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40 OBITUARIES THE HOME NEWS WEDNESDAY, JUNE 1, 1983 Works in Highland Park until retiring in 1979. Arrangements were by the Jaqul-Kuhn Funeral Home, 17 S. Adelaide Highland Park. Irene R. Passley, 90, longtime area resident PISCATAWAY Irene Rebecca Passley, 90, of School Street died Thursday at St.

Peter's Medical Center, New Brunswick, after becoming ill at home. Born in Valdosta, she lived in New Brunswick for more than 25 years before moving to Piscataway in 1974. She was a cook before her retirement several years ago. Mrs. Passley was a member of the Union Baptist Church, South River, where she was a member of the Missionary Society.

Her' husband, Jubert Q. Passley, who died in 1963. Surviving are two brothers, William Corbett of Waycross, and Peter Corbett of New Brunswick; and two sisters, Katie L. Bell of Piscataway and Mae Elma Willard of Valdosta. Services will be at 1 1 a.m.

Saturday in the Union Baptist Church, 74 Washington Street, South River. Burial will be in Franklin Memorial Park, North Brunswick. Arrangements are by the Anderson Funeral Service, 201 Sandford New Brunswick. 88, of Louis Street who died Friday at St, Peters' Medical Center. Services were to be ut 9.30 a.m.

in the Gleason Funeral Home, 13H0 Hamilton St. In the Somerset section of Franklin. Burial will be in St. Peter's Cemetery. Born in Hungary, she lived In New Brunswick most of her life.

Mrs. Nagy retired 23 years ago after 33 years as a sewing machine operator for Sandler Brothers Inc. Surviving are her husband Thomas Nagy; a daughter, Priscilla Connelly of Somerset; two grandchildren; and five great-grandchildren. Mass is scheduled for Howard Voorhees EAST BRUNSWICK A memorial Mass has been scheduled for Howard Voorhees, 70, of Wood Circle who died April 15 at Middlesex General-University Hospital, New Brunswick. The Mass will be offered at 2 p.m.

Saturday in the chapel of the Conso-lata Society for Foreign Missions, Route 27, Franklin. Burial was in Van Liew Cemetery, North Brunswick. Born in Highland Park, he lived in East Brunswick from 1953. Mr. Voorhees was the owner of the New Brunswick General Sheet Metal Brunswick, and Catherine and IJp.

borah, both at home; thro brothers. Harold of North Brunswick, Clifford of Spotswood, and Wlllard of New Brunswick; and two sisters, Minnie Holman of New Brunswick and Catherine Hall of Franklin, Graveside services will be at 1 p.m. tomorrow in Van Llew Cemetery, North Brunswick, with the Rev. Dr. John Hayward officiating.

Arrangements are by the Selover Funeral Home, 555 Georges Road, North Brunswick. Grace B. Snyder, 76, resident of Jamesburg JAMESBURG Grace Biehn Snyder, 76, of Lower Matchaponix Road died Monday at The Medical Center at Princeton. Born in Quakcrtown, she lived in Lansdale, before moving to Jamesburg 2 ''2 years ago. Surviving are her husband, Russell Snyder; a son, Russell Jr.

of Cherry Hill; a daughter, Dorothy Lewis of Jamesburg; and two grandchildren. Graveside services will be at 11 a.m. tomorrow in Pleasant Hill Cemetery, Springfield, Pa. Arrangements are by the Lester Memorial Home, 16 Church St. Services scheduled for Helen Nagy, 88 NEW BRUNSWICK Services are scheduled today for Helen Nagy, Valerie A.

Lewis, 71, retired lab technician WOOimmiXiK Valerie Amn-m Lewis. 71. of Sonurn Avenue in the Iselin section died Monday at Hospital Horn in hloomfieid. she lived in New Brunswick before moving to Isclin 31 years ago. She was a lab technician for 4ft years with it.

