Margaret E. Szotak
April 17, 2014
Margaret E. Szotak, 88 years of age, passed away on Thursday, April 17, 2014, after a brief illness. She was born & raised in Elizabeth with her 4 brothers & 8 sisters. After her marriage, she lived in Rahway and in 1957 she & her family moved to the Port Reading, section of Woodbridge Township. Mrs. Szotak was employed as...
Louise M. Sadowski
April 14, 2014
Louise M. Sadowski of Perth Amboy passed away on Monday, April 14, 2014 at Raritan Bay Medical Center in Perth Amboy. She was 89 years old. She was born in and a lifelong resident of Perth Amboy. Ms. Sadowski was a Lab Technician with Union Carbide in Bound Brook for 30 years before retiring in 1984. Louise loved flowers and...
Sylvia R. Adams
April 13, 2014
Sylvia R. Adams passed away on Monday, April 14, 2014 at JFK Medical Center in Edison. She was 83 years old. Born in New York City, she was raised in Germany and has resided in the Port Reading section of Woodbridge Township since 1959. Mrs. Adams was employed as a secretary with Esso Research and Engineering Company in Linden many...
Leonard J. Minkler, Sr.
April 13, 2014
Leonard J. Minkler, Sr. passed away on Sunday, April 13, 2014 at JFK Medical Center in Edison. He was 87 years old. Born in Albany, NY, he resided in Queens, NY before moving to Woodbridge 58 years ago. Mr. Minkler was a printer, and worked in New York before working at Quinn and Boden's, Cohen Printing and Plymouth Printing in...
Omar Garner
April 12, 2014
Omar Garner of Edison passed away on Saturday, April 12, 2014 at JFK Hartwyck at Edison Estates. He was 45 years old. Born in Elizabeth, NJ He resided in Linden before moving to Edison. Mr. Garner was employed as a teacher with Gymboree in Monroe for the past 2 years. He was a graduate of Westminster College and Ashford University...
Josephine "Josie" Gelesky
April 12, 2014
Josephine "Josie" Gelesky of the Avenel section of Woodbridge Township passed away on Saturday, April 12, 2014 at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital at Rahway. She was 89 years old. Born in Bethlehem, PA, she resided in Avenel for the past 54 years. Mrs. Gelesky was an executive secretary with Topps Baseball Cards in Brooklyn many years ago. She was...
Marcella Hogrebe
April 12, 2014
Marcella Hogrebe of the Avenel section of Woodbridge Township passed away on Saturday, April 12, 2014 at St. Joseph's Senior Residence in Woodbridge. She was 89 years old. Born in Wilkes-Barre Pennsylvania, she resided in Avenel for the past 56 years. Mrs. Hogrebe was a longtime communicant of St. Andrew R.C. Church in Avenel. She was predeceased by her husband,...
Timothy M. Fee, Sr.
April 12, 2014
Timothy M. Fee of Woodbridge passed away on Saturday, April 12, 2014. He was 50 years old. Born in Perth Amboy; He was a lifelong resident of Woodbridge Tim was a 1982 Graduate of Woodbridge High School and received his Associates degree from Middlesex County College. Mr. Fee was employed as a mechanical engineer with WSP Flack & Kurtz in...
Barbara Bryk
April 9, 2014
Barbara Bryk of the Colonia section of Woodbridge Township passed away on Wednesday, April 9, 2014 at home. She was 57 years old. Born in Tuszow Narodwy, Poland; she resided in Linden before moving to Colonia. Mrs. Bryk was a communicant of St. Theresa of the Child Jesus R.C. Church in Linden. She was employed in the Environmental service department...
Helen Marie Bryant
April 5, 2014
Helen Marie Bryant "My Sweet Love" passed away on Saturday, April 5, 2014 at Haven Hospice at JFK Medical Center in Edison. She was 74 years old. Born in Jersey City, she resided there before moving to Woodbridge Township over 50 years ago. Mrs. Bryant received her Masters Degree in Early Childhood Development from Kean University and was employed as...
