Wednesday, May 2, 2012
Friends and supporters of the 12-year-old who inspired the town with his strength and courage will hold a candle lighting event tonight for one of Barnegat's dearest residents.
After battling with cancer for seven years, 12-year-old Kyle McGetrick of Barnegat died Tuesday at 1 p.m. During his battle, which the doctors did not foresee would last as long as it had, his family said, McGetrick had inspired his entire town with his strength and courage. Barnegat's entire community showed support, as Kyle's terminal disease slowly consumed him. Friends, family and hundreds of residents from the area and beyond cheered Kyle on as he held on to life for as long as he could. Kyle was diagnosed at the age of 5. "He could have succumbed to it five years ago," Gene McGetrick, Kyle's father told Patch this morning. "They sent him home from the hospital in December telling us that he probably wouldn’t live till the New Year. …
Tuesday, November 22, 2011
Ocean County man last sky sailor from blimp patrols of German U boats
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Tuesday, November 22, 2011
Lakehurst Naval Base, along with the nation, lost a hero this week. The last sky sailor from the World War II era of blimp patrols for German U boats, died on Tuesday, according to Carl Jablonski, president of the Navy Lakehurst Historical Society. Clarence C. "C.C." Moore was 90 when he passed away in his Whiting, Manchester home. On Monday, 12 navy sailors gave Moore a deserving sendoff in a 21-gun salute at a military funeral at the New Jersey Veterans Memorial Cemetary Arneytown, New Egypt. Moore joined the navy in 1938. Two years later he was accepted into the Navy's last Lighter Than Air (LTA) training class. Though he retired from the Navy in 1959 and the airship program ended in 1962, when he was 80 Moore made another appearance. …
Wednesday, August 17, 2011
Cpl. Nicholas Ott will be laid to rest at the Brigadier General William C. Doyle Memorial Cemetery in Arneytown on Friday
Services for the Marine from Manchester who lost his life in Afghanistan last week have been arranged, according to a township official. A viewing for Cpl. Nicholas Ott will be held from 3 p.m. to 8 p.m. on Thursday at Saint John's Roman Catholic Church, 619 Chestnut St., Lakehurst, township Business Administrator Elena Zsoldos said. The Anderson and Campbell Funeral Home of Manchester is handling the arrangements, but the church is being used since a large number of mourners is expected, Zsoldos said. A mass will be held at 11 a.m. Friday, again at Saint John's. Ott will be buried at 1 p.m. at the Brigadier General William C. Doyle Memorial Cemetery in Arneytown, about 20 miles west of the church, Zsoldos said. Manchester police will …
Friday, August 5, 2011
Hundreds of law enforcement officers, friends and family pay their respects to 10-year officer
Hundreds of law enforcement officers paid their respects today to a fallen colleague, Ocean County Detective Tina Rambo. Each of the mourners at St. Isaac Jogues Church in Marlton marched single-file before saluting Rambo, who died Monday after a head-on collision on Route 70. As the ceremony started, a close friend of Rambo's, Anthony Turso, said a few words. "Tina always tried to make things right, to make them perfect. She loves to laugh and joke around, to tease her friends and family. She was a ball of fire." Rambo's sister, Tara Cunningham, also spoke, and told a story of her sister and a trip they had taken. "Tina loved being a cop, and this send-off is such an honor to what she was and wanted to be." Rambo's eulogy was read by her …
Ocean County detective laid to rest today.
