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Note: Cause of Death:<CAUS> Heart Attack Custom Field:<_FA#> Police Sergeant - 39 years
Custom Field:<_FA#> Hobby chopping wood
Custom Field:<_FA#> 343 Halsted St. East Orange, New Jersey
Custom Field:<_FA#> Presbyerian
Custom Field:<_FA#> member of Essex Council #161 Jr. O U A M
Custom Field:<_FA#> Officers Asso. & General Grant Council of
Custom Field:<_FA#> the Sons & Daughters of Lib.
Custom Field:<_FA#> 190412 Sterling St. East Orange NJ
Obituary: (Newark Evening News March 11, 1953) - Stephen Samuel Van Bru
nt of 343 Halsted St., East Orange, a retired East Orange police sergean
t, died yesterday at his home following a heart attack. He was 76. Bo
rn in Lower Squankum, now Farmingdale, he lived in Hoboken before movi
ng to East Orange 58 years ago. Mr. Van Brunt joined the East Orange poli
ce force as a chanceman and was made sergeant in 1911. He also serv
ed as acting desk sergeant. He retired 11 years ago after 39 years of ser
vice. At the time of his death he had been employed as a special offic
er at the Medical Towers, East Orange. Mr. Van Brunt was a member ofEss
ex Council No. 161 Jr. O.U.A.M., Newark, the Superior Police Officers Asso
ciation and the General Grant Council of the Sons and Daughters of Libert
y, Newark. He leaves his wife Asenath Meiklejohn Van Brunt; a son, Edw
in E. ofEast Orange, athletic director of Montclair Academy, and two gran
dchildren. Services will be conducted Friday at 7:45 pm at The Colonial H
ome, 132 SOuthHarrison Street East Orange, by Rev. John P. Jaclachl
an of Elmwood Presbyterian Church, East Orange. Burial will be in Roseda
le Cemetery.
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