Housemate Admits Killing Nj-born Sculptor In Maryland
A Maryland woman has admitted to killing her 92-year-old sculptor roommate, a New Jersey native, and attempting to make it seem like a natural death, authorities said.
Julie Birch, 27, has pleaded guilty to the second-degree murder of East Orange native Nancy Ann Frankel, whom she first attempted to suffocate, then strangled to death during an incident in July 2021, Montgomery County State’s Attorney John McCarthy said.
Montgomery County Police and Montgomery County Fire and Rescue personnel responded to a Spruell Drive home on July 28, 2021, in Kensington, to conduct a death inve…
Artist, Jeweler Sarko Ekhsigian Of Tenafly Passes
Sarko Ekhsigian, our beloved father, passed away in on May 21. He was 86.
Sarko was born pn Oct. 18, 1933 in the Armenian Quarter of the Old City of Jerusalem, one of four children born to Dikran and Satenig Ekhsigian.
In 1959, when he was twenty-five, he emigrated to the United States with his mother and one sister.
Landing in New York City, Sarko very quickly fell in love with its energy, strength and elegance.
His work – his art – was what he loved. He was a jewelry designer, painter, sculptor, and cartoonist.
One of his favorite locations for inspiration was Central Pa…
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Rev. Harold Buckley, Priest At Diocese Of Rockville Center, Sculptor, Dies
A retired priest who served as a pastor and college faculty member on Long Island and was a prolific sculptor has died.
The Rev. Harold Erwin Buckley died Saturday, May 11. He was 94.
Buckley was born in Brooklyn on March 31, 1925, to a mother, Elizabeth, and a father, Jeremiah, both immigrants from County Kerry, Ireland. He was the middle child in a family of five, his sister Elizabeth and brothers Jeremiah, Eugene, and Robert.
Buckley became interested in the priesthood as a teenager, went to Cathedral College of the Immaculate Conception in 1942 and was ordained t…
