Category: Sentinel-EBS Opinion

  • Harry Michael

    Mr. Michael, 79, of Helmetta, formerly of Monroe, died Feb. 6, 2008, in Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, New Brunswick. Prior to his retirement in 2004, he was selfemployed as a machinist and owner of the Harday Machine Co., Spotswood, for more than 30 years. Surviving are his wife, Rosemarie Murschel Michael; a son, Steven…

  • Vera Marie Bennet Wilson-Mazurk

    Mrs. Wilson-Mazurk, 86, of Helmetta, formerly of Spotswood, died Jan. 25, 2008, at home. Prior to her retirement in 1994, she was employed as manager of Brown Bag Mini-Mart, Monroe. She was predeceased by a granddaughter, Donna Marie Buchan. Surviving are a daughter, Roseann L. Buchan, and her husband, Bill, of Helmetta, with whom she…

  • Charlotte “Kitty” Kozlowski Wolak

    Mrs. Wolak, 88, of South River, died Feb. 9, 2008, in Care One at East Brunswick. Prior to her retirement in 1985, she was a sewing-machine operator for 54 years with Kozak Coat Factory and Wilshire Fashions Inc., both South River. Her husband, John, died in 1955. Surviving are a daughter, Barbara Gayda, and her…

  • Marion E. Hilger

    Mrs. Hilger, 77, of Sayreville, died Jan. 29, 2008, in Raritan Bay Medical Center, Perth Amboy division. She was employed as a food handler for Burger King, a division of Quick Quality Restaurants, Woodbridge Center. Prior to that she was a seamstress with the International Ladies Garment Workers Union, Local No. 147, South River. Surviving…

  • Nella Patti Del Prete

    Mrs. Del Prete, 88, formerly of Spotswood, died Feb. 6, 2008, in Victoria Health Care Center, Matawan. Her husband, Louis Del Prete, died in 2001. Surviving are three daughters, Mary Ann Castagnetta, and her husband, Edward, of Helmetta, Theresa Crupi, and her husband, Peter, of Cornelius, N.C., and Rosary Greenberg of Staten Island, N.Y.; four…

  • Guard wraps 37 years of keeping kids safe

    Helped students cross Rt. 18 in early ’70s, and later at Churchill BY JESSICA SMITH Staff Writer Jean Krevack, of East Brunswick, helps students cross the street on their way to Churchill Junior High School, Norton Road, prior to her retirement Jan. 31. Krevack said she looks forward to spending more time with her children…

  • Adele E. Chwastyk Rog

    Mrs. Rog, 78, of South River, died Feb. 4, 2008, in Saint Peter’s University Hospital, New Brunswick. Prior to her retirement in 1978, she was employed as a line operator with Johnson and Johnson, North Brunswick, where she worked for 13 years. Surviving are her husband, Stanley J. Rog Sr.; a son, Stanley J. Rog…

  • School community pitches in to help displaced family

    BY VINCENT TODARO Staff Writer SPOTSWOOD – The community has come to the aid of a family thatwas leftwithout a home after a recent fire. The blaze,which occurred Jan. 5 in an old Victorian home onMain Street, was enough to wipe out the apartment that Debra Eden, her boyfriend and children called home. Eden had…

  • Patrick R. Raviola

    Mr. Raviola, 56, of East Brunswick, formerly of the Kendall Park section of South Brunswick, died Feb. 3, 2008, in Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, New Brunswick. He was director of the Homicide and Violent Crimes Division of the Hudson County Prosecutor’s Office. Surviving are his wife, Karen Brautigan Raviola; two sons, Patrick Raviola, teaching…