Robert Leonard Boyle, Sr. passed peacefully on Friday, August 12th amid the prayers of many.
Bob was born on September 22nd, 1935, to John and Katherine Boyle of Jersey City and Allenhurst, New Jersey. After attending The Peddie School and Seton Hall University, Bob took on leadership positions in The Hudson Dispatch Newspaper Corporation, Union City and the John F. Boyle Box Company, Jersey City and was a member of the Board of Directors of the Commercial Trust Company, UJB Financial and Summit Bancorp for over twenty years.
Always civic and community minded, he served on many Boards as a Trustee and officer including Monmouth Medical Center Foundation, St. Peter’s University, Visiting Nurses Association Health Group, The Catholic Advocate, Rumson Country Day School, New Jersey Press Association, Supreme Court of New Jersey Advisory Committee on Judicial Conduct, Oceanic Free Library, Parents Support Group of New Jersey among them.
Bob married Rita Morgan at her parent’s home in Allenhurst, New Jersey, in 1957 and they embarked on the adventure of raising seven children in Rumson, New Jersey. Together, their curiosity led them to a lifelong passion for travel and taking up new activities like skiing in Lake Placid and around the world, often with their children in tow and in later years with the “Rusty Edges”.
Bob lived by the credo “Do unto others as you would have them do unto you (Luke 6:31)”. He was a devoted husband, loving father, grandfather and great grandfather, a good friend, a gentle spirit. He was strong in his faith and served as a Eucharistic Minister for many years at his parish Church of the Nativity. He loved travel, swimming, newspapers, the beach, spy novels and all his friends, especially the Fatmens Club and the Monmouth Beach lunch crowd.
His wife Rita predeceased him in 2010. He leaves behind seven children: Kathy Stewart (Malcolm), Bobby Boyle (Tracy), Peter Boyle (Laurie), Rita Boyle, Sharon Warren (Joe), Jim Boyle (Sasha), John Boyle (Gretchen); sixteen grandchildren and seven greatgrandchildren who will carry on his legacy of kindness and generosity of spirit.
There will be no visitation. A Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated at the Church of the Nativity, 180 Ridge Road, Fair Haven, New Jersey on Tuesday, August 30th at 10:00am. Interment will follow at Mount Olivet Cemetery, Middletown, NJ and thereafter by a celebration of life at the Rumson Country Club. Thompson Memorial Home, Red Bank, has been entrusted with the arrangements.
