Community organizations are mourning the unexpected loss of Barbara Truncellito, taxpayer association president in Barnegat Light and Island-wide, and an organizer on key service boards in Ocean County and previously, New York City. Last year, she was hired by St. Francis of Assisi Parish to a new post, director of Parish Development.

“It’s such a huge, huge loss to us,” the Rev. Francis Di Spigno, pastor at St. Francis Parish, told The SandPaper on March 29. “She has worked at St.