Category: Sentinel-EBS Opinion
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Eugene Halasz
Mr. Halasz, 90, of East Brunswick, formerly of South River, died April 10, 2009, in Mercerville Care Center, Hamilton. Prior to his retirement in 1988, he was circulation manager for the Home News, New Brunswick, where he worked for more than 40 years. Surviving are his wife, Julia MacZinko Halasz; a daughter, Susan Moore, and…
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Why enhance transportation if there is no one to use it?
The fictional movie “Field of Dreams” revolves around a cast of ghosts playing baseball on a makeshift ball field. The phrase, “If you build it, they will come,” sums up actor Kevin Costner’s mission to build this baseball diamond within the cornfield where the ghosts live. Fiction similarly comes to mind pondering just what our…
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Doris Konowicz Wolf
Mrs. Wolf, 79, of South River, died April 11, 2009, at home. Her husband, Elmer, died in 1992, and a son, Fred, died in 1969. Surviving are four children and their spouses, Doreen and Nick Makajew, Robert Wolf and Linda and Robert Ejk, all of South River, and Kathleen and Roy Newhard of Fort Worth,…
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Family vacation: the good the bad and the flat ugly
Coda • GREG BEAN When I was a kid, family vacations were a special level of hell reserved for the worst miscreants imaginable. And it wasn’t the Hades we learned about in Bible class, the kind of place you go after a long lifetime of misdeeds. Nope, family vacations were a more immediate form of…
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Rose A. Arrisi Rizza
Mrs. Rizza, 93, of Milltown, died April 13, 2009, at the Margaret McLaughlin McCarrick Care Center, Somerset section of Franklin Township. Born in the Lindeneau section of Edison, she resided in South River, prior to relocating to Milltown in 1946. She was predeceased by her husband, Arthur J. Rizza Sr., in 1992. She is survived…
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Stella LoPresti DiPrima
Mrs. DiPrima, 91, of Sayreville, died April 13, 2009, in Raritan Bay Medical Center, Old Bridge division. Prior to her retirement in 1957, she worked as a seamstress for many area shops. She was predeceased by her husband, Joseph. Surviving are a son, Sal, and his wife, Desiree; two grandchildren; several sisters-in-law; and many nieces…
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Dorothy R. Gehling Niedzwiecki
Mrs. Niedzwiecki, 70, of Spotswood, formerly of Monroe, died April 6, 2009, in Raritan Bay Medical Center, Old Bridge division. Prior to her retirement in 1999, she was employed as a computer operator with the Monroe Township Municipal Utilities Authority, where she worked for 17 years. Before that, she was a computer operator with the…
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Theresa Oder
Ms. Oder, 92, of South River, died April 14, 2009, in Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, New Brunswick. Prior to her retirement in 1979, she was employed as a machine operator with M&M Sportswear, South River, where she worked for 47 years. She was predeceased by a sister, Anna Horvath, and by six brothers, Joseph,…
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Joan L. Pye Herchenroder
Mrs. Herchenroder, 79, of Hershey, Pa., formerly of East Brunswick, died April 10, 2009, in M.S. Hershey Medical Center, Hershey. She was a former nurse at Riverview Hospital, Red Bank, and a former director of the Monmouth County Day Training Facility, Tinton Falls. She was predeceased by two sons, Francis W. and Thomas H. Surviving…
