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October 27, 2008
Services
Funeral services will be held 10 AM on Friday, October 31, 2008 from the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne then to Our Lady of the Valley RC Church, 630 Valley Road, Wayne where an 11 AM Funeral Liturgy of the Word will be offered. Friends may visit with the family on Thursday, October 30, 2008 from 2-4 and 7-9 PM at the funeral home.
Walter Sonyi, Jr. age 62 of Wayne died suddenly at his home on Monday, October 27, 2008.
Son of Walter H. Sonyi, Sr. and Aranka (Urge) Sonyi. Walter's mother had moved to Germany, as her husband had been taken to a prisoner of war camp, during WWII. She found her husband, after his release from the POW camp, and they had their only son Walter Sonyi, Jr. on April 1, 1947 in Pfarrkirchen, Germany. They emigrated to America in 1951 and settled in Franklin, NJ as there was a large Hungarian community in this area. The family lived in both Franklin and Sparta during Walter's formative years.
Walter graduated from Franklin High School with the class of 1965 and continued his education at the New School for Social Research in New York City where he received his undergraduate and graduate degrees.
Early in his career, Walter had business analysis responsibility for Venture Capital and Shipping firm, ultimately responsible for recruiting, hiring and training staffs in Zurich, Hong-Kong, Sao Paulo and London.
In 1974, Walter began his Consulting career with Reed, Cuff & Associates, providing developmental coaching services. After four years, the Goodrich & Sherwood Company recruited him to design and build their Leadership and Career Development Practice in New York and New Jersey.
In 1994 he was asked to join Manchester Inc., with full P & L responsibility for an office in New Jersey. At the same time, Walter was "Product Champion" for Manchester's "leaders in Transition" program on a national basis. This very unique program was geared to meet the developmental and career transition needs of senior level executives.
Most recently he was the Executive Vice President of Corporate Services for the Gateway International Group, Parsippany where he provided leadership and Career Development coaching to Fortune 100 Company's senior level executives.
Walter was a member of the International Association of Coaching, Institute of Executive Development, The Human Capital Association, ASTD and SHRM. Walter also served on the Congressional Business Advisory Council.
He had more than thirty years of experience in both domestic and international Human Resource Consulting, was fluent in German, Hungarian and English, but most of all he was recognized for his expertise in Leadership and Career Development.
Walter enjoyed skiing and befriended an Austrian ski instructor working at the Great Gorge Ski Area in Vernon, NJ. They were great friends for ten years before they married, in Austria, on October 31, 1980. Thesie recounts that their first date was to see the Broadway play Man of Lemancha.
Walter was known to take great pleasure in sport hunting, and was well-accomplished in this area. Outdoor activities brought him much joy and he also spent a great deal of time as a Boy Scout Leader with his two sons. He was a great travel enthusiast and spent time abroad discovering foreign cultures with his wife as well.
He is survived by his loving wife of twenty-eight years Theresia "Thesie" (Laube) Sonyi; his mother Aranka (Urge) Sonyi; devoted father of Ernest Alexander Sonyi of North Kingstown, RI and Andreas Sonyi of Denville, NJ.
In lieu of flowers memorial donations to the Boy Scouts of America, Passaic Valley Council, 25 Ramapo Valley Road, Oakland NJ 07436 would be appreciated.
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Funeral services will be held 10 AM on Friday, October 31, 2008 from the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne then to Our Lady of the Valley RC Church, 630 Valley Road, Wayne where an 11 AM Funeral Liturgy of the Word will be offered. Friends may visit with the family on Thursday, October 30, 2008 from 2-4 and 7-9 PM at the funeral home.
October 27, 2008
Services
Funeral services will be held 10 AM on Friday, October 31, 2008 from the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne then to Our Lady of the Valley RC Church, 630 Valley Road, Wayne where an 11 AM Funeral Liturgy of the Word will be offered. Friends may visit with the family on Thursday, October 30, 2008 from 2-4 and 7-9 PM at the funeral home.
Walter Sonyi, Jr. age 62 of Wayne died suddenly at his home on Monday, October 27, 2008.
Son of Walter H. Sonyi, Sr. and Aranka (Urge) Sonyi. Walter's mother had moved to Germany, as her husband had been taken to a prisoner of war camp, during WWII. She found her husband, after his release from the POW camp, and they had their only son Walter Sonyi, Jr. on April 1, 1947 in Pfarrkirchen, Germany. They emigrated to America in 1951 and settled in Franklin, NJ as there was a large Hungarian community in this area. The family lived in both Franklin and Sparta during Walter's formative years.
Walter graduated from Franklin High School with the class of 1965 and continued his education at the New School for Social Research in New York City where he received his undergraduate and graduate degrees.
Early in his career, Walter had business analysis responsibility for Venture Capital and Shipping firm, ultimately responsible for recruiting, hiring and training staffs in Zurich, Hong-Kong, Sao Paulo and London.
In 1974, Walter began his Consulting career with Reed, Cuff & Associates, providing developmental coaching services. After four years, the Goodrich & Sherwood Company recruited him to design and build their Leadership and Career Development Practice in New York and New Jersey.
In 1994 he was asked to join Manchester Inc., with full P & L responsibility for an office in New Jersey. At the same time, Walter was "Product Champion" for Manchester's "leaders in Transition" program on a national basis. This very unique program was geared to meet the developmental and career transition needs of senior level executives.
Most recently he was the Executive Vice President of Corporate Services for the Gateway International Group, Parsippany where he provided leadership and Career Development coaching to Fortune 100 Company's senior level executives.
Walter was a member of the International Association of Coaching, Institute of Executive Development, The Human Capital Association, ASTD and SHRM. Walter also served on the Congressional Business Advisory Council.
He had more than thirty years of experience in both domestic and international Human Resource Consulting, was fluent in German, Hungarian and English, but most of all he was recognized for his expertise in Leadership and Career Development.
Walter enjoyed skiing and befriended an Austrian ski instructor working at the Great Gorge Ski Area in Vernon, NJ. They were great friends for ten years before they married, in Austria, on October 31, 1980. Thesie recounts that their first date was to see the Broadway play Man of Lemancha.
Walter was known to take great pleasure in sport hunting, and was well-accomplished in this area. Outdoor activities brought him much joy and he also spent a great deal of time as a Boy Scout Leader with his two sons. He was a great travel enthusiast and spent time abroad discovering foreign cultures with his wife as well.
He is survived by his loving wife of twenty-eight years Theresia "Thesie" (Laube) Sonyi; his mother Aranka (Urge) Sonyi; devoted father of Ernest Alexander Sonyi of North Kingstown, RI and Andreas Sonyi of Denville, NJ.
In lieu of flowers memorial donations to the Boy Scouts of America, Passaic Valley Council, 25 Ramapo Valley Road, Oakland NJ 07436 would be appreciated.
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