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Phil graduated from Lodi HS where he was a basketball standout. An Army veteran who served in Vietnam. Though stationed in Alaska during the war, Phil volunteered to fight in Vietnam. Phil graduated from William Paterson College and taught and coached at Becton High School while attending law school at night and graduated from the University of Bridgeport School of Law.
Phil practiced law in Lodi and Hasbrouck Heights and served two terms as Lodi's Mayor. Phil had a great sense of humor and style and was a loyal son, brother and friend who will be missed.
Phil is survived by his brothers Tim (wife Karen) of Vero Beach, Fl., John (wife Denise) of Medford and Tom (wife Priscilla) of Leonia. 6 nieces and nephews and 3 great nephews and nieces.
Visitation on Tuesday, April 16th from 5 - 8 PM at Costa Memorial Home Boulevard and Central Avenue Hasbrouck Heights. Private cremation will follow.
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FRANCES A PAKULNIEWICZ
April 16, 2024
He was my family's attorney and helped me out during a very trying time and I will never forget that.
RIP MR Toronto.
Janice Tempio
April 15, 2024
I wish I were saying this directly to Phil, but working for him was one of the greatest learning experiences of my life. There were many lessons I was too young at the time to appreciate. Phil's genuine passion for governing was ultimately at odds with the often dirty game of politics. He should've gone further in this realm, but it is my hope that he will at least be remembered for the many positive changes he made in his beloved hometown of Lodi. Rest in peace Mayor.
Robert Tempio
April 15, 2024
I have many great memories of the years I knew Phil Toronto having served with him as a council member of the Lodi Borough Council during his second term as mayor. But even before then Phil helped me navigate a difficult moment in my adolescence. I am forever grateful for what he did for me and shudder to think what might have been had he not saw fit to intervene. Working with and learning from him on the council, I witnessed what politics could be when it had vision and the long term good of the community in mind. When he approached me to run for city council, I was still in college and reluctant to run, but Phil´s grand plan for the redevelopment of Lodi´s downtown was an inspiring one. If he needed my help to bring it to fruition, then I was in. He saw my potential and the value a youthful, idealistic perspective could bring to rethinking how politics was done in our hometown. But it was Phil who was the real idealist and who, while he was in office, never gave up on the dream of revitalized Lodi. And though he wasn´t given the chance to see it through, it was nonetheless an inspiration to work with someone who believed a better politics-and Lodi-was possible.
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