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Organ donors should be first to benefit from donations
Regarding your July 2 article “Preand Post-Transplant Patients Offered Support,” Stanley Epstein was very lucky to get a heart transplant. Over half of the 99,000 Americans on the national waiting list will die before they get a transplant. Most of these deaths are needless. Americans bury or cremate about 20,000 transplantable organs every year. Over…
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Joseph “Benny” Castronova Jr.
Mr. Castronova, 72, of Freehold Township, died July 24, 2008, at CentraState Medical Center, Freehold Township. He was the manager of the garden center at Brock Farms in Freehold Township for the past 46 years. Mr. Castronova is survived by two brothers, Dominic and George, both of Freehold Township; two sisters, Mary Surgent of Freehold…
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Joseph Kempner
Mr. Kempner, 85, of Marlboro, died July 24, 2008, at CentraState Medical Center in Freehold Township. A U.S. Air Force veteran of World War II, he was a professor of aeronautical engineering at Polytechnic University in Brooklyn, N.Y., for 47 years before retiring in 1990. Mr. Kempner is survived by his wife of 61 years,…
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Mary A. Kravarik
Mrs. Kravarik, 92, of Freehold Township, died July 24, 2008, at the John L. Montgomery Medical Home, Freehold Township. Her husband, John Kravarik, died in 1990. Surviving are two daughters and sons-in-law, Patricia and Jack Atkinson and Cathy and Robert Sexton; five grandchildren; and three great-grandchildren. The funeral liturgy was celebrated at St. Rose of…
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Elizabeth Crawford Van Mater
Mrs. Van Mater, 87, a lifelong resident of Freehold, died July 24, 2008, at CentraState Medical Center, Freehold Township. She was a pharmacist for Wood’s Drugstore, Freehold, for more than 40 years. Mrs. Van Mater was predeceased by her first husband, Hubert F. Power, and her second husband, Pierre D. Van Mater Jr. Surviving are…
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Eileen Marie “Rie” Stroby Gentile
Mrs. Gentile, 58, of Parlin, died July 25, 2008, at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, New Brunswick. Born in Bayonne, she was raised in Marlboro and had lived in Englishtown before moving to Parlin. Mrs. Gentile was predeceased by her husband, Eugene John Gentile, in 2006, and by her father, Charles Robert Stroby. Surviving are…
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One thing’s for sure: these liberals are easily offended
Red State/Blue State DAVE SIMPSON & GREG BEAN A political discussion between Red State conservative Dave Simpson — a former reporter, editor, publisher and columnist — and Greg Bean, Blue Stater and executive editor of Greater Media Newspapers. Dear Greg: I have an admission to make, Old Pal. This may get me drummed out of…
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Vincenzia Perrone Zorzi
Mrs. Zorzi, 91, of Vero Beach, Fla., and formerly of North Brunswick, died July 19, 2008, at home. She resided in North Brunswick, prior to relocating to Vero Beach six years ago. She was predeceased by her husband, Bruno Zorzi, in 1982; and a son, Bruno, in 2002. She is survived by a son, Phil…
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Audrey Counselman Quackenbush
Mrs. Quackenbush, 88, of Freehold, died July 20, 2008, at the Manor, Freehold Township. For 47 years she worked as a registered nurse, starting in 1941 at Monmouth Memorial Hospital (now Monmouth Medical Center), along with private duty, retiring from the medical staff at Freehold Raceway in 1989. Mrs. Quackenbush was predeceased by her husband,…
