Obituaries

Feb 21, 2023

Maliyah Amya "Ballerina " Jessiah Joseph was born on October 28, 2019. She was born at Saint Barnabas Hospital in Livingston NJ.

Maliyah was enrolled at Jardin Academy in Cranford; NJ Maliyah had a very busy schedule. She attended Children's Specialized Hospital 3 days a week for therapy.

Maliyah loved the...

Feb 20, 2023

Feb 17, 2023

Daniel Oluruntobi James John died peacefully with both parents by his side on February 17, 2023 after a little over three years courageously battling renal medullary carcinoma. Daniel was born on December 10, 1994 to Gideon John and Karen Pompey and was the oldest of his three siblings.

Daniel attended elementary...

Feb 13, 2023

Jack Lee was born in Harlem, NY to Helen and Jacklyn Berger Lee II, and was raised with his 3 siblings, Carol, Yvonne and Guy. At age 12, Jack became a shoeshine boy on the streets of Harlem. In those days, a shine went for 15 cents. Jack earned Boy Scout merit medals in hiking and knot tying before...

Feb 11, 2023

Dolores Yvette Mercado was born on October 14, 1966, in Newark, New Jersey to the late Patricia Ann

Grinola and Angel Ralph Mercado. She was the third child born to this union. On Saturday morning,

February 11, 2023, our dear sister passed away at the Morristown Medical Center in Morristown, NJ after

battling...

Feb 10, 2023

Jason was born on September 16, 1971. He passed away on February

10, 2023. He was raised in Freehold, NJ and settled in Franklin Township in

2011.

Jason went to high school in Freehold and graduated in 1989. He

worked as an Avis Car Rental customer service...

Feb 10, 2023

Elijah Jordan Brown-Garcia was born on December 27, 2010 to Raven Brown. Elijah was blessed to have two fathers, Devon Stradford and Rodney Garcia, who shared the responsibility of nurturing and supporting him from the day he was born.

Elijah was his mother’s backbone. He gladly took on many tasks to assist her in every...

Feb 10, 2023

Feb 4, 2023

Tahlerah Lavette Carruthers, 44 years old of Newark, NJ, made her transition on February 4, 2023. She was born January 12, 1979 to the late Ernest Smith and Tawanda Carruthers.

Tahlerah was born in Newark NJ and received her education in the Newark Public School System. She attended I.Y.O to complete...

Feb 2, 2023

Jakwon Raul Ramos was born on December 28, 1995 to the proud parents Raul Ramos and Hope Thompson in Cobb County Georgia. His parents relocated to the Bronx, New York where he was raised. Then eventually received his high school diploma in New York. Jakwon was the oldest of four

Jakwon Ramos is preceded in...

Jan 31, 2023

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Obituary

Rogelio Antonio Chavarria was born in Limon, Costa Rica on April 21st, 1973, to his mother, Virginia Lozano and his late father, Antonio Chavarria. He lived a rough childhood alongside his father working in the banana plantations for little to no money. He later moved to the capital San Jose to live with his...

Jan 18, 2023

Ibn Hasan Halim Ali

Ibn Hasan Halim Ali was born February 6, 1988, to his parents Hasan Halim Ali and Yolanda Brooks Ali. Ibn was born in Newark, New Jersey and raised in the Borough of Roselle, where he attended Leonard V. Moore and Abraham Clark High Schools. In June 2007 Ibn graduated with his...

Jan 18, 2023

Jan 15, 2023

Catherine Rackley Jones was born on January 12, 1930 in Coolidge, GA to the late Benjamin and Pearlie Rackley. She was the youngest of eight children. She was a graduate of Moultrie High School. Upon graduating, she married John C. Jones, and relocated to Newark, NJ. From this union, they were blessed with five children.

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Jan 10, 2023

Derek J. Scott was born September 14, 1999, at Newark Beth Israel

Hospital to his beloved parents Roslyn Whittington Smith and

Derek Scott. Derek’s life was cut short on January 10, 2023, in an

accident. Derek moved with his mother to Atlanta, Georgia in 2009

where he later graduated from North...

Jan 7, 2023

Dec 30, 2022

Beverly Ann (Tyler) Edwards, daughter of the late Robert Tyler and Ernestine (Laws) Tyler, was born on December 19, 1946. Beverly released her Earthly cares and went to be with her Lord and Savior on December 30, 2022.

In Beverly’s early years she was educated in Newark Public Schools, attending Dayton...

Dec 25, 2022

Russell Thomas Zellner was born on June 5, 1934 in Dooly County, Georgia to the Parents of Miles Zellner Jr and Susie Kate Zellner.

Russell passed on December 25, 2022 surrounded by Dorothy Zellner Mullen and family in Hillside, New Jersey.

During his youth he attended Elementary School in Unadilla, Georgia...