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  • Colleen Blackburn “Pat” VanDerveer

    Mrs. VanDerveer, 82, of Freehold, died Jan. 7, 2009. She had been an associate of the Sisters of St. Margaret for more than 50 years. Surviving is her husband of 56 years, Edgar I. VanDerveer; a son, David John VanDerveer of Stafford, Va.; a daughter, Anne VanDerveer of Eugene, Ore.; a sister, Betty Shields of…

  • Customer service: a truly radical approach to sales

    Coda • GREG BEAN The results for the 2008 holiday shopping season are almost in from the nation’s major retailers, and it looks like it was worse than anyone could have predicted. Business was so bad at places like KB Toys and Sharper Image that it’s possible those companies won’t survive the coming year. Circuit…

  • Let residents decide new board member

    With the resignation of Katie Goon as Marlboro’s representative on the Freehold Regional High School District Board of Education, one vacancy exists on the nine-member panel. The board oversees the operation of the FRHSD, which is made up of eight sending municipalities, enrolls almost 12,000 students and operates six high schools in western Monmouth County.…

  • Angela Helen Conway

    Angela Conway, 78, a resident of Freehold Township for 30 years, died Dec. 30, 2008, at CentraState Medical Center, Freehold Township. She was employed by Equitable Insurance Company, New York City for over 30 years, after which she traveled extensively and volunteered at CentraState Medical Center. Her parents, Patrick Joseph and Ellen Conway, predeceased her.…

  • Francis T. Brock

    80, of Freehold Township   Francis T. Brock Mr. Brock was born in Jersey City and had lived there before moving to Bayonne and then to Freehold Twp. 24 years ago. He was a parishioner of St. Robert Bellarmine Catholic Church, Freehold Twp., NJ, and a former member of St. Paul’s Catholic Church where he…

  • David P. Helm

    68, of Freehold, was an electrical engineer at Ft. Monmouth for 45 years David P. Helm Mr. Helm was born in Smithtown, NY and was raised in Mineola, NY before moving to Alexandria, VA, Burke VA, and Gainesville, VA before settling in Freehold. Mr. Helm was a 1962 graduate of the Pratt Institute of Technology.…

  • Helen “Nell” D. Molteni

    Mrs. Molteni, 94, died Jan. 2, 2009, at Applewood Estates in Freehold Township. She lived in West Long Branch for many years before moving to Freehold Township in 1998. Mrs. Molteni was a beautician and homemaker and member of the Luther Memorial Church in Tinton Falls. Her husband, William, died in March 1992. She is…

  • Dorothy Dombrowski Nixon

    Mrs. Nixon, 73, of Matawan, died Dec. 24, 2008, following a battle with cancer. She was a registered nurse at The Hospital Center at East Orange, and Martland Medical Center, Newark, for more than 40 years. She was predeceased by a sister, Barbara, and a brother, Joseph. She is survived by her husband of 31…

  • Belle May Weiss

    Mrs. Weiss, 88, of Old Bridge, formerly of Brooklyn, N.Y., died Dec. 11, 2008, in Brookside Assisted Living, Freehold. Her husband, Leon, died in 1976, and a brother, Irving, died in 1995. Surviving are two nieces, Bonnie Kirschenbaum, and her husband, Jack, of Manalapan and Judi Belsky of Sarasota, Fla.; and five great-nieces and great-nephews,…