Obituaries

Jul 28, 2017

Age 49 Formerly of Raritan Tom Yaruso Jr. of Long Branch and formerly of Raritan died July 21. Tom had a CDL license and was truck driver for M&S Waste Services in Hazlet, driving roll offs and packers in Middlesex, Monmouth, & Ocean Counties. He enjoyed fishing, especially salt water fishing.He was predeceased by his brother David in 2010....

Jul 17, 2017

Age 55 Bridgewater Michael Powlish, aged 55, died peacefully at home on July 13, 2017. He was born in Somerville and resided in Bridgewater all his life. He was an alumnus of Bridgewater Raritan High School West and was employed by Associated Mailing and Printing in Branchburg for the past 11 years as a machinist. Michael was a devoted...

Jul 14, 2017

Jul 11, 2017

Age 83 Somerville ​J​oseph "Joe" Fazekas Jr, 83, of Somerville, passed away peacefully on Monday July 10 at his residence at Bridgeway Care Center in Bridgewater, surrounded by his loving family. Joseph is survived by his 2 sons, Stephen Fazekas and his wife Mary Beth, Anthony Fazekas and his wife Marketa and his daughter Jenifer Krunkosky and her husband...

Jul 5, 2017

Frank X. Bourke, a native of Somerville, passed away peacefully in Colorado on June 3rd . He was 94. Frank was born on July 30, 1922, to Frank and Hilda Bourke of Somerville. He was a stellar musician and a proud Army veteran. He entered the army in September 1940. He was a drummer in the military band of...

Jul 5, 2017

​Jake Byrne, an Amazing Young Man Jacob Thomas Byrne passed away on June 29, 2017 at the age of 20. Jake was born on August 6, 1996 in Morristown, NJ to his parents, Cristine and Joe Byrne. Jake courageously fought a life-long battle with Friedreich’s Ataxia, a very rare neuromuscular disease. He graduated from Bridgewater High School with an...

Jun 27, 2017

Age 81 Somerville Ernestine Botti Cutler died June 26th after a brave eight-month battle with pancreatic cancer. Born November 14, 1935 and raised in Somerville, NJ, Ernestine developed deep friendships in the community. She graduated from Somerville High School and is an alumna of Wellesley College. She also met her lifetime love and husband, Benjamin S. Cutler (aka Ben...

Jun 27, 2017

Age 78 Hillsborough Barbara A. Cooper died June 27 at home. Mrs. Cooper was born in South Bound Brook and was a 1956 graduate of Bound Brook High School. She resided in Bridgewater for 30 years before moving to Hillsborough in 2002. She worked as a legal secretary alongside her husband William T. Cooper at his law office in...

Jun 26, 2017

Age 93 Bridgewater Lillian Barbati, a longtime resident of Bridgewater, died June 24 at home. She was 92. Born in Middlesex to Mary and Michael Bracha, she lived there until her marriage to Salvatino Barbati in 1947. Lillian loved arts and crafts and examples of her paintings, ceramics and crocheted spreads could be seen throughout the home she shared...

Jun 26, 2017

Age 58 Somerville Donna M. Walter (nee McClear) passed away June 23 at RWJ University Hospital, New Brunswick. Donna was born on August 2, 1958 in Old Bridge, NJ to the late Lester M. and Marian (Gyula) McClear and resided in Somerville since 1996. She was employed as the Accounts Supervisor in Finance Department for Somerset County for 32...

Jun 17, 2017

Age 58 Manville William (Bill) Blockus was born and raised in Edison and resided in Manville since 1985. He passed away suddenly on June 16 at RWJ at Somerset in Somerville. A graduate of J.P. Stevens High School, he was employed by Greystone Park Hospital, Morris Plains, as a Media Technician for the past 16 years. Bill's family was...

Jun 15, 2017

Age 73 Formerly of Hillsborough James Donald "Don" Gibbons passed away on June13th in Marlboro, NJ from complications of Parkinson's. Born in Orange, NJ, lived most of his life in NJ. Don served in the U.S. Navy from 1962 through 1966 aboard The USS Turner. A graduate of the Newark College of Engineering, as an electrical engineer. He founded...

Jun 6, 2017

Age 88 Bridgewater Floyd C. Frankenfield died June 3, at RWJ at Somerset in Somerville. Son of Stanley & Sylvia (Bartolanzo) Frankenfield of Somerville, devoted and loving husband of 65 years to Margaret (Peggy) Hunt Frankenfield. Floyd is predeceased by his sisters- Odora Bower and Iona Martin. He will be greatly missed by his surviving brother and sisters-Stan &...

Jun 6, 2017

Age 91 Somerville Anna I. Pascale, 91 years old, passed away on June 5, 2017 at Avalon Assisted Living in Bridgewater, where she resided for the past 5 years. She grew up in Raritan, before settling in Somerville, for 59 years. She was an active member of Somerville Senior Leisure Group of Immaculate Conception. She retired from Biosearch Pharmaceuticals...

May 31, 2017

Age 29 Somerville Officer Matthew Lawrence Tarentino entered into eternal rest on the early morning of May 30, 2017. Promoted to Detective posthumously, Detective Matthew L. Tarentino was husband to Victoria Tarentino, his beloved bride of 5 1/2 years; father to Robert Damien (3), Raymond Peter (2) and a precious baby still in the womb (due this Summer). Matthew...

May 26, 2017

Age 89 Somerville Alfonso Di Pasquale, husband of the late Gertrude Di Pasquale, died May 25 at home. Mr. Di Pasquale was born in Raritan and resided in Somerville for over 50 years. He retired in 1992 from Inmount Inc., Bound Brook where he was a warehouse man. Mr. Di Pasquale was a Army Veteran of the Korean War....

May 17, 2017

Age 70 Formerly of Raritan Joseph William Salerno, 70 of North Adams, MA and formerly of Raritan, died Sunday May 14, 2017 at Berkshire Medical Center. He was born in Raritan on February 10, 1947, son of Arminio Joseph and Angelina (DiMuro) Salerno. He graduated from Bridgewater-Raritan High School. Joseph was a Veteran of the Vietnam War serving in...

May 17, 2017

Age 63 Formerly of Hillsborough Phillip Gustatinos Venis, 63, of Oak Island, North Carolina, formerly of Hillsborough,NJ passed away Tuesday, May 16, 2017 at his home. Mr. Venis was born August 12, 1953 in Somerville son of Ouida Venis and the late Gustatinos Venis. While living in New Jersey, he became a New Jersey Certified Tree Expert, a member...

May 16, 2017

Age 80 Formerly of Raritan Barbara Frances Payne, 80, of Eustis,Fl., passed away Monday, May 15, 2017 at home surrounded by her family. Born in Jersey City, New Jersey, she and her husband James had been winter residents to Eustis since the Mid-1980's moving here permanently in 2014. She loved raising pheasants as a child. She was involved with...

May 13, 2017

Age 96 Somerville Mary Elizabeth Mundy Cox died peacefully in the company of her daughters on Thursday, May 11 at R.W. Johnson University Hospital Somerset. She was the fourth of nine children, born in Middlesex in 1920. She was predeceased by her husband, John J. (1977); son, John E. (2017); parents, Mary Mannion Mundy and George Cooper Mundy; brothers...