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OBITUARIESSTATE A4 The Daily Journal Tuesday, September 1 1 992 Former off icer charged in 1988 mob murder M. JOSEPH GREEN8LATT, 96 ETHEL GANTZ, 77 Monroeville and Doris Bres-ser of Vineland; 13 grandchildren; four great grandchildren; and two step-great grandchildren. Funeral services will be at 11 a.m. Thursday from the Pittsgrove Presbyterian Church, Main Street, Dare-town, where friends are invited to call from 10:30 to 11 a.m. Interment will be in the church cemetery.

Contributions may be made to the Pittsgrove Presbyterian Church, Main Street, R.D. 3, Elmer 08318. Arrangements are under the direction of the H.T. Layton and Son Home for Funerals in Woodstown. Weingartner was arrested without incident Sunday at his Brick Township home.

Authorities confiscated an undisclosed quantity of weapons and stolen merchandise. Four other buildings in Hudson and Ocean counties were also searched. Officials would not give specific details of those searches. Robert Winter, director of the state Division of Criminal Justice, said a civil forfeiture procedure was filed Monday against Weingartner's home. State Police spokesman John Hagerty said Weingartner was the last person to see DiGilio alive before he disappeared on May 5, 1988.

Lawyer M. Joseph Greenblatt of Centerton, a lifelong area resident, lawyer and community activist, died Sunday in the Bryn Mawr Hospital, Pennsylvania. He was 96. Born in Brotmanville, he also formerly lived in Vine-land. He attended Vineland and Pittsgrove Township schools and graduated from Bridge-ton High School in 1914.

He was a 1917 graduate of the University of Pennsylvania Law School and was admitted to the New Jersey Bar in 1918. Mr. Greenblatt had served as, a Vineland Borough municipal judge from 1921 to 1925, Landis Township solicitor from 1935 to 1937, special master in chancery from 1935 to 1948, and Supreme Court commissioner from 1939 to 1948. The oldest living member of the Cumberland County Bar Association, he also served as its president from 1935 to 1936. A veteran of the United States Navy, he volunteered for service during World War serving in 1918 and 1919.

He was a charter member and past commander for the Theodore Roosevelt Post of the American Legion. Mr. Greenblatt was elected to the Vineland Board of Education, serving from 1934 to 1937. He was the chairman of the consolidation committee that formed the City of Vineland in 1952. A former director of the Vineland Tradesmen's Bank and Trust Co.

for many years, he also served as the bank's counsel and vice president. Mr. Greenblatt also helped Former deacon Ethel R. Gantz, 77, of Monroeville, died Monday at the Elmer Community Hos-. pital after a short illness.

Born in Glassboro, she was a Monroeville resident for 56 years. Mrs. Gantz was a member of the Pittsgrove Presbyterian Church, where she was a past deacon. She also was a member of the church's Goodwill Sunday School class. She is survived by her husband, William W.

Gantz; a son, William W. Jr. of Monroeville; three daughters, Evelyn Crispin of New Castle, Del, Carol Gandy of REBECCA BETTY AIKEN, 80 Memorial Home nurse Rebecca Betty Aiken, 80, of Vineland, died Monday in the Nursing Center at Vine-land after a lengthy illness. Mrs. Aiken was born in Rio Grande.

She was a Vineland resident for 53 years. Before retiring, she was the supervisor and head nurse at the New Jersey Memorial Home in Vineland. Mrs. Aiken graduated from the Joseph Price School of Nursing and the Philadelphia General Hospital. She is survived by one daughter, Patricia A Stal- MARIA SERRANO, 60 Homemaker Maria Serrano, 60, of Vineland, died Aug.

30 in the Kennedy Hospital, Washington Township Division. Born in Puerto Rico, she was a Vineland resident for 25 years. Mrs. Serrano was a homemaker who enjoyed gardening and cooking. She was a member of the Spanish Catholic Center Church.

