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OBITUARY: Maplewood Native & Sensei Carmen Puglio Had ‘Dynamic Personality &...
From South Mountain YMCA: Carmen Puglio Dear YMCA families, Last week we were shocked and saddened to learn of the sudden passing of our long-time karate instructor Sensei Carmen Puglio. Carmen had...
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OBITUARY: Patrick A. Jeffrey, 55, Family Man and Coach Who Loved Maplewood
From the Jacob A. Holle Funeral Home: With profound sadness and heavy hearts, we announce the tragic passing of Patrick Andrew Jeffrey, 55, of Maplewood, NJ. A loving and devoted father, husband, son,...
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Maplewood & South Orange Mourn Iona Professors Lost to Ida
Fran and Ken Bailie shared a joy in knowledge, a love of family, and the connection of their calling — as professors of computer science at Iona College in Westchester County, New York. The...
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Iona College Creates Scholarship in Memory of Professors Fran & Ken Bailie
The Iona College Board of Trustees has established an endowed scholarship in memory of Professors Frances and Kenneth Bailie who were lost to the floodwaters of Tropical Storm Ida on September 1. Fran...
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Joseph F. Trinity of Maplewood, a ‘Good & Decent Man,’ Father of 5, Teacher,...
Joseph F. Trinity, husband, father, grandfather, brother, uncle, veteran, teacher, director, actor, and all-around good and decent man, died on Friday, Nov. 26, at his Maplewood home of 62 years. He...
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Anthony Wonski, 71, Husband, Father, Veteran & Patriarch of Town Hall Deli in...
Anthony Robert Wonski, 71, of Essex Fells, formerly of South Orange, Teaneck and Hackensack, passed away at St. Barnabas Hospital on December 4, 2021. He was surrounded by his loving family. Visitation...
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Arlene Allen Knight, 57, Amazing Mother, Former Seth Boyden Lunch Aide &...
God called Arlene Addie Allen Knight home on December 5, 2021. The daughter of the late Franklin and Elizabeth Allen, she was born August 5, 1964 in Rahway, NJ, the 7th of 11 siblings. Arlene graduated...
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Top South Orange-Maplewood Stories of 2021
There is no denying that 2021 was a year that tested South Orange and Maplewood’s strength even almost beyond the difficulties of 2020. The ongoing pandemic, the ravages of Tropical Storm Ida, the...
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South Orange Retired Fire Chief Pasquale ‘Pat’ Giordano, 1932-2022
From southorange.org: It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of Pasquale Giordano, retired Chief of the South Orange Fire Department (SOFD), on Friday, January 7, 2022. Chief Giordano...
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Edith Hodes Rose: Maplewoodian, Oldest Resident in NJ, Passes Away at 111
Editor’s note: Village Green published an article on Mrs. Rose in August of 2020, in advance of the celebration of her 110th birthday. She said then, “It’s just a number and if I wake up in the...
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Sheila Q. Magliaro, 87, of Maplewood, ‘Smart, Uniquely Funny, Fierce &...
Sheila Magliaro of Maplewood passed away on December 30, 2021. On January 3, 2022, her son-in-law Hank Zona posted a remembrance on social media to a mother-in-law who defied stereotypes. Below is...
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James Mtume, 76, of South Orange, Grammy-Winning Artist &‘Baba’ to Many
After James Mtume of South Orange died on January 9, just six days after his 76th birthday, he was remembered in publications from People magazine to The New York Times for his work with Miles Davis...
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Maplewood & South Orange Mourn Joseph Kalichstein, Illustrious Concert Pianist
Joseph Kalichstein, one of the world’s most illustrious concert pianists, died on March 31, 2022, at the age of 76. The classical world mourns a great loss—but he is mourned with equal sadness, and in...
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Maplewood & South Orange Mourn Michael Pacchia, CHS Class of ’88 & Father of 4
South Orange and Maplewood are mourning Michael Pacchia, a 1988 graduate of Columbia High School and father of four, who lost his life in a car accident in Chatham Township on March 28. Pacchia was...
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Shirley Ehrich, Longtime Maplewood Resident, Dies at 100
Shirley Ehrich, a proud Maplewood resident for more than 60 years, died May 17 less than a month after celebrating her 100th birthday on April 24 with family. Despite reaching the century mark, Shirley...
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Salil Dalvi, 51, ‘Irreplaceable’ Partner, Father, Son, Friend
Salil Dalvi lost his valiant battle with an unforgiving cancer on May 22, 2022, at the age of 51. He is irreplaceable as a partner, father, son, nephew, cousin and friend. Salil grew up in Atlanta,...
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OBITUARY: CHS Alum Alyssa Anzalone-Newman, 32: ‘An Extraordinary Young Woman’
This obituary was sent to Village Green by Douglas Newman. Alyssa Eve Anzalone-Newman lost her courageous 2.5-year battle with breast cancer on June 6, 2022. She was an extraordinary, young woman and...
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Greg Hoffer, 24, Columbia High Graduate &‘Beautiful Soul’
Gregory William Hoffer, 24, of Kennebunkport, Maine and Maplewood, New Jersey, succumbed to a nearly lifelong battle with mental illness on May 15, 2022, despite his being a light and inspiration to so...
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Margaret ‘Peggy’ Tunstall, 98, of Maplewood & Summit
From legacy.com: Margaret (“Peggy”) Bichy Tunstall died on July 6, 2022, at her home at Winchester Gardens in Maplewood, NJ, after a long, healthy life and a brief final illness. She was 98. Margaret...
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OBITUARY: James R. Purdon, 66, Husband, Friend, Longtime Maplewood Resident
From Jacob A. Holle Funeral Home: James Ralph Purdon III, 66 of Maplewood, died suddenly with his wife by his side on August 26, 2022 from a pulmonary embolism. The family will be receiving friends at...
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