Squibb Sons North Brunswick, before retiring five years ago. She? was a member of the American Association of Retired Persons, the Middlesex Blind Association and the Squibb Retirement Club Mrs. Lewis was a communicant of St, Cecelia's R.C. Church and a member of its Rosary Society Surviving are her husband, John Lewis; two sons, John of Iselin and James of New Brunswick; four brothers, Joseph Amrcin of North Brunswick, Theodore of East Brunswick, Robert of Milltown and Kd-ward of Princeton; a sister, Blanche Amrcin of New Brunswick; and throe grandchildren Services will be at 9:30 a.m. Friday from the Thomas J.

Costello Funeral, Green Street and Cooper Avenue, Iselin, followed by a 10 a.m. Mass of Christian Burial at St. Cecelia's Church. Burial will be in Woodbridge Memorial Gardens. Contributions may be made to the American Cancer Society.

Charles of Reston, six grandchildren; and four great-grandchildren. Services will be at 10 a.m. tomorrow in the Selover Funeral Home, 555 Georges Road, North Brunswick, with the Rev. James W. Marshall, pastor of the United Methodist Church of Milltown, officiating, Burial will be in Franklin Memorial Park, Nor th Brunswick.

Dorothy S. Smith, 84, FRANKLIN Dorothy Stehm Smith. 84, of Whlttler Avenue in the Somerset died yesterday at Middlesex General-University Hospital, New Brunswick, shortly after being admitted. She was the wife of the late Charles Smith, who died in 1945. Arrangements will be announced by the Selover Funeral Home, 555 Georges Road, North Brunswick.

Lester F. Hall, 58, New Brunswick resident NEW BRUNSWICK Lester F. Hall, 58, of Georges Road died Monday at St. Peter's Medical Center after a brief illness. Born in New Brunswick, he was a lifelong city resident.

He was a employed with National Parts North Brunswick. Surviving are his wife, Helen Hartner Hall; and three sons, Lester, William and Lawrence, all at home; three daughters, Brenda of New Virgilio services set PISCATAWAY Services have been changed for Michael Virgilio. 58. of North Randolphville Hoad who died Monday at home. Services will be at 10 a.m.

tomorrow in the Piscataway Funeral Home. ISStelton Road. Buria! will be in Resurrection Cemetery, Piscataway. Richard C. Meyer founded electrical firm SOITH BRUNSWICK Richard C.

Meyer Sr. of Georges Road died yesterday at Franklin Convalescent Center, Franklin, after a long illness. Born in Brooklyn, N.Y., he lived in New Brunswick before moving to South Brunswick 30 years ago. He was an electrician since 1923. He founded the Richard C.

Meyer Klectric Contractors Co. in 1948 and retired in 1967. Mr. Meyer was a 60-year member of the Livingston Avenue United Church of Christ, New Brunswick. He was a member of Union Lodge 19, F.

and A.M.; a member of the Tall Cedars of Lebanon, Forest No. 12; and a member of the South Brunswick Senior Citizens. Surviving are his wife, Lena Seidel Meyer; two sons, Richard C. Jr. of East Brunswick and Robert Wallace Meyer of New Brunswick; a brother.

Boxing great Jack Dempsey dies at age of 87 NEW YORK AP) Jack Dempsey, the Manassa Mauler who ruled boxing's heavyweight division for seven years during the sport's Golden Age, died yesterday at age 87. Dempsey, who was heavyweight champion from 1919 to 1926 when he lost to Gene Tunney, died at his home at 5:05 p.m. of natural causes, a spokesman for the New York City Medical Examiner's office said. Once a very visible figure at major sports events and at a restaurant he operated in New York, Dempsey rarely left his apartment in recent years. He had been in frail health and was hospitalized in April 1982 when a heart pacemaker was implanted.

Ranked with Henry Armstrong and Joe Louis-as one of the three top boxers of the first half of this century, Dempsey amassed a career total of 60 victories in 81 bouts, 49 by knockouts. He also boxed hundreds of exhibitions, sometimes facing a half-dozen hungry opponents on a single night. "1 think I've lost my best friend. He was just like a brother of mine," said U.S. District Judge John J.

