Sea Bright-raised longtime Red Bank resident and area teacher, Maureen Hintelmann, passed away peacefully on Jan. 12 at Riverview Medical Center.
Lifelong are resident and former teacher, Barbara Hollywood Oakerson died on Jan. 6 at Riverview Medical Center following a brief illness. She was 79.
Former longtime Little Silver resident and artist, Kevin “Kevo” Richard Adams, passed away peacefully on Jan. 2. He was 67.
Red Bank-raised Joyce Baker, more recently of Oceanport and previously Middletown, passed away peacefully at home Sunday morning, Dec. 29. She was 92.
“To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die” – Thomas Campbell
Former Little Silver resident, Maureen Canzoneri, more recently of Shrewsbury, passed away peacefully on Jan. 1. She was 90.
Longtime Rumsonite, Leslie Ann Parent, more recently of Red Bank, passed away on Dec. 24. She was 82.
Longtime Rumsonite, Marie Cottrell, passed away peacefully on Dec. 26, “surrounded by her loved ones following a life devoted to her family, friends, and community.” She was 90.
Longtime Fair Havenite, Wade A. Davis, passed away on Dec. 29 after a long and courageous battle with Parkinson’s disease. He was 83.
Fair Haven-raised Rumson-Fair Haven Regional High School (RFH) graduate and longtime therapist, Cindy Sherman, “lost her hard-fought battle with colon cancer on Dec. 27 in Red Bank.” She was 69.
Continue reading In Memoriam: Fair Haven-Raised RFH ’73 Grad, Cindy Sherman, 69Former longtime Rumsonite, George Hill, passed away on Dec. 19, surrounded by loved ones in Red Bank. He was 95.
Fair Haven native Charlie Perrine, more recently of Shrewsbury, passed away surrounded by his loving family, on Dec. 20, “after fighting a courageous battle with cancer.”
It’s all relative. You’ve heard it before. “He was like family.” Like. And sometimes people just say someone was family, no “like” involved. Family.
That’s usually because sometimes, DNA be damned, someone is no doubt family to someone, or many, in every way but the genetics. And sometimes, that’s just because a person’s actions in life scream a louder familial compassion and love than their genes — like a bear hug that squeezes all the good into us.
One girl called forever Fair Havenite Garry Allers her uncle. Uncle Garry was laid to rest yesterday. While on this Earth, he didn’t flinch at the relative reference from his adopted niece. It was the truth in every way that mattered, after all. Yes, it’s all relative.
Continue reading Remembering Fair Haven’s Garry Allers: A Lifetime of Relative Kindness Passed On
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