Local obituaries for Hagan-Chamberlain Funeral Home

Thomas Costabile
Feb 10, 2018
Thomas Costabile, 96, died Saturday, February 10, 2018, at Parker - McCarrick Care Center, Somerset. Born in Bound Brook, he was the son of Antonio and Carmela (Romano) Costabile. He lived in Bound Brook for eighty-three years, moving to Piscataway where he lived for five years before moving to the care center. He graduated from Bound Brook High School...

Emidio Griguoli
Feb 9, 2018
Emidio Griguoli, 82, died at his home on Friday, February 9, 2018. Born in Travento, Italy, he came to the United States in 1963. Mr. Griguoli lived in Middlesex since 1976. He was employed at The United States Department of Veterans Affairs Hospital in Lyons, as a barber, for twenty-eight years, retiring in 2001. He was a communicant of...

Eileen Koehler
Feb 2, 2018
Eileen B. Koehler, 90, died Friday, February 2, 2018, at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital -Somerville. Eileen was born in Carteret, the daughter of the late George and Anne (Homall) Bensulock. She graduated from Carteret High School in 1944, and Berkeley Secretarial School in New York City. Eileen moved to Bound Brook in 1959, and made it her home....

Anita Cimon
Jan 23, 2018
Anita Cimon, 87, passed away Tuesday, January 23, 2018, at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital - Somerset. Born in Brunswick, Maine, she was the daughter of Ludger and Eva Marquis. Anita moved to South Bound Brook in 1963, where she raised her family. She was a member of the South Bound Brook Senior Club and a communicant of Our...

Charles Tomaro
Jan 14, 2018
Charles Tomaro, “Yut,” 94, died, Sunday, January 14, 2018, at Genesis Health Care, Bridgewater. Born in Bridgewater, he was the son of Joseph and Carmella (Pulsinelli) Tomaro. He was a lifelong Bound Brook Resident. He was a World War II Navy veteran. He worked for forty years at Union Carbide Corporation in Bound Brook before retiring in 1983. After...

William Lore
Jan 11, 2018
William J. Lore, 85 years old, passed away Thursday, January 11, 2018, at his home in Bound Brook. He was born in Plymouth, Pennsylvania, on June 29, 1932, the son of John and Anna (Logue) Lore. He graduated Bound Brook High School in 1950, and Rutgers University in 1963. He worked as chief of Labor Relations for the Internal...

Sidonie Lepochat
Jan 8, 2018
Sidonie Marie LePochat, 96, passed away peacefully on Monday, January 8, 2018, surrounded by family. Sidonie was born on November 19, 1921, in Glomel, France, one of five children born to Yves and Francoise Roule. She grew up in Brittany and endured the occupation before marrying Francois LePochat and immigrating to the United States. The LePochats crossed the Atlantic...

Calleigh Eaton
Jan 4, 2018
Calleigh Eaton, 16 months, passed away Thursday, January 4, 2018, at her family’s home in South Bound Brook. Calleigh was born three months early at St. Peter’s University Hospital in New Brunswick . She was in the Neonatal Intesive Care Unit for ten weeks, fighting the entire time. Despite being a preemie, Calleigh was flourishing and hitting all her...

Wasyl Laszeniuk
Jan 2, 2018
Wasyl Laszeniuk, 90, died Tuesday, January 2, 2018, at his home in Somerset. Born in Ukraine, he was the son of Petro and Ksenia Laszeniuk. Wasyl was a supervisor at Reichhold Chemical in Elizabeth for thirty-eight years before retiring in 1989. Wasyl was predeceased by his daughter, Oksana Zemlachenko in 2016. He is survived by his loving wife of...

Thomas Barile
Jan 1, 2018
Thomas W. Barile of Chadwick Beach, passed away in his home on January 1, 2018, at the age of 71. Tom graduated from Bound Brook High School in Bound Brook, serving as his Class President in 1964, and subsequently received his Bachelor’s Degree from Gettysburg College in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. He maintained relationships with numerous classmates through regular class reunions....

Ludwena Leonard
Dec 30, 2017
Devoted mother and cherished aunt Ludwena “Lou” Leonard (nee Dobrucki), 84, of South Bound Brook, passed away on Saturday, December 30, 2017, surrounded by her family. Born in 1933 she was the daughter of her wonderful parents Michael and Mary Hrynchak Dobrucki. Ludwena, known as “Lou,” was born in Linden. After graduating from Linden High School in 1951, she...

Wilson Sumbana
Dec 26, 2017
Wilson Alfredo Sumbana, 57, died Tuesday, December 26, 2017. Visitation will be, 9:00 - 10:45 A.M. Saturday, December 30, 2017, at the funeral home, followed by a 12:00 Noon Mass of Chrisian Burial at St. Joseph Roman Catholic Church, Bound Brook. Cremation is private.

Giuliano Rizzon
Dec 26, 2017
Giuliano J. Rizzon, 86, died Tuesday, December 26, 2017, at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital - Somerset. Born October 24, 1931, in the Bronx, New York, he was the son of Peter and Gilda Ganzer Rizzon. He lived in Somerset for fourteen years, then Watchung for twenty-seven years, before moving to Bridgewater in 1999. He was a United States...

Louise Berk
Dec 17, 2017
Louise Berk, 84, died Sunday, December 17, 2017, at her home in South Bound Brook. Born in Bound Brook, she was the daughter of Fred and Mildred (Van Buskirk) Wall. Louise was a lifelong resident of South Bound Brook, and a graduate of Bound Brook High School. She worked for many years as a file clerk for John Wiley...

Douglass S. Davidson, Jr.
Dec 14, 2017
Douglass S. Davidson, Jr., 69, died Thursday, December 14, 2017, at his home in Milford. Born in New Haven, Connecticut, he was the son of Douglass S. Davidson, Sr., and Marie Jean (Rohack). Douglass was a graduate of Ansonia High School, Waterbury Technical Institute, the University of Hartford, where he received his Bachelor of Science Degree in Chemistry, and...