Bernards High School Alumni Obituaries

Donna Jean Hamby age 78 daughter of James and Vera Kennedy Riley was born March 9 1947 in Waynesville Missouri. She passed away December 13 2025 surrounded by her children in Eureka Missouri. Donna is preceded in death by her parents her husband Ronald sister Mary Ann and brother James Warren. She ...

Born in Somerville NJ to parents Edward G. and Eunice VanWyck Gerth was a longtime PeapackGladstone area resident finally settling down in Bernardsville for the past 15 years. Gerth graduated from Bernards High School and knowing that college was not for him he got a job with Patsy Dante who was the...

Richard L. “Dick” VanArsdale, 91, passed away January 3, 2026.Dick was born in Somerville and raised in Peapack Gladstone before moving to Hillsborough 57 years ago. He was a 1951 graduate of Bernards High School. Dick was employed as a splicing technician for NJ Bell Telephone for 41 years, retirin...

Doris Kutcher 96 of the Basking Ridge section of Bernards Township passed away on Wednesday April 30 2025. She was born April 25 1929 in Rockaway Township NJ to Ella and John Hancock. She attended Dover NJ schools and graduated from Dover High School in 1947. Mrs. Kutcher is survived by a son Bruce ...

Edward J. Russo 69 of Bedminster passed away on Tuesday December 23 2025 at his home with family by his side. He was born in Somerville on December 29 1955 a son of the late James V. and Marguerite Jane Deck Russo. He was a lifelong resident of Bedminster except for a few years spent in Peapack. Ed ...

Jennifer M. Picheca age 75 a lifelong resident of Far Hills passed away on Friday March 21 2025 after enduring a long and courageous battle with multiple health issues. Jennifer was born at the then Somerset Medical Center in Somerville on September 9 1949 the daughter of the late Anthony and Mary M...