John Duddy, Sr.

John Martin Duddy, Sr., age 60, of Pompton Lakes, passed Friday, December 11, 2020 with his wife, Linda, and daughter, Patti, by his side.

He was born in Newark, NJ, to Thomas and Dorothy Duddy. Later his family moved to Irvington where he was raised and graduated from Irvington High School with the Class of 1978.

John’s work history started at the Komishane’s Pharmacy in Irvington, where he was the youngest store manager in the store’s history. In later years, John managed New Jersey Gifts in Madison, NJ, where he also lived. For many of those years, John sold cologne and perfumes as a second job to support his growing family.

John got a job at a new startup software company called Novadigm, where he was initially responsible for packing and shipping the product, and worked his way into several management roles until Novadigm was ultimately bought out by Hewlett Packard. While at HP, John again worked his way through the ranks where he was regularly recognized and awarded for his hard work. John held the title of Customer Advocacy Manager with some of HP’s largest accounts before he was forced to retire after a serious injury in 2017.

John will be remembered as a happy and hard-working man who loved to spend time with his family.

John also enjoyed time as an avid boater for many years, as well as tending to his yearly vegetable garden. Every year for the past 22 years he would take the family up to Lake Wallenpaupack, PA where he kept his boat and where many of the family’s best memories were made. Most of all, John will be remembered as a loving brother and devoted husband, father, grandfather and great grandfather. His family was everything to him and they were a source of great happiness in his life.

John met Linda Carlson at the P.S. Pub in Madison. He asked where she was from and she said Buffalo, NY.  John caught her eye by “claiming” he could cook Buffalo chicken wings which may or may not have been true. John and Linda hit it off immediately that night and became inseparable ever since. Linda met and fell in love with John’s two children Patti and John and always considered them “her” children. Just a short 4 months after meeting, John proposed to Linda on Halloween night and they were married 10 months later at the First Congregational Church in Angola, NY. They were blessed with another son, Ryan, 4 years after they were married. John and Linda were happily married for 32 years.

John was the loving husband of Linda Duddy; devoted father of Patricia A. Duddy and her fiancé Brian Anthony Prawdzik, John M. Duddy, Jr. and Ryan C. Duddy, cherished grandfather of Jasmine M. Duddy, Lauren V. and Bella E. Zarate; the dearly loved great-grandfather of Luther, Hayden and Blake Ordonez-Duddy; beloved brother of Dennis J. Duddy and his wife Lissa, Dorothy E. D’Amore and her husband Phil, and the late Thomas E. Duddy and his wife Debbie, and uncle of several nieces and nephews. He was preceded in death by his mother and father Dorothy and Thomas Duddy.

In lieu of flowers please consider a memorial donation to the Multiple Sclerosis Association or the Christopher & Dana Reeve Foundation would be greatly appreciated in John’s name.

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