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ASBURY PARK PRESS I FRID AY, NOV. 8, 2002 OBITUARIES Additional obituaries A21 Samuel Jr. of Middlesex, and Michael and Robert, both of Toms River; and six grandchildren, Robert, Nichole, Gianna, Noelle, Natalie and Anthony. Visiting will be from 2 to 4 p.m. and 7 to 9 p.m.

today at the Silverton Memorial Funeral Home, 2482 Church Road, Toms River. A funeral will be held Saturday; arrive at the funeral home at 8:15 a.m. A Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated 10:30 a.m. at St. Francis Roman Catholic Church, Newark.

Interment will be in Mount Olivet Cemetery, Bloomfield. In lieu of flowers, donations to the Van Dyke Hospice, 99 Route 37 Toms River, NJ 08755 would be appreciated. MIDDLESEX JOSEPHINE EDZEK HAKALSKI, 82, of Scotch Plains, formerly of Concordia, MONROE TOWNSHIP, died Tuesday at Ashbrook Nursing Home, Scotch Plains. She was an inventory control clerk for Supermarkets Services Linden for 25 years, retiring in 1985. She was a former member of the Concordia Chapter of the Deborah Hospital Foundation, and was an avid bowler.

She was a member of Nativity of Our Lord Roman Catholic Church, Monroe Township. Born in Linden, she lived in Rahway for 35 years, Concordia in Monroe Township for 14 years and recently moved to Scotch Plains. Her husband, Mitchell, died in 1999. Surviving are two daughters, Arlene Santangelo of Rahway, and Bonita "Bonnie" Clancy of Clarksburg; five grandchildren, Michael, Justin, and and Samantha Brandon Santangelo, and Tyler Clancy; a great-granddaughter, Antonia Santangelo. A funeral Liturgy will be offered 10:30 a.m.

Saturday at Nativity of Our Lord Church, Monroe Township. Interment will follow in Holy Cross Burial Park, South Brunswick. There are no calling hours. Memorial contributions may be made to the Alzheimer's Foundation. The M.

David DeMarco Funeral Home, Monroe Township, is in charge of arrangements. IRENE F. RUDY MAROZINE. 78, of EAST BRUNSWICK, died Wednesday at home. Prior to retiring in 1978, she was a cashier at Rickel's, East Brunswick, where she worked for 10 years.

She was a communicant of St. Thomas the Apostle Roman Catholic Church, Old Bridge, enjoyed puzzles and was an avid reader. Born in Sayreville, she lived in South River before moving to East Brunswick 53 years ago. She was predeceased by her husband, John, in 1996; and a sister, Florence Scassera. Surviving are two daughters, Kathleen Rimberg and her companion, John of South Amboy, and Nancy Simons and her husband, 4-day reading of names marks Vietnam memorial's 20th year nam Veterans Memorial has helped heal a war-torn nation and inspire tributes to other victims of tragedy.

The 58,229 names of those killed or missing in the war from 1959 to 1975 all inscribed in black granite are being read aloud over four days to help mark the memorial's 20th anniversary. Michael Milan's uncle, Army Pvt. George W. Milan of Atlantic City, is among all those names. His name should be read sometime this weekend.

Pvt. Milan was 22 when he was killed. His death came before his nephew was born. The wall bearing his name went up when the younger Milan was only 9. Still, Michael feels a connection to his uncle and the service he gave his country.

"He's the reason I went into the Army," said Michael, a specialist from Evansville, as he used charcoal to rub his uncle's name onto paper in the blustery hours yesterday before the name-reading began. "This memorial makes it permanent, what they went through," Milan said. "As long as this wall is here, people know what these soldiers fought for. They will know what they died for." The recitation of names is A20 OCEAN Forked River, LACEY, and a longtime resident of Wall, died Wednesday at home. He retired in duce 1992 clerk after at 17 the years as Foodtown a pro- of Sea Girt.

He was a World War II Army veteran, serving in the infantry on the front lines in Europe. He was a 1944 graduate of Asbury Park High School and a coach for Wall Pop Warner football. He was a devoted father and grandfather. Born and raised in Avon, he lived in Neptune for years before moving to Wall 33 years ago. He was predeceased by his wife, Nanette, in 1996.

