On March 6, 2008. Age 80. Of Gloucester City. Loving wife of 52 years to the late John \”Jack\” Kelley. Beloved mother of Thomas M. (Marsha) Kelley of Gloucester City and Christopher J. Kelley of Naples, FL. Loving and caring grandmother of Christopher M., Katje (Dualmaine), Heather (Koray), and Jonathan. Loving great-grandmother of Brianna, Isaiah, Jeremiah and Elijah. Dear sister of Joan Miller of Las Vegas, NV and the late Marie Heitzman.

Bernice is also survived by many nieces, nephews and her dear friends and fellow members of the Gloucester Catholic Sorority. Bernice was a faithful and devoted parishioner of St. Mary\’s R.C. Church. She was a graduate of Gloucester Catholic class of 1946 and was also a member of the Gloucester City Seniors Association. Relatives and friends are kindly invited to attend her viewing on Monday evening from 7 to 9 PM and again on Tuesday morning from 8:15 to 9:15 AM at the HEALEY FUNERAL HOME: 9 White Horse Pike, Haddon Heights.

Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated on Tuesday morning at 10 AM at Saint Mary\’s R.C. Church: 426 Monmouth Street, Gloucester City. Interment New Saint Mary\’s Cemetery, Bellmawr. In lieu of flowers, the family requests memorial donations in Bernice\’s memory to: Aid to Aging c/o St. Mary\’s R.C. Church, 426 Monmouth St., Gloucester City, NJ 08030 or to Sister Lucy Beal: 210 Penn Ave. Haddon Township, NJ 08108.

Please write Theresa \”Bernice\” Kelley. Expressions of sympathy can be e-mailed to the family through our funeral home website www.mccannhealey.com under online obituaries of Theresa \”Bernice\” Kelley. Funeral Arrangements and Inquiries may be made through: McCANN-HEALEY FUNERAL HOME: 851 Monmouth Street, Gloucester City. Phone: 856-456-1142

  

On March 6, 2008. Age 85. Of Gloucester City. Loving wife of 55 years to the late Francis J. Toal, Jr. Loving mother of Ned (Ginny) Toal of Absecon and Pat (Dan) McAleer of Gloucester City. Devoted grandmother of Art (Tricia), Ed, Drew, Jeff, and Adam (Lauren). Dear sister of Viola, Anna and Jeanette and predeceased by her three brothers; Elmer, Alvin and John. Roberta was a faithful and devoted parishioner of St. Mary\’s R.C. Church. She was a graduate of Gloucester City High School where she was awarded perfect attendance for never missing a school day in 12 years.

Relatives and friends are kindly invited to attend her viewing on Tuesday morning from 9 to 11 am at the McCANN-HEALEY FUNERAL HOME: 851 Monmouth St. (at Brown St.) Gloucester City, NJ 08030. Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated 11:30 am at Saint Mary\’s R.C. Church: 426 Monmouth Street, Gloucester City. Interment New Saint Mary\’s Cemetery, Bellmawr.

The family requests memorial donations in Roberta\’s memory to: Saint Vincent DePaul Society c/o St. Mary\’s R.C. Church: at the above address. Please write Roberta S. Toal in the memo of the check. Expressions of sympathy can be e-mailed to the family through our funeral home website www.mccannhealey.com under online obituaries of Roberta S. Toal.

Funeral Arrangements and Inquiries may be made through: McCANN-HEALEY FUNERAL HOME: 851 Monmouth Street, Gloucester City. Phone: 856-456-1142.

God Bless Our Troops, and our Sons

Friday February 29th, 2008

My son Lucas, my wife Keiko and I departed by train to a place called Yufuin Onsen. We visited Shouyano Yakata Hot Spa a famous very old hot spring located in Oita, on Kyushu Island a few hours from our home.

We have planed this trip especially for our son Lucas who was home for 22 days home leave from Iraq. We wanted to give him an enjoyable rest and some recreation thus one well deserved after what he\’s been through. We took a taxi from our home to Orio Station about 20 minutes from our home.

Well we left Orio station at about 08:00 a.m. on the Sonic express bound for Fukuoka arriving at 08:45 where we changed trains, boarding the Yufuin Express leaving at 09:05a.m.It was a very pleasant journey. The Yufuin Express was so comfortable with first class leather reclining seats just like business class on air planes.

It was really a great trip all the way to Yufuin Station, arriving at 11:40 a.m. The area is extremely beautiful with green mountains and hills all around. We took a taxi to the Shouyano Yakata hot spa. The ride took about 10 minutes.

The spa is situated on the side of Mt.Yufu. It is very old and has been handed down through the same family for over 350 years, the landscape is very beautiful and quiet with many beautiful colorful song birds, and it\’s so very scenic and picturesque.

