Matthew John

Koziol

MATTHEW J. KOZIOL, USMC

Matthew J. Koziol died peacefully on March 3, 2017 in Rockleigh, New Jersey.  He was born in Brooklyn, New York on August 16, 1926 and shortly thereafter moved to Bayonne and then Jersey City, New Jersey.  He graduated Snyder High School in 1944 and also played on the baseball team where he was offered an opportunity to try out for the then New York Giants.  He married the love of his life, Eileen Seidenberg on November 14, 1953 and have been residents of Cliffside Park, New Jersey for over 60 years.

He proudly served his country during World War II where he was a member of the 3rd Battalion, 10th Marines which took him to the Pacific Theater.  Upon his return from the War, he attended John Marshall Law School for a period of time and then opened his first business in Union City, New Jersey and later opened City Furniture on Main Street in Hackensack, New Jersey.  He was the President of the North Hudson Lions Club.

Matthew was an avid handball player, tennis player and was very successful in the pool rooms and at the poker tables.  Above all, he valued his family and in his later years enjoyed watching his granddaughter's (light of his life) sports and performance activities.  He was well known for an exceptional sense of humor which he maintained to the end.

Matthew was preceded in death by his daughter, Karen Koziol and his sister Sophie Reszutek and is survived by his wife Eileen, children Kathleen Koziol Goodfellow and Matthew J. Koziol, Jr. and his wife Donna, and his granddaughter, Kelly Goodfellow and his sister Theresa Theobald.

"Waste Not, Want Not," and "Seems Like Old Times".  You will be missed by so many.