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Friends may visit with the family from 4-8 PM on Monday, December 28, 2015 at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
Funeral services will be held 10 AM on Tuesday, December 29, 2015 at the funeral home.
Interment will be in Holy Sepulchre Cemetery, Totowa.
Frank Paul LoPresti age 81 of Pequannock passed peacefully on Thursday, December 24, 2015.
Frank was born and raised at 268 42nd Street in Brooklyn, New York and on a chance trip to the amusements at Coney Island he met a cute girl named Mary Ann while they were both standing by a hot dog stand. Mary Ann lived in Paterson, New Jersey and soon Frank was making daily trips to Paterson. He soon found work and moved into Paterson to be closer to Mary Ann. They fell in love and married in 1955 at Saint Gerard’s RC Church in Paterson. They enjoyed thirty-one years of a loving and devoted marriage before Mary Ann’s passing in 1986. Frank was fortunate to find love once more when he married Helen McDonald. They only had a short time together before she fell ill and passed in 2014.
As a young man of fourteen years old, Frank drove a truck and delivered bread all around Brooklyn for the Charlie Bakery with his brother Joey. He worked at many different professions such as: owning and operating the J&F Construction Company, working on a container ship, and as a chauffeur. He settled down working as a custodian for the Pequannock High School for thirty years before retiring in 1997 for medical reasons.
For many years Frank loved going down to the Jersey Shore. He rented summer houses and help establish many fond family memories of trips to the beach and boardwalk. Another of his loves was music. There was always Italian music filling his home. Frank also like to cook. He loved making all kinds of Italian specialties and sauces. Aside from the Italian standbys he also enjoyed experimenting in the kitchen. Chicken, all kinds of meats, and mussels were always in the mix.
Frank was the loving husband of the late Mary Ann LoPresti(1986) and the late Helen LoPresti(2014); devoted father of Michael Pulidore of Vernon, Salvatore LoPresti and his wife Terry of Daytona Beach, FL, Donna Hollow and her husband Dan of Highlands Ranch, CO, Frank LoPresti and his wife Alice of Elmwood Park, Mark LoPresti of Pequannock, and the late Joseph LoPresti; cherished grandfather of eight grandchildren Maryanne, Kara, Antoinette, Salvatore, Anna Marie, Angelina, Michael, Frank, and one great-grandson Harold; dear brother of Betty Brusca of Brooklyn, NY, and Joseph LoPresti.
In lieu of flowers memorial donations to the American Red Cross, 209 Fairfield Road, Fairfield, NJ 07004 would be appreciated.
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Friends may visit with the family from 4-8 PM on Monday, December 28, 2015 at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
Funeral services will be held 10 AM on Tuesday, December 29, 2015 at the funeral home.
Interment will be in Holy Sepulchre Cemetery, Totowa.
Services
Friends may visit with the family from 4-8 PM on Monday, December 28, 2015 at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
Funeral services will be held 10 AM on Tuesday, December 29, 2015 at the funeral home.
Interment will be in Holy Sepulchre Cemetery, Totowa.
Frank Paul LoPresti age 81 of Pequannock passed peacefully on Thursday, December 24, 2015.
Frank was born and raised at 268 42nd Street in Brooklyn, New York and on a chance trip to the amusements at Coney Island he met a cute girl named Mary Ann while they were both standing by a hot dog stand. Mary Ann lived in Paterson, New Jersey and soon Frank was making daily trips to Paterson. He soon found work and moved into Paterson to be closer to Mary Ann. They fell in love and married in 1955 at Saint Gerard’s RC Church in Paterson. They enjoyed thirty-one years of a loving and devoted marriage before Mary Ann’s passing in 1986. Frank was fortunate to find love once more when he married Helen McDonald. They only had a short time together before she fell ill and passed in 2014.
As a young man of fourteen years old, Frank drove a truck and delivered bread all around Brooklyn for the Charlie Bakery with his brother Joey. He worked at many different professions such as: owning and operating the J&F Construction Company, working on a container ship, and as a chauffeur. He settled down working as a custodian for the Pequannock High School for thirty years before retiring in 1997 for medical reasons.
For many years Frank loved going down to the Jersey Shore. He rented summer houses and help establish many fond family memories of trips to the beach and boardwalk. Another of his loves was music. There was always Italian music filling his home. Frank also like to cook. He loved making all kinds of Italian specialties and sauces. Aside from the Italian standbys he also enjoyed experimenting in the kitchen. Chicken, all kinds of meats, and mussels were always in the mix.
Frank was the loving husband of the late Mary Ann LoPresti(1986) and the late Helen LoPresti(2014); devoted father of Michael Pulidore of Vernon, Salvatore LoPresti and his wife Terry of Daytona Beach, FL, Donna Hollow and her husband Dan of Highlands Ranch, CO, Frank LoPresti and his wife Alice of Elmwood Park, Mark LoPresti of Pequannock, and the late Joseph LoPresti; cherished grandfather of eight grandchildren Maryanne, Kara, Antoinette, Salvatore, Anna Marie, Angelina, Michael, Frank, and one great-grandson Harold; dear brother of Betty Brusca of Brooklyn, NY, and Joseph LoPresti.
In lieu of flowers memorial donations to the American Red Cross, 209 Fairfield Road, Fairfield, NJ 07004 would be appreciated.
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