Category: Suburban Opinion
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State’s children need advocates to prevent child abuse
L ike most New Jerseyans, I was horrified to learn of the Paterson mother who stabbed her 6 month-old infant to death. While it’s unimaginable to comprehend the choice to harm a child, I found myself plagued with uneasy questions about how the tragedy came to be. Was the teen mother — pregnant at 17…
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Patricia Ann Mascia
Patricia Ann Mascia, 67, of Manchester and formerly of Marlboro and Old Bridge, died Aug. 21, 2008, at New York Presbyterian Hospital in Manhattan. She worked as a nurse for the Hospital of St. Raphael in New Haven, Conn., for many years and as a home health care and dialysis nurse. Surviving are her father,…
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Gladys M. Lockwood
Mrs. Lockwood, 84, of Raleigh, N.C., formerly of the Parlin section of Sayreville, died Aug. 17, 2008, in University Healthcare, Raleigh. She was predeceased by her husband, Richard S. Lockwood. Surviving are three sons, Richard, and his wife, Judith, of Old Bridge, William, and his wife, Karen, of Hillsborough and Raymond, and his wife, Lisa,…
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Timothy J. Mahoney
Mr. Mahoney, of Fort Lauderdale, Fla., formerly of Old Bridge, died Aug. 17, 2008, in Overlook Hospital, Summit. His first wife, Margaret Mahoney, died in 1990. Surviving are his wife, Mary N. Hawk-Mahoney; two sons, Daniel Mahoney, and his wife, Anne, of the Whitehouse Station of Readington and Kevin Mahoney of Old Bridge; five stepchildren,…
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Valentin Colon
Mr. Colon, 74, of the Parlin section of Sayreville, died Aug. 20, 2008, in Raritan Bay Medical Center, Old Bridge division. Prior to his retirement in 2000, he was employed by Sunshine Biscuit, New York and Sayreville, where he worked for more than 40 years as a machine operator. His wife, Maria, died in 2007.…
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Clara McGarry
Mrs. McGarry, 79, of Old Bridge, died Aug. 22, 2008, in Raritan Bay Medical Center, Old Bridge division. Prior to her retirement in 1994, she worked for J.C. Penney Co., East Brunswick. She was predeceased by her husband, Michael J. Sr. Surviving are three sons, Michael J. McGarry Jr. of Monroe, Dennis McGarry of Stuarts…
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Martin Anthony Keane
Mr. Keane, 54, of Monroe, died Aug. 20, 2008, in Sunrise Assisted Living, East Brunswick. Prior to his retirement earlier this year, he was employed as a purchasing agent with BMI Educational Services, Dayton section of South Brunswick, where he worked for 20 years. He was predeceased by his parents, Daniel Graham Keane and Veronica…
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Alice M. Mulhall Corcoran Wollmann
Mrs. Wollmann, 86, died Aug. 25, 2008, in Reformed Church Home, Old Bridge. She was predeceased by her first husband, Raymond Corcoran Sr., who died in 1966; her second husband, Leonard Wollmann, who died in 1998; and by a son, Raymond Corcoran. Surviving are three sons, Frank Corcoran, and his wife, Barbara, of East Brunswick,…
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Margaret Burke
Mrs. Burke, 93, of Old Bridge, died Aug. 26, 2008, in Summerhill Nursing Home, Old Bridge. Her husband, Edward Burke, died in 1995. Surviving are a son, Edward Burke of East Brunswick; a daughter, Barbara Novak of Spotswood; a brother, George Wall of Winchester, Tenn.; four grandchildren; and eight great-grandchildren. Arrangements were under the direction…
