Obituaries from Holcombe-Fisher Funeral Home

Nov 17, 2019

William Paul Rogers (“Bill”) of Branchburg, NJ, died Sunday, November 17, 2019 at Morristown Medical Center at the age of 77.

Born June 14, 1942 in Youngstown, OH, Bill was the son of the late William Lewis Rogers and Ladonna Ruth (Lesher) Frondorf. He was raised in Boardman, OH along with his late brother, Ernest Monroe Rogers....

Nov 16, 2019

Arlene W. Polhemus, age 87 years, of Bluffton, SC, died Saturday, November 16, 2019, in Bluffton.

Born in Branchburg Township, NJ, November 16, 1932, daughter of the late Leonard and Margaret Bacorn Waldron, she resided in Hunterdon County all her life until 1992. A resident of Bluffton, SC for four years, Arlene was a 1950 graduate of...

Nov 15, 2019

JoAnn Cutter, age 69 years, of Raritan Township, NJ passed away on Friday, November 15, 2019 at her home.

Born in Pennsylvania, she was the daughter of Rachel Imbriale of Flemington, NJ, and the late Joseph Imbriale.

JoAnn received her M.S. from Rutgers University and worked for Johnson & Johnson for 31 years in many...

Nov 14, 2019

June Rose Poliseno, age 88, died Thursday, November 14, 2019 at Hunterdon Medical Center in Raritan Township.

Born May 30, 1931 in Orange NJ, June was the daughter of the late Wilburn and Fannie (Lanfrank) Fertig.

While working various jobs throughout her life, June and her late husband, Carlo, raised their four children in the...

Nov 11, 2019

Edwin B. Slomka, MD of Flemington, New Jersey passed away peacefully on November 11, 2019. He was 93 years old.

Born in Manhattan, New York on January 18, 1926 to Tina and Sol Slomka, Ed grew up in the city with his older brother, Bruce. He graduated from Poly Prep Academy (Brooklyn) in 1942 at the age...

Nov 10, 2019

Gloria J. Colombo, age 73 years, of Delaware Township, NJ, died Sunday, November 10, 2019, at her home.

Born in Lebanon, PA, May 25, 1946, daughter of Grace Troutman of Lebanon, PA and the late Leroy Troutman, Gloria had resided in Delaware Township over forty years.

A retired teacher, she was a Magna Cum Laude...

Nov 9, 2019

Marjorie B. Mathews, age 89, died Saturday, November 9, 2019 at the Hunterdon Medical Center in Raritan Township, NJ.

Born March 18, 1930 in Somerville NJ, Marjorie was the daughter of the late Raymond and Myrtle (Hann) Mathews. She has lived in Hunterdon County nearly all of her life, moving from Somerville to Quakertown in 1938.

Nov 4, 2019

Toshiko Radford, age 92 years, of Bridgewater Township, NJ, died Monday, November 4, 2019 at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital Somerset.

Born in Tokyo, Japan, March 17, 1927, daughter of the late Jiro and Shichi Kanazawa Hiramatsu, she had formerly resided in Colonia, NJ and Branchburg, NJ.

She is pre-deceased by her four brothers, Mashisha...

Nov 2, 2019

Alice B. Rigas, of Raritan Township, died peacefully at home on Saturday, November 2, 2019. Born on January 7, 1920, in Newark, NJ, Alice was the daughter of the late Elizabeth (Saltzer) and J. Grant Johnson. She graduated from Irvington, NJ, public schools and worked for the Prudential Life Insurance Company in Newark prior to her marriage to the...

Oct 31, 2019

Anthony C. Olenick, of Whitehouse Station, NJ, quietly passed away on October 31, 2019.

Tony was born and raised in Sergeantsville, NJ. He joined the US Marine Corps in 1959 and retired in 1984 after tours in Florida, North Carolina and New York as well as Beirut, Lebanon, Okinawa and Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.

After retiring...

Oct 30, 2019

Gladys Stryker Klotz , age 88 years, of Frenchtown, NJ, passed away on Wednesday, October 30, 2019 in Lehigh Valley Hospital-Cedar Crest, PA.

Born in Califon, NJ, January 5, 1931, she was the daughter of the late David and Minnie Todd Jones.

Gladys attended Flemington High School and was a homemaker and a member of...

Oct 29, 2019

David S. Henry, age 77 years, of Flemington, NJ, died Tuesday, October 29, 2019 at his home surrounded by his loving family.

Born in Shamokin, PA, January 10, 1942, son of the late George and Lena Diliplane Henry, he had formerly resided in Trenton, NJ.

David worked as a firefighter for twenty-five years with the...

Oct 26, 2019

Alice Louise Aller, age 100 years, of Lewisburg, PA, died on Saturday, October 26, 2019 in Evangelical Community Hospital, Lewisburg, PA.

Born in Edison, NJ, October 21, 1919, she was the daughter of the late Hugo and Karin Christiansen Leusenring. She had formerly resided in Fords, NJ, and in Franklin Township, Hunterdon County, NJ.

A...

Oct 21, 2019

Joan M. Rafferty, age 87 years, of Phillipsburg, NJ, died Monday, October 21, 2019 at St. Luke’s Hospital Warren Campus, Phillipsburg, NJ.

Born in Passaic, NJ, January 2, 1932, she was the daughter of the late Joseph and Elizabeth Fette Pallay.

A homemaker, Joan was an avid gardener and loved to sew.

She...

Oct 20, 2019

Mark Walter Oschmann, age 58 years, of Upper Black Eddy, PA, formerly of Whitehouse Station, NJ, passed away on Sunday, October 20, 2019 in the Hunterdon Medical Center, Raritan Township, NJ.

Born on August 31, 1961 in Carbondale, PA, he was the son of the late Ronald and Janet Bryden Oschmann.

Mark was a 1979...

Oct 19, 2019

Bessie Beil, age 82 years, of High Bridge, NJ, died Saturday, October 19, 2019, in Hunterdon Care Center, Raritan Township, NJ.

A lifelong resident of Hunterdon County, Bessie was born October 3, 1937, in Raritan Township, NJ, and was the daughter of the late William and Mary Ellen Rake Smith. She had resided in High Bridge, NJ...

Oct 16, 2019

Esther Lu Sine, aged 90, left this world on October 16th, 2019 under the care of Suncoast Hospice in Largo, Florida. The lover of travel and card games, was a longtime resident of Flemington since moving from Frenchtown where she was born on July 4th, 1929 to Arthur and Anna Beck. She resided with her late husband William Sine...

Oct 14, 2019

Rosemary Kleczynski, age 81 years, of Flemington, NJ, passed away on Monday, October 14, 2019 at RWJ-Somerset Hospital, Somerville, NJ.

Born in Shamokin, PA, August 19, 1938, she was the daughter of the late Joseph and Anna Zaneski. She had resided in Flemington since 1962.

Rosemary retired from Roche in 2008 and had previously worked...

Oct 13, 2019

Audrey Downey Schorn, age 89, passed on Sunday, October 13, 2019 at Bridgeway Care Center in Bridgewater NJ.

Audrey was born on October 24, 1929 in Plainfield NJ, daughter of the late James and Mabel Smith Downey. She married John C. Schorn in May 1957 and raised her family in North Plainfield NJ on the dead-end of...

Oct 13, 2019

Marguerite Chambers Martin, age 101, passed away Sunday, October 13th 2019 at Wesley Enhanced Living care center in Doylestown, PA.

Marguerite was born October 9, 1918 in New York City, daughter of the late Charles Chambers and Angela Imbrenda. She married Howard Martin and raised her three children, Bruce, Eric and Lynn on a beautiful farm in...