Obituaries

Jun 10, 2019

William T. Peoples, age 61, of Toms River died on Monday, June 10, 2019 at Community Medical Center, Toms River. Born in Red Bank, he lived in Wall Township for many years before moving to Toms River in 1985. Mr. Peoples was a site inspector for FEMA for the past ten years. He enjoyed gardening, and was an avid NY...

Jun 7, 2019

ROBERT "Bob" HOLMES, age 75 of Whiting, passed away on Friday, June 7, 2019 at home. Born in Bayshore, NY, he lived in Brooklyn and Long Island most of his life before moving to Whiting, New Jersey in 2007. Bob worked for Xerox in New York City as a fax machine repairman for many years. He was a school bus...

Jun 7, 2019

James F. O'Neill, 79, of Whiting, passed away Friday, June 7, 2019 at Deborah Heart and Lung Center in Browns Mills, NJ. Born in Philadelphia, PA, he lived in Upper Darby, PA and South Toms River, NJ before moving to Whiting in 1976. James was an exterminator for Terminix in Philadelphia, PA and Toms River, NJ for 18 years, and...

May 14, 2019

Thomas A. Hebert Sr., age 59, of Forked River, passed away peacefully at home after a long, brave battle with canceron Tuesday, May 14, 2019. Tom was the head custodian for the Brick Township Board of Education for 25 years, retiring in 2015, and was a member of the Forked River Baptist Church. Predeceased by his parents, Henry and Florence...

May 7, 2019

Eileen Callaghan, 81, of Whiting, NJ, passed away peacefully at home on Tuesday, May 7, 2019. Eileen was born in Brooklyn, NY on November 8, 1937 to Agnes and John Kelly. After completing high school, Eileen continued her education at Hunter College to fulfill her life-long dream of becoming a nurse. She worked at St. Vincent's Hospital in New York...

May 6, 2019

Jozefa Hawryluk, 97, of Whiting, passed away on May 6th at Crestwood Manor in Whiting. Born in Poland in March 1922 to Franciszek and Malgorzata Wildhirt, she grew up on a farm and was second youngest of 13 children. In 1949, having moved to England after World War II, Jozefa responded to a newspaper ad for a wife in a...

Apr 30, 2019

Edward Peter Jensen Jr., 86, of Whiting, passed away Tuesday, April 30, 2019. Edward was born and raised in Rahway, NJ. He and his wife, Florence moved to Whiting in 1996. He was a U.S. Army Veteran of the Korean War and a communicant of St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Church in Whiting. Edward loved to chat and fish. He was...

Apr 28, 2019

Warren Torstrup, 82, of Whiting, passed away Sunday, April 28, 2019 at Somerset Woods, in Somerset, NJ. He was born in Brooklyn, NY. Warren was predeceased by his wife, Joan in 2006, his son James in 2010 and his brother, John. He is survived by one daughter, Loraine Goetsch; two sons, Robert and his wife, Dawn and Michael; 11 grandchildren...

Apr 22, 2019

Apr 15, 2019

Rebekka Joy Bailey, age 30, of Runnemede, passed away on Monday, April 15, 2019 at home. Born in Ft. Lauderdale, FL, she resided in New Jersey for most of her life. Rebekka worked for Pinnacle Treatment Centers in Mt. Laurel, and was a manager at a Sober Living Home for Women in Lindenwold. She truly lived to help others in...

Apr 7, 2019

Barbara Lois Fogarty, 77, of Whiting, NJ, passed away Sunday, April 7, 2019 at her daughter's home in Riverview, FL. Barbara was born June 28, 1941 in Elizabeth, NJ to Ruth and Michael Martino. She graduated from Linden High School and enjoyed trips to the Jersey Shore. On one of those trips, she met and then married James J. Fogarty...

Apr 5, 2019

Rose Russo (Garbooshian) Jankowsky of Whiting, passed away Friday, April 5, 2019. Born in Syracuse, NY and formerly of Newark, NJ. Her hobbies included sewing and reading and she was an avid walker who enjoyed her daily walks in her Crestwood Village neighborhood. She also loved her family and enjoyed preparing holiday meals for them making the best meatballs ever....

Mar 31, 2019

Wendy Wynn Ortel Giga, aged 70, of Beachwood, NJ died peacefully in her sleep on March 31st. A graduate of Toms River High School South, she attended Culver Stockton College in Canton, Missouri. She loved singing, and performed in school musicals as well as in her church choir. In her early twenties, Wendy volunteered in a number of fundraisers for...

Mar 26, 2019

Patricia M. Rose, 83, of Whiting, passed away on Tuesday, March 26, 2019 at Southern Ocean County Medical Center in Manahawkin.She was born in the Bronx, NY to John and Alice McDonald. Patricia was a wonderful storyteller and an adventurous soul. She grew up in Jersey City, NJ where she met her husband, George. Together, they loved traveling the world....

Mar 17, 2019

Donald Koos passed away on Sunday, March 17, 2019. He was born on July 31, 1922 in Babylon, L.I., NY. For the last 26 years he's been a resident of Whiting, NJ. Donald served with the 29th Division in World War II as a Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He saw action on Normandy Beach and was wounded. He was...

Mar 14, 2019

Mary J. Bennett, 97, of Whiting, passed away Thursday, March 14, 2019 at her home. Mary was born in Bryn Mawr, PA and lived in Middletown, NJ before moving to Whiting in 1976. She was a cashier at Great Adventure in Jackson for 25 seasons retiring in 1986 at the age of 85. She was a communicant of St. Elizabeth...

Mar 1, 2019

Rochelle Farrington, 76, of Whiting, passed away Friday, March 1, 2019 at the University Medical Center of Princeton in Plainsboro Twp., NJ. She was born in New York City, NY and lived in Eatontown and Ewing before moving to Whiting 19 years ago. Rochelle was a phonograph needle assembler for people with disabilities. She was an animal lover and a...

Feb 27, 2019

Dolores E. Cerchio, age 95, passed away on Wednesday, February 27, 2019 at Tallwoods Care Center in Bayville. Born in North Bergen, she lived inJersey City, Lodi, Toms River, NJ, Deerfield Beach, Florida before returning to New Jersey. Dolores worked for Western Electric during WW2 and later was asales associate for Macys Toms River and Lord Taylor in Boca Raton,...

Feb 16, 2019

Lucille M. Fraser, 88, of Toms River, passed away Saturday, February 16, 2019 at Spring Oak of Toms River. She was born in Staten Island, NY and lived in Fort Lee before moving to Whiting in 1999. She has lived in Toms River for the past 6 years. Lucille was a secretary for the City of New York in the...

Feb 12, 2019

Josephine (Joanne) Sabatini, nee Pezze, lived a long, full, creative life. She was born in Manhattan, on the edge of Harlem on March 19, 1923, St. Joseph's Day. The middle child in a family of eight, her Mother, Theresa Souzi, and her father, Rocco Pezze, had immigrated to the United States early in the century. Rocco had jobs as a...