Surviving are a daughter and son-in-law, Barbara and George Bailey of Forked River; a son and daughter-in-law, Peter and Tina Holmes of Norton, a brother and sister-in-law, Jim and Doris Holmes of Brick; a sister, Helen Powell of Stuart, a half-brother, Ross Holmes of Spartanburg, S.C.; a sister inlaw, Irene Guarino of Spring Lake Heights; five grandchildren, Brian, Ellen, Andrew, Vincent and Alexa; and many nieces and nephews. Visiting hours will be from 2 to 4 p.m. and 7 to 9 p.m. today at the O'Brien Funeral Home, Highway 35 at New Bedford Road, Wall. All other services will be private at the request of the family.

In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to a veterans hospital of your choice; the New Jersey Home for Disabled Soldiers, 132 Evergreen Road, Edison, NJ 08818; or the American Cancer Society, 801 Broad Shrewsbury, NJ 07702. JOHN R. HOLMES, 75, Wednesday at Shorrock Gardens Nursing Home, Brick. She was a member of the Grace Evangelical Church, Seaside Heights and the Christian Children Association. Born in Plainfield, she lived there before moving to Seaside Heights in 1957.

She was predeceased by her husband, Hervey in 1971. Surviving are two sons, Hervey J. and Alan both of Toms River; and five grandchildren. A funeral service will be held 11 a.m. Saturday at the Grace Evangelical Church, Seaside Heights.

Committal will be private. Condolences may be sent to www.ryanfuneralhome.com. Timothy E. Ryan Home for Funerals, Seaside Park, is in charge of arrangements. MARY J.

MOBUS. 88, of SEASIDE HEIGHTS, died JOHN E. PHAIR, 72, of SOUTH TOMS RIVER, died yesterday at Community Medical Center, Toms River. He was employed as a sheriff's officer for 20 years with the Bergen County Sheriff's Department, Hackensack, retiring in 1991. He was a member of the Elks Lodge 1875, Toms River and an exempt fireman and member of the Palisades Park Fire Department for THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON The Viet- over 40 years.

Born in New York City, he lived in Palisades Park before moving to South Toms River 11 years ago. Surviving are a son, John T. of Brick; six daughters, Margaret A. Prideaux of Eden Prairie, Patricia M. Jamieson of Clinton, Maureen Phair of Bridgewater, Kathleen M.

Maurer of Emerson, Barbara E. Tremonte of Wayne, and Sheila M. Nastasi of River Edge; a brother, William of Highland Mills, N.Y.; and 15 grandchildren. Friends may call from 1 to 5 p.m. Sunday at O'Brien Funeral Home, 505 Burnt Tavern Road at Route 70, Brick.

A funeral Mass will be offered 9 a.m. Monday at St. Dominic's Roman Catholic Church, Brick. Interment is private. In lieu of flowers, donations can be made in his honor to the charity of your choice.

EVELYN D. ROMANO, 82, of Whiting, MANCHESTER, died Wednesday at Kimball Medical Center, Lakewood. She was a bookkeeper at the Piston Ring Co. in Stirling, Long Hill, and the Plainfield Home News for many years. She was a graduate of Metuchen High School and attended Drake Business School, Plainfield.

She was a member of the Fernwood Women's Club and a communicant of St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Roman Catholic Church, Whiting. Born in Dublin, Ireland, she came to the United States in 1922 and lived in Berkeley Heights, and Piscataway before moving to Whiting in 1991. Surviving are her husband of 61 years, Anthony C. Romano; a son and daughter-in-law, Richard and Marilyn Romano of Dunellen; a daughter and son-inlaw, Lynn and Steven Chromey of Montgomery, and four grandchildren, Scot and his wife, Heidi Romano of Neshanic Station, Cheryl Romano of Dunellen, and Michael Chromey and Matthew Chromey, both of Montgomery, Ala.

Visitation will be from 2 to 4 p.m. and 7 to 9 p.m. Sunday at Anderson Campbell Funeral Home, 115 Lacey Road, Whiting. A funeral service will be held 9:30 a.m. Monday at the funeral home.

Interment will be in St. Teresa of Avila Cemetery, Summit. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to American Kidney Fund, 6110 Executive Rockville, MD or Somebody C.A.R.E.S. 48 Schoolhouse Road, Whiting, NJ 08759. ANDERSON CAMPBELL WHITING, 350-5700 N.J.

SAMUEL P. VIZZONE, 63, of BERKELEY, died Wednesday at home. He owned and operated the Cliffside Sunoco, Kearny for eight years, retiring in 1986. Previously, he worked for Wells Cadillac, South Orange for 17 years. Born in Newark, he resided in Verona before moving to Berkeley in 1983.

