Pasqualino Ioffreda

Dr. Pasqualino F. Ioffreda, Urologist, died Wednesday at his home in Highland Park of complications related to the treatment of lymphona. He was 77. Pasqualino was born to Angelo and Cherubina Ioffreda in the Municipality of Morrone del Sannio, Italy. In 1946, at the age of thirteen, he traveled to the United States to join his father, a mason, who had relocated to Highland Park years earlier. Pasqualino formalized his U.S. citizenship in 1963.
He graduated Highland Park High Schookl in 1951. He earned honors in 1955 from Rutgers University and, in 1959, he graduated with honors from Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia. Dr. Ioffreda served in general surgical residency at St. Peter's Hospital, and a three-year residence in urology at Jersey City Medical Center. He interned at Womack Army Hospital in Fort Bragg, NC and served three years as post surgeon at Ilesheim U.S. Army Base in Germany.
In 1957, Dr. Ioffreda married Lois Tatarsky, a New Brunswick native and college sweetheart. The family settled in Highland Park and raised four boys, two of whom were later to become doctors themselves - Michael, a dermatologist, and Richard, a urologist who joined Dr. Ioffreda in practice in 1993 and continues the practice today. Lois Ioffreda died in 1977, Dr. Ioffreda remarried in 1982, to Flora Ahrens of Springfield, NJ, who died in 2006. She is survived by two of her three children, Jeffrey and Michael.
Dr. Ioffreda was an esteemed physician in the New Brunswick area for over 42 years. He established his urology practice in 1967 at Colonial Village, Edison. He later moved his practice to New Brunswick, serving Middlesex General Hospital now Robert Wood Johnson Unviversity Hospital, and St. Peter's where he was Chief of Urology for about 20 years. He expanded the practice and moved it to its current North Brunswick location in 2002. Dr. Ioffreda worked until just shy of his planned retirement at the end of December when he fell ill. He was considered a kind and compassionate physician.
Dr. Ioffreda is survived by his four sons, Angelo, of Arlington, VA, Richard of Hillsborough, N.J., Michael of Hershey, PA, and Edward of New York City, nine grandchildren, and by his two elder sisters, Maria Ioffreda, and Olimpia Ioffreda Micheli, both of Highland Park.
In lieu of flowers, the family is asking that donations be made to the Rutgers Unversity Foundation, memo: "SAS Pre-Med Initiative/In Memory of Pasqualino Ioffreda", and St. Peter's University Hospital Foundation, memo: "In Memory of Pasqualino Ioffreda."

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