Obituaries

Mr. William G. Shanahan passed away Friday January 20th, 2017 surrounded by family at the Bridgeway Care Center in Hillsborough. He was 83 years old. Born in Brooklyn, N.Y. to Edward P Shanahan Jr. and Sally (Burns) Shanahan, William graduated from Xavier High School in Manhattan, and from St. Peter’s University in Jersey City with a baccalaureate in English. Mr. …

Mr. Fu-Yii Jim Wound passed away on Sunday, January 8th, 2017, at his home in Somerset. He was 74 years old. Born in Shanghai, China to the late Shu-Chen Weng and Mei-Ko Wang, Jim moved to Taiwan and graduated from the National Cheng Kung University in Tainan. He emigrated to the United States to study chemical engineering at the Southern …

Mrs. Marion Boekhout, 87, passed away Jan. 11. Born in Franklin Township to Percy and Ruth Smith, Marion lived in Belle Mead before settling in Franklin Park in 1953. She was a long time member of Six Mile Run Reformed Church, where she sang in the choir for many years. Mrs. Boekhout drove a school bus for Twin County Bus …

Dr. Samuel Kushner, 74, died Jan. 10 at the Center for Hope Hospice in Scotch Plains. Dr. Kushner was born and raised in Philadelphia, Pa. to the late Abraham and Helen Kushner. He moved to New Jersey in 1972 and resided in Union and Westfield. In 2004, he settled in Somerset. Samuel was a graduate of Central High School of …

Mrs. Magdalena Santiago passed away on Jan. 8 in New Brunswick. She was 82 years old. Mrs. Santiago was born in Rincon, Puerto Rico and lived in the Bronx, Brooklyn and Queens before moving to Somerset in 1997. She was a parishioner of St. Matthias Church. She cherished time spent with her loving children and grandchildren and was always certain …

Margaret (Peggy) A. Grimes, 89, passed away peacefully on  Jan. 8 at Regency Heritage Care Center. Peggy was born April 30, 1927 in Manhattan, New York to the late Walter and Frances (Harney) Green. She grew up in Manhattan and moved with her husband to central New Jersey in the late 1950s, where she last resided in Somerset. Peggy was …

Mrs. Millie (Lagowski) Toth passed away peacefully Jan. 6 at St. Peter’s University Medical Center in New Brunswick at the age of 92. Mrs. Toth was born in Portage, Pa. and moved to the Somerset area as a teenager. She remained a resident of Franklin Township for the remainder of her life. She was long time parishioner of St. Joseph …

Mrs. Catherine Jean Rebbel passed away Jan. 7 at her home in Flemington. She was 84 years old. Born in Baltimore, Md. to Edward and Evelyn Rossiter, Jean graduated from Patterson Park High School. She’d lived in and around Somerset since 1967 before settling in Flemington in 2002. Over the years, her garrulous, personable nature aided her in her work …

Jonathan was a kind beautiful soul, who should be remembered for his charismatic personality, his infectious smile and his gentle nature. He was a hero to his sister Mollie and a source of strength to his mother. He was her rock, her heart and soul. He brought joy and laughter to all those around him. Left behind: his loving mother …

Mary Hutt, formerly of Somerset, passed away on Jan. 1 at the Bartley Health Care Center in Jackson. She was 95 years old. Mrs. Hutt was born in Scotland and came to the United States as a child in 1923. She trained at Juilliard School in both voice and dance, was a Coloratura Soprano and once sang at Carnegie Hall. …