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Paterson, NJ
News
Support Surges For Single Clifton Mom, Baby Critically Injured In Route 3 Dump Truck Crash
Support is surging for a 25-year-old single mom from Clifton and her baby, who were both hospitalized following a Route 3 dump truck crash Tuesday. ** UPDATE: A baby critically injured in a Route 3 crash with her mom died Monday evening, less than a week after the accident. Her organs, however, will save the lives of three other babies. ** Jamie Yarrish was behind the wheel of a sedan carrying her daughter Jaelynn -- who turned 1 Aug. 15 -- when she and at least three other vehicles crashed around 10:30 a.m. near Broad Street in Clifton. Yarrish and her baby remained hospitalized…
Cortlandt, NY
Obituaries
22-Year-Old Hudson Valley Woman Dies Days After Being Diagnosed With Flu
A 22-year-old woman who was a community activist in the Hudson Valley has died after battling a flu virus. Newburgh resident Rebekah Grohl, an outspoken activist who was the campaign manager for Orange County Legislator Kevindaryan Lujan and volunteered on the campaigns of Sen. James Skoufis and Congressman Antonio Delgado, died on Sunday, Jan. 5 after being diagnosed with the flu last week. Lujan took to Facebook to remember Grohl, calling her “courageous, fierce, loving, compassionate and truly powerful.” “Her light was unlike any other I have ever seen,” he said. “She inspired people …
Paramus, NJ
Obituaries
Hero
: Four Saved By Organs Donated By Oradell Teen Killed In Crash
TRIBUTE: Gone much too soon at 17, an Oradell boy died a hero, donating his organs to save the lives of four people. Richard Rivera clung to life for a week after his SUV slammed into a tree in Haworth on Oct. 17, said his mother, Evelyn Dominguez. Firefighters extricated the teen from his 2002 Toyota 4Runner following the nighttime crash in front of the SUEZ water treatment plan on Lake Shore Drive. He was taken to Hackensack University Medical Center, where he remained in critical condition until his death. Dominguez told Daily Voice that she, her husband, Omar Rivera, and Richard’s…
Parsippany-Troy Hills, NJ
Obituaries
Father, Son Moving To Bergen County Together Die 6 Days Apart After Morris County Crash
A 28-year-old man died six days after his 69-year-old father of injuries sustained in a Roxbury car accident, authorities said. Vincent Borny had been fighting for his life at Morristown Medical Center following the crash that took his father Ken Borny's life Sept. 25, outside of Ledgewood Commons in Roxbury, his uncle Tom Borny said. Vincent's organs will be donated to help others live, Tom Borny said in a Facebook post. "I believe Vincent will live amongst us all in the lives of people walking this earth having a second chance and everyday smiling with gratitude knowing that someone was …
Parsippany-Troy Hills, NJ
Obituaries
Hometown Hero, Morris County Dad Fred Detoro Dies, 52
Selfless is a word most used to described Fred Detoro of Flanders. The longtime firefighter became an organ donor when he died on June 15 at Saint Clare's Hospital. The community is rallying for Detoro's family -- having raised more than $530 for them on a GoFundMe as of Sunday morning. "He had a servants soul," campaign founder Danielle Seib wrote. "Fred was a man who would give his last dollar to someone if they needed it." Detoro was a lifelong member of the Flanders Fire Department. He served as a chief and president, also as the fire marshal, construction official, EMS captain and O…
West Milford, NJ
News
Organs Of West Milford Club Motorcyclist Killed In Crash Will Help 50 Other People Live
John Michael Wallace of the North Crew Motorcycle Club in West Milford died due to injuries sustained in a motorcycle crash on May 24, his obituary says. He was 25 years old. Byram police did not identify Wallace as the victim after responding to a Waterloo Road accident around 8:50 p.m., where a 1999 Harley Davidson had struck the back of a 2012 Subaru. Police said the 25-year-old Long Valley motorcyclist was pronounced dead at the scene. "Even in death John will be helping at least fifty people due to his giving nature and through his wish to be an organ and tissue donor," his…
Newark, NJ
Neighbors