Surviving are his wife, Mary Jo Martino Vizzone; four sons, Joseph of Forked River, Lacey, The 58,229 names of those killed or missing in the war from 1959 to 1975 are all inscribed in black granite. part of the healing process that designer Maya Lin envisioned when she sought to build a memorial that would separate the nation's political divisions over the war from the human loss that resulted. Its V-shaped arms were intended to draw people together at a quiet spot that dips below ground-level where, she hoped, people would grieve for those lost. The past and present, Lin said, would meet on the shiny surface, where the chiseled names of the dead would mingle with the reflections of living visitors. "This was something that gave Americans the license to mourn publicly," said Jan Scruggs, founder of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund that is sponsoring the anniversary events.

A concert Wednesday was followed yesterday by a ceremony that opened the name-reading at the memorial. That endeavor was expected to take 65 hours over four days, ending at noon Howard of Howell; two sons, John Gary of East Brunswick, and Michael and his wife, Tonya of Bensalem, a brother, Joe Rudy of Sayreville; three sisters, Ann Panella of South Plainfield, Alice Johnson of Jacksonville Beach, and Carol Samuels of Fort Madison, Iowa; five grandchildren; and three stepgrandchildren. Friends may call from 2 to 4 p.m. and 7 to 9 p.m. today at the Brunswick Memorial Home, 454 Cranbury Road, East Brunswick.

Funeral services will be held 8 a.m. Saturday at the funeral home, followed by an 8:45 a.m. Mass of Christian Burial at St. Thomas Church, Old Bridge. Entombment will follow in Holy Cross Burial Park, South Brunswick.

Memorial contributions may be made to the charity of your choice. STELLA RUCHALA MATKO. 82, of EAST BRUNSWICK, died yesterday at home. Before retiring in 1980, she was a cleaning person with the Local union, New York City, where she worked for 33 years. She also worked at the Jersey City Public Library and Metro Glass Jersey City.

She was a communicant of St. Bartholomew Roman Catholic Church, East Brunswick. Born in Jersey City, she lived in Middletown before moving to East Brunswick 10 years ago. She was predeceased by her husband, Peter, in 1970; a son, Daniel in 2002; four brothers, Benjamin Ruchala, in 1956, Stanley Ruchala, in 1970, Frank Ruchala, in 1972, and Alexander Ruchala, in 1975; and two sisters, Josephine Piascik, in 1970, and Helen Ruchala, in 1983. Surviving are a daughter, Veronica Sica of East Brunswick; a sister, Stephanie "Bessie" Blazejowicz of Secaucus; a brother, Walter Koscienski of Edison; four grandchildren, Warren and Nicholas Sica and Michael and Daniel Matko three nieces; and five nephews.

Friends may call from 2 to 4 p.m. and 6 to 8 p.m. Sunday at the Brunswick Memorial Home, 454 Cranbury Road, East Brunswick. Funeral services will be held 8:45 a.m. Monday at the funeral home followed by a 9:30 a.m.

Mass of Christian Burial at St. Bartholomew Church, East Brunswick. Interment will follow in Holy Name Cemetery, Jersey City. Memorial contributions may be made to Visiting Nurses Association of Central New Jersey Hospice, 141 Bodman Place, Red Bank, NJ 07701. ELSEWHERE VINNETTE CARROLL, a director, actress and playwright who created the Broadway musical "Your Arms Too Short To Box With God," died Tuesday.

She was 80. Carroll, a longtime New York resident, died in Lauderhill, of complications from diabetes and heart disease, said Anita MacShane, a friend who co-produced some of Carroll's shows. Carroll specialized in productions by black writers and composers. In 1972, Carroll was the first black woman to direct on Broadway a musical revue called "Don't Bother Me, I Can't Cope" at the Playhouse Theatre. MacShane said the 1976 musical "Your Arms Too Short To Box With God," is in negotiations for a tour of the country.

The show, an adaptation of the Gospel According to St. Matthew conceived and directed by Carroll, appeared on Broadway three times, including a 1982 production starring Patti LaBelle. Carroll also was the first black woman to bring gospel music to Broadway a 1969 adaptation of Langston Hughes' poetry became "Trumpets of the Lord." She won an Emmy in 1964 for a television dramatization of selections by black poets called "Beyond the Blues." Carroll also created and directed a musical called "When Hell Freezes Over, I'll Skate" at the Kennedy Center in Washington and on PBS. The Associated Press MATEL "MAT" DAWSON a Ford Motor Co. forklift operator who donated more than $1.3 million to charities, schools and nonprofit groups, died Saturday.

