(nee: Skinner) Of Forked River, N.J. (formerly of Bayonne); on Friday, February 21, 2014; wife of the late Edward Ely; mother of Barbara Clause and husband Joseph and George Ely; grandmother of Nicole Taddeo and husband Patrick, Danielle and Michele Clause, George Ely and wife Julie, Tara Ely, Jill Rago and husband Anthony and Joseph Clause; great-grandmother of Cameron, Sara, Abigayle, Jared, Nicholas, Victoria, Riley and Christina; predeceased by her brothers Leander, Louis, Harry and George Skinner, and daughter-in-law Deborah Ely. Funeral services were held from the DZIKOWSKI, PIERCE & LEVIS Funeral Home. Interment, Hillside Cemetery, Lyndhurst, N.J.