A funeral mass was celebrated Oct. 14 at St. Lawrence Church for John Thomas McLaughlin Jr., 78, of Weehawken. He passed away Oct. 9 at Hoboken University Hospital. He was born in New York City and was a life resident of Weehawken. John was a retired Teamster working for Cross River Trucking for most of his career and the last few years he worked in Park Security for Weehawken Township. He was the husband of Dorothy and the father of Mary Ann McLaughlin, Eileen McLaughlin, John III and his wife Ottavia, Jacqueline Gulgule and her husband Jitendra, Allison McLaughlin and the late Kerri. He was the grandfather of Ryan, John, Zachary and Caitlin. John also was the brother of Adele Faulkner, Thomas, Annmarie Higgins, Stephen, Doris Mulvaney, Joseph, Helen Glackin, Kathleen, Patricia Reeves, Michael, Carol and the late Rosemarie Devaney, the late Margaret Rossi, the late Patrick and the late Robert. Services arranged by the Leber Funeral Home, Union City.