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July 22, 2018
Services
A 10 AM Funeral Service will be held Thursday, July 26, 2018 at Saint John the Baptist Serbian Orthodox Church, 119 Carlisle Ave., Paterson. (please meet directly at the church on Thursday morning).
Simo Jovan Borovcanin, age 70 of Bloomingdale, passed Sunday, July 22, 2018.
He was born and raised in the Village of Zunovi in Sokolac, Republika Srpska, (Bosnia) Yugoslavia to Andjelko and Sava Borovcanin. When he was seventeen years old he joined the military in Yugoslavia. When he was nineteen years old he escaped the communist regime to Austria, where he believed he could make a better life for himself. While in Austria, he visited a friend who was in Krankenhaus hospital and met a pretty nurse’s assistant named Marika. They would walk in the beautiful area parks surrounding the hospital, and during those walks they made a plan to move to the United States of America. They came to this country within six months of each other and settled in Paterson, New Jersey. Simo and Marika married in the Paterson Courthouse on December 19, 1970 and lived on Mill Street in Paterson, 103 3rd Street in Passaic, 157 Jasper Street and later 449 Kearny Street in Paterson, before settling in Bloomingdale thirty-one years ago. They have enjoyed a loving marriage of forty-eight years.
Upon immigrating to the United States, he found work in the textile industry, where he eventually specialized in printing on fabrics. He worked in the Paterson textile mills for forty years, before retiring in 2010 from Craft Textile on Beech Street in the city.
Simo was a member of Saint John the Baptist Serbian Orthodox Church in Paterson for many years.
He will be lovingly remembered for his strong demeanor, unique sense of humor where he would make a joke about anything. But most of all, he will be remembered for his love of family. It can be said that he had no concerns except the wellbeing of his family. He loved his vegetable garden, where he grew all sorts of things including: tomatoes, zucchini, cucumbers, etc. Simo got great satisfaction when sharing the bounty of his labors in the garden with family and friends. He was also a great cook, whose scrambled eggs, soups, smoked meats from his smokehouse, and his amazing barbeque will be greatly missed.
Simo was the loving husband of Marika (Cernela) Borovcanin; beloved father of Zoran Borovcanin and his wife Kathleen of Kinnelon, Ljubica “Libby” Borovcanin of Lincoln Park, and Zorica Alcott and her husband Douglas of Butler; cherished grandfather of Dougie Alcott, Danijela Borovcanin, Nikola Borovcanin, Jason Alcott, Marko Borovcanin, and Juliana Borovcanin; he is also survived by his brother, Dobro Borovcanin and his wife Kovilka, and sister Novka Grujic, and sister-in-law Dushanka Borovcanin all from Sokolac, Republika Srpska. He leaves behind many nephews and nieces. Last but not least, he leaves behind his favorite companion, Misko, his beloved cat.
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A 10 AM Funeral Service will be held Thursday, July 26, 2018 at Saint John the Baptist Serbian Orthodox Church, 119 Carlisle Ave., Paterson. (please meet directly at the church on Thursday morning).
July 22, 2018
Services
A 10 AM Funeral Service will be held Thursday, July 26, 2018 at Saint John the Baptist Serbian Orthodox Church, 119 Carlisle Ave., Paterson. (please meet directly at the church on Thursday morning).
Simo Jovan Borovcanin, age 70 of Bloomingdale, passed Sunday, July 22, 2018.
He was born and raised in the Village of Zunovi in Sokolac, Republika Srpska, (Bosnia) Yugoslavia to Andjelko and Sava Borovcanin. When he was seventeen years old he joined the military in Yugoslavia. When he was nineteen years old he escaped the communist regime to Austria, where he believed he could make a better life for himself. While in Austria, he visited a friend who was in Krankenhaus hospital and met a pretty nurse’s assistant named Marika. They would walk in the beautiful area parks surrounding the hospital, and during those walks they made a plan to move to the United States of America. They came to this country within six months of each other and settled in Paterson, New Jersey. Simo and Marika married in the Paterson Courthouse on December 19, 1970 and lived on Mill Street in Paterson, 103 3rd Street in Passaic, 157 Jasper Street and later 449 Kearny Street in Paterson, before settling in Bloomingdale thirty-one years ago. They have enjoyed a loving marriage of forty-eight years.
Upon immigrating to the United States, he found work in the textile industry, where he eventually specialized in printing on fabrics. He worked in the Paterson textile mills for forty years, before retiring in 2010 from Craft Textile on Beech Street in the city.
Simo was a member of Saint John the Baptist Serbian Orthodox Church in Paterson for many years.
He will be lovingly remembered for his strong demeanor, unique sense of humor where he would make a joke about anything. But most of all, he will be remembered for his love of family. It can be said that he had no concerns except the wellbeing of his family. He loved his vegetable garden, where he grew all sorts of things including: tomatoes, zucchini, cucumbers, etc. Simo got great satisfaction when sharing the bounty of his labors in the garden with family and friends. He was also a great cook, whose scrambled eggs, soups, smoked meats from his smokehouse, and his amazing barbeque will be greatly missed.
Simo was the loving husband of Marika (Cernela) Borovcanin; beloved father of Zoran Borovcanin and his wife Kathleen of Kinnelon, Ljubica “Libby” Borovcanin of Lincoln Park, and Zorica Alcott and her husband Douglas of Butler; cherished grandfather of Dougie Alcott, Danijela Borovcanin, Nikola Borovcanin, Jason Alcott, Marko Borovcanin, and Juliana Borovcanin; he is also survived by his brother, Dobro Borovcanin and his wife Kovilka, and sister Novka Grujic, and sister-in-law Dushanka Borovcanin all from Sokolac, Republika Srpska. He leaves behind many nephews and nieces. Last but not least, he leaves behind his favorite companion, Misko, his beloved cat.
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