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Richard Kastendieck
Richard Kastendieck, formerly of Barnegat, died Friday, Sept. 19 at his home. He was 79.
Mr. Kastendieck was born April 23, 1924 in Jersey City, to Catherine and Richard Carrick Kastendieck.
Richard served in the army during World War II and was a recipient of the Purple Heart.
He was also a member of the Brighton at Barnegat Social Club, AARP 50th, Ocean County and The Stafford Old Guard.
On May 4, 1957, he married Elizabeth Bishop Kastendieck, who predeceased him January 1, 2002.
He is survived by his loving daughter, Kathy Massi; sister, Dorothy Nobles; and two grandchildren.
Friends called Tuesday at Cargain Funeral Homes Inc., Mahopac, N.Y. A Funeral Mass was celebrated at St. John the Evangelist Church in Mahopac, N.Y.
Dated September 25, 2003
Medina Lowden Bickel
Medina Lowden Bickel, Beach Haven, and Boca Raton, Fla., died Jan. 26, at the Sarasota Memorial Hospital, Sarasota, Fla.
Born in Olga, Texas in 1911 to Nora and Henry Lumadue, she was named after the Medina Dam, a project on which her father was working when she was born.
Mrs. Bickel, known to friends as "Dina," was married in 1931 to H. PrestonLowden who died in 1966 after 35 years of marriage. She was later married to Francis McMenimen, who died in 1986 and then to Clarence Bickel, who died in 1991.
Mrs. Bickel was a charter member of the Garden Club of Long Beach Island and a life member of the Long Beach Island Historical Society.
In the early 1950s, she and seven other women began raising funds to establish what was to become Southern Ocean County Hospital. She was a charter member of the hospital's Boosters Auxiliary. She originated the antique show on Long Beach Island to benefit Southern Ocean County Hospital and was on the committee which started the hospital's Old and New Shop. She was particularly remembered for hauling merchandise in her station wagon before the shop could afford a truck.
Mrs. Bickel pursued a lifelong interest in arts and crafts and studied at schools in France, Mexico and the Penland School of Crafts in North Carolina. She made silver jewelry, copper enameling, batik, oil paintings, serigraphs, fabric design, and sculptures as well as teaching these arts and crafts to others.
In Florida Mrs. Bickel was a member of The Little Club, The Gulf Stream Bath andTennis Club, a member of the Historical Society of Boca Raton and The Excalibur Society of Lynn University, where she was also on the Board of Overseers. In addition, Mrs. Bickel was a member of the Royal Palm Yacht and Country Club and was the first woman elected to the Board of Governors.
Mrs. Bickel is survived by her daughters, Marilyn Lowden Thomas and Nancy Lowden Jones; two Thomas grandsons; four Thomas great-grandchildren; four Jones stepsons; nine Jones step-grandchildren; three Bickel stepchildren; and her nephews, Robert Blow and Clyde Lumadue.
She was predeceased by her sister, Flossie Blow; and her brothers, Clarence Lumadue and Clyde Lumadue.
Donations in Mrs. Bickel's memory may be made to Southern Ocean County Hospital Foundation (SOCH) Route 72, Manahawkin, NJ 08050 or Lynn University, Military Trail, Boca Raton, Florida.
A memorial service will take place in Beach Haven, at a date to be announced.
Dated February 5, 2004
Pearl Rose Meinking
Pearl Rose Meinking, 86, Brighton Beach, died Jan. 29 in Southern Ocean County Medical Center, Manahawkin.
Born in Paterson, she lived in Wayne and West Milford before moving to Long Beach Island.
Surviving are her husband, Ed; two daughters, Pat Gareau and Nancy Landy; a son, Lou; a sister, Eleanor Mobius; a brother, Louis Deise; six grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.
A Mass was said Tuesday at Our Lady of the Valley Church, Wayne. Arrangements were by Moore's Home for Funerals, Wayne.
