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April 14, 2013
Services
Friends may visit with the family at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne, on Tuesday, April 16, 2013 from 2-4 & 7-9 PM.
Funeral Services will be held at 9:30 AM on Wednesday, April 17, 2013 from the funeral home, then to Saint Mary’s Catholic Church, 17 Pompton Avenue, Pompton Lakes, where at 10:30 AM a Funeral Mass will be offered.
Richard E. Stamboulian, age 59 of Wayne, died peacefully, with his family by his side, on Sunday, April 14, 2013.
Richard was born and raised in Binghamton, NY, hometown of The Twilight Zone’s Rod Sterling. He was the son of Edward and Alice (nee Bandayan) Stamboulian. When he was just ten years of age his mom passed away leaving his father to care for him and his sister Aleda. Dad eventually remarried and, with his two step-brothers Stuart and John, the family grew to be a family of six.
Rich had a great love for all sports and he played every one of them including baseball, basketball, football and swimming. He even was a member of his hometown Binghamton Central High School track and long distance running team! After graduation from Central High, Rich attended Clarkson University, an independent technological school in Potsdam, NY. Clarkson was a big hockey school so, while there, Rich parlayed his love of sports with his studies as a math major by landing a job with the schools ice hockey program as team statistician. After graduating from Clarkson in 1974, he furthered his studies at SUNY Binghamton, receiving his master’s degree in accounting in 1976. While there Rich enjoyed playing hockey and was the goalie for the schools club teams.
With his education behind him Rich moved to New York City in search of work. He landed a position with CBS Records before going to work as an accountant for the Showtime Network for most of his career. He eventually left Showtime to pursue a new venture and had served for several years as a professor of accounting at Bergen Community College, Warren County Community College, Berkley College and Passaic Community College.
In 1985 Rich decided to run in the New York City Marathon. In the middle of the race he sustained a serious knee injury. He received a recommendation from a friend to see a sports medicine orthopedist. While there he met a kind and intelligent woman who worked for the doctor. Her name was Marcia Mayer and he liked her so much that he decided to ask her out. Their first date was to the movie theater at Willowbrook Mall where they saw the movie Back to the Future. After the show they went to the Tick Tock Diner in Clifton. They married on April 4, 1987 at St. Andrew the Apostle Church in Clifton followed by a reception at the Bethwood and honeymoon in Virgin Gorda, the British Virgin Islands. The newlyweds initially settled in Wallington before moving to Wayne in 1988. During Rich and Marcia’s twenty-six years of marriage the clock had tick-tocked many happy memories of love, laughter and togetherness.
Rich and Marcia loved to travel together and recall trips, twice to England as well as to Portugal, Spain, Puerto Rico, many of the Caribbean Islands and local trips to Maine and Cape Cod. The two of them shared a love for animals, especially dogs. Their sense of compassion prompted them to volunteer for several years with Wayne Animal Shelter where they cleaned cages, fed and walked the dogs and resisted the urge to take just about every one of them, to give them a good loving home. They themselves have a Doberman Pinscher named Cody which they rescued from a shelter. Cody loved to nuzzle in bed between Rich and Marcia and will surely miss Rich!
In his spare time, Rich continued in his love of sports. At this point in his life he was more of a spectator than a participant and he loved his season tickets for the New York Rangers as well as rooting for other local favorites including the Yankees and Giants. Following sports was not just restricted to professional teams though. Rich also enjoyed following local high school sports teams. In 2006 he became a sports writer for the local Wayne Today newspaper. As a parishioner of Saint Mary’s Parish in Pompton Lakes since 1990, Rich ran several of the church’s charity golf tournaments and was also involved in the church’s Cornerstone program and men’s Sunday night prayer group.
Rich will be remembered as a good man and a good friend who loved music and art and who selflessly gave of himself to anyone in need. He was very friendly and he loved to talk and tell stories and he really loved to laugh!
Richard is survived by his beloved wife Marcia (nee Mayer), his dear sister Aleda Stamboulian of Saugerties, NY, and his two step-brothers: Stuart and wife Margaret Stamos of Endicott, NY, and John and wife Catherine Stamos of Bethlehem, CT.
Those planning an expression of sympathy in Richard’s name are asked to consider the Alzheimer’s Association, 400 Morris Ave., Suite 251, Denville, NJ 07834, or online at www.alz.org/nj
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Friends may visit with the family at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne, on Tuesday, April 16, 2013 from 2-4 & 7-9 PM.
