Local obituaries for Hagan-Chamberlain Funeral Home
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....
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...
George Fedoriw, M.D., P.E.
Jan 2, 2017
George W. Fedoriw, M.D., P.E., 74, died Monday, January 2, 2017, at CentraState Medical Center, Freehold, after a long illness. Born July 23, 1942, in Nazi occupied Zaporozhya, Ukraine, he was the son of Wasyl and Alexandra Shiglowa Fedoriw. He survived the Nazi labor camp in Stuttgart, Germany, 1943 - 1945, and the displaced persons camp in Nue Ulm,...
Barry Dattel
Dec 31, 2016
Barry Scott Dattel, 58, died suddenly at the Lily Yip Table Tennis Center, Dunellen, on Saturday, December 31, 2016. Born November 29, 1958, in the Bronx, New York, he was the son of Benjamin Dattel and Elayne Mohr. He earned his bachelor's degree from Kean University. He had resided in Warren since 1997. Barry was a director and owner...
Raymond Conner
Dec 28, 2016
Raymond W. Conner, 72, died Wednesday, December 28, 2016, at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital - Somerset, Somerville. Born February 11, 1944, in New Brunswick, he had resided in Bound Brook since 1982. Raymond had been a traffic safety worker for Somerset County for twenty-five years, retiring in 2007. He then was a bus driver for county Head Start...
Catherine Pellicane
Dec 26, 2016
Catherine M. Pellicane, 87, died Monday, December 26, 2016, at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital - Somerset. Born July 24, 1929, in Raritan, she graduated from Somerville High School, Class of 1947. She had resided in Bound Brook since 1952. Catherine retired in 1996 as a supervisor at Verizon Communications, Inc., Dunellen, after thirty years with the company. She...
Bill Plescia
Dec 15, 2016
Bill Plescia, 92, died Thursday, December 15, 2016, at home. Born September 7, 1924, in Rahway, he was the son of Frank and Anita Plescia. He had resided in Somerset since 1961. He was employed by Elizabethtown Gas Company from 1955 until his retirement in 1990, as Inspector. He was a very active Communicant of Our Lady of Mercy...
