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September 12, 2008
Services
Funeral services will be held 9 AM on Tuesday, September 16, 2008 from the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne then to St. Brendans RC Church, 155 E. 1st. Street,Clifton where a 10 AM Funeral Mass will be offered.
Friends may visit with the family on Sunday, September 14, 2008 from 3-6 PM and Monday from 2-4, 7-9 PM at the funeral home.
Interment will be in Calvary Cemetery, Paterson.
John S. Peragallo, Jr. age 76 died Friday, September 12, 2008 at the Hospice of NJ, Wayne with the comfort of his wife by his side.
He was born in New York City and was a lifelong resident of Paterson. He graduated from Eastside High School, Paterson with the class of 1949 and took several classes at the Newark College of Engineering. He served in the US Army during the Korean Conflict and served as a chaplain’s assistant and in the honor guard.
Since John Jr. was a little boy he helped his father in the family business of building and servicing pipe organs. The Peragallo Pipe Organ Company was founded by his father, Mr. John Peragallo, Sr., in 1918. Mr. Peragallo Sr., originally developed his craft as an apprentice with the famous E.M. Skinner Organ Company. John Jr. joined the company in 1949 and further enhanced the business with a close “father-son” relationship. John Peragallo Jr. was the President of the Peragallo Organ Company, Paterson. He was responsible for the construction and care of many of the pipe organs of New Jersey and the complete renovation of the organs at St. Patrick’s Cathedral, NYC. John Jr.’s sons, John and Frank III, have been actively involved in the family business since the 1980’s and now have a fourth generation of Peragallo’s, Janine, Anthony and John IV, working alongside them. The company has installed almost 700 new instruments and currently maintains approximately 400 instruments, up and down the East coast of the United States, including the organs of St. Patricks Cathedral in NYC.
John was a member of the American Guild of Organists, Northern NJ Chapter, St John Vianney/ St Elizabeth of Hungary Fraternity and was active with the Boy Scouts of America during his sons’ formative years.
A selfless, kind, generous and caring person, John, was dedicated to his family, friends and had a love of his craft. He enjoyed tennis, scrabble, bocce, ping pong and travel.
He met his wife, Christine, at the merry go-round during the carnival at St Anthonys Church, Paterson in 1955 and took her to the Plaza Theatre, Paterson on their first date. Christine was indoctrinated into the family business on their second date, as it was to a church so John could check out the organ. They married eleven months after meeting and had a dynamic, spontaneous and loving marriage of fifty-two years.
He is the beloved husband of Christine (nee Rainey) Peragallo; loving father of John F. Peragallo, III and his wife Kathleen of Wayne, Frank Peragallo and his wife Josephine of North Haledon, Stephen J. Peragallo and his wife Debra of Baltimore, MD and Christine Egan and her husband Christopher of Pompton Lakes; cherished grandfather of ten grandchildren and one great-grandson; loved brother of Catherine Miller and her husband Charles of Hawthorne.
In lieu of flowers memorial donations to the John Peragallo Jr. Organ Scholarship for aspiring organists, Marywood University, 2300 Adams Ave., Scranton, PA 18509 or the Salesian Sisters of St Joseph Villa, 655 Belmont Ave., Haledon, NJ 07508 would be appreciated.
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Funeral services will be held 9 AM on Tuesday, September 16, 2008 from the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne then to St. Brendans RC Church, 155 E. 1st. Street,Clifton where a 10 AM Funeral Mass will be offered.
Friends may visit with the family on Sunday, September 14, 2008 from 3-6 PM and Monday from 2-4, 7-9 PM at the funeral home.
Interment will be in Calvary Cemetery, Paterson.
September 12, 2008
Services
Funeral services will be held 9 AM on Tuesday, September 16, 2008 from the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne then to St. Brendans RC Church, 155 E. 1st. Street,Clifton where a 10 AM Funeral Mass will be offered.
Friends may visit with the family on Sunday, September 14, 2008 from 3-6 PM and Monday from 2-4, 7-9 PM at the funeral home.
Interment will be in Calvary Cemetery, Paterson.
John S. Peragallo, Jr. age 76 died Friday, September 12, 2008 at the Hospice of NJ, Wayne with the comfort of his wife by his side.
He was born in New York City and was a lifelong resident of Paterson. He graduated from Eastside High School, Paterson with the class of 1949 and took several classes at the Newark College of Engineering. He served in the US Army during the Korean Conflict and served as a chaplain’s assistant and in the honor guard.
Since John Jr. was a little boy he helped his father in the family business of building and servicing pipe organs. The Peragallo Pipe Organ Company was founded by his father, Mr. John Peragallo, Sr., in 1918. Mr. Peragallo Sr., originally developed his craft as an apprentice with the famous E.M. Skinner Organ Company. John Jr. joined the company in 1949 and further enhanced the business with a close “father-son” relationship. John Peragallo Jr. was the President of the Peragallo Organ Company, Paterson. He was responsible for the construction and care of many of the pipe organs of New Jersey and the complete renovation of the organs at St. Patrick’s Cathedral, NYC. John Jr.’s sons, John and Frank III, have been actively involved in the family business since the 1980’s and now have a fourth generation of Peragallo’s, Janine, Anthony and John IV, working alongside them. The company has installed almost 700 new instruments and currently maintains approximately 400 instruments, up and down the East coast of the United States, including the organs of St. Patricks Cathedral in NYC.
John was a member of the American Guild of Organists, Northern NJ Chapter, St John Vianney/ St Elizabeth of Hungary Fraternity and was active with the Boy Scouts of America during his sons’ formative years.
A selfless, kind, generous and caring person, John, was dedicated to his family, friends and had a love of his craft. He enjoyed tennis, scrabble, bocce, ping pong and travel.
He met his wife, Christine, at the merry go-round during the carnival at St Anthonys Church, Paterson in 1955 and took her to the Plaza Theatre, Paterson on their first date. Christine was indoctrinated into the family business on their second date, as it was to a church so John could check out the organ. They married eleven months after meeting and had a dynamic, spontaneous and loving marriage of fifty-two years.
He is the beloved husband of Christine (nee Rainey) Peragallo; loving father of John F. Peragallo, III and his wife Kathleen of Wayne, Frank Peragallo and his wife Josephine of North Haledon, Stephen J. Peragallo and his wife Debra of Baltimore, MD and Christine Egan and her husband Christopher of Pompton Lakes; cherished grandfather of ten grandchildren and one great-grandson; loved brother of Catherine Miller and her husband Charles of Hawthorne.
In lieu of flowers memorial donations to the John Peragallo Jr. Organ Scholarship for aspiring organists, Marywood University, 2300 Adams Ave., Scranton, PA 18509 or the Salesian Sisters of St Joseph Villa, 655 Belmont Ave., Haledon, NJ 07508 would be appreciated.
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