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Back To Main Menu.Hurricane Sandy claimed the lives of 40 New Jersey residents from 13 different counties. Some resided in big cities, others in suburban towns or rural hamlets. Their ages and occupations varied widely, but they all became victims of the same superstorm that ravaged the Garden State.Here's a look at the lives of Sandy's victims. The following profiles were compiled through four weeks of reporting by The Star-Ledger staff. The names are presented in roughly chronological order of death, as close as can be determined. RICHARD AND ELIZABETH EVERETTThe love between Richard and Elizabeth Everett was often on display in the kitchen of their Randolph home. A smile while washing dishes, a hug after breakfast, a kiss on the cheek before bed.But 25 years ago, Richard’s proposal almost scuttled the marriage before it began.'

Mom was sick with a bad cold and Dad took her to an ice cream shop to ask her to marry him,' said Zoe Everett, 19, who now wears her mother’s simple wedding ring. 'Of course she said ‘yes,’ but it must have been one of the worst proposals ever.' Elizabeth Everett, 48, was always on the hunt for savings. She favored off-brand cereal and bought many of her shoes at the discount store Payless. Her four children said she had a habit of heading out in search of one marked-down item and stumbling upon others she couldn’t pass up.' Mom would always say, ‘I’m going out for milk.It’s on sale. I’ll be right back,’ only to emerge from Aldi or Walmart two hours later with a cart full of the best deals she could find,' Zoe said.When Elizabeth Everett wasn’t looking, Richard would occasionally slip his kids the full-priced junk food their mother would never buy.

Pierce, 11, preferred milk shakes. Theo, 14, got chocolate. Richard, 54, worked as a chemist, but often dressed like a cowboy.Richard and Elizabeth owned a horse farm, and in recent years, he had taken up a style of Western riding known as reining. The new hobby influenced his wardrobe.' One time, he showed up at school to bring Talia to a doctor’s appointment in head-to-toe cowboy gear.

Cowboy hat, flannel shirt, cowboy boots. He even wore spurs,' Zoe said.' He looked ridiculous.' Richard and Elizabeth Everett were returning to their home from their horse farm, the Blue Crest Riding Center in Long Valley, on Oct. 29 when a 100-foot-tall, 3-foot-wide tree toppled by hurricane-force winds fell on the cab of their pickup truck, killing the couple.The four Everett siblings, Zoe, Talia, Theo and Pierce, said they will continue living in their Randolph home without their parents because the home is filled with memories — like the kitchen floors Richard designed and built — they are not ready to leave behind.'

We’re going to take this day by day,' Zoe said. 'That’s all there is to do.'

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BERNICE SAPPBernita and Sidney Webster remember hearing Gov.Chris Christie say on Oct. 30 that a woman had died of a heart attack during the evacuation of Atlantic City the previous day — the first of what would be dozens of victims. The Atco couple heard the news, then quickly put it out of their minds.But a little later, while Bernita was undergoing knee surgery, Sidney got a call from one of her aunts.

Bernita’s 65-year-old mother, Bernice Sapp, was that first documented storm victim.The Attorney General’s Office concluded it was storm-related.Sidney Webster told his wife about the death of her mother after Bernita was in more stable condition.' I waited another day,' Sidney Webster said.

'I said, ‘Oh man, this is too much.’ 'He was looking at me funny, and I knew something was up,' Bernita Webster said.Bernice Sapp was a born helper, according to her daughter. Sapp worked for years as a nurse at the King David Care Center nursing home, and also volunteered at numerous churches and soup kitchens in the Atlantic City area, including Sister Jean’s Kitchen.FLETCHER FISHFletcher Fish had a good soul, said a friend.

It was obvious in his love of art, his endowment of a scholarship for aspiring musicians, his concern for his friends.' He was a good man,' says Henry Ingrassia, his friend and president of the Glen Rock Savings Bank, where Fish served as board chairman.On the night Hurricane Sandy slammed into New Jersey, Ingrassia said Fish called to check on him.

An hour later, Fish, 77, was killed when two trees crashed through the roof and into the second-floor bedroom of his home on Kingston Avenue in Hawthorne.Mae, his wife, was injured but managed to call the police.Fish founded an insurance company in Wayne and served as bank chairman for nearly a decade. After his retirement, he took up painting. His work was exhibited at the bank and at local libraries, as well as in his home.

