Steven Jay Fuld

Steven Jay Fuld left this world on May 8, 2021, far too soon, after a five-month battle with cancer. He will be deeply missed by his wife, Lynn Morneweck-Fuld, and their son, Morgan Jay Fuld, as well as many friends who were grateful to be touched by his gentleness, patience, and loving heart. Steve is survived by his brother, Robert B. Fuld, and Robert's wife, Norine, of Farmington, CT. He is pre-deceased by his father, Bernard Jay Fuld, and mother, Alice Marie (Gray) Fuld.
Steve grew up in Englewood, NJ. He attended The Elisabeth Morrow School and Dwight Morrow High School. He left New Jersey to attend college, but returned afterwards, and lived the rest of his life in Bergen County. He and his wife have lived in Radburn (Fair Lawn) since 2003.
Steve was a true Renaissance man. He began working with computers in the early 1970's while in high school. During his college years, he took some time off and worked for the Digital Equipment Corporation, one of the first major computer companies. Until his illness, he continued to work with computers, specializing in building and repairing systems for homes and small offices. Steve was also a photographer. His live-concert photographs of folk and folk-rock performers were published in a variety of folk magazines in the 1980's and 90's. Starting in the late 1990's, Steve began working for the Bergen County Board of Elections. He trained the poll workers on the new electronic voting machines and then became one of the county's original election trouble-shooters. He worked almost every election from the 1990's until this past November. That election was the last job he did before he became too sick to work.
Music, however, was the constant anchor of Steve's life. He grew up singing at First Presbyterian Church in Englewood, where he met his life-long best friend, William McCracken. During high school, he played bassoon with the Bergen Youth Orchestra and worked at Lighthouse Art and Music Camp. Blessed with a rich, resonant bass voice, Steve was involved with WBRS radio station while in college. He loved to DJ, especially late at night, and became the head of Classical Programming. In the 1990's, he sang and played recorders and tin whistles as part of a folk/early music duo, and he spent a number of years working and performing at the Philadelphia Folk Festival and other events. In 1997, he joined the choir at The Cathedral Basilica of the Sacred Heart in Newark. Two years later, he became the Bass Section Leader at Our Lady of Sorrows Roman Catholic Church in South Orange, a position he held until COVID-19 paused choral singing last spring. He will be missed by the OLS community for his deep voice and his nuanced recorder playing. The friendships he shared with the choir members there were deep and abiding.
Steve met his wife, Lynn, through music. Choral singing was part of what bonded them to one another, and it became the foundation of their family. Their beloved son, Morgan, has inherited his father's bass voice and is a choral musician, like his parents. Although Steve and Lynn did not get to sing together often, some of their happiest memories are of singing in the 16-voice choir of the annual Big Moose Bach Festival in Gorham, NH, and at concerts and special services at West Side Presbyterian Church, where Lynn is a member. Steve and Lynn also shared a passion for science fiction, especially Star Trek, politics and current events, and Lynn's home-made hummus.
Steve will be cremated, and his ashes will be buried with a memorial tree, to be planted next to the apple tree that he pruned and cared for at Lynn's family's house in New Hampshire. A memorial service will be held in the future when people can feel comfortable singing together again. Donations in his memory can be made to CancerCare.org.