Funeral Services will be held at 9:30 AM on Wednesday, April 17, 2013 from the funeral home, then to Saint Mary’s Catholic Church, 17 Pompton Avenue, Pompton Lakes, where at 10:30 AM a Funeral Mass will be offered.
April 14, 2013
Services
Friends may visit with the family at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne, on Tuesday, April 16, 2013 from 2-4 & 7-9 PM.
Funeral Services will be held at 9:30 AM on Wednesday, April 17, 2013 from the funeral home, then to Saint Mary’s Catholic Church, 17 Pompton Avenue, Pompton Lakes, where at 10:30 AM a Funeral Mass will be offered.
Richard E. Stamboulian, age 59 of Wayne, died peacefully, with his family by his side, on Sunday, April 14, 2013.
Richard was born and raised in Binghamton, NY, hometown of The Twilight Zone’s Rod Sterling. He was the son of Edward and Alice (nee Bandayan) Stamboulian. When he was just ten years of age his mom passed away leaving his father to care for him and his sister Aleda. Dad eventually remarried and, with his two step-brothers Stuart and John, the family grew to be a family of six.
Rich had a great love for all sports and he played every one of them including baseball, basketball, football and swimming. He even was a member of his hometown Binghamton Central High School track and long distance running team! After graduation from Central High, Rich attended Clarkson University, an independent technological school in Potsdam, NY. Clarkson was a big hockey school so, while there, Rich parlayed his love of sports with his studies as a math major by landing a job with the schools ice hockey program as team statistician. After graduating from Clarkson in 1974, he furthered his studies at SUNY Binghamton, receiving his master’s degree in accounting in 1976. While there Rich enjoyed playing hockey and was the goalie for the schools club teams.
With his education behind him Rich moved to New York City in search of work. He landed a position with CBS Records before going to work as an accountant for the Showtime Network for most of his career. He eventually left Showtime to pursue a new venture and had served for several years as a professor of accounting at Bergen Community College, Warren County Community College, Berkley College and Passaic Community College.
In 1985 Rich decided to run in the New York City Marathon. In the middle of the race he sustained a serious knee injury. He received a recommendation from a friend to see a sports medicine orthopedist. While there he met a kind and intelligent woman who worked for the doctor. Her name was Marcia Mayer and he liked her so much that he decided to ask her out. Their first date was to the movie theater at Willowbrook Mall where they saw the movie Back to the Future. After the show they went to the Tick Tock Diner in Clifton. They married on April 4, 1987 at St. Andrew the Apostle Church in Clifton followed by a reception at the Bethwood and honeymoon in Virgin Gorda, the British Virgin Islands. The newlyweds initially settled in Wallington before moving to Wayne in 1988. During Rich and Marcia’s twenty-six years of marriage the clock had tick-tocked many happy memories of love, laughter and togetherness.
Rich and Marcia loved to travel together and recall trips, twice to England as well as to Portugal, Spain, Puerto Rico, many of the Caribbean Islands and local trips to Maine and Cape Cod. The two of them shared a love for animals, especially dogs. Their sense of compassion prompted them to volunteer for several years with Wayne Animal Shelter where they cleaned cages, fed and walked the dogs and resisted the urge to take just about every one of them, to give them a good loving home. They themselves have a Doberman Pinscher named Cody which they rescued from a shelter. Cody loved to nuzzle in bed between Rich and Marcia and will surely miss Rich!
In his spare time, Rich continued in his love of sports. At this point in his life he was more of a spectator than a participant and he loved his season tickets for the New York Rangers as well as rooting for other local favorites including the Yankees and Giants. Following sports was not just restricted to professional teams though. Rich also enjoyed following local high school sports teams. In 2006 he became a sports writer for the local Wayne Today newspaper. As a parishioner of Saint Mary’s Parish in Pompton Lakes since 1990, Rich ran several of the church’s charity golf tournaments and was also involved in the church’s Cornerstone program and men’s Sunday night prayer group.
Rich will be remembered as a good man and a good friend who loved music and art and who selflessly gave of himself to anyone in need. He was very friendly and he loved to talk and tell stories and he really loved to laugh!
Richard is survived by his beloved wife Marcia (nee Mayer), his dear sister Aleda Stamboulian of Saugerties, NY, and his two step-brothers: Stuart and wife Margaret Stamos of Endicott, NY, and John and wife Catherine Stamos of Bethlehem, CT.
Those planning an expression of sympathy in Richard’s name are asked to consider the Alzheimer’s Association, 400 Morris Ave., Suite 251, Denville, NJ 07834, or online at www.alz.org/nj
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