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Margaret Vigh
Tuesday, March 26, 2002
Mrs. Margaret Vigh, 82, of Saddle Brook died yesterday at home.
Services will be at 10 a.m. tomorrow in Shooks Cedar Grove Funeral Home, 486 Pompton Ave.
Mrs. Vigh worked in the deli department at ShopRite, Fairlawn, for 25 years before retiring.
She was a member of the Womens Guild at Hungarian Reformed Church of Passaic.
Born in Passaic, Mrs. Vigh lived in Szalonna, Hungary, and Passaic again before moving to Saddle Brook in 1941.
Surviving are her husband, Alexander; a daughter, Alexanderina Vigh-Shuler; sons, Alexander L. and Brian R.; sisters, Jolanda Henyesz and Piros Maksa, and two grandchildren.
Elizabeth Walker
Tuesday, March 26, 2002
RALEIGH, N.C. -- Graveside services were held for Mrs. Elizabeth Walker, 92, of Raleigh, a former Newark, N.J., resident, who died here Friday in Sunrise of Raleigh. Arrangements were by the the Bradley Funeral Home, Luray, Va.
Mrs. Walker was a member of the Contemporary Club of Newark and chairperson of the Child Health Fund.
She was secretary of the New Jersey State Federation of Women's Clubs and president of the Ex-officers Club of the 8th District of State Federation of Women's Clubs. Mrs. Walker was also a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution.
Born in New York City, she lived in Newark before moving to Raleigh two years ago.
John D. Woebse
Tuesday, March 26, 2002
GENEVA, Ill. -- A memorial service will be scheduled for John Woebse, 76, of St. Charles, a former New Jersey resident, who died here Saturday in Provena Geneva Care Center.
Mr. Woebse was a consultant for several companies and, earlier, a sales manager.
He earned a bachelors degree from the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania and a masters degree from Harvard University.
Mr. Woebse played baseball for the Philadelphia Athletics farm team.
He served in the Navy during World War II in Pearl Harbor.
Born in Plainfield, N.J., he lived in Maplewood, N.J., before moving to St. Charles.
Surviving are Barbara, his wife of 50 years; a son, John Diedrich; a stepbrother, Robert Becker, and a grandchild.
Mario Pavone, led life of compassion
Tuesday, March 26, 2002
As a child in Italy in the 1930s, Mario Pavone learned his future trade by standing on wooden crates so he could reach his customers' heads with the scissors and by sitting in their laps to shave their faces.
Barbering stayed with him through his teen years and his entire adult life. He moved to Nutley in 1953, making $65 a week cutting hair, and opened a popular barber shop in 1960 that was also his base for a steady stream of charity work to help needy children.
Mr. Pavone died Sunday, one day after his 76th birthday, after fighting pneumonia.
He was born in 1926 in Calabria, Italy. Both of Mr. Pavone's parents died when he was young, and his aunt and uncle raised him. Being an orphan, he developed a strong sense of compassion that led him, as an adult, to raise more than $1,000 each year for charities, said his son, Sergio Pavone.
"He was very generous with his time," his son said. "He loved being out with people. He could've been a politician."
Soon after moving to New Jersey, Mr. Pavone began a personal Christmas tradition involving hand-crafting papier-m⣨é Nativity scenes, spending hours over miniature villages, mountains and figurines. He donated his first Nativity scene, which was meant to honor his parents, to the Holy Face Monastery in Clifton, which used it as part of a fund-raising campaign.
Then, when he opened his barbershop "Mario's," Mr. Navone worked on another Nativity scene, keeping it in his shop and adding to it each year to raise money for families in financial crisis due to a child's illness.
In 1967, he raised almost $2,000 to buy 50 new beds for the Sons of Italy orphanage in Nutley. At the time, a local newspaper story about the donation quoted him as saying, "Charity is the most beautiful and self-satisfying thing in my life. Helping the needy and unfortunate who are unable to help themselves gives my spirit a lift and makes me happy to be alive."
A founding member of the Nutley Italian American Civic Association, he was its longtime treasurer. In 1994, community members recognized his years of charity work by selecting him co-grand marshal for the Nutley-Belleville Columbus Day Parade.
People familiar with his barbershop said that during his 12-hour workdays, Mr. Pavone frequently gave breaks to people who didn't have enough money, and cut people's hair for free if they couldn't leave their homes due to illness.
"He never said no to anybody," said Anthony Biondi, whose hair Mr. Pavone cut for 37 years. "If you needed something, Mario would be there yesterday. Need a ride somewhere? He'd do that. He was like his own charity. I remember getting my haircut and people would walk in, say, 'I'm a few dollars short, could you help me?' He'd go to the back, help them out."
At other times, Mr. Pavone raised money for African hospitals, the Red Cross and the Crippled Children's Fund.
His longtime employee, Pasquale Ferraro, said Mr. Pavone was known for giving short haircuts of such high-quality that "customers would wait," until Mr. Pavone was available, "for him to give them a crew cut. Mario was the best barber of the flat top."
In addition to his son, Mr. Ferraro is survived by his wife, Ida, two other sons, Alex of Garfield and Robert of Nutley, and three grandchildren.
In lieu of flowers, donations can be sent to the Nutley Volunteer and Emergency Rescue Squad.
The viewing will be from 2-4 and 7-9 p.m. today at the Biondi Funeral Home, 540 Franklin Ave., Nutley. Funeral services will be held at 10:30 a.m. tomorrow at Holy Family Church, Nutley.
Burial will follow in Glendale Cemetery, Bloomfield.