He and his wife endowed the Mae and Fletcher Fish Young Musicians Competition, which awarded scholarships to young musical artists.He also served as chairman of the William Paterson University Foundation, which raised money for the state institution.WILLIAM SWORD JR.After a deranged student nearly killed him with a knife at his home nine years ago, William Sword Jr. 'reset' his life, according to a family member. Enjoying each day and spending time with family — his wife Martha, their three children — became even more central to the busy financier’s life.' He knew this was his second chance at life and he lived every moment of it,' said Peter McDonough, Sword’s brother-in-law and family spokesman.During the peak of the storm, while he was clearing the driveway outside his Princeton home, a tree fell and killed him almost instantly.Sword, 61, graduated from Princeton University in 1976.He was the managing director of Wm. Sword & Co., the financial firm his father founded.

He also was a dedicated volunteer for Habitat for Humanity and a Little League coach, and gave his time to other committees and organizations.In 2003, a disturbed student crashed his car near Sword’s home. He came to the door and asked for help, but then stabbed the Princeton man with a knife. The student was later shot and killed by police. Sword survived his injuries — with a newfound perspective.Gospel music was a particular passion for Sword. He was the one 'white guy singing at the Christmas concert with the Shiloh Baptist Church of Trenton,' McDonough recalled. MAUREEN CAPORINOMaureen Caporino’s philosophy about greeting visitors to the Jersey City Municipal Utilities Authority was simple: Strangers must be vetted.Caporino, 65, would tilt her head, raise one eyebrow and grill visitors she didn’t recognize with questions about their credentials. No one made it to an appointment with one of the city’s water engineers without Caporino’s blessing, said Daniel Becht, the authority’s executive director.'

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Her desk was right in the front, so you really couldn’t get past her,' Becht said. 'Once Maureen confirmed you were here for official business, she would soften and offer you a cup of coffee.' Caporino worked at the authority for 22 years before retiring with severe health problems.Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease made it difficult for her to breathe.

She also had very bad eyesight, said co-worker Dore Carlo.' She had to hold a paper right up to her nose to be able to read it,' Carlo said.'

We joked with her about it.' Caporino coped with her health problems until her daughter Erika, 30, died in 2009, said Carlo.The women lived together in Jersey City and worked together at the authority. 'Her daughter’s death basically decimated Maureen,' Becht said. 'There was no more spring in her step, no more quick-witted comments, and her health declined rapidly.' In recent years, Caporino required an oxygen tank to help her breathe and rarely left home, neighbors said. Even a short trip down the stairs would leave her gasping for air.She was found dead by a caregiver in her modest two-story Ogden Avenue home Oct. 30, less than 24 hours after the power went out.

The oxygen tanks on which she relied could not operate; emergency tanks that relied on batteries were empty.Jersey City police officials say they do not know whether she died before or after the tanks ran out. JOSEPH GODLESKIJoseph Godleski’s herniated disc forced him to walk with a cane, but the retiree’s injury didn’t stop him from following a tradition he began shortly after retiring from sales work at an Englewood fastener company.Early each morning, Godleski would visit a Dunkin’ Donuts located less than a mile from his South Hackensack home and return with two extra-large decaffeinated coffees with extra milk.When he awoke about 5:30 a.m.

30, a day after rain flooded the nearby Hackensack River, Godleski set off for the coffee shop.His wife, Barbara, was still asleep.The 69-year-old never came home.Godleski’s body and his 2002 Mazda were recovered in floodwater near the Dunkin’ Donuts, law enforcement officials said. His cane was inside the vehicle.' When the police found his car on River Street, it was filled up with water — totaled,' said Barbara Godleski.' Just before he realized he was about to drown, I believe he tried to get out, but he was too weak to make it.' Her husband, she said, was afraid of water and could not swim.

He never used their backyard pool.Barbara Godleski said her husband was quiet, but always willing to help a friend or family member at a moment’s notice. The couple were married 48 years.' He was so well liked. He was so kind,' Barbara Godleski said. 'I’m not saying he was a saint from heaven, but this man didn’t have a bad bone in his body.He was good.' CELESTINE KREITZERCelestine Kreitzer lost two husbands and endured many storms over the years in her Forked River home. When Hurricane Sandy bore down on Ocean County, she refused to leave.'