Survivors include her husband, Gustavo; her mother, Angela Mendez of Vineland; two sons, Gustavo Jr. and Luis both of Vine- 9 9 at TOMS RIVER (AP) former Bayonne police sergeant, an alleged soldier in the Genovese crime family, was arraigned for the 1988 murder of a reputed crime boss. George Weingartner, 60, was placed in Ocean County Jail in lieu of $1 million cash bail on Monday for the murder of John DiGilio, officials said. He appeared in front of Superior Court Judge Peter Giovine. DiGilio's badly decomposed body was found stuffed in a body bag floating in the Hack-ensack River in May 1988.

He had been shot five times in the back of the head and had a credit card between his legs. Authorities meet to TRENTON (AP) A crackdown on car thieves has made suspects more brazen and resulted in a spate of shootings by police, prosecutors say. Union County Prosecutor Andrew K. Jr. said Monday car thieves began ramming police cars after a two-county task force began confronting youths.

"We have been more aggressive. That's why we're here," Ruotolo said outside the Hughes Justice Complex. Ruotolo and Acting Essex County Prosecutor James F. Mulvihill met with officials of the attorney general's office SINCERE THANKS The family of the late Lena Abate would like to express their thanks to all relatives, friends and neighbors for the beautiful floral offerings, Mass Cards and other kind expressions of sympathy extended to us during our recent bereavement. Special thanks to the staff of Bishop McCarthy.

The Family of the Late Lena Abate IN MEMORIAM In Loving Memory of FRANKLIN DURNER who passed away September 1, 1991 You bid no one a last farewell. You said good-bye to none. Your loving heart has ceased to beat. Your stay on earth was done. The flowers we placed upon your grave May wither and decay.

Our love for you who sleeps beneath Will never fade away. Sadly missed by Wife, Daughter, Son-in-Law, Grandchildren Great Grandchildren discuss car thefts Monday following three incidents in less than two weeks in which police shot at suspects in stolen cars. They would not reveal what was discussed, but Mulvihill said he expects a comprehensive policy to be announced this week. Funeral Notice DiTOMO, Joseph, age 77, of Youngtown, Arizona and Vineland, on Saturday, August 29, 1992. Beloved husband of Ruth (Erickson) DiTomo, adored father of Joseph A DiTomo II, Joneen (DiTomo) Caruso; much loved and respected grandfather of Damian J.

Caruso, Colleen R. Caruso, Toni L. DiTomo, Rae, Stacy and Brandi McGarr. Beloved brother of Vincent and Anthony DiTomo, Yolanda Cheli Carmella Sparagna. A Mass of Christian Burial will be held on Thursday, September 3, 1992 at 11 am in Sacred Heart Church, Myrtle and Landis Vineland.

Interment Sacred Heart Cemetery. Friends may call at Sacred Heart Church on Thursday from 9:30 am. For those who so desire, contributions may be made to American Heart Association of N.J., 600 White Horse Pike, Audubon, NJ 08106 or Our Lady of Lourdes Medical Center, 6600 Haddon Camden, NJ 08103. Arrangements under the su-pervisionofRone Funeral Service. LOVE, Olive (Williams) in her 81st year, of Vineland on Saturday, August 29, 1992.

Relatives and friends of the family are invited to attend funeral services on Wednesday, September 2, 1992 at 11 am in the Wainwright-Bernhardt Funeral Home, 1024 E. Landis Vineland, with Rev. C. Ross Collins of the First United Methodist Church of Vineland officiating. Interment will be-in Siloam Cemetery.

Friends will be received at the Wainwright-Bernhardt Funeral Home this evening from 7-9 pm and Wednesday from 10-11 am. Contributions, for those who so desire, may be made on one's favorite charity. Service Residential Monthly Contracts 4732 Free Estimates i organize the Landis Building and Loan Association (now Landis Savings Bank) in Vineland in 1924, and served as director and counsel. At the time of his death, he was the director emeritus at the bank. He was the first chairman of the local Jewish Campaign for Palestine Relief (predecessor of the Allied Jewish AppealJewish Federation of Cumberland County).

