A funeral mass was offered Feb. 14 at St Paul of the Cross R C Church, Jersey City, for Lawrence A. Taggart, Sr. of Hopatcong, formerly of Jersey City. He died on Feb. 11. Born in Jersey City, he spent most of his life there, living the last four years in Hopatcong. He was a Army Veteran of WWII, stationed in Japan with the 67th Engineer’s Unit. He was a machinist and lithographer for the Continental and American Can Company and member of the ALA Local IL of New Jersey. He is survived by his son Lawrence, his daughter Catherine Sittmann and her husband William, Patricia Ann Grosskopf and her husband, Capt. Lawrence Grosskopf; his siblings Mary Bues, Viola McBride, William Taggart and Gertrude Szezubelek, and was grandfather of Lara Lynn Grosskopf. Services arranged by the Beddiges-Seitz-Stabile Funeral Home, Jersey City.