Her caretaker came back four or five times — she just wouldn’t leave,' said Carol Valyo, a neighbor.But this storm was something Kreitzer hadn’t experienced in her 94 years. And, on the night of Oct. 30, she died alone from hypothermia while several feet of water swirled in her Oakwood Drive house, according to the Ocean County Prosecutor’s Office.In recent years, Kreitzer left the house less and less, but did receive visits from caregivers, taxi drivers and others who took her where she needed to go, said Barbara Chanti, a friend and neighbor.Family members, mostly nieces and nephews, lived in Pennsylvania, Chanti said. Her first husband, Leo Leonard, was a colonel in the Air Force who played a prominent role in the Berlin Airlift.He died in the 1970s, the neighbor said.

She then married a childhood friend, Clement Kreitzer, who died nearly a decade ago.Kreitzer did not have children. BRUCE LATTERIBruce Latteri was at a friend’s house, watching and listening to Hurricane Sandy’s approach, late on the night of Oct.

29 when a tree slammed its front porch only feet away from where he was sitting.Latteri decided to walk back to his own house on Nicole Court in Jefferson.He told his friend he was worried about his young German shepherd, a dog he bought from a friend on the local police force.But early Tuesday morning, as the 51-year-old Latteri sat at his kitchen table, another tree crashed through the roof of his home, striking his head and killing him instantly.' The first one was a close call — the second one got him,' said Donna Kistle Latteri, his sister-in-law.She said the family has grasped for meaning in such an accident. Latteri suffered from diabetes and kidney and heart disease. He was on dialysis and had to quit his job as a baker and live on disability insurance.' I’m just taking it as God’s grace that he didn’t suffer a long death,' Kistle Latteri said. BOBBY MCDUFFIEBobby McDuffie knew a storm was coming, but he also knew he had the chance to work an extra shift and bring home more money for his family.

He went to work at a food warehouse on Euclid Avenue in Newark on Oct.29 and he never came home.' He would do anything he could to put food on the table for his family,' says Sheronica McDuffie, who said her husband always volunteered for extra work. The couple had three daughters, Ashley, Eboni and Shavonne.Sheronica McDuffie says she knew her husband might get stuck at the warehouse in the city’s Ironbound section; they lived about 5 miles west, near the city’s Vailsburg Park. So she made extra sandwiches for him.Turkey and provolone, she remembers, because he complained a little — he liked everything American, she said, including the cheese on his sandwiches.Newark Police Director Samuel DeMaio said workers at the warehouse could see that, as the night and the storm wore on, the Passaic River was flooding and water was rushing down Joseph Street, near the warehouse. McDuffie and other employees took a break and went outside to move their cars. He never came back.GEORGE TATAYGeorge Tatay was born in the Hungarian city of Gyor, on the River Danube, halfway between Vienna and Budapest.

The river spilled over its banks each spring, said his brother Carl, and the two boys were terrified of the power of the water.The family escaped Hungary across the Iron Curtain to Austria in 1956 and ultimately came to the United States.Carl Tatay eventually settled in Pennsylvania, far away from flooding waters. George, however, wound up in coastal Brick — a decision his brother doesn’t understand.' The experience stays with you, the terror of watching flooding as a little boy,' Carl Tatay recounts.' I made it a point to stay away from places that flood. But I guess George was too young, or didn’t remember.' George Tatay, 61, drowned in his Vanard Drive home, in several feet of water, during the height of Sandy’s fury Oct. The state Attorney General’s Office reported heart disease contributed to his death.Tatay was artistic from an early age, his brother said, adding his brother liked painting and sculpting.

He couldn’t make a living out of it, so he also worked for family furniture businesses. MARY LOU VISWATThey wished each other good night and, while Sandy’s winds howled around them, each added something.

Mary Lou Viswat and her only child, Henry Viswat, told each other, 'I love you.' The next day, Henry found his 85-year-old mother at the bottom of her basement stairs. She had fallen to her death in the darkness.' The difficult part is that at 8:30 Monday night there was no reason to believe I was not going to see her again the next morning,' said Henry Viswat, who lives next door to the Middlesex Borough house his mother had lived in since 1962.He said she seemed worried about the darkness and the cold and he had come to check on her and to offer reassurance.'

I told her it’s probably best to go to sleep,' he said. 'I told her, ‘We’re going to sleep too and I’ll see you in the morning.’ 'Henry Viswat said that when he didn’t see his mother in the morning, he figured she was still resting.

