In 1945 Arthur started to purchase the store, and in 1977 completed the purchase. In 1972, his son Arthur Jr. joined him at the store, and in 1977 his son-in-law Leo came into the family business. After 68 years, the store is still owned by the family, and in operation today. Arthur continued to visit the store nearly every day and was on his way “to work” on the day of his death.
Arthur was an innovator in the hardware industry having belonged to the first hardware buying co-op in NJ known as Coin Hardware, where he served as President in the mid 1950’s representing 125 stores. Eventually Coin joined the American Hardware co-op in Pennsylvania growing to 500 stores. This group eventually merged into ServiStar Hardware and is now known as True Value. A local first in the 1940’s Arthur designed and built a storefront show window with Lionel trains. He had mountains, hills, valleys, crossings and an entire display attracting many to his store just to see the trains.
He enjoyed over fifty years of vacationing at The Poplars in Newboro, Ontario, Canada and was a “snow bird” for over twenty years spending winters in Tamarac, Florida.
Arthur was a member of the First Reformed Church in Pompton Plains where he served on the Evangelization Team, attended Bible Group, and served on the Consistory.
He was a member of the Paterson Rotary Club and received the Paul Harris Fellow – the highest award a Rotarian can receive.
Arthur was a member of the Packanack Golf Club, was an avid fisherman and belonged to the Fair Lawn Rod & Gun Club.
He was the loving husband of the late Edythe (Wylie) Dardia (2004); devoted father of Judith Bristol and her husband Bruce of Landing, Arthur H. Dardia, Jr. and his wife Barbara of Wayne, and Leslie Mozulay and her husband Leo of Wayne; cherished grandfather of Bruce Bristol, Jr. and his wife Jennifer, Daari Daniels and her husband Jayson, Arthur Dardia III and his wife Julia, Kristen Dardia and her fiancé Christopher Turner, Jana Cohen and her husband Arik, Evona Mozulay and her fiancé Daniel Panycia; loving great-grandfather of Jayson Wynn Daniels, Jr. and Arthur Henry Dardia IV; brother of the late Eleanor Dardia, Helen Anzevino of South Hackensack, and Jane Tout of Cape Cod, MA.
In lieu of flowers memorial donations to the “Rotary Gift of Life” c/o Paterson Chamber of Commerce, 100 Hamilton Plaza, Suite 1201, Paterson, NJ 07505 would be appreciated. Donations will be directed to the Rotary International Gift of Life program that brings children to the United States for life altering medical treatments.
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A memorial service will be held 1 PM on Saturday, May 5, 2012 at the Packanack Community Church, 120 Lake Drive East, Wayne.
April 27, 2012
Services
A memorial service will be held 1 PM on Saturday, May 5, 2012 at the Packanack Community Church, 120 Lake Drive East, Wayne.
Arthur H. Dardia, Sr. age 93 of Wayne died Friday, April 27, 2012 at St. Joseph’s Hospital, Wayne.
He was born in Clifton and raised in Paterson having graduated from Eastside High School with the Class of 1937. He has lived in Wayne for the past 62 years.
Arthur met his future wife Edythe Wylie through family acquaintances and took her ice skating on their first date. Edythe fell on the ice and got soaking wet. They went to Arthur’s aunt’s home where Edythe was given a robe and her clothes were all laid on radiators to dry. After taking her home, he told his mom “that’s the girl I’m gonna marry” which got a big laugh from his mom. They married four years later on September 21, 1940 at the Totowa Memorial Church in Paterson. After the wedding they boarded a bus to New York City with $80.00 in their pockets. They stayed at the New Yorker Hotel, saw the movie Gone With The Wind, and attended the World’s Fair. In 1990 the family re-created their wedding day, down to their wedding colors of Alice Blue and Peach, at the Brownstone House in Paterson.
In 1942, two years after he was married, a surge of patriotism flowed through Arthur after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. He enlisted in the Army and was assigned to the Army Air Corps. He was known as “Pappy” as he was considered “the old guy” at the age of 24. Arthur would speak of being stationed in San Antonio Texas where there wasn’t a single traffic light and learning to fly in a plywood airplane at Goodfellow Air Base in Texas. He was honorably discharged in 1944.
Before and after going into the military, Arthur worked as a butcher at the A&P Supermarket on Union Boulevard in the Totowa section of Paterson. Upon his return from the military, one of his old customers, Charlie Neil, came into the A&P and asked him to run one of his seven one man hardware stores at 449 East 18th Street in Paterson. He took off his butcher’s apron and has been a hardware man ever since. In 1945 Arthur started to purchase the store, and in 1977 completed the purchase. In 1972, his son Arthur Jr. joined him at the store, and in 1977 his son-in-law Leo came into the family business. After 68 years, the store is still owned by the family, and in operation today. Arthur continued to visit the store nearly every day and was on his way “to work” on the day of his death.
Arthur was an innovator in the hardware industry having belonged to the first hardware buying co-op in NJ known as Coin Hardware, where he served as President in the mid 1950’s representing 125 stores. Eventually Coin joined the American Hardware co-op in Pennsylvania growing to 500 stores. This group eventually merged into ServiStar Hardware and is now known as True Value. A local first in the 1940’s Arthur designed and built a storefront show window with Lionel trains. He had mountains, hills, valleys, crossings and an entire display attracting many to his store just to see the trains.
He enjoyed over fifty years of vacationing at The Poplars in Newboro, Ontario, Canada and was a “snow bird” for over twenty years spending winters in Tamarac, Florida.
Arthur was a member of the First Reformed Church in Pompton Plains where he served on the Evangelization Team, attended Bible Group, and served on the Consistory.
He was a member of the Paterson Rotary Club and received the Paul Harris Fellow – the highest award a Rotarian can receive.
Arthur was a member of the Packanack Golf Club, was an avid fisherman and belonged to the Fair Lawn Rod & Gun Club.
He was the loving husband of the late Edythe (Wylie) Dardia (2004); devoted father of Judith Bristol and her husband Bruce of Landing, Arthur H. Dardia, Jr. and his wife Barbara of Wayne, and Leslie Mozulay and her husband Leo of Wayne; cherished grandfather of Bruce Bristol, Jr. and his wife Jennifer, Daari Daniels and her husband Jayson, Arthur Dardia III and his wife Julia, Kristen Dardia and her fiancé Christopher Turner, Jana Cohen and her husband Arik, Evona Mozulay and her fiancé Daniel Panycia; loving great-grandfather of Jayson Wynn Daniels, Jr. and Arthur Henry Dardia IV; brother of the late Eleanor Dardia, Helen Anzevino of South Hackensack, and Jane Tout of Cape Cod, MA.
In lieu of flowers memorial donations to the “Rotary Gift of Life” c/o Paterson Chamber of Commerce, 100 Hamilton Plaza, Suite 1201, Paterson, NJ 07505 would be appreciated. Donations will be directed to the Rotary International Gift of Life program that brings children to the United States for life altering medical treatments.
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