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UPPER FREEHOLD - Dr. Josep Oliva Llinas, 78, of Upper Freehold Township, passed away at home with his wife by his side on Monday, Oct. 11, 2010, after a long and increasingly difficult struggle with Parkinson's disease.

Josep was born in Banyoles, Spain on June 5, 1932. He was the elder son of Montserrat Llinas Celra and Llorens Oliva Vila who preceded him in death. He is survived by his wife Geraldine Elaine Tryonoviech Oliva, to whom he was married for 38 years. They met in New York City on Dec.

14, 1969 and they married there at the United Nations Chapel on June 4, 1972. He is also survived by his daughters, Michelle Lara Oliva and Danielle Karen Oliva Alvarez and her husband Joseph Joaquin Alvarez who was like a son to him. In addition, he is survived by his brother, Salvador Oliva Llinas and his wife Angela Buxton and their daughters, Elisabeth and Victoria; and very close friends, Theresa Brady-Roche, Terence Roche and Roser Ferrer. Josep graduated from college with a bachelor's degree in Spain and he was a teacher working in Salesian Schools there.

He went to England to study at Cambridge University for two years. Then he returned to Spain to teach English. From 1967 to 1969, Josep went to Neuquen, Argentina to serve as a missionary and he also served as a chaplain to the Argentinean Army there. Mega Sound Effects Pack For Virtual Dj.

In 1969, he traveled by ship from Argentina to New York City, where he pursued his education and earned a master's degree from New York Theological Seminary, a professional diploma from St. John's University and a doctoral degree from Teacher's College, Columbia University. In the United States, he was employed by Columbia Presbyterian Hospital and later by the New Jersey State Department of Education, the Perth Amboy Board of Education and the Trenton Board of Education.

His great love was in creating and being intensely involved with P.A.C.T.O. (Parents and Children Together Organized for Family Learning), a non-profit volunteer organization of which he was also the founder and president. Many activities and learning opportunities were accomplished through P.A.C.T.O., which were specially designed to better the education and livelihoods of the Hispanic population in New Jersey. Josep's own family was often involved with him in P.A.C.T.O. Events, as well. Since Josep's retirement from the Trenton Board of Education in 2003, at which time he had completed 50 years as an educator, he was involved in several volunteer projects until his illness required him to stop. In the Lakeview Community in Allentown, where he lived for 28 years, and more recently for five years in the Four Season's Community of Upper Freehold, Josep was known to diligently pursue walking and exercising, and to maintain a positive attitude, in spite of having been diagnosed with Parkinson's disease about eight years ago.