Dated February 5, 2004
Anton Cotov
Anton Cotov, 82, of Riviera Beach, Fla., and Long Beach Island, died Jan. 22.
Born in Olib, Croatia, he lived on the Island many years ago as a commercial fisherman and was captain on many pleasure boats.
Predeceased by his father, Sam Cotov, and a nephew, John Polonio, he is survived by his wife, Emily; a son, Jamison; his mother, Kata; one brother, Nicholas of Long Beach Island; one sister, Freda Polonio of Neptune, and a host of nieces, nephews and friends.
The family requests donations be made in his memory to Hospice of Palm Beach County, 5300 East Ave., West Palm Beach, Fl 33407.
Dated February 5, 2004
Elizabeth Miller
Elizabeth C. Miller (Opperman) 94, Surf City, died Jan. 31 at Southern Ocean County Hospital, Manahawkin.
She was born in Philadelphia and lived there before moving to Surf City three years ago. She had been a summer resident of Surf City from 1942.
Predeceased by her husband Nicholas in 1999, she is survived by two nephews, Wiliam Opperman and his wife Audrey, and Robert Opperman and his wife, Susan; three nieces, Elizabeth Volpe, Kathy Conway and her husband William, and Margaret Lavin and her husband Gary. Also surviving are many great nieces and nephews and great-great nieces and nephews.
The funeral service will take place at 11 a.m. Thursday at Bugbee-Riggs Funeral Home, 12th Street and Boulevard, Ship Bottom. Friends and relatives may call at the funeral home starting at 10 a.m.
Dated February 5, 2004
James T. McNally Jr.
James T. McNally Jr., 61, died Saturday at Southern Ocean County Hospital, Manahawkin.
Born in Jersey City, he lived in Barnegat before moving to Manahawkin seven years ago. He was a driver for Shop-Rite in Elizabeth for 20 years, until 1983.
He was a U.S. Army veteran, a former coach for Barnegat Soccer and a trustee in American Legion Post 232, Barnegat.
Surviving are his wife of 34 years, Marlene Henderson McNally; his father, James T. McNally III, Manahawkin; three daughters, Deborah, Donna and Lisa McNally, all of Manahawkin; one brother, Dennis, Egg Harbor City; two sisters, Eileen Bibber of New Mexico and Sharon Hellwig of Barnegat, and two grandchildren, Shayla and Matthew.
Friends and relatives are invited to call from 2-4 and 7-9 p.m. Thursday at the Thos L. Shinn Funeral Home, 10 Hilliard Drive, Manahawkin. A Funeral Mass will be celebrated at 9 a.m. Thursday in St. Mary's Roman Catholic Church, West Bay Avenue, Barnegat. Interment will following New Jersey Veterans Cemetery, Arneytown.
Dated February 5, 2004
Robert L. Dennebaum
Robert L. Dennebaum, 80, of Ship Bottom, died Jan. 29 at Southern Ocean County Hospital, Manahawkin.
Mr. Dennebaum was born in Newark and was formerly of Irvington before moving to Ship Bottom in 1968.
He was a U.S. Navy veteran, serving in the Pacific during World War II.
He was a graduate of Irvington High Shcool in 1945 and graduated from Newark State College, (now Kean College) in 1974, receiving a bachelor's degree in teaching.
He had been employed by the New York-New Jersey Port Authority as a police officer, retiring after 20 years of service.
Mr. Dennebaum was a member of Hillside Lodge 241 F&AM and the Valley Consistory, Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite of North New Jersey and also a member of the Port Authority PGA and the U.S. LST Association.
He was predeceased by his wife Jose (Isbell) in 1993 and his son, John R., in 1989. Surviving are two daughters, Christine Dennebaum of Ship Bottom and Diane Redman of Barrington; one sister, Joan Dennebaum, Berkeley Heights, and one granddaughter, Jennifer Redman.
