Shopped for treats for daughter’s big day

JUST HOURS before he died, FDNY veteran William Tolley had popped into a bakery two doors down from his Queens firehouse looking for sweets to celebrate his daughter’s First Communion.

“We showed him a cupcake cross and he said he was going to come back in later with all the details,” recalled Sue Shiwdin, owner of the Mahalo New York Bakery. “And that’s the last we saw of him.”

The 14-year firefighter’s family has instead been left to plan his funeral and deal with the aftermath of his fatal five-story fall while working a Thursday afternoon fire in Queens.

“He was one of the easiest-going people I knew,” said his shaken stepfather Frank DeCillis. “He always had a smile on his face. I didn’t know anybody who didn’t like him.

“He always wanted to be a fireman. That’s all he ever wanted to do,” he added.

DeCillis and Tolley’s mom Marie had already made plans to travel from Florida to Long Island for granddaughter Isabella’s big day next weekend.

The celebration will give way to sadder fare. The wake for Tolley has been set for Tuesday from 7-9 p.m. and Wednesday from 2-4 p.m. and 7-9 p.m. at the Chapey and Sons Funeral Home in Bethpage, L.I.

A funeral service will take place starting at 11 a.m. Thursday at the St. Martin of Tours Church in Bethpage.

After receiving word of Tolley’s death, his mom Marie landed in the hospital near her home in Tampa, Fla.

“She thought she might be having a heart attack,” said DeCillis, 70. “Physically she’s OK. Mentally, she doesn’t remember anything of what happened. She’s totally blocked it out.”

The city medical examiner officially declared Tolley’s death an accident, with Tolley killed by blunt impact injuries, spokeswoman Julie Bolcer said Friday.

Tolley, after the fire in an apartment three floors below was under control, was moving from the bucket atop a ladder onto the roof of the five-story building when he fell to his death.

The two-alarm fire was ignited by burning incense, according to the FDNY.

The 42-year-old married father of the 8-year-old girl, known as Bella, was mourned by both the FDNY and his partners in the influential death metal band Internal Bleeding.

Tolley’s body arrived Friday