Kathleen Conroy Burns

Kathleen Conroy Burns, 97, of South Amboy died on Tuesday July 29, 2025 at Roosevelt Care Center, Old Bridge. Born in Elizabeth she was employed as Director of Risk Management at South Amboy Hospital until retiring. Kathleen was instrumental in starting the residency training program for new doctors, and was on the forefront of instituting Risk Management programs at the hospital. A Registered Nurse, she was a member of the Women’s Army Nursing Cadets in World War II.  A member of St. Mary’s R.C. Church, South Amboy she was also a member of the Senior Citizens and the Ladies Ancient Order of Hibernians. She was proud of her Irish heritage and enjoyed traveling around the world, including several trips to Ireland, and was very involved in genealogical research of her family, having ancestry articles published in genealogy magazines in Ireland and New Jersey. She was a proud and loving mother, grandmother and great-grandmother.

Kathleen loved hosting big holiday family gatherings, and occasional trips to Atlantic City. As a young girl in Point Pleasant and Manasquan, to many years in Atlantic Highlands with her tribe of five, to the past fifteen years in Ocean City, Kathleen loved the sand under her feet and the warm ocean breezes. She inherited her father’s passion for solving daily crossword puzzles, was an avid reader, and was an expert at jigsaw puzzles. Her most ardent hobby was tracing her family and extended family’s genealogy.

Daughter of the late Joseph, Sr. and Margaret O’Neill Conroy she is also predeceased by her husband of 50 years Hilary S. Burns, Jr. in 2001 and her brothers and sisters-in-law Joseph, Jr. and Patricia, Leo and Shirley and William and Marion Conroy. She is survived by her children Rose McDade and her husband Lawrence, Michael Burns and his wife Cynthia, Patrick Burns and his wife Mary, Kathleen Burns and Elizabeth “Betsy” Tiazkun and her husband Timothy; her grandchildren Brian Burns and his wife Jaclyn, Kevin Burns and his wife Sandra, Colleen Noden and her husband Sean, Erin Brendel and her husband Christopher and Timothy, Hillary and Kelsey Tiazkun and; her great-grandchildren Sean, Kate, Emma, Abby, Brea, Michael, Colton, Cael, Cain, McKenna and Christopher and many cousins, nieces, nephews and friends. The family would especially like to thank Dr. Harold McKenna for 50 years of friendship and care.

Funeral services will be held on Tuesday August 5, 2025 at 10:45am from The Gundrum Service “Home For Funerals” 237 Bordentown Avenue, South Amboy followed by an 11:30am Mass of Christian Burial at St. Mary’s Church. Interment will be in St. Mary’s Cemetery. Visitation will be on Monday from 3 to 7pm. In lieu of flowers donations may be made to the Convent of the Sisters of St. Joseph, 9701 Germantown Avenue, Philadelphia, PA 19118 or the St. Mary Food Pantry, 256 Augusta Street, South Amboy, NJ 08879.

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