A memorial service will take place at 2 p.m. Saturday at the Bugbee-Riggs Funeral Home, 12th Street and Boulevard, Ship Bottom. Friends and family are invited to call at the funeral home from 1-2 p.m.
In lieu of flowers, contributions may be made in his memory to the Port Authority Police World Trade Center Disaster Survivors Fund, c/o Port Authority PBA, 611 Palisades Ave., Engleside Cliffs NJ 07632.
Dated February 5, 2004
Robert Devlin Schwarz
A memorial service will take place Thursday in Philadelphia for Robert Devlin Schwarz, 61, of Gladwyne, Pa., a summer resident of Beach Haven for more than 50 years.
Mr. Schwarz took the antiques business founded by his father in 1930, and turned it into one of the most respected art galleries in the United States. In the early 1970s, he helped foster a renewed interest in 19th century European and American paintings and the fine and decorative arts of 18th and 19th century Philadelphia.
Schwarz's 1987 catalogue, " A Gallery Collects Peales," is considered a standard reference, as is the gallery's "150 Years of Philadelphia Still Life Painting," the first comprehensive survey of the subject.
Mr. Schwarz's father, Frank, had an antiques shop on the boardwalk in Atlantic City. With the grand hotels blacked out during the Second World War, he brought his wife, the former Marie Devlin, and their fraternal twins, Richard and Robert, to Philadelphia in 1942.
He set up a shop with the family's home above it in a townhouse at 1806 Chestnut Street, near Rittenhouse Square, expectiung to return to Atlantic City after the War. Fifty years later, his son Robert celebrated the firm's golden anniversary in that location with a special catalogue, "Fifty Years on Chestnut Street."
Robert Schwarz was a graduate of Philadelphia's Episcopal Academy and earned a bachelor of science degree from Dickinson College in 1964. He studied the fine arts at the University of Vienna and the Barnes Foundation. Following college, he joined his father's firm and began to work with prints and paintings.
As curator of the Stephen Girard Collection at Girard College from 1970 to 1980, he documented that important historical collection in a scholarly catalogue. Subsequently, he published more than 70 informative catalogues in conjunction with the gallery's exhibitions.
The Schwarz Gallery has sold paintings and other works of art -- American and European -- to a wide range of private collectors as well as many of the country's major museums, including the Art Institute of Chicago, the Brandywine River Museum, the National Museum of Women in the Arts, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the Timken Museum of Art, and the Winterthur Museum.
Robert Schwarz was a long-time member of the Art Dealer's Association of America, The Art and Antique Dealers League of America, and La Confederation Internationale des Negociants en Oeuvres d'Art (CINOA).
Robert Schwarz married Pamela Pillion of Philadelphia in 1972. Their children are Robert D. Schwarz Jr., a graduate of Villanova University who joined the family business in 2002; Elizabeth, now a graduate student at Georgetown University; and Jonathan, a teen-ager. Robert Schwarz's sister Frances lives in Madrid, Spain, with her daughter Ana Schwarz Echague. His twin brother Richard, wife Carol, and their children Timothy, Ethan, and Jeanne Marie, live in Scotch Plains, New Jersey.
This past January, Robert Schwarz Sr., his mother Marie, and his son Robert, Jr., exhibited for the 13th time at the 50th annual Winter Antiques Show in New York. This year will mark the firm's 17th appearance at the Philadelphia Antiques Show in the 33rd Street Armory (April 17-20. 2004).
Marie and Robert Schwarz Jr., will also continue to exhibit at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts' USArtists show (also held in the 33rd Street Armory), as they have every autumn since 1994.
In lieu of flowers, the family requests that donations be made in Robert's memory to the Abramson Cancer Fund, University of Pennsylvania, 1226 Penn Tower, 34th and Spruce streets, Philadelphia, PA 19104-4282.
The memorial service will take place at 5 p.m. Thursday at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts at Broad and Cherry streets in Philadelphia.
Dated April 1, 2004
