Charles F. 'Pop' Juliussen, 85, died on Saturday, March 12, 2011, at Robert Wood Johnson University Medical Center in New Brunswick, N.J. The viewing will be on Thursday, March 17, 2011, from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. at the Ketusky Funeral Home, 1310 Brooks Blvd., Manville, N.J., (908)575-8512. The funeral service will be on Friday, March 18, 2011, at 9:30 a.m. at the Ketusky Funeral Home. The committal service will take place at Somerset Hills Memorial Park Chapel in Basking Ridge, N.J. For additional information, please visit our website at www.ketusky.com. Mr. Juliussen was born in Brooklyn, N.Y., the son of the late Charles F. and Rigmor Juliussen. He was a resident of Highland Park, N.J., for the past five years. Prior to that he was a resident of Somerville, N.J., for most of his life. He served his country honorably in two branches of military service during two wars. He served in the United States Navy in the Asiatic-Pacific and received three battle stars in World War II and in the United States Army in the Korean War, where he received four campaign stars. He served a total of 70 months overseas, 25 months in World War II, 20 months in the Korean War, 21 months in Okinawa, and four months in Japan. Mr. Juliussen retired as a disabled veteran from the armed forces of the United States of America as a United States Army specialist second class. He devoted much of his life to serving the Disabled Veterans of New Jersey. From 1978 to 1980 Mr. Juliussen was DAV department junior vice commander; from 1980 to 1981 he was DAV department senior vice commander, and from 1981 to 1982 he was New Jersey DAV department commander. From November of 1987 to June of 1988, he was Department of New Jersey DAV chief of staff. In 1997 he was the New Jersey Department DAV judge advocate. He also served on many committees that served to assist disabled veterans. Mr. Juliussen was a draftsman at Ortho Diagnostic Systems Inc. in Raritan, N.J., for 20 years before retiring in 1992. He was a member of the Somerville V.F.W. He was loved and will be sadly missed. He especially enjoyed spending time with his great-grandchildren. Mr. Juliussen was predeceased by his wife, Doris Juliussen, and is survived by a daughter, Barbara Lapotasky and her husband, John, of New Bern, N.C., and his five grandchildren, Tom Connell and his wife, Jane; Sandy Connell and her fiance, Steve Ellis; Karen Ash and her husband, Allan; Barbie Bauman and her husband, Damian, and Michael Lapotasky and his wife, Leslie. He is also survived by five great-grandchildren, Tom Connell, Tyler Connell, C.J. Matisak, Brandon Matisak and Dylan Bauman. Published in Star-Ledger on March 16, 2011