Category: Suburban Opinion

  • Borough emergency squad proud to serve

    The volunteer Sayreville Emergency Squad is proud to serve the residents of Sayreville and its surrounding communities. For the first quarter of 2009, the squad answered a total of 582 emergency calls. Three of those calls involved squad members successfully resuscitating people through the use of cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR). Top responders were John Szurlej, Kevin…

  • Family vacation: the good the bad and the flat ugly

    Coda • GREG BEAN When I was a kid, family vacations were a special level of hell reserved for the worst miscreants imaginable. And it wasn’t the Hades we learned about in Bible class, the kind of place you go after a long lifetime of misdeeds. Nope, family vacations were a more immediate form of…

  • Carol Lynn Costello

    Ms. Costello, 56, of Old Bridge, died April 6, 2009, in Saint Peter’s University Hospital, New Brunswick. She was predeceased by her father, John Costello. She attended the East Brunswick Adult Life Skills program at East Brunswick High School for 25 years. Surviving are her mother, Dorothy Landmesser Costello of Old Bridge; three brothers, John…

  • Ann Holmes Maghan

    Mrs. Maghan, 97, died April 5, 2009, in Madison Center, Old Bridge. She was predeceased by her husband, Ross W. Maghan. Surviving are two children, Ross W. Maghan Jr., and his wife, B.J., of Matawan, and Phyllis Orr of Collegeville, Pa.; four grandchildren; two greatgrandchildren; and two caregivers, Ann Pennington and Mae Lyons. Funeral services…

  • Gale Pabish Brown

    Mrs. Brown, 54, of the Cliffwood Beach section of Old Bridge, died April 3, 2009, in Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, New Brunswick. A son, Jonathan R. Brown, died in 2008. Surviving are her husband, Frederic; a daughter, Crissy Paster, and her husband, Brett, of Cliffwood Beach; a sister, Karen Scarloto of Galloway; and three…

  • Frances Fabiano Foderaro

    Mrs. Foderaro, 94, of Eatontown, died April 6, 2009, at home. She was predeceased by her husband, Leonard Foderaro Sr., in 1992. She is survived by two sons, Leonard Foderaro Jr. of Sayreville, and Steven F. Foderaro of Ocean; three daughters, Phyllis Clinton and Jacqueline Cone, both of Eatontown, and Marylu Roebuck of Ocean; 14…

  • Helen Zupko

    Mrs. Zupko, 87, of Old Bridge, died April 11, 2009, in Raritan Bay Medical Center, Old Bridge division. She was predeceased by her husband, John Peter Zupko, and by two sons, Richard and John. Surviving are three grandchildren, Eric Zupko, Nicole Zupko and Danielle Bailey; and five great-grandchildren. Arrangements were under the direction of Rezem…

  • Leon E. Korygoski

    Mr. Korygoski, 77, of South River, died April 5, 2009, in Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, New Brunswick. Prior to his retirement, he was employed as a supervisor in the chemical division at E.I. DuPont, Parlin section of Sayreville, where he worked for 30 years. He was predeceased by a daughter, Karen Ann. Surviving are…

  • Stella LoPresti DiPrima

    Mrs. DiPrima, 91, of Sayreville, died April 13, 2009, in Raritan Bay Medical Center, Old Bridge division. Prior to her retirement in 1957, she worked as a seamstress for many area shops. She was predeceased by her husband, Joseph. Surviving are a son, Sal, and his wife, Desiree; two grandchildren; several sisters-in-law; and many nieces…