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June 7, 2012
Services
Friends may visit with the family on Sunday, June 10, 2012 from 2-6 PM at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
Funeral services will be held 10 AM on Monday, June 11, 2012 at the funeral home.
Interment will be in Holy Sepulchre Cemetery, Totowa.
Philip J. Laprezioso, Sr., age 87 of Lincoln Park died peacefully on Thursday, June 7, 2012.
He was born and raised in the family home on Gordon Avenue in Totowa . Philip lived on Mill Street in Paterson before moving to Lincoln Park fifty-six years ago.
He enlisted in the United States Army on March 22, 1943and served during WWII with the 735th Bomb Squadron in Normandy and Northern France, Rhineland, Germany, Central Europe, and Ardennes, Belgium. He received the American Theater, European, African, and Middle Eastern Service Medals and the Good Conduct Medal. He was discharged on October 30, 1945.
After his military service he was a partner is a Paterson service station and then worked as a Forman for a contractor named Sam Comforth. He was the Forman overseeing the building of the Fair Lawn Hospital which is now the Maple Glen Center Nursing Home. His experience in the building trade inspired him to open his own contracting company in Lincoln Park which he named PJL & Sons. The business ran for over forty years before Philip retired in 1995. Although he was retired he was still tackling building projects for his family up until just two years ago.
Philip was an exempt member of the Lincoln Park Fire Company where he donated his time to the community for over twenty-five years. He was also a member and served as Secretary of the Lincoln Park Lions Club for many years. Philip enjoyed sketching, drawing, bowling, and playing cards. He was always good with children, unless they were his own all of whom were fired from PJL & Sons more times than they can remember.
He was the loving husband of the late Tina (DiNatale) Laprezioso (1999); devoted father of Philip Laprezioso and his wife Denita of Pequannock, Donny Laprezioso and his wife Elaine of East Stroudsburg, PA, and Frank Laprezioso and his wife Patricia, and the late Jimmy Laprezioso (1971); cherished grandfather of Nicholas Laprezioso; dear brother of Jennie, and Willy Laprezioso of Totowa, and the late Annie, Lucy, Theresa, Matt, Josie, and Grace.
In lieu of flowers memorial donations to the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society, Donor Services, P.O. Box 4072, Pittsfield, MA 01202 would be appreciated.
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Friends may visit with the family on Sunday, June 10, 2012 from 2-6 PM at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
Funeral services will be held 10 AM on Monday, June 11, 2012 at the funeral home.
Interment will be in Holy Sepulchre Cemetery, Totowa.
June 7, 2012
Services
Friends may visit with the family on Sunday, June 10, 2012 from 2-6 PM at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
Funeral services will be held 10 AM on Monday, June 11, 2012 at the funeral home.
Interment will be in Holy Sepulchre Cemetery, Totowa.
Philip J. Laprezioso, Sr., age 87 of Lincoln Park died peacefully on Thursday, June 7, 2012.
He was born and raised in the family home on Gordon Avenue in Totowa . Philip lived on Mill Street in Paterson before moving to Lincoln Park fifty-six years ago.
He enlisted in the United States Army on March 22, 1943and served during WWII with the 735th Bomb Squadron in Normandy and Northern France, Rhineland, Germany, Central Europe, and Ardennes, Belgium. He received the American Theater, European, African, and Middle Eastern Service Medals and the Good Conduct Medal. He was discharged on October 30, 1945.
After his military service he was a partner is a Paterson service station and then worked as a Forman for a contractor named Sam Comforth. He was the Forman overseeing the building of the Fair Lawn Hospital which is now the Maple Glen Center Nursing Home. His experience in the building trade inspired him to open his own contracting company in Lincoln Park which he named PJL & Sons. The business ran for over forty years before Philip retired in 1995. Although he was retired he was still tackling building projects for his family up until just two years ago.
Philip was an exempt member of the Lincoln Park Fire Company where he donated his time to the community for over twenty-five years. He was also a member and served as Secretary of the Lincoln Park Lions Club for many years. Philip enjoyed sketching, drawing, bowling, and playing cards. He was always good with children, unless they were his own all of whom were fired from PJL & Sons more times than they can remember.
He was the loving husband of the late Tina (DiNatale) Laprezioso (1999); devoted father of Philip Laprezioso and his wife Denita of Pequannock, Donny Laprezioso and his wife Elaine of East Stroudsburg, PA, and Frank Laprezioso and his wife Patricia, and the late Jimmy Laprezioso (1971); cherished grandfather of Nicholas Laprezioso; dear brother of Jennie, and Willy Laprezioso of Totowa, and the late Annie, Lucy, Theresa, Matt, Josie, and Grace.
In lieu of flowers memorial donations to the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society, Donor Services, P.O. Box 4072, Pittsfield, MA 01202 would be appreciated.
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