Serafino 'Sal' Maccioli, Retired Long Branch Detective, Dies At 92

Courtesy of Damiano Funeral Home:

Serafino “Sal” Maccioli, 92 of Long Branch entered into eternal rest at home on Saturday, January 9, 2016.

Sal was born in Newark in 1923 and grew up in Long Branch. He was a retired juvenile detective for the Long Branch Police Department, where he was honored as Policeman of the Year by the Long Branch Exchange Club in 1979. In his younger days he was known as “Savage” when he played on the Long Branch High School football team. He also played for the Gorcey Oilers Basketball team, and for the Long Branch Sea Hawks football team. Sal served in the US Army.

Sal had a long career with the Long Branch Police Department where he was respected by his fellow officers, even referred to as “iconic”. He found his true calling in his years spent as a juvenile detective where he was able to steer many young people onto a better path in life. Later in his life, many of those same kids or their parents would seek him out to thank him for all he did to help them.

He was predeceased by his father Anthony and his mother Rose; his brothers Joe, Tony, Jerry and Vincent; his sister Mary; his two sons Anthony and Larry; and wife of 42 years Dolores. Surviving are his daughter Susan Maccioli-Brewer and son-in-law Terry; step-daughters Barbara Stevens and Deborah Piscitelli; his grandchildren Heather Rochon, Courtney Braun, Ashley Braun-Velasques, Anthony, Cole and Edward Maccioli, Toni Maccioli-Martinez, Leann Maccioli and step-grandson Evan Piscitelli; his sisters Sandra DeFazio and Betty Falco; 16 great-grandchildren, and many beloved nieces and nephews. Sal is also survived by his best friend and longtime partner in the Long Branch Police Department Jerome Hamlin, his wife Kathy and family.

Sal’s life can easily be summed up by his love for his wife Dolores, his family, the LBPD, the Yankees, the Giants and Notre Dame.

The Maccioli family would like to give a warm debt of gratitude to his loving step-daughter Barbara Stevens for the loving care she gave to Sal in the last few years of his life and to his beloved granddaughter Heather who not only helped her grandfather these last few years but was also his #1, as he called her.

Visitation will be held from 3 p.m. to 7 p.m. on Thursday, Jan.14 at the Damiano Funeral Home, 191 Franklin Ave, (corner of Third Ave.,) in Long Branch. The funeral service will being at 11 a.m. at the funeral home on Friday, followed by an interment at Woodbine Cemetery in Oceanport. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the Long Branch PBA, Local 10, 344 Broadway, Long Branch, NJ 07740. Letters of condolence may be sent through the web at www.damianofuneralhome.com.