Obituary of Anna M. Conlon
Anna M. Conlon, 92, of Basking Ridge, NJ, passed away peacefully on November 2, 2025 at Morristown Medical Center, Morristown, NJ.
Born and raised in Harrison, NJ, to Rocco and Pasqualina Femano, Anna graduated from the former Washington Secretarial School in Newark at the age of 15 and went to work full time.
She met her future husband, Bernard, and they married and moved to South Plainfield where they raised their family and resided for 33 years. After retiring in 1996, they moved to Cape May, prior to relocating to Basking Ridge in 2011.
Anna loved the Lord Jesus Christ and served him and her community throughout her lifetime. She was a Girl Scout Leader/Consultant and was one of the founding members of the South Plainfield Citizens for Environmental Action which was a group that started a recycling program in the early 1970’s.
She taught religious education at Sacred Heart School and was an English as a Second Language tutor at the South Plainfield Public Library. She continued her volunteer work in Cape May as an active member of the Christ Child Society. Anna was a lifelong learner and a perpetually curious person.
After retiring as an executive secretary at Continental Insurance, she earned her Master Gardener certification from Cook College, Rutgers University. She was also an early adopter of computer technology and taught herself how to create a website using HTML as well as publish an annual family calendar filled with photographs of her children, grandchildren, and family pets.
Anna especially loved spending time with her family. She was a talented cook, an avid gardener and a wonderful wife, mother, grandmother and great-grandmother. She will be missed by all who knew and loved her.
She was predeceased by her husband, her parents, seven brothers and three sisters.
She is survived by her four children: Annemarie Stoeckel (James) of South Plainfield, Karen Skerlanitz (Brian) of Gillette, Bernard Conlon (Tracey) of Hopatcong and Elaine Vuono (Dennis) of Fanwood. She is also survived by her grandchildren, Melissa Smolenski (Walter), James Stoeckel (Jacqueline), Lauren Pindyck (Alexander), Alexandra, Nicole and Danielle Vuono, Hunter Skerlanitz and her great-grandchildren, Scarlett Stoeckel, Walter and Jack Smolenski, and Owen and Nolan Pindyck as well as many nieces and nephews.
Visitation will be held on November 6, 2025 from 4-7 pm in the McCriskin-Gustafson Home for Funerals, 2425 Plainfield Ave, South Plainfield, NJ.
A Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated at The Church of the Sacred Heart, 149 South Plainfield Avenue, South Plainfield, NJ, on November 7, 2025 at 10 am.
Interment will follow at Holy Redeemer Cemetery, South Plainfield.
In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital https://www.stjude.org/ in Anna’s name.