Jonathan L. Williams, a former deputy attorney general and partner at the DeCotiis law firm, died on May 21. He was 75. Wiliams had served as counsel to the Elizabeth Board of Education.
Raymond Zawacki, a former deputy commissioner of the New Jersey Department of Military and Veterans Affairs, died on May 7. He was 77. Zawacki was a U.S. Navy veteran who served in Vietnam on board the USS Ticonderoga.
Thomas Connaughton, who served as mayor of Bloomsbury in the early 19780s, died on May 15. He was 75. Connaughton was a U.S. Marine combat veteran in Vietnam.
Walter Craig, a former mayor of Lower Township, died on May 20. He was 72.
Joseph Werner, a former Morris Plains councilman, died on May 6. He was 89.
Richard “Tricky” England, Jr., a former Hoboken at-large councilman, school board president, and the city’s business administrator, died on May 24. He served in Vietnam as a U.S. Army veteran, and worked as a plant supervisor for Maxwell House Coffee in Hoboken.
Peter Patuto, a former Assistant Prosecutor in Essex and Bergen counties, died on May 20. He was 77.
John Andrus, who was the editor of the Ocean City Sentinel Ledger and the Cape May Star and Wave, died on May 15. He was 83.
C.J. Laveratt III, a former Tinton Falls fire commissioner, died on May 11. He was 61.
Sue Posselt, a former administrator of the East Amwell Zoning Board, died on May 20. She was 85.
William Keefauver, who spent 25 years on the Harding Zoning Board, died on May 9. He was 90. Keefauver served in the U.S. Army Air Corps.
Elizabeth DeGiulio, the vice president of the Shore Regional Board of Education and a former Sea Bright Planning Board member, died at age 82.
James Kellerk, who served as a Republican county committeeman in Belvidere, died on May 17. He was 94. He spent 38 years at the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey.
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