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Friends may gather with the family for Memorial Visitation at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne, on Saturday October 15, 2016 from 2:00 to 4:30 PM. A Funeral Service will immediately follow visitation and begin in the funeral home at 4:30 PM.
Louis J. Iacovelli, age 81, of Wayne, passed peacefully, with family by his side, on Sunday, October 9, 2016.
Lou was born in Newark and raised in nearby Belleville, NJ. After graduation from Belleville High School in 1954, he enlisted in the U.S. Navy and spent the next three years working in the ship’s engine room and traveling all over the world including the middle east and France.
Lou had met his bride-to-be Mary Marsico before joining the Navy so, while he was in France which is said to be the birthplace of the bikini, Mary asked him to bring one home for her. Needless to say, he happily obliged looking forward to see his beautiful girlfriend in one of those contraptions only a man could invent, but since bikinis were pretty-much cutting edge fashion in the U.S., sadly, he could never get her to wear it. Mary also recalls that when Lou would come home from service on leave, one of their favorite ways to spend time together was going to the movies. In fact their first date was to a movie theater in Newark where they saw Frank Sinatra and Kim Novak star in that 1955 American drama called The Man with the Golden Arm. Anyway, when Lou was home on leave, the last thing he wanted to wear was his Navy uniform but, when they went to the movies, Mary always asked Lou to wear it so everyone could see her proudly walking arm-in-arm with a handsome sailor.
Lou asked Mary to be his wife and, gladly accepting his proposal, they exchanged their wedding promises before God, family, and friends on Sunday, December 8, 1957 at St. Michael’s Church on Cianci Street in Paterson. After a honeymoon in Williamsburg, VA, their first home together was in Totowa in a second floor apartment that they rented for $55.00 per month. After living there for ten years the house was going to be torn down so that Kennedy High School could be built so Lou and Mary had to move. They ultimately purchased a home in Wayne where they’ve lived for the past thirty-nine years.
After returning home from the war, Lou got a job with Public Service Coordinated Transport in Newark as a bus driver. The company later became known as New Jersey Transit and his career spanned a total of 39 years including the last two years before retirement in 1996 as a Newark trolley operator.
Lou’s idea of relaxation was fishing for tuna down at Point Pleasant. He fished almost every Saturday, and lots of those excursions were with his son Lewis in Lewis’ boat, but he also fished with a lot with his buddies, and even with his grandchildren at lakes near home. Throughout their years together, Lou and Mary got to go to a lot of weddings where you could always find them on the dance floor impressing everyone with their rumba moves. After a day behind the wheel of that NJ Transit bus, Lou liked to eat dinner then pick up his brush and relax by painting different paintings by number. One of his proudest accomplishments was a pair of paintings he did of The Blue Boy originally painted by Thomas Gainsborough and Pinkie originally painted by Sir Thomas Lawrence. Lou recreated them so well, he swore there was no way you could tell they were painted by number. When it came to watching television, Lou’s favorite movies were from the James Bond series, but as Lou would always say, “Only the ones where Sean Connery starred as Bond.” During baseball season, Lou always watched the Mets and during football season, Sunday afternoons were spent rooting for the Giants.
Louis is survived by his beloved wife Mary; two dear sons: Lewis and wife Jami of Greensboro, NC and Michael of Phoenix, AZ; two dear daughters: Lisa and husband Joseph Radosky of Melbourne, FL and Mia Iacovelli of Gonic, NH; five cherished grandchildren: Stephanie, Matthew, Amara, Daniel, and Kayla; his brother Carl and wife Rae Iacovelli of Barnegat, NJ; his sister Agnes of Florida: and many nieces, nephews and cousins.
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Friends may gather with the family for Memorial Visitation at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne, on Saturday October 15, 2016 from 2:00 to 4:30 PM. A Funeral Service will immediately follow visitation and begin in the funeral home at 4:30 PM.
Services
Friends may gather with the family for Memorial Visitation at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne, on Saturday October 15, 2016 from 2:00 to 4:30 PM. A Funeral Service will immediately follow visitation and begin in the funeral home at 4:30 PM.
Louis J. Iacovelli, age 81, of Wayne, passed peacefully, with family by his side, on Sunday, October 9, 2016.
Lou was born in Newark and raised in nearby Belleville, NJ. After graduation from Belleville High School in 1954, he enlisted in the U.S. Navy and spent the next three years working in the ship’s engine room and traveling all over the world including the middle east and France.
Lou had met his bride-to-be Mary Marsico before joining the Navy so, while he was in France which is said to be the birthplace of the bikini, Mary asked him to bring one home for her. Needless to say, he happily obliged looking forward to see his beautiful girlfriend in one of those contraptions only a man could invent, but since bikinis were pretty-much cutting edge fashion in the U.S., sadly, he could never get her to wear it. Mary also recalls that when Lou would come home from service on leave, one of their favorite ways to spend time together was going to the movies. In fact their first date was to a movie theater in Newark where they saw Frank Sinatra and Kim Novak star in that 1955 American drama called The Man with the Golden Arm. Anyway, when Lou was home on leave, the last thing he wanted to wear was his Navy uniform but, when they went to the movies, Mary always asked Lou to wear it so everyone could see her proudly walking arm-in-arm with a handsome sailor.
Lou asked Mary to be his wife and, gladly accepting his proposal, they exchanged their wedding promises before God, family, and friends on Sunday, December 8, 1957 at St. Michael’s Church on Cianci Street in Paterson. After a honeymoon in Williamsburg, VA, their first home together was in Totowa in a second floor apartment that they rented for $55.00 per month. After living there for ten years the house was going to be torn down so that Kennedy High School could be built so Lou and Mary had to move. They ultimately purchased a home in Wayne where they’ve lived for the past thirty-nine years.
After returning home from the war, Lou got a job with Public Service Coordinated Transport in Newark as a bus driver. The company later became known as New Jersey Transit and his career spanned a total of 39 years including the last two years before retirement in 1996 as a Newark trolley operator.
Lou’s idea of relaxation was fishing for tuna down at Point Pleasant. He fished almost every Saturday, and lots of those excursions were with his son Lewis in Lewis’ boat, but he also fished with a lot with his buddies, and even with his grandchildren at lakes near home. Throughout their years together, Lou and Mary got to go to a lot of weddings where you could always find them on the dance floor impressing everyone with their rumba moves. After a day behind the wheel of that NJ Transit bus, Lou liked to eat dinner then pick up his brush and relax by painting different paintings by number. One of his proudest accomplishments was a pair of paintings he did of The Blue Boy originally painted by Thomas Gainsborough and Pinkie originally painted by Sir Thomas Lawrence. Lou recreated them so well, he swore there was no way you could tell they were painted by number. When it came to watching television, Lou’s favorite movies were from the James Bond series, but as Lou would always say, “Only the ones where Sean Connery starred as Bond.” During baseball season, Lou always watched the Mets and during football season, Sunday afternoons were spent rooting for the Giants.
Louis is survived by his beloved wife Mary; two dear sons: Lewis and wife Jami of Greensboro, NC and Michael of Phoenix, AZ; two dear daughters: Lisa and husband Joseph Radosky of Melbourne, FL and Mia Iacovelli of Gonic, NH; five cherished grandchildren: Stephanie, Matthew, Amara, Daniel, and Kayla; his brother Carl and wife Rae Iacovelli of Barnegat, NJ; his sister Agnes of Florida: and many nieces, nephews and cousins.
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