Dominic F. Cundari

CUNDARI Dominic F. Cundari PSE&G chief chemist, active in community, 93 Dominic F. Cundari, 93, of Kearny died on Sept. 16, 2006, in the Clara Maass Medical Center, Belleville. Visiting is at the Wilfred Armitage & Wiggins Funeral Home, 596 Belgrove Dr., Kearny, on Tuesday from 7 to 9 p.m. and Wednesday from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. Funeral Mass will be on Thursday at 10:30 a.m. in St. Stephens Church, Kearny. Interment is in Holy Cross Cemetery. Born in Harrison, Mr. Cundari lived most of his life in Kearny. He was a chief chemist at PSE&G, Harrison, for 42 years before retiring in 1978. Mr. Cundari attended Holy Cross School in Harrison and Seton Hall Prep. He received his bachelors degree from Manhattan College and took graduate courses at NYU. He was a past president and awards chairman of the Kearny Safety Council and a past president and treasurer of the Serra Club of Bergen County South. At the High School Division of St. Stephens School of Religion, Mr. Cundari was a teacher and principal for 29 years. He was a past chairman of both the Parish Councils Education Committee and the Holy Name Society, and served as a lector and a Eucharistic minister, all with St. Stephens Church, Kearny. Mr. Cundari recently retired from the board of directors of the Oritani Savings and Loan Association. He was formerly a secretary and director with the American Red Cross, the Catholic Youth Organization and the Columbus Cadet Corps of America Board of Directors in Harrison. A member of the American Chemical Society, Mr. Cundari was also a member of the American Society for Testing and Materials, the American National Standards Institute, the Air Pollution Control Association and the American and New Jersey Gas associations. Mr. Cundari was the beloved husband of Anne G. (nee Caputo); loving father of Carolyn Williams and her husband, Edward Sardella; brother of Joseph A. and James P. Cundari and the late Catherine M. and Vincentine E. Cundari; grandfather of Colleen A. Williams, Henry R. Williams Jr. and Gary M. Williams, and great-grandfather of Megan, Emily, Dominic and Grace.