Tessie Cimine Gehling, 94, died Tuesday, Dec. 25, at the Monroe Village Health Care Center.
Born in Brooklyn, she lived there before moving to South River and then Monroe in 1970.
She was a member of Nativity of Our Lord R.C. Church in Monroe.
Her husband, Ernest E. Gehling died in 1991 and her sister, Julia Cimine and two brothers, Phillip and Frank Cimine also are deceased.
Surviving are her daughter, Dorothy Niedzwiecki of Monroe; two sons, Edward P. Gehling of Monroe and James J. Gehling of South River; seven grandchildren and three great grandchildren.
Funeral services were held Friday, Dec. 28, at the M. David DeMarco Funeral Home in Monroe. A funeral liturgy was celebrated at Nativity of Our Lord R.C. Church and an entombment followed in Holy Cross Chapel Mausoleum in South Brunswick.