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Robert Ruff
Feb 21, 2010
Dr. Robert W. Ruff Age 89 of Mountainside, NJ. Died on February 21, 2010 He and his brother Dr. James Ruff had an optometry practice in Elizabeth(NJ), for over forty years. Born in Newark(NJ), he graduated from Roselle Park High School. He received his Bachelors degree from Monmouth College, Illinois and his Doctor of Optometry degree from Columbia University, New...
Laurie K. Meyers
Feb 20, 2010
Laurie Kathleen Meyers ( Biggs ) Westfield NJ, Rochester, NY Saturday February 20th, 2010 After a courageous battle with Breast Cancer. Predeceased by her father Franciss J. Biggs, she is survived by her beloved husband Neil. Her beloved mother Jane Biggs, her loving sisters Sharon (John), Carr and Holly (Tom) Garver, their children Elizabeth and Abby Carr, Adam, Joshua and...
Walter G. Geisler
Feb 17, 2010
Walter G. Geisler age 87 died on Wednesday February 17, 2010 at the Robert Wood Johnson Hospital at Rahway. Born in Brooklyn, New York, he lived in Kenilworth for the last 58 years. Walter worked as a machinist for 40 years for Westinghouse in Jersey City, NJ retiring in 1981. Walter served his country in the Army Air Corp. He...
Paul E. Krystow
Feb 16, 2010
Paul E. Kystow Husband, father, materials engineer Paul E. Krystow of Mountainside (NJ), passed away peacefully at home on Tuesday, February 16, 2010 at the age of 88. A memorial service and interment will be held Saturday, February 20, 2010 at St. Paul's Episcopal Church, 414 E. Broad St., Westfield. Paul is survived by his loving wife of 58 years,...
Clarence Henry Briant
Feb 5, 2010
Clarence Henry Briant age 89 died on Friday February 5, 2010 at his residence in Westfield. Born in Westfield, Clarence was a life long resident. He was a 1938 graduate from Westfield High School. He then went on to serve his country during World War Two. After the was he became a self employed master plumber for Briant Plumbing. He...
Emma L. Townsend
Feb 3, 2010
Emma Townsend died peacefully Feb. 3 at home in Cedar Crest Village in Pompton Plains, N.J. She was 92. Born Emma Louise Hopler in Newark, N.J., she lived in Mountainside, N.J., for 54 years. As a young woman, she worked in many clerical and secretarial positions, including a job with the Eastern Aircraft Division of General Motors. She was a...
William J. Dempster
Feb 2, 2010
William John Dempster, 83, a retired marketing executive who worked for the Kearfott division of General Precision, a subsidiary of The Singer Company, for 30 years, passed away on February 2, 2010. Mr. Dempster was an Army veteran of WWII and the Korean Conflict. He was a recipient of the Bronze Star and a Presidential Unit Citation for the heroic...
Harry C. Brown
Jan 29, 2010
Harry C. Brown, Sr., 79, passed away peacefully surrounded by his family on Friday, January 29, 2010 at Overlook Hospital, Summit, NJ after a long illness. He was the son of the late Alexander & Felicita Brown He was a U.S. Army Veteran and served his country from l949 to l952. . Surviving are his devoted son, Harry C.Brown, Jr....
Elisabet S. Porcella
Jan 28, 2010
Mrs. Elisabet Simpson Porcella passed away on Wednesday January 27th, 2010 at Peggy Coloney's House @ Hope Village, Scotch Plains, NJ. Elisabet was born and lived in Cranford and Long Beach Island before moving to Springfield, N.J. She was the wife of the late Felipe Porcella and is survived by three daughters. Lisa Steinneher of Highland Park, NJ, Lind Herbert...
Richard K. Swicker
Jan 28, 2010
Obituary for: Richard Kerwin Swicker Oct. 5, 1930 – Jan. 28, 2010 Richard Kerwin Swicker, of Westfield, NJ, died Thursday, Jan. 28th at Kindred Hospital, Rahway after a long illness. He was born in West Chester, PA in 1930, the son of Lester and Eileen Swicker, and grew up in Ridgewood and Bernardsville, NJ. Richard graduated from Bernards High, Bernardsville,...
