George F. Hundt, Sr., age 85, of Wayne, NJ for forty-five years, passed peacefully on Friday, May 5, 2017.

Born in Queens, New York to Louis and Marie Hundt, he was raised in the family home in Brooklyn. George attended St. Aloysius Grade School in Brooklyn, NY and graduated from Cathedral College of the Immaculate Conception High School in Brooklyn with the Class of 1949. Both during and after high school, George worked for his father’s company delivering fresh fruit to local bakeries.

George started his career as an X-ray technician at City Hospital. While working there, he was drafted into the US Army where he continued his career as an X-Ray Technician at Fort Dix, NJ. After completing his active service with the Army, he started working as an office boy at the New York Times where worked his way up to telephone sales. While working at the New York Times, he earned a Bachelors in Business Administration from St. John's University in Queens.

After a brief stint with the Met Life Insurance Company, he secured a position as a salesman with the EKCO/Glaco Company, a commercial baking supply company, in 1963.  Starting at the Fair Lawn, NJ plant, he was soon promoted and relocated to Baltimore, Maryland to become the Regional Sales Manager. Seven years later, he returned to the Fair Lawn facility and purchased the family home in Wayne. He worked for the EKCO/Glaco Company for over thirty years and, after spending eight years as the Regional Vice President, retired in 1994 so that he could spend more time with his wife.

George was a man of deep and committed faith and a longtime parishioner and daily communicant at Our Lady of the Valley Church in Wayne. No matter where the family settled, George faithfully served the parishes he belonged to in any way he could, helping with youth retreats, Pre-Cana counseling, the parish festivals, and in many other ways. After he retired, he was often seen cooking and serving at Eva's Kitchen in Paterson, NJ.

He will be remembered as a caring, generous, and compassionate man. He loved all kinds of sports and enjoyed playing golf in New Jersey and Florida. In his eighties, he took on a new hobby with his friends in Florida - winemaking.  Their wines won gold medals at several statewide competitions.

George was the loving husband of the late Rose (Perini) Hundt (1997) to whom he was happily married for 42 years. He was fortunate enough to find love a second time, on the dance floor, marrying Nina Manzo Hundt sixteen years ago. He was the loving father of Rev. Msgr. George F. Hundt, of Madison, NJ, James Hundt, Sr. and his wife Kathleen of Latham, NY, Mary Papadonis and her husband Paul of Scituate, MA, and the late Jeanine Hundt - affectionately known as “The Bean”; through marriage to Nina, Albert Manzo III and his wife Carolyn, Patty, Tommy and Kenny Manzo;  the grandfather of Christopher Hundt and his wife Michelle Lee, Ian Hundt and his wife Amelia, Jillian Marinucci and her husband Matthew, James Hundt Jr., Michael Papadonis and Jodi Papadonis, Albert Manzo IV, Christopher Manzo, Lauren Manzo Scalia and her husband Vito, Kristen Valencia and her husband Jon, Danielle Wardrop, K.J. Manzo, and Nina Manzo; the great-grandfather of Daniel Hundt, Evan and Noah Marinucci, Jayden and Jacob Snyder, Jonathan Valencia, and Marchesa Scalia; and the beloved brother of Marie Funk, Ann Dannenhoffer, Theresa Voegler and her husband Fran, John Hundt and his wife Ronnie and the late Louis Hundt and late Emma Roedel.

In lieu of flowers memorial donations to Catholic Charities Diocese of Paterson, 777 Valley Rd., Clifton, NJ 07013 would be greatly appreciated