OLD KENILWORTH: Oldest Girl Scout turns 99 Resident Edythe C. Frank joined scouting 90 years ago when in 1930 at the age of nine she became a Brownie troop member in her native Jersey City. She officially became a registered…

OLD KENILWORTH: Venters Florists – Several tragedies The Venters family came to Kenilworth from Roselle in the early 1920s. Walter D. (1886-1959) and Bertha M. (1889-1960), their daughter, Grace (1925-2006), and son Walter Raymond “Ray” (1920-1992) settled on Richfield Ave.…

OLD KENILWORTH: Local teen pilot killed in WWII discovered Kenilworth has honored 13 young men living here at the time who died during WWII. Another four died in WWI and in Korea. Their names are consecrated on granite markers in…

WHAT, WHERE, AND WHEN IN OLD KENILWORTH Residents recall the Spanish Influenza Over the years, Kenilworth residents of the past shared with me memories of the world-wide Spanish Influenza pandemic of WWI and the post war period. World death toll…