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January 27, 2020
Services
Friends may visit with the family from 4-8 PM on Thursday, January 30, 2020 at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne. A private family funeral will be held on Friday.
Matthew Dox, Sr., age 67, a forty-five year resident of Wayne, passed suddenly on Monday, January 27, 2020 with the comfort of his family by his side.
He was born in Paterson to Matthew and Margaret Dox and raised on Marion Street in Paterson. Matt was a football player and graduated from Paterson Catholic High School with the Class of 1970. He continued his education at Seton Hall University where he received his Bachelor of Science Degree in Accounting with the Class of 1974.
Matt’s work history includes being a bus boy at Perkins Pancake House on Route 46, being a deli counter person at the A&P food store in Fair Lawn, and after college he found work as an accountant at Saint Josephs Hospital in Paterson. One of Matt’s duties, as an accountant, was being picked up by the Paterson Police to bring the hospital’s deposit to the bank. This casual encounter with the police, and the fact that Matt hated being an accountant, led him to pursue a career in law enforcement. Matt saw a recruitment advertisement in the newspaper from the Wayne Police Department and was soon taking the test. His career with the Wayne Police spanned over thirty years having started as a Patrolman and working his way up through the ranks to Detective and then to Detective Sergeant before retiring in 2010. During his years with the Wayne Police he served as President of the Wayne P.B.A. Local 136.
During Matt’s years as an accountant at Saint Josephs Hospital he met a beautiful girl named Patricia “Patty” Rolleri at a hospital dinner. Matt and Patty really hit it off and he took her to one of his favorite hamburger places on their first date. In typical Matt fashion he proposed marriage, sometime close to Valentines Day, while in the basement of his parents’ home watching a hockey game. Patty and Matt married on October 8, 1977 and had their reception in the Emerald Room at the Wayne Manor. They honeymooned at Negril Beach in Jamaica, where much to Matt’s…surprise??... the hotel just happened to be by a clothing optional beach. Matt and Patty have enjoyed a loving and devoted marriage, filled with love and laughter, for forty-two years.
Those who know Matt will remember him as a sincere, caring, nice guy. He loved sports and was a dedicated NY Giants and NY Mets fan. For many years he enjoyed playing in the PBA Softball League, playing touch football for the Wyckoff Jets, and in his later years he enjoyed golfing. He loved a good joke, enjoyed self-deprecating humor, often had a sarcastic comment, was forever a schmoozer, hated phony people, and was one of the most easy-going people you would ever meet. Most of all he will be remembered as a great family man. His children have many fond and loving memories including annual trips to Long Beach Island in the summer where they would go crabbing, mini-golfing, and to the water park. He was incredibly proud of his children and his granddaughter Addie.
Matt was the loving husband of Patricia (Rolleri) Dox, the devoted father of Matthew Dox and his wife Jennifer of Pompton Lakes and Meghan Sims and her husband Ryan of Medford; he was the cherished grandfather of Addie Sims; the dearly loved son of Matthew and Margaret Dox of Wayne; devoted brother of Michael Dox and his wife Linda of Bloomfield; loving brother-in-law to Dr. Robert and Norma Jean Falcone and well as Robert and Gail Rolleri; loved uncle to Stephanie, Michelle, Melissa, Lucas, Rachel, Katie, and Michael.
In lieu of flowers memorial donations to the NJ Special Olympics or the National Alopecia Areata Foundation would be greatly appreciated.
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Friends may visit with the family from 4-8 PM on Thursday, January 30, 2020 at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne. A private family funeral will be held on Friday.
January 27, 2020
Services
Friends may visit with the family from 4-8 PM on Thursday, January 30, 2020 at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne. A private family funeral will be held on Friday.
Matthew Dox, Sr., age 67, a forty-five year resident of Wayne, passed suddenly on Monday, January 27, 2020 with the comfort of his family by his side.
He was born in Paterson to Matthew and Margaret Dox and raised on Marion Street in Paterson. Matt was a football player and graduated from Paterson Catholic High School with the Class of 1970. He continued his education at Seton Hall University where he received his Bachelor of Science Degree in Accounting with the Class of 1974.
Matt’s work history includes being a bus boy at Perkins Pancake House on Route 46, being a deli counter person at the A&P food store in Fair Lawn, and after college he found work as an accountant at Saint Josephs Hospital in Paterson. One of Matt’s duties, as an accountant, was being picked up by the Paterson Police to bring the hospital’s deposit to the bank. This casual encounter with the police, and the fact that Matt hated being an accountant, led him to pursue a career in law enforcement. Matt saw a recruitment advertisement in the newspaper from the Wayne Police Department and was soon taking the test. His career with the Wayne Police spanned over thirty years having started as a Patrolman and working his way up through the ranks to Detective and then to Detective Sergeant before retiring in 2010. During his years with the Wayne Police he served as President of the Wayne P.B.A. Local 136.
During Matt’s years as an accountant at Saint Josephs Hospital he met a beautiful girl named Patricia “Patty” Rolleri at a hospital dinner. Matt and Patty really hit it off and he took her to one of his favorite hamburger places on their first date. In typical Matt fashion he proposed marriage, sometime close to Valentines Day, while in the basement of his parents’ home watching a hockey game. Patty and Matt married on October 8, 1977 and had their reception in the Emerald Room at the Wayne Manor. They honeymooned at Negril Beach in Jamaica, where much to Matt’s…surprise??... the hotel just happened to be by a clothing optional beach. Matt and Patty have enjoyed a loving and devoted marriage, filled with love and laughter, for forty-two years.
Those who know Matt will remember him as a sincere, caring, nice guy. He loved sports and was a dedicated NY Giants and NY Mets fan. For many years he enjoyed playing in the PBA Softball League, playing touch football for the Wyckoff Jets, and in his later years he enjoyed golfing. He loved a good joke, enjoyed self-deprecating humor, often had a sarcastic comment, was forever a schmoozer, hated phony people, and was one of the most easy-going people you would ever meet. Most of all he will be remembered as a great family man. His children have many fond and loving memories including annual trips to Long Beach Island in the summer where they would go crabbing, mini-golfing, and to the water park. He was incredibly proud of his children and his granddaughter Addie.
Matt was the loving husband of Patricia (Rolleri) Dox, the devoted father of Matthew Dox and his wife Jennifer of Pompton Lakes and Meghan Sims and her husband Ryan of Medford; he was the cherished grandfather of Addie Sims; the dearly loved son of Matthew and Margaret Dox of Wayne; devoted brother of Michael Dox and his wife Linda of Bloomfield; loving brother-in-law to Dr. Robert and Norma Jean Falcone and well as Robert and Gail Rolleri; loved uncle to Stephanie, Michelle, Melissa, Lucas, Rachel, Katie, and Michael.
In lieu of flowers memorial donations to the NJ Special Olympics or the National Alopecia Areata Foundation would be greatly appreciated.
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