KAVANAGH, ALICE P

A funeral mass was offered April 5 at St. Peter’s R.C. Church in Point Pleasant Beach for Alice P. Kavanagh, 90. She died March 30 at Jersey Shore Medical Center in Neptune. Born and raised in Jersey City she lived many years in Point Pleasant before moving to Asbury Park ten years ago. Alice worked for the Building Contractors Association of New Jersey and attained positions as editor of its N.J. Building Contractor Monthly publication and director of public relations. She was also director of scholarship programs for the Hudson County Contractors Association. Miss Kavanagh had also served for five years as constituent service representative in N.J. 32nd Legislative District office in Jersey City, serving two assemblymen. She was the chairlady of the “Committee to Save Historic Speer Cemetery” in Jersey City in 1970. Alice taught Sunday school and high school religion at St. Aedan’s and Christ the King Church. She was in the USO, Red Cross, 9th Ward Juniors, Mother Butler Guild of Marymount College, Ladies Auxiliary of Albert L. Quirmon Post 52, and the NJ Press Association. She also had an active stage career with theatre groups in the Jersey City area. She was predeceased by her parents, William F. Sr. and Alice Woods Kavanagh; her brothers, Vincent, William F. Jr. and Michael, and her sisters Kathryne Schrader, Mary Peluso, and Jeanne Fiedler; her brothers-in-law, Reinhold Schrader, Vincent Peluso and Leo Fiedler, and her nieces Reine’ Schrader and Maryann Peluso Rubrecht. She is survived by her sister-in-law Julia Kavanagh of Point Pleasant; her nieces and their husbands, Alice J. Kavanagh and Robert Hohenstein of Brielle, Maureen and David Fleming of Maryland; her nephews and their wives, James and Linda Peluso of Florham Park, Raymond and Patricia Schrader, Robert and Wanda Schrader, Reinhold and Beatrice Schrader, all of Point Pleasant, Ronald and Donna Schrader of Spring Lake, Michael Kavanagh and Annette of Brielle, Matthew and Marianne Kavanagh of Point Pleasant, and William F. III and Karen Kavanagh of Point Pleasant. She is also survived by 23 grandnieces and nephews and five great-grandnieces and nephews. The Family is grateful for all of the wonderful care and attention given to our beloved Aunt Alice by Asbury Towers, Jersey Shore Medical Center and Claremont Care Center. Services arranged by the Colonial Funeral Home, Brick.

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