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September 21, 2011
Services
Funeral services will be held Monday, September 26, 2011 at 9:30 AM from the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne then to Our Lady of Consolation RC Church where at 10:30 AM a Funeral Mass will be celebrated.
Friends and family may visit at the funeral home on Sunday from 2- 6 PM.
James Appaluccio “Jimmy” age 82 of Wayne passed into life eternal on Wednesday, September 21, 2011 at home. His loving family were continually at his bedside and he passed very peacefully.
He was born in Paterson and lived his formative years on Murray Avenue in the Stony Road area of Paterson. Jim received his formal education first at Paterson Grammar School #7 and then Central High School graduating with the Class of 1946.
One of his first jobs was at a horse stable: cleaning stalls and grooming horses and where he developed a love of horses. Ambition was part of his persona and even in his youth he sought extra work to help support his family. In those days, the great depression had impacted everyone as well as did World War II. Jim's efforts were needed to help his family. He worked at the Vitromar Piece Dye Works on First Avenue in Paterson.
He joined the Army in 1952 during the Korean crisis, however he spent most of his service time in Italy as a squad leader doing vehicle maintenance.
When he was discharged from the Army he worked in the Paterson silk industry for a while and then applied to work for the United States Postal Service. He worked at the Post Office in Paterson first and over the years held many positions in his thirty-four years of service. Among his many postal jobs, he was acting postmaster in Pequannock and Elmwood Park. He retired as a postal inspector in 1995.
Jimmy was a parishioner of Our Lady of Consolation RC Church in Wayne and was devoted to his Catholic Faith. His early catholic training was at Our Lady of Pompeii RC Church in Stony Road area of Paterson.
Jim had an entrepreneurial ambition that was built into his work ethic. He held many jobs simultaneously besides the postal service and would keep himself active doing landscaping and any job he could to provide for his family. One of his many jobs which he loved was driving a van for Skyline Auto Auction to return auto delivery drivers to their home base. He did that for fifteen years before retiring in March of 2010.
A legacy is what we inherit and this families finest legacy is a super work ethic. They follow to this day their fathers "can do" ways as they carry out their life journey. Thanks Dad for teaching us this ambitious work ethic way in our lives.
Soon after high school he was at the Polish Home Dance Hall in Passaic and he met a beautiful Scottish girl named "Betty". Her gift of personality includes a Scottish twinkle in her eye that is evident when you meet her. Jim and Betty courted for two years and married on Nov 7, 1954.
They had 57 years of a busy loving marriage together and had six wonderful children.
Surviving are his loving wife Elizabeth " Betty" Appaluccio, two sons Mark Appaluccio of Pompton Lakes, and David Appaluccio of Wayne; four daughters Jamie Blitzstein and her husband Paul of Newfoundland, Lori Hon of Inverness Florida, Carol Albano and her husband Joseph of Wayne and Jaclyn Sexton and her husband Michael of Wayne: one brother Jerry Appalccio and his wife Ann of Kunkletown, Pennsylvania. Nine grandchildren: Jared Blitzstein and his wife Kate, Justin Blitzstein and his wife Colleen, Billy Hon, Alyx and Nicolette Albano, Nicholas Appaluccio, Sydney, Riley and Gavin Sexton.
Those planning an expression of sympathy in Jim's memory are asked to consider a donation to Valley Hospice, 15 Essex Road, Paramus, NJ 07652.
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Funeral services will be held Monday, September 26, 2011 at 9:30 AM from the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne then to Our Lady of Consolation RC Church where at 10:30 AM a Funeral Mass will be celebrated.
Friends and family may visit at the funeral home on Sunday from 2- 6 PM.
September 21, 2011
Services
Funeral services will be held Monday, September 26, 2011 at 9:30 AM from the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne then to Our Lady of Consolation RC Church where at 10:30 AM a Funeral Mass will be celebrated.
Friends and family may visit at the funeral home on Sunday from 2- 6 PM.
James Appaluccio “Jimmy” age 82 of Wayne passed into life eternal on Wednesday, September 21, 2011 at home. His loving family were continually at his bedside and he passed very peacefully.
He was born in Paterson and lived his formative years on Murray Avenue in the Stony Road area of Paterson. Jim received his formal education first at Paterson Grammar School #7 and then Central High School graduating with the Class of 1946.
One of his first jobs was at a horse stable: cleaning stalls and grooming horses and where he developed a love of horses. Ambition was part of his persona and even in his youth he sought extra work to help support his family. In those days, the great depression had impacted everyone as well as did World War II. Jim's efforts were needed to help his family. He worked at the Vitromar Piece Dye Works on First Avenue in Paterson.
He joined the Army in 1952 during the Korean crisis, however he spent most of his service time in Italy as a squad leader doing vehicle maintenance.
When he was discharged from the Army he worked in the Paterson silk industry for a while and then applied to work for the United States Postal Service. He worked at the Post Office in Paterson first and over the years held many positions in his thirty-four years of service. Among his many postal jobs, he was acting postmaster in Pequannock and Elmwood Park. He retired as a postal inspector in 1995.
Jimmy was a parishioner of Our Lady of Consolation RC Church in Wayne and was devoted to his Catholic Faith. His early catholic training was at Our Lady of Pompeii RC Church in Stony Road area of Paterson.
Jim had an entrepreneurial ambition that was built into his work ethic. He held many jobs simultaneously besides the postal service and would keep himself active doing landscaping and any job he could to provide for his family. One of his many jobs which he loved was driving a van for Skyline Auto Auction to return auto delivery drivers to their home base. He did that for fifteen years before retiring in March of 2010.
A legacy is what we inherit and this families finest legacy is a super work ethic. They follow to this day their fathers "can do" ways as they carry out their life journey. Thanks Dad for teaching us this ambitious work ethic way in our lives.
Soon after high school he was at the Polish Home Dance Hall in Passaic and he met a beautiful Scottish girl named "Betty". Her gift of personality includes a Scottish twinkle in her eye that is evident when you meet her. Jim and Betty courted for two years and married on Nov 7, 1954.
They had 57 years of a busy loving marriage together and had six wonderful children.
Surviving are his loving wife Elizabeth " Betty" Appaluccio, two sons Mark Appaluccio of Pompton Lakes, and David Appaluccio of Wayne; four daughters Jamie Blitzstein and her husband Paul of Newfoundland, Lori Hon of Inverness Florida, Carol Albano and her husband Joseph of Wayne and Jaclyn Sexton and her husband Michael of Wayne: one brother Jerry Appalccio and his wife Ann of Kunkletown, Pennsylvania. Nine grandchildren: Jared Blitzstein and his wife Kate, Justin Blitzstein and his wife Colleen, Billy Hon, Alyx and Nicolette Albano, Nicholas Appaluccio, Sydney, Riley and Gavin Sexton.
Those planning an expression of sympathy in Jim's memory are asked to consider a donation to Valley Hospice, 15 Essex Road, Paramus, NJ 07652.
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