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Friends may visit with the family on Sunday, September 27, 2015 from 2-6 PM at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
Funeral services will be held 9:30 AM on Monday, September 28, 2015 from the funeral home then to Immaculate Heart of Mary RC Church, 580 Ratzer Road, Wayne where a 10:30 AM Funeral Mass will be offered.
Interment will be in Calvary Cemetery, Paterson.
Bruno Menegus of Wayne passed on Wednesday, September 23, 2015.
He was born in Paterson and raised in the Lakeview Avenue section of Clifton where he graduated from Clifton High School with the Class of 1943. When Bruno was just two years old he lost his father in a New York City subway accident. His mother was seven months pregnant with his sister Viola, and his older brother David was just four years old. His mom had a huge challenge trying to raise three children on her own during the Great Depression. As a young man Bruno was a hard worker. He picked beans on a local farm, worked as a pin boy at a bowling alley, as a mail boy at Forsman Mills in Passaic, and would clean the floors and make sure there was enough coal in the furnace at a local rug store.
Bruno entered the United States Army at the end of WWII and served from 1945 through 1946, mostly in Italy. For his service he earned the European-African-Middle Eastern Campaign Medal, the Good Conduct Medal, and the WWII Victory Medal. He was honorably discharged as a Sargent.
Upon returning to the states Bruno went to Fairleigh Dickenson University in Rutherford on the GI Bill. He attended school at night and attained his Bachelor of Science Degree in Physics with the Class of 1957. During his college years he worked at the National Rubber Corporation in Clifton as a draftsman. After college he worked for the Modern Plastics Machinery Corporation as Chief Engineer and later for the Bomont Corporation as Vice President of Engineering in Totowa before retiring in 1994. After retiring he was a partner in an engineering consulting business for many years.
As a young man Bruno went to the Jersey Shore with a group of eight from Clifton. He met a beautiful girl named Lilyan Smerek in Seaside Heights who was on vacation at the Jersey Shore with a group of eight girls. The gang all hung out on the beach with their portable transistor radio and a driftwood bonfire. Bruno was smitten and drove to South River to visit Lilyan. He met Lilyan’s parents and her father greeted him with “nice to meet you Brown.” “Brown” was German slang for Bruno. The two hit it off so well that if Lilyan and Bruno had an argument Lilyan’s parents would tell her she must be at fault. After asking Lilyan’s father's permission, Bruno asked her to marry him. They wed on June 26, 1948 at Saint Stephens RC Church in South River, and had a two month honeymoon . Lilyan and Bruno have had a wonderful, loving, affectionate, and devoted marriage for sixty-seven years.
Bruno will be remembered as a loving husband, devoted father, and awesome grandfather. He was a kind, respectful, and loving man who could fix, repair, or help you with just about anything mechanical. He loved golf, racquetball, squash, tennis, and especially skiing. He and Lilyan have traveled all over the world and skied together for over thirty years in Utah, New Mexico, France, Italy, and Austria. In his later years his friends at the Wayne "Y" would lovingly call him “The Warrior” as he just seemed unstoppable on the squash court.
Bruno was the loving husband of Lilyan (Smerek) Menegus; devoted father of Dr. Mark Menegus and his wife Jane of Harrington Park, Donna McLaughlin and her husband John of Verona; cherished grandfather of Bryan and Sara Menegus, and Brittany and Nicole McLaughlin; dear brother of David Menegus and his wife June of Spring Hill, FL, and the late Viola Adamczyk (2002). He leaves behind his nieces and nephew whom he adored. He will truly miss all his buddies at the Wayne Y.
In lieu of flowers memorial donations to the American Cancer Society, NJ Chapter, 20 Mercer St., Hackensack, NJ 07601 would be appreciated.
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Friends may visit with the family on Sunday, September 27, 2015 from 2-6 PM at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
Funeral services will be held 9:30 AM on Monday, September 28, 2015 from the funeral home then to Immaculate Heart of Mary RC Church, 580 Ratzer Road, Wayne where a 10:30 AM Funeral Mass will be offered.
