Services were held in Wayne, N.J. last week for Thomas Joseph Clare, president of ShopRite of Oakland and a longtime member of Wakefern Food Corp.’s board of directors, who passed away on July 4 at age 86.
A graduate of St. Mary’s High in Rutherford, N.J., and an Air Force officer during the Korean War, Clare returned to New Jersey in 1953 and worked in his father’s supermarket business with his brothers, Charles and Paul. Following their dad’s retirement, the brothers joined Wakefern Food Corp. and in 1958 renamed their store West End ShopRite.
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