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June 26, 2018
Services
Friends may visit with the family from 2-6 PM on Sunday, July 1, 2018 at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
Funeral services will be held 10 AM on Monday, July 2, 2018 from the funeral home then to Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary Church, 45 Urban Club Road, Wayne where an 11 AM Funeral Mass will be offered.
Joseph Albanese, Jr., age 61 of Wayne, passed Tuesday, June 26, 2018.
He was born in Hoboken to Joseph and Margaret Albanese. The family moved to Ridgefield when Joseph was eight years old. He graduated from Ridgefield Memorial High School, where he was on the baseball and wrestling teams, with the Class of 1975. He continued his education at Fairleigh Dickinson University in Teaneck where he received his Bachelor of Science Degree in Accounting with the Class of 1978.
Joseph has worked as an auditor for the Coca-Cola Company in Hackensack, as an auditor for the Foster Wheeler Company in Livingston, as a Controller for the Belco Pollution Control Corporation in Parsippany, and as the Chief Financial Officer of the Huffman-Koos Company in Hackensack. For the past twenty years he has worked as the President and Chief Financial Officer of the Dr. Leonard’s Healthcare Company in Edison and as the Chief Financial Officer of its holding company the Amerimark Corporation. He was very proud of the company and its employees and loved his work at Dr. Leonard’s. Many will recall receiving the Dr. Leonard’s catalog in the mail.
Joseph met the love of his life Eileen O’Sullivan during their high school years. Joseph was on the baseball team and Eileen was on the softball team. One of their teachers, Mr. Bastick, served as matchmaker and introduced the two. Their first date was to a Ridgefield vs. Harrison basketball game where Eileen was the statistician. There was a bench clearing brawl and all attendees, including Joe, were escorted out of the building. When Eileen came out to the parking lot she found that Joe had left as told and her father was waiting in the car to take her home. Joe never heard the end of leaving Eileen behind! They fell in love and Joe, after asking permission from Eileen’s father, proposed to her at the Christmas Eve Mass at Saint Matthews Church in Ridgefield. They married at Saint Matthews on June 9, 1979 and had a reception, in what they considered the country at the time at the Regency House in Pompton Plains. They honeymooned in Jamaica where Eileen got so sunburned on the first day that the local doctor sent her home. As she left the plane in Newark, in a wheelchair, a young nephew who had come to greet her asked Joe “what did you do to her?” Joe and Eileen have enjoyed a loving, best friends, marriage of thirty nine years. He was a great husband and father who couldn’t do enough for Eileen or his children.
Joe will be lovingly remembered as a kind hearted, unintentionally funny, easygoing, look for the silver lining in every situation, person who would always put other’s needs before his own. This was exemplified by his having just about any and everything with the imprint Life is Good. His calm demeanor was evident unless he was going to the airport, he was famous for wanting to leave many hours before the flight. He truly enjoyed coaching baseball and did so for the Wayne P.A.L. for many years. Joe truly loved his backyard pool and his Shih Tzu Sophie. He was in his glory when floating in the pool with Sophie on his lap. He was a parishioner of Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary Church in Wayne for many years.
Joe was the loving husband of Eileen Albanese; devoted father of Daniel Albanese and his wife Rebecca and their two children Leonardo and Cecelia, Steven Albanese of New York City, and Caitlin Albanese of Long Branch; loved brother of the late Frank Albanese (1994), Jack Albanese and his wife Helen of New Milford; dear uncle of Joseph Albanese and Jacqueline Albanese; much loved son-in-law of Mary O’Leary and the late Neil O’Sullivan (1990); devoted brother-in-law of Maureen O’Sullivan and her fiancé Robert Casella and Colleen O’Sullivan.
Please send donations in Joseph's memory to support Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. Check, made payable to Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, should be mailed to: Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, Attn: Emily Carter, 885 Second Ave., 7th Fl., New York, NY 10017. Please indicate on the check that the gift is in memory of Joseph Albanese. You can also donate online by clicking here.
