Dr. Patrick A. Innarella, 85, lifelong resident of Montclair , passed away Wednesday, March 12th, 2014. A funeral service will be held on Monday March 17, 11am at Caggiano Memorial, 62 Grove St, Montclair, entombment at Immaculate Conception Cemetery, Upper Montclair. Visiting will be on Sunday March 16, from 2-4pm and 7-9pm at the funeral home. Please visit the book of memories at caggianomemorial.com
Dr. Innarella was an Oral & Maxillofacial Surgeon practicing in Montclair from 1958 to 1992. He completed his doctorate at the University of Pennsylvania, where he later was an assistant professor, and later an Associate professor at New Jersey College of Medicine and Dentistry in Jersey City. He served as Chairman of Oral Surgery and the Dental Department for Mountainside Hospital, in Montclair, the Chairman of the Dental Board at St Vincent's Hospital, and a member of the Medical Board at Community Hospital, both formerly in Montclair.
Locally, he was the past president of the Optimist Club of Montclair, The Cosmopolitan Club of Montclair and served on the Board of BEAM (Better Education for All of Montclair).
Together with wife, Shirley, they founded Art Reference Gallery of Montclair, working over a 31 years accumulating the largest detailed archives on artists and their prices, later donating them to the Frick Museum of Art in New York City.
He is survived by his children, Marc Innarella, and Valerie Innarella-Burak, and is predeceased by his wife Shirley, his daughter Monaca and son-inlaw Dr. Borys Burak.
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