All Obituaries

Mr. Francis J. Nicholas, 80, died Sunday, September 15, 2019 in his home, surrounded by the love of his family. Family and friends are invited to the visitation to be held in the Holy Family R.C. Church, 210 Monroe Street in Linden on Saturday, September 21st. from 10:00 to 11:00AM.  At the conclusion of the visitation, Father Mariusz Luksza will celebrate the funeral mass in church at 11:00AM.  In respect of Mr. Nicholas’s wishes, he will be privately cremated in...

Mr. Joseph C. “Cinne” Jean, 79, died Thursday, September 5, 2019 in the home he shared with his daughter, Sandy Jean and her family, in Roselle, New Jersey. Family and friends are invited to the Council Evangelical Apostolic Church of God, 67 Prince Street, Elizabeth on Saturday, September 14th. where the visitation will be held from 9:00-10:00AM, followed immediately by the funeral prayer service offered by the Dr. Carl Joseph, at 10:00AM.  The prayers of committal will...

Ms. June A. Starkey Long, 85, died Saturday, September 7, 2019 in the Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in New Brunswick, New Jersey. June, the daughter of the late Florence Tanner Starkey and the late Bennie Starkey, was born in Geneva, Ohio and she has resided in South Plainfield, New Jersey for the past fifty years. June was employed by Mattel in South Plainfield, New Jersey, as a shipping clerk from 1970 to 1985.  She then went to work as an office manager for Watkins Motor...

Mrs. Aleksandra Marczak Dytko, 95, died Sunday, September 1, 2019 in the Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital at Rahway, New Jersey. Family and friends are invited to the visitation in the Kowalski Funeral Home, 515 Roselle Street, Linden on Wednesday, September 4th. from 5:00-8:00PM.  On Thursday, September 5th., from 8:15-8:45AM everyone will gather in the funeral home where a prayer service will be held at 8:45AM, followed by the funeral mass to be offered in St. Hedwig’s...

Mrs. Bounhieng Thongdara Saychaleune, 86, died Thursday, August 29, 2019 in the Coney Island Hospital in Brooklyn, New York, surrounded by the love of her family. On Saturday, August 31st. from 9:30AM to 9:40AM, family and friends will gather in the parking lot of the Kowalski Funeral Home, 515 Roselle Street, Linden, NJ.  We will then go in procession format to Rosehill Cemetery in Linden, NJ, where a graveside service will be offered at 10:00AM by her Pastor from the Brooklyn...

Mrs. Mary H. Kropaczek Zawislak, 92, died Sunday, August 18, 2019 in her home surrounded by her loving family. Family and friends are invited to the visitation in the Kowalski Funeral Home, 515 Roselle Street, Linden on Sunday, August 25th. from 5:00-8:00PM.  On Monday, August 26th. from 10:30-11:00AM everyone will gather in the funeral home where a prayer service will be offered by Reverend Bryan Wolf at 11:00AM.  Reverend Wolf will also say the prayers of committal preceding her...

Mr. Filip Babiuk, 25, died suddenly on Sunday, August 18, 2019 in his home. Family and friends are invited to the visitation in the Kowalski Funeral Home, 515 Roselle Street, Linden on Thursday, August 22nd. from 6:00-9:00PM.  On Friday, August 23rd. from 9:45-10:00AM everyone will gather directly at St. Theresa of the Child Jesus R.C. Church, Linden, where a funeral mass will be offered at 10:00AM.  The prayers of committal will precede his burial in the family plot in Mt....

Mr. Paul A. Sturm, 62, died suddenly on Friday, August 23, 2019. Paul, the son of the late Eleanor Dietzel Sturm and the late Werner Sturm, was born in Newark, New Jersey.  He resided in South Plainfield, New Jersey before settling in Warren, New Jersey twenty-five years ago. Paul was employed by the South Plainfield Board of Education as a music teacher working and teaching children in the middle school for twenty-years prior to his retirement in 2006. He was a member of the...

Mr. Richard A. Drewa, 80, died Sunday, August 18, 2019 at the John F. Kennedy Medical Center in Edison, New Jersey.  Family and friends are invited to the visitation in the Kowalski Funeral Home, 515 Roselle Street, Linden on Wednesday, August 21st. from 5:00-8:00PM.  On Thursday, August 22nd., from 8:30-9:00AM everyone will gather in the funeral home where a prayer service will be held at 9:00AM, followed by the funeral mass to be offered in the St. Theresa of the Child Jesus...

Mrs. Theresa J. Gergich Palay, 85, died Wednesday, August 14, 2019 in her home, surrounded by the love & prayers of her family. Family and friends are invited to the visitation in the Kowalski Funeral Home, 515 Roselle Street, Linden on Sunday, August 18th. from 2:00-6:00PM.  On Monday, August 19th., from 8:30-9:00AM everyone will gather in the funeral home where a prayer service will be held at 9:00AM, followed by the funeral mass to be offered in the St. Theresa of the Child...