By Liz Best
BOCA RATON — A longtime friend describes Joseph J. Redington III as being “outrageously handsome, caring, interested and engaging.” Mr. Redington, of Boca Raton, died March 15. He was 69.
“Joe and I first met in September 1955, when we were assigned to the same classroom as freshman at Brooklyn Prep. Even back then I found Joe enjoyable to be around,” said his childhood friend Charlie Buchta of New London, N.C.
Mr. Redington was born in Brooklyn, N.Y., on Dec. 19, 1941, and attended Brooklyn Prep High School and Holy Cross College in Worcester, Mass.
He served in the Navy where he advanced to the rank of lieutenant commander. He spent 29 years with Citibank in New York, serving as vice-president of operations. He and his wife, Dolores, were married for 42 years and raised two children, Joseph and Denise. Following retirement, the couple moved to Boca Raton, where Dolores died in 2006.
Mr. Redington married his wife, Monica, in 2009.
He will be remembered for his winning smile and his winning way with people, said Buchta, who worked with Mr. Redington to organize reunions and fundraising efforts for their alma mater, Holy Cross College.
“I began to look forward to the to the major and mini-reunions where I could spend some time with Joe. He was always smiling and enjoying life. He was straightforward and unpretentious. He was truly one of the good guys in my life,” Buchta said.
“We have all lost someone truly special.”
In addition to his wife and children, Mr. Redington is survived by a sister, three grandchildren, and a stepdaughter.
A wake was held March 18, followed the next day by a funeral Mass at St. Lucy’s Catholic Church in Highland Beach. He was interred at Boca Raton Mausoleum. The family asks that donations be made in his memory to the American Cancer Society.
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