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Fundraiser to fight childhood cancer
Michele Katora, a 10th-grade student at East Brunswick High School, along with several of her friends, will hold her eighth annual Alex’s Lemonade Stand to fight childhood cancer 10 a.m.-6 p.m. June 9 and noon-6 p.m. June 10 at 2 Biernacki Court, East Brunswick, corner of Old Stage Road, across from Spotswood ShopRite. This year’s…
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Hazardous waste drop-off day planned
The Middlesex County Division of Solid Waste Management will hold a household hazardous-waste drop-off day 8 a.m.-2 p.m. May 19 at the Middlesex County Division of Highways, Apple Orchard Lane, North Brunswick. Household hazardous wastes that are improperly disposed of are identified as a danger to children and animals, a potential cause of groundwater pollution…
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Michael Knoblock Sr.
Mr. Knoblock, 94, of Milltown, formerly of South River, died May 7, 2012, at home. He was co-owner of Knoblock’s Auto Body, South River, where he worked for 80 years. Surviving are his wife, Elizabeth Hogg Knoblock; a son, Michael Jr. of East Brunswick; a daughter, Patricia, and her husband, Bob, of Pennsylvania; a stepdaughter,…
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Ruth Isola Sparandera
Mrs. Sparandera, 73, of the Parlin section of Sayreville, died May 11, 2012, in Raritan Bay Medical Center, Perth Amboy division. She was predeceased by her husband, Frank C. Sparandera, and by her parents, Eugene and Jean Isola. Surviving are four children and their spouses, Beth-Jean Sparandera and Rich Trawinski of Monroe, Laura and John…
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Frances Franciska Kowalski
Mrs. Kowalski, 86, of South River, died April 22, 2012, in Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, New Brunswick. Prior to her retirement, she was employed as a seamstress with Brodsky and Sons, South River. She was predeceased by her husband, Michael Kowalski, and by a brother, Cheslaw Stan. Surviving are two daughters, Helina K. Wisniewski…
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Shaun Kevin Thompson
Mr. Thompson, 48, of Keansburg, formerly of Old Bridge, died April 28, 2012. He was employed with Madison Industries, Old Bridge, 1990-2010. Surviving are two daughters, Paige and Nora, of Old Bridge; his mother, Ann Cullen Thompson, also of Old Bridge; his father, Kenneth Thompson, and stepmother, Patricia Clougher Thompson, of the Whiting section of…
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Norberto J. “Bob” Colon
Mr. Colon, 70, of the Parlin section of Old Bridge, diedMay 4, 2012, in RobertWood Johnson University Hospital, New Brunswick. He was predeceased by his parents, Norberto and Olga Colon, and by a sister, Sonia Steinman-Allen. Surviving are his wife, Jennette Fazio Colon; three sons, Andrew of Los Angeles and Matthew and Michael, both of…
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Pauline Gunia Blakaitis
Mrs. Blakaitis, 98, of Monroe, formerly of Holmdel, diedApril 26, 2012, in the Elms of Cranbury. She was predeceased by her husband, Frank L. Blakaitis. Surviving are two daughters, Gail Steinbach, and her husband, Joseph, of Swansboro, N.C., and Paula Walsh, and her husband, Jack, of New Milford, Conn.; a son, Lawrence Blakaitis of New…
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Ellen BernadetteWalsh
Mrs. Walsh, of Old Bridge, died May 1, 2012. She was predeceased by her husband, John Patrick Walsh, and two brothers, Timothy Mahoney and Robert Mahoney. Surviving are six children, Patrick Walsh, and his wife, Kathleen, of Sayreville, Ellen Scarpari, and her husband, John, and Mary Lange, all of Monroe, Janice Smith, and her husband,…
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