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Dan Cifelli posted a condolence
Monday, June 17, 2013
What a unique name! I was driving some friends home in Dad's car with the windows down. We were making a lot of noise. Cops stopped us. They checked my license & registration which was in dad's name. One cop said "ok, keep the noise down Palmerio." My trouble-making friend said "Who the heck is Palmerio." The cops made us get out of the car and that turned into a 15 minute discussion with the cop about who "Palmerio" was.
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Monday, June 17, 2013
Who was he? He was Tom Cifelli. That was the guy everyone knew and liked. A terrific guy who supported and encouraged me in anything I did. Even though he eventually died of heart failure on June 15, 2013, everyone he touched during his life knew he had a good heart...a heart of gold!
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Monday, June 17, 2013
Like most fishermen, there were lots of times when we didn't catch even 1 fish. When I was about 8, Dad, Uncle John, and I went surf fishing on the beach down the shore. I remember feeling bad that I couldn't catch anything because he and my uncle John caught a lot of fish. After a while, my dad told me to go get something from the car. When I came back, my fishing pole was bent and moving around. WOW! There was a big fish on it. I reeled it in and was very excited. I came back and told mom and my friends I caught this big flounder. About 10 years ago, he let it slip that he and uncle John took one of the fish they had already caught and hooked it on my fishing line so I would feel better.
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Dan Cifelli posted a condolence
Monday, June 17, 2013
I always laughed at Fish Story Part. But when I was in high school, I had a job driving blueprints to customers around the Newark area. Newark airport's 2nd terminal was just being built and there was a lot of confusing construction going on. I was driving up a 1 lane ramp and a little voice in the back of my head said, stay to the right. About 15 seconds later, a large tractor trailer came down the wrong way and almost crushed me. If I hadn't been on the right side, I probably wouldn't be here telling this story.
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Dan Cifelli posted a condolence
Monday, June 17, 2013
He used to tell me a story about his brother, my Uncle John. For many years, they would drive down the shore to go fishing. Uncle John used to nag my dad about remembering to drive on the right side of this one particular 1-way highway. My dad heard this every time they went fishing. Early one morning when they were going fishing, a driver came the wrong way down the highway and their cars barely missed each other. Uncle John said: "You see!
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Dan Cifelli posted a condolence
Monday, June 17, 2013
John & Barbara, our neighbors, told me a story about right after they moved in. Early one morning on the weekend, they heard a lot of noise apparently coming from the outside walls of their house. They looked outside and saw dad up on a ladder cleaning their gutters. They said that's when they knew they had a great neighbor.
Up until his early 90's, he would run a snow blower to clean the snow from our house and some of the neighbors' houses.
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Dan Cifelli posted a condolence
Monday, June 17, 2013
Many of you know I started a few companies that involve lasers, optics, and the 3D pictures called holograms. Mom and Dad both liked to keep busy after they retired. They opened a kiosk in Garden State Plaza
Mall selling holograms. You know, one of those small specialty stores you see in the middle of the mall walkways. They kept the business in Garden State Plaza in Paramus for a year or two and made a lot of people happy.
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Dan Cifelli posted a condolence
Monday, June 17, 2013
When I was in elementary school, Dad was using a sledge hammer putting in fence posts. He smashed his thumb and it was a bloody mess. I ran into the house and got a small BandAid. He looked at me like I was crazy, but he didn't want to disappoint me, so he put on the tiny BandAid while his thumb continued to bleed profusely.
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Dan Cifelli posted a condolence
Monday, June 17, 2013
Diane lives in an apt complex nearby. Even at age 85, my dad was still a strong guy and an imposing figure. Diane had a neighbor who was causing her problems and was very noise late at night. She complained to management for months but nothing ever happened. One day, my dad went over and knocked on the guy's door and told him to stop bothering my sister. He didn't threaten him; Dad just looked at the man with an intimidation like "don't mess with my daughter". That was the last time Diane ever had any problems with this neighbor.
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Dan Cifelli posted a condolence
Monday, June 17, 2013
He used to work all the time, even on the weekends, to provide for our family. Early Saturday mornings I'd see him pack up all of his painting equipment, put it in the car, and strap 2 or 3 big, heavy wooden ladders on top of the car; the roof always looked like it sagged a little. Wow, those things were heavy, but he used to lift them by himself.
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Dan Cifelli posted a condolence
Monday, June 17, 2013
After he retired, he enjoyed playing with mom, and me and Alex when we were visiting. My mom was a better cribbage player than he was. However, when we played teams and they were on opposite teams, mom was always looking at him because she seemed to know that somehow he would get the better of her with some sneaky play.
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Dan Cifelli posted a condolence
Monday, June 17, 2013
Dad was in the Navy during WWII. He was honorably discharged after the war at Treasure Island near San Francisco. My first job after college was working for the Navy near Treasure Island. When Mom and Dad came to visit me in the 1980s, I drove them onto Treasure Island. Dad said with a big smile "I wouldn't have ever thought that 40 years later I would be back on Treasure Island with my wife and son."
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Dan Cifelli posted a condolence
Monday, June 17, 2013
Dad always liked boxing and managed one of our cousins who was a middleweight boxer. Maybe you saw the photo of Dad in his boxing pose on this web site? After he retired, he and I drove to Atlantic City to see a championship fight and had a great time. It was one of the best moments we ever had together.
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Dan Cifelli posted a condolence
Monday, June 17, 2013
The year before I graduated college, he and mom decided to buy me a car as a graduation present. There was a car I wanted but I had no idea how to negotiate buying the car. He went with me, got the car I wanted, and at a significant discount. I was thrilled and caught by surprise with his ability to do something like this.
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Dan Cifelli posted a condolence
Monday, June 17, 2013
Dad was driving me and 2 of my friends home from junior high school. He usually was very quiet and drove safely. Out of nowhere he hit the accelerator, the car lunged forward as he swerved around, passed the double white line in the center to pass a few cars. He shot a glance at me and laughed. My friends and I looked at each other with big smiles. Neither of my friends knew their own fathers and I think they appreciated how "cool" it was to have someone like Dad around.
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Dan Cifelli posted a condolence
Monday, June 17, 2013
He was a simple man who loved his family and was devoted to us. Physically strong, hard working, quietly loving, very humble, sweetsome of his values were shaped early in life. He was the youngest of 12 children, of which only he and 3 other siblings survived past infancy. Between mom and him, my sister Diane and I inherited some good genes.
His parents died when he was young and he was shuffled around to live with his sisters and brother. A stable family meant a lot to him.
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Dan Cifelli posted a condolence
Monday, June 17, 2013
One of the passions in my life is playing basketball. I have Dad to thank for that. When I was about 10, he put a basket and backboard on our garage. I used to play all the time, even when it was snowing. My daughter Alex took a "red eye" flight in Saturday morning to see "Grandpa" and then had to fly back to San Diego the next day. She loves basketball too. Alex and I have been to more than 100 NBA basketball games and we've seen games in San Francisco, New Jersey, New York, and even flew to Phoenix one time to catch a game. I still play basketball, mostly when I am in China with my co-workers.
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