• Stanley Gretkowski

    Mr. Gretkowski, 93, of South Amboy, died Aug.30, 2013, in Raritan Bay Medical Center, Perth Amboy division. He was predeceased by his wife, Kathryn Gretkowski; and five siblings, Joseph, Jennie, Ann, Felix and Walter. Surviving are a son, Philip Caputo; three grandsons; and three greatgrandchildren. Funeral services were held at Carmen F. Spezzi Funeral Home,…

  • Carolyn Denys

    Mrs. Denys, 87, of Toms River, formerly of Old Bridge and Woodbridge, died Aug. 25, 2013, in Wedgwood Gardens, Freehold. Prior to her retirement, she was employed as a real estate agent. She was predeceased by her husband, Joseph, and by a daughter, Bonnie Schady. Surviving are a granddaughter, Megan Ash, and her husband, Merrick,…

  • Lillian McEvoy

    Mrs. McEvoy, 86, of the Madison Park section of Old Bridge, died Aug. 25, 2013, in Milford Regional Hospital, Milford, Mass. She was predeceased by her husband, John W. McEvoy. Surviving are three children and their spouses, Barbara and Marty Hubka of the Parlin section of Sayreville, Linda and Peter Crisafi of Blackstone, Mass., and…

  • Helen Lipman Dzergoski

    Mrs. Dzergoski, 88, of South River, died Aug. 27, 2013, in Raritan Bay Medical Center, Old Bridge division. She had worked at M&M Sportswear, South River, for many years. She was predeceased by her husband, Anthony Dzergoski; a brother, Oswald Lipman; and a sister, Irene Lenhart. Surviving are three children, Anthony J. Dzergoski, and his…

  • Robert J. McKiernan Sr.

    Mr. McKiernan, of Old Bridge, died Sept. 1, 2013, at home. He was predeceased by his wife, Ellen Habert McKiernan; a son, Kevin McKiernan; and seven siblings, Dorothy Jetter, Catherine Wynne, Thomas McKiernan, Theresa Cassola, Roger McKiernan, Lawrence McKiernan and Patrick McKiernan. Surviving are two sons, Robert McKiernan Jr., and his wife, Maureen, of Old…

  • Sylvia Gan

    Mrs. Gan, 81, of Sayreville, died Aug. 24, 2013, in Philip Hulitar Hospice, Providence, R.I. Prior to her retirement, she was employed by Pulse Savings Bank in South River as a teller and assistant vice president. She was predeceased by her husband, Edward J. Gan; a sister, Wanda “Peggy” Nacnodovitz; and three brothers, Chester, Walter…

  • Joseph Peter Margiotta

    Mr. Margiotta, 78, of Old Bridge, died Sept. 1, 2013, in Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, New Brunswick. He was predeceased by a sister, Frances Rodriguez. Surviving are his wife, Phyllis Margiotta; a son, Joseph Margiotta, and his wife, Rosemary; a daughter, Josephine Lawall, and her husband, Daniel; a brother, Michael Margiotta, and his wife,…

  • Rita M. Yurkiewicz Schaffer

    Mrs. Schaffer, 83, of East Brunswick, died Aug. 26, 2013, in Saint Peter’s University Hospital, New Brunswick. Prior her retirement in 1993, she worked at the Ramada Renaissance Hotel, East Brunswick. She was predeceased by her husband, Ramon. Surviving are two daughters, Ramona Toia, and her husband, Frank, and Diana Kohlhepp, and her husband, Keith,…

  • Cambodian refugee shares story of atrocities, survival

    By THOMAS CASTLES Staff Writer Chanty Jong, a survivor of the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia, shares her experiences at the East Brunswick Public Library Sept. 3. PHOTOS BY STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER ERIC SUCAR An estimated 2 million people were killed when revolutionary Cambodian dictator Pol Pot rose to power in 1975 and ordered the immediate communist…

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