Funeral services took place Sept. 5 for John J. Donovan, 86. He passed away Sept. 1 at the Jersey City Medical Center. John was born and lived his entire life in Jersey City. He was a retired pressman for The Arvey Corporation in Jersey City for over 45 years. He was the husband of the late Elizabeth Ann Donovan; the father of William Donovan and his wife Diane, Mark Donovan and his wife Susan, Mary Ellen McManus and her husband Kevin, and Gayle Donovan and her husband Michael, and the late Carolyn Ann Donovan; the grandfather of Donna Camp, Laura McManus, Mark Rondholz, Elizabeth Rondholz, Triscia Ann Donovan, Matthew Donovan,Timothy Donovan, and also two great-grandchildren, Landon Donovan and Nikki Rose Donovan; the brother of Eleanor Soboland one late sister, Lillian, and one late brother, Harry. Services arranged by the G. Keenen O’Brien Funeral Home, Bayonne.