{"id":2231,"date":"2015-12-03T16:48:17","date_gmt":"2015-12-03T21:48:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pizzifuneralhome.com\/?p=1694"},"modified":"2015-12-03T16:48:17","modified_gmt":"2015-12-03T21:48:17","slug":"joseph-francis-crowley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pizzifuneralhome.com\/?p=2231","title":{"rendered":"Joseph Francis Crowley"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/pizzifuneralhome.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Joseph-Crowley-Picture.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1696 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/pizzifuneralhome.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Joseph-Crowley-Picture-e1449179406920-223x300.jpg\" alt=\"Joseph Crowley Picture\" width=\"223\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Joseph Francis Crowley, 45, who \u00a0grew up in Norwood, NJ, passed away suddenly early Wednesday morning December 2, 2015.\u00a0 He was born in Englewood, New Jersey during a fierce spring blizzard on March 30, 1970 (his mother\u2019s birthday) to John F. Crowley and Barbara Valentino Crowley (Baptiste).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>He was a 1988 graduate of Bergen Catholic High School, where he served as Junior Class President.\u00a0 He was also a 1992 graduate of Stetson University in Deland, Florida.\u00a0 Joe\u2019s wit and humor, combined with remarkable compassion for others, were the trademarks of his soul and spirit and will be long remembered by everyone in life who had the pleasure to know him.\u00a0 His life long commitment \u201cto serve and to protect\u201d others carried through his career as a Baltimore Police Officer, and as a member of the United States Navy Reserve.\u00a0 He comes from a family with a long history of police and military service.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>When he was just four years old in 1975, Joe\u2019s father, Englewood Police Sergeant John F. Crowley, died while on duty. \u00a0Joe\u2019s mother Barbara raised him with great love, supported by her second husband and Joe\u2019s stepfather, Louis Baptiste as well as Joe\u2019s now deceased grandparents, Frank and Jeanette Valentino.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Joe leaves to this world the two most important people to him, his two beautiful daughters:\u00a0 Hannah Barbara (aged four), and Emily Lea (one year old).\u00a0 His mother, Barbara, survives Joe. His brothers, John F. Crowley of Princeton, NJ and Jason Louis Baptiste, of New York City, his sisters-in law, Aileen Crowley and Lauren Baptiste and his stepfather, Louis Baptiste, also survive him.\u00a0 \u201cUncle Joe\u201d will be especially missed by his nephews, John F. Crowley, III and Patrick Francis Crowley, both of Princeton and his niece, Megan Kathryn, a freshman at the University of Notre Dame.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>He was the beloved nephew of Michele Valentino, of East Haven, CT; Englewood Deputy Chief of Police\u00a0 (Retired) James J. Crowley, of Washington Twp., NJ; and Catherine Crowley Beneventano, of Medford Lakes, NJ.\u00a0 Joe was very thankful for the friendship of his mother\u2019s husband, Robert Moreus. And Joe had no better friend that his cousin, Baltimore Police Sergeant Jim Crowley.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Visitation will be at the Pizzi Funeral Home located at 120 Paris Avenue in Northvale, NJ from 4-8pm on Sunday.\u00a0 The Funeral Mass will be at 10am on Monday at Sacred Heart Church located on 102 Park Street in Haworth, NJ.\u00a0 Joseph will be interred beside his father\u2019s gravesite at Mount Carmel Cemetery Tenafly, NJ immediately following the Funeral Mass.<\/p>\n<p>www.pizzifuneralhome.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joseph Francis Crowley, 45, who \u00a0grew up in Norwood, NJ, passed away suddenly early Wednesday morning December 2, 2015.\u00a0 He was born in Englewood, New Jersey during a fierce spring blizzard on March 30, 1970 (his mother\u2019s birthday) to John F. 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