Leonard Raymond Sendelsky

Leonard Raymond Sendelsky

AGE: 80 • Colonia

Leonard "Lenny" Sendelsky passed away Saturday, December 6, 2014 at JFK Medical Center in Edison with his loving family at his side. He was 80 years old and is survived by his wife Judy of sixty years, son Leonard Drew Sendelsky and his wife Susan and granddaughter Christine Marie, son Guy Sean, sisters Joan Maher of Florida and Jean Muni of New York, cousin Kenneth Sendelsky and their families. Born and raised in Perth Amboy, Leonard lived most of his life in Colonia, NJ.

Leonard was a home builder for over 56 years and was responsible for the construction of over 3,000 homes, apartments and commercial buildings. He is a Board member of the Shore Builders Association of Central NJ. He was a past President, Chairman of the Board and Life Director. He was also a past President and member of the New Jersey Builders Association and a Life Director. He was instrumental in establishing the NJ State Uniform Construction Code Act in 1975. He was named NJ Builder of the Year in 1989, was awarded the Silver Hammer Award and was inducted into the National Association of Home Builders Hall of Fame in Washington, DC in 2004. He was Chairman of the Board of the NJ Builders Health Insurance Trust for sixteen years, received the NJBA Legends of Housing Award in 2002 which is recognition for the NJ middle and modest income home industry. He received the NJ Builders Golden Hammer Award in 2010. In 2013 he received NJBA's Lifetime Achievement Award for distinguished service and outstanding leadership, its highest honor. He was a founding Director of the NJ Home Owners Warranty Corporations and its first President. He was a member of the National Association of Home Builders Board of Directors and a founder of the NAHB Political Action Committee, a Charter Capital Club member as well as a Gold Key member and served as Chairman of many committees on the national level.

He was a member of the NJ State Construction Code Advisory Board since its inception in 1976. He was Chairman of the Middlesex County Construction Board of Appeals. He was also a former member of the Middlesex County Planning Board.

He was a member of the JFK Medical Center Board of Directors for over fifty years. He was Chairman of the JFK Hartwyck Nursing and Convalescent Center from 1993 to the present, Treasurer of JFK Health System, Chairman of the Finance Committee from 1999 to the present. He was the Chairman of the Hartwyck Long-Term Care division (nursing home and assisted living) from 1985 to the present and recipient of the Mary Anne Hale Philanthropic Award from the JFK Medical Center Foundation.

Lenny was a candidate for Congress in the Seventh Congressional District in 1992. He was a former Board member of the Thomas Edison Council of the Boy Scouts of America, a Board member of the Raritan Bay Area YMCA in Perth Amboy and a former Board member of the Middlesex County College Foundation. In 1990 he received the National Conference of Christian and Jews Brotherhood/Sisterhood Award. He was also a member of the Masonic Temple Theodore Roosevelt Lodge in South Amboy and an Elks member of BPOE Lodge #2282 in Colonia. He has held his real estate license in Middlesex County for over thirty years. He has been the Chief Elder of the Hungarian Reformed Church of Carteret for fifty years.

Visitation will be held at the Hungarian Reformed Church of Carteret, 175 Pershing Avenue in Carteret, NJ 07008 on Wednesday, December 10, 2014 from 1pm to 8pm. Funeral services will be Thursday, December 11 at 10am at the Hungarian Reformed Church of Carteret. Interment will be at Rahway Cemetery, 1623 St. Georges Avenue in Rahway, NJ. In lieu of flowers, the family asks that donations be made to JFK Medical Center Foundation and/or the Hungarian Reformed Church of Carteret.