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November 21, 2018
Services
Friends may visit with the family from 1-9 PM on Wednesday, November 28, 2018 at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
A Funeral Mass will be offered 10 AM on Thursday, November 29, 2018 at Immaculate Heart of Mary Church, 580 Ratzer Road, Wayne (Directly across the street from the funeral home).
Interment will be in Immaculate Conception Cemetery, Montclair with his son Scott who passed away in December of 1997.
Paul Samanchik, age 70, of Wayne for over fifty years, passed suddenly and unexpectedly on Wednesday, November 21, 2018.
He was born in Passaic to William and Edithe Samanchik and lived in Clifton before moving to the Packanack Lake section of Wayne when he was twelve years old. He graduated from the Wayne High School with the Class of 1966. He received his Bachelor of Science Degree from the University of Virginia and played on their golf team all four years. He was a US Army Veteran who served with the National Guard for six years.
When Paul was about ten or eleven years old his father joined the North Jersey Country Club in Wayne. In his younger years Paul took a job watering the greens and tee boxes with the club’s dog sitting in the cart by his side. His father passed away in 1974 at just sixty-one years old and there was no membership level available for such a young person so the club made-up one called the “B Membership.” Paul was a member and served on the Board of Directors, Greens Committee, and the Golf Committee at North Jersey Country Club where he was a member for over sixty years. He won twelve Club Championships, was the youngest champion in 1964 at the age of sixteen, and you will find his name in first place on just every other tournament the club has had. He was always very proud of winning the Metropolitan Golf Association Father Son Tournament with his dad in 1964 and again in 1968. Years later he would win the same tournament with his son Scott. On July 14, 1966 at the age of eighteen Paul and his father William played golf at the Highlands Country Club in Highlands, North Carolina where the professional golfer Bobby Jones held the course record. Paul carded a score of 61 to set a new course record. Bobby Jones just happened to be at the course that day and congratulated Paul on beating his course record. Bobby Jones gave Paul an autographed copy of the book, The American Golfer to commemorate the day.
Paul was a Tournament Golf Official for the New Jersey Golf Association and served with the Metropolitan Golf Association as a Tournament Golf Official and volunteered his time for their Caddy Scholarship Program. Paul also volunteered as an official at the Senior PGA (Chubb Classic) and the CME Ladies Tournament both in Naples, Florida.
Paul worked in the Insurance and Financial industry his entire career. He started with the Home Life Insurance Company. Through the years the company has changed names several times and is now known as Allied Wealth Partners in Parsippany. He worked in the industry for over forty years and was semi-retired.
When asked to describe Paul’s personality the name Archie Bunker comes immediately to mind. Paul could laugh at his friends, laugh at others, and more importantly laugh at himself. He had a nickname for just about everyone and even himself, “Rambo.” He gave himself the nickname because while golfing he would hit a shot deep into the woods and go looking for it. He made sure to wear a brightly colored hat as his errant shots were so far gone he wanted to make sure no hunters mistook him for a trophy animal. In Florida his errant snap-hook golf shots earned him the nickname “Snipe.”
In his youth Paul was friends with Bob Sessa and his girlfriend Susan. Paul was a lot of fun to hang around with and the three were often out together. The “third-wheel” Paul worked fine until he sat between Bob and Sue at a movie. It was at this point Bob said they had to find him a girl. Paul was to go on a double-date on Saturday night with his blind date Carolyn Cafone. Sue thought it a good idea for Carolyn to meet Paul the Friday before and Carolyn wasn’t so sure. If she didn’t like him she was stuck going out with him again the next day. Well she did meet Paul that Friday night and when they left Paul extended a hand to her so they could shake hands. Carolyn confided in her friend Mary “I’m going to marry that guy.” After dating for months Carolyn opened her heart and confided in Paul that when they shook hands that first night she felt a magic in his touch. Her heart was smitten. Paul replied, as only he could “Ok – well - I felt nothing.” Anyone who knows Paul can hear that coming from his lips. He was confident, to the point, honest even if it hurt his cause, and couldn’t keep a secret.