A few hours later, when he went back to check on her, he noticed her bed had not been slept in. He returned with a flashlight after noticing the cellar door was open. Mary Lou Viswat was an active woman.She retired after a career as a teacher at Bound Brook High School, where she served as head of the business department. She also was a borough councilwoman and was active in community organizations.Mary Lou Viswat loved mystery stories, shopping for antique china, and tending to the roses and azaleas in her garden. She often could be found at her 15-year-old grandson’s lacrosse games or purchasing clothes at the Mall at Short Hills.' Point Of Grace A Christmas Story Raritan ValleyShe made it through Irene last year,' he said. 'She lost power last year, but she weathered that one.

This time fate caught up.' DHYANESH BALAJIDhyanesh Balaji owned a small red bicycle with black handles and black training wheels.Neighbors occasionally saw the 4-year-old riding the sleek bike up and down Laidlaw Avenue in Jersey City, where he lived in a second-floor apartment with his mother and grandmother.At 6:30 p.m. 31, a car driven by a neighbor who lives two blocks away from the family struck the child while he was crossing a darkened street with his mother and grandmother, Jersey City Police Chief Tom Comey said.He was holding hands with his mother, Nagarani Nagarajan.' She looked away for a second,' a city police officer wrote on the crash investigation report to describe the driver’s explanation of the incident.The intersection of Jefferson and Central avenues was one of thousands throughout Jersey City that were dark that night.Nearly the entire city of 250,000 was without power two days after Hurricane Sandy struck.Multiple Indian news websites have reported that Dhyanesh’s mother and father, Balaji Jeyakannan, returned to India to bury their son. The family could not be reached for comment.

MUDIWA BENSON AND KENYA BARBERKenya Barber and Mudiwa Benson were cousins and best friends, young women so close they were often mistaken for sisters.They were practically 'joined at the hip,' said Kenya’s brother Kareem Barber.And they died together in the wake of the storm.Friends said the women, who graduated together from Newark’s Malcolm X Shabazz High School, were friendly and outgoing. Barber was a dancer with the high school’s band.The young women sought each other out during the storm.Benson, 19, whose home had no power, moved in with Barber, also 19, at Riverside Court in Newark.

Barber had installed a generator on the outside of her home.But something went wrong. Police say the generator was placed under an open window and the difference in temperatures created a vacuum that sucked carbon monoxide fumes into the room where they slept. Their bodies were found the evening of Oct. 31, just hours before power was restored to Barber’s apartment building.Benson had an 8-month-old daughter, Mailyaa.

Barber had recently started a job at Babies 'R' Us.She was expecting her first child in the spring. ERWIN BOCKHORNThe night Hurricane Sandy hit, Erwin Bockhorn’s daughter told him to go up to the attic of his Little Egg Harbor home and stay there in case it flooded downstairs. He told his daughter not to worry — in previous storms, the water had never come through the front door.'

He told me there were just a couple inches of water,' said Christine Mannarino, who had spoken to her father by phone from her home in Pennsylvania. 'I told him, ‘Get in the attic — you’ve got to start going up the stairs.’ He said he’d call the neighbor — but he never did.' Sometime early Tuesday, the deluge came.Neighbors reported that water swept into houses, destroying homes from the inside while leaving the exteriors appearing unscathed.Bockhorn’s refrigerator was toppled, dressers and heavy furniture were washed around from one end of the interior to another. The water crested above the kitchen counter, Mannarino said. Her father was found by a neighbor. Authorities ruled he had drowned — but the medical experts aren’t sure whether he was asleep when the water rushed in or whether the 72-year-old, who suffered from Parkinson’s disease, couldn’t get up the stairs and was caught in the flood.THOMAS FREYThomas Frey enjoyed hiking with friends from Pattenburg, his tiny hometown in Hunterdon County.

Wind turbine blade templates 2017. His friends said he was a naturalist with an artist’s eye who used his camera to capture the beauty of his rural community.On hikes at the Ken Lockwood Gorge with his dog Gibbon and neighbor Marilyn Mass, Frey would identify plants and explain their homeopathic uses.Some leaves made great tea. Others could help heal a wound, he told Mass.' One time, he gave me homemade soap made out of jewelweed.I believe it was a remedy and relief for poison ivy,' Mass said. 'I laughed to myself as I thought, ‘Wow, a bar of homemade soap from Tom.’ I still have it.' Frey, whose wife died a decade ago, ran the Pattenburg General Store and lived in town with his father.Frey, 44, died Oct. 31 while using a chain saw to break down felled trees and limbs from Pattenburg’s streets. He suffered severe head trauma after being struck by a tree limb.

