Category: Suburban Opinion
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School throws party to honor wounded vet
Army specialist has returned home after three tours in Iraq BY BRIAN DONAHUE Staff Writer PHOTOS BY CHRIS KELLY staff Miller School secondgrader Monique Minson joins in the celebration for Iraq War veteran and U.S. Army Spc. Bryan Camacho on Friday. Family members (r) surround Camacho, who was touched by the efforts of the students.…
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John “Jack” Walsh
Mr. Walsh, 85, of Manalapan, died May 19, 2008, in CareOne at East Brunswick. He was ordained a permanent deacon of the Trenton Diocese in 1980. Prior to his retirement, he conducted the preparation classes for baptism and marriage at St. ThomasMore Church,Manalapan. He was predeceased by his wife, Barbara Ann, in 2002. Surviving are…
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Joan Boehm Sweeney
Mrs. Sweeney, 77, of Sayreville, died May 11, 2008, in Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, New Brunswick. Prior to her retirement in 1996, she was employed for 10 years at A.J. Ross, Keasbey section of Woodbridge. Before that, she worked at Hercules Inc., Sayreville. Her husband, Raymond N. Sweeney, died in 1984. Surviving are two…
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County should keep the ‘sex,’ forget about the ‘Middle’
I would like to thank Taj Ahmad of the Parlin section of Sayreville for his impassioned plea to our "lawmakers, senators and other politicians" ("Suggests Taking the ‘Sex’ Out of ‘Middlesex County,’ " Suburban, May 8) to divert their attention away from the less-pressing issues of violent crime, homeland security, universal health care and global…
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Robert Beaudoin
Mr. Beaudoin, 71, of Spotswood, died May 7, 2008, in Raritan Bay Medical Center, Old Bridge division. Surviving are his wife, Camille Beaudoin; a son and daughter-in-law, Robert and Jill Beaudoin of Howell; a daughter and son-in-law, Christine and Mike Ducane of Spotswood; a brother, John Sardina of Brooklyn, N.Y.; a sister, Marie DaPonte of…
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Anne Marie Merce Rogan
Mrs. Rogan, 60, of Murfreesboro, Tenn., formerly of North Brunswick, died May 9, 2008. She was predeceased by her parents, Russell and Leona Mae Berry Merce. Surviving are her husband, Bruce Rogan; four brothers, Ira Merce, and his wife, Jane, and Donald Merce, and his wife, Carol, all of Lakeland, Fla., William Merce, and his…
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John W. Smith Jr.
Mr. Smith, 81, of Sayreville, died May 7, 2008, in Care One at Raritan Bay Medical Center, Perth Amboy division. Prior to his retirement in 1991, he was employed in the maintenance department at Bristol-Myers Squibb, North Brunswick, where he worked for 23 years. Before that, he was employed for 23 years with Sayer and…
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Jeanette Bolene Edick
Mrs. Edick, 76, of Old Bridge, died May 5, 2008, in Raritan Bay Medical Center, Perth Amboy division. She was employed for many years in the accounting department at Larter and Sons, Laurence Harbor section of Old Bridge. Surviving are her husband, Charles Edick; a son, Andrew Edick, and his wife, Valerie, of Old Bridge;…
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Ella Dunn Murphy
Mrs. Murphy, 77, of the Cliffwood Beach section of Old Bridge, died April 23, 2008, in Bayshore Community Hospital, Holmdel. Her husband, John, died in 2007. Surviving are two sisters, Marie Novak of Wayne and Claire Bocchino of Belleville; and a brother and sisterin law, James and Dina Dunn of Belleville. A Mass was offered…
