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Joseph N. Iasello
Apr 24, 2011
Joseph N. "Skippy" Iasello, 82, of Westfield, died Sunday, April 24, 2011. Relatives and friends are invited to visit from 2-4 and 7-9 PM Thursday April 28, 2011 at Gray Memorial Funeral Home, 12 Springfield Avenue, Cranford. Interment will be private. Born in Newark, Skippy was a veteran of the US Army, during the Korean War. He retired from the...
Robert D. Higbie
Apr 22, 2011
Robert Donald Higbie, age 87 Lifelong Cranford resident, WWII Navy veteran Bob Higbie was born to Russell and Helen Higbie in Elizabeth, N.J. on Oct.27, 1923 and lived in Cranford his entire life until moving to Waretown, N.J. in 2008. Living in various locations throughout town he was a member of the first class to go through the four years...
Evelyn Pisano
Apr 7, 2011
Evelyn (Warne) Pisano, 87, of Elizabeth, died Thursday April 7, 2011. Memorial services will be scheduled at a later date. Arrangements by Gray Memorial Funeral Home, Cranford. She was preceded by her husband Joseph Pisano, and is survived by daughter: Riva Campagna and her husband Michael of Cranford, son: Lance Warne and wife Sue of Florida, and five grandchildren.
Henry Allison Cox
Apr 5, 2011
Henry Allison Cox Henry Allison Cox, 92, died on April 5, 2011, at Meadow Lakes, a continuing care community in Hightstown, New Jersey. A funeral service will be held on Saturday, April 16, 2011, at 11:00 am, at The Presbyterian Church, 1 Oak Street, Basking Ridge, New Jersey, followed by a reception at the church. Arrangements by Gray Funeral Directors,...
Elsie Anna Cerone
Apr 1, 2011
ELSIE ANNA CERONE Registered Nurse, Westfield resident Elsie Anna (Schnaars) Cerone, 80, of Westfield, died on Friday April 1, 2011, in the Center for Hope Hospice, Scotch Plains. Funeral services will begin at 11:00 AM Tuesday April 5, 2011 at Gray Funeral Home, 318 E. Broad St., Westfield. Interment will follow in Hollywood Memorial Park, Union. Visitation will be 9:30...
James W. Taylor
Mar 23, 2011
James W. Taylor, 92, of Westfield, passed away on March 23, 2011, in Wilmington, Delaware, embraced by the love of his family. Mr. Taylor was raised in the Missouri River valley of North Dakota, on what had been an open-range horse ranch established by his grandfather circa 1885. In 1936 he began a degree in Industrial Management at North Dakota...
S. Elloitt Hume
Mar 20, 2011
S. Elliott Hume Former Investment Manager Elliott Hume, age 90, “sailed” away on Sunday, March 20, 2011, from complications of kidney failure and cancer. He had lived in Cranford at the same address for sixty years since 1951. He was a member of the First Presbyterian Church, Cranford, where he had served the Board of Trustees. He had been a...
Ralph H. Jones
Mar 13, 2011
Ralph Howard Jones Director of Public Relations, Westfield Historian Ralph Howard Jones, 78, of Stewartsville, NJ, formerly of Westfield, died Sunday March 13, 2011. Funeral services will be 1:00 PM Saturday March 19, 2011 in The Presbyterian Church, 140 Mountain Avenue Westfield. Private interment will follow later in the Revolutionary War Cemetery, Westfield. Arrangements by Gray Funeral Directors, Westfield. Born...
Janet Small
Mar 13, 2011
Janet Leonhardt Small, 59, passed away Sunday March 13th at home surrounded by her loving family. A lifelong resident of Cranford, she graduated Cranford High School in 1969. She later went on to earn a degree from Flagler College. Janet was predeceased by her parents William and Evelyn, her sister Geri, and her brother Bill. She is survived by her...
Theodore Carl Rutmayer
Mar 12, 2011
Mr. Theodore Carl Rutmayer age 88 entered eternal rest on Saturday March 12, 2011 at Overlook Hospital in Summit, NJ. Born in Staten Island, New York, he moved to Cranford in 1953. Involved in community support events as well as serving as President of the Cranford Booster Club, in the early 70's. He served his country in the United States...