He was 81. His death was announced in Highland Park, Mich. Dawson, whose philanthropy was featured on "Oprah," "Good Morning America" and in other national media, died in his apartment. The cause was not determined. Dawson had completed only the eighth grade before moving from Shreveport, to Detroit in 1940.

He got a job at Ford's Rouge complex in Dearborn and worked there for more than 60 years. By routinely working sevenday weeks, putting in as much overtime as possible and shunning vacations, Dawson was earning about $100,000 a year by the time he retired in February. He had been saving his money long before that. In 1994, he started giving the money away. The first recipient was the United Negro College Fund, which received at least $230,000 from Dawson.

Also that year, he made his first donation to Wayne State University; his gifts to the Detroit school eventually would total nearly $650,000. Dawson also gave $300,000 to Louisiana State University, and lesser amounts to various community colleges and to churches in Detroit and Louisiana. The Associated Press ALFONSO MARTINEZ DOMINGUEZ, a former Mexico City mayor whose testimony was considered a key part of the government probe into the deaths of more than 30 students during his term in 1971, died Wednesday. He was 81. Martinez had been hospitalized since July in his native Monterrey, the capital of Nuevo Leon where he served as governor from 1979-85.

Shortly after he was hospitalized with kidney and heart problems, government prosecutors visited Martinez to question him about his alleged role in a June 1971 incident in which security forces in civilian clothes beat and shot at student demonstrators in Mexico City, leaving an estimated 30 protesters dead. Martinez denied any involvement and said the security forces involved were under the control of then-President Luis Echeverria, who also is under investigation for the 1971 incident and a larger student massacre in 1968. Echeverria also has denied responsibility. President Vicente Fox named a special prosecutor last year after the government's National Human Rights Commission confirmed at least 275 "disappearances" in the 1970s and early 1980s. Fox, whose election ended the Institutional Revolutionary Party's 71-year rule, has promised to end government-sponsored corruption and violence.

Human rights groups charge that Mexico City's government, under the supervision of Echeverria, recruited and trained a paramilitary group called the "Falcons" to eliminate political activists. Martinez was removed from his post as mayor shortly after police broke up the 1971 protest, a pro-democracy demonstration called after the student demonstrators involved in the huge Tlatelolco protest of 1968 were released from jail. Echeverria was interior secretary, a powerful position overseeing domestic security, when Mexican troops ambushed the mostly peaceful student protesters at Mexico City's Tlatelolco Plaza. The government had said 24 people died, but activists estimate about 300 people were killed. The Associated Press ELLSWORTH "DUTCH" KUHLMAN, a hospital executive who started the medical airlift program that later became a model for civilian evacuation, died Oct.

31 of respiratory failure. He was 84. His death was announced in Denver. The Flight for Life medical airlift program was founded at St. Anthony hospital in 1972.

Kuhlman began the program while he was president and executive director of St. Anthony. He wanted a medical air evacuation program similar to military medical airlifts during the Vietnam War. St. Anthony built a rooftop helipad and launched the program on Oct.

12, 1972, with a bright orange helicopter, two pilots and six flight nurses. During its first three months, Flight for Life transported 151 patients. It eventually won over hospital staffers, and other hospitals began programs based on Kuhlman's model. The Associated Press SLEEPY'S CRUSHES THE COMPETITION 75 YEARS OVER 250 LOCATIONS Holiday I Mattress Sunday. Veterans Day will be observed there a day later.

The names form the structure's emotional centerpiece. Inscribed in chronological order of death, they make the war's cost personal. First listed is Army Maj. Dale R. Buis, 37, of Pender, one of two killed July 8, 1959.

The last is Air Force Lt. Richard Vande Geer, 27, of Columbus, Ohio, one of 18 who died May 15, 1975. On any given day, people leave notes, flowers and other trinkets. Someone left a can of beer yesterday, in a tribute to a soldier lost. Many make charcoal name rubbings to take home.

As a teenager in California, Carolyn Squires wore a bracelet bearing the name of Air Force Col. Stanley Scott Clark, even though she had never met him. Yesterday, she stepped back from rubbing his name and marveled at the time passed, the expanse of names and the unexpected feeling of being soothed by the sight of the wall. "I was angry for a long time because when they came back, people treated them badly," Squires, now 45, said of returning veterans. "But now they are being honored." The memorial has inspired the creation of others, such as one across the Potomac to the victims of the Sept.

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