Starting Sunday, June 17 and continuing through Saturday, June 23, Cablevision Optimum Local will broadcast a half-hour tribute to former Assembly Republican Leader Alex DeCroce, who passed away on Jan. 9, 2012. The show will air at 1:30 and 7:30 p.m. each day.
The show will chronicle DeCroce’s career in politics as well as his personal life.
DeCroce, 75, died suddenly, collapsing at the Statehouse shortly after the end of a marathon Assembly session.
A mild-mannered leader, DeCroce was first elected to the Assembly in 1989 and served as deputy speaker from 1994 to 2001.
He also served as a Morris County freeholder from 1984 to 1989, serving for one year as freeholder director.
DeCroce was born in Morristown and lived in Parsippany-Troy Hills. He attended Seton Hall University and, aside from his legislative accomplishments, made his career as a Realtor at ERA Gallo & DeCroce.