In Memoriam

Wayne Witherspoon, a Paterson Planning Board member and political activist, died on August 25.  He was 53.

Amanda Bell, who worked as a labor union organizer for SEIU and Unite Here! Before attending law school, died on August 24 after a long illness. She was 42.  The Yale graduate clerked for the National Labor Relations Board Division of Judges and was a Kent and Stone scholar at Columbia Law School.

Charles Kuyl, a retired New Jersey State Police captain who worked as deputy chief of investigations for the Ocean County Prosecutors Office and as a special agent for the State Commission of Investigation, died on March 30.  He was 81.  Kuyl was a U.S. Air Force veteran.

Rose Marie Schutt, the first woman to serve as president of the Ridgewood Board of Education, died on August 28.

Pricilla Pagano, a former newspaper reporter, died on July 28.  She was 99.