Home News Tribune - April 5, 1984
Abram B. Van Derveer, at 80, 50-year Home News employee
New Brunswick - Abram B. Van Derveer, 80, of Welton Street died yesterday at Roosevelt Hospital, Edison, after a lengthy illness.
He was a lifelong resident of New Brunswick.
Before retiring,he has been employed in the circulation department of The Home News, New Brunswick, for 50 years.
According to company records, Mr. Van Derveer signed on permanently with the newspaper Nov. 20, 1922. Interviewed upon reaching a half-century of service at The Home News, he recalled working for the paper prior to that. He said that when he was 10 or 11 years old, he worked as a newspaperboy and also helped carry papers from the press-room to distribute them to other newsboys. At that time, the newspaper's plant was downtown, at the corner of Hiram and Dennis streets, prior to its move to Church Street.
Mr. Van Derveer was a member of the New Brunswick Senior Citizens.
Surviving are a son, Raymond of Edison; five brothers, James, in Florida, John, in Massachusetts, William of the Morganville section of Marlboro Township, and Charles and Richard, both of the Somerset section of Franklin; five sisters, Vera Dehner of North Brunswick, Mary Green of Somerset, Anna Monaghan of South River, Evelyn Gralewski of Reading, Pa., and Margaret Sgori of Belmar; three grandchildren, and three great-grandchildren.
Services will be Saturday at a time to be announced by the Selover Funeral Home, 555 Georges Road, North Brunswick.
Abram B. Van Derveer, at 80, 50-year Home News employee
New Brunswick - Abram B. Van Derveer, 80, of Welton Street died yesterday at Roosevelt Hospital, Edison, after a lengthy illness.
He was a lifelong resident of New Brunswick.
Before retiring,he has been employed in the circulation department of The Home News, New Brunswick, for 50 years.
According to company records, Mr. Van Derveer signed on permanently with the newspaper Nov. 20, 1922. Interviewed upon reaching a half-century of service at The Home News, he recalled working for the paper prior to that. He said that when he was 10 or 11 years old, he worked as a newspaperboy and also helped carry papers from the press-room to distribute them to other newsboys. At that time, the newspaper's plant was downtown, at the corner of Hiram and Dennis streets, prior to its move to Church Street.
Mr. Van Derveer was a member of the New Brunswick Senior Citizens.
Surviving are a son, Raymond of Edison; five brothers, James, in Florida, John, in Massachusetts, William of the Morganville section of Marlboro Township, and Charles and Richard, both of the Somerset section of Franklin; five sisters, Vera Dehner of North Brunswick, Mary Green of Somerset, Anna Monaghan of South River, Evelyn Gralewski of Reading, Pa., and Margaret Sgori of Belmar; three grandchildren, and three great-grandchildren.
Services will be Saturday at a time to be announced by the Selover Funeral Home, 555 Georges Road, North Brunswick.
Home News Tribune - April 5, 1984
Abram B. Van Derveer, at 80, 50-year Home News employee
New Brunswick - Abram B. Van Derveer, 80, of Welton Street died yesterday at Roosevelt Hospital, Edison, after a lengthy illness.
He was a lifelong resident of New Brunswick.
Before retiring,he has been employed in the circulation department of The Home News, New Brunswick, for 50 years.
According to company records, Mr. Van Derveer signed on permanently with the newspaper Nov. 20, 1922. Interviewed upon reaching a half-century of service at The Home News, he recalled working for the paper prior to that. He said that when he was 10 or 11 years old, he worked as a newspaperboy and also helped carry papers from the press-room to distribute them to other newsboys. At that time, the newspaper's plant was downtown, at the corner of Hiram and Dennis streets, prior to its move to Church Street.
Mr. Van Derveer was a member of the New Brunswick Senior Citizens.
Surviving are a son, Raymond of Edison; five brothers, James, in Florida, John, in Massachusetts, William of the Morganville section of Marlboro Township, and Charles and Richard, both of the Somerset section of Franklin; five sisters, Vera Dehner of North Brunswick, Mary Green of Somerset, Anna Monaghan of South River, Evelyn Gralewski of Reading, Pa., and Margaret Sgori of Belmar; three grandchildren, and three great-grandchildren.
Services will be Saturday at a time to be announced by the Selover Funeral Home, 555 Georges Road, North Brunswick.
Abram B. Van Derveer, at 80, 50-year Home News employee
New Brunswick - Abram B. Van Derveer, 80, of Welton Street died yesterday at Roosevelt Hospital, Edison, after a lengthy illness.
He was a lifelong resident of New Brunswick.
Before retiring,he has been employed in the circulation department of The Home News, New Brunswick, for 50 years.
According to company records, Mr. Van Derveer signed on permanently with the newspaper Nov. 20, 1922. Interviewed upon reaching a half-century of service at The Home News, he recalled working for the paper prior to that. He said that when he was 10 or 11 years old, he worked as a newspaperboy and also helped carry papers from the press-room to distribute them to other newsboys. At that time, the newspaper's plant was downtown, at the corner of Hiram and Dennis streets, prior to its move to Church Street.
Mr. Van Derveer was a member of the New Brunswick Senior Citizens.
Surviving are a son, Raymond of Edison; five brothers, James, in Florida, John, in Massachusetts, William of the Morganville section of Marlboro Township, and Charles and Richard, both of the Somerset section of Franklin; five sisters, Vera Dehner of North Brunswick, Mary Green of Somerset, Anna Monaghan of South River, Evelyn Gralewski of Reading, Pa., and Margaret Sgori of Belmar; three grandchildren, and three great-grandchildren.
Services will be Saturday at a time to be announced by the Selover Funeral Home, 555 Georges Road, North Brunswick.
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