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December 15, 2014
Services
Friends may visit with the family on Friday, December 19, 2014 from 4-8 PM at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
Funeral services will be held 9:30 AM on Saturday, December 20, 2014 at the funeral home.
Interment will be in Calvary Cemetery, Paterson.
Philip C. Morea age 82 of Wayne passed Monday, December 15, 2014.
He was born in Jersey City and raised in Elmwood Park, having lived in Paterson before moving to Wayne fifty-two years ago.
Many of his formative years were spent on a farm in Saugerties, New York where he learned to be a jack of all trades. He spoke fondly of driving the tractor and tending to the cows there on the farm.
Phil's work history involved working as a mason for Local 4 in Paterson for a few years and driving a truck for Lazzara's Bakery in Paterson. He later settled into work as a Chemical Operator for Hoffman La-Roche in Nutley where he worked for twenty-eight years before retiring in 1986. During his retirement he often helped his daughter Dawn at her restaurant Franchino's in New Milford.
He enjoyed bowling here in New Jersey up until two months ago and in his younger days he traveled to tournaments all over Florida with his dad. His father is even listed in the Bowling Hall of Fame in Florida. Phil also was a great roller skater having danced in competitions, often at the Paramus Roller Rink, for many years. He loved sports and was a New York Mets and New York Giants fan. Every Sunday, Monday, Thursday, and Saturday everyone knew where to find Phil...in front of the TV watching the game.
While attending a Saturday night dance at the local YMCA Phil laid eyes on Dolores Shakal and immediately told his friends "I'm going to marry that girl." They danced the whole night together and were married on September 12, 1954. They enjoyed a honeymoon in the Pocono's and settled in Paterson. They moved to West Paterson and then finally moved into their home in Wayne in 1963 where they have happily lived for forty nine years until Dolores' passing in October of 2012. Throughout their marriage, Dee and Phil enjoyed traveling. Through the years they traveled with the Wayne Golden Age Circle to Branson, Missouri and South Dakota. Aruba was by far their favorite vacation spot and were fortunate to have spent an entire month there on one visit - they both didn't want to come home!
Phil will be remembered as a quiet man of few words, always there for you, loving, compassionate, humble, with a huge heart. He loved to sip his coffee and work around the pool in the back yard. He would also wander the neighborhood and chat up the people he met along the way.
He was the loving husband of the late Dolores M. Morea (10/2012); much loved father of Dawn Morea of Wayne, Robert Morea and his wife Deanna of Brooklyn, NY, and Donna Morea of Warwick, NY; cherished grandfather of Daniela Terrana of Hawthorne, Anderson, and Blake Morea. He will also be greatly missed by his Yorkie "Snickers."
In lieu of flowers memorial donations to St Jude Children's Hospital, PO Box 1000, Dept. 142, Memphis, TN 38148-0142 would be appreciated.
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Friends may visit with the family on Friday, December 19, 2014 from 4-8 PM at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
Funeral services will be held 9:30 AM on Saturday, December 20, 2014 at the funeral home.
Interment will be in Calvary Cemetery, Paterson.
December 15, 2014
Services
Friends may visit with the family on Friday, December 19, 2014 from 4-8 PM at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
Funeral services will be held 9:30 AM on Saturday, December 20, 2014 at the funeral home.
Interment will be in Calvary Cemetery, Paterson.
Philip C. Morea age 82 of Wayne passed Monday, December 15, 2014.
He was born in Jersey City and raised in Elmwood Park, having lived in Paterson before moving to Wayne fifty-two years ago.
Many of his formative years were spent on a farm in Saugerties, New York where he learned to be a jack of all trades. He spoke fondly of driving the tractor and tending to the cows there on the farm.
Phil's work history involved working as a mason for Local 4 in Paterson for a few years and driving a truck for Lazzara's Bakery in Paterson. He later settled into work as a Chemical Operator for Hoffman La-Roche in Nutley where he worked for twenty-eight years before retiring in 1986. During his retirement he often helped his daughter Dawn at her restaurant Franchino's in New Milford.
He enjoyed bowling here in New Jersey up until two months ago and in his younger days he traveled to tournaments all over Florida with his dad. His father is even listed in the Bowling Hall of Fame in Florida. Phil also was a great roller skater having danced in competitions, often at the Paramus Roller Rink, for many years. He loved sports and was a New York Mets and New York Giants fan. Every Sunday, Monday, Thursday, and Saturday everyone knew where to find Phil...in front of the TV watching the game.
While attending a Saturday night dance at the local YMCA Phil laid eyes on Dolores Shakal and immediately told his friends "I'm going to marry that girl." They danced the whole night together and were married on September 12, 1954. They enjoyed a honeymoon in the Pocono's and settled in Paterson. They moved to West Paterson and then finally moved into their home in Wayne in 1963 where they have happily lived for forty nine years until Dolores' passing in October of 2012. Throughout their marriage, Dee and Phil enjoyed traveling. Through the years they traveled with the Wayne Golden Age Circle to Branson, Missouri and South Dakota. Aruba was by far their favorite vacation spot and were fortunate to have spent an entire month there on one visit - they both didn't want to come home!
Phil will be remembered as a quiet man of few words, always there for you, loving, compassionate, humble, with a huge heart. He loved to sip his coffee and work around the pool in the back yard. He would also wander the neighborhood and chat up the people he met along the way.
He was the loving husband of the late Dolores M. Morea (10/2012); much loved father of Dawn Morea of Wayne, Robert Morea and his wife Deanna of Brooklyn, NY, and Donna Morea of Warwick, NY; cherished grandfather of Daniela Terrana of Hawthorne, Anderson, and Blake Morea. He will also be greatly missed by his Yorkie "Snickers."
In lieu of flowers memorial donations to St Jude Children's Hospital, PO Box 1000, Dept. 142, Memphis, TN 38148-0142 would be appreciated.
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