When we entered the lobby to register we saw many old pictures of many famous people and art work also along the hallway to the dining room. In the dining room were many beautiful old wood carvings of people and animals.

We were taken down along a wide long hallway to a very traditional dining room where we sat on cushions with our legs under a katsu table with a heating lamp under and a quilt to keep us warm, it was like reverting back to over a hundred years or so, we were really relaxing and soaking in all of the traditional decor and atmosphere surrounding us.

The menu was also very traditional with raw Flounder = sashimi, a miso soup with fish and vegetables, tempura = deep fried in bread crumbs, a bowl of rice and of course we shared a beer together after the waitress brought steak and more vegetables, we had hot tea and some ice cream and fruit. All was delicious and very healthy. We finished our meal and were shown to our room.

As we entered I looked out the window and saw a beautiful pool of greenish colored steaming hot water, the bath was about 5 feet just outside the sliding window. I saw that there were huge rocks and boulders surrounding the hot spa one can sit on the part of the rocks that are under the water and relax.

\”Wow it was really great like in a movie.\”

Remember this is winter mind you and there was still a little snow on the ground in places.

We didn\’t go to the same bath there was a divider screen between the female\’s side and the male\’s side of the hot spa.

Well we entered the bath the outside was freezing especially without anything on between the room and spa. The temperature was about 35 degrees but the water was warm and extremely relaxing it was great on these old bones of mine too. We didn\’t feel any cold at all once in the spa.

We stayed there at the spa for about 4 hours than checked out and we left and took a taxi to Lake Kinrinko for some sightseeing.

While there we visited Mark Chagall\’s Museum. We had the opportunity to view some of his famous works of art. There was a coffee shop so we had coffee and some cheese cake.

We spent about an hour and a half there, we left for the Yufuin Station area where we went into many souvenir shops to pick up some gifts for Luke\’s friends in Iraq and of course a local bottle of Japanese sake for us to take home.

We walked to the station since it was getting close to the trains boarding time at 17:45p.m. We returned home via Fukuoka and arrived back at Orio station at about 20:30 took a taxi home and we enjoyed a very relaxing day trip together. We were glad to get back home because we were so very tired. This is only one of the many great opportunities we can experience while living here in Kitakyushu City, Japan.

Yesterday evening Sunday March 2nd our son Lucas went back to Iraq. Once again we\’ll miss him we\’ll pray and worry for his safety as we did for his brother Max while he was in Iraq last year with the U.S.Marines.

His complete tour of duty will be up in late August or early September, at that time he will return to the U.S. Army Schofield Barracks in Honolulu, Hawaii.

God Bless Our Troops, and our Sons.

Warm Regards from Kitakyushu City, Japan

Hank, Keiko, Lucas, Max & Rachel,

The Miller Family

HARTFORD, Conn. – The Rutgers women\’s basketball team will look to defend its conference tournament title as the 2008 BIG EAST Championships kick off on March 8 at the XL Center in Hartford, Conn. The Scarlet Knights, who won the 2007 championship, will be seeded second and play the winner of the Louisville/St. John\’s game Sunday, March 9. The game can be seen nationally on ESPNU starting at 6 p.m.

No. 4/5 Rutgers (24-5, 14-2) defeated No. 10 seed St. John\’s on January 5, 58-50, and topped No. 7 seed Louisville, 70-57, on Jan. 20. Both games were played in Piscataway. The Cardinals and the Red Storm will play in the first round on March 8 at 6 p.m.

Louisville (21-8, 10-6) is led by junior Angel McCoughtry, who leads the BIG EAST and is fourth in the nation with 23.8 points per game. The Cardinals are 1-2 all-time against Rutgers and in the only meeting this season, senior guard Matee Ajavon (Newark, N.J.) hit for a season-high 23 points on 8-of-12 shooting.

St. John\’s (16-13, 7-9) ended the season strongly with three consecutive victories. The Red Storm are led by Monique McLean, who averages 14.3 points per game (14^th in the BIG EAST) and Kia Wright, who is fourth in the conference with 4.24 assists per game. Rutgers has won 30 of the 33 all-time meetings with the Red Storm, including 16 straight.

Rutgers is 18-11 all-time in the BIG EAST Tournament, including a 14-3 mark in neutral-site contests. This year marks the second consecutive season and fifth time overall that RU has been the No. 2 seed. GAME NOTES

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Tempe, AZ—-The College of New Jersey baseball team tallied a 7-2 victory over Concordia University (IL) on Friday afternoon as interim head coach Dean Glus (photo) made his debut. TCNJ, which is ranked 13th opened the new campaign by handing the previously unbeaten Concordia University Cougars a 7-2 loss to improve to 1-0, while CU drops to 6-1.

