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I feel like I lost a relative, said Simi, 85, of North Haledon. It s going to be terrible not seeing him here.
Lillian Kabatabazi, 31, of Prospect Park said she emigrated from Uganda and found the perfect place to worship with her family. He s the father who baptized them, Kabatabazi said, pointing to her two children. We really miss him.
Kurtyka s casket was draped in a white pall and positioned in front of the altar of the diamond-shaped sanctuary at a funeral Mass the next day.
Monsignor T. Mark Condon said on behalf of the Diocese of Paterson that Kurtyka was a pastor of souls who never took a shortcut and never gave less than his all to those who needed him.