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, January 24, 2012
Memorial service for Carluccio to be held at 11 a.m. Wednesday at the First Presbyterian Church in Toms River
It was the spring of 1985. Members of Greenpeace sailed parallel to the shore, just off Second Avenue in Ortley Beach and dropped anchor. Divers slipped into the waves and headed towards their destination – the end of the Ciba-Geigy pipeline that jutted out into the Atlantic Ocean, only 3,500 feet from the Second Avenue beach. Then they symbolically plugged some of the pipeline's diffuser holes with stainless steel salad bowls. When the divers came ashore, they were arrested. Toms River attorney Daniel J. Carluccio quickly sprung into action. He organized a team of prominent well-known local attorneys to defend the Greenpeace dozen, free of charge. Carluccio - who was later appointed Ocean County Prosecutor by Gov. James J. Florio - died …
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 …
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 …
Saturday, June 25, 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 Feb. 27 after collapsing in the parking lot of Winding River Park Skating Center. Matt and Melissa Blum (nee Mulero) were married Oct. 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 R.C. …
Thursday, March 10, 2011
Watson, 78, of Point Beach, who died Feb. 28, was the Point Boro Key Club advisor, and helped set up recycling in the area
Jack Watson never wanted anything to be merely ordinary - even if it was an ordinary old school club. When he took over the Key Club at Point Boro High School some 40 years ago, he wanted it to do more than hold cake sales or roll cotton candy at the Seafood Fest. Watson was known to be modest, so he would never put down anybody who did the car washes and the tricky-trays. It's just that, well, Jack, always wanted more. Watson, 78, who died Feb. 28 at his Point Beach home, helped turn the Point Boro Key Club - which was affiliated with the Kiwanis organization - into one of the most successful in the country. This Key Club did more than raise money - and it raised a lot. The Key Club helped set up one of the state's first regularly …
Tuesday, March 8, 2011
Sept. 11 first responder was 'a giant among men,' said friend
Barnegat resident and 9/11 first responder Sgt. Harold J. Smith, 47, died early Saturday morning after a battle with kidney cancer. Smith, known to friends as “Smitty,” retired from the New York Police Department’s narcotics division in 2007 after 20 years on the force, he told Barnegat Patch in a December interview. He moved to Barnegat from Staten Island that year with his wife Margie and their three children, who survive him. In 2008, he was diagnosed with cancer, the result, said his doctors, of the months he spent sifting through the rubble of the World Trade towers after the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. “Smitty was a giant among men,” said his friend and fellow 9/11 responder Charlie Giles. “There wasn’t a mean bone in his body." Even…
Thursday, March 3, 2011
Highly decorated veteran had a chapter dedicated to his D-Day effforts in Brokaw book, and a local monument built in his honor
A Toms River legend many called a hero for his World War II efforts died at the age of 91 Tuesday. World War II veteran and Silver Star recipient Leonard G. 'Bud' Lomell died of natural causes in Toms River March 1. “He was a great friend of all of us and a hero of D-Day, a person of great character,’’ said Freeholder Director Joseph H. Vicari. “Bud was a very kind man, we miss him,’’ said Freeholder Gerry P. Little, recalling how Lomell served in the Second Ranger Battalion, charged with silencing German shore batteries during the D-Day invasion. He found the shore artillery hidden in an orchard, braved German fire, and disabled the guns using thermite grenades. Little said Lomell was awarded the Silver Star, Bronze Star and …
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 ›