Hudson Reporter
Funeral services have taken place for John P. “Jack” Egan, 86. He died peacefully on Jan. 29 at the Karen Ann Quinlan Home for Hospice in Fredon Township. Natural Burial services were held in Rosemont. Born and raised in North Bergen, Jack lived in Jersey City before moving to Highland Lakes in 2002. He was ordained a Diocesan Catholic priest in 1960 and served parishes in Lodi, Honduras and Panama. One of the most meaningful periods of his life was the nearly 20 years he spent in the St. Boniface parish in Jersey City, working with a mostly Latino community. He was an active member of the peace movement and engaged extensively in non-violent civil disobedience around peace and justice issues, for which he was arrested 30 times in Jersey City, Washington, DC and other places. After disassociating from the ordained priesthood in 1985, Jack worked for the Visiting Homemaker Service as a patient advocate, trainer and director of the Senior Community Independent
But she said she did not know whether further work had been done since that change more than five years ago. “We now need a site – it surely can’t be too difficult to implement as part of the current cemetery or, even better, if it was a standalone site or something for the region.” In 2015 the council had proposed using a site at Ashhurst, at McCraes Bush on River Rd near the Pohangina River. The idea was opposed by Ashhurst residents and was narrowly voted down by councillors without embarking on the process to designate the land for a cemetery.