A responding emergency vehicle was driven by William Hardenburg, a fellow volunteer first responder who would die five days later, after he was struck by a pickup truck while he cleared a roadway of debris. Point Of Grace ReunionJOSEPH PUGLISIJoseph Puglisi met his wife, Alice, down the Shore at a dance hall in Asbury Park. He followed Alice’s pretty Irish girlfriends, the Jennings sisters, into the club, and they led him straight to her, she said.The inseparable pair were married 62 years. Puglisi, 93, died when he fell down a flight of stairs in their darkened Summit home Oct.

He got up to use the bathroom in the middle of the night and he missed his turn,' Alice Puglisi said.' When the EMTs came, they said he had died right away.' She said she took solace in the fact that he died instantly because 'he was so scared of going to the hospital.' The couple also own a home in Holgate on Long Beach Island, which was devastated by the hurricane.Joseph Puglisi grew up in Jersey City and worked at Airco Laboratories in Murray Hill as a research chemist after graduating from Saint Peter’s College, now Saint Peter’s University, in Jersey City with a bachelor’s degree in chemistry. He also served in the Army for four years during World War II.LEONARD THOMPSONLeonard Thompson was known on his street as a neighborly but private man.He spent much time tinkering with his two cars up on jacks, friends recall.'

He could fix anything — he could do anything with his hands,' recalls Edna Weiss, a friend who knew him for 25 years.After Hurricane Sandy, he was found dead in his cold and flooded Stafford Townshiphome. Neighbors who had evacuated the neighborhood returned to find his two cars in the driveway, crushed by a fallen tree.Thompson, 71, who suffered from a heart condition, died of hypothermia, according to the state medical examiner.Although he kept to himself, his neighbors liked him and some wished he had reached out for help.' I could have helped him out,' said neighbor Mark Kuchar.

'I would have taken him in.' Thompson grew up in Chicago and was buried there, Weiss said. Five of his adult children live there, and a sixth lives in Puerto Rico, Weiss said.

Thompson, who was divorced, had held various jobs throughout his life, including those with the Navy, as a trainer at a nuclear facility in Forked River, and as a professor at a junior college in Maryland, Weiss said.Thompson also loved his church, St. Mary of the Pines in Manahawkin, some recall.' He would come to Mass every Sunday,' said the Rev. 'When he was able, he would serve as an usher.' The priest said Thompson suffered from heart disease.The last time the priest saw him, Thompson was in the hospital, hooked up to oxygen.

The only time he would miss Mass was when he was sick, he said. Tuzeneu said he and others in the parish found out Thompson was dead after he again missed Mass the Sunday after Sandy struck.Parishioner Lori Lueders remembered him for bringing model airplanes and military memorabilia to the church for her special-needs son. Thompson had worked on missiles and other weapons systems while with the Navy from 1958 to 1963, according to military records.' He was always good to my son. He was such a nice man,' Lueders said.

'To hear he was dead — it was quite a shock.' ROBERT WALSHRobert Walsh spent 25 years with the Edison Fire Department before he retired a decade ago — but he never really left the service. And when he died, he was buried in the uniform he loved.' He touched a lot of people and everyone liked him,' said Ron Mokar, a friend. He said Walsh was 'happy-go-lucky' and did not worry much.Friends say Walsh, the father of two and grandfather of four, would stop by his old firehouse, share stories with old colleagues and make new friends. He supplemented his retirement income by working as a chauffeur for a funeral home.Another friend, Anita Micciulla, spoke with him late the night of Oct.29, when Sandy’s winds howled outside his home and a generator whirred in the background.

He had spent three hours waiting in line for the generator the day before.Walsh, 65, told Micciulla he was tired and intended to lie down.' He said, ‘I have no lights, no TV, so maybe I’ll just doze off on the couch,’ ' said Micciulla, who lives in Florida.What happened then isn’t known.Police say a concerned friend broke into the single-family home off Woodbridge Avenue 36 hours later. They found the generator in the garage, nearly out of fuel. They found Walsh on his couch, unresponsive.

GRACIE DUNSTONGracie Dunston’s death during the storm was a tragedy. But it also was a close call for her family.