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Ruth Alice Wallace
Aug 8, 2012
Ruth Alice Wallace, 75 , passed away on Wednesday August 8, 2012 at Overlook Hospital in Summit, NJ. Born in Jersey City in 1938, Ruth moved to Cranford and in 1948 and graduated from Cranford High School 1956. Ruth married her husband Donald on June 1, 1957 and was a long time member of the First Presbyterian Church of Cranford....

Jean A. Gillie
Aug 5, 2012
Jean A. Gillie Jean Agnes (Schwarz) Gillie, 88, of Westfield NJ died Sunday, August 5, 2012 at University Hospital in Newark , NJ. Visitation will be at Gray's Funeral Home in Westfield on Thursday August 9 from 2-4 and 7-9. A funeral service will be held on Friday August 10 at 11 AM at the Presbyterian Church, 140 Mountain Avenue...

Charles L. Eberling
Aug 1, 2012
Charles Lippincott Eberling Age: 69 – Manchester and Vero Beach Charles Lippincott Eberling bravely fought his two year battle with lung cancer and passed away peacefully at home on Wednesday, August 1st.. . He was born in Jersey City , NJ. He raised his family in Cranford NJ living there for over 30 years. Charles follows into the afterlife his...

Kate A. Tevis
Jul 29, 2012
Kate A. Tevis Artist and Entrepreneur Kate (Kathleen) A. Tevis joined the angels on Sunday, July 29, 2012. Kate was an artist and business entrepreneur who enjoyed the love, respect, and admiration of her family, her colleagues and her business clients. A graduate of Mother Seton Regional High School and Seton Hall University, she started her career as a commercial...

Marie Knoeller
Jul 28, 2012
Marie Katherine (Jacobus) Knoeller, age 87, of Cranford, NJ, passed away suddenly at Robert Wood Johnson Hospital on July 28, 2012. Born in Jersey City, NJ on Sept. 2, 1924 Marie was the daughter of the late Amzi Joseph Jacobus and Rose (Hausman) Jacobus. She was predeceased by her husband Donald Eugene Knoeller a Navy Veteran in 1992 after a...

Lyndsey Mary Benito
Jun 28, 2012
Lyndsey M. Benito, 65, passed away of complications related to brain cancer at Overlook Medical Center in Summit, on Thursday, June 28, 2012. She was surrounded by her loved ones. Lyndsey was a Westfield resident for 32 years, and proudly became a U.S. citizen in 1988. Born Lyndsey Mary Marguerite Danielle Pecher on January 1, 1947 in Beirut, Lebanon, in...

Carl A. Kluge
Jun 23, 2012
Carl A. Kluge, Jr., passed away on June 23, 2012 of a brief illness. Born - July 27, 1932 in Newark, NJ to Carl A. And Mary (Huska) Kluge. Visitation will be Wedensday from 2-4, 7-9 pm at Gray Memorial Funeral Home 12 Springfield Ave., Cranford. Please visit at grayfuneralcom for on line condolences. Funeral services 11 am Thursday at...

Stella Havas
Jun 14, 2012
Stella Havas of Berkeley Heights, N.J., died Thursday, June 14, at Overlook Hospital in Summit after a long illness. She was 80. Born in Jersey City July 31, 1931, she was the daughter of Thomas and Stella Eggleston Flaws, both of whom had settled in the United States from Newcastle on Tyne, England. Following her education in the Jersey City...
James T. Holcombe
Jun 11, 2012
James T. Holcombe Educator and Teaching Profession Advocate James T. Holcombe, 94, of Mountainside, passed away on June 11, 2012. He received academic degrees from Lafayette College, Columbia and NYU. For more than 50 years Jim represented educators in NJ through extensive involvement in the NJ Education Association. He taught math and science at Union High School for 17 years...

Edwin William Lehecka
Jun 11, 2012
Edwin William Lehecka, 84, a 50 year resident of Westfield, died Monday June 11, in Somerset Medical Center, Somerville, NJ. Born in New York City, he was a graduate of Pace University, having retired from the Benjamin Moore Company, Montvale, NJ, where he was a corporate treasurer. Mr. Lehecka was a veteran of the US Army, serving in both World...

John L. Kyle
Jun 3, 2012
John Kyle, 56, of Maplewood and Cranford John Kyle passed away on June 3, 2012 after a courageous battle with cancer. He was a long time resident of Maplewood and Cranford, NJ. John was the son of the late James G. and Barbara (nee Harris) Kyle and grew up in Maplewood NJ where he graduated from Columbia High School in...

Nancy W. Mattern
May 28, 2012
Nancy (Nannie) Temperance White Stetson Mattern, 98, of Cranford, New Jersey, died peacefully at Overlook Hospital in Summit at 7:55 p.m. on May 28. For the past year, she had been living at Atria Cranford assisted living. She was born on April 5, 1914 in Edenton, North Carolina, the youngest child of John A. and Eva E. Hurdle White, both...

Michael Lepanto
May 25, 2012
Michael Lepanto Cranford Resident, Flight Engineer, flew the first non-stop airline flight from NY to Hawaii Michael Lepanto, 95, a Cranford resident for the past 38 years, died May 25, 2012. Mass of the Christian Burial will be celebrated at 9:30AM Wednesday May 30, 2012, in St. Michael's Catholic Church, Cranford. Interment will be private. Visitation will be 3:00-7:00PM Tuesday...

Stephen Crago Taylor
May 4, 2012
Stephen C. Taylor, 68, formerly of Westfield, passed away in Boston on May 4, 2012, after a long illness. Mr. Taylor was born in Indianapolis on April 15, 1944. The family moved to Westfield, where Mr. Taylor lived till he left for college at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Boston. He was a member of Boy Scout Troop 172,...

Cordelia Hoff
May 2, 2012
Cordelia Hoff of Springfield, passed away on Wednesday May 2, 2012 at the University of Pennsylvania Medical Center in Philadelphia surrounded by her loving family. She was 67. Visitation will be 2-4 and 7-9PM, Sunday May 6,, at Gray Funeral Home, 318 E. Broad St., Westfield, where the Funeral Service will begin at 10:30AM Monday May 7, 2012 (www.grayfuneralhomes.com to...

Raymond Roger Gray
Apr 26, 2012
Raymond R. Gray, 64, of Kenilworth, died Friday April 27, 2012, after a brief illness. Visitation will be 3:00-7:00PM Sunday April 29, 2012 at Gray Memorial Funeral Home, 12 Springfield Avenue, Cranford. Graveside service will be 12 noon Monday April 30, 2012 Fairview Cemetery, Westfield. A veteran of the US Navy, he was retired after 40 years from Exxon Bayway...

Mary E. Barnes
Apr 22, 2012
Mary E. Barnes age 106, of Spring Hill Florida passed away at Spring Hill Hospital. She was born in Newfoundland, Canada living in Florida for the last 15 years coming from Brick and Roselle Park, NJ. She came to the United States as a nanny, and was a homemaker who enjoyed knitting, cooking, and raising her wonderful children and grandchildren....