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Robert Connelly, 57
Owned L’Affaire; Was Recipient of Multiple Awards
Robert B. Connelly, 57, of New Vernon died on Saturday, November 20, 1999 in Morristown Memorial Hospital in Morristown.
Born in Plainfield, he lived in New Vernon for many years.
Mr. Connelly owned L’Affaire Fine Catering on Route 22 in Mountainside for many years.
He was a member of the Board of Trustees of the 200 Club of Union County for many years and was a member of Congressman Bob Franks’ Finance Committee.
He was also a member of the Board of Trustees of the Canoe Brook Country Club in Summit and was Chairman of the Greens Committee from 1993 to 1997.
Mr. Connelly was also a member of the Medalist Golf Club in Hobe Sound, Fla.
He served in the United States National Guard.
In 1992 he received the New Jersey Restaurateur Award from the New Jersey Restaurant Association and was named Restaurateur of the Year for 1984 by the International Geneva Association.
In 1997, the American Diabetes Association presented him with the Humanitarian Award.
Surviving are his wife, Heather Connelly; two daughters, Carrie Connelly and Grace Elizabeth Connelly; a son, Robert Bruce Connelly, Jr., and a sister, Joyce Ilardi.
A Funeral Mass will be held on Wednesday, November 24, in Christ the King Church on Blue Mill Road in New Vernon.
Arrangements are being handled by the William R. Dangler Funeral Home in Summit.
Charles W. Powell, 56
Charles W. Powell, 56, of Elizabeth died on Thursday, November 18, 1999 at home.
Born in Richmond, Va., he had lived in Scotch Plains before moving to Elizabeth 14 years ago.
Mr. Powell was a bus driver for the Millburn Board of Education for seven years.
He was a member of the Pop Whiting Bowling League in North Brunswick and Alcoholics Anonymous in Dunellen.
Surviving are his wife, Louise Powell; two sons, David Powell and Charles Powell, both of Plainfield; a daughter, Belinda Powell of Plainfield; a stepson, David Poulick of Fox Lake, Ill.; a stepdaughter, Calline Montgomery of Tacoma, Wash; his mother, Lena Thorton of Scotch Plains; a brother, Rufus Banks of Dublin, Va., and seven grandchildren.
Arrangements were handled by the Judkins Colonial Home in Plainfield.
Douglas C. Schembs, Sr., 93
Served Under General Patton; Was at Battle of the Bulge
Douglas C. Schembs, Sr., 93, of Westfield died on Tuesday, November 16, 1999 at Muhlenberg Regional Medical Center in Plainfield.
Born in Birmingham, Ala. he had lived in Newark before moving to Westfield in 1952.
Mr. Schembs worked for the P. Ballantine and Sons Brewery in Newark for 35 years, retiring as a management statistician in 1965.
He attended New York University.
He served in the United States Army under General George Patton during World War II and participated in the Battle of the Bulge.
Mr. Schembs served as a committeeman for Westfield in the late 1960s.
He was also active as a Boy Scout Master for Troop No. 77 at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in Westfield, where he was a parishioner.
He was also active as a coach for five years with the Westfield Little League program in the late 1950s.
Surviving are his wife, Florence Groves Schembs; a son, Douglas C. Schembs, Jr. of Westfield, and a granddaughter.
A funeral service was held on Saturday, November 20, at St. Paul’s Church.
Interment was at Graceland Memorial Park in Kenilworth.
Arrangements were handled by the Gray Funeral Home, 318 East Broad Street in Westfield.
Memorial donations may be made to the Westfield Volunteer Rescue Squad, 335 Watterson Street, Westfield, 07090.
Dorothy D. Rogers, 76
Dorothy Darling Rogers, 76, a lifelong resident of Westfield, died on Sunday, November 21, 1999.
Mrs. Rogers graduated from Westfield High School in 1941 and attended Harcom Junior College in Bryn Mawr, Pa.
She was a member of the Amity Club of Westfield.
She was predeceased by her husband, Daniel Rogers, and by a son, James M. Cornell.
Surviving are another son, Kenneth P. Cornell of Melbourne, Fla. and four grandchildren.
Arrangements were handled by the Dooley Colonial Home, 556 Westfield Avenue in Westfield.