Sirica, who had known Dempsey for nearly 50 years. Dempsey was best man at the wedding of the Watergate judge in 1952. The two traveled together in U.S. Savings Bonds sales drives at the end of World War II. "To me Jack Dempsey was one of the greatest heavyweights that ever lived.

He was fast. He had power. He kept coming. He could take a punch. He was controversial.

He had personality. And I'm glad he lived as long as he did." said Muhammad Ali, interviewed on ABC-TV's "Nightline." bore his name. He was forced to shut down in a lease dispute with his landlord. Generous to a fault and gentle as a lamb, Dempsey spent most of his later years enjoying a simple, private life with his fourth wife, the former Deanna Pieatelli. The Mauler, who has two daughters from a previous marriage to singer Hannah Williams, his third wife, gradually limited his public activities to an occasional charity or civic-minded appearance, and boxing functions where he could mix and reminisce with other sur'ivors of the fight game's Golden Era.

Dempsey lost his title to Tunney in a 10-round decision on Sept. 23, 1926. A rematch a year later almost to the day resulted in a controversial 10-round decision in favor of Tunney and spelled the end, except exhibitions, of Dempsey's active ring career. Tunney died in 1978. Jack Sharkey, 80, a Depression Era heavyweight champion who lost to Dempsey in a 1927 bout, recalled the match Tuesday: "I was getting hit frequently.

I turned to the referee to complain I was getting hit low and I got hit with a haymaker. That was that. I was out op the canvas." Dempsey was 24 when he seized the heavyweight title from Jess Willard in Toledo, Ohio, exacting a third-round knockout. A fearsome presence in the ring known for his "fists of cement" and surly demeanor, Dempsey mellowed after hanging up the gloves in March 1932 except for three exhibition bouts in 1940. He slipped further from the public view after the closing in 1974 of the famous Broadway restaurant that TEEN ARTS FESTIVAL UNDER WAY Conti recommends Piscataway authorize $6.8 million bond sale By ELIZABETH VOISIN Home News staff PISCATAWAY Municipal Finance Director Michael Conti recommended yesterday that the Township Council authorize a $6.8 million bond sale, the first in live years, saying doing so would prevent, not precipitate tax hikes in succeeding years But council members Ted Light and Margaret Kruse, who is also a council finance committee member, cautioned against further bonded indebtedness until the growth in tax ratables moves out of its slump.

In recent months, Republicans have criticized the all-Democratic council, contending it bonds too much. "Three years ago, we didn't have to worry," Light said. "But with growth curtailed, it's a burden to pick up (another) $1.4 million." He referred to the current capital improvement program, a plan that must be formulated but not necessarily followed on schedule. Since 1977, the township has used short-term financing through non-renew able bond anticipation notes, which have a five-year statutory limit. Barry Skokowski, director of the state Division of Local Government Services, said late last year he expects a possible bond market glut as other municipalities around the state reach the time limit of their bond anticipation notes.

Conti, a member of Skokowski's unsalaried Debt Management Advisory Committee, said he would recommend institution of 13-year bond anticipation notes at the committee's June 8 meeting in Trenton. This plan would give municipalities greater flexibility to obtain the best financing deal, Conti said. "Right now, (interest rates) on short-term financing are about 5.75 percent," he said. "The bond market (long-term financing) is about 8 percent." To ensure "good fiscal controls," municipalities would have to pay both interest and, starting in the fourth year, a tenth of the debt principal annually, Conti said. "It's not a free ride and it avoids (large scale) dumping of bonds into the market," Conti said.

To foster "pay-as-you-go financing," Skokowski said municipalities are encouraged to save instead of bonding for large capital purchases because such savings are now excluded from the state five-percent cap spending increase limit. But Conti advised the council against that method yesterday. He said his calculations indicate a $2.2 million surge in debts owed during fiscal year 1985. At current rates, each $80,000 of municipal expense equals one cent in iocal property taxes. Conti apparently was not as concerned about a bond glut due to expiring bond anticipation notes as he was about another issue.