For months Paul would visit Carolyn daily for about an hour in her apartment in her mom’s three family home in Belleville. Valentine’s Day was approaching on a Friday and on Wednesday Paul called to say he wasn’t going to make it over. He called on Thursday to say he wasn’t going to make it again. Carolyn was sure he was going to break up with her. He showed up on Valentine’s Day with no flowers or gift in hand. She presented her Valentine gift and Paul reached into his pocket and pulled out a card. The card said “Love Forever” and that’s all Carolyn saw. Paul said “read it out loud.” As she did the realization hit her because the front of the card said “To My Wife with Love.” Carolyn’s mother also breezed over that part! When all realized the implications of those words they drank champagne til the wee hours of the morning. Paul and Carolyn married on August 17, 1975 at the Wayne Manor and honeymooned in his parents’ home in Stuart, Florida for one week and then spent the second week at Disney World. In July of 1976 their marriage was blessed with a son Scott who tragically passed away on December 22, 1997 at the age of twenty-one. Although devastated by his passing they have enjoyed a loving and devoted marriage of forty-three years. Carolyn said she will miss Paul’s stating the obvious when he would walk through the door at home and shout “Hi honey…It’s me.”
He was the loving husband of forty-three years to Carolyn (Cafone) Samanchik and the devoted father of the late Scott Samanchik (d.1997); he was the loved brother of Jane Schreven and her husband Cliff of Lynnwood, WA and loved uncle of Travis and Zachary Schreven and dear great-uncle of Mia Love Schreven and Peyton Shane Schreven.
In lieu of flowers memorial donations to St Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memorial Processing, 501 St. Jude Place, Memphis, TN 38105-9959 or the NJSGA Caddie Scholarship Foundation, 3 Golf Drive Suite #206, Kenilworth, NJ would be greatly appreciated.
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Friends may visit with the family from 1-9 PM on Wednesday, November 28, 2018 at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
A Funeral Mass will be offered 10 AM on Thursday, November 29, 2018 at Immaculate Heart of Mary Church, 580 Ratzer Road, Wayne (Directly across the street from the funeral home).
Interment will be in Immaculate Conception Cemetery, Montclair with his son Scott who passed away in December of 1997.
November 21, 2018
Services
Friends may visit with the family from 1-9 PM on Wednesday, November 28, 2018 at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
A Funeral Mass will be offered 10 AM on Thursday, November 29, 2018 at Immaculate Heart of Mary Church, 580 Ratzer Road, Wayne (Directly across the street from the funeral home).
Interment will be in Immaculate Conception Cemetery, Montclair with his son Scott who passed away in December of 1997.
Paul Samanchik, age 70, of Wayne for over fifty years, passed suddenly and unexpectedly on Wednesday, November 21, 2018.
He was born in Passaic to William and Edithe Samanchik and lived in Clifton before moving to the Packanack Lake section of Wayne when he was twelve years old. He graduated from the Wayne High School with the Class of 1966. He received his Bachelor of Science Degree from the University of Virginia and played on their golf team all four years. He was a US Army Veteran who served with the National Guard for six years.
When Paul was about ten or eleven years old his father joined the North Jersey Country Club in Wayne. In his younger years Paul took a job watering the greens and tee boxes with the club’s dog sitting in the cart by his side. His father passed away in 1974 at just sixty-one years old and there was no membership level available for such a young person so the club made-up one called the “B Membership.” Paul was a member and served on the Board of Directors, Greens Committee, and the Golf Committee at North Jersey Country Club where he was a member for over sixty years. He won twelve Club Championships, was the youngest champion in 1964 at the age of sixteen, and you will find his name in first place on just every other tournament the club has had. He was always very proud of winning the Metropolitan Golf Association Father Son Tournament with his dad in 1964 and again in 1968. Years later he would win the same tournament with his son Scott. On July 14, 1966 at the age of eighteen Paul and his father William played golf at the Highlands Country Club in Highlands, North Carolina where the professional golfer Bobby Jones held the course record. Paul carded a score of 61 to set a new course record. Bobby Jones just happened to be at the course that day and congratulated Paul on beating his course record. Bobby Jones gave Paul an autographed copy of the book, The American Golfer to commemorate the day.
