Montclair High School Alumni Obituaries

With heavy hearts we announce the passing of Marilyn Carmella Hellmuth 80 of Lanoka Harbor New Jersey on December 30 2025. Marilyn was born in Newark New Jersey to Rocco and Julia Meola. She graduated from Barringer High School and Montclair State University and worked for 35 years in Newark South P...

Margaret Mary Maggie Fehon 83 passed peacefully into eternal life on December 26 2025. Born in Jersey City and a resident of West Orange for 58 years she relocated in 2022 to Sicklerville. Predeceased by her husband Edward Allan Fehon her parents James A. Crotty and Kathleen McMann Crotty siblings J...

Madeline Therese Sullivan Cruoglio 94 of Litchfield CT passed away peacefully in her sleep on November 24 2025. Madeline was born in East Orange NJ on March 21 1931 to Mary Katherine Keaney and John Sullivan and was raised also by Beatrice Keaney Sullivan. She graduated from Our Lady of All Souls el...

Virginia Castelluccio Hill 90 a longtime resident of Roseland NJ diedSunday morning October 19 2025 after a long illness. Born in Newark NJ to Lucy Fuino and Charles Castelluccio she was the valedictorian of her graduating classes at Irvington High School and Montclair State University also earning ...

Bettie was born in Melrose MA to Fred and Grace Smith in 1924. She began school in Massachusetts and graduated high school in Montclair N.J. where they moved when she was 10 years old. After high school Bettie completed a secretarial course at the Catherine Gibbs School in Montclair. Bettie was work...

Born on St.Patricks Day March 171935Ed Murphy sometimes calledEddieby his childhood friendsgrew up in East Orangeand spent his life in New Jersey. HeattendedOur Lady of All Souls Elementary Schooland thenImmaculate Conception High School in Montclair. Later Ed earnedhis B.A. fromSeton Hall Universit...

Merrimack NH Amy E. Campbell Lamy 55 passed away peacefully on Monday October 27 2025 after a brief illness surrounded by her loving family. Born in Glenridge and raised in Montclair New Jersey Amy was the beloved daughter of the late Robert C. and Suzanne Hinman Campbell. She graduated from Montcl...

Juanita Elizabeth Kane Schmidt peacefully passed away on October 12 2025 at the age of 94. She was born on June 23 1931 in WilkesBarre Pennsylvania to her adoring parents Joseph E. Kane and Lillian Ritts Kane. Nita and her three siblings Joyce Joseph and Lynda lived in The Diamond City until the fam...

Doris Ann (Ackerman) Brett, beloved mother and grandmother, passed away peacefully on September 15, 2025, at the age 97, after a long battle with Alzheimer’s disease.Doris was born in 1928 in Jersey City, New Jersey. While still a baby, her family moved to Montclair, which became her hometown. She g...

Shelley Edleen Holmes Roundtree, 73, of Vauxhall, NJ, passed away peacefully on September 6, 2025. Shelley was born on July 7, 1952, in Montclair, NJ, to Leon Holmes and Margaret (Flippen) Holmes. She grew up alongside her sister, Marcia Lennard, who preceded her in death in 2004.Shelley graduated f...

Sister Mary Canavan SC formerly Sister Assumpta Mary 96 a committed member of the Sisters of Charity of Saint Elizabeth for 78 years peacefully entered into eternal life on Monday September 1 2025 at Saint Catherine of Siena Health Care Center Caldwell New Jersey. Born in Ridgefield Park New Jersey ...

Our beloved John Allan Griffith transitioned from labor to reward on September 23 2024. A life well lived Johns passion for education and community service was only outshined by his adoration for his daughters and his love for his family and friends. John was born on December 14 1936 the oldest son...

Jo Ellen Brown 89 of Katy Texas passed peacefully on August 31 2024. Jo Ellen was born on June 18 1935 in Orange New Jersey. She was a devoted wife and mother who touched the lives of everyone around her she married the love of her life Edmund Sonny Brown in February of 1955 and together they built ...

Robert Joseph "Rob" DeMayo 59 of Greensburg died Sunday June 30 2024 at Independence Health System Latrobe. He was born February 16 1965 in Newark NJ a son of Florence "Flo" Mancino DeMayo of Manchester NJ and the late Ronald DeMayo Sr. Rob was a member of St. Bruno Roman Catholic Church in Greensbu...

Stanley Davis Jr. who served as a teacher and administrator in the Brick Township school district for nearly 40 years and overcame personal tragedy to become the beloved patriarch of a large family in New Jersey and beyond died Sunday April 28 2024 after a long illness. He was 88. Stanley worked har...

Stanley Davis Jr. who served as a teacher and administrator in the Brick Township school district for nearly 40 years and overcame personal tragedy to become the beloved patriarch of a large family in New Jersey and beyond died Sunday April 28 2024 after a long illness. He was 88. Stanley worked har...

Stanley Davis Jr. who served as a teacher and administrator in the Brick Township school district for nearly 40 years and overcame personal tragedy to become the beloved patriarch of a large family in New Jersey and beyond died Sunday April 28 2024 after a long illness. He was 88. Stanley worked har...

Marie E. Stoddard 87 of Toms River formerly East Hanover passed away peacefully surrounded by her family on April 27 2024. She was born in Montclair in 1936 and graduated from Montclair High School. She was predeceased by her parents Daniel and Frances Gautieri. Marie was the beloved wife of the lat...

James Jack Kloss of Verona New Jersey passed away peacefully on August 16 2023 following a brief illness. Jack was born in Montclair on November 23 1942 the son of Stanley and Anna Kloss. He grew up in Bloomfield NJ and attended Immaculate Conception High School in Montclair where he played football...

Judith Carr Breuninger 88 of Tuftonboro NH passed away August 1 2023. She was born September 21 1934 to the Honorable Emery Wendell Carr and Edith Hoppin Carr. Judy attended Miss Beards School NJ Carpenter School and Brewster Academy Wolfeboro NH and graduated from Montclair High School Montclair NJ...

Visitation will take place on Friday May 19 2023 at 600800 PM at the Prout Funeral Home 370 Bloomfield Avenue in Verona NJ. A reception will follow at Calandras Italian Village 243 Bloomfield Avenue Caldwell. Graveside Services will take place in the family plot in Sunset Cemetery Christiansburg VA ...

Josephine Jo Downey departed this earthly life on March 31 2023. Funeral arrangements have been made at St. Raphael the Arch Angel Church in Raleigh for April 14th at 1230pm. Jo leaves us to rejoin her parents Nicholas and Katherine Arace her sister Mary Anne Mackey brother Joseph Arace and to reun...

Mr. Frederick F. Gallucci 86 passed away peacefully on April 2 2023 at Mountainside Hospital in Glen Ridge NJ. Services Entombment for both Fred Doris will be held at the Garden Mausoleum outdoors in the Gate of Heaven Cemetery 225 Ridgedale Avenue East Hanover NJ on Wednesday April 5 at 1100 am. ...

Bruce Edward Yeager Sr 67 of New Brighton PA passed away on January 28 2023surrounded by his loved ones. Bruce was born June 14 1955in New Brighton PA. Bruce graduated from Montclair High School in Montclair CA in 1972 and returned to New Brighton PA shortly after where he lived out the rest of his ...