The federal government extended from Jan. 1 to July 1 its deadline for the registration of holders of tax-exempt municipal bonds. Currently, bond holders redeem coupons for interest but do not have to report their income. Conti recommended a bond sale in early fall because he predicted a bond market glut through June as bond buyers and sellers seek to beat the registry deadline. J-p' North Brunswick Soccer Club registrations set The club, with more than 800 members, will hold a picnic at Maple Mead Park on Saturday, June 18.

For more information, call Hank Mooney, president, at 545-6899. NORTH BRUNSWICK RcgisI ration for the North Brunswick Soccer Club's Kill season will be held this Saturday and next beginning at 12:30 p.m., at the township high school fields. In addition, tryouts for the Traveling Team section of the 43-team club will be held beginning at 5 p.m. next Wednesday at Maple Mead Park. Juggling, basket weaving and book cover making were among the subjects taught yesterday at the 14th annual N.J.

State Teen Arts Festival. The festival continues today and tomorrow on the Douglas Campus at Rutgers University in New Brunswick. From left, Dorothy Wells of Kean College helping Angelino Figuera and Maria Colen, both ninth-graders at New Brunswick High School, make book covers. County to hire consultant, tap industry-unit members CARD OF THANKS We wish to thank everyone (or the acts of kindness extended to our beloved mother, grandmother, great -grandmother and stster Elsie H. Walker during her stay in the Princeton Medical Center and Merwtck Rehab.

Center, at time of her illness passing. Also thanks to the many friends and relatives for messages of sympathy, flowers, donations of food and use ott heir cars. A special thanks to (vev. William U. Powell, pastor ot Mt.

Olive Baptist Church. Thanks to all organizations and the st aft of Hughes Tuner al Home tor their services The Walker, Douglas. Howard, and William Family neral home Wednesday, 2-4 and 7-9 p.m. GARVEY In Princeton, May 30. 1983.

Catherine A. McCormack of Avenue J. Outcalt. Services will be held at 9 45 a.m. Thursday from the Eck-man Funeral Home, 475 Main Spotswood.

followed by a 10:15 a.m. Mass of Christian Burial at Immaculate Conception R.C. Church. Spotswood. Burial will be in St.

James Cemetery, Jamesburg Friends may call at the funeral home Wednesday, 2-4 and 7-9 p.m. DEATH NOTICES FRANTZ In New Brunswick. May 29. 1983. Paul Henry ot Grand Avenue.

South River. Services will be held at 8 1 5 a m. Thursday from the Rezem Funeral Home. 457 Cranbury Road. East Brunswick, followed by a 9 a.m.

Mass of Christian Burial at Corpus Christ! R.C. Church, South River. Burial will be in Holy Cross Burial Park. South Brunswick. Friends may call at the fu KELLY In New Brunswick, May 30.

1983, John T. of Eas-ton Avenue. Services will be held at 9 30 a.m. Thursday from the Boy-Ian Funeral Home, 188 Easton New Brunswick, followed by a 10 a.m. Mass of Christian Burial at St.

Peter's Church with Msgr. Morgan Kelly officiating. Burial will be in St. Peter's Cemetery. New Brunswick.

Friends may call at the funeral home Wednesday, 2-4 and 7-9 p.m. LEWIS In Rahway. May 30. 1983. Valerie Amrein ot Sonora Avenue, Iselin.

Services will be held at 9 30 a.m. Friday from the Thomas J. Costello Funeral. Green Street and Cooper Avenue, Iselin, followed by a 10 a.m. Mass ot Christian Burial at St.

Cecelia's Church. Burial will be in Woodbridge Memorial Gardens. Friends may call at the fu- neral home Wednesday and Thursday. 2-4 and 7-9 p.m. In lieu of flowers, contributions may be made to the American Cancer Society.

MEYER In Franklin Park. May 31. 1983, Richard C. Sr. of Georges Road, South Brunswick.

Services will be held at 10 a.m. tomorrow in the Selover Funeral Home. 555 Georges Road, North Brunswick, with the Rev. James W. Marshall, pastor of the United Methodist Church of Milltown officiating.

