Local obituaries for Hagan-Chamberlain Funeral Home
Charles Miller
Apr 18, 2017
Charles J. “Charlie” Miller, 67, died peacefully, Tuesday, April 18, 2017, at home. Born April 10, 1950, in Plainfield, he was the son of John and Dorothy Kruger Miller. He had resided in South Bound Brook for forty-one years. He was a United States Marine Corps veteran of the Vietnam war, serving eight years. Charles was a truck driver...
Warren Staller
Apr 17, 2017
Warren L. Staller, 88, died Monday, April 17, at Bridgeway Care and Rehabilitation Center, Hillsborough. Born February 24, 1929, in Mt. Carmel, Pennsylvania, he was the son of Norman G. and Ada Carl Staller. He resided in Bridgewater for thirty-seven years, moving to South Bound Brook in 1998. Warren graduated Bound Brook High School, Class of 1945, and Rutgers...
Cleone Wells
Apr 3, 2017
Cleone R. Wells, 94, died Monday, April 3, 2017, at Bridgeway Care Center, Bridgewater. Born April 3, 1923, in Emerson, Iowa, she was the daughter of McKinley and Clara Brown Irvin. She married George R. Wells in Baltimore, lived in Philadelphia, then Piscataway for thirty years, moving to Bridgewater in 2002. Cleone served in the United States Navy during...
Celia Giardino
Apr 3, 2017
Celia D. Giardino, 83, died on Monday, April 3, 2017, after a prolonged illness in Florida. Mrs. Giardino was born in New York City in 1933. She graduated from the Good Shepherd School and later St. Mary’s High School. Mrs. Giardino was a graduate of Fashion Design at The Traphagen School of Fashion in Midtown Manhattan, under the direction...
Aurelio Jurado
Apr 2, 2017
Aurelio Rafael Jurado, 52, died Sunday, April 2, 2017, at home in Bound Brook. Born May 11, 1964, in Cartagena, Colombia, he was the son of Eddie Jurado and Yolanda Roa. He came to the United States in 1977, settling in Bound Brook. He graduated from Bound Brook High School, Class of 1983. He owned and operated SOR Cleaning...
Mary Ann Lencoski
Mar 31, 2017
Mary Ann Lencoski, 77, died Friday, March 31, 2017, at home in South Bound Brook, surrounded by her loving family. Born March 13, 1940, in Kingston, Pennsylvania, she was the daughter of Alfred and Pauline Kachmar Lencoski. She had resided in South Bound Brook most of her life. Mary Ann was a production worker for Revlon, Inc., Edison, retiring...
Jean Brown
Mar 26, 2017
Jean Navarre Brown, 97, died Sunday, March 26, 2017, at Powhatan Nursing Home, Falls Church, Virginia. Born July 23, 1919, in Toledo, Ohio, she was the daughter of George R. and Lillian Stewart Navarre. She graduated Monroe High School, Monroe, Michigan, and earned her Bachelor of Education Degree from Trenton State College. She resided in Bound Brook for several...
Nonna Baumgarten
Mar 8, 2017
Nonna J. Baumgarten, 88, died Wednesday, March 8, 2017, at her home in Somerset. Born in Ukraine, she moved to Germany with her mother, Valentina Masurowa, during World War II. She emigrated to the United States in 1949. She met her husband, Nicholas, and they were married in 1951. In 1956, they moved to Somerset. Nonna enjoyed sewing and...
Patricia Spencer
Mar 8, 2017
PLEASE NOTE: DUE TO THE WEATHER FORECAST, THE FUNERAL MASS FOR MRS. SPENCER WILL BE POSTPONED TO 10:00 AM WEDNESDAY, MARCH 15, 2017, AT ST. FRANCES CABRINI CHURCH. Patricia Ann (Regan) Spencer, beloved wife of Robert Joseph Spencer of sixty-one years, loving mother, grandmother, sister, aunt, teacher and cherished friend to so many, passed away peacefully on Wednesday evening,...
Dorothy Gaglia
Mar 3, 2017
Dorothy J. Gaglia, 84, died Friday, March 3, 2017, at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, New Brunswick. Born May 21, 1932, in her family home on Second Street, Bound Brook, she was the daughter of Rudolph and Mary Mikovitz Klutsarits. She was a lifelong borough resident. She graduated Bound Brook High School, Class of 1949. Dorothy was a secretary...