He also was the first local chairman of the Israel Bond Drive in the early 1950s. The last surviving founder of the Beth Israel Congregation on Park Avenue in Vine-land, he had served as its president five times and played an important role in having the current synagogue constructed. Survivors include three sons, Newton Greenblatt of Vineland, Jay Greenblatt of Centerton and Guy Norman of Hollywood, two sisters, Molly Kravitz and Lillian Braun, both of Vineland; six grandchildren; and three great-grandchildren. Services will be conducted by Rabbi Dr. Murray J.

Kohn at 11 a.m. Wednesday in the Beth Israel Synagogue. Burial will follow in Alliance Cemetery in Norma. Friends will be received after 10 a.m. Wednesday in the synagogue.

Shiva will be observed in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Newton Greenblatt Arrangements are by the Rone Funeral Service. Memorial contributions may be made to the Memorial Fund at the Beth Israel Congregation, P.O. Box 400, Vineland, N.J.

08360 or to the charity of the donor's choice. ter, Sarah at home; a maternal grandfather, Warner C. Fribley Sr. of Carmel; and a paternal grandfather, William E. Laubengeyer of Millvile.

Burial was in the family plot at Fenwood Memorial Park. Arrangements are by the Sray Funeral Home in Bridgeton. nephews. Graveside services will be held 3 p.m. Wednesday at the Alliance Cemetery in Norma with Rabbi Dr.

Murray Kohn. Shiva will be observed at the home of Lois Stern, 2179 E. Landis Ave. Vineland. Contributions may be made to Women's Hebrew Benevolent Society, 330 W.

Garden Road, RD 6, Bridge-ton 08302, Attention: Lilly Tepper. Arrangements are under the direction of the Rone Funeral Service. SINCERE THANKS The family of the late Ernestine Kimmons-Wynter would like to express their thanks to all relatives, friends and neighbors for the beautiful floral offerings, Mass Cards and other kind expressions of sympathy extended to us during our recent bereavement. The Family of the Late Erneitine Kimmorn-Wynter WUMUKt MM HANNAH MEGAN LAUBENGEYER, Infant 0 Mintiricdiuieiingi itie New 'Super Clean huth of Elmer; one grandson, David E. Stalhuth of Vine-land; one sister, Hannah M.

Tawresey of Ocean View; and several nieces and nephews. Funeral services will be conducted at 10 a.m. Thursday in the Wainwright-Bernhardt Funeral Home, 1024 E. Landis Vine-land, with the Rev. Daniel R.

Leslie of the Lutheran Church of the Redeemer officiating. Viewing hours will be from to 10 a.m. Thursday at the funeral home. Burial will be in Siloam Cemetery in Vineland. land; four daughters, Bianca Ocasio of Trenton and Luz, Evelyn and Monserrate Mendez, all of Vineland; a brother, Alfonso Vargas of Puerto Rico; and nine grandchildren.

A Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated at 9 a.m. Thursday at the Spanish Catholic Center Church. Burial will follow in the Sacred Heart Cemetery. Friends may call from 6:30 to p.m. on Wednesday and again at 8 a.m.

on Thursday the Rone Funeral Service. county college i 'Si nun Services held Private graveside services were held for Hannah Megan Laubengeyer, stillborn daughter of J.L. and Sanda A. (Fribley) Laubengeyer, who died on Saturday at the South Jersey Hospital System, Bridgeton Division. In addition to her parents, Hannah is survived by a sis TESSIE FRANCIS LEVIN, 89 Homemaker Tessie Frances Levin of Vineland died Monday at her residence.

She was 89. Born in Philadelphia, she had been an area resident since 1950 when she moved from Trenton. A homemaker, she was a member of the Women's Hebrew Benevolent Society. Survivors include a son, Ted Levin of Vineland; a daughter, Lois Stern of Vineland; three grandchildren; one great-grandchild; and several nieces and SINCERE THANKS The family of the late John Milana would like to express their thanks to all relatives, friends and neighbors for the beautiful floral offerings, Mass Cards and other kind expressions of sympathy extended to us during our recent breavement. TheFamilyofthtl.au John Milana -iiinrMmimnr'Ttttriiiii-iMiiiiinif Cumberland Optical Company The Eye Center 2835 S.

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