Edward Stephen Zamonski

Edward Stephen Zamonski, 90, passed away in Oriental, NC on December 22, 2015. Ed was born on March 20, 1925 to Lillian and Stephen Zamonski, in Trenton, NJ.

Ed was a loving husband, father, grandfather and uncle. During World War II, at the age of 17, he enlisted in the Navy and served onboard the Battleship New Jersey as a First Class Electrician’s Mate. He was a brother to his sisters, a Trenton High School Graduate, a Navy man, a World War II veteran, a Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute graduate, an engineer, a teacher, a mayor and committee man of Ewing Township, NJ, a Parks and Recreation Director, a sailor, a dancer, a swimmer, a walker, a bike rider, a bridge player, a pinochle player, a chess player, a reader and a chocolate ice cream lover.

He is preceded in death by his sisters Evelyn and Thomas Cunningham, Elaine and Edward Allison and their son and nephew Edward S. Allison and his second wife Karin Weingartner.

He is survived by his daughters Mary Ellen Dondero of Norwood, MA, Jeanne and Robert Black of Doylestown, PA and their daughters, Alexandra and Sarah; one son Stephen Zamonski of Lakewood, NJ; his first wife Anne Zamonski of West Trenton, NJ; close friend Tove Arnfast of Oriental, NC; niece Barbara Sproull of Georgetown, TX and nephew Thomas Allison of Chandler, AZ.

A private family service will take place in the spring. Special thanks to The Gardens of Pamlico, Grantsboro, NC, Carolina East Hospital, New Bern, NC, and Vidant Medical Center, Greenville NC.

Memorials can be made to the Parkinson’s Disease Foundation http://www.pdf.org/en/fund_memdon or to a favorite charity of your own.