James P. Capuano, (Jimmy) of New York City, died on Tuesday, November 3rd, 2014 in the Haven Hospice at Bellevue Hospital in Manhattan. He was 55. He was born on July 10th, 1959 in New York City to his father Pasquale and mother Ann Marie. He attended Epiphany Elementary School, La Salle Academy High School and The State University of New York, New Paltz. In 1988 he married Dana Wolfe and together they had four children: Nicholas, Daniel, Brandon and Julianna. Jimmy was Senior Vice President for the Markets Division of Thomson Reuters, the global news and information company.
A true renaissance man, Jimmy was a successful businessman, an accomplished musician and song writer, and a published novelist. He loved the Beatles, his famous Sunday sauce, summers on Fire Island, Macallan 18 Single Malt and The Family Guy, not necessarily in that order. A straight talker, Jimmy said what needed to be said. He hated BS, most vegetables and hypocrites, not necessarily in that order.
Jimmy had this innate ability to get people to open up and make anyone of them feel like they were the only person in his space, whether coaching sports, counseling fellow cancer sufferers, playing guitar, or just hanging with his buddies from Fire Island or Stuyvesant Town. He taught us all to be better people and we are all better people because he was in our lives. For over seven years he struggled with this terrible disease, but never once did he let his friends or family know the truth about his pain and suffering. His numerous set backs on this crazy journey – including a ten day coma when he contracted West Nile disease – were all followed by what always seemed like a return to health and vigor. We began to think he was Superman. Alas it was not to be, and in the end this remarkable, warm, caring, sensitive, giant of a man lost the fight and succumbed to his own personal Kryptonite. We all lost something special.
Jimmy, rest in peace – you left us much too soon. We will all miss you forever.
Jimmy is survived by his wife Dana, his four children, Nicholas, Danny, Brandon, and Julianna, his loving father Pasquale, his brother Richard, and his sisters Laura and Rosanne.
He is also survived by all those whose life he touched – just take a look in a New York phone directory for that very long list of names.
Contributions in his memory may be made to:
The Epiphany School Foundation, 234 East 22nd Street New York, NY 10010
www.epiphanyschoolfoundation.org
and
The De Rosa Foundation
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