Tom Kitchen Memorial Fund 5K Walk/Run

We started a Scholarship Fund in Tom’s name at Hackettstown High School. Each year two graduating Seniors at Hackettstown High School will awarded money to help pay for college. He passed away from Bile Duct Cancer in October 2013, after fighting for a little over two years. Tom was a caring, giving, and selfless man and he was very active in the community. He served in the United States Navy, was a Past Chief of the Hackettstown Fire Department and a member of the American Legion. He was the Co-Founder of the Tiger Athletic Association, started the Hackettstown Girls Fast Pitch Softball league in 1993, and coached football and softball for many years. On May 9th, 2014 the Hackettstown High School Softball Field was named after him for helping build the field by donating his own time building the dugouts and finding a way to have a scoreboard donated. It is now and will forever be called the Thomas R. Kitchen Jr Field. He also enjoyed working as a security guard at the High School. He ran the Hackettstown DPW for over 20 years before becoming the Warren County Road Supervisor. He would do anything for anyone without asking for anything in return.