Page 18 THE VILLADOM TIMES IV • June 22, 2011 Obituaries Anita E. DeAngelis, nee Crescenzi, of Lakewood, formerly of Ramsey, Fort Lee, and Englewood Cliffs, died June 11. She was 86. Before retiring, she worked for CPC Corp. She had been employed by Wella Corp and Lipton Tea. She is survived by her children Anthony of Oakland, Nancy Morris of Allendale, Rosemary Licata of Manchester, and Louis Jr. of Fort Lee, five grandchildren, four great-grandchildren, and her sisters Marie, Olga, Helen, and Nancy. She was predeceased by her husband Louis Sr. Arrangements were made by C.C. Van Emburgh Funeral Home in Ridgewood. Memorial donations may be made to the American Parkinson Disease Association, PO Box 214, Elizabeth, NJ 07207. Anna M. Maize, nee Wegryniak, of Ormond Beach, Florida and Mahwah died May 30. She was 84. Before retiring, she was a senior admitting clerk at Bergen Pines County Hospital, where she was employed for 29 years. She was a volunteer with Meals on Wheels. She was a member of Prince of Peace Catholic Church in Ormond Beach. She is survived by her sons John M. Maize and Thomas A. Maize, one granddaughter, and her goddaughter Alicia Tucholski. She was predeceased by her husband Matthew J. Maize, and her parents Andrew and Catherine Wegryniak. Arrangements were made by Lohman Funeral Home in Daytona, Florida and the Shook Funeral Home in Clifton. There will be a brief memorial service and interment of ashes at Saint Mary’s Cemetery in Saddle Brook on June 24 at 11:30 a.m., with a gathering beforehand. Paul Rork of Mahwah died June 12. He was 91. He was a U.S. Coast Guard veteran of WWII. He served in the Paterson area guard unit for over 15 years after his discharge from active duty. He attended Rutgers University, was a member of the Kappa Sigma fraternity, and graduated in 1942. He worked for The Hartford Insurance Company, and started his own insurance agency, the Rork Agency in Ridgewood, in 1953. He ran the agency until his retirement in 1982. He had been a member of Grace Church in Ridgewood and, most recently, was a member of the Hawthorne Gospel Church in Hawthorne. Along with his first wife, Ruth, he started the first indoor tennis facility in the area, the Frank Brennan Tennis Center, later called Rork’s Tennis Center and Olympian Swim Club in Upper Saddle River. He is survived by his wife Lydia, his children, Ruth Ann, Paul William Jr., George, Andrew, Peter, Heidi and Amee, 17 grandchildren, and nine great-grandchildren. He was predeceased by his first wife Ruth. Arrangements were made by C.C. Van Emburgh Funeral Home in Ridgewood. Memorial donations may be made to the American Diabetes Association. Alice Shnorhokian of Mahwah died June 16. She was 98. Anita E. DeAngelis She was a survivor of the Armenian Genocide in 1915. She survived with her family and relocated to Aleppo, Syria and later Beirut, Lebanon where she pursued her career as a midwife and educator at the American University in Beirut. In 1980, she moved to America, where she was active in the Armenian Presbyterian Church. In her later years, she was a driving force in urging Congress to recognize the Armenian Genocide. She is survived by her children Arpi Sarian, Ivan and Harout Shnorhokian, and six grandchildren. She was predeceased by her husband the Reverend Manasseh Shnorhokian. Arrangements were made by William G. Basralian Funeral Home. Memorial donations may be made to the Armenian Presbyterian Church or the AMAA Shnorhokian Publishing Fund. Helen B. Silok, nee Blazewicz, of Ramsey died June 13. She was 90. Before retiring, she had worked for Nabisco. She was a parishioner of Immaculate Heart of Mary RC Church in Mahwah. She had been active in the Mahwah Elks with her husband. She is survived by two children, four grandchildren, and three great-grandchildren. She was predeceased by her husband Stanley F. Silok. Arrangements were made by Van Emburgh-Sneider-Pernice Funeral Home in Ramsey. Adele Josephine Sorese of Midland Park, formerly of Dumont, died June 13. She was 75. She was a parishioner of Church of the Nativity in Midland Park and a