Summit Service for Boy Who Battled Cancer

The 12-year-old Kohl Angelo of Maplewood will be memorialized on August 4 at Christ Church.

Kohl Douglas Angelo will be remembered Saturday, August 4, with a funeral and a private burial ceremony. The 12-year-old Maplewood boy died on July 24 after a long battle with cancer. A funeral service will be held on Saturday, August 4, 2012 at 11 a.m. at Christ Church, 561 Springfield Avenue, Summit, NJ. According to his obituary, Kohl was a Maplewood Middle School student, a striker for the Cougar Soccer Club travel team, an accomplished viola and piano player, and an avid Xbox player. Kohl loved classical music, especially Mozart, the band Coldplay, the color yellow, and his naughty dog, Haley. Kohl dazzled everyone with his winning smile, quick wit and dry sense of humor, all of which he inherited from his grandfather, Doug. Kohl …

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Thomas O'Neill, Summit High School graduate, passes away at age 58

Thomas (Tommy) P. O’Neill, died Thursday at his home in Berkeley Heights, after a battle with melanoma.

Lucile G. Tafaro, 89, Summit Volunteer and 30-Year Resident

Those who wish may contribute in her memory to the Dominican Nuns of Summit, New Jersey at the Monastery of Our Lady of the Rosary, 543 Springfield Ave., Summit NJ 07901 or at nunsopsummit.org.

June 1 Memorial Planned for Edward S. Olcott (Jan. 30, 1926-May 7, 2012)

A memorial service for Ted will be held at the Central Presbyterian Church, Summit, N.J., on June 1, 2012, at 2:30 p.m.

NYC Mourns Beastie Boys' Adam Yauch

Fans, friends remember hip hop pioneer's work that broke through cultural, style and generational barriers.

Editor's Note: This article originally appeared on Bayside Patch. Adam Yauch of Brooklyn's Beastie Boys, who went by the stage name MCA, has been reported dead by Russell Simmon's site globalgrind.com. He was 47. Yauch had been battling cancer of the salivary gland since 2009. He is survived by his wife Dechen, daughter Tenzin Losel, and parents Frances and Noel Yauch. Yauch, the only child of a Catholic father and Jewish mother, and the rest of the Beasties played their first show in Midwood, Brooklyn at Edward R. Murrow High School. Reaction from the community was immediate and passionate. "It’s a great loss for hip hop," said Jay Mumford, who was hanging out at Breakdown Records on Bell Blvd. "I'm a hip hop kid, raised in the 80’s and …

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Dick Clark Dead at 82

'World's Oldest Teenager' launched iconic American Bandstand, New Year's Rock'n Eve, music careers and many TV shows.

Dick Clark, who brought rock and roll to the masses as the longtime host of "American Bandstand," is dead after suffering a heart attack, according to several news reports. The always smiling 82-year-old TV producer and host had been at St. John's Hospital in Los Angeles after undergoing an outpatient procedure on Tuesday, according to TMZ. Clark reportedly suffered the heart attack following the procedure and died on Wednesday after failed attempts to resuscitate him. The Mount Vernon, NY-born Clark endured a long list of health troubles over the years; a stroke in 2004 that caused him to retire as host of "New Years' Rockin' Eve," the show he created in 1972. Although Ryan Seacrest took over as host, Clark made brief appearances on the …

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Fairview Rep: 'Cemetery Open Only to Lot Owners'

The East Broad Street cemetery has been closed to the public since late singer Whitney Houston's Sunday burial.

Whitney Houston fans hoping to pay their respects will have to wait a little longer. Fairview Cemetery, where the late pop star was laid to rest in a private service Sunday morning, remains closed to anyone other than lot owners, a spokesman for the cemetery said Wednesday morning. The private cemetery, where Houston's father, John Russell Houston Jr. was buried in 2003, has admitted those with loved ones interred there but has kept all others outside the gated property. When the cemetery will reopen to the public "has not been determined at this point," the spokesman said. More than 100 fans lined up outside the 105-acre cemetery Sunday morning to say their goodbyes to Houston, who died on Feb. 11 at the age of 48.  

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Whitney Houston Laid to Rest in Westfield

Procession arrived at noon Sunday for burial ceremony at Fairview Cemetery. Nearly 100 fans shouted 'We love you, Whitney' as hearse turned into the cemetery.

The vigil at Fairview Cemetery began at first light Sunday morning. There were no mourners, just reporters and photographers mingling congenially as they staked out a good spot for their reports back to the network morning shows or a position for the perfect photo of the funeral procession bringing Whitney Houston to the cemetery for her burial. Police officers arrived before daylight, at 6 a.m., to secure every possible corner of the Fairview property, from the Cranford border along Union County College to the south and E. Broad Street to the north. At the western end of the cemetery, Gallows Hill Road was closed to prevent any neighborhood street from messing up any potential route in which the procession of hearses and limos that would …

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5:12 pm on Tuesday, November 27, 2012

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Update: Westfield Police Prepare for Possibility of Whitney Houston's Burial Sunday

Though the late pop singer's family has not confirmed when her burial will take place, police are making preparations.

Though the Westfield Police Department said they have not received any confirmation as to when late singer Whitney Houston's burial at Fairview Cemetery will take place, they are making preparations in the event that it will occur this weekend. Houston's official death certificate reveals that she will be laid to rest at the 105-acre East Broad Street cemetery where her father John Houston was buried in 2003 but as of 12:45 p.m. today the WPD said they had received "no confirmation" from the Houston family as to when that might happen. Houston's funeral service will be held at noon Saturday at the New Hope Baptist Church in Newark. The ceremony is expected to draw 1,500 mourners, including her mother, Cissy Houston, cousin Dionne Warwick, …

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Reports: Whitney Houston Burial Expected on Sunday

Rumors continue to circulate as to when and where the late pop star will be laid to rest.

As cruisers from the Westfield and Union County police departments came and went through the front gate of the Fairview Cemetery Thursday, Fairview officials were issuing "no comments" to a barrage of calls from reporters seeking comment and details about the burial plans for Whitney Houston — and calming down concerned family members of those already interred in the Westfield cemetery. Houston's funeral service will be held at noon Saturday at the New Hope Baptist Church in Newark. The ceremony is expected to draw 1,500 mourners, including her mother, Cissy Houston, cousin Dionne Warwick, Aretha Franklin, Stevie Wonder, Kevin Costner and Clive Davis. While those details appear to be firm, speculation swirls around when Houston's body will…

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Mary Meki

5:21 pm on Wednesday, February 22, 2012

that is very rude to call it a circus how would you like for them to call your family member a circus you know God don't like ugly and he is not crazy about pretty so who ever you are you should be very careful with your Words that come out of your Mouth.   more ›