All Obituaries

  Douglas Irving Cooke passed peacefully on Monday, February 10, 2021, at the glorious age of 78.  He was born in Newark, NJ on September 28, 1942, to Frederick Douglas and Ruth Mitchell Cooke. He was a 1960 graduate of Central High School in Newark.  After serving in the United States Army for four years, he went on to work as a mail carrier for 35 years at the Irvington, NJ, United States Postal Service. Upon retirement, he indulged his love of jazz music, outdoor...

A Life Well Lived Sunrise “For this child I prayed, and the Lord has granted me my petition which I asked of Him.” -1 Samuel 2:27 NKJV Marcia Ellen Spence was born in Mountainside Hospital in Glen Ridge, NJ on November 28, 1947 to the late Walter Sinclair Callender and Rozeline Wilkins Callender. She was the oldest of two children born to this union: and the first grandchild of Leslie and Helena Garnes Callender, and James Arthur and Nellie Fletcher Wilkins. She was a...

Celebration of Life of Sharon Randolph McCullough       On Tuesday, February 2, 2021, the angels came to the home of our beloved Sharon Randolph McCullough.  It was God’s will that she must go.  Her time had come, and the assurance of a better home was made possible through the word of God and she was taken to a place of eternal rest.        Sharon was born two minutes before her twin sister, Karen, on October 30, 1949...

  Lottie Hartwell Gaines was born on March 24, 1935.  The tenth child and youngest daughter of the “Hartwell Ten” to the late Robert and Lottie Hartwell, of East Hampton, New York.  She was raised in East Hampton, New York, where she graduated from East Hampton High School in 1953. Lottie was joined in holy matrimony to David Gaines Sr. on January 22, 1956 in East Hampton, New York.  They later moved to Brooklyn, New York. To this union they...

  John Ward Sr. was born on March 5, 1928 in Blakely, Georgia to the late Laura Jakes Ward and the late Clifford Ward. The family n1oved to New Jersey a year after his birth. John was the eldest of three children. His sister Carmella Hamilton, and his brother Charles, both Newark residents, are deceased. John was educated in the Ne\.vark public schools and earned a bachelor's degree from Rutgers University. He nlarried his high school sweetheart, Margaret Wilson in 1950,...

Harriette Dolores Nash, 76, of Montclair, NJ passed away surrounded by her loved ones on Thursday January 21st, 2021. She was born in New York, NY on March 10, 1944 to Oscar Lurie Scott and Lucille (Hines) Scott, who preceded her in death. Harriette was the youngest of four children. Her sisters Sonia Waithe and Aurelia McClean, and brother Walter Scott preceded her in death. On September 16, 1967, she was joined in Holy matrimony to Arnold W. Nash, Jr. They have 2...