Stephen Caracappa
In Memory of

Stephen J. Caracappa

1947 - 2022

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Monday
9
January

Visitation at Funeral Home

11:00 am - 1:00 pm
Monday, January 9, 2023
Fredrick J. Chapey & Sons Funeral Home
20 Hicksville Road
Bethpage, New York, United States
(516)731-5600
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Monday
9
January

Funeral Service

1:00 pm
Monday, January 9, 2023
Fredrick J. Chapey & Sons Funeral Home
20 Hicksville Road
Bethpage, New York, United States
(516)731-5600
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Final Resting Place

St. Charles Cemetery
2015 Wellwood Avenue
Farmingdale, New York, United States
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Obituary

Stephen Caracappa was born on June 7, 1947, to Angelo and Ida Caracappa. His parents raised him and his younger sister, Mary Ann, in Brooklyn, Queens, and Plainview, New York, where he graduated from Plainview High School. Following high school, he attended St. John’s University and studied economics. Later, he furthered his studies with an MBA from Long Island University. Upon graduation from St. John’s, he began commuting into the city where he had started working in market research. It was while traveling on the Long Island Railroad, to and from work, that Steve had the most consequential encounter of his life: he ran into a former Plainview High classmate, Phyllis (née Apter), and decided to ask her out on a date. The rest, as they say, is history.

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Steve and Phyllis wed in 1971. They had four children: daughter Michele, twin sons Brian and Mark, and son Matthew. When Matthew was born in 1986, they moved their family of six to Randolph, New Jersey. Soon after, he started at M&M / Mars, where he worked for nearly 20 years until retirement in 2005. Steve recalled these decades in Randolph as the best of his life, particularly the years in which he managed his son’s travel ice hockey teams, attended endless school band concerts and sporting events, and enjoyed summer days in the backyard pool and surrounding deck, which he designed himself, putting his interest in architecture to use.

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In 2008, he and Phyllis moved to Tucson, Arizona. By that point, he had attended the high school and college graduations of his four children and walked his daughter down the aisle at her wedding ceremony. In the coming years, he would celebrate the weddings of his three sons, and lovingly dote on his grandsons, Michael, Robyn, Calvin, James, Tyler, and Cameron. In December of this year, he and Phyllis celebrated 51 years of marriage. She was the love of his life, his best friend, and his rock. He passed with Phyllis and his four children at his bedside. In lieu of flowers, please consider making a donation to The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research.

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