Andres Yanez
March 30, 2014
Andres "Poppie" Yanez passed away on Sunday, March 30, 2014 at his home in Woodbridge. He was 81 years old. Born in Carino, Spain, he resided in Newark before moving to Woodbridge in 1964. Mr. Yanez was employed as a crane operator for Maersk Sea Land Company in Port Newark through Local 1235 of the Longshoreman's Union in Newark for...
Stella J. Kopytko
March 28, 2014
Stella J. Kopytko of the Avenel section of Woodbridge Township passed away on Friday, March 28, 2014 at Bridgeway Health Care in Hillsborough. She was 95 years old. Born in Elizabeth, she has resided in Avenel since 1950. She was an active member at the Avenel Veterans of Foreign Wars Post #7164 for many years. Mrs. Kopytko was a Communicant...
Catalina Areizaga
March 20, 2014
Catalina Areizaga passed away on Thursday, March 20, 2014 at Raritan Bay Medical Center, Perth Amboy Division. She was 84 years old. Born in Ciales, Puerto Rico, she resided in Newark, Hillside and Perth Amboy before moving to the Port Reading section of Woodbridge Township over 50 years ago. Mrs. Areizaga was employed as a machine operator with Bristol Myers...
Henry R. Braxton
March 17, 2014
Henry R. Braxton of Woodbridge passed away on Monday, March 17, 2014 at JFK Medical Center in Edison. He was 69 years old. Born in Kent, Maryland; He resided in Perth Amboy before moving to Woodbridge 14 years ago. He served in the United States Army during Vietnam Mr. Braxton was employed as a Bus Driver for New Jersey Transit...
Walter "Cap" Bergacs
March 16, 2014
Walter "Cap" Bergacs passed away on Sunday, March 16, 2014. He was 59 years old. Born in Perth Amboy, he was raised in Woodbridge and has resided in Hopelawn for 32 years. Mr. Bergacs was a 1978 graduate of Kean University in Union. He was employed as an electrician through IBEW Local #358 in Perth Amboy and, more recently, through...
Wayne M. Favilla
March 15, 2014
Wayne M. Favilla of the Colonia section of Woodbridge Township passed away on Saturday, March 15, 2014. He was 43 years old. Born in Rahway, NJ; he was a lifelong resident of Woodbridge Township. He served in the United States Marine Corp during Operation Desert Storm. He was predeceased by his father Ralph Favilla, Sr. who passed away in 2009....
Anne Marie Carola
March 12, 2014
Anne Marie Carola of the Avenel section of Woodbridge Township passed away on Wednesday, March 12, 2014 at home. She was 73 years old. Born in Jersey City, NJ; She resided in Avenel since 1972. Mrs. Carola was employed as an Accounts Payable Clerk with Van Kel Industries in Edison for 10 years retiring in 2001. She was a Communicant...
Robert Castro
March 11, 2014
Robert Castro passed away on Tuesday, March 11, 2014 at his home in the Avenel section of Woodbridge Township. He was 88 years old. Born in San Juan, Puerto Rico he resided the Bronx, NY and Menlo Park Terrace before moving to Avenel in 1970. Mr. Castro was employed as plant manager with General Utility in Jersey City. He was...
James Vincent Mazza
March 10, 2014
James Vincent Mazza passed away on Monday, March 10, 2014 at Haven Hospice at JFK Medical Center in Edison. He was 85 years old. Mr. Mazza was born in, and a lifelong resident of Woodbridge Township. He retired in 1984 after 25 years in the photo finishing department of E.I. DuPont Corporation in Sayreville; and was a United States Army...
Harold E. Johnson
March 9, 2014
Harold E. Johnson of the Avenel section of Woodbridge Township, NJ passed away on Sunday, March 9, 2014 at JFK Medical Center in Edison, NJ. He was 91 years old. Born in Montgomery, PA, he resided in Avenel for the past 43 years. Mr. Johnson was a United States Army veteran of World War II. He was employed as a...