Memorial donations may be made to Boy Scout Troop No. 78, care of the First United Methodist Church, 1 East Broad Street, Westfield, 07090.
Dolores Byron, 68
Had Worked for IRS; Was Executive Secretary for U. S. Attorney
Dolores Byron, 68, of Mountainside died on Tuesday, November 16, 1999 in the Westfield Center, Genesis ElderCare Network in Westfield.
Born in Bayonne, she lived in Mountainside since 1971.
Mrs. Byron had been an executive secretary for the United States Attorney at the Department of Justice in Newark for nine years before retiring in 1989.
Prior to that, she had worked in the same capacity for the Internal Revenue Service in Mountainside for three years and the United States Naval Base in Bayonne for 20 years.
Surviving are a son, Danny J. Zelasko; a daughter, Denise A. Halloran; four sisters and four grandchildren.
A Mass was offered on Friday, November 19, at Our Lady of Lourdes Roman Catholic Church in Mountainside, following the funeral from the Higgins and Bonner Echo Lake Funeral Home in Westfield.
Leroy Brayboy, 61
Leroy “Jack” Brayboy, 61, of Plainfield died on Saturday, November 13, 1999 at Muhlenberg Regional Medical Center in Plainfield.
Born in Miller, Ga., he was a resident of Plainfield for 40 years.
Mr. Brayboy was employed as a bus driver for the New Jersey Department of Human Resources for 18 years and was a security guard for 18 years.
He was a member of the Emanuel Baptist Church in Fanwood for 30 years and served as a Deacon.
Surviving are his wife, Jean Brayboy; two sons, Eric Brayboy and Ricky Brayboy, both of Plainfield; a step-son, Edward Addison of Queens; a daughter, Patricia Hill of Cowpens, S.C.; two brothers, Kenneth Brayboy of Plainfield and Marion Brayboy of Atlanta; six grandchildren and one great-grandchild.
Funeral services were held on Friday, November 19, at the Miracle Baptist Church in Plainfield.
Arrangements were handled by the Judkins Colonial Home in Plainfield.
Frank P. Flint, 96
Was Retired Comptroller for General Foods
Frank P. Flint, 96, of Spirit Lake, Iowa, died on Monday, November 15, 1999 at Hilltop Care Center in Spirit Lake.
Born on January 13, 1903 in Allegheny, Pa., he was the son of the late Reverend Homer A. and Theodora Plumley Flint.
Mr. Flint had been a comptroller for the Institutional Products Division of General Foods Corporation before retiring.
He graduated from Haverford College in Pennsylvania in 1923 and received a master’s degree in business from the Harvard Business School in 1925.
He was Treasurer at the Church of the Nativity in Crafton, Pa., St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church in College Park, Md. and St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in Westfield, and was a Warden at the Trinity Episcopal Church in Fairfield, Conn.
He was a Mason for over 75 years and was also a member of Spirit Lake Kiwanis, Telecare and Meals on Wheels.
Besides his parents, he was predeceased by three wives, Margaret B. Bucknell Flint, Marion Neubauer Flint and Minnie Meyer Flint; a grandson, David Holzhauer, and a great-grandson, Matthew Dyson.
Surviving are two daughters, Betsey Holzhauer of Spirit Lake and Tobie Smith of Lima, N.Y.; a son, John Flint of Granby, Conn.; a sister, Phoebe Sakash of Stowe, Vt.; nine grandchildren and 16 great-grandchildren.
Services were held on Thursday, November 18, at St. Alban’s Episcopal Church in Spirit Lake.
Interment took place in Stowe, Vermont.
Private family services will take place at a later date.
Arrangements were handled by the Turner Funeral Home in Spirit Lake.
Ella M. Alefeld, 89
Ella M. Alefeld, 89, of Westfield died on Thursday, November 18, 1999 in Rahway Hospital in Rahway.
Born in France, she had lived in Union and Springfield before moving to Westfield in 1998.
Mrs. Alefeld had been a licensed practical nurse with the Sage Homemaking Service in Summit for 25 years before retiring in 1986.
She was a member of the German-American Club in Newark.
Surviving are two daughters, Joyce Alatorre and Betti Gardner; seven grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren.
Services were held on Saturday, November 20, at the Union Funeral Home-Lytwyn & Lytwyn in Union.
