Loretta Covello, the aunt of longtime political leader Rocco Mazza, died on April 3. She was 98.
Colette Lamparelli-Flores, a former Jersey City Board of Education trustee in the early 1980s, died on April 25. She was 73. Lamparelli-Flores was a Democratic county committeewoman in Jersey City in the 1970s and 1980s.
Donald Dayton, a former Drew University professor who co-chaired Evangelicals for McGovern in 1968, died on May 2. He was 77.
Natalie Lettiere, a former Hamilton Republican Club member and supporter of Mayor Jack Rafferty, died on May 2. She was 82.

