Book of Memories for Vaskene Pascal Euksuzian

Condolence From Ron & Alice Balest

Fri, 28 Oct 2016 14:49:17 EDT

To Sarkis and family -- our sympathies and thoughts are with you. Take care.

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Mon, 24 Oct 2016 04:19:48 EDT

Condolence From George & Mary Lynn Lazur

Mon, 24 Oct 2016 00:51:22 EDT

Sophie - You are lovely and Pascal was a delightful man. We are fortunate to have made your acquaintance in Village Greenes. You and your family are in our thoughts are in our prayers and Pascal will never be forgotten. Love, George & Mary Lynn Lazur -xxoo

Condolence From George & Mary Lynn Lazur

Mon, 24 Oct 2016 00:51:21 EDT

Story shared: Pascal's Produce

Fri, 21 Oct 2016 22:48:54 EDT

Uncle Pascal taught me the meaning of hard work and I really enjoyed the market with him. We'd be eating "lunch" when most people were just waking up at 7am! Usually I just had a bagel but mostly I ordered a turkey club. The market was awesome filled with the characters, sounds and smells of produce commerce and buyers all haggling with the vendors. Uncle Pascal was the best at getting a good price despite his thick French accent. He had a white Chevy cargo type van and we filled it up on a daily basis, top to bottom, back to front. When we arrived back at the store; Pascal's Produce, we then emptied out the truck and uncle separated out all the wholesale orders which I would then deliver. He had a lot of big accounts too like Cinnaminson High School, most schools in the area in fact as well as some of the best restaurants around at the time too such as The Beau Rivarge in Medford. Sometimes Uncle Pascal would go with Mark on the deliveries, sometimes he did not. Mar's day was usually done by 1:00 pm when he would usually share an awesome feta or mozzarella cheeses sandwich with his Aunt's Sophie and Louise, both of his father's sisters. Mark's Aunt Sophie really took Mark under here "wing" because he was having great difficulty with his parents divorce as well as a drug and alcohol problem. Mark worked hard and received a great salary in cash from the produce store as well as free room and board, great Armenian cooking by Aunt Sophie too....without her and Uncle Pascal I wouldn't be alive today.

Story shared: No toosh the banan.

Fri, 21 Oct 2016 22:17:21 EDT

My Uncle Pascal was and is my hero. I will always love him and miss him so very much. He was hard-working and funny and gracious and kind. When I was a severely troubled teen for various reasons my parents divorce and other things Uncle Pascal and Aunt Sophie took me in at the worst time in my life. They gave me work at the wholesale retail produce store Pascal's produce in Cinnaminson New Jersey I worked for them was fed by them was paid for my work and Aunt Sophie did my wash; I pretty much was taken care of so lovingly by these two people. My father Jean, who passed in 2005, was the brother of my Aunt Sophie. This side of my family was absolutely awesome I was so close to my cousin Frank we had much fun times together. Thanksgivings and Christmases were very special times in Cinnaminson New Jersey and also time to time in Medford at my cousin's Sarkis's house. But the real reason for writing this story is the fact that my uncle Pascal was a really great man who taught me the true meaning of hard work. Every morning we'd get up at 4 a.m. and head down in that cool white van empty, waiting to be filled with all sorts of produce cases of: tomatoes, lettuce, corn, spinach, bananas, oranges, apples, cherries, string beans, peanuts, anything and everything we needed for the store and the wholesale deliveries. Him and I would eat lunch at around 7:30 a.m. and Uncle Pascal always brought me a bagel with cream cheese which was awesome. Every once in awhile I would have a club sandwich. He would walk down one whole side of the market and purchase all the goods for the store. Then he would switch sides because there were two sides to the Philly Produce Market at that time as he went on the other side I round up all his purchases from one side and then quickly went over to the other side to get the remaining purchases. We spent a good three or four hours every morning there buying everything we needed. Uncle Pascal was a shrewd businessman who always demanded the highest quality at the highest but for the lowest prices. Every vendor knew my Uncle Pascal. He was kind of like a star there at the produce market. It was so cool working with him but mind you we had our clashes but they were loving clashes between an uncle and his nephew - me being the clown and comedian always making fun of his accent he'd always say Mock, no toosh the banan he's come bruise. Which meant Mark don't touch the bananas they get bruised! Things like that always made me laugh and I'd make fun of him, but in the end he always always always made sure I knew what I was doing and how to do it correctly. One of his favorite quotes that he often said to me was this: Mark first you work then you eat then play that's it. I will forever miss and love you Uncle Pascal, good bye I'll see you up there when it's my time. Love, Your nephew Mark.

Memorial Candle lit by Mark Marcarian

Fri, 21 Oct 2016 21:32:57 EDT

Mark Marcarian

Condolence From Angela Muller

Fri, 21 Oct 2016 21:00:48 EDT

Please accept my deepest sympathies during this very difficult time . You are in my thoughts and prayers. Angela Muller