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8A HOMENEWSTRIBUNE MYCENTRALJERSEY.COM Bielak Cecelia Balon Sayreville; Maliszewski Memorial Home Josephine Holly Springs, NC; M.J. Murphy Funeral Home Kotsianas James Edison; Silverton Memorial Funeral Home Santana Zillah Perth Amboy; Zylka Funeral Home Toth Elizabeth Metuchen; Mitruska Funeral Home, Inc. Death Notices Cecelia Balon Bielak, age 95 of Sayreville passed away Tuesday April 11, 2017, at her home, surrounded by her loving family. Born in Freeland, PA to John and Sophie Balon and lived in Sayreville for most of her life. Before her retirement, Cecelia worked as a seamstress for Wilshire Fashions in South River and was a member of the ILGWU.

She was a communicant of St. Stanislaus Kostka RC Church in Sayreville where she was a member of their Altar Rosary Society for over 40 years. Cecelia will remembered as a loving mom, grandmother, great grandmother and aunt. One of her favorite past times was spending time on the baseball eld cheering on her grandsons and great grandsons. She is predeceased by her husband John, her son John, her son in law George Scanlon and her siblings Helen, Josephine, Sophie, John, Frank and Joseph.

Surviving are her daughter Patricia Scanlon, her son Brian and his wife Charlene, her daughter in law Theresa, her grandchildren Kimberly, David, Patrick, Andrew, Christopher, Brandon, her great-grandchildren Jordan, Matthew, Sierra, Alexandra, Olivia, Emma and her brother Walter Balon and many loving nieces and nephews. Funeral services will be Tuesday 11am at St. Stanislaus Kostka RC Church in Sayreville, with burial to follow at St. Cemetery. Calling hours at the Maliszewski Memorial Home 121 Main Street will be Tuesday from 9am to In lieu of owers donations may be made in honor to St.

Stanislaus Kostka RC Church, 221 MacArthur Ave, Sayreville, NJ 08872. CECELIA BALON BIELAK AGE: 95 SAYREVILLE Josephine (Montouri) age 99, entered into eternal rest on April 12, 2017. Josephine was born in Queens, NY on December 27,1917. She was the daughter of the late Angelina and Stefano Montouri. Josephine was predeceased by her husband, Mr.

Frank and they lived most of their life together in Brooklyn, NY where they raised their 3 sons. Josephine most recently lived in Holly Springs, NC and was formerly of Cream Ridge, NJ. Josephine was a loving and devoted wife, mother and Grandmother, and friend to many. She loved to cook and feed her family, her Sunday dinners brought many generations of family together. She loved her Catholic Faith and was especially devoted to the Rosary.

She loved anything Italian. She also loved to knit and crochet, and play bocce. She was a big fan of watching baseball, especially the Mets. Josephine also worked for many years at the New York Stock Exchange, which she was very proud of. Josephine lived her life full of love and devotion for her family who were her whole world.

She was the mother to the late John (Barbara Ste- ven (Mary Ellen and the late Frank (Dorothy She was a cherished Grandmother, and leaves a legacy of 14 grandchildren, 25 great grandchildren and 6 great great grandchildren, all who will miss her dearly. Josephine is predeceased by her brothers Teddy Montouri, William (Martin) Montouri, Stephen Montouri, Joseph Montouri and a sister, Grace Gerace. She is also predeceased by her step father, Phillip Bertone. She is survived by her step brother, Joseph Bertone and a step sister, Mary Coticelli. She is also survived by many nieces and nephews whom she loved very much.

The funeral will be held 9:00 am, on Wednesday, April 19, 2017 from the M.J. Murphy Funeral Home 616 Ridge Road at New Road, Monmouth Junction. Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated 10:00 am on Wednesday at St. Augustine of Canterbury Church 45 Henderson Road, Kendall Park. Burial will follow in the Holy Cross Burial Park, South Brunswick.

Friends may call on Tuesday, April 18, 2017 from 4-8 pm at the funeral home. JOSEPHINE AGE: 99 HOLLY SPRINGS, NC passedawaypeacefullyon Jamesissurvivedbyhis daughterCatherineJeanSo- olasKotsianasandniece Antonia-MarieKotsianas. Heisalsolovinglyremem- JameswasbornonAugust lastworkedasarestaurant manageratPlazaDinerin animalloverandavidsports fanwholovedtheDallas Cowboys.Hehadacolorful personalityandgoodnature. Thevisitationwillbeat SilvertonMemorialFuneral Homeat2482ChurchRoad, TomsRiverNJ08753on funeraltofollowat11am OrthodoxChurchat2200 NJ08753onWednesday tofollowatOceanCounty MemorialPark1722Silver- 09753immediatelyafterser- vices. EDISON Zillah K.

