 | Webmaster:
Where else would good Down Neck Germans go:
John H. Broemel at 347 Lafayette Street
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| Jim Bates:
MY father's side used Rotundi(?) Funeral Home in the Roseville section.
Mother's side used John F. Murphy on Sanford Avenue.
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| Janice:
As far as I can remember the Polish families used Ruicki. Not sure of their
address then, but they have since merged with a different home.
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| Pat:
All of my family was buried primarily from Haeberle & Barths on Clinton
Ave., Irvington. Don't ever remember one being on Springfield Ave. Are you
maybe thinking of Lytwyn and Lytwyn? They were on Springfield Ave.?
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| Quint:
My parents and grandparents were interned at Haberle and Barth on Clinton
Ave in Irvington, just a few blocks west of Irvington Center.
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| Marytee:
Mother, Father, Sister, Brother-in-law all buried from Berardinelli on Mt.
Prospect Avenue. Newark.
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| Sam:
My family used Tamburro on 13th Ave.
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| Rich:
If you were a parishioner at St. Benedict's Church ,Niagara and Barbara Sts.
,Down Neck , more than likely your family and friends were laid out at
Bernauer's Funeral Home.
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| Nicky G:
Jules I don't think I will but most of my family were at Tamburro Funeral.
I'm going to VA
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| Pat (Miceli) Haderthauer:
I remember older Miceli family members being buried from Bibbo Funeral Home
on Ferry St. and also from Galante's on Pacific St., and in later years from
their other branches. My husband's German relatives were buried from
Brueckner in Newark and George Ahr in Irvington. His Irish relatives used
Murphy and I think it was Burns on Sanford Ave, near Sacred Heart Church.
The families were definitely divided according to nationality.
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| Phil Lynch:
I was checking on the Web site and there was a new listing of Joseph P.
Murphy Funeral Home. I was recently doing some research on my family and my
Grandfather Charles H. Lynch was buried out of this funeral home in 1944. I
lived down neck with my family until 1993. I did not even realize there was
a funeral home at that address because a friend of my mother's now lives in
that house. I sure would like to see a picture of that funeral home when it
was in operation.
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| Karen Z.:
Murphy's Funeral Home on Fleming Ave. Down Neck handled most if not all the
funerals for St. Aloysius Church. My grandmother was buried from there in
1961.
I remember it as a red-brick townhouse-style building---but my memory plays
tricks on me.
Anyway, it was on the North side of Fleming
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| Charles McGrath:
John Murphy had two funeral parlors.
The one on Fleming Avenue as Karen indicated handled the funerals for Saint
Aloysius Church.
Which for me was the Down Neck contingent of our family.
The second one was on Sandford Avenue in Vailsburg.
Which for me was the Mortgage Hill contingent of our family.
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| Charles McGrath:
Karen
Your memory was not playing tricks on you.
It was a one story red brick building.
With a tavern directly across the street.
The tavern as you know is an integral part of most Irish wakes.
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| Rich:
Charles, The tavern that I remember was Reznak's, corner of Brill St. and
Fleming Ave. right across from Murphy's Funeral Home. Where Reznak's was is
now a "churrasqueira" (barbecue take out) and where Murphy's was is now
being developed ,new 2 family homes from Fleming Ave to Raymond Blvd.
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| Phil Lynch:
I agree with Rich, my mother had mistaken that 120 Fleming Ave. was between
Brill and Freeman St. But after I looked it up, the address is actually
between Brill and Richards Sts. With the actual address being more toward
the corner of Richards St. And there is definitely new construction going on
in that area. I was just there 2 months ago. |