Flags will fly at half-staff around the county today in honor of fallen Ocean County Detective Tina E. Rambo. The Office of the Ocean County Administrator issued the order in recognition and mourning of Rambo, a prosecutor's office detective who was killed Monday morning in a head-on collision in the Southampton portion of Route 70. Services were held Thursday and this morning at St. Isaac Jogues Church in Marlton for the 10-year veteran of the Ocean office. Rambo, 35, was a graduate of Toms River High School North and was formerly a part-time special police officer in Point Pleasant Beach before assuming her role in the prosecutor's office, where she worked in a variety of units: Narcotics Strike Force; Special Victims Unit; Megan’s Law …
Wednesday, August 3, 2011
Tina Rambo died Monday in Route 70 crash
Funeral services for Tina E. Rambo, an Ocean County detective who died Monday in a head-on collision on Route 70, will be held tomorrow and Friday. According to an obituary prepared by Bradley Funeral Home in Marlton, the viewing will be held 2 to 4 p.m. and 6 to 9 p.m. Thursday and 8:45 to 9:30 a.m. Friday at St. Isaac Jogues Church, 349 Evesboro Medford Road in Marlton. A Mass of Christian burial will be held at 10 a.m. Friday at St. Isaac Jogues Church. Interment is in Coleston Cemetery, Cherry Hill. Rambo a 10-year veteran of the Ocean County Prosecutors Office, was killed in a head-on collision in the Southampton portion of Route 70 Monday morning. She was 35. A 1994 Graduate of Toms River High School North, she was a 1996 graduate of…
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Monday, August 1, 2011
Tina Rambo, formerly of Toms River, died in Route 70 crash in Southampton
Tina Rambo, a detective with the Ocean County Prosecutor's Office, died today in a head-on collision on Southampton's portion of Route 70. The Burlington County head-on collision was confirmed by Ocean County Prosecutor's Office, who said Rambo, 35, was a valued member of the county detective force and the mother of two small children. State police said on Monday afternoon that Rambo was driving her assigned, 2000 blue Ford Crown Victoria alone on Route 70 when her car collided with another car at milemarker 21 at 8 a.m. Rambo was driving eastbound and Rachel Portnoy, 24, of Marlton, was, originally, driving westbound in a 2004 silver Saturn Ion. However, Portnoy's car then moved, head-on with Rambo's car, into the eastbound lane, and the …
Thursday, June 30, 2011
Memorial gathering for Nicholas Holmes, 25, to be held on July 2 in Lacey Township
Nicholas Holmes was described on by his friends on Facebook as a “guy who meant the world to a lot of people.” Holmes, 25, of Lanoka Harbor, died in a boating accident on June 25 in Barnegat Bay. He was thrown overboard from a 23-foot scarab near Tices Shoal when it was hit by a strong wake from another passing boat, according to the New Jersey State Police. Holmes, a Machinery Technician First Class in the U.S. Coast Guard, was honored with several vigils at Laurel Boulevard in Lanoka Harbor before his body was found in Barnegat Bay around 10 a.m. June 28. “He will be missed dearly, the amount of lives he touched in his short life greatly exceeds the amount of lives a normal person will touch in his lifetime,” his obituary on Legacy.com …
Friday, June 24, 2011
Married four months when her husband Matthew C. Blum died, Melissa M. Blum, and their unborn daughter Madison Michelle, pass away four months later.
Melissa M. Blum, 31, of Forked River, and her unborn daughter, Madison Michelle Blum, died June 17 of natural causes, just four months after the untimely death of her husband. Blum's husband Matthew C. Blum died of natural causes February 27 after collapsing in the parking lot of Winding River Park Skating Center. Matt and Melissa Blum (nee Mulero) were married October 29, 2010, and discovered they were expecting their first child two weeks before Matt died. Blum was due to deliver Madison in October. 'She died of a broken heart' "Daughter, granddaughter, niece, sister, aunt, friend, cousin — these are just a few simple titles to describe Melissa," Blum's sister Jennifer Allarde of Bayville said in the eulogy she delivered at St. Barnabas …
Monday, March 28, 2011
Services for David W. Hardie to be held on Wednesday
David W. Hardie, 54, who began his long career with the Berkeley Township Police Department as a teenager, died at his Bayville home on March 25. "He was a great guy, a friend to everybody," Mayor Jason J. Varano said. "He will be missed." Hardie started in the department as a special police officer. He was sworn in as a patrolman in 1978. Hardie rose through the ranks, serving as traffic safety officer, detective, patrol sergeant, detective bureau commander, patrol lieutenant, patrol division commander and acting chief of police. Hardie retired in 2003, after 25 years as captain of investigations and special operations, according to his obituary published in the Asbury Park Press. Hardie became a licensed boat captain after he retired. …
jessica fiorentino
7:21 pm on Thursday, May 3, 2012
nicole u made me cry oh kyle i love u so much and my u rest in peace and u took the the life and sole out of everyone u will never be forgotten more ›