Phyllis Giglio, 97, of Plainsboro died October 14. Arrangements were by M. William Murphy Funeral Home, 935 Parkway Avenue, Ewing.
Christopher Francis Bonnet, 35, a 1996 graduate of West Windsor-Plainsboro High School, died. A resident of Hamilton, he disappeared October 16. His body was found in Hamilton on October 26.
Born in Langhorne, Pennsylvania, he played football, basketball, and baseball during high school. After receiving an associate’s degree in culinary arts from Mercer County Community College, he joined the Armed Forces. A sergeant in the Army, he served in the 3rd Battalion 75th Ranger Regiment as an airborne ranger during the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. Deployed as a national certified EMT, he received several awards and ribbons as part of the Joint Special Operations Command. He later struggled with post traumatic stress disorder.
Survivors include his mother, Roseanne M. Meshanko Bonnet; his father, Frank Bonnet; maternal grandmother, Madeline T. Meshanko; brother, Jeffrey Bonnet; sister, Jenine Hutton; half sisters and brother, Estelle Bonnet, Claudia Bonnet, and Francisco Bonnet; niece and nephew, Gemma and Benjamin Hutton; aunts and uncles, Robert J. and Kim Meshanko, Stephen and Patricia Meshanko, and Sandra Meshanko, Yolanda, Eunice and Carmen Esperanza, and Dario Bonnet, and many cousins.
Calling hours are Friday, November 8, from 7 to 9 p.m. at Knott’s Colonial Funeral Home, 2946 South Broad Street, Hamilton. The funeral is Saturday, November 9, at 9:30 a.m. A mass of the Resurrection will be celebrated at 10:30 a.m. at St. Raphael Church, 3500 South Broad Street, Hamilton. Interment with military honors will be in Our Lady of Lourdes Cemetery.
Donations may be made to the Wounded Warrior Project, Box 758517, Topeka, KS 66675; to NAMI Mercer, 3371 Brunswick Pike, Lawrenceville 08648; or Mass cards.
William J. Hoogsteden, 87, of East Windsor died October 23. Survivors include his wife of 57 years, Kathleen Rooney Hoogsteden; a daughter, Mary Reale of West Windsor; her sibling, William P., John T., Anne Dambra, and Patricia Tarsoly; 14 grandchildren; seven great-grandchildren; a brother, Henry; and a sister, Marie Simms.
Elizabeth Davis McBride, 93, of Georgetown, Texas, died October 24. Survivors include a granddaughter and her husband, Ashley and Todd Bashore of Plainsboro; and great grandchildren Cate and William Bashore. Donations may be sent to Hospice Foundation of America, 1710 Road Island Avenue NW, Suite 400, Washington, D.C. 20036.
Carmela Bonanne, 86 of Carmel, Indiana, died October 28. Born in New Brunswick, she was a former resident of Plainsboro and worked for the Boy Scouts of America.
Survivors include sons Thomas Bonanne Jr. of Sacramento, California, and Joseph Bonanne of Carmel, Indiana; five grandchildren; and two great grandchildren.
Robert W. Gluck, former Middlesex prosecutor, died at his home in South Brunswick on October 28. Born in Irvington, he was a longtime resident of Plainsboro, where he coached Little League baseball and Pop Warner football.
A graduate of Rutgers with a degree in political science, he earned his juris doctorate from Rutgers School of Law, Newark, where he was an associate editor of the Law Review. A deputy attorney general in the Division of Criminal Justice, he was a research assistant on the Criminal Law Revision Commission. A founding member of Gluck, Kelso & Kaplan Law Firm, he was a prosecutor for Middlesex County from 1992 to 1998. He then became a partner at the law firm of Mandelbaum Salsburg.
Survivors include his wife of 12 years, Andrea Craparotta Gluck; two daughters, Christina and Lilly; former wife Kathleen; three sons and daughters-in-law, Michael and Rebecca, John Kenneth and Candice, Robert Jr. and Ivy; four grandchildren, Gianna, Sophia, Colton, and Elle; brothers and sisters-in-law, John and Elaine, James and Dawn, and Paul and Melissa; father and mother in law, Richard and Mary Craparotta; and brother-in-law, Richard Craparotta.
Donations may be made to Memorial Sloan Kettering Brain Cancer Research, Box 27106, New York, NY 10087.
Lawrence M. O’Connor, 91, died October 29. A Navy veteran, he was a patrol officer with the New York Police Department in Long Island City. Survivors include his daughter and son-in-law, Anne and Joseph Cirafici of Princeton Junction; and his grandson, Joseph.
Louise E. Connolly, 97, of West Windsor died October 30 at the University Medical Center at Plainsboro. Born in Trenton, she lived in Penns Neck for most of her life.
A graduate of Princeton High School, Class of 1934, she attended Douglass College and graduated from Rider College in 1938. Connolly worked at Walker Gordon Farm in Plainsboro and RCA Sarnoff Center in Penns Neck.
She was the daughter of the late Robert and Ida Engelke and wife of the late William Connolly. She was also predeceased by her son Robert Connolly, her sister Esther Engelke and her grandson William Parris.
Survivors include her daughter and son-in-law, Susan and David Parris; grandsons Daniel Parris and Timothy Parris and his companion Amy Pacheco, all of West Windsor.
The funeral was held at the Princeton Baptist Church at Penns Neck. Donations may be made to the Princeton Child Development Institute, 300 Cold Soil Road, Princeton 08540.
Joseph Anthony Rinkunas, 61, of South Scranton, Pennsylvania, died November 2. Survivors include a daughter, Barbara Rinkunas of Plainsboro. Donations may be made to the Connell Park Little League, c/o Pete Petrucci, Box 3971, Scranton, PA 18505.
Beulah Everett Zowe, 98, of Nazareth, Pennsylvania, died November 4 at Moravian Hall Square Retirement Community. Born in Princeton Junction, she worked in the correspondence section of Educational Testing Services and was later a secretary for RCA Laboratories.
Survivors include a daughter and son-in-law, Nancy G. and Emery J. Snyder Jr. of Bethlehem, PA; two grandchildren, Emery J., III and Pamela L.
Donations may be made to the Good Samaritan Fund at Moravian Hall Square in care of the Bartholomew-Schisler Funeral Home, 211 East Center Street, Nazareth, PA 18064.
