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Friends may visit with the family on Monday, April 27, 2015 from 2-4 and 7-9 PM at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
Funeral services will be held Tuesday, April 28, 2015 from the funeral home then to Immaculate Heart of Mary RC Church, 580 Ratzer Road, Wayne where a 10:30 AM Funeral Mass will be offered.
Stephen Yalicki, age 45 of Wayne, passed Friday, April 24, 2015.
Stephen "SteveO" P. Yalicki, age 45, of the Packanack Lake Section of Wayne, passed suddenly on Friday, April 24, 2015.
He was born in Montclair and raised in the Packanack Lake section of Wayne. Steve graduated from Wayne Valley High School with the Class of 1987 and continued his education graduating from William Paterson University in Wayne with a Bachelor of Science degree in finance with the Class of 1995.
During his college years and beyond he worked for the UPS Corporation in Parsippany, first as a Package Handler, and working his way to Manager. He worked the last fifteen years for Union Local 807 in Long Island City as a driver for the Center Sheet Metal Company, Bronx, New York. One of his fondest work memories was being part of the construction of the new Yankee Stadium.
Steve had a big, strong, and robust personality that was softened by his huge, gentle heart. He was a walking encyclopedia that had an unquenchable thirst for knowledge. He was knowledgeable and well versed in politics and history, and always expanding his knowledge base with computer searches on just about anything. He taught himself all about home remodeling and with his - figure it out as you go along - way of doing things transformed his basement into a work of art. Steve’s soft side is evidenced by his rescuing two kittens from the South Bronx, and taking them into his home. His cats, Sylvie and Benny, have a warm, comfortable home all because of Steve’s big heart. Steve will also be fondly remembered for just showing up at family and friends home’s with his snow plow.
The Yalicki and the O’Connor families were mutual friends for many years. The families spent many holidays and gatherings together. All was well until Steve notice one of his flannel shirts had been stolen by Irene O’Connor. She had a bit of a crush on him and told him the only way he’d get his shirt back was to also take what was in it. Their first official date was to the Old Barn Milk Bar in Wayne and the two soon fell in love. Steve proposed to Irene on her birthday in 1995 while on the way home from dinner at Sneaky Pete’s in Oak Ridge. They stopped at Silas Condict Park in Kinnelon and while sitting on the rocks looking out over the lake there he popped the question. They married on June 29, 1996 at Immaculate Heart of Mary Church in Wayne and honeymooned at the Sandals Resort in Ocho Rios, Jamaica. Steve, who had a self-proclaimed knowledge of how to sail a boat, took Irene out for a sail. Unfortunately Steve flipped the boat in the ocean and had to be rescued by their Jamaican hosts. It soon came to light that this wasn’t Steve’s first time capsizing a sailboat in Jamaica as he had done the same thing on an earlier family vacation to the island. Steve and Irene have enjoyed nineteen years of a loving, best friends, marriage.
Steve was the loving husband of Irene (O’Connor) Yalicki; devoted son of Mikki Kelly and her husband John of Leland, North Carolina, and the late Eugene Yalicki (1999); loved brother of Sharon Lombardo and her husband Keith of Wayne and their children Jake and Chayse; much loved son-in-law of the late Mary (2010) and Jim O’Connor (2013); dear brother-in-law of Maureen and Joe Cretella, Patricia Szlembarski and her late husband Bob (2001) and their families.
In lieu of flowers memorial donations, honoring Steve's love of his country, to the Wounded Warriors Project would be greatly appreciated.
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Friends may visit with the family on Monday, April 27, 2015 from 2-4 and 7-9 PM at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
Funeral services will be held Tuesday, April 28, 2015 from the funeral home then to Immaculate Heart of Mary RC Church, 580 Ratzer Road, Wayne where a 10:30 AM Funeral Mass will be offered.
Services
Friends may visit with the family on Monday, April 27, 2015 from 2-4 and 7-9 PM at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
Funeral services will be held Tuesday, April 28, 2015 from the funeral home then to Immaculate Heart of Mary RC Church, 580 Ratzer Road, Wayne where a 10:30 AM Funeral Mass will be offered.
Stephen Yalicki, age 45 of Wayne, passed Friday, April 24, 2015.
Stephen "SteveO" P. Yalicki, age 45, of the Packanack Lake Section of Wayne, passed suddenly on Friday, April 24, 2015.
He was born in Montclair and raised in the Packanack Lake section of Wayne. Steve graduated from Wayne Valley High School with the Class of 1987 and continued his education graduating from William Paterson University in Wayne with a Bachelor of Science degree in finance with the Class of 1995.
During his college years and beyond he worked for the UPS Corporation in Parsippany, first as a Package Handler, and working his way to Manager. He worked the last fifteen years for Union Local 807 in Long Island City as a driver for the Center Sheet Metal Company, Bronx, New York. One of his fondest work memories was being part of the construction of the new Yankee Stadium.
Steve had a big, strong, and robust personality that was softened by his huge, gentle heart. He was a walking encyclopedia that had an unquenchable thirst for knowledge. He was knowledgeable and well versed in politics and history, and always expanding his knowledge base with computer searches on just about anything. He taught himself all about home remodeling and with his - figure it out as you go along - way of doing things transformed his basement into a work of art. Steve’s soft side is evidenced by his rescuing two kittens from the South Bronx, and taking them into his home. His cats, Sylvie and Benny, have a warm, comfortable home all because of Steve’s big heart. Steve will also be fondly remembered for just showing up at family and friends home’s with his snow plow.
The Yalicki and the O’Connor families were mutual friends for many years. The families spent many holidays and gatherings together. All was well until Steve notice one of his flannel shirts had been stolen by Irene O’Connor. She had a bit of a crush on him and told him the only way he’d get his shirt back was to also take what was in it. Their first official date was to the Old Barn Milk Bar in Wayne and the two soon fell in love. Steve proposed to Irene on her birthday in 1995 while on the way home from dinner at Sneaky Pete’s in Oak Ridge. They stopped at Silas Condict Park in Kinnelon and while sitting on the rocks looking out over the lake there he popped the question. They married on June 29, 1996 at Immaculate Heart of Mary Church in Wayne and honeymooned at the Sandals Resort in Ocho Rios, Jamaica. Steve, who had a self-proclaimed knowledge of how to sail a boat, took Irene out for a sail. Unfortunately Steve flipped the boat in the ocean and had to be rescued by their Jamaican hosts. It soon came to light that this wasn’t Steve’s first time capsizing a sailboat in Jamaica as he had done the same thing on an earlier family vacation to the island. Steve and Irene have enjoyed nineteen years of a loving, best friends, marriage.
Steve was the loving husband of Irene (O’Connor) Yalicki; devoted son of Mikki Kelly and her husband John of Leland, North Carolina, and the late Eugene Yalicki (1999); loved brother of Sharon Lombardo and her husband Keith of Wayne and their children Jake and Chayse; much loved son-in-law of the late Mary (2010) and Jim O’Connor (2013); dear brother-in-law of Maureen and Joe Cretella, Patricia Szlembarski and her late husband Bob (2001) and their families.
In lieu of flowers memorial donations, honoring Steve's love of his country, to the Wounded Warriors Project would be greatly appreciated.
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