MORRIS COUNTY — Communities across Morris County continue to remember dozens of residents who lost their lives in the September 11 terrorist attacks, honoring their memory each year as the anniversary approaches.
The county’s losses touched nearly every municipality within it, from Madison to Dover, Parsippany to Mountain Lakes, leaving families, friends, and neighbors to carry forward the memories of those who never came home.
In Chatham Borough, the community lost Donald Leroy Adams, Dennis Buckley, Anthony P. Infante Jr., Christian Hartwell Maltby, and Peter C. Moutos.
Chatham Township mourned Philip W. Mastrandrea Jr., Paul Stuart Gilbey, Gary Robert Haag, Robin Blair Larkey, Thomas S. Strada, and Kenneth J. Swenson.
Boonton Township lost Cecile M. Caguicla and Angela R. Kyte.
In Denville, the community remembers Lucille King and William J. Martin Jr.
East Hanover lost Antonio Augusto Tome Rocha.
Florham Park mourned Captain Robert Edward Dolan and Simon Maddison.
Hanover lost Michael O’Brien.
Harding Township remembers John Paul Bocchi, Matthew Carmen Sellitto, and William R. Tieste.
Kinnelon lost Seth Allan Morris and Matthew David Yarnell.
Lincoln Park mourned Peter Guyder Wallace.
Long Hill Township remembers Karen Lynn Seymour-Dietrich.
In Madison, the community lost James Leslie Crawford Jr., Timothy Robert Hughes, and Patrick J. McGuire.
Mendham Township mourned Jason Kyle Jacobs.
Montville lost Gayle R. Greene, Thomas V. Linehan Jr., James Romito, and Dennis Gerard Taormina.
Morris Plains remembers Eileen Marsha Greenstein.
Morris Township mourned Sean Patrick Lynch, Alfred Russell Maler, William A. Mathesen, Alexander Napier Jr., Barbara A. Shaw, and Edward W. Straub.
Morristown lost Martin Paul Michelstein and Richard C. Rescorla.
Mount Olive remembers Hilda Marcin.
Mountain Lakes mourned Alayne F. Gentul and David Alan James Rathkey.
Parsippany lost Martin Boryczewski, Antoinette Duger, Michael John Pescherine, Thomas H. Polhemus, Maria Theresa Santillan, and Michael C. Sorresse.
Pequannock remembers Mark Zangrilli.
Randolph mourned David G. Carlone, Steven Harris Russin, and Francis Joseph Skidmore Jr.
Riverdale lost Joon Koo Kang.
Rockaway Township remembers Margaret L. Benson, Liam Callahan, and Robert D. Mattson.
Roxbury mourned Joseph DeLuca and Kenneth Albert Zelman.
Washington Township lost Debra Lynn Fischer Gibbon.
Each name represents a life woven into the fabric of Morris County, a parent, spouse, child, sibling, or friend whose absence is still felt in the communities they called home. Local governments, houses of worship, and civic organizations throughout the county continue to hold remembrance ceremonies each year to ensure their memory endures.
