Livingston community

James A. Moore, 88, of Livingston, NJ, passed away on Friday, June 14, 2019. His family received relatives and friends on Monday, June 17, at Quinn-Hopping Funeral Home, 145 East Mt. Pleasant Avenue, Livingston, NJ. The Funeral Mass celebrating his life was offered at St. Philomena’s Church, 386 South Livingston Avenue, Livingston, on Tuesday, followed by the committal services at Gate of Heaven Cemetery, East Hanover.

James was born and raised in Greenwich, CT but moved to East Orange, NJ in his teens with his parents, Edward and Meta Moore. After graduating from Seton Hall Prep School in 1949, he went on to serve his country proudly in the U.S. Marine Corps during the Korean War.

In 1961 he founded and became president of J. Moore & Co, a mechanical contracting firm that continues to this day. He was a past president of the Mechanical Contractors Association of New Jersey.

Dr. Warren Clayton Sordill of Short Hills, New Jersey, loving husband, devoted father and doting grandfather,passedawayonTuesday June 11, 2019.

Warren was born on March 31, 1945 to Dr. James Vincent Sordill and Ida Cawthorne Sordill. He graduated from Mountain High School in West Orange, New Jersey in 1963. He earned his undergraduate degree from the University of Pittsburgh, and received his dental degree from the University of Pittsburgh School of Dental Medicine in 1969. While attending the University, he played football and was a varsity baseball letterman.

With the end of the school year here, we would like to remind our readers about an important safety issue – camp bus transportation.

It is a common scenario in the summer:Abig yellow school bus slows and its yellow lights come on to indicate its imminent stop. Then, the red lights come on and the young passengers begin to disembark. But the driver immediately behind the school bus – possibly thinking that school is out for the summer vacation and this bus must be some sort of imposter – zips past the bus on the right side, narrowly missing the startled children, who jump out of the way just in time.

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Joseph Thomas Vitello, “Joey V,” 52, of Brick passed away on Wednesday, June 12, 2019, with his wife by his side. Joseph fought a year-long battle with brain cancer like a true champion.

Born in Newark, NJ, on July 23, 1966, Joseph lived in Union before moving to Brick, NJ. Joey was a talented professional drummer, an inspiring drum teacher to many amazing students, as well as the proud owner of Andy’s Family Music in Livingston, NJ. His love for the Giants, the Rangers and the New York Yankees was shown on every t-shirt or hat he wore so proudly.

The Livingston Planning Board, at its meeting on Tuesday, June 18, heard a final summation for a proposed drive-through Starbucks coffee shop on South Livingston Avenue. Two other applications on the agenda, for JMZ Enterprises and Green Terrace Homes, LLC, were adjourned at the applicants’ request to the Board’s meeting on Tuesday, July 9.

On May 7, the Planning Board split its approval of an application by CP Management Group II, LLC, for minor subdivision and preliminary and final site plan with variances for the property located at 92 South Livingston Avenue.The site was previously home to Bank of America. The applicant has proposed to subdivide existing Lot 3 to create two new lots. The existing, now-vacant building would be expanded on one of the new lots to house a child care center, Lightbridge Academy. A Starbucks with a drivethrough is proposed to be constructed on the second lot.

The Livingston Board of Education met on Monday evening, June 17. It was the final meeting for interim superintendent of schools Jim O’Neill, who is returning to retirement now that a new superintendent, Dr. Matthew J. Block, has been hired.

In attendance at the meeting were O’Neill’s wife, friends, members of the West Orange school district where he had also served, and members of the Livingston Township Council and township administration.

In bidding farewell to O’Neill – who has twice served the district as interim superintendent – Board of Education president Charles “Buddy” August thanked him for “saving this district twice.” Board members echoed his comments. Board vice president Ronnie Konner noted, “Jim has always exceeded our expectations in every way.”

During the Monday, June 17, Township Council conference meeting, Livingston Police Chief Gary Marshuetz addressed the Council members, providing an update on his first year in the position.

Chief Marshuetz took on the role in an acting capacity in summer 2018 before being officially sworn in as the department leader last September. He said his knowledge of the department and those preliminary months on the job allowed him to “hit the ground running” when he was formally named Chief of Police.

Among the issues he sought to address in his first few months were improving morale, giving the department a “small town feel,” projecting compassion, and being problem solving oriented. Much of this, particularly the morale, he said was improved by placing an added focus on the patrol division. The largest division in the department, Chief Marshuetz restructured certain positions to put four more officers on patrol without adding to LPD’s overall staff of 71 officers.

Adam J. Alt Jr., 101, of Pittstown, formerly of Livingston, died Saturday, June 8, at Hunterdon Medical Center in Flemington.

Mr. Alt was born in Newark in 1917. After graduating from high school, he began work at the Wilbur B. Driver Company as an office boy. In 1942, he enlisted in the U.S. Army and served for four years as a second lieutenant, spending two years in the Persian Gulf.

After the war, he returned to W.B. Driver and worked his way up to vice president of production. In 1973, he and his wife Ruth transferred to Orangeburg, S.C., where he managed the GTE Company, which was later bought by Verizon. He retired in 1979.

Adam married Ruth Engeman in 1941. They raised eight children in Livingston before moving to Bernardsville in 1963. He also lived in Orangeburg, South Carolina.

Mr. Alt was predeceased by his wife in 2007 after 66 years of marriage. He was also predeceased by his three brothers, Charles, Norman, and Edward Alt.

Ellen Harriet Schiavo, known to family and friends as “Midge,” died Saturday, June 15, at the age of 56.

Mrs. Schiavo is survived by her children, Michael (Amanda) and Kevin (Emily) Flynn; her partner, John Cammarata; her parents, Daniel and Ellen Schiavo; her siblings, Dana (Michael) Goldstein, Daniel (Jeanne) Schiavo Jr., Tina Schiavo, and Dean Schiavo; and three grandchildren.

Born in Jersey City on August 1, 1962, Ms. Schiavo grew up in Livingston, graduating from Livingston High School with the class of 1980.

Visitation was held on Sunday, June 16, at Shook-Farmer Funeral Home, Roseland. Funeral services were held on Monday, June 17, at Shook-Farmer Funeral Home, followed by a funeral Mass at St. Raphael’s Church, Livingston. Cremation was private.

Editor’s Note: This week, in his own words, Livingston Philanthropies Inc. founder and director Jeff Friedman describes how Livingston residents’ donations to LPI have helped a Newark agency, the Bessie Green Community, Inc.
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It’s gratifying to see how our Livingston friends and nieghbors have come together to benefit a key Livingston Philanthropies, Inc. (LPI) distribution partner, the Bessie Green Community, Inc. in Newark.
Known among its neighbors as “The Red Door,” the Bessie Green Community, located at North Reformed Church on Broad Street, has been serving the underprivileged of Newark since 1978. As one of LPI’s founding distribution partners, Bessie Green has received Livingston’s generous donations of new and gently used coats, family clothing, toiletries and cosmetics gift bags since LPI’s inception over eight years ago.