Obituaries

Sep 25, 2017

Age 81 Somerville Patricia Margaret Perkins (nee Doyle), aged 81 of Somerville, New Jersey, passed away surrounded by loved ones on Wednesday, September 20, 2017. Patricia was the beloved companion of Frank Verano for 17 years; cherished former wife of the late George Robert Perkins; devoted mother of George R. Perkins (Amy) of Asbury, NJ, Kathleen Verano (Joseph) of...

Sep 24, 2017

Age 88 Bridgewater Joseph E. Sartin Sr., 88, passed away on September 24, 2017. The second of four brothers, Joe grew up in the Pennsylvania coal mine town of Laflin. In an era that all Americans viscerally experienced a degree of hardship, Joe learned values from hard work by cracking coal at 10 cents a peck—a modest supplement to...

Sep 24, 2017

Age 101 Bridgewater Elizabeth H. Taylor passed away at the age of 101 on Friday, September 22. "Betty" to everyone who knew her, lived in Somerville from her marriage in 1935 to 2005 when she moved to Arbor Glen in Bridgewater. Years ago she was very active in the Somerset Hospital Women's Auxiliary Board, serving as president in the...

Sep 24, 2017

Age 84 Hillsborough Marie Lucielle (Hogan) Quick was born on June 23, 1933 and died suddenly at the age of 84 on September 22, 2017. Marie was born in Denver Colorado then adopted and raised by two loving parents who had immigrated from Ireland, Dennis and Josephine Hogan. Both are deceased. Marie said that she felt so lucky to...

Sep 15, 2017

Age 87 Bridgewater Helen M. Canavan, wife of the late Robert F. Canavan, died September 14. Mrs. Canavan was born in Brooklyn, NY and resided in Somerville before moving to Bridgewater in 1957. She was a graduate of St. Brendan Diocesan High School, Brooklyn, NY, St. John's University, NY with a BA degree in English and then received her...

Sep 6, 2017

Age 92 Flemington Margaret Gallus entered into eternal life on September 5. She was the wife of the late James M. DiCarlo Sr. (first husband) and the late Jacob Gallus, Margaret was born in Newark and resided in Flemington most of her life. At a very early age, she began her working career in customer service, bookkeeping and sales....

Sep 3, 2017

Age 57 Spotswood Jon T. Langevin, 57, of Spotswood, NJ passed away at his home on August 30, 2017, after a long battle with complications stemming from a traumatic accident in 2009. Relatives and friends are invited to attend Visitation beginning at 7pm and concluding with a Memorial Service at 8:30pm on Thursday, September 7, at the Cusick Funeral...

Aug 17, 2017

Age 77 Flemington Robert P. Corcoran, 77, of Flemington, NJ passed away on Wednesday, August 16, 2017 at Robert Wood Johnson Hospital, Somerville, NJ, surrounded by his loving family. He was the son of the late Joseph Paul and Anna Mae Corcoran. He and his beloved wife, Nancy (Bonaduce) Corcoran were married on February 12, 1972. Robert spent the...

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...