In Memoriam

Joyce Lawson Moore, a fixture in New Jersey politics for decades as an Assembly Republican staffer, executive assistant to the Republican State Chairman, and a 27-year stint as manager for a Trenton lobbying firm, died on December 19.  She was 80.

Geraldine Hamer Foster, the sister-in-law of New Jersey Democratic State Chairman LeRoy Jones, Jr., died on December 18.

Morton Collins, who chaired President Ronald Reagan’s Task Force on Innovation and Entrepreneurship and served as a technology policy advisor to President George H.W. Bush, died on December 14.  He was 85.  The Princeton resident was orphaned at 11 and on his own at age 16.  He served in the U.S. Army and flew 160 missions over the South China Sea during the Vietnam War.  Collins served on the New Jersey Governor’s Commission on Science and Technology, the New Jersey Governor’s Superconductivity Roundtable.

David Meyer, a former Seaside Park councilman and school board member, died on December 16.  He was 69.

Barbara McKenna, a New Jerseyan who spent 30 years as an assistant editor for the New York Daily News, died on December 15.  She was 87.

Robert Seitzinger, the managing editor of several weekly newspapers in Atlantic and Cape May counties, died on December 4.  He was 57.

S. Frank Cuva, a former Phillipsburg school board member, died on December 20.  He was 88.  Cuva was a U.S. Marine Corps veteran.

Mary Lou Strouse, who served on the Greenwich Township (Warren County) Board of Education from 1971 to 1975, died on December 17.  She was 88.

Dominick Pollio, a former West New York Department of Public Works assistant commissioner, died on December 14.  She was 85.  Pollio was a U.S. Army veteran.

Marilyn Gallagher, a longtime member of the Egg Harbor Township school board, died on December 21.  She was 75.  She also served on the Atlantic County Special Services Board of Education.

Alan McLeod, a former member of the Trenton Board of Education, die don December 1.  He was 93.

Joseph Papetti, a former Clark school board member who served as an assistant superintendent of schools in Elizabeth, die don December 18.  He was 85.

Ginger Loughney, a former school board member from Caldwell, has died.  She was 91.
Clyde Walker, Jr., a lawyer who served as solicitor for the Franklin Township (Gloucester County) Planning Board, died on December 9.  He was 74.  Walker was the general counsel for People for the Poor.

Jack Randolph, who served twelve years on the Lambertville Planning Board, die don December 11.  He was 83.

Robert Rizzo, a Democratic county committeeman in Lower Township, died on December 7.  He was 90.

Stephen Branch, a member of the Margate Democratic Club, died on December 18.  He was 80.

Anna Demko, who worked in the Mercer County Prosecutor’s office, died on December 18.  She was 92.

Mitzi Gill, a Lacey Municipal Court employee before her retirement, died on December 17.  She was 87.