Paul was a Tournament Golf Official for the New Jersey Golf Association and served with the Metropolitan Golf Association as a Tournament Golf Official and volunteered his time for their Caddy Scholarship Program. Paul also volunteered as an official at the Senior PGA (Chubb Classic) and the CME Ladies Tournament both in Naples, Florida.
Paul worked in the Insurance and Financial industry his entire career. He started with the Home Life Insurance Company. Through the years the company has changed names several times and is now known as Allied Wealth Partners in Parsippany. He worked in the industry for over forty years and was semi-retired.
When asked to describe Paul’s personality the name Archie Bunker comes immediately to mind. Paul could laugh at his friends, laugh at others, and more importantly laugh at himself. He had a nickname for just about everyone and even himself, “Rambo.” He gave himself the nickname because while golfing he would hit a shot deep into the woods and go looking for it. He made sure to wear a brightly colored hat as his errant shots were so far gone he wanted to make sure no hunters mistook him for a trophy animal. In Florida his errant snap-hook golf shots earned him the nickname “Snipe.”
In his youth Paul was friends with Bob Sessa and his girlfriend Susan. Paul was a lot of fun to hang around with and the three were often out together. The “third-wheel” Paul worked fine until he sat between Bob and Sue at a movie. It was at this point Bob said they had to find him a girl. Paul was to go on a double-date on Saturday night with his blind date Carolyn Cafone. Sue thought it a good idea for Carolyn to meet Paul the Friday before and Carolyn wasn’t so sure. If she didn’t like him she was stuck going out with him again the next day. Well she did meet Paul that Friday night and when they left Paul extended a hand to her so they could shake hands. Carolyn confided in her friend Mary “I’m going to marry that guy.” After dating for months Carolyn opened her heart and confided in Paul that when they shook hands that first night she felt a magic in his touch. Her heart was smitten. Paul replied, as only he could “Ok – well - I felt nothing.” Anyone who knows Paul can hear that coming from his lips. He was confident, to the point, honest even if it hurt his cause, and couldn’t keep a secret.
For months Paul would visit Carolyn daily for about an hour in her apartment in her mom’s three family home in Belleville. Valentine’s Day was approaching on a Friday and on Wednesday Paul called to say he wasn’t going to make it over. He called on Thursday to say he wasn’t going to make it again. Carolyn was sure he was going to break up with her. He showed up on Valentine’s Day with no flowers or gift in hand. She presented her Valentine gift and Paul reached into his pocket and pulled out a card. The card said “Love Forever” and that’s all Carolyn saw. Paul said “read it out loud.” As she did the realization hit her because the front of the card said “To My Wife with Love.” Carolyn’s mother also breezed over that part! When all realized the implications of those words they drank champagne til the wee hours of the morning. Paul and Carolyn married on August 17, 1975 at the Wayne Manor and honeymooned in his parents’ home in Stuart, Florida for one week and then spent the second week at Disney World. In July of 1976 their marriage was blessed with a son Scott who tragically passed away on December 22, 1997 at the age of twenty-one. Although devastated by his passing they have enjoyed a loving and devoted marriage of forty-three years. Carolyn said she will miss Paul’s stating the obvious when he would walk through the door at home and shout “Hi honey…It’s me.”
He was the loving husband of forty-three years to Carolyn (Cafone) Samanchik and the devoted father of the late Scott Samanchik (d.1997); he was the loved brother of Jane Schreven and her husband Cliff of Lynnwood, WA and loved uncle of Travis and Zachary Schreven and dear great-uncle of Mia Love Schreven and Peyton Shane Schreven.
In lieu of flowers memorial donations to St Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memorial Processing, 501 St. Jude Place, Memphis, TN 38105-9959 or the NJSGA Caddie Scholarship Foundation, 3 Golf Drive Suite #206, Kenilworth, NJ would be greatly appreciated.
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