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Friends may visit with the family from 2-6 PM on Sunday, July 24, 2016 at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne, NJ.
Joseph J. Jazwick, Jr. “Joey Jazz” age 52 of Passaic passed suddenly and unexpectedly on Wednesday, July 20, 2016.
He was born in Jersey City and raised in the Singac Section of Little Falls having attended the Holy Angels grammar School and went on to the Passaic Valley High School with the Class of 1981.
Out of high school Joe worked as a coach driver and EMT for the Action Ambulance Company and several other area private ambulance companies. During his years driving the ambulances he received training and certification as a Certified Medical Assistant. Joe took the training he received to the next level and became a trainer himself. He started his own company, Healthcare Training & Consulting, L.L.C., in 2005 and has run CPR, Defensive Driving, and Mobility Assistance Vehicle Technician classes for the past eleven years.
Joe was an outgoing, fun loving, dog lover who always spoke his mind. He loved playing the durms, Disney World, and was always fussing over his truck. His love of music was inspired and nurtured by his father who taught him to play the drums. His dad was a professional drummer, trained by the jazz and big band drummer Gene Krupa, having played and toured with Frankie Valli. With drumming practically embedded into Joe’s DNA, he truly loved playing and worked with bands such as TT Quick, Ritual, Hired Guns, and Fair Warning to name a few.
He met the love of his life, Karen Gianinio, when he pulled up to a physician’s office with a patient in his ambulance. It was Karen’s first day of the job at the doctor’s office and the receptionist had not shown up to unlock the office. Karen was sitting outside in the heat and Joe offered to let her sit in the ambulance to keep cool. She said no and the doctor soon showed up to unlock the office. Not one to accept no for an answer Joe approached Karen in the hallway and said “I know girls don’t like giving their number to guys” to which she answered…”I’m not afraid to give you my number…here it is.” Well they talked on the phone and Karen, who was living at home with her parents at the time, told her parents she was going to visit a friend in Hawthorne when in fact she was going to visit Joe. Their first official date was to Bojangles in Wayne where Joe was set to play with his band Fair Warning – a Van Halen tribute band. When Karen arrived she got out of the car and all she could hear was Joe’s drums through the walls as the band kept shorting out the sound system. Joe proposed marriage to Karen during a show at the Quincy’s Junkyard Pub in Rochelle Park. He had secured his grandmother’s engagement ring and snuck it into his pocket that night. Anyone who know Karen will understand that she immediately saw the ring was not where it was supposed to be. She said nothing until she was called up onto the stage (a nightmare for Karen) for Joe’s proposal. She said yes of course but had to whisper to him “I knew.” They married on October 18, 1997 at the Immaculate Heart of Mary Church in Wayne, had a reception at the Radisson Hotel in Fairfield and honeymooned at Disney World. They went to Disney World each year for ten straight years until they became parents to their first set of Rottweilers (Rozzey & Jerzey). They love their current dogs Buddy and Missy like children. Since their chance encounter they have been by each other’s side for the past twenty-four years.
In lieu of flowers memorial donations to the American Heart Association or any worthy organization relating to pets or animals would be greatly appreciated.
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Friends may visit with the family from 2-6 PM on Sunday, July 24, 2016 at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne, NJ.
Services
Friends may visit with the family from 2-6 PM on Sunday, July 24, 2016 at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne, NJ.
Joseph J. Jazwick, Jr. “Joey Jazz” age 52 of Passaic passed suddenly and unexpectedly on Wednesday, July 20, 2016.
He was born in Jersey City and raised in the Singac Section of Little Falls having attended the Holy Angels grammar School and went on to the Passaic Valley High School with the Class of 1981.
Out of high school Joe worked as a coach driver and EMT for the Action Ambulance Company and several other area private ambulance companies. During his years driving the ambulances he received training and certification as a Certified Medical Assistant. Joe took the training he received to the next level and became a trainer himself. He started his own company, Healthcare Training & Consulting, L.L.C., in 2005 and has run CPR, Defensive Driving, and Mobility Assistance Vehicle Technician classes for the past eleven years.
Joe was an outgoing, fun loving, dog lover who always spoke his mind. He loved playing the durms, Disney World, and was always fussing over his truck. His love of music was inspired and nurtured by his father who taught him to play the drums. His dad was a professional drummer, trained by the jazz and big band drummer Gene Krupa, having played and toured with Frankie Valli. With drumming practically embedded into Joe’s DNA, he truly loved playing and worked with bands such as TT Quick, Ritual, Hired Guns, and Fair Warning to name a few.
He met the love of his life, Karen Gianinio, when he pulled up to a physician’s office with a patient in his ambulance. It was Karen’s first day of the job at the doctor’s office and the receptionist had not shown up to unlock the office. Karen was sitting outside in the heat and Joe offered to let her sit in the ambulance to keep cool. She said no and the doctor soon showed up to unlock the office. Not one to accept no for an answer Joe approached Karen in the hallway and said “I know girls don’t like giving their number to guys” to which she answered…”I’m not afraid to give you my number…here it is.” Well they talked on the phone and Karen, who was living at home with her parents at the time, told her parents she was going to visit a friend in Hawthorne when in fact she was going to visit Joe. Their first official date was to Bojangles in Wayne where Joe was set to play with his band Fair Warning – a Van Halen tribute band. When Karen arrived she got out of the car and all she could hear was Joe’s drums through the walls as the band kept shorting out the sound system. Joe proposed marriage to Karen during a show at the Quincy’s Junkyard Pub in Rochelle Park. He had secured his grandmother’s engagement ring and snuck it into his pocket that night. Anyone who know Karen will understand that she immediately saw the ring was not where it was supposed to be. She said nothing until she was called up onto the stage (a nightmare for Karen) for Joe’s proposal. She said yes of course but had to whisper to him “I knew.” They married on October 18, 1997 at the Immaculate Heart of Mary Church in Wayne, had a reception at the Radisson Hotel in Fairfield and honeymooned at Disney World. They went to Disney World each year for ten straight years until they became parents to their first set of Rottweilers (Rozzey & Jerzey). They love their current dogs Buddy and Missy like children. Since their chance encounter they have been by each other’s side for the past twenty-four years.
In lieu of flowers memorial donations to the American Heart Association or any worthy organization relating to pets or animals would be greatly appreciated.
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