Santana, of Perth Amboy, passed away on Thursday, April 13, 2017 at JFK Hospital. Born in Tampa Fla. She lived in Perth Amboy for many years. She was preceded in death by her grandfather Victor Roman her mother, Gladys Santana, uncles Victor Roman William Mayhew, and cousin Joey Hernandez Jr. She is survived by her grandmother Milagros Roman, a sister Izet Santana, aunts Cruzie Mayhew and Zoraida Hernandez, and cousins Staci Bianco, Jackie Hernandez and Bill Mayhew Jr.

Visitation will be held on Tuesday, April 18 from 2-4 and 7-9 at Zylka Funeral Home, 513 State Street, Perth Amboy, NJ. Funeral Services will be held on Wednesday at at the funeral home and a funeral mass at 10am will be held at Holy Trinity Church. Cremation services will be private. In lieu of owers, donations can be made to the National Organization for Rare Disorders at: rarediseases.org, MELAS Syndrome. For more information, and to leave online condolences, please visit www.zylkafuneralhome.

com ZILLAH SANTANA AGE: 29 PERTH AMBOY TheWoodlands-LTCin borninPerthAmboytothe lateCharlesandRose(De- vald)Takacsandhadprevi- ouslylivedinEdisonbefore movingtoMetuchenten yearsago. Elizabethwasadevoted er. Shewasaformerparishio- nerofSt.Helena’sChurch inEdison. Shewaspredeceasedby belovedherhusbandJohnS. brothersCharlesandJoseph Takacs.

Survivingareherson: grandchildrenandseveral niecesandnephews. Funeralserviceswillbe theMitruskaFuneralHome, LadyofPeaceRCChurchin Fords.Intermentwillfollow intheOurLadyofHungary CemeteryinFords.Visita- tionhourswillbeheldTues- leaveonlinecondolences, alhome.com. ELIZABETHTOTH obituaries obituaries Sh are our emories. MyCentralJersey.com/Obits listofdeathnoticesandobituaries. Guadagno swings, and misses supporters challenged the validity of more than 700 of the 1,674 signatures on the petition of Assemblyman Jack Ciattarelli.

Had all those signatures been invalidated, Ciattarelli would have fewer than the requisite 1,000 signatures and be taken off the primary ballot and Guadagno would have knocked off her biggest primary threat. But an Administrative Law judge tossed out about 180 signatures, allowing Ciattarelli to stay on the ballot while giving him an opportunity to swat back at Guadagno. He called the petition challenge and is supposed to be a healthy thing. Is there a side of the Lt. Governor revealing Ciattarelli said in a statement.

But what Ciattarelli say is that he also challenged signatures on petition. Ricky Diaz, a spokesman for Guadagno, said petition had legitimate issues, evinced by the decision to invalidate some of the signatures. challenges are meant to make sure people play by the Diaz said. Despite their attempts to delegitimize each other, Guadagno and Ciattarelli will both be on the June 6 primary ballot. But a slate of candidateswill appear with Ciattarelli on the ballots in Bergen, Monmouth, Ocean and Passaic counties, where Guadagno won the or preferred ballot position.

Still, Guadagno will appear on the ballot in those counties as well as the others she won with the candidates endorsed, as she has been, by the local party organization. Murphy rolls over Christie, Trump Following the recent train derailmentat Penn Station, Murphy continued his line of criticism against Christie and President Donald Trump, vowing infrastructure improvements that include the roughly $24 billion Gateway tunnel project below the Hudson River. And he held a transit round table discuss ways the state can make make NJ Transit and other mass-transit options more effective and his campaign said. In a Facebook Live session promoted to focus on the middle class while also fight back against President Trump and Governor Murphy said he was disappointed to learn that budget proposal strips funding for the Gateway project since Trump had a pretty strong game related to But Murphy said he still expects the tunnel project to happen and that the federal government should and will play a role in big infrastructure going to get going whether with us or not, and God-willing be with he said about Gateway. In that same question- and-answer session, Murphy pinned at least some of the blame for recent transit issues on Christie.