Cecilia Newton
Feb 26, 2017
Cecilia [Cappuccino] Newton, 94, beloved wife of the late Wilbur J. Newton of Bound Brook, died peacefully on Sunday, February 26, 2017. She was born March 25, 1922, in Harrison, to S. James and Ida [Belmont] Cappuccino. United in marriage to Wilbur on July 6, 1946, they shared almost sixty-five years together until his death in June 2011. Cecilia...
Bryant Oxenham
Feb 25, 2017
Bryant Peter Oxenham, 28, died Saturday, February 25, 2017, in Irvington. Born February 27, 1988, in New Brunswick, he was the son of Peter E. and Barbara Foldhazy Oxenham. He was a lifelong Somerset resident. As a child, he had played Little League baseball and was a Cub Scout. A graduate of Franklin High School, Class of 2006, he...
Madolin Sara
Feb 24, 2017
Madolin L. Sara, 92, died Friday, February 24, 2017, at home. Born October 21, 1924, in Waterbury, Connecticut, she was the daughter of Harold P. and Madolin Cooper Hotchkiss. She had resided in Bound Brook for seventy-two years. Madolin was a registered nurse, having graduated from the nursing school associated with the former Somerset Medical Center, Somerville. She worked...
Josephine Patullo
Feb 20, 2017
Josephine M. Patullo, 92, died Monday, February 20, 2017, at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital - Somerset, Somerville. Born March 28, 1924, in Trenton, she was the daughter of Frank and Angelina Offredo Tallone. She had resided in Bound Brook for seventy-one years. Josephine was the Guidance Office Secretary at Bound Brook High School for twenty-three years, retiring in...
Wira Jaroszenko
Feb 14, 2017
Wira Jaroszenko, 93, of St. Pete Beach, Florida, died Tuesday, February 14, 2017, at Palms of Pasadena Hospital, St. Petersburg, Florida. Wira was born September 17, 1923, in Kiev, Ukraine, and emigrated to the United States. She was a homemaker, devoted to her husband, who predeceased her. Wira is survived by her dear friend, Anna Samusenko of St. Pete...
David Yuchnovitz
Feb 7, 2017
David Allen Yuchnovitz, 22, passed away surrounded by his family on February 7, 2017. He was loved and cared for at home. What he enjoyed most was watching Phineas and Ferb, hanging out with Dad, his sister Angie fussing over him and getting Mommy's attention. He loved the seventeen years he spent attending Lake View School in Edison. From...
Ruth Schraeder
Feb 6, 2017
Ruth A Schraeder, 88, died Monday, February 6th, 2017. Born June 15th, 1928, in Swoyersville, PA, she was the daughter of Stanley and Nellie Maholick, and had resided in South Bound Brook since 1961. Mrs. Schraeder worked as a Quality Control Specialist for Continental Can at their Piscataway facility and was a Communicant of Our Lady of Mercy Church,...
George Helmstetter
Feb 6, 2017
George N. Helmstetter, 83, died Monday February 6, 2017, at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital - Somerset. Born in Newark, he was the son of Nicholas and Albertina E. (Reissner) Helmstetter. George grew up in Irvington and Maryland, before moving to Franklin Township in 1947. He was a graduate of St. Peter’s High School, class of 1951. He built...
Nina Iwaszczenko
Feb 2, 2017
Nina Doroshenko Iwaszczenko, 62, died Thursday, Feb 2, 2017, at John Theurer Cancer Center, Hackensack. Born July 21, 1954, in Elizabeth, she was the daughter of Wasyl and Alexandra Doroshenko. She resided in Barnegat since 1990. She was employed by Jackson Township Memorial High School. She had attended Trenton State University, and received her Master's Degree at Georgian Court...
Clara Sgro
Feb 1, 2017
Clara Parolise Sgro, 88, died Wednesday, February 1, 2017, at the New Jersey Eastern Star Home, Bridgewater. Born March 30, 1928, in Brooklyn, New York, she was the daughter of Angelo and Mary Chiola. She was a lifelong resident of South Bound Brook. Clara was a homemaker devoted to her family. She was a loving mother, grandmother, and great-grandmother....
