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Joseph Laino posted a condolence
Tuesday, May 10, 2022
To my Friend Donny & his dear Son Kevin and Family:
I, Joe Laino have known of Donny through my Friend Bob Fagliarone. Donny was part of our Monday through Friday Breakfast Club. During the years of our Breakfast Club Breakfasts we became great friends. How could anyone not be a good friend to Donny? He was the most kind and gentle true friend anyone could ask for. I felt like he was a family member, always willing to help in any way he could. and always so appreciative of any little thing you would do for him. It gave me and my wife more pleasure bringing him a dish of Lasagna then he enjoyed it. Such a fine person, I will miss him greatly...my true friend...always enjoying our phone calls with each other, talking sports, politics, etc. when we were not meeting for breakfast due to COVID-19.
Kevin, I am sorry I can not join you personally on May 19, 2022, but be assured my wife and I will attend online. Please send me the link and passcode for the ZOOM broadcast.
Your eulogy in memory of your father was beautiful & we are sure you loved him & will miss him dearly. We pray that all those loving memories you shared with your dear father will help you during these difficult times of adjustment.
We have scheduled a 10:30 Sunday Mass July 31, 2022 for our dear friend Donny at Our Lady of Grace Church - Fairview, NJ. We will continue to schedule a Mass in his name each year at Our Lady of Grace Church. Never to be forgotten!
With deepest Sympathy,
Joe and Daniella Laino
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Jim Powers posted a condolence
Sunday, February 27, 2022
Donald was my friend for over 50 years. I've never met a nicer or more pleasant man in my life. We've had some great times over the years. How do you thank a man for a million laughs? There have also been some tough and tragic times. It is at these times when you realize how important true friends are.
I loved the beautiful tribute Kevin wrote about his father.
My condolences to his family
RIP dear friend. I will miss you
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Kevin Meyer Posted Feb 28, 2022 at 12:35 PM
Thank you Jim. I am grateful that my dad brought you into my life and, for a few years, into our apartment to help two then newly separated guys and a college kid make the rent. I know your friendship with my dad made his life so much richer, even as your weekly NFL picks usually lightened both your pockets. Your support and concern for my dad, and kinds words for me, helped a great deal, and I will always appreciate you. Look forward to seeing soon. SLAINTE!
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Kevin Meyer posted a condolence
Friday, February 25, 2022
Dad, thank you for working hard for so many years to take care of your family. Over 40 years -- legend has it -- you climbed those North Bergen hills every morning to catch a local bus to work in an industrial sheet metal shop... where it was cold all winter and hot all summer -- especially when the welders sent the inside temps up over 120 degrees -- and where the sounds of steel being cut, welded, polished and assembled to make countless "Blickman Equipment Corporation" restaurant coffee urns and McDonalds' deep fryers, eventually took much of your hearing.
Then, after a full week of hard labor, you grabbed a quick nap and headed off to your second job, tending bar every Friday and Saturday night to bring home the wages to feed and cloth us, and keep the lights on in that little basement apartment. Later, when Mom was able to go back to work, we moved to what seemed like "palace-like" digs in two-family homes you and Mom rented around the neighborhood. And, every summer we got a week away for vacation and Christmas mornings that always left you and Mom on the wrong side of your creditors for months.
You introduced me and Cindy to our "uncles" Nino, the owner of The Rendevous Bar and his sidekick Sal. I also wondered why we stopped off to see them every Sunday morning before the kickoffs of the one o'clock NFL games, and why they both needed to suddenly visit a farm for about 18 months. When I later asked "Uncle" Sal about the cows and chickens he saw, I still recall the blank look on his face. I never told you Dad, but I eventually figured out that Nino and Sal had done a little stretch for making some book on the side.
But enough about crime, I will always honor the sacrifices you and Mom made for me and my sister and I'm relieved that you are now at peace and reunited with Cindy and your brothers and sisters. You had a tough go as a kid, but you never talked much about or complained, you just did the best you could with the cards you got dealt. With me, your words never came easy, did they? But, I know I made you proud because you so often told others of my accomplishments and I'd sometimes hear it from them. Ours may not have been the relationship we both would have wanted, but I learned many years ago to accept the things I could never change, to focus on the good in you and to remember my gratitude for helping to bring me into this world and to find my own path to my amazing and loving wife, Kathleen and Marissa, the young woman who makes her parents proud in ways, small and large.
Thank you Dad for trusting me to see you through when things got hard, and to help get you to the other side peacefully and painlessly. Now rest easy, your job here is done.
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Chrissy Posted Feb 26, 2022 at 4:50 PM
Kevin- What a beautiful and fitting tribute to your father. May he rest peacefully. -Chrissy, Joey and family
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Kevin Meyer Posted Feb 25, 2022 at 4:47 PM
Thank you Ryan. I cannot thank you (and Nicki and Bella) enough for all of your professionalism, and the amazing kindness the people at Hearing Life showed my dad and me as you did your best to try to help his hearing issues under awful circumstances. Your actions and gestures have been extraordinary, and I will always be grateful.
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