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Holiday harbinger: the Sugarloaf Crafts Festival
Sculpture by Martin Silverman of Jackson The Sugarloaf Crafts Festival will host more than 275 nationally known artists and craftsmen Oct. 25-27 at the Garden State Exhibit Center in Somerset. The festival showcases one-of-a-kind, handcrafted work by jury-selected artists from around the country who will be showing their seasonally inspired works in pottery, sculpture, glass,…
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Concert to celebrate pipe organ’s 130th
Master organists Jim Little, William Berg and Christopher M.C. Deibert will perform in concert beginning at 4 p.m. Nov. 3 at St. Mary Church, 256 Augusta St., South Amboy. The event will celebrate the 130th birthday of the church’s 1883 Jardine and Sons historic pipe organ. A free post-concert reception will offer a chance to…
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Turkey Trot to benefit Elijah’s Promise
Elijah’s Promise will hold its fifth annual 3K Turkey Trot fundraiser Nov. 3 in Buccleuch Park, New Brunswick. Registration begins at 1 p.m., and the walk will start at 2 p.m. The Turkey Trot will feature an appearance by Tracy Brown the Reading Fairy; live music by the CTP band; arts-and-crafts for kids; and tasting…
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Walter W. Webster
Mr. Webster, 59, of East Brunswick and the Monmouth Junction section of South Brunswick, died Oct. 2, 2013, in Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, New Brunswick. He was predeceased by his father, Edward Webster, and by a brother, Edward. Surviving are his mother, Lorraine Webster of East Brunswick; five siblings, Carol Lorraine Polgar, and her…
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Anneliese Bittner Brown
Mrs. Brown, 94, of Sayreville, formerly of the Fords section of Woodbridge, died Oct. 16, 2013, at her son’s home in Vineland. Prior to her retirement, she was employed as a nurse for Dr. Copperman, Fords, and Middlesex Nursing Home, Metuchen. She was predeceased by her husband, Alexius E. Brown Jr. Surviving are three children…
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Carmine J. Bortono
Mr. Bortono, 85, of Old Bridge, formerly of South Brunswick, died Oct. 8, 2013, in Raritan Bay Medical Center, Old Bridge division. He was predeceased by his wife, Erna Maier Bortono, and by a sister, Ida Rescigno. Surviving are a daughter, Lucy Bortono, and her partner, Frederick Calderone, of East Brunswick; two sons, Joseph of…
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Joseph John Wiamer
Mr. Wiamer, 75, of the Parlin section of Sayreville, died Oct. 16, 2013, in Bayshore Community Hospital, Holmdel. Prior to his retirement, he was employed as an electrical engineer with E.I. DuPont Direct, Newark, Del. Before that, he worked at Johnson & Johnson Personal Products, Milltown, and National Lead Industries, Sayreville. He was predeceased by…
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Marie M. Timmes Melchior
Mrs. Melchior, 90, of Monroe, died Oct. 13, 2013, in Cranbury Center, Monroe. Surviving are two children, Scott Bennett, and his wife, Mary, of Monroe and Marie “Patti” Conley, and her husband, Richard, of Belmont, Ohio; seven grandchildren; eight great-grandchildren; and many extended family members. A service was held at M. David DeMarco Funeral Home,…
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Barbara Kilbourn
Mrs. Kilbourn, 75, of Monroe, Va., formerly of Old Bridge, died Oct. 11, 2013. Surviving are her husband, Charles; five children and their spouses, Robert and Rachel Burlew, Brian and Joann Burlew, Randal and Barbara Burlew, Karen and Scott Steinlight and Duane Burlew; seven grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren. Services were held at Freeman Manalapan- Marlboro…
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