Construction of juvenile detention center on Sunset Ave, Toms River, 1967
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Question for my visitors
Do you guys prefer the newspaper articles, obits and deaths and such? Or the photographs of bygone places?
The Other Side Boutique
Actually a 'Sets' gym now, which thinks its perfectly OK to blast music at all hours despite being in a residential neighborhood. But they haven't taken down the old sign yet---2025.
Iva Davison Obituary 1942
Lakewood Citizen, Friday May 29,1942: "Mrs Iva M Davison, 55, died on Saturday noon at her home at Jerseyville. She was a member of the Methodist Church, Grange and Willing Workers Society of Jerseyville. Born in Harmony, Mrs Davison was the daughter of James Clayton and Mary Ann Matthews Clayton. She is survived by her husband, Harry Davison and three sisters, Mrs Delia Sparks and Margaret Clayton, Lakewood, and Mrs Annie Matthews, Freehold. Funeral service was held from the late home on Tuesday in charge of the Rev Norman Riley and the Rev Alexander Leo. Burial was in the Adelphia Cemetery".
Sarah Storer obituary, 1942
Lakewood Citizen, Friday May 13,1942: "Mrs Sarah E Storer, seventy years old, of Arlington Avenue, a resident there for twenty one years, died at her home on Monday morning, following a long illness. She was born in VanHiseville, the daughter of Daniel and Elizabeth VanArsdale Perrine. Surviving are her husband, William G Storer; two sons, Norman and Sidney G Storer; three daughters, Mrs Anna Anderson, Mrs Ida Matthews and Mrs Myrtle Irons, all of Lakewood; a brother, Thomas Perrine of Farmingdale and a sister, Mrs Minnie Cook of Lakewood. Funeral service was held at the late home on Wednesday afternoon and burial made in the Greenville Cemetery".
