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  • Carmine Casola Sr.

    Mr. Casola, 75, of Marlboro, died April 12, 2009, at home. He was the founder and owner of Casola Farms, located throughout central Monmouth County. He developing one of the largest hay and straw businesses in the Monmouth County area and one of the state’s largest growers of fresh fruits and vegetables. He originated the…

  • Dora Tosches Hughes

    Mrs. Hughes, 91, of Freehold, died March 22, 2009, at CentraState Medical Center, Freehold Township. She was born in Jersey City and had resided there before moving to Freehold four years ago. Her husband, Charles Hughes, died in 1984. Surviving are a daughter, Dorothy Ippolito; four grandchildren; seven great-grandchildren; and two great-great-grandchildren. Services were held…

  • Robert Pincus

    Mr. Pincus, 85, a resident of Marlboro for 19 years, died March 26, 2009, at CentraState Medical Center, Freehold Township. He was a U.S. Army veteran of World War II and a chemist with Warner-Lambert-Parke-Davis, Morris Plains, for 20 years, retiring in 1986. Surviving are his wife, Edith (Kronick); his children, Jonathan and his wife,…

  • John Obertlik

    Mr. Obertlik, 99, of Howell, died April 1, 2009, at home. He was born in Guttenburg and had lived in Cliffside Park before settling in Howell 25 years ago. Mr. Obertlik was the owner and operator of Service Motor’s Auto Body Shop in North Bergen, and an exempt fireman with the Guttenburg Fire Company. He…

  • Solved: the vexing case of the missing iPod

    Are We There Yet? • LORI CLINCH For Christmas we surprised our young Huey with an iHome — a dream machine for anyone with an iPod. For those of you not in the know, the iPod is the technological replacement for your CDs, 8-tracks and cassette tapes. It’s your whole collection of LPs and 45s…

  • Paul Pappas

    Mr. Pappas, 88, of Brooklyn, N.Y., died April 1, 2009, at CentraState Medical Center, Freehold Township. Born in Athens, Greece, he had resided in Brooklyn for 70 years. Mr. Pappas, a veteran of the U.S. Merchant Marines during World War II, worked as a mechanical engineer for 30 years at the Brooklyn Navy Yard and…

  • Robert Neil Cole

    57, of Burlington, formerly of Howell Robert Neil Cole Mr. Cole was born in Neptune and had lived in Howell for many years before moving to Burlington Twp. He was a member of the Harmony Methodist Church, Jackson, NJ. His is survived by his brother, Hal J. Cole, Sr. of Houston, TX and 2 nephews.…

  • John P. McNicholas

    48, of Brooklyn, with family in the Freehold area John P. McNicholas   Mr. McNicholas was born in Brooklyn, NY, and had lived in Manhattan, NY, for the past 20 years. Mr. McNicholas received his BA from St. John’s University in 1982. He received his M.A. and his J.D. from St. John’s University, School of…

  • Elizabeth Agate

    of the Villages, Freehold Elizabeth Agate Mrs. Agate was born in New York City and had lived in Queens before moving to The Villages, Freehold, in 1986. She was a communicant of St. Robert Bellarmine Catholic Church, Freehold Twp., NJ. Mrs. Agate was a sewing machine operator with the International Ladies Garment Workers Union in…