Even though Amtrak took responsibility for two recent incidents at Penn Station, Murphy used them as springboards to condemn leadership on transportation issues. More Money The Election Law Enforcement Commission approved another round of matching fund for candidates, giving them $2 for every $1 they raise. Two candidates received matching funds for the first time: Assemblyman John Wisniewski, D-Middlesex, was approved for $663,010 in public funds, while Ciattarelli got $650,996, according to the commission. Guadagno got another $333,560, bringing her total to $1.164 million in public funds. But Guadagno is now slightly behind Democratic candidate Jim Johnson, the little-known former federal treasury official.

He now has $1.65 million public funds, more than any candidate or Republican in the public-financing program (Murphy, who has donated $10 million of his own money to his campaign, is not participating). Ciattarelli gets loud on With some money in the bank now, Ciattarellli released a new ad against Guadagno. Titled Guadagno: Blowing in the the narrator portrays as Ciattarelli has taken to calling her, as a typical Trenton politician who is blowing in the The ad specifically takes her to task on the gas tax deal struck by Christie and the Democratic-led Legislature last year. Even though she was against the 23-cent increase, Guadagno could have vetoed it on any of the days she filled in for Christie as acting governor, Ciattarelli argues. Diaz, the spokesman for Guadagno, said campaign has been regularly attacking Guadagno and that it gives insight into its standing in the race.

think that is a sign of his desperation, being so low in the Diaz said. really trying to get any attention he can to his campaign, even if that means negative Race Continued from Page 1A Music half-marathon as a college sophomore. Since then, she has run in various 5K, 10K and 15K events. Last November, she finished the New York City Marathon in 4 hours, 50 minutes, qualifying her for the Boston Marathon. Zundel said that participating in marathons would not be possible without her volunteer guides, Amy Harris and Harvey Freeman, from the Nashville chapter of Achilles International, an organization that assists people with disabilities.

lock elbows with Amy or Harvey and off we Zundel said. stops my daughter. Nothing sets her said her father Charles Zundel, a 17-year Edison police officer. has been that way since childhood, making my wife Kimberly and Iextremely proud each step of the Zundel does not see her blindness as a setback. fact, it motivates me to achieve she said.

do not disable a person. Disabilities enable us to accomplish our goals in a different way. always another The Boston Marathon is considered one of the more difficult races, through eight hilly Massachusetts cities and towns. Among the plus participants will be a few hundred mobility-impaired athletes, some who are visually impaired and others who use use crutches, hand-cycles and push-rim wheelchairs. Besides her parents and her guides, has Edison PBA Local 75 and Police Chief Thomas Bryan in her corner.

PBA President Michael Schwarz said the union will help defray her travel expenses, and township Mayor Thomas Lankey plans to honor Zundel with a proclamation for her achievements. known Stephanie most of her Schwarz said. was an Edison Junior Police Academy cadet when I was an instructor. She is an inspiration to anyone who knows her, including me and my cannot think of a more amazing young person to represent Edison Township in the Boston said Bryan, who has known Zundel since she was 10 and began studying martial arts at karate school in Edison. Stephanie sets her mind to something, she is Staff Writer Cheryl Makin: 732-565-7256; cma- sey.com Runner Continued from Page 1A COURTESY OF ACHILLES INTERNATIONAL Stephanie Zundel, 22, left, earned a black belt in karate and plans to pursue a degree in school counseling.

SOUTH AMBOY Police are investigating afatal head-on collision that killed two drivers and injured three passengers on Route 9 in South Amboy early Sunday morning, Middlesex County Prosecutor Andrew C. Carey and South Amboy Police Chief Darren Lavigne said. The deceased motorists were identified as Miguel Mendoza-Chong, 31, of Perth Amboy, who was killed when his vehicle was struck by a minivan driven by Percell Livingston 51, of East Orange. Both men were pronounced dead at the scene following the accident that occurred in the northbound lanes of Route 9 at 2:15 a.m. The passengers riding with Mendoza-Chong were taken to area hospitals.

A 38-year-old man and a 23-year-old woman were listed in serious condition at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in New Brunswick. The third victim, a 28- year-old woman, was treated at Raritan Bay Medical Center in Perth Amboy and released. The accident is being investigated by Officer Stephen Clarke of the South Amboy Police Department and Detective Donald Heck of the Middlesex County Office. The prelimi- nary investigation determined that Livingston turned onto Route 9 North but was heading the wrong way when he crashed his 2002 Nissan Quest into Mendoza- 2011 Honda Odyssey, Carey said. The investigation is continuing.

Anyone with information is asked to call 732-7210111 or 732-745-8843. Staff Writer Cheryl Makin; 732-565-7256; cma- sey.com Two killed, three injured in So. Amboy head-on collision CHERYL MAKIN.