Category: Suburban Opinion

  • Looks like we survived the ‘storm of the decade’

    Coda • GREG BEAN By the time this column sees print, the Great Blizzard of 2010, nicknamed “Snowpocalypse” by some creative member of the national press, will just be a memory. You know, before we moved to the East Coast, I used to believe that folks out here were scared of only one thing, and…

  • Carmine A. Alfano

    Mr. Alfano, 80, of Old Bridge, died Jan. 15, 2010, at home. Prior to his retirement, he was a foreman with Castrol Oil Co., Edison. He was predeceased by four brothers and two sisters. Surviving are his wife, Marianne Esposito Alfano; a son, Lawrence Alfano of New York City; a daughter, Sharon Carroll of Morristown;…

  • Brenda Araneo-Paskitti

    Mrs. Araneo-Paskitti, 49, of Jackson, formerly of Old Bridge, died Jan. 13, 2010. Surviving are her husband, Bob; her children, Katie, Rachel and Bobby; her father, William of Jackson; a brother, Bill, of Nyack, N.Y.; and a sister, Suzanne of Aberdeen. Funeral services were held at Calvary Chapel, Old Bridge, under the direction of the…

  • Ethel M. Banke Borowski

    Mrs. Borowski, 84, of Old Bridge, died Jan. 18, 2010, in Golden Living Center, Old Bridge. Prior to her retirement, she was a sales clerk with Buster Brown, Old Bridge. She was predeceased by her husband, Joseph Borowski, and by a brother, John Banke. Surviving are a daughter, Janice Hough, and her husband, Bruce, of…

  • James J. “Sonny” Desmond

    Mr. Desmond, 71, of Old Bridge, died Jan. 17, 2010, at home. Prior to his retirement in 1991, he was employed as a truck driver with UPS, Edison, where he worked for 31 years. He was predeceased by a brother, Thomas Desmond, and by a sister, Margaret Maguire. Surviving are his wife, Joyce; a daughter,…

  • Madeline Cunningham

    Mrs. Cunningham, 98, of Old Bridge, died Jan. 15, 2010, in Reformed Church Home, Old Bridge. Her husband, Joseph, died in 1972. Surviving are four sons and three daughters-in-law, Joseph and Muriel Cunningham, Thomas and Carol Cunningham, James Cunningham, and John and Enes Cunningham; eight grandchildren; and 13 great-grandchildren. A Mass was offered at St.…

  • Agnes Geisler Feis

    Mrs. Feis, 105, of Sayreville, formerly of Edison and the Toms River section of Dover, died Jan. 20, 2010, in Madison Center, Old Bridge. She was predeceased by her husband, Michael Feis; a daughter, Ruth Loveland; and two sons, George and Richard Feis. Surviving are a son, Michael Feis Jr.; two daughters, Jean Schmauker and…

  • Cleone M. Smith Raub

    Mrs. Raub, 95, of South River, died Jan. 13, 2010, in Care One at East Brunswick. Prior to her retirement, she was a supervisor at Johnson and Johnson Personal Products, Milltown, where she worked for many years. She was predeceased by her husband, Preston; two sons, Preston Jr. and Wayne; and two brothers, Laroy and…

  • Mary Kulesa Wistuba

    Mrs. Wistuba, 88, of Sayreville, died Jan. 17, 2010, in Raritan Bay Medical Center, Old Bridge division. Prior to her retirement, she was employed as a seamstress at Maco Dress, South River. She was predeceased by her husband, Carl, and by a grandson, Kenneth P. Graf Jr. Surviving are five children, Alice Swecanski of South…