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June 16, 2008
Services
Funeral services will be held Friday, June 20, 2008 at 9 AM from the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne then to Our Lady of Consolation RC Church, Wayne where at 10 AM a Funeral Mass will be offered. Friends may visit with the family at the funeral home on Thursday from 7-9 PM.
George P. Petro age 77 of Wayne died Monday, June 16, 2008 at the Chilton Memorial Hospital in Pompton Plains.
He was born in Passaic and had lived in Wayne for the past forty-seven years.
George received his formal education at Newark College of Engineering where he received a Bachelor of Science Degree in Mechanical Engineering with the Class of 1967.
He served in the Army as a Corporal and Chief of Communications during the Korean conflict in a Military Police Division from 1951- 1953.
He was originally employed at A.B. DuMont Laboratories in Clifton where he became a tube tester, inspector and a Cathode Ray Tube Design Engineer. As time went on the DuMont organization became many different names because of changes in ownership. The next stage of the original corporation became Fairchild Camera and Instrument a DuMont division and George was their Sales Application Engineer. Then the company became Thomas C.S.I, then Hughes Lexington Inc and finally Lexel Imaging Corporation. During all those changes George maintained a strong presence in the field of Sales and Marketing serving his company very successfully all over the world.
George Petro and Dolores Hopper met on the job at DuMont Corporation in Clifton fell in love and married in 1958. Dolores loved ballroom dancing and enticed George to join her in taking dancing lessons. As a couple they danced many a delightful night away. They had a “devoted and loving” marriage for thirty-three years until Dolores' passing in 1991.
George was gifted with a very pleasing extraverted personality that caused him to make friends easily and opened many doors for his sales skills. His very sociable personality and his gift of supreme one liners ingratiated his presence with those around him. He was a very successful member of the electronics business world and made a very positive contribution to his and his employer’s success.
He was a parishioner of Our Lady of Consolation RC Church in Wayne and was formerly a member of the Wayne Elks Lodge 2181.
Surviving are one sister Virginia Petro of Wayne and several cousins and nieces.
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Funeral services will be held Friday, June 20, 2008 at 9 AM from the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne then to Our Lady of Consolation RC Church, Wayne where at 10 AM a Funeral Mass will be offered. Friends may visit with the family at the funeral home on Thursday from 7-9 PM.
June 16, 2008
Services
Funeral services will be held Friday, June 20, 2008 at 9 AM from the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne then to Our Lady of Consolation RC Church, Wayne where at 10 AM a Funeral Mass will be offered. Friends may visit with the family at the funeral home on Thursday from 7-9 PM.
George P. Petro age 77 of Wayne died Monday, June 16, 2008 at the Chilton Memorial Hospital in Pompton Plains.
He was born in Passaic and had lived in Wayne for the past forty-seven years.
George received his formal education at Newark College of Engineering where he received a Bachelor of Science Degree in Mechanical Engineering with the Class of 1967.
He served in the Army as a Corporal and Chief of Communications during the Korean conflict in a Military Police Division from 1951- 1953.
He was originally employed at A.B. DuMont Laboratories in Clifton where he became a tube tester, inspector and a Cathode Ray Tube Design Engineer. As time went on the DuMont organization became many different names because of changes in ownership. The next stage of the original corporation became Fairchild Camera and Instrument a DuMont division and George was their Sales Application Engineer. Then the company became Thomas C.S.I, then Hughes Lexington Inc and finally Lexel Imaging Corporation. During all those changes George maintained a strong presence in the field of Sales and Marketing serving his company very successfully all over the world.
George Petro and Dolores Hopper met on the job at DuMont Corporation in Clifton fell in love and married in 1958. Dolores loved ballroom dancing and enticed George to join her in taking dancing lessons. As a couple they danced many a delightful night away. They had a “devoted and loving” marriage for thirty-three years until Dolores' passing in 1991.
George was gifted with a very pleasing extraverted personality that caused him to make friends easily and opened many doors for his sales skills. His very sociable personality and his gift of supreme one liners ingratiated his presence with those around him. He was a very successful member of the electronics business world and made a very positive contribution to his and his employer’s success.
He was a parishioner of Our Lady of Consolation RC Church in Wayne and was formerly a member of the Wayne Elks Lodge 2181.
Surviving are one sister Virginia Petro of Wayne and several cousins and nieces.
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