Category: Sentinel-EBS Opinion

  • Christine Zywot Niles

    Mrs. Niles, 64, of South River, died Jan. 29, 2009, in Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York City. She was employed as a clerk for 33 years with New Jersey Bell, East Brunswick, and then worked for Macy’s for 11 years. She was predeceased by her husband, David Niles, and by her father, Stanley Zywot.…

  • Tired of hearing from ‘complainers’ in Milltown

    In response to Michael Shakarjian’s letter to the editor, “Governing Body Could Have Done More To Save Forney House” (Sentinel, Feb. 12), I totally disagree. I wonder what part of “private sale” these people do not understand. The last time I looked, a private sale was between the seller and the purchaser, not the seller,…

  • John F. McDonald

    Mr. McDonald, 78, of the Browns Mills section of Pemberton, formerly of Spotswood, died Feb. 14, 2009, at home. Prior to his retirement in 1995, he was employed as the code-enforcement inspector for the borough of Sayreville for 25 years. He was predeceased by two sons, William and Michel. Surviving are his wife, Margaret LeForestier…

  • Encourages the public to join in movement to end MS

    Every hour someone is diagnosed with multiple sclerosis (MS), a chronic disease of the central nervous system for which there is no cure. MS interrupts the flow of information between the brain and the body and stops people from moving. Many have trouble imagining what their lives would be without the ability to move, but…

  • Albert Joseph Pileggi

    Mr. Pileggi, 89, of Bedford, Va., formerly of Spotswood, died Jan. 25, 2009, in Bedford Memorial Hospital. His wife, Betty, died in 1992. Surviving are three children, Elizabeth Herring, and her husband, John, of Bedford, Anthony Pileggi, and his wife, Suzanne, of Spotswood and Albert Pileggi Jr. of Jackson; 11 grandchildren; and nine great-grandchildren. A…

  • Gary S. Toth

    Mr. Toth, 61, of South River, died Feb. 4, 2009, in Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, New Brunswick. He was a forklift operator with Alco, South Brunswick, where he worked for 15 years. Before that, he was employed at Bristol-Myers Squibb, North Brunswick. His father, Stephen Toth, died in 1963. Surviving are his mother, Bernadine…

  • Joan M. Kosa Dziepak

    Mrs. Dziepak, 72, of South River, died Feb. 5, 2009, in Pine Brook Care Center, Englishtown. Prior to her retirement in 2007, she was employed as a sales clerk at Fashion Bug, East Brunswick, where she worked for 25 years. Surviving are her husband, Adolph “Zip” Dziepak; two daughters and their husbands, Donna and William…

  • Barry Hafter

    Mr. Hafter, 66, of Monroe, died Feb. 10, 2009, at home. Surviving are his wife, Dorothy Greenspan Hafter; a daughter, Laura Davidowitz, and her husband, Michael, of East Windsor; a son, Michael Hafter, and his fiancé, Jennifer Silverman; a sister, Arden Leder, and her husband, Steven, of Deer Park, N.Y.; and four nieces and nephews.…

  • George Taylor Cowherd Jr.

    Mr. Cowherd, 81, of East Brunswick, died Feb. 7, 2009, in Saint Peter’s University Hospital, New Brunswick. Surviving are his wife, Gloria; a son, Thomas Randall Cowherd; two daughters, Margaret Meade Cowherd and Carolyn Phillips, and her husband, Anthony; and two grandchildren. A service was held at Aldersgate United Methodist Church, East Brunswick. Entombment was…