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 Funeral Services were held for Gerardo J. Scavone, 80, of Williamstown, formerly of Mount Ephraim, who died September 15, 2008.

If you needed a friend you could call Jerry Scavone. He was always there to help family and friends, dependable for any kind of endeavor. If it needed to be built, Jerry Scavone would build it. If something was broken, Jerry Scavone could fix it. And when he was finished, he\’d show you a dance step. He was a great dancer with a natural sense of rhythm.

Jerry worked for more than 35 years for the LaFrance Co. in Philadelphia. He was a member of the Sons of Italy in Mount Ephraim. He\’ll be remembered as a loving, caring man with a limitless love of family.

Devoted father of Genevieve Varello; Jerry Scavone and Bruce Scavone. Step-father of Thomas and Michael Olson. Grandfather of 9 great-grandfather of 5. Brother of Pat, Louis, Anthony and Frankie Scavone.

Internet New St. Mary\’s Cemetery, Bellmawr.

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DAMIANO

Carmela \”Millie\”

 

On September 27, 2008. Age 88. Of Gloucester City. Loving Daughter of the late Nicholas and Caterina Damiano (nee DiNardo). Beloved Aunt of Dolores Jones of Bonita Springs, Florida, Rose Marie Pocius of Mantua, Peter Duca of Arroyo Grande, California, Nicholas Duca of Simi Valley, California, Robert Duca of Estell Manor and the late Nicholas Damiani. Dear Sister of the late John and Millie Damiani and the late Antonietta and Joseph Duca. Cherished Great-Aunt of 9 and great-great aunt of 12. Carmela was known as \”Millie\” to all and was born in Campo Basso, Italy.

She graduated from Paulsboro High School and was a resident of Gloucester City. She was a devoted parishioner of Saint Mary’s R.C. Church in Gloucester City. Millie worked in the payroll department for 35 years at Campbell Soup Company in Camden. She was a very active and beloved volunteer for Underwood Memorial Hospital in Woodbury and was active with the Gloucester City Seniors Citizens Association.

Relatives and friends are kindly invited to attend her viewing on Saturday morning from 10 am to 11 am at Saint Mary’s R.C. Church: 426 Monmouth Street, Gloucester City. Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated 11 am in the church. Entombment Eglington Mausoleum, Clarksboro. There will be no evening viewing and no viewing at the funeral home.

Family requests no flowers please, instead memorial donations are strongly requested for the National Association for the Blind and Visually Impaired: 919 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA 19107. ATTN: Development Department. Please write in memo of the check: Carmela Damiano.

Expressions of sympathy can be e-mailed to the family through our funeral home website www.mccannhealey.com under online obituaries of Carmela Damiano. Funeral Arrangements and Inquiries may be made through: McCANN-HEALEY FUNERAL HOME: 851 Monmouth Street, Gloucester City.

Ph: 856-456-1142

Gloucester City v. Chatham Square Tenants eviction case will be held Thursday, October 2^nd at 8:45 AM in the Hall of Justice Building, Camden. The case will be heard in landlord/tenant court by Camden County Judge Michael Kassel in room 63. City Solicitor John Kearney will be representing the interest of the taxpayers.

The City of Gloucester purchased the 100 unit Chatham Square Apartment complex earlier this year for $4.1 million.

After settlement an audit of the financial records was performed to determine if those in the 41 occupied units were legitimate tenants. When the audit was completed 32 residents were sent eviction notices for nonpayment of their rent or security deposits, said Kearney.

Tenants are being asked to produce proof of their rent payments. And in some cases show proof that they made a security deposit.

Thursday’s case is the first of two hearings for the tenants. Some will be in court this week. The case against the remaining tenants will be held the following week.

Moving on……

I received a TIP about a hiring mistake that could cost the Gloucester City taxpayers some big money. The matter involves the City Fire Department, seven firemen, the City Administrator and the New Jersey Department of Personnel (DOP) Merit Board.

