Robert Mencel

Robert Mencel

AGE: 90 • North Brunswick

Robert Mencel, 90, died Thursday, April 24, 2014, at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in New Brunswick. Born in Poland, he immigrated to the US after World War II and lived most of his life in North Brunswick.

He was a mason with Canonico & Sons contractors in North Brunswick for over 30 years before retiring. He was a member of the Bricklayers and Allied Craftworkers, Local #5 where he served as a shop steward. Mr. Mencel was a communicant of Our Lady of Lourdes R.C. Church in Milltown where he was an usher for many years. He was a member of the North Brunswick Senior Citizens and the North Brunswick AARP.

A loving and devoted husband, father, nonno and bisnonno, he filled his family's hearts with love and laughter. He was predeceased by his parents and nine siblings. Surviving are his wife of 60 years Ines Borsato Mencel; three daughters and their husbands - Nancy and Charles Michael Jenkins of North Brunswick, Arlene and Robert Haussermann of Providence Forge, Virginia, and Rose and Christopher Sebold of North Brunswick; his granddaughter - Kathryn Jenkins Cooke and her husband Ryan of Troy, New York; and his great grandson Henry Charles Cooke.

Funeral services will be 9:15AM Monday from Selover Funeral Home, 555 Georges Road, North Brunswick followed by a 10:00AM Mass at Our Lady of Lourdes Church in Milltown. Entombment will follow in St. Peter's Cemetery in New Brunswick. Friends and relatives may call at the funeral home Sunday from 2PM to 5PM. Memorial contributions may be made to the American Heart Association, P.O. Box 417005, Boston, MA 02241-7005.