Alfred Patrick Flood WWII Navy veteran, NYPD detective, and Sloan Kettering volunteer Alfred Patrick Flood, 94, of Colonia, N.J., and Sunrise, Westfield, N.J., the loving husband of the late Lorraine (Oehlmann) Flood, passed away peacefully on Thursday, July 19, 2018. Visitation is planned for Thursday, July 26, from 4 to 8 p.m. at the Higgins & Bonner Echo Lake Funeral Home, 582 Springfield Ave., Westfield. A funeral service will be held at 10 a.m. on Friday, July 27 at Zion Lutheran Church, 559 Raritan Rd, Clark, N.J. The son of Patrick Flood and Ann (Healy) Flood, Al was born in 1923, in Elizabeth, N.J., where he was raised as one of five siblings with brothers, Jake, Eddie, Tommy, and their sister, Ann, all predeceased. He was a graduate of St. Patrick's High School where he reveled in basketball/ baseball and carried friendships from the school for life. Fond of those memories Al was always willing to volunteer stories of what was Elizabeth in the Great Depression era. Al joined the U.S. Navy spending two tours in the Pacific theater of World War II as a gunner on a torpedo bomber. After discharging he returned to work in Port Newark until his application to the NYPD came up. He spent 23 years with the NYPD most all as a detective assigned to various organized crime investigations by the Brooklyn D.A.'s office. Never one to sit still during those years, on days off Al painted houses, drove cabs, sold real estate as a licensed agent, and refereed youth football. After retiring from the NYPD, Al found his way into banking for another 28 years. First directing security for First Jersey National Bank, Jersey City, N.J., then Trust Company of New Jersey, Jersey City. When Trust Company was sold in 2004, Al finally retired at 80. In 1955 Al married Lorraine, they started a family and raised their children, Sharon and Greg, in the Westerleigh section of Staten Island and then the Colonia section of Woodbridge Township, N.J. They were active in Zion Lutheran Church, Clark, where Al volunteered in varying capacities including a term as president. A cancer survivor, Al was an active volunteer for 30 years at Memorial Sloan Kettering Hospital. Al's passion since childhood was the YMCA and he would routinely ask anyone if they're working out. When not at the Y, Al and Lorraine enjoyed travelling the globe and endlessly entertaining friends and family at their home. Al is survived by his daughter, Sharon Battaglia, her husband, Bill, of Elizabeth, their two sons, Brian of Elizabeth, and Nicholas and his wife, Faye, of Union, N.J., and his son, Greg, his wife, Andrea of Westfield/Sea Girt, N.J., and their three sons, Andy, Greg, and Mike, all of New York City.