Jack VanTol

POMPTON LAKES — Services will be held for Jack Van Tol, 70, of Bedford, Texas, who died on Sunday, May 6, 2012. He was a former resident of this community.

Born in Paterson, Mr. Van Tol moved to the Dallas and Fort Worth, Texas, area in the early 1980s. He worked for EI DuPont before serving as a Ringwood police officer from 1971 to 1982, earning many commendations. Subsequently, he was a security supervisor for Mostek Electronics before retiring as a truck driver in 2005. He was a U.S. Navy veteran as well, serving from 1960 to 1964. And, he earned a Veterans of Foreign Wars Heroism Award in December 1958 for saving a man from drowning.

Interment will be on June 22 at Finns Point National Cemetery, Pennsville. In lieu of flowers, donations may be sent to the American Diabetes Association or the American Heart Association.

Mr. Van Tol is survived by his son, John Van Tol, of Catasauqua, Pa.; his daughter, Jane Spradlin, of Slatington, Pa.; his brother, Douglas, of Cape Coral, Fla.; and his former wife, Marie, of Hurst, Texas.

He was predeceased by his former wife, Margaret Gibson; and his parents, John and Selma.