Estelle M. Gruler
Mar 11, 2011
Estelle M. Gruler age 101 died on Friday March 11, 2011 Peggy's House, Center For Hope Hospice inScotch Plains, NJ. Born in Newark, NJ on February 11, 1910, she lived in Crestwood Village in Whiting before moving to Cranford in 2003. Estelle was a waitress for Tommy's Restaurant in Toms River for many years before her retirement.. She is pre...
Barbara Anthony Iaione
Mar 8, 2011
Barbara Anthony Iaione Fashion Designer / Artist and Poet Barbara Anthony Iaione, 78, a 39 year resident of Mountainside, died suddenly on Tuesday March 8, 2011 at her residence. Funeral services will begin at 11:00 AM Monday March 14, 2011, at Gray Memorial Funeral Home, 12 Springfield Avenue, Cranford (grayfuneralhomes.com), where Visitation will be 10AM until service time on Monday....
Angelos Glimis
Mar 6, 2011
Angelos Glimis, 85, of East Windsor, NJ, died Sunday, March 6, 2011. Visitation will be 6:00 - 9:00 PM, Wednesday March 9, 2011 at Gray Funeral Home, 318 E. Broad St., Westfield. Funeral service will be 11AM Thursday March 10, 2011, in Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Church, Westfield, followed by interment in Fairview Cemetery, Westfield. Mr. Glimis was born to...
Pete D. Zourzoukis
Mar 5, 2011
Pete D. Zourzoukis, 81, of Cranford, died March 5, 2011. Visitation will be 4-9PM Tuesday March 8, 2011, at Gray Funeral Home, 12 Springfield Ave., Cranford. Funeral services will begin at 11:00 AM Wednesday March 9, 2011, in Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Church, Westfield, with interment to follow in Fairview Cemetery, Westfield. Born in Greece, he is survived by his...
Ann Dempster
Feb 26, 2011
Ann Bain Dempster, 85, a retired realtor and homemaker, a long-time resident of Kensington, MD, and Summit, NJ, passed away on February 26, 2011‹her 85th birthday. Mrs. Dempster was was born in Elizabeth, NJ and raised in Roselle Park, NJ. She was daughter of James Alexander Bain and Margaret Wands Bain, originally of Musselburgh and Glasgow, Scotland. She recently moved...
Donald Edwin Lowrey
Feb 26, 2011
D. Edwin Lowrey age 90 went home to be with the Lord on February 26, 2011. Ed was born and raised in Pennsylvania. After serving in the Navy SeaBees in World War 2, he moved to New Jersey. Ed resided in Rahway for 56 years. Ed worked for Corrigated Box Company in Linden for 32 years before his retirement. He...
Theodore Wirt Nelson
Feb 23, 2011
Theodore W. Nelson, Exec VP, Mobil Oil Corp, Church and Westfield Y Trustee Mr. Theodore W. Nelson, 96, died February 23, 2011, at the Westfield Center, Genesis Elder Care Network in Westfield. Born in Missoula, Montana, and raised in Casper, Wyoming, he graduated valedictorian of both his high school and college classes. His GPA upon graduating from the Colorado School...
Ethel M. Heim
Feb 22, 2011
Ethel Heim, 106, Longtime Cranford Resident Mrs. Ethel Mapes Heim, longtime resident of Cranford, passed away peacefully on February 22nd at her home at the age of 106. Born in New York City in l904, Ethel lived with her family in Brooklyn where she participated in the first Children's Garden program at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden. In l916 the family...
Barbara Sue Thomson
Feb 11, 2011
Barbara Sue Pierson Thomson, age 81, of Westfield, NJ passed away February 11, 2011 at home with her husband by her side. She was born October 11, 1929 in Westfield, the daughter of late Miriam & George W Pierson. She was the youngest of 4 siblings, Marjorie Saylor, Marilyn Watts and Harold Pierson. On July 29, 1955 she married James...
Olga Garcia
Feb 9, 2011
Olga Garcia, of Roselle, NJ, passed away surrounded by loved ones on Wednesday February 9, 2011 at her daughter's family home in Cranford, NJ. Mrs. Garcia was born in Havana, Cuba on December 11, 1929, the daughter of the late Sebastian Garcia Herrera and Teresa Arias. She worked as an International Medical Coordinator at Schering-Plough in Kenilworth, NJ from May...
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