Philip Ippolito

Philip Christopher Ippolito,”Phil”  age 70, of Jersey City, passed Wednesday, May 11, 2022.

He was born in Jersey City and raised in Franklin Lakes. He attended Ramapo Valley High School, Oakland with the Class of 1969.

As a young man Phil worked at his father’s store, Ippolito’s Furrier at the corner of McAdoo & Fowler Street in Jersey City.  Soon Phil and his brother changed the store from a furrier to a wholesale and retail merchandise store called Joseph Thomas Distributors. The brother’s closed the store in 2005 and Phil soon found work as an Operating Engineer for the Jersey City Incinerator Authority in Jersey City.  He worked for Jersey City for about ten years before retiring in 2017.

Phil was a devoted and dedicated family man carrying copies of many family pictures in his oversized, rubber band bound, wallet that tested the tensile strength of the leather it was made from.  He will be remembered as a loving, caring, nostalgic, determined and giving man. Pop Pop loved his summer trips to Villa Roma and Cape May with his amazing granddaughters Gia and Valentina.  He loved swimming in the pool, jumping on the trampoline, and having ice cream with his little stars.

Phil met Sandra Murgola and after dating for about one year and they married on May 19, 1974 at Holy Rosary Church in Jersey City.  They had a reception at the Barrel Inn on Linden Avenue in Jersey City and honeymooned on Paradise Island in the Bahamas.  Phil and Sandy had a forty-eight year marriage that was blessed with daughters Erica and Cassandra as well as two granddaughters Gia and Valentina.

He was the loving husband of Sandra; devoted father of Erica Ferraro and her husband Mario, and Cassandra Ippolito; he was the cherished grandfather of Gia and Valentina Ferraro; much loved brother of Janice, Gloria, Marilyn, Thomas, Ralph, and the late Joseph.

Memorial donations in Phil’s name can be made to Saint Jude Children’s Research Hospital. www.stjude.org