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NJ Funeral Home Provides Burial With Honors For One Of Last WWII Vets NJ Funeral Home Provides Burial With Honors For One Of Last WWII Vets
NJ Funeral Home Provides Burial With Honors For One Of Last WWII Vets TRIBUTE: A final farewell for one of the last remaining veterans of World War II's Normandy Invasions was all paid for when disaster struck. Eugene W. Dednam of Hackensack died last month, just weeks after turning 100. He had no known survivors. The Paterson funeral home that was chosen to someday handle Dednam's burial arrangements had since burned down, however. With it went the money that was paid in the late 1980s for his final rest. Then Brian and Deb Warner stepped in. “We feel that a wartime veteran can never truly be thanked for the sacrifices they make,” said Brian Warner, the e…

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Coaching, Teaching Legend Sal Benanti Of Charlie Bloods Restaurant In Garfield Passes At 80 Coaching, Teaching Legend Sal Benanti Of Charlie Bloods Restaurant In Garfield Passes At 80
Coaching, Teaching Legend Sal Benanti Of Charlie Bloods Restaurant In Garfield Passes At 80 Somewhere this week music is playing, sauce is simmering and sports talk is spirited. There's no such joy in Garfield, though. Charlie Bloods remains dark this week as loved ones, friends and countless customers mourn the passing of the popular restaurant's owner, "Coach" Sal Benanti. “My heart hurts,” wrote Jennifer Armstrong Alfonso in an online tribute. “He was an amazing man who was willing to help anyone. He was to so many people a mentor, a father, a friend and so many other things.” Garfield was pretty much Italian and Polish when Salvatore Benanti was born in Passaic in 1941, a l…

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NJ Thieves Snatching Snow Plows At Alarming Rate, Funeral Director Among Victims NJ Thieves Snatching Snow Plows At Alarming Rate, Funeral Director Among Victims
NJ Thieves Snatching Snow Plows At Alarming Rate, Funeral Director Among Victims With so much snow falling on New Jersey in recent weeks, funeral director Brian Warner got himself a new $7,000 plow for his 2005 monument pickup truck. And just like that it was gone. "It was locked with the keys kept inside the building," said Warner, who owns and operates Warner-Wozniak Funeral Service in Wallington. It's not just him: Privately-owned pickups with plows are being stolen at an alarming rate in New Jersey, authorities confirmed Friday. This past week, three trucks with plows were stolen out of East Rutherford alone. One owner bought his three days earlier and hadn't even…

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