The Divine Liturgy was performed July 25 at Saints Peter and Paul Russian Orthodox Church for John Kirpan, 79, of Watchung, formerly of Jersey City. He died on July 18 at St. Barnabas Hospital in Livingston. He was born in Jersey City. John was a US Army veteran. He was a property manager for AT&T in Piscataway, he worked for AT&T for 30 years. He was president of the Lemko Resort Inc. in Monroe, N.Y. and treasurer of the Tylawa Social Club. John followed various polka bands and met his wife Janet at Victory Hall in Jersey City in 1955. John listened to the polkas in his car and on the computer even while combating his recent bout with cancer.
John was the husband of Janet Malast Kirpan; the brother of Michael Kirpan, the son of the late Andrew and Anna Pelesh Kirpan, the brother in law of Dorothy and Joseph McGuire, the uncle of Mark and Kathleen McGuire and the very special great uncle of Angelina, Mark, John and Meghan McGuire. Services arranged by the Bromirski Funeral Home, Jersey City.