TCNJ got on the scoreboard early as junior short stop Jeff Toth (Parlin, NJ/Sayreville) connected on the first of his two home runs in the contest in the top of the first. He would add his second home run on a solo shot in the top of the fifth as the Lions built a 3-1 lead. Toth, an All-American for the Lions in 2007, now has 10 career homeruns after batting .368 last year with eight in his TCNJ rookie campaign.

TCNJ broke open the game with four runs in the top half of the seventh inning as TCNJ would knock the Cougars’ starter, senior Carl Petersen (DesPlaines, IL/Maine West) from the game after 6.1 innings of work. Petersen drops to 1-1 after allowing seven earned runs off eight hits with two strikeouts and two walks.

Replaced by both Joe Leyhane (Chicago, IL/Notre Dame) and Anthony Collaro (Melrose, Parl, IL/Walter Lutheran), Concordia was not able to recover. Collaro worked 2.2 innings and fanned four batters with just one hit allowed.

Offensively for the Lions, junior third baseman Vince Mazzaccaro (Gloucester City, NJ/Gloucester Catholic) would connect for three hits on the day with a pair of RBI’s.

TCNJ’s left handed senior pitcher Bob Buskett (Trenton, NJ/Notre Dame) worked five innings for the win as he yielded no earned runs with no hits, two strikeouts and five walks. Buskett is now 16-2 on his career and closing in on his 100th career strikeout as he has 93 to his credit thus far.

Rookie Joe Marchitelli (Jackson, NJ/Jackson Memorial) worked two innings of relief, yielding one earned run with four strikeouts off four hits. Junior Eric Gertie (Cinnaminson, NJ/Cinnaminson) pitched an inning as the Lions’ closer and fanned one with a hit on the day.

TCNJ returns to action on Saturday facing Wheaton College (MA) at 2 p.m. (MST), 4 p.m. (EST).

(NOTE: Sorry to TCNJ\’s baseball fans, but we experienced some technical difficulties on Friday as Ann King\’s laptop died in the second inning! Hence the live stats went down as did the ability to post a box score or season stats. We are hopeful that a new machine and software will find its way to Arizona by the beginning of the week. Sorry for any inconveniences this may have caused and thank you for your patience!)

On March 6, 2008. Age 69. Of Brooklawn. Formerly of Gloucester City. Loving Companion of 20 years to Lillian K. New of Mantua. Beloved father of Charles H. Thilo of Brooklawn. Dear Brother of Walter (Ruth) Thilo of Florida and Peg (Bob) Glaze of Mays Landing. Loving grandfather of one.

Charles was born and raised in Gloucester City. He was a Carpenter for Union 1489 in Burlington City. Charlie loved to visit his many friends at O\’Donnell\’s Restaurant in Gloucester City.

Relatives and friends are kindly invited to attend his viewing on Monday Morning from 10 am to 12 noon at the McCANN-HEALEY FUNERAL HOME: 851 Monmouth Street, (at Brown Street) Gloucester City. Catholic Religious Service 12 noon in the funeral home officiated by Father Walter Norris of Saint Matthew\’s R.C. Church. Interment Eglington Cemetery, Clarksboro, NJ. There will be no evening viewing.

Family requests memorial donations in Charles\’ memory to any cause of your choice. Please write Charles A. Thilo in the memo of the check. Expressions of sympathy can be e-mailed to the family through our funeral home website www.mccannhealey.com under online obituaries of Charles A. Thilo. Funeral Arrangements and Inquiries may be made through: McCANN-HEALEY FUNERAL HOME: 851 Monmouth Street, Gloucester City, NJ 08030. Phone: 856-456-1142ouserHio

 

Written by: Charles Aznavour

English translation by: Herbert Kretzmer

(Roy Clark sang this song at Mickey\’s Funeral in 1995. Mickey had heard Roy sing it before and thought it depicted his life so well that he specifically asked Roy to someday sing it at his funeral) 

 

Yesterday when I was young  

The taste of life was sweet as rain upon my tongue  

I teased at life as if it were a foolish game  

The way the evening breeze may tease a candle flame  

The thousand dreams I dreamed, the splendid things I planned  

I always built, alas, on weak and shifting sand  

I lived by night and shunned the naked light of day  

And only now I see how the years ran away  

Yesterday when I was young  

So many drinking songs were waiting to be sung  

So many wayward pleasures lay in store for me  

And so much pain my dazzled eyes refused to see  

I ran so fast that time and youth at last ran out  

I never stopped to think what life was all about  

And every conversation I can now recall  

Concerned itself with me, and nothing else at all  

Yesterday the moon was blue  

And every crazy day brought something new to do  

I used my magic age as if it were a wand  

And never saw the waste and emptiness beyond 

The game of love I played with arrogance and pride  

And every flame I lit too quickly, quickly died  

The friends I made all seemed somehow to drift away  

And only I am left on stage to end the play  

There are so many songs in me that won\’t be sung  

I feel the bitter taste of tears upon my tongue 

The time has come for me to pay for yesterday when I was young 

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Cedar Rapids, Iowa…A pair of wrestlers from The College of New Jersey remain alive at the 2008 NCAA Division III Championships as freshman Justin Bonitatis (Cherry Hill, NJ/Cherry Hill East) and junior Greg Osgoodby (Waldwick, NJ/Waldwick) each moved into the quarterfinals of the consolation bracket on Friday.

