OBITUARIES

Feb 12, 2018

Zay Kennon Risinger, 89, died at his home on Monday surrounded by his family. He had been a resident of Hopewell Township for the past 48 years. Born May 16, 1928 in Nacogdoches, Texas he moved with his family to Maplewood NJ in 1938, where he graduated from Columbia High School in 1945. Mr. Risinger attended New York University, graduating...

Jan 29, 2018

Jan 27, 2018

Justin Kunz, 35, of Hamilton passed away Saturday, January 27, 2018. Born in Trenton, NJ, he was a lifelong area resident. Justin was a graduate of Lawrence High School (Class of 2000) and Mercer County Vocational School. He is survived by his two children whom he adored, Justin Kunz and Alex Volante; his loving mother and step father, Linda and...

Jan 23, 2018

Kathleen McIlvaine, 72 of Pennington New Jersey, died peacefully on January 23, 2018 at University of Pennsylvania Hospital after a courageous battle with cancer. For 46 years Kathleen lived in Pennington, where she was an active member of the community she loved. She has been a member of St. James Catholic Church since 1972 and the church’s Lazarus Group. Kathleen...

Jan 18, 2018

Elizabeth A. “Liz” Bund, 60, of Hamilton passed away Thursday, January 18, 2018 at Compassionate Care Hospice of Hamilton, with her loving family by her side. Born in Perth Amboy, she resided in South River, East Brunswick and Florida, and for the past two years she has resided in Hamilton. Liz was employed with Pep Boys in East Brunswick for...

Jan 13, 2018

Donald John France died at home January 13, from Parkinson's Disease with dementia. Born in 1938, he grew up in Erie Pa, where he was raised by loving foster parents Arthur and Josephine Taylor. The Taylors instilled in him a lifelong love of nature and music. In high school he enjoyed playing both the clarinet and the saxophone, and played...

Dec 23, 2017

Sylvia Satteson Hunt, 85, joined God's choir of angels on December 23rd surrounded by her loving family. A resident of Hopewell Township for 57 years, Sylvia and her husband, Bob, recently moved to the independent living community at Twining Village in Holland, PA. A Music Education graduate of West Chester State Teachers College, Sylvia retired after over 30 years as...

Dec 22, 2017

Lorraine Samu, 53 passed away peacefully at her home on Friday, December 22, 2017 while surrounded by her loving family. Lorraine was born in Boston, Massachusetts then relocated to Yardville, New Jersey where she met her soul mate, Kenneth. They married and had two beautiful daughters. She is survived by her husband of 36 years, Kenneth Samu. A daughter and...

Dec 14, 2017

Martha Bragg Newman, 95 passed away peacefully Thursday, December 14, 2017 while residing in Brandywine Living at Pennington. For the few weeks preceding her death, Martha had been under the tender care of the staff at Brandywine and Princeton Hospice. Martha was born in Moulton, Alabama and resided in Alabama until her marriage when she moved to Richmond, Virginia. In...

Dec 11, 2017

Katherine Mary McManus Fellows, affectionately known as Kitty, passed away on Monday (Dec. 11) Kitty was born in New York City in October 1923 to John McManus and Catherine Nolan McManus. She married George Fellows in April 1947 and they moved to Bergenfield, NJ, where they raised their five children. After George’s death in 1977, Kitty continued to live in...

Dec 9, 2017

Theodore A. Pierson III, 96, passed away on December 9, 2017 in Princeton, NJ after a short illness. Ted was born on August 4, 1921 in Hamilton Township, NJ, the son of Theodore A. Pierson Jr. and Marion Eagle. He was raised in Hopewell, NJ with his sister Joyce (Selbie). Following High School in Pennington, he earned his aircraft mechanics...

Dec 6, 2017

Sarah Agnus Wylie, 89, passed away peacefully in her home on the morning of December 6, 2017.  At the age of twenty one she and her husband Hugh (Sammy) emigrated from Ballymena, Northern Ireland to America. They settled in Hopewell Township where she lived for sixty eight years.   She worked at Hill’s Market in Princeton as a bookkeeper for nearly...

Dec 6, 2017

Robert J. Kady of Titusville, NJ, passed away December 6, 2017 at the age of 80. He is survived by his wife, Barbara Lisnay Kady, and two daughters, Lisa Wolfe and her husband Eric of Leesburg, VA, and Jennifer Singleton and her husband Robert of Acton, MA, as well as their three children, Keira Sullivan, Charles Sullivan III, and Amanda...

Nov 18, 2017

Anna Maria Di Cocco passed away quietly on the 18th of November at Capital Health Regional Medical Center in Trenton, New Jersey, after a short illness. She is survived by her children, Marie Luise, Ricardo (Lt Col, AF-Ret), Catarina, Marc (Lt Col, AF-Ret), and Christina. She also leaves ten grandchildren and two great-grandchildren, as well as her brother, Hans Bopp,...

Nov 16, 2017

Erich R. Morgano, 53 of Hamilton entered into God’s care Thursday (November 16th) surrounded by his loving family. Born in Trenton, he was a lifelong area resident. Erich was a Supervisor with the State of New Jersey for over 30 years. He was also a life member Firefighter/EMT with the Groveville Fire Department and a member of the Trenton Ancient...

Nov 7, 2017

Robert R. Jamieson, 91 died on Tuesday at Brandywine Assisted Living. He was born in Trenton and had been a resident of Pennington since 1953. Husband of the late Lorraine P. Jamieson, he is survived by a daughter, Wendy J. Jamieson her husband Gero Lisec of Lincoln, MA and three sons; Barry K Jamieson and his wife Mary Lou of...

Oct 30, 2017

Dorothy Higgins Baran, 92, of Pennington died at RWJ Hamilton on Monday. She was born in Flemington and had been a resident of Pennington for 60 years before moving to Hamilton three years ago. Dorothy was best known by the residents of Hopewell Township as “The Wreath Lady of Harbourton” because of the beautiful Christmas wreaths she made for 55years....

Oct 15, 2017

Timothy K. Strong, of Titusville, New Jersey, passed away at age 58 on October 15, 2017 with his entire loving family at his bedside. He grew up in Titusville, graduating from Hopewell Valley Central High School in 1977. He received a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Trenton State College in 1984. For the past 25 years he was employed by...

Sep 22, 2017

Annabelle Margaret Tomlinson, 86, of Pennington passed away on Friday, Sept. 22 at R.W.J. Hamilton. She was born in Lawrenceville and had been a resident of the Pennington area all of her life. She graduated from Central High School of Hopewell Township , Class of 1948. She was the owner and operator of Annabelle’s Dried Flowers for over 20 years...

Sep 13, 2017

Douglass Sterling Darrow, age 57, of Belle Mead, New Jersey, passed away on September 13, 2017 at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in New Brunswick from complications associated with cancer. Doug was born on August 31, 1960 in Hammond, IN to David Sterling Darrow and Margaret Douglass Darrow and grew up in Munster, IN, Allentown, PA, and Newtown, CT. A...