Local obituaries for Hagan-Chamberlain Funeral Home
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...
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...
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,...
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....
Constance Donato
Jan 29, 2017
Constance Boyle Donato, 72, died peacefully at home on Sunday, January 29, 2017, surrounded by the family she loved. Born August 2, 1944, in Somerville, she was the daughter of James and Doris Stevens Boyle. She resided in Bridgewater most of her life. Connie, as she preferred to be called, attended the Fashion Institute of Technology, New York, and...
Angelina Ehid
Jan 27, 2017
Angelina Mary Ehid, 94, died Friday, January 27, 2017, at St. Peter’s University Hospital, New Brunswick. Born in Manhattan, she was the daughter of Salvatore and Anna (Messina) Buccellato. Angelina was a resident of Somerset from 1957 to 1999, before moving to Middlesex. She worked as a cashier in the Sampson G. Smith Middle School in Somerset for twenty-six...
Stella Baluta
Jan 17, 2017
Stella Baluta, 91, died Monday, January 16, 2017, at Tidewell Hospice in Bradenton, Florida. Born in Wilkes Barre, Pennsylvania, she was the daughter of Blasic and Stella [Kucinski] Blados of Poland. Stella lived most of her life in Bound Brook. She was a supervisor for Borroughs Electronics Corporation in Warren for over twenty-five years before retiring to Florida fifteen...
Assunta Balsano
Jan 13, 2017
Assunta Balsano, 82, died Friday, January 13, 2017, at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital-Somerset. Born in San Donato di Ninea, Italy, she was the daughter of Giovanni and Rosina [Todaro] Caruso. She emigrated to the United States in 1980 with her husband, Giuseppe, and became a citizen July 4, 1986, during the grand reopening ceremony of the Statue of...
Helen Yenchek
Jan 8, 2017
Helen Anne Yenchek Helen Anne Yenchek, 93, passed into eternal life on Sunday January 8, 2017 at Arbor Glen, Bridgewater. Born August 17, 1923, in Plymouth, Pennsylvania, she was the daughter of Walter and Mary Straub Gondek. She lived Pennsylvania before moving to Bound Brook sixty-three years ago. She was employed for thirty years by the Bound Brook School...
Julius Kovacs
Jan 6, 2017
Julius “Jack” Kovacs, 82, died Friday, January 6, 2016, at Hunterdon Care Center, Flemington. Born December 1, 1934, in New Brunswick, he was the son of Julius A. and Emma Schuster Kovacs. He moved to Shinhopple, New York, in 1978, and South Bound Brook in 1998. He was a United States Navy veteran of the Korean War, serving aboard...
