Category: Sentinel-EBS Opinion

  • Margaret M. Szczepanowski

    Mrs. Szczepanowski, 89, of South River, died March 6, 2009, in Care One of East Brunswick. Prior to her retirement, she worked as a seamstress for more than 30 years at American Girl, New Brunswick. Her husband, Francis, died in 1965, and a son, Thomas, died in 2004. Surviving are a brother, George Kuzava of…

  • Barbara A. Lesko Reid

    Mrs. Reid, 70, of Monroe, died Feb. 28, 2009, in Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, New Brunswick. Prior to her retirement in 1994, she was employed at Blackwell Associates, East Brunswick, where she worked for seven years. Surviving are two sons, Wallace, and his companion, Kathy, of Saco, Maine, and Keith, and his wife, Laura,…

  • Clara Koscinski Uscenski

    Mrs. Uscenski, 83, of South River, died March 6, 2009, in Raritan Bay Medical Center, Old Bridge division. Her husband, Edward J. Uscenski, died in 2008. Surviving are three brothers, Walter Koscinski, and his wife, Barbara, of Sayreville, Anthony Koscinski, and his wife, Elaine, of Point Pleasant Beach and Edwin Koscinski of Spotswood; a sister-in-law,…

  • Clarence S. “Bucky” Wentzel

    Mr. Wentzel, 66, of Lebanon, formerly of East Brunswick and the Parlin section of Sayreville, died Feb. 20, 2009, in Newark Beth Israel Medical Center. He worked as a chemist and was the owner/operator of Arnel Inc. (now known as Perkin Elmer), Parlin, for 27 years. Surviving are his wife, Joan Reed Wentzel; two sons,…

  • Paula V. Kelly Clark

    Mrs. Clark, 79, formerly of East Brunswick, died March 15, 2009, in Hildebrandt Center, Rochester, N.Y. Her husband, Richard G. Clark, died in 2002. Surviving are two daughters, Karen Van Brummelen, and her husband, Richard, of Muncy, Pa., and Patrice Galayda, and her husband, Steven, of Rochester; three grandchildren; and a great-grandson. A service was…

  • Fred H.J. Drew

    Mr. Drew, 90, of Aberdeen, died Feb. 26, 2009, at Riverview Medical Center, Red Bank. He was a retired accounting supervisor at Western Electric, where he was employed 45 years. He was predeceased by his wife of 62 years, Anne E. Lillis Drew. He is survived by two daughters and one son-in-law, Judith D. and…

  • Henry S. Rand

    Mr. Rand, 91, of Monroe, died Feb. 25, 2009, at home. His wife, Ethel Rand, died in 2002. He was the official photographer for Monroe for many years. Surviving are a daughter, Judith Rand Dichter, and her husband, Barry, of Larchmont, N.Y.; a son, Michael Rand, and his wife, Anne, of Columbia, Md.; a sister,…

  • George M. Kaczmarek

    Mr. Kaczmarek, 57, of Sayreville, died Feb. 24, 2009, at home. Prior to his retirement in 2000, he was employed at E.I. DuPont, Parlin section of Sayreville, where he was employed for 22 years. After that, he worked as a parts delivery man for Open Road Honda and BMW, Edison. He was predeceased by his…

  • Gordon E. Leiser

    Mr. Leiser, 73, of Spotswood, died March 4, 2009, at home. A roadway foreman for 17 years with the New Jersey Turnpike Authority, East Brunswick, he also was a former director of the Spotswood Office of Emergency Management, where he served since the late 1970s. Surviving are his wife, June McGrath Leiser; a son, Joseph…