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Friends may visit with the family on Monday, February 29, 2016 from 2-4, and 7-9 PM at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
Funeral services will be held 10 AM on Tuesday, March 1, 2016 at the funeral home.
Interment will be in Holy Sepulchre Cemetery, Totowa.
Thomas K. Coppo, age 78, of Wayne, formerly a Paterson Fire Dept. Battalion Chief, passed Friday, Feb. 26, 2016.
He was born in Paterson and raised at 177 Arlington Avenue in the Hillcrest Section of the city. He attended Central High School with the Class of 1955. As a young man he was a caddy at the North Jersey Country Club, and worked at the Van Stein’s Nursery in Wayne. During his senior year of high school Tom enlisted in the US Air Force. He served during the Korean War and was stationed in Bitburg, Germany where he trained dogs to guard the missile silos. After his service Tom returned to Paterson where he found work with the Paterson Police Department. He served four years with the department before transferring to the Paterson Fire Department in 1964. He served with the Paterson Fire Department and worked his way up to Battalion Chief before retiring in 1991. During his tenure with the Fire Department Tom was honored with a Valor Award for scaling the icy Paterson Falls to save a woman who had fallen to the base of the falls.
Tom married Julia and moved to Wayne in 1965. He lived in Wayne for forty-two years before moving to the New Jersey Fireman’s Home in Boonton nine years ago. The loving care of the staff and comradery amongst his fellow fireman is something the family credits for giving him almost nine great years at the Fireman’s Home.
Tom loved his family, was especially proud of his grandchildren, was fun to be around, and had a great sense of humor. He enjoyed fishing and the many annual fishing trips to Canada with his friends. He found comfort and enjoyment in getting his hands dirty in the soil of his vegetable and flowers gardens in the yard, and had a huge spot in his heart for the area critters. He had several dogs through the years but also fed the local cats, rabbits, squirrels, birds, turkeys, and a legion of chipmunks. He enjoyed golfing at the Passaic County Golf Course where he had a hole in one, and no life story about him would be complete without mentioning his love of sweets.
He is survived by Julia Coppo; devoted father of Frank Coppo and his wife Connie of Pottstown, PA, Thomas Coppo and his wife Lisa Coppo, MD of Wyckoff, and Timothy Coppo of Little Falls; cherished grandfather of Meghan, James, and Julia Coppo; dear brother of Corrine Squatritto of Belleville, and the late Barbara Jean Duffy (2007).
In lieu of flowers memorial donations to the New Jersey Fireman’s Home, 565 Lathrop Avenue, Boonton Twp., NJ 07005 would be greatly appreciated.
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Friends may visit with the family on Monday, February 29, 2016 from 2-4, and 7-9 PM at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
Funeral services will be held 10 AM on Tuesday, March 1, 2016 at the funeral home.
Interment will be in Holy Sepulchre Cemetery, Totowa.
Services
Friends may visit with the family on Monday, February 29, 2016 from 2-4, and 7-9 PM at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
Funeral services will be held 10 AM on Tuesday, March 1, 2016 at the funeral home.
Interment will be in Holy Sepulchre Cemetery, Totowa.
Thomas K. Coppo, age 78, of Wayne, formerly a Paterson Fire Dept. Battalion Chief, passed Friday, Feb. 26, 2016.
He was born in Paterson and raised at 177 Arlington Avenue in the Hillcrest Section of the city. He attended Central High School with the Class of 1955. As a young man he was a caddy at the North Jersey Country Club, and worked at the Van Stein’s Nursery in Wayne. During his senior year of high school Tom enlisted in the US Air Force. He served during the Korean War and was stationed in Bitburg, Germany where he trained dogs to guard the missile silos. After his service Tom returned to Paterson where he found work with the Paterson Police Department. He served four years with the department before transferring to the Paterson Fire Department in 1964. He served with the Paterson Fire Department and worked his way up to Battalion Chief before retiring in 1991. During his tenure with the Fire Department Tom was honored with a Valor Award for scaling the icy Paterson Falls to save a woman who had fallen to the base of the falls.
Tom married Julia and moved to Wayne in 1965. He lived in Wayne for forty-two years before moving to the New Jersey Fireman’s Home in Boonton nine years ago. The loving care of the staff and comradery amongst his fellow fireman is something the family credits for giving him almost nine great years at the Fireman’s Home.
Tom loved his family, was especially proud of his grandchildren, was fun to be around, and had a great sense of humor. He enjoyed fishing and the many annual fishing trips to Canada with his friends. He found comfort and enjoyment in getting his hands dirty in the soil of his vegetable and flowers gardens in the yard, and had a huge spot in his heart for the area critters. He had several dogs through the years but also fed the local cats, rabbits, squirrels, birds, turkeys, and a legion of chipmunks. He enjoyed golfing at the Passaic County Golf Course where he had a hole in one, and no life story about him would be complete without mentioning his love of sweets.
He is survived by Julia Coppo; devoted father of Frank Coppo and his wife Connie of Pottstown, PA, Thomas Coppo and his wife Lisa Coppo, MD of Wyckoff, and Timothy Coppo of Little Falls; cherished grandfather of Meghan, James, and Julia Coppo; dear brother of Corrine Squatritto of Belleville, and the late Barbara Jean Duffy (2007).
In lieu of flowers memorial donations to the New Jersey Fireman’s Home, 565 Lathrop Avenue, Boonton Twp., NJ 07005 would be greatly appreciated.
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