Geoffrey Rosamond

ROSAMOND
Geoffrey Curran, 71, of Jersey City, New Jersey peacefully passed away on Monday, March 18, 2013.
Geoff, a native of Bayonne resided in Paramus, but spent 20 years living in Franklin Lakes, New Jersey and most recently in Jersey City, New Jersey.
Geoff graduated from Holy Trinity High School in Hackensack, and pursued his dream of becoming a lawyer, graduating from Kings College in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania and going on to obtain a law degree from Catholic University, in Washington DC in 1967. Having serveral options at that time, choosing to stay at Catholic U, Geoff decided to continue to take courses at in International Law while working in the early Nixon Administration on the legal staff of Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, George Romney. He was a dissertation away from a Ph.D when life intervened.
In 1967, he married Elaine from Arlington, Virginia. In 1970, Geoffrey, the first of his four children, was born, and Geoff became an Assistant Bergen County Prosecutor.
In 1972, Geoff's daughter Laurice was born and he went into practice with an Ex-Prosecutor, eventually opening his own practice in Hackensack and in 1979, moving it to his new home town of Franklin Lakes.
The birth of sons Christopher and Brian followed their elder siblings and Geoff became very active in local politics.
In 1980, Geoff won the first of his seven terms on the Franklin Lakes Council and with it his service eventually led to his being named New Jersey Elected Officials Hall of Fame in 2001. During that time he served on The Recreation Commission in town and got an ordinance passed involving youth sports entitled, "Kids First, Winning Second". It is a philosophy he used coaching his own children in baseball and other sports.
In 2002, Geoff was offered and accepted a position as a Workers' Compensation Judge retiring in August, 2011.
Along this journey, Geoff was an Adjunct professor at Ramapo College, Fairleigh Dickinson University and Saint Peter's College. He was also a Volunteer Art Tour Guide at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
His mother, Veronica Curran Franta, passed away in 2012. He is survived by his children, Geoffrey N. Rosamond and his wife, Robin of Morris Plains, NJ, Laurice C. Carbonell and husband, Mac of Brooklyn, NY, Christopher N. Rosamond and his wife, Michelle of Oakland, NJ and Brian N. Rosamond and his wife, Lindsey of Saddle Brook, NJ, his sister, Karen Runz and her husband, Jeff of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, his six grandchildren, Christina, Geoffrey, Leo, Christopher, Cecilia and Donovan, his nephews Curran Runz and his wife Lara of Virginia, Eric Runz and his wife Melissa of Pennsylania and niece Dane Runz of North Carolina.
Visitation will be held on Friday, March 22, 2013 from 1-5 and 7-9 PM at Vander Plaat-Vermeulen Memorial Home, 530 High Mountain Road, Franklin Lakes, NJ 07417. Funeral services Saturday, March 23, 2013 at 9:30 AM at Vander Plaat-Vermeulen followed by the funeral mass which will be offered at 10 AM at Most Blessed Sacrament R.C. Church, 787 Franklin Lake Road, Franklin Lakes, NJ 07417
The family requests that in lieu of flowers donations may be made in Geoffrey's memory to the American Heart Association, 7272 Greenville Ave, Dallas, TX 75231 (www.heart.org) or to the Christian Foundation for Children and Aging P.O. Box 219114
Kansas City, MO 64121-9114 (www.cfcausa.org)
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