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Obituaries
HERO: Four Saved By Organs Donated By Oradell Teen Killed In Crash HERO: Four Saved By Organs Donated By Oradell Teen Killed In Crash
Hero: Four Saved By Organs Donated By Oradell Teen Killed In Crash TRIBUTE: Gone much too soon at 17, an Oradell boy died a hero, donating his organs to save the lives of four people. Richard Rivera clung to life for a week after his SUV slammed into a tree in Haworth on Oct. 17, said his mother, Evelyn Dominguez. Firefighters extricated the teen from his 2002 Toyota 4Runner following the nighttime crash in front of the SUEZ water treatment plan on Lake Shore Drive. He was taken to Hackensack University Medical Center, where he remained in critical condition until his death. Dominguez told Daily Voice that she, her husband, Omar Rivera, and Richard’s…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Obituaries
Father, Son Moving To Bergen County Together Die 6 Days Apart After Morris County Crash Father, Son Moving To Bergen County Together Die 6 Days Apart After Morris County Crash
Father, Son Moving To Bergen County Together Die 6 Days Apart After Morris County Crash A 28-year-old man died six days after his 69-year-old father of injuries sustained in a Roxbury car accident, authorities said. Vincent Borny had been fighting for his life at Morristown Medical Center following the crash that took his father Ken Borny's life Sept. 25, outside of Ledgewood Commons in Roxbury, his uncle Tom Borny said. Vincent's organs will be donated to help others live, Tom Borny said in a Facebook post. "I believe Vincent will live amongst us all in the lives of people walking this earth having a second chance and everyday smiling with gratitude knowing that someone was …

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by Cecilia Levine
Neighbors
Newark Woman Takes Her Quest For A Kidney To The Streets Newark Woman Takes Her Quest For A Kidney To The Streets
Newark Woman Takes Her Quest For A Kidney To The Streets Bumper stickers and car decals broadcast all kinds of information, from a favorite band to a vacation destination to an off-color joke to whether the driver’s kid is an honor roll student. The decal on the back of Elizabeth Abrantes’s car is a plea for life. “Kidney needed, A+, Share Your Spare & Be a Hero,” it reads, followed by a phone number. The "A+" refers to her blood type, and "your spare" refers to the fact that a healthy person can survive with just one of her two kidneys.  Abrantes, 40, of Newark, has been on New Jersey’s waiting list for a new kidney for four years. Sh…

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by Paul Milo
Neighbors
Nutley Family Mourning Baby Hannah, A 'Fighter' Whose Organs Will Help Others Nutley Family Mourning Baby Hannah, A 'Fighter' Whose Organs Will Help Others
Nutley Family Mourning Baby Hannah, A 'Fighter' Whose Organs Will Help Others A GoFundMe campaign has been started in memory of Hannah Gwinner, a baby girl from Nutley who died Monday just a few months shy of her second birthday.  Hannah was born with Abernethy Malformation, a rare vascular condition that was discovered when Taryn Gwinner was pregnant with Hannah. Taryn and her husband Brian were "plagued with worry and fear" throughout the rest of the pregnancy, Taryn Gwinner wrote, but the newborn received treatment at Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago avoid "what most research said was an inevitable liver transplant," Taryn Gwinner said.  Despite her …

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by Paul Milo