Armand A. Van Gelder
Jan 27, 2010
Armand A. van Gelder died on January 27, 2010 after a long illness. He was 83 years old. Armand was a life long resident of Cranford. A graduate of Cranford High School in 1944, he enlisted in in the U.S. Army. In May 1944, he saw combat in Europe with the 102nd Infantry Division. He transfered to the MP platoon....
George A. Miller
Jan 20, 2010
George A. Miller age 92 died on Wednesday January 20, 2010 at the Robert Wood Johnson Medical Center at Rahway. Born in Alpha, NJ, he was a live long resident of Westfield. During World War Two, George served his country in the United States Army, and was woulded and redieved a purple heart. George worked for 30 years as a...
Tracy Audrine Cascio
Jan 13, 2010
Tracy Audrine Cascio, a resident of Plainfield, passed away on January 13th at the age of 66 after a long and courageous battle with cancer. Tracy was born on September 12, 1943 in Arizona to Capt. Richard David and Carma Audrine Gruman. The family later relocated to Westfield, NJ where Tracy graduated from Westfield High School in1961. She earned an...
Charles W. Gulotta
Jan 10, 2010
Charles W. Gulotta, died on Sunday January 10th, at the Overlook Hospital in Summit, N.J. Born in Ozone Park, New York he had lived in Queens and New York City before moving to Westfield in 1970. Charles is survived by his wife Marilyn S. Gulotta, a daughter Miriam S. Gulotta and her husband Todd R. Goldman as well as a...
Janet E. Knudsen
Jan 3, 2010
Janet E. Knudsen age 96 passed away on Sunday January 3, 2010 at her residence in Cranford. Born in Brooklyn, NY, she lived in Cranford since 1962. Janet was an office worker for Boyle Midway Company in Cranford for 10 years retiring in 1966. She was a member of the Wednesday Morning Early Birds Bowling League in Linden. Member of...
Henry J. Lenox
Jan 1, 2010
Henry (Hank) J. Lenox died at his home in Cranford, on New Years day January 1, 2010. Visitation will be on Tuesday from 7-9 PM at the Gray Memorial Funeral Home in Cranford. Funeral Liturgy will be 9:30 AM Wednesday January 6, 2010 at St. Ann's R.C. Church in Garwood with burial to follow at St. Gertrude's Cemetery. Known to...
Jeanne S. Wilhelms
Dec 31, 2009
Jeanne S. Wilhelms, 85, died the morning of December 31. A resident of Mountainside for nearly 60 years, she was born in Elizabeth on January 4, 1924, to parents Freddy and Rose Sleckman. She is the sister of Fred "Boysy" (deceased); Dick of Glen Ellyn, IL; and Jack (deceased). She is the wife of Fred Wilhelms, Jr (deceased), and mother...
Edward R. Milden
Dec 31, 2009
EDWARD R. MILDEN SERVED ON THE BATTLESHIP NEW JERSEY Edward R. Milden, 83, of Spring Lake Heights passed away on December 31st at his home. Edward was born in Bayonne New Jersey. He was predeceased by his parents Marguerite and Robert and a brother Bobby. He is survived by a brother Glenn and his wife Janet of Cranford, his companion...
Annina N. Di Sibio
Dec 21, 2009
Annina (Anna) N. Di Sibio age 93 died on Monday December 21, 2009 at the Overlook Hospital in Summit. Born in Cansano, Italy, she lived in Brooklyn, New York before moving to Westfield 12 years ago. She is pre deceased by her husband, Dominick who died in 2005. She is survived by her daughters, Grace Villani, Jennie Rossetti, Marie Di...
Augusta Victoria Sheppard
Dec 19, 2009
A. Victoria Sheppard, 91, left this life on Dec. 19 at Runnells Hospital in Berkeley Heights. She was born in Philadelphia to Harry and Augusta Oswald. A graduate of Kensington High School, she worked as a bookkeeper at her father's doll clothing manufacturing business Arcadia Mills. In 1958 she moved to Ventnor where she became active at St. John's By...
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