Category: Suburban Opinion
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Rosemary Sheedy Toomey
Mrs. Toomey, 82, of Old Bridge, died Aug. 26, 2009, at her son’s home in the Lanoka Harbor section of Lacey. Her husband, John Toomey, died in 1995. Surviving are three children, Claire Metz, and her husband, Richard, of Old Bridge, John Edward Jr., and his wife, Colleen, of Lanoka Harbor and Ellen of Old…
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Thomas P. Stary
Mr. Stary, 47, of South River, died Aug. 22, 2009, in Raritan Bay Medical Center, Old Bridge division. He was employed as a service technician for Business Furniture Inc., Elizabeth, where he worked for 25 years. Surviving are a daughter, Samantha Stary of South River; and a sister, Susan Grobleski, and her husband, Thomas, of…
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Marjorie K. Power
Mrs. Power, 86, of Cheesequake Village, Matawan, died Aug. 29, 2009, at Care One in Holmdel. She had resided in Hazlet before retiring to Cheesequake Village. Mrs. Power was employed at International Flavors and Fragrances, Hazlet, retiring in 1993. She was predeceased by her husband, John; and two sons, Bradley Power and Douglas Power. She…
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Bertha Sierotko Grodzki
Mrs. Grodzki, 92, of Sarasota, Fla., formerly of South River and Sayreville, died Aug. 26, 2009, in Colonial Park Club, Sarasota. She was predeceased by her husband, Charles Grodzki; a son, David Grodzki; two brothers; a sister; and two stepbrothers. Surviving are a daughter, Cathy Shaw, and her husband, Mark, of Sarasota; a daughter-in-law, Christine…
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Catherine Kurella
Mrs. Kurella, of Matawan, died Aug. 25, 2009, at St. Barnabas Hospice at Monmouth Medical Center, Long Branch. She resided in Brooklyn, N.Y., prior to relocating to the Matawan and Old Bridge area. She was a librarian at Morgan Stanley, New York City, for 10 years, retiring in 1980. She was predeceased by her husband,…
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Edward Chodzko
Mr. Chodzko, 93, of South River, died Aug. 11, 2009, in Compassionate Care Hospice, Trenton. Prior to his retirement in 1989, he was employed as a maintenance mechanic at Algrow Knitting Mills, Milltown, where he worked for 20 years. A son, Leon Chodzko, died in 2008. Surviving are his wife, Anatola Chodzko; three sons, Walter,…
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Edward J. Malinowski
Mr. Malinowski, 81, of South River, died Aug. 21, 2009, in Shore Meadows Nursing Home, Toms River section of Dover. Prior to his retirement in 1993, he was employed as a chemical operator for Hercules, Sayreville, where he worked for more than 10 years. Before that, he worked as a chief operator at National Lead,…
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Joyce Fogle Caputo
Mrs. Caputo, 77, of South River, died Aug. 6, 2009, in Raritan Bay Medical Center, Old Bridge division. Surviving are her husband, Ralph Caputo Jr.; a son, David R. Caputo, and his wife, Jennifer, of West Warwick, R.I.; a daughter, Susan L. McCauley, and her husband, Carl, of Old Bridge; two brothers, Ronald Fogle, and…
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Anonymous cretins, beware: George is coming after you
Coda • GREG BEAN The righteous jihad against the anonymous cockroaches who hide in the darkness — slavering and mumbling to themselves like Gollum in a Tolkien pageturner — to post libelous and defamatory comments about their fellow human beings on the Internet is moving more rapidly than I could have predicted. Last week, if…
