JEROME "JERRY" TOBIN

I can’t remember when I first met Jerry and his brother Marvin and Marvin’s wife Helene. I believe it was at one of the Branca family annual Christmas Eve dinners which has been hosted by my brother in law Rocco (who was Jerry’s best friend) for the past 60 or more years. Well anyway the first time my family met Jerry was like we had known him for years. We all loved him. He would call on our birthdays with greetings. He was at our parties, weddings, funerals. To us he was family. He was...

I'm so sorry to find that Jerry has gone. I met him in 1991 when I moved to to the 9th floor of the Parkway House. I was 23 and had accidentally started a small fire in my oven, which I quickly extinguished, but not before the alarms were sounding and the fire department was on it's way. Jerry and Joe were in the middle of a house warming party and they, along with their guests, cocktails in hand all ended up in the lobby. When the firemen gave the OK to return to our apartments Jerry invited...