A Life Lived
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Lou Tramontana Sr. was persuasive. And persistent. And patient — well, sometimes he was patient.
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- A Life Lived: Stars were just a part of Margate woman's busy career
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Muriel Harris was on the phone one day from work with her daughter, but Gail Sloat knew her mom was in another conversation at the same time.
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- A life lived: Egg Harbor Township teen had plenty of friends
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Brian Mooney was just 17 when he was hit by a car the last day of his junior year at Egg Harbor Township High School. He was 19 when he died last month.
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- A Life Lived: Egg Harbor Township woman didn’t let health troubles sideline her
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Jerry Shockey spent a lot of last month in the Philippines with his wife, Beth. It wasn’t a pleasure trip. It was a duty.
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- A Life Lived: Manco made dough at Ocean City pizzeria
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A young Frank Manco worked three jobs. He managed an E.J. Korvette department store in his hometown, Trenton. He was a bookkeeper for a state prison. And the third job, each summer, was at Mack & Manco, the pizza place his father, Vincent, helped start in 1956, at the heart of Ocean City’s Boardwalk.
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- A Life Lived: Family learns of Middle Township man’s heroism only after death
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The last time Ed Black saw Joe Morro was June 8, 1944. But Black never forgot Morro. You don’t forget a guy who, when you’re almost dead, risks his life to help you.
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- A Life Lived: Atlantic City woman’s long life was warm in the middle
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Near the start of her life in Atlantic City, Mamie Torlini lived in a house with no heat.
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- A Life Lived: Port Republic woman marked many birthdays
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The Oyster Creek Inn was an important place in Dorothy Halldorson’s life.
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- A Life Lived: Longtime Ocean City man worked 73 years at Bob’s Grill
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Raymond Griffin never minded working hard.
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- A Life Lived: Linwood man found himself in the jungle
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He was Tom Watson, a smart, sensitive guy from suburban Linwood. But he lived a lot of the last 10 years like Indiana Jones, in the jungles of South America.
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- A Life Lived: Atlantic City man ran grocery store the old-fashioned way
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Benny Aiscowitz’s first Atlantic City grocery store was an old-fashioned kind of place, in more ways than one.
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- A Life Lived: Hammonton man made his mark in glass industry
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When Russ Calletta was a teenager, he got into the glass-cutting industry in Hammonton. When he got out a few years ago, Calletta was the glass-cutting industry in Hammonton.
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- A Life Lived: Brigantine's Jean Barnish always the life of the party
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Jean Barnish waitressed for years in Brigantine, her longtime hometown. Her jobs included the old Pee Wee’s and the Circle Tavern.
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- A Life Lived: Wildwood’s John Metzger lived, a very long time, to entertain
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John Metzger was a natural entertainer. He studied magic until he amazed people with his tricks. He studied George Burns until he did a great impression — especially late in life, when Metzger looked a lot like the classic comic. Metzger even had help from his wife, Ann, playing along as Gracie Allen, Burns’ wife and comedy sidekick.
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