The NCAA Championships, which are being held in Cedar Rapids, Iowa with Coe College, Cornell College and the Iowa Intercollegiate Athletic Conference serving as the hosts, will conclude on Saturday.

The top eight place winners in each weight class will earn All-American honors.

Bonitatis earned a win in his first career NCAA Tournament bout at 165 as he knocked off on fifth-seeded Shaheim Bradshaw from SUNY Brockport, 5-4. In his second match, Bonitatis faced another seeded wrestler, this time fourth-seeded Benjamin Hoover of Maranatha Baptist. Hoover pulled out an 8-7 decision putting Bonitatis in the consolation bracket. The Lion freshman got back on the winning track defeating Patrick Stanley from Johns Hopkins, 10-5. He will begin the second day of competition taking on third-seeded Gino Russo of Baldwin Wallace.

At 174 pounds, Osgoodby opened the tournament against fifth-seeded Brandon MacWhinnie from Stevens Institute of Technology, but lost by the count of 10-3. He bounced back in the consolation bracket as he pinned Augsburg\’s George Lynaugh in 2:44. In his next match, Osgoodby got past David Priest from Ithaca College by the score of 11-6 setting up his first match on Saturday against Kyle Kehrli of Cornell College.

Senior Ray Sarinelli (Rockaway, NJ/Morris Hills) opened the tournament at 133 pounds with a 6-2 decision over Luther College\’s Zac Bartlett, but then fell to David Morgan from King\’s College 9-3. Morgan is the defending national champion and seeded second in the weight class. The loss dropped Sarinelli, the seventh seed, into the consolation bracket where he fell to eighth-seeded Jestin Hulegaard of Buena Vista, 7-4.

Sarinelli finished the season with a record 28-7 and concluded his standout career at TCNJ at 90-28 and a two-time NCAA qualifier.

 Dennis and Tammy Galligan were seeking a new venture when they noticed that the property at 200 S. Broadway was for sale. Not really knowing what a gold mind they were landing, they purchased Bert\’s Shamrock (which it was then called) and renamed the bar Jack\’s Bar & Grill in memory of Tammy\’s father, Jack Walters, a long time Gloucester City resident.

Upon opening they began slowly making much needed renovations and were visited by a gentleman who claimed to be a local historian, friendly with one of the original band players of Bill Haley & the Comets. The Galligans were of course a bit skeptical and blindly dismissed this person and went about their business. Shortly thereafter, upon applying for a UEZ matching façade grant they were dumbfounded by the reality that they were indeed sitting on the best kept historical secret in the City…as their property was the place Bill Haley & his Saddleman got their start and began what we now know as Rock n Roll.

It was back in the early 1950\’s, in an 18 month stint at the Twin Bar, now owned by the Galligans, Bill Haley & the Saddlemen enthusiastically combined country and western, rhythm and blues and various other musical styles to form a successfully blended sound, which resulted in what Haley described as \”the birthplace of rock \’n\’ roll — a place where he could experiment with the crowd,\” according to co-authors John von Hoelle and John W. Haley (son of Bill Haley), in Sound and Glory, which is a biography of Bill Haley.

Aware of the building\’s rich history, the Galligan\’s vigorously worked hand in hand with the City to rehabilitate their façade, change their name to Jack\’s Twin Bar all to enhance their image — with the full intention of keeping Bill Haley\’s legend alive.

Last June, they partnered with the Gloucester City UEZ and together they hosted the 1^st Annual Rock n Roll Revival, which featured Bill Haley\’s Original Comets and other rockabilly bands in an all out tribute to Bill Haley and Gloucester City\’s claim to fame as the birthplace of rock n roll. A plaque commemorating Bill Haley\’s contribution to the cultural history of the region naming Jack\’s Twin Bar as the birthplace of Rock N Roll, now sits on the front of the building, provided by the Camden County Board of Freeholders.

This years Rock N Roll Revival event will be held on June 20 and June 21, along Broadway, which will again focus on Gloucester City rock n roll history. Jack\’s Twin Bar is also currently working with the City to erect a mural on the outside wall of their establishment, which will depict Bill Haley\’s earlier days in relation to his debut in Gloucester City.

The bar/restaurant have various specials and bands, which play on a regular basis and are open daily from 11:30-2 am, and Sundays from 1 to 10 pm. Lunch specials and Happy Hour from 3 to 6 pm is available every day.

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