Category: Independent Opinion

  • Vera E. Valentine Bisking

    Mrs. Bisking, 71, of Middletown, died April 9, 2008, at Riverview Medical Center, Red Bank. She was predeceased by a daughter, Judy Tuzzolino. She is survived by three sons, Roy Brooks Bisking III, Nunzio Bisking and Antonio Bisking; a daughter, Rosalie Lisa Palermo; 17 grandchildren; and 11 great grandchildren. A funeral liturgy was celebrated at…

  • Town has ‘gated community’ approach to COAH

    The facts that Middletown Mayor Gerard Scharfenberger and Steven Lonegan of Americans for Prosperity N.J. are leaving out of their misleading rhetoric is that Middletown has around 260 units of affordable housing that it has not built from round one and two of its COAH obligation. Middletown has only completed 88 units of new housing,…

  • Sarah Condiotti

    Ms. Condiotti, 41, ofMatawan, diedApril 13, 2008, at home. She resided in Freehold for several years and in Hoboken before relocating to Matawan. She was a teacher/instructor at G.X. Clarke, Jersey City, for more than 10 years. She was predeceased by her father, Max Condiotti. She is survived by her husband, James Mannix; her mother,…

  • George Malachy Beros

    Mr. Beros, 83, of Whiting, died April 10, 2008, at Community Medical Center, Toms River. He was a clerk at JPMorgan Chase, New York City for more than 20 years, retiring in 1990. He is survived by his wife of 54 years, Letitia; three daughters and sons-inlaw, Veronica and Joseph Margagliotti of Middletown, Anne-Marie Bennett…

  • Paul L. Rendelson

    Mr. Rendelson, 84, of the River Plaza section of Middletown, died March 24, 2008, at RiverviewMedical Center, Red Bank. He was a retired U.S. Navy captain, with his last duty station at the Defense Department Administration Services, Philadelphia, in 1976. He is survived by his wife of 60 years, Jane; a son, Kirk of Red…

  • Helene J. Gurbisz

    Mrs. Gurbisz, 86, of Hazlet, died March 26, 2008, at Riverview Medical Center, Red Bank. She was predeceased by her husband, HenryW. Gurbisz, in 1984; two brothers; and a sister. She is survived by two sons and daughters-in-law, Henry J. and Marion Gurbisz of Middletown, and Richard J. and Cathy Gurbisz of Bloomingdale; two daughters…

  • Agnes Baccaro DeAngelo

    Mrs. DeAngelo, 91, of Middletown, died March 27, 2008, at Riverview Medical Center, Red Bank. She was employed in the cafeteria at Middletown High School North for 20 years, retiring in the 1980s. She was predeceased by her husband of 49 years, Nicholas DeAngelo, in 1999; a sister,Marie Vanderzee; and five brothers, David, Dominic, Joseph,…

  • Virginia Sicurella

    Mrs. Sicurella, 84, of Hazlet, died March 27, 2008, at Riverview Medical Center, Red Bank. She was predeceased by her husband, Dominick Sicurella, in 1995. She is survived by two daughters and one son-in-law, Maria and Philip DiMeo of Bloomfield, and Frances De- Marro of theWest Keansburg section of Hazlet; three grandchildren; and one great-granddaughter.…

  • Erminia “Dolly” Minetti G. Fernandes

    Mrs. Fernandes, 88, of Keyport, died March 30, 2008, at Arnold Walter Nursing Home, Holmdel. She was a maintenance worker at NJ Bell, Orange, for 20 years, retiring in 1981. She was predeceased by her husbands, Joseph Grimsey in 1966, and Oracio Fernandes in 1990; a brother, Jerry Minetti; and three sisters, Filomena Cicchia, Elizabeth…