Timothy E. Ryan, a charismatic funeral director who served as a Seaside Park Councilman and sought higher office five times, including the U.S. House of Representatives, died on August 6. He was 68. Ryan fought a 11-year battle with cancer....
Rev. James H. Biggs, a former mayor of Island Heights who ran for Congress against Rep. Bill Hughes (D-Ocean City) in 1978, died on May 30. He was 77. Biggs was a magnetic 36-year-old Methodist minister and two-term mayor of...