Partial owners of preserved property are due money
By Lea Kahn, Staff Writer
Patricia E. Bone Hart and Alan Bone, please call home.
Well, please call Municipal Attorney Kevin Nerwinski if you want to collect the money owed to you from the sale of land purchased by Lawrence Township as part of the Loveless Nature Preserve on Eggerts Crossing Road.
Mr. Nerwinski said he has been trying to locate Mr. Bone and his sister so he can give them the money — about $85,000 to Ms. Hart and $40,000 to Mr. Bone. That is the amount of money owed them for their partial ownership interest in an approximately 11-acre parcel that is part of the 45-acre preserved land.
Lawrence Township purchased the land from Nicholas Loveless, but a title search — a standard procedure when property is purchased — revealed that Mr. Bone’s and Ms. Hart’s father owned an interest in the land, Mr. Nerwinski said. They inherited his interest in the property when he died in 1951.
"Wouldn’t it be great to get a phone call that you are getting $85,000," Mr. Nerwinski said. "I’m trying to make that phone call."
A family member told Mr. Nerwinski that she believes Mr. Bone lives in North Carolina or Maryland, and that Ms. Hart lives in the Trenton area. The municipal attorney said he located someone named Patricia Bone Hart through an Internet search and sent her a letter, but she did not respond.
Regardless of whether the missing heirs can be found, the sale of the property to the township has been completed, Mr. Nerwinski said. The township paid $3.4 million for 45 acres of land that belonged to Nicholas Loveless and Ms. Hvasta for open space preservation.
If anyone knows how to find Mr. Bone or Ms. Hart, Mr. Nerwinski said, please call him at the law firm of Nerwinski & Dember at (609) 530-9301.