In Memoriam: Judge Anthony Mautone dies at 78 – New Jersey Globe | New Jersey Politics

Anthony R. Mautone, a highly respected former U.S. Magistrate Court Judge who was a storied Assistant Essex County Prosecutor in the 1960s and 1970s, died on October 23 after a brief illness.  He was 78.  Mautone joined the prosecutor’s office in 19668, working under the legendary Joseph Lordi, headed the homicide division where he tried nearly all of Essex County’s major murder cases, and later served as First Assistant Prosecutor.  He again came to prominence in 2020 when he became the sentencing judge in the government’s prosecution of Bruce Springsteen on charges that he consumed alcohol in a federal recreation area.  Springsteen was fined $540.  Mautone is survived by his wife of 55 years, Judith, his three children, and seven granddaughters.

Francis Joseph Kennedy, a Bayonne native and Harvard Business School graduate who served as U.S. Military Governor of Commune of Grado in Italy after World War II, died on September 7.  He was 99.  A U.S. Army veteran, he also served in Paris as an aide to the U.S. Ambassador charged with the implementing the Marshall Plan.

Frank Gargione, a former Galloway councilman, died on October 15.  He was 49.

Otto Gollon, a former Deptford councilman and a former New Jersey VFW State Commander, died on October 18.  He was 88.  A U.S. Navy veteran during the Korean War, Gollon worked for the Delaware River Port Authority.

Patricia McCullough, a former deputy Atlantic County Clerk and deputy administrator of the Board of Elections, died on October 26.  She was 91.

Cassie Cobb, a West Deptford resident who worked for Rep. William J. Green, Jr.  (D-Pennsylvania) when he was the Philadelphia Democratic City Chairman in the 1940s, died on November 4.

Malcolm Cavanaugh Fraser, who served as mayor of Cap May Point from 1992 to 2008, died on November 13.  He was 91.

Eugene Kobryn, a former Little Egg Harbor mayor and township committeeman, died on November 11.  He was 90 and had retired from local government five years ago.

Harry Stone, Jr., who served as a Barrington councilman from 1987 to 1989 and as mayor from 1989 to 1997, died on November 12.  He was 95.  A World War II veteran, Stone had served as Barrington postmaster and as fire chief.

William Jiorle, a former Phillipsburg council president, died on October 30.  He was 74.

Joseph Cacia, a former Hammonton councilman, died on November 9.  He was 81.  

Liz Suhay, a former Frenchtown councilwoman, died on October 24 after a long battle with cancer.  She was 58.

John Grunow, who spent his career as an assistant Cumberland County Prosecutor, died on October 15.  He was 63.

Bud Groome, a longtime Pleasantville municipal court judge, died on October 20.  He was 80.  Groome began his legal career as a clerk for State Sen. Frank “Hap” Farley.

Michael Blacker, a former Scotch Plains municipal prosecutor and acting township manager, died on November 6 of complications related to COVID-19.  He was 80.

Gloria Shannon, a former Harvey Cedars municipal clerk, died on October 24.  She was 89.

Rose Taylor, a longtime state government employee who worked at the Department of Transportation and the Department of Law and Public Safety, died on October 17.  She was 73.

Lorraine Zsolway, who spent 25 years working for the New Jersey State Treasurer, died on October 18.  She was 89.

Gerard DelTufo, a former municipal court judge and prosecutor in Matawan and Aberdeen, died on October 21.  He was 59.

Norman Lochten, a former Middle Township business administrator and joint insurance fund commissioner, died on November 7.  He was 81.

Bruce Sinclair, a former Aberdeen Zoning Board member, died on October 16.  He was 66.

Charles Arnold, a former Riverton school board member, died on October 9.  He was 87.

Mary Boston, a former Pittsgrove school board member, died on October 29.  She was 86.

Gerald Hoenes, who served on the Absecon Board of Education for 33 years and spent 21 of those years as president, died on October 20.  He was 82.  Hoens was active in the New Jersey School Boards Association.

Ben Weimer, a 20-year member of the Middle Township Board of Education, died on October 28.  He was 84.  A U.S. Navy veteran, Weimer worked for the Cape May County Municipal Utilities Authority for 30 years.

Diana Davis, a former Hoboken Shade Tree Commission chair, died on October 12, 2021.  She was 74.

Curene Clark Ervin, named by Atlantic City Mayor Lorenzo Langford to the city’s library board of trustees in 2003, died on October 20.  She was 75.  

Jean Brady, who worked as a jury clerk at the Morris County courthouse under seven judges, died on October 16.  He was 86.

Anne Cupo, who spent 37 years as an appellate secretary in the Hudson County Prosecutor’s office, died on October 26.  She was 37.

Peggy Rowles, a Burlington County Prosecutor’s Office employee until her retirement in 2017, died on October 21.  She was 64.

Michele Meluso, who worked at the Hudson County Prosecutor’s Office Forensic Laboratory, died on November 11.  She was 59.

James Houston, a retired Essex County Sherriff’s Officer, died on October 7.  He was 64.

Susan Dilts, the wife of former New Jersey Superior Court Judge Thomas Dilts, died on November 1.  She was 74.

Rita McLaughlin, the mother of Allenhurst Mayor David McLaughlin, died on October 28.  She was 83.