Another one of the good guys heard God call his name this week. Jack Coyne died April 21, 2018 at Community Medical Center in Toms River and has probably already asked God’s permission for a meeting of “that big poker club in the sky” with Ted, Red, Bill, John and Jerry in attendance.
Jack was a quiet man who kept his own counsel. He loved Maine (his mother’s childhood home) and he never, (well almost never) met a book he didn’t like…many so dear to his heart that he re-read them every year. To their chagrin, Mary Kay and Philip will confirm that every summer he prepared a reading list for each of them requiring a written report for each book at summers end.
Jack was born in NYC to Ada and John D. Coyne, Sr. In 1946 he graduated from Cardinal Hayes High School in the Bronx then Illinois College in 1950, after which he was drafted and served in the US Army as a Radio Operator in Alaska. Discharged in 1952, he began a life-long career in Property/Casualty Insurance in Syracuse, NY (where he met Joyce). They married in 1955 and when Mary Kay was 15 months old, a company transfer sent the young family to New Jersey where they settled in Verona and lived for 33 years. During those early years, Jack attended Rutgers Graduate School evenings and earned his CPCU designation.
For the last ten years of his career, Jack was proudly associated with C.W. Bollinger Agency (then of Montclair), retiring in January 1995 and moving to Holiday City Heights in Toms River.
In past years, Jack was a member of the Lion’s Club and the James J. Kelly Council of the Knights of Columbus. Joyce and Jack were both Lectors, Liturgy Chairpersons and RENEW and CFM members at Our Lady of the Lake Parish in Verona, NJ.
Jack was predeceased by his parents, John D. Coyne, Sr. and Ada Sproul Coyne and his only sibling Sister Patricia Coyne, Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet.
Surviving are his loving wife of 62 years Joyce Felece Coyne; his daughter Mary Kay Leddy and her husband Lee of Spring Lake, NJ and his son Philip Coyne and his wife Julia of Mine Hill, NJ; his dear grandchildren, Jack, Casey and Margaret and remaining cherished cousins in Maine.
Relatives and friends are invited to attend a Memorial Gathering on Thursday April 26, 2018 at 9:15 AM at Quinn-Hopping Funeral Home 26 Mule Road, Toms River, NJ 08755. A Memorial Mass will be celebrated at 10:30 AM at St. Maximilian Kolbe RC Church. Inurnment will follow at Christ the King Mausoleum at St. Maximilian RC Church. In lieu of flowers please make donations in Jack’s memory to the VNA Hospice of Central Jersey 1433 Hooper Avenue Toms River, NJ 08753 or the Holiday Heights Emergency Medical Services, 120 Prince Charles Drive, Toms River, NJ, 08757. Condolences may be sent to the family by visiting www.quinn-hoppingfh.com.
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