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Friends may visit with the family from 2-6 PM on Sunday, July 1, 2018 at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
Funeral services will be held 10 AM on Monday, July 2, 2018 from the funeral home then to Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary Church, 45 Urban Club Road, Wayne where an 11 AM Funeral Mass will be offered.
June 26, 2018
Services
Friends may visit with the family from 2-6 PM on Sunday, July 1, 2018 at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
Funeral services will be held 10 AM on Monday, July 2, 2018 from the funeral home then to Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary Church, 45 Urban Club Road, Wayne where an 11 AM Funeral Mass will be offered.
Joseph Albanese, Jr., age 61 of Wayne, passed Tuesday, June 26, 2018.
He was born in Hoboken to Joseph and Margaret Albanese. The family moved to Ridgefield when Joseph was eight years old. He graduated from Ridgefield Memorial High School, where he was on the baseball and wrestling teams, with the Class of 1975. He continued his education at Fairleigh Dickinson University in Teaneck where he received his Bachelor of Science Degree in Accounting with the Class of 1978.
Joseph has worked as an auditor for the Coca-Cola Company in Hackensack, as an auditor for the Foster Wheeler Company in Livingston, as a Controller for the Belco Pollution Control Corporation in Parsippany, and as the Chief Financial Officer of the Huffman-Koos Company in Hackensack. For the past twenty years he has worked as the President and Chief Financial Officer of the Dr. Leonard’s Healthcare Company in Edison and as the Chief Financial Officer of its holding company the Amerimark Corporation. He was very proud of the company and its employees and loved his work at Dr. Leonard’s. Many will recall receiving the Dr. Leonard’s catalog in the mail.
Joseph met the love of his life Eileen O’Sullivan during their high school years. Joseph was on the baseball team and Eileen was on the softball team. One of their teachers, Mr. Bastick, served as matchmaker and introduced the two. Their first date was to a Ridgefield vs. Harrison basketball game where Eileen was the statistician. There was a bench clearing brawl and all attendees, including Joe, were escorted out of the building. When Eileen came out to the parking lot she found that Joe had left as told and her father was waiting in the car to take her home. Joe never heard the end of leaving Eileen behind! They fell in love and Joe, after asking permission from Eileen’s father, proposed to her at the Christmas Eve Mass at Saint Matthews Church in Ridgefield. They married at Saint Matthews on June 9, 1979 and had a reception, in what they considered the country at the time at the Regency House in Pompton Plains. They honeymooned in Jamaica where Eileen got so sunburned on the first day that the local doctor sent her home. As she left the plane in Newark, in a wheelchair, a young nephew who had come to greet her asked Joe “what did you do to her?” Joe and Eileen have enjoyed a loving, best friends, marriage of thirty nine years. He was a great husband and father who couldn’t do enough for Eileen or his children.
Joe will be lovingly remembered as a kind hearted, unintentionally funny, easygoing, look for the silver lining in every situation, person who would always put other’s needs before his own. This was exemplified by his having just about any and everything with the imprint Life is Good. His calm demeanor was evident unless he was going to the airport, he was famous for wanting to leave many hours before the flight. He truly enjoyed coaching baseball and did so for the Wayne P.A.L. for many years. Joe truly loved his backyard pool and his Shih Tzu Sophie. He was in his glory when floating in the pool with Sophie on his lap. He was a parishioner of Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary Church in Wayne for many years.
Joe was the loving husband of Eileen Albanese; devoted father of Daniel Albanese and his wife Rebecca and their two children Leonardo and Cecelia, Steven Albanese of New York City, and Caitlin Albanese of Long Branch; loved brother of the late Frank Albanese (1994), Jack Albanese and his wife Helen of New Milford; dear uncle of Joseph Albanese and Jacqueline Albanese; much loved son-in-law of Mary O’Leary and the late Neil O’Sullivan (1990); devoted brother-in-law of Maureen O’Sullivan and her fiancé Robert Casella and Colleen O’Sullivan.
Please send donations in Joseph's memory to support Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. Check, made payable to Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, should be mailed to: Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, Attn: Emily Carter, 885 Second Ave., 7th Fl., New York, NY 10017. Please indicate on the check that the gift is in memory of Joseph Albanese. You can also donate online by clicking here.
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