former parishioner of Saint Mary’s R.C. Church of Dumont. She is survived by her daughters Stephanie Pritchard of Berryville, Virginia, Denise Sorese of Athol, Massachusetts, Phyliss Mosca of Forest Hill, Maryland, and Audra Kristiansen of Wyckoff, five grandchildren, and her sister Lorraine Kuhl of Stephens City, Virginia. Arrangements were made by Vander Plaat Funeral Home in Wyckoff. Norman C. Valentine of Mahwah died June 14. He was 60. He worked for Ramsey Controls in Mahwah as an electronic supervisor. He is survived by his siblings Gary of Florida, New York, Lori Ellen Heydt of Palmerton, Pennsylvania, and Wendy Vittum of Salisbury Mills, New York, four nieces and nephews, and six grand-nieces and nephews. Arrangements were made by Scarr Funeral Home in Suffern, New York. Kathleen L. “Kathy” Wojcik of Cream Ridge, formerly of Upper Saddle River, died June 9. She was 68. She ran Creative Gardens in Upper Saddle River for 35 years. She was a member of the Upper Saddle River Ladies Auxiliary Fire Department for 20 years. She is survived by her husband Martin D. Wojcik, her son Dennis T. Wojcik of Allentown, two grandchildren, and her brother Ronald Temple of Long Valley. Arrangements were made by Van EmburghSneider-Pernice Funeral Home in Ramsey. Norman C. Valentine Helen B. Silok Anna M. Maize Kathleen L. Wojcik Adele Josephine Sorese Crossroads objectors mobilize support (continued from page 9) “In five minutes, all the reasons and objections given by the residents of Mahwah were ignored and Mahwah was rezoned for a mall,” he said. Michael Kates, the attorney the group has hired to file its lawsuit, explained that he believes in the validity of this lawsuit for a number of reasons. He said Mayor DaPuzzo, who was a councilman at the time the ordinances were introduced, should have recused himself from the vote on the introduction of the ordinances because his wife is the township’s director of recreation, and the proposed development has a recreational component. Kates also said the petition filed by the committee and rejected by the township clerk as invalid should have been recognized and, if it had been, the council would have needed five affirmative votes to adopt the ordinances, and they only had four affirmative votes. He claimed this is not a redevelopment project which allows a town to negotiate the rehabilitation of an area, but one where the council reacted to a proposal by a developer who pursued the council over a period of years, and he believes the rezoning can be criticized as spot zoning. Kates explained that a binding referendum is not permitted in zoning issues and a non-binding referendum would have no effect if this lawsuit fails. He estimated that the lawsuit would take longer than a year to proceed through the discovery phase, or exchange of information between the two sides, and experts will be required so the ultimate cost of the lawsuit could be $50,000 if it is fully pursued. Another member of the committee, Josephine Bourgholtzer, told the crowd that the retail center, when fully built out, would provide $123,000 a year in additional taxes, but nothing for the police or fire departments, and there will be no fire station at the mall even though the plans call for removing the emergency lane on Route 17 North near the proposed entrance to the mall. Susan Chin, also a member of the committee, pointed out that Mahwah’s current master plan does not allow for a mall, so the master plan will be revised after the vote to allow for the new zoning. She added that the developer, who was dissatisfied with the property’s previous hotel and office zoning, will now build on this site a two big-box mega-mall equal in square footage to Paramus Park, with one access road off Route 17, and one access road off the Route 287 Sharp exit ramp. “We believe that the character and fabric of Mahwah is best without a Paramus Park-size mall,” Chin said. The committee collected donations and pledges and several attendees signed up for various volunteer activities to support the committee as it moves forward. Paul Rork Alice Shnorhokian