Rest In Peace Paul Fanelli

eddiethelock

eddiethelock

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1/18/11
Cuemaker, Player and a class act.
Paul passed away from a heart attack, services not yet announced. cya on the other side pablo, gonna miss ya over here.

To all: may be a great idea for everyone that knew paulie to express some kind words in the guestbook for his family here: http://www.marroccos.com/index.cfm
 
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That is brutal.. Paul was a very nice gentleman, made a cue for me a few years back. It was a beauty. Another terrible loss to the pool world.
 
A real shame, quietest guy in the room. Would stop by the accustats game show every week and hang out with us. Hope his family gets thru this.
 
i am shocked and saddened by paul's passing. my sincere condolences to his family.
i was friends with paul since he worked for pitney bowes. when he made service calls to hartz mountain in secaucus, he would stop by my office, we'd go out for a smoke and talk pool and cues.
when i was doing work for inside pool, i gave cornerman a nudge to write up paul in his cuemakers column. i like to think the publicity helped paul and his business, though he deserved every accolade for his beautiful cues. he put a leather wrap on my palmer cue and it will be a little more significant to me now.
 
My sincere condolences to the family and friends of one of the most creative of all cuemakers. RIP.
 
May sincere condolences goes out to Paul Fanelli's Family.This is really sad news,Rest in peace my friend.
 
My Thoughts and Prayers go out to the Family
Paul was a real nice guy had many laughs at the game show with him
Great Cue Maker even better Person RIP
 
I never had the pleasure of meeting Paul, but I've seen some of his butterfly spliced cues that were amazing. RIP Paul!
 
This is terrible, RIP.

I just came from the cardiologist and am wearing a 24 hour heart monitor. Life is fragile.

I sure do hope his family will be ok, I never had the pleasure of meeting him, I know Paul was very highly regaurded by many people who I have spoke to over the years spoke of when they spoke of Paul. I sure am saddended by this, it is awalys bad to lose a "Pool Family" member.

My condolencences to his family and friends,

Sincerly,

Eric
 
Mike (Paul's son) asks that anyone who might have had outstanding work with Paul to please give them some time to deal with things and then contact him not his mom as he wants to make sure everyone is taken care of in the standard of excellence his dad was known for.

Feel free to contact me to get in touch with Mike.

Rick
 
This is truly horrible news. Paul was incredible to work with when he built my cue, very patient and just great to talk to. A great guy too, there was an awesome article about him in Billiards Digest awhile back about how he made a custom bridge/hand attachment for a disabled former policeman.
I'm truly stunned, an absolute terrible loss for the pool world. RIP Paul, you'll be missed.

Eric
 
Very sad news. Although I never met the man, I was a big fan of his work. May he rest in peace.

Anyone know how old he was?

Thanks,

Dave
 
I haven't seen the Inside Pool article, but found this article about the prosthetic Fanelli made.
http://www.northjersey.com/arts_entertainment/103909229_He_lost_his_left_hand__but_a_top_North_Jersey_pool_player_is_still_running_the_table.html?c=y&page=1

I thought this quote from the article spoke volumes: ""The only reason I’m playing pool right now is ’cause of [Paul Fanelli]. Period. Period. Period. They could love me all they want, if it wasn’t for Paul Fanelli, I would not be playing pool. He made a prosthetic I was able to shoot pool with.""

Enabling people to enjoy the game; that is what it is all about.... isn't it?

RIP Paul
 
wow im in total shock. my gf worked at castle billiards were he used to go all the time. ive played many fun games of chicago with him. i certainly will always remember him.
 
Paul was a great person. Mature, friendly, well mannered, a good father and husband. He was old school.
He always came up to play Chicago with us on thursdays, and I would call him up and he would come on Tuesdays, so we could have a 4th player. Always had a smile, tell a clean joke now and then. When someone was running out, he would just smile, even when he was losing.

We had a lot of fun in those Chicago games. If there was a crossword puzzle on the counter, forget it, it would be finished while he was waiting his turn to shoot. He loved puzzles, he solved them all. He was very, very intelligent. Loved science, well read. His skill and intelligence showed in his cues.

I remember one night, 3 or 4 other cue makers came up, and they were asking him how he made the full splice butterfly cues. It was like a cuemakers convention in the backroom. He takes out his pen and proceeds to explain in detail how its done. He was that generous.

Always had jeans and flannel shirt on. I could see him walking in the room now, pull out his cue, and say "I'm in."

We will miss you Pauly.
 
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