The facts are fuzzy but may become clearer after a payroll audit of the City Fire Department ordered by the DOP is completed. If my source is correct some firemen who were employed within the last two years were not hired within the DOP guidelines. I am looking for some help with this matter. Write me at [email protected]. The DOP website is located here http://www.state.nj.us/personnel/contact/index.htm

A final thought…..I have read and read again the recent columns written by Rich Luongo giving his opinion about the Democrat presidential candidate Barack Obama. I cannot find one racist remark in any of them. To his critics I ask you to point out the sentence or sentences you are referring too as being racist. It is apparent that Rich doesn’t feel Mr. Obama is the right choice for president. But that doesn’t make him a racist. Nor should it make anyone else who is against Obama a racist.

Mr. Luongo is a respected journalist with a distinguished career and background in journalism. I have the utmost respect for this individual. I guarantee you he doesn’t have a racist bone in his body.

Finally as editor of this site I accept the blame for the misspelling of the last name of the GOP vice-presidential candidate in one of Luongo’ columns. What a ridiculous argument. I’ll correct it.

Some of the recent comments on the presidential race we are receiving are so preposterous they are laughable. Example, calling the Democrats in Gloucester City \”racist rednecks\” because there are no Obama for president signs posted on the Club’s headquarters. Really!

In my travels I have been looking for Obama signs and I can’t find any in other cities either. The reason given to me by the local Democrats is that there are none available. \”Those in charge of Mr. Obama’s campaign are using the monies on other things like costly television commercials,\” said one Dem.

I for one never gave much attention to those political signs anyway. To me they are unattractive and hang around too long after the election is over.

By Bill Cleary

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Bill,

I just read in the Courier this morning that our teacher Joe Gallagher
died on Wednesday, September 24th at the age of 76, and that there will
be a viewing from 8:30-11:30 AM tomorrow morning, Tuesday,September
30th, followed by a funeral mass at noon. Both will be held at St.
Vincent Pallotti Church in HaddonTwp.

Joe was an excellent teacher, a fine role model, a great athlete and
coach and just an all around great guy with a good sense of humor. I am
sure that many of your readers would want to know this since Joe spent
so much time at Gloucester Catholic and Gloucester High.

Best wishes,
Gus Danks

 

GALLAGHER, JOSEPH P., SR.
On September 24, 2008, age 76, of Haddon Twp.
Beloved husband of 53 years to Marie (nee Kaufmann) Gallagher. Loving father of Joseph P. (Colleen) Gallagher, Jr., Kevin (Ann) Gallagher, Michael (Janice)Gallagher, Mimi (Joseph) Staley and Sean Gallagher. Brother of Elizabeth Madison and the late Rev. Msgr. Paul Gallagher. Also survived by his grandchildren, Erin, Joseph (Jennifer) III, Caitlin, Aileen, Peter, Claire, Stephen, Andrew, Marie, Jennifer and Megan.
Joseph graduated from Camden Catholic in 1949, and LaSalle University in 1955. He also served in the U.S. Army during the Korean War. Mr. Gallagher taught at Gloucester Catholic for 10 years, where he was the head baseball coach, and then Gloucester High for 10 years.He retired in 1993, after 23 years as Board Secretary Business Administrator for Gloucester City Board of Education.
Relatives and friends are invited to attend the viewing Tuesday 8:30 to 11:30 am at St. Vincent Pallotti Church, 901 Hopkins Road, Haddon Twp., 08033. Funeral Mass at 12noon. Entombment Calvary Mausoleum, Cherry Hill.
Arrangements by the BLAKE-DOYLE FUNERAL HOME, Collingswood. The family requests memorial contributions be made in Joseph\’s name to St. Vincent Palotti Parish or American Cancer Society, 1851 Old Cuthbert Rd., Cherry Hill, NJ 08034, or First Way Of West Collingswood, 528 Richey Ave., Collingswood, NJ 08107

 

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Funeral Services were held for Naomi Ella Sharp, (nee Bruner), 92, of Gloucester City, who died September 8, 2008.

Naomi was a life member of the Townsend C. Young VFW Post #3620 Ladies Auxiliary. She liked to travel, dance and was loved by all.

