Michael Santo, a longtime Tuckerton councilman, died suddenly on June 27 at his home on Angler Road. He had attended a party the night before at the home of Councilman Ron Peterson, a party held to say goodbye to another Tuckerton councilman, John Schwartz, who was leaving for Florida the next day.

Peterson said Santo was not his usual cheerful self that night and thought he might have been ill. It came as a terrible shock to everyone when they heard he had died the next day.

Santo, 72, was a member of St. Theresa’s Roman Catholic Church and the Knights of Columbus.