Interment will be in Calvary Cemetery, Paterson.
Services
Friends may visit with the family on Sunday, September 27, 2015 from 2-6 PM at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
Funeral services will be held 9:30 AM on Monday, September 28, 2015 from the funeral home then to Immaculate Heart of Mary RC Church, 580 Ratzer Road, Wayne where a 10:30 AM Funeral Mass will be offered.
Interment will be in Calvary Cemetery, Paterson.
Bruno Menegus of Wayne passed on Wednesday, September 23, 2015.
He was born in Paterson and raised in the Lakeview Avenue section of Clifton where he graduated from Clifton High School with the Class of 1943. When Bruno was just two years old he lost his father in a New York City subway accident. His mother was seven months pregnant with his sister Viola, and his older brother David was just four years old. His mom had a huge challenge trying to raise three children on her own during the Great Depression. As a young man Bruno was a hard worker. He picked beans on a local farm, worked as a pin boy at a bowling alley, as a mail boy at Forsman Mills in Passaic, and would clean the floors and make sure there was enough coal in the furnace at a local rug store.
Bruno entered the United States Army at the end of WWII and served from 1945 through 1946, mostly in Italy. For his service he earned the European-African-Middle Eastern Campaign Medal, the Good Conduct Medal, and the WWII Victory Medal. He was honorably discharged as a Sargent.
Upon returning to the states Bruno went to Fairleigh Dickenson University in Rutherford on the GI Bill. He attended school at night and attained his Bachelor of Science Degree in Physics with the Class of 1957. During his college years he worked at the National Rubber Corporation in Clifton as a draftsman. After college he worked for the Modern Plastics Machinery Corporation as Chief Engineer and later for the Bomont Corporation as Vice President of Engineering in Totowa before retiring in 1994. After retiring he was a partner in an engineering consulting business for many years.
As a young man Bruno went to the Jersey Shore with a group of eight from Clifton. He met a beautiful girl named Lilyan Smerek in Seaside Heights who was on vacation at the Jersey Shore with a group of eight girls. The gang all hung out on the beach with their portable transistor radio and a driftwood bonfire. Bruno was smitten and drove to South River to visit Lilyan. He met Lilyan’s parents and her father greeted him with “nice to meet you Brown.” “Brown” was German slang for Bruno. The two hit it off so well that if Lilyan and Bruno had an argument Lilyan’s parents would tell her she must be at fault. After asking Lilyan’s father's permission, Bruno asked her to marry him. They wed on June 26, 1948 at Saint Stephens RC Church in South River, and had a two month honeymoon . Lilyan and Bruno have had a wonderful, loving, affectionate, and devoted marriage for sixty-seven years.
Bruno will be remembered as a loving husband, devoted father, and awesome grandfather. He was a kind, respectful, and loving man who could fix, repair, or help you with just about anything mechanical. He loved golf, racquetball, squash, tennis, and especially skiing. He and Lilyan have traveled all over the world and skied together for over thirty years in Utah, New Mexico, France, Italy, and Austria. In his later years his friends at the Wayne "Y" would lovingly call him “The Warrior” as he just seemed unstoppable on the squash court.
Bruno was the loving husband of Lilyan (Smerek) Menegus; devoted father of Dr. Mark Menegus and his wife Jane of Harrington Park, Donna McLaughlin and her husband John of Verona; cherished grandfather of Bryan and Sara Menegus, and Brittany and Nicole McLaughlin; dear brother of David Menegus and his wife June of Spring Hill, FL, and the late Viola Adamczyk (2002). He leaves behind his nieces and nephew whom he adored. He will truly miss all his buddies at the Wayne Y.
In lieu of flowers memorial donations to the American Cancer Society, NJ Chapter, 20 Mercer St., Hackensack, NJ 07601 would be appreciated.
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