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Memorial Service for Caitlin Evans Jones to Be Held June 9 at NJPAC
Caitlin Evans Jones (Photo: NJPAC) A memorial service for Caitlin Evans Jones will be held Friday, June 9, 2017, beginning at 5:00 p.m. at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center’s Victoria Theater in...
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Obituary: David Levin, Columbia HS Grad and Triple Crown Balloonist
David Levin, 68, passed away on May 13th, 2017. Born in 1948 in Newark, Levin grew up in South Orange, according to an obituary in The New York Times. While a student at Columbia High School, he...
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Obituary: John Kellenyi, Maplewood Resident, Philanthropist & Marathon Runner
John Kellenyi (Star-Ledger) John Bernard Kellenyi, a Maplewood resident, philanthropist and marathon runner, passed away on July 2 at the age of 69, according to an obituary in the Star-Ledger. The...
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Maplewood Mourns Arthur Cohen, Creator of PickALS
Longtime Maplewood resident Arthur Cohen passed away peacefully yesterday, August 10. Arthur was diagnosed with ALS, the progressive neurodegenerative disease, in 2013. In the months following his...
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Obituary: Joan Lee, South Orange Community Leader, Passes Away at 69
Joan Louise Lee, a longtime South Orange resident and community leader and volunteer, passed away from brain cancer on September 27 at the age of 69 , according to an obituary in the Star-Ledger. Lee...
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Mark Mooney’s Last Byline: ‘If You’re Reading This … I Am No Longer Here’
Mark Mooney It is fitting that Maplewood resident Mark Mooney has informed us of his own passing. Mooney was consummate reporter (a term that he preferred over “journalist” — see his last blog here)....
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Short Hills Family Creates Hope for Lauren Foundation to Combat Teen...
Lauren Grace Liu As Short Hills, NJ and neighboring towns have been shaken by the suicide of 14-year-old Lauren Liu, Lauren’s family has created the Hope for Lauren Foundation. The Foundation page...
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A Remembrance of Joan Lee, Her Magic and Her Generosity
Pictured from left Brigid Casey, Joan Lee, Carol Barry-Austin, and Madeline Tugentman. Those of us who worked closely with Joan Lee knew all about her magic phone. Located in her kitchen, this phone...
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Kristen Ackley Zeleny of Maplewood, 35 — A Life of Love, Joy and Color
Kristen Ackley Zeleny The following has been edited from a post on legacy.com: Kristen Ackley Zeleny (35) of Maplewood NJ, passed away on November 9, 2017 after a four-year battle with cancer. It is...
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Obituary — Ted Cole, ‘Effortlessly Beautiful’ Clarinetist, Humanitarian
Ted Cole It is with deep sadness that the family of Ted Cole announces that Ted passed away in the Palliative Care Unit of Mount Sinai Hospital on November 22, 2017 after an acute battle with advanced...
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Obituary: Marzano, Longtime Maplewoodian, Dies at 87
Elizabeth J. Marzano — longtime Maplewood resident Elizabeth J. “Betty” Marzano, 87, of Maplewood, N.J., passed away on Nov. 8, 2017. A memorial Mass was held at Our Lady of Sorrows, 217 Prospect St.,...
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A Letter for Sharon Duberman Geraghty: She Made a Difference
Sharon Duberman Geraghty of Maplewood passed away last week. The following is from her husband Michael: Despite her illness, Sharon thought she was the luckiest person alive because of the friends she...
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Greg Snell, CHS Class of ’83, First African American Maplewood Firefighter
Greg Snell passed away on December 6. A graduate of Columbia High School, he was the first African American Maplewood firefighter and he made headlines with his friend and “brother” Joe Callaghan when...
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Man Found Dead Outside Home Was Retired South Orange Firefighter, Apparent...
A preliminary investigation indicates that the man who was pronounced dead outside his Hixon Place home in South Orange on Thursday was an apparent suicide as a result of a self-inflicted gun shot...
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Sharon Duberman Geraghty to Be Remembered Feb 25 at Clinton School
From Catherine Racette via SOMA Lounge: Local friends – please take note and share with others in the SOMA Community. A memorial gathering to celebrate the life of Sharon Geraghty will be held on...
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Remembering Dr. Charlie Crandall — Decorated Veteran, Groundbreaking...
Dr. Charles Eben Crandall at the November 11, 2009 Maplewood Veterans Day Observance. Photo by Mary Mann, courtesy of Patch Maplewood lost one of its oldest and more prominent residents last April with...
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Obituary: South Orange’s David Schechner Passes Away at 89
David Schechner, 89, of South Orange, N.J., passed away peacefully on April 12, 2018, according to an obituary in the Star-Ledger. Services will be held Sunday, April 15, at 1:15 p.m., at Oheb Shalom...
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Obituary: Regina Dotson, Longtime South Orange Resident, Passes Away at 52
From the family of Regina Dotson: It is with great sadness that the family of Regina Elizabethe Dotson announces her sudden passing at Forest Hills hospital. She entered into eternal rest on April 4,...
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PHOTO: South Orange Elks Remember SORS’s Weyman Watson and Rudy Reynolds With...
South Orange Elks Ron Housley, Annemarie Conte and Michael G. Leonard present Troy Balog and members of the South Orange Rescue Squad a check for $1,000 in honor of their members Weyman Watson and...
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Obituary: Jim Pickett, 53, Beloved Husband, Father & Friend, Free Spirit,...
James (Jim) Michael Pickett, entrepreneur, beverage industry pioneer and beloved husband of Heidi Hovland, and father to Lena (15) and Riordan (12), died Saturday, July 1, at St. Barnabas Medical...
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