Page 14 THE VILLADOM TIMES IV • September 28, 2011 Obituaries Clara Friscino, nee Radeski, of Mahwah died Sept. 18. She was 89. She was a parishioner of Immaculate Heart of Mary R.C. Church in Mahwah. She is survived by her son William A. Friscino of Mahwah, three grandchildren, and her siblings Robert and Edna. She was predeceased by her husband William A. Friscino. Arrangements were made by Van Emburgh-Sneider-Pernice Funeral Home in Ramsey. Memorial donations may be made to a charity of choice. Clara Friscino Mary Elizabeth Lisi, nee Story, formerly of Ramsey, died Sept. 18. She was 93. She graduated from Southwestern College in 1939. She was a member of the Archer Memorial Methodist Church, the Woman’s Club of Ramsey, and served many years as a volunteer at the Valley Hospital in Ridgewood. She is survived by her children Robert Lisi and Joan Blohm, one grandson, and one great-granddaughter. She was predeceased by her husband Ugo. Arrangements were made by Van Emburgh-SneiderPernice Funeral Home in Ramsey. George Saterson of Ridgewood died Sept. 20. He was 86. He was a U.S. Navy Air Corps veteran. In 1948, he received his bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from City College in New York. He spent 17 years working for U.S. Gypsum in various positions including plant and management positions in Pennsylvania, Illinois, Texas, and Georgia. He joined Litton Industries in 1967 as vice president of manufacturing for Kimball Systems in New Jersey and was later promoted to president. He served as president of Sweda and became a Litton corporate vice president in 1977. He was the chief operating officer of Docutel, an early ATM business, in Dallas, Texas, and president of several businesses in Irvine and Santa Clara, California from 1983 until his retirement from Dastek in the late 1990s. He is survived by his wife Athena Saterson of Ridgewood, his children Constantine of San Diego, California, George of Brooklyn, New York, Kathryn of Durham, North Carolina, Chrysanthe of San Jose, California, and Anastasia of New York, New York, and three grandchildren. Arrangements were made by Olthuis Funeral Home in Midland Park. Memorial donations may be made to Operation Smile, 6435 Tidewater Drive, Norfolk, VA 23509. Bernard John “B.J.” Steinke of Saddle River died Sept. 15. He was 94. He was a U.S. Navy veteran of WWII. He was a graduate of Saint Cecilia High School in Englewood. He received a degree in mechanical engineering from New York University in 1942 and was involved in graduate studies there until 1945. He was also a member of the honor society Pi Tau Sigma. He had been a design engineer for Mary Elizabeth Lisi the U.S. Navy Yard in Brooklyn, New York and a marine engineer for George G. Sharp naval architects in New York City. He later worked for the U.S. Rubber Company in Naugatuck, Connecticut (1945-48) and the contractor B.H. Steinke, Inc. in Englewood. In 1950, he became a founding partner of Dwight Engineering Associates, an electrical and mechanical engineering firm in Englewood and later Woodcliff Lake. He is survived by his children Bernard “B.P.,” Thomas, Sheila, Linda, Maria, Colette, Peter, and Andrew, 21 grandchildren, and seven great-grandchildren. He was predeceased by his wife Lillian May (nee Schroeder), and his son Jerome. Arrangements were made by Van Emburgh-Sneider-Pernice Funeral Home in Ramsey. Salvatore Venti of Palm Coast, Florida, formerly of Wyckoff, died Sept. 18. He was 90. He was a U.S. Army Air Force veteran of WWII. He studied art at the Commercial Illustration Studio Art School and Pratt Institute and Salvatore Venti then embarked on a 40-year career in advertising. Initially, he was employed as an art director at Parents magazine. He then owned his own graphic design studio for 12 years, followed by 26 years working for top New York advertising agencies. He retired in 1987. He is survived by his wife Anita (Tammy), his children Linda Camille Venti of Lexington, Massachusetts, Steven of Hanover, New Hampshire, Michael of Liverpool, New York, and Lisa Overholts of Zionsville, Pennsylvania, and nine grandchildren. He is also survived by his sisters Anna Parinello of Leesburg, Florida, and Lucy Cottone of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and his step-brother Frank Ventimiglia of Oxnard, California. He was predeceased by his first wife Eleanor Camille. Arrangements were made by Vander Plaat Funeral Home in Wyckoff. Memorial donations may be made to the James A. McFaul Environmental Center, 150 Crescent Avenue, Wyckoff, NJ 07481. Please make checks payable to County of Bergen and include Environmental Center Trust Fund in the memo line. Martel honored (continued from page 10) in motion the plan to name the municipal building after the township’s longtime mayor. Martel was serving his fourth term as mayor of the township after being reelected in the municipal elections in May 2008. When he announced in 2007 that he would seek a fourth term, Martel said he took great pride in the fact that the township’s municipal building and the new senior center in the lower level were built during his time in office. Martel also expressed great satisfaction with what he termed the “state of the art” Continental Soldiers Field recreational facility with artificial turf on Ramapo Valley Road, the new library on Ridge Road, and the new Mahwah Museum, which is located in the former library building on Franklin Turnpike, all of which were constructed during his time in office. Born in Lewistown, Maine of French Canadian parents, Martel was fluent in French. He was a veteran of the U.S. Army, having served three years of active duty at the NIKE Missile Base in Franklin Lakes between the Korean and Vietnam wars. He was a graduate of the RCA Institute of Engineering, which is an extension of Columbia University in New York City, where he majored in electrical engineering. An avid Boston Red Sox and New York Giants fan, Martel had been a resident of Mahwah for 38 years. He and his wife had been married for 47 years. Martel was semi-retired, but worked with the Federal Mortgage and Investment Corporation in Clifton after spending 41 years with Terraquip, Inc., an international government contracting company in Teterboro. At Terraquip, he was one of four partners and was chief financial officer and secretary/treasurer. He became active in the township as a member of the Mahwah Youth Sports Boosters, where he served as president, vice president, treasurer, and coach for 25 years. He served on the Recreation Committee after which he served on the township’s board of adjustment and planning board, and the township’s housing commission. He was elected to the township council in 1992, and served as the council’s liaison to the planning board and as council president. He was also a member of the Mahwah Library board of trustees. After the death of former Mayor David Dwork in August 1997, Martel was selected by the township council to assume the mayor’s position. He then was elected to that office in the November 1997 general election to complete Dwork’s term, which was to expire in 2000. He was reelected to the mayor’s position in 2000 and again in 2004 and then in 2008. Martel was affiliated with the Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers, the Association of the U.S. Army, the Mahwah Regional Chamber of Commerce, and numerous governmental and political organizations. He was also a member of the Ramapo College Cultural Arts Board of Overseers. The recipient of several recognitions over the years, Martel was Mahwah’s Volunteer of the Year in 1995. In 1996, he received a Distinguished Achievement Award from the Bergen County Department of Parks. He was selected as the Citizen of the Year in 2001 by the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks Mahwah Lodge No. 1941 and, in that same year, he received the first United Way Gold Award for Community Service. In 2004, he was the Mahwah Schools Foundation’s Honoree of the Year.” In 2007, he was elected president of the Northwest Bergen Mayor’s Association. George Saterson Bernard John Steinke