Alice McKay
Beloved wife, mother, grandmother and great-grandmother
Alice McKay passed away on March 19, 2019, at RWJUH Rahway surrounded by her loving family.
Visitation will be held on Sunday, March 24, 2019, from 1 to 5 p.m., at the Gosselin Funeral Home, 660 New Dover Rd., Edison. Funeral services are on Monday, March 25, 2019, at 10 a.m., at the funeral home, followed by an 11:15 a.m. Mass at St. Cecelia Church, Iselin, N.J. Burial is at St. Gertrude Cemetery, Colonia, N.J.
Alice was born in Jamaica Queens, N.Y., residing in Winfield Park, N.J., finally settling in Iselin in 1961. She was a member of the American Legion Post 248 Ladies' Auxiliary.
Alice was predeceased by her husband, Robert McKay Sr.; her son, Robert McKay Jr.; her parents, Henry and Edna Bernstein; her sister, Carole Ann Kartikis, and sisters-in-law, Patricia Mesgleski, Carolyn Smith and Virginia Moller.
Surviving are her four daughters, Catherine (Dwight) Ennis, Joan (Jimmy Nemes) Risko, Jeanne (George) Gilsenan, Judith (Henry) McKay-Devenny, and one son, James (Tracey) McKay; eight grandchildren, J.R. (Yesenia), Nicholas, Amanda (Jeremy), Kaitlyn, Shaun, Ryan, Harry and Colleen; one great-granddaughter, Arianna, and three great-grandsons, Jay, Nicholas and Hudson.
Also surviving are siblings, Henry (Joyce) Burns, Fred (Amy) Bernstein, Linda (Robert) Anderson, Steffi-Jo (Paul) DeCasas; sister-in-law, Elaine Schaul, and many nieces and nephews.
In lieu of flowers, her family requests donations be made in her loving name to .