She was the loving mother of Albert (Laurie) Sharp, Herbert (Elaine) Sharp and the late Walter Sharp. She is also survived by her dear grandchildren Kimberly (Harry) Ellenbark, Thomas (Cynthia) Sharp, Steven Sharp, Karen (Christian) Hoffman, Staci (Joseph) Genovese, 8 great grandchildren and many nieces and nephews.

Friends met at the Etherington-Creran Funeral Home, 700 Powell Street, Gloucester. Interment was in Hillcrest Memorial Park, Hurffville.

Link: Pahrump Valley Times

The Bear\’s Revenge

From my tree stand seat I could see a mammoth black bear walking toward the bait I had been watching for several hours. Slowly he made his way until he was within shooting range. Concentrating my focus on the target area behind his left front shoulder I drew my bow.

Just as I began to put pressure on the release, I heard the sound of fabric tearing and I slumped forward to my left, nearly falling out of the tree. The cloth seat in the stand had deteriorated from weather and age and nearly tore in half. The release went off and I heard a loud thud as the arrow struck something. The big bear had departed and I saw my arrow sticking in a log near where he had stood.

After descending from my perch, I examined the arrow and saw faint marks of blood and a handful of hair on the ground. I searched the area thoroughly, but could not find any more blood. My near fall from the tree had caused me to shoot low and clip some belly hairs from the bear. Needless to say, I was thankful I had been wearing a safety belt.

Once again I climbed into the tree, standing this time since I no longer had a seat. An hour later, the same large bear, \”Big Yogi\” as we came to call him, appeared from the direction he had fled and settled down 40 yards away.

 Prayer Services were held for George S. Hewes, Jr., 89, of Audubon, NJ, who passed away on September 9, 2008.

 Beloved husband of the late Florence (nee Sanders) of Audubon. Devoted father of Janet C. Gasbarro (William) of Absecon and Betty Hewes-Eddinger (Thomas) of Haddon Heights. He was the devoted grandfather of Jeffrey Gasbarro, Alexis Hewes-Eddinger, Casey Hewes-Eddinger and the late Johnathon Gasbarro. Also survived by a sister Lurlene Flenard of Cherry Hill, a brother-in-law Arthur Sanders of FL, and many nieces and nephews.

 I would like to give a thumbs up to a local business. I needed to make a quick run to WalMart in Audubon to exchange a computer that I\’d bought a couple of days before and didn\’t work once I got it home.

I recalled seeing the ad in the Gloucester City News for Always Affordable Taxi. I like to patronize local businesses and decided to give them a call.

I was not sorry. They arrived soon after I put the call in. I used this taxi service to get over to WalMart and back. Both drivers (one of which was the owner of the company) were polite and very helpful. And they are much more reasonable than other local taxi companies.

I would highly recommend the Always Affordable Taxi service.

Ms. Terry M. Callen, Gloucester City

 

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A Memorial Service was held at Brig. General William C. Doyle Veterans Memorial Cemetery, Wrightsville, for James J. McGlinn, 85, originally from Audubon, who died September 4, 2008.

Jim was a lifelong resident of Southern NJ. He was an avid golfer and a passionate pursuer of business opportunities who never lost his sense of humor. In WWII he served as a Staff Sergeant in the US Marines; flying many missions over the Pacific as a gunner in a B-25 Bomber.

James was predeceased by his wife Margaret and son Craig. He is survived and will be missed by his two son’s Randy and Michael along with six grandchildren.

A Mass of Christian Burial was celebrated at Holy Maternity Church, Audubon, for Gertrude R. Christian, 96, of Myrtle Beach, SC, formerly of Audubon, who died August 26, 2008.

Beloved wife of the late Daniel Christian. Loving mother of Jill (Alan) Shoop of Myrtle Beach, SC. Dear grandmother of Daniel (Debbie) Shoop of Somerdale, Erik Shoop of Cape May Court House, and Brad (Mary Jo) Shoop of Oceanview, NJ and dear great grandmother of Ryan Shoop. Dear sister of Estella Judd of Audubon, Marion (Philip) Charles of Cape May Court House and the late Frances Hyder of Philadelphia.

Interment was in New Saint Mary’s Cemetery, Bellmawr.