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August 27, 2009
Services
Funeral services will be held Wednesday, September 2, 2009 at 10 AM at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
Friends may visit with the family at the funeral home Tuesday from 6 – 9 PM.
Everyone that takes this life’s journey on earth touches the world in some manner and leaves an everlasting footprint. Sandy’s life,was like that, he was gifted with excellence of the soul.
Sandy R. Galacio age 87 of Shamong, NJ formerly of Pompton Lakes slipped away into life eternal on Thursday, August 27, 2009 after a courageous battle with his declining health and many days filled with extraordinary challenges. His family was always present at his bedside loving and caring for him. His passing to a new day was graciously peaceful.
He was born in Paterson and had lived in Pompton Lakes most of his life before moving to Shamong to enjoy his retirement fifteen years ago.
Mr. Galacio was a police officer in Pompton Lakes for thirty-five years and retired as Chief of Police in 1983.
To say that Sandy was just a police officer would be an understatement. Those who are familiar with police work would understand the stress and diversity of the job on a daily basis and Sandy had a handle on his work that was exemplary. He was profoundly gifted in the art of interpersonal communication. Balancing out professional life and personal family life for a police officer is especially challenging. Sandy had the personal skills to handle both with perfection and as a result he was held in high esteem within his profession and was an exemplary family man who nurtured his family with love and caring. He had a fatherly humanity coupled with an intense concern for the hearts and souls of his children and grandchildren.
He received his formal education at Paterson Central High School graduating with the Class of 1940.
Chief Galacio was a dedicated police officer and lived to serve his community with intelligence compassion and dedication. He wanted to leave a positive mark on police work and was founder and past Director of the Passaic County Police Academy. He was also a member of the Passaic County Police Chief’s Association, the New Jersey State Training Commission for Police Officers, a member and Past President of the Pompton Lakes Police Benevolent Association No.161.
In his youth while living in Paterson Sandy went with a group of his friends to a dance in Butler to meet some country girls. There he met a pretty girl named Effie Risden and he was smitten. After a courtship of one and one half years they married and they enjoyed sixty-six years of loving marriage together.
Left behind to mourn this wonderful husband, father, grandfather and great grandfather are his loving wife of sixty-six years Effie (Risden) Galacio; one son Sandy Galacio and his wife Nancy of Wayne; one daughter Cindy Galacio-Patti and her husband Anthony of Tuckerton; six Grandchildren Sandy Jr. and his wife Chrissy, Holly Jackson and her husband Dennis, Taylor, Alexis, Madison and Zoe Patti; Five Great Grandchildren Cole Jackson, Santo Rocco Galacio, Giovanni Galacio, Maryanne Galacio and one pending arrival to the Jackson family.
Memorial donations to the American Lung Association, “For Emphysema Research”, 61 Broadway, 6th Floor, NY, NY 10006 would be appreciated.
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Funeral services will be held Wednesday, September 2, 2009 at 10 AM at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
Friends may visit with the family at the funeral home Tuesday from 6 – 9 PM.
August 27, 2009
Services
Funeral services will be held Wednesday, September 2, 2009 at 10 AM at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
Friends may visit with the family at the funeral home Tuesday from 6 – 9 PM.
Everyone that takes this life’s journey on earth touches the world in some manner and leaves an everlasting footprint. Sandy’s life,was like that, he was gifted with excellence of the soul.
Sandy R. Galacio age 87 of Shamong, NJ formerly of Pompton Lakes slipped away into life eternal on Thursday, August 27, 2009 after a courageous battle with his declining health and many days filled with extraordinary challenges. His family was always present at his bedside loving and caring for him. His passing to a new day was graciously peaceful.
He was born in Paterson and had lived in Pompton Lakes most of his life before moving to Shamong to enjoy his retirement fifteen years ago.
Mr. Galacio was a police officer in Pompton Lakes for thirty-five years and retired as Chief of Police in 1983.
To say that Sandy was just a police officer would be an understatement. Those who are familiar with police work would understand the stress and diversity of the job on a daily basis and Sandy had a handle on his work that was exemplary. He was profoundly gifted in the art of interpersonal communication. Balancing out professional life and personal family life for a police officer is especially challenging. Sandy had the personal skills to handle both with perfection and as a result he was held in high esteem within his profession and was an exemplary family man who nurtured his family with love and caring. He had a fatherly humanity coupled with an intense concern for the hearts and souls of his children and grandchildren.
He received his formal education at Paterson Central High School graduating with the Class of 1940.
Chief Galacio was a dedicated police officer and lived to serve his community with intelligence compassion and dedication. He wanted to leave a positive mark on police work and was founder and past Director of the Passaic County Police Academy. He was also a member of the Passaic County Police Chief’s Association, the New Jersey State Training Commission for Police Officers, a member and Past President of the Pompton Lakes Police Benevolent Association No.161.
In his youth while living in Paterson Sandy went with a group of his friends to a dance in Butler to meet some country girls. There he met a pretty girl named Effie Risden and he was smitten. After a courtship of one and one half years they married and they enjoyed sixty-six years of loving marriage together.
Left behind to mourn this wonderful husband, father, grandfather and great grandfather are his loving wife of sixty-six years Effie (Risden) Galacio; one son Sandy Galacio and his wife Nancy of Wayne; one daughter Cindy Galacio-Patti and her husband Anthony of Tuckerton; six Grandchildren Sandy Jr. and his wife Chrissy, Holly Jackson and her husband Dennis, Taylor, Alexis, Madison and Zoe Patti; Five Great Grandchildren Cole Jackson, Santo Rocco Galacio, Giovanni Galacio, Maryanne Galacio and one pending arrival to the Jackson family.
Memorial donations to the American Lung Association, “For Emphysema Research”, 61 Broadway, 6th Floor, NY, NY 10006 would be appreciated.
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