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Loved ones say a final farewell to Fred Space at Space Farms Zoo & Museum New Jersey Herald WANTAGE — For a man who spent his life working with animals, it was fitting for the late Fred Space to be surrounded by them as family and friends said goodbye to him one last time. A wall of animal heads — along with the hulking taxidermy figure of Goliath the Kodiak bear Space used to feed chocolate bars from his mouth — greeted visitors to the walk through at Space Farms Zoo and Museum Sunday to pay their respects to the zoo's patriarch, who died last week at the age of 92.

Longtime N.J. zoo owner dies at 92 Updated Jan 28, 2021; Posted Jan 27, 2021 Fred Space in 1996 posing at his family's zoo with a coatimundi, an animal native to Central and South America.Jim Pathe / The Star-Ledger Facebook Share The family-owned zoo became his forever home. Space, 92, died on Monday, the zoo announced in a Facebook post that prompted an outpouring of sympathy and reminiscences. The cause of death was not disclosed. Space was a lifelong resident of Wantage and, according to his obituary, was working at the 100-acre zoo until the end. His son, Assemblyman Parker Space, R-24...

New Jersey Herald WANTAGE — Firefighter Hunter Space left his Beemverville Fire Department in Wantage with a pick-up truck full of firefighting gear. After a 14-hour ride, he arrived at the firehouse in rural Vance, Alabama. The trip was to donate the gear his fire department in Sussex County could no longer use to the southern department in need. The gear included breathing apparatus, resistant hoods, turnout gear (pants and coats), flashlights and alarms to alert others when a firefighter "goes down" while battling a fire. "A lot of stuff which was expired up here was golden to them," ...