Burial will be in Franklin Memorial Park, North Brunswick. Friends may call at the funeral home Wednesday, 7-9 p.m. ATTENTION Union Lodge 19. Free and Accepted Masons Officers and members will meet 8p.m. Wednesday in the Selover Funeral Home.

555 Georges Road. North Brunswick, to hold services for their late brother Richard Meyer. JAMES Master CLAUDE STEVENS. Secretary PASSLEY In New Brunswick, May 26. 1983.

Irene Rebecca Of School Street. Piscataway. Services will be held at 11 a.m. Saturday in the Union Baptist Church, 74 Washington Street. South River.

Burial will be in Franklin Memorial Park. North Brunswick. Friends may call at the church Saturday. 9-1 1 a.m. Arrangements are by the Anderson Funeral Service, 201 Sandford New SI fK If Announcing John W.

Travis and Sons Funeral Home OOR 35th YEAR MAIN STREET FLORIST FANCY FRUIT USKETS By TED SERRILL Home News staff The Middlesex County Board of Freeholders will hire a consultant tomorrow to recruit minorities and women for middle-echelon jobs. It also will appoint 19 members to the new Private Industry Council. The consultant is the Essex County firm of Metro Educational Services, which recently evaluated the county's affirmative-action program. While the county overall exceeds standards for the employment of minorities and women, the consultant found under-utilization as well as concentrations of minorities and women in some departments and program areas. Metro will make the county's affirmative-action program "more sound," said Freeholder David B.

Crabiel, chairman of finance and administration. "It will bring professional expertise," he added, anticipating the firm will recruit graduating Middlesex County students for county jobs at minority colleges and universities. Personnel Director William O'Leary, the county's affirmative-action officer, added: "We want our minority citizens to be aware that there are life-long technical careers in the county for them in engineering, planning, computers, health, law enforcement and so forth. This should help us to utilize more minorities in administrative and technical The consultant will be paid up to $1,500 a quarter for the balance of the year. Its principals are J.

Garfield Jackson, an East Orange community leader, and Simeon F. Moss, a former Essex County superintendent of schools who chairs the Board of Trustees of the State Prison Complex. The new Private Industry Council is being created to take over the county's job-training and employment programs after Sept. 30. It will replace the county's Comprehensive Employment Training Administration.

The 19 appointees to be voted upon at tomorrow's 10 a.m. meeting of the freeholders must be approved by the governor. Seven were recommended by area chambers of commerce: C. Roy Epps, president of the Urban League of Greater New Brunswick; James Callahan of Perth Amboy. a labor representative to PIC who belongs to an electricians' union; Andre Ferrullo, head of personnel for the Johnson Memorial Rehabilitation Center of J.F.

Kennedy Hospital in Edison; Edward Fronterra, director of the N.J. Employment Service office in New Brunswick; County Planning Director Douglas Opalski; Community Education Dean Anita Voorhees of the Middlesex County College; and J. Henry Zanzalari, superintendent of Middlesex County vocational and technical high schools. Other appointees chosen by the freeholders all of whom represent business are: John J. Hogan, director of community affairs for N.J.

Bell and Edison Township Council president; Freeholder David B. Crabiel, president of Crabiel a chain of funeral homes; Chester Pardun, secretary-treasurer of a North Brunswick contracting firm; Robert Trent, president of Trent Aluminum, North Brunswick; Sharon Hadary, director of communications for IBM Systems Supply Division, South Brunswick. Also: O. Fritz Wenzler, vice president for labor relations for Johnson Johnson; Vincent J. Tamborino of Vendo-Matic, North L.T.

DiFazio, vice president for operations of E.r! Squibb Sons; Gerald Dembowski, plant manager of Delco Remy, New Brunswick; Peter Mellet, division manager for Public Service Electric Gas Co. in New Brunswick; Charles M. Thurlow, manager of employee relations for Mobil Chemical Edison; and Jack Cerulo, vice president of the Perth Amboy Savings Institution. UVVMIUni 35th ANNIVERSARY SOUTH RIVE J. IIII2 157-I1S7 Wm Honor Html CndH Caidt Ert Van DVMr, Owiw Located in Somerset, N.J.

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