Newark Woman Takes Her Quest For A Kidney To The Streets
Bumper stickers and car decals broadcast all kinds of information, from a favorite band to a vacation destination to an off-color joke to whether the driver’s kid is an honor roll student. The decal on the back of Elizabeth Abrantes’s car is a plea for life. “Kidney needed, A+, Share Your Spare & Be a Hero,” it reads, followed by a phone number. The "A+" refers to her blood type, and "your spare" refers to the fact that a healthy person can survive with just one of her two kidneys. Abrantes, 40, of Newark, has been on New Jersey’s waiting list for a new kidney for four years. Sh…
Massapequa, NY
Lifestyle
Thanks To Big-Hearted Long Island Cop, Mets Legend Receives New Kidney And A Chance At Life
Thanks to the big-hearted actions of a Long Island Port Authority Police Officer, Mets legend Ed Kranepool has a new kidney, The road to the new kidney for the 1969 Miracle Mets star is a long one that started when Officer Brian Cooney, 45, a diehard Yankees fans, heard about how desperately kidneys were needed across the country, said the New York Daily News. That when the cop who patrols LaGuardia Airport, a lifelong blood donor, decided to start the matching process and ended up becoming a donor for a Long Island firefighter that then sparked a donor chain that led directly to Kranepool …
Newark, NJ
Neighbors
Nutley Family Mourning Baby Hannah, A 'Fighter' Whose Organs Will Help Others
A GoFundMe campaign has been started in memory of Hannah Gwinner, a baby girl from Nutley who died Monday just a few months shy of her second birthday. Hannah was born with Abernethy Malformation, a rare vascular condition that was discovered when Taryn Gwinner was pregnant with Hannah. Taryn and her husband Brian were "plagued with worry and fear" throughout the rest of the pregnancy, Taryn Gwinner wrote, but the newborn received treatment at Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago avoid "what most research said was an inevitable liver transplant," Taryn Gwinner said. Despite her …
Parsippany-Troy Hills, NJ
Lifestyle
'Rivers Won't Be The Same': Outdoor Community Mourns Rockaway Fisherman Tyler Rodimer, 23
North Jersey fisherman Tyler Rodimer died on March 29 in Morristown Medical Center of injuries sustained in an automobile accident in February. He was 23 years old. Tyler's organs will be donated to help others live, according to a GoFundMe that had raised more than $13,100 as of Monday afternoon. Friends are remembering the Stillwater native and former Rockaway resident as an avid fisherman who taught many his skill. "I'll never forget the look on your face the first time you hooked into a fish on my fly rod," Joe Falotico wrote on Facebook. "The next thing I knew your mom was…
Cliffside Park-Edgewater, NJ
Police & Fire
Woman, 18, Struck By Car In Ridgefield Being Taken Off Life Support
An 18-year-old woman struck by a car in Ridgefield last Saturday afternoon was being taken off life support so that her organs can be donated, her brother said. Sarah Ye Eun Kim was hospitalized in critical condition after she was struck on Shaler Boulevard near Pleasant View Terrace, right near her home, around 4 p.m. Feb. 9. "The past week has been the hardest time for our family as we've had to hear from doctors of her near full brain dead state," said her brother, Pastor Paul S. Kim. "She took her first test [Friday] morning to see if she is brain dead and the result came back tha…
Cliffside Park-Edgewater, NJ
Police & Fire
Woman, 18, Struck In Ridgefield Taken Off Life Support For Organ Harvest
An 18-year-old woman struck by a car in Ridgefield last Saturday afternoon was being taken off life support so that her organs can be donated, her brother said. Sarah Ye Eun Kim was hospitalized in critical condition after she was struck on Shaler Boulevard near Pleasant View Terrace, near her home, around 4 p.m. Feb. 9. "The past week has been the hardest time for our family as we've had to hear from doctors of her near full brain dead state," said her brother, Pastor Paul S. Kim. "She took her first test [Friday] morning to see if she is brain dead and the result came back that she was,"…
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