Herman M. Ward
Peter C. Budd, 69, of Pennlyn, Pa., formerly of Princeton, died February 22 at Abington Memorial Hospital in Abington, Pa.
Born in Philadelphia, he lived in Princeton for 25 years before moving to Pennlyn.
He was a graduate of Penn Charter School and Springfield (Mass.) College.
He worked in advertising in New York and Philadelphia.
He was one of the founders and a coach of the Princeton Midget Football League.
He is survived by his wife, Virginia Pawling Budd; two sons, Peter Jr. and Stephen; a daughter, Kimberly B. Doub; and eight grandchildren.
A service of remembrance was held February 28 at the Kimble Funeral Home.
Memorial donations may be made to Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation, 5000 Rockside Road, Suite 310, Independence, Ohio 44131.
Claire Ellen Giordmaine, 44, of Watchung, formerly of Princeton, died February 24 at St. Peter's University Hospital in New Brunswick of complications from breast cancer.
She was educated at Oak Knoll School in Summit, where she spent her early years; at Colorado State University in Fort Collins; and at Stafford Hall Secretarial School in Summit.
At the time of her death she was employed as a medical secretary at Matheny Medical and Educational Center in Far Hills. She had previously worked at Overlook Hospital in Summit, the Summit YWCA, the Seeing Eye in Morristown, and during summers at resorts in South Dakota and Montana.
She enjoyed caring for animals, traveling, and the outdoors. She shared her apartment with a Labrador retriever, several cats, and a parrot. Her favorite destinations included Malta, New Orleans, and Glacier National Park.
She is survived by her parents, Mary and Joe Giordmaine of Princeton; a brother, Paul Jordmain of Watchung; and a sister, Anne Fink of Holmdel.
Memorial gifts may be made to the Children's Tumor Foundation, 95 Pine Street, 16th Floor, New York, N.Y. 10005.
Arrangements were by The Mather-Hodge Funeral Home.
Kenneth William Keuffel, 82, of Lawrenceville, died February 19 at the University Medical Center at Princeton after a long illness. He was a longtime football coach and English teacher at the Lawrenceville School whose tenure began in 1954 and ended there more than 45 years later.
Dr. Keuffel's football career took him from prep school to college coaching and back to prep school, a path that inspired the loyalty and admiration of many students, colleagues, and fellow coaches. He was captain of the undefeated 1941 Phillips Andover Big Blue. He served in the U.S. Navy in World War II in the Pacific Theater. After the war, he played football for three years at Princeton University. Recruited by the Philadelphia Eagles following graduation in 1948, he enjoyed a brief NFL career.
He began coaching at the University of Pennsylvania while earning a Ph.D. in English, and a dual tradition of coaching and teaching was born. He first came to the Lawrenceville School in 1954, where he coached for seven years. He then turned to college coaching and took the Wabash College Little Giants through six winning seasons. He later returned to the Lawrenceville School, where he taught English and coached football for nearly five decades.
During and after his coaching and teaching career, he founded and ran the Hall of Fame football clinic. The clinic ran for 20 years, attracting such coaching legends as Joe Paterno, Dick Vermeil, and Bill Belichick. He also wrote two books, Simplified Single Wing Football and Winning Single Wing Football — A Simplified Guide for the Football Coach.
He is survived by his wife of nearly 50 years, Elizabeth Richardson Keuffel; a son, Kenneth Jr.; two daughters, Elizabeth Ann Keuffel and Catherine Keuffel Lamond; and four grandchildren.
A funeral service was held on February 25 at the Lawrenceville School Chapel.
Memorial donations may be sent to The Lawrenceville School, P.O. Box 6125, Lawrenceville 08648.
Lillie C. Taylor, 88, of Princeton, died February 28 at Princeton Care Center.
Born in Robersonville, N.C., she had been a Princeton resident for 75 years.
She was educated in the Princeton Public School System and was a graduate of the School of Beauty Culture in Newark. She was employed by the Somerville Quartet Master Depot and was self-employed as a cosmetologist.
She was member of the Suzanne Patterson Senior Center, Ladies Guild, Sunshine Club, Senior Citizen's Club, Meals on Wheels, Pinochle Club, and First Baptist Church of Princeton, where she was a member of the Willing Workers Club.
Predeceased by her husband, George R. Taylor, she is survived by three sisters, Reba Carraway, Callie Sinkler, and Rosa Pemberton.
The funeral service was February 24 at First Baptist Church. Interment was at Princeton Memorial Park in Robbinsville.
Arrangements were by The Hughes Funeral Home, Ewing.
Herman M. Ward, 91, of Belle Mead, died February 18 at home. He was a noted poet and professor emeritus of English Literature at Trenton State College,
Born in Jersey City, he graduated as valedictorian of his class from Dickinson High School. He received his B.A. from Montclair State College, his Ph.D. in English Literature and language from Princeton University in 1940.
After four years of teaching English at Millburn High School, Dr. Ward entered the U.S. Army in World War II. Upon discharge, he began a long career in the English department of Trenton State College (now The College of New Jersey), from which he retired in 1976. In addition to modern poetry and Shakespeare, he taught Irish and Greek Literature and Classical Greek. An avid traveler, he was the recipient of a Fulbright Fellowship to Greece in 1952 and a Fulbright Lectureship to the University of Iceland in 1962. He served as an exchange professor in Frankfurt, Germany in 1966.
He received the Governor's Award for Service to Poetry from Gov. Thomas Kean in 1986. He was a Dodge Poet from the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation and served as a poet and teacher at the Waterloo Poetry Festival. Well-known for his readings and poetry workshops throughout the state, he also worked to improve the teaching of poetry in New Jersey high schools. Other locations in which he gave readings of his poetry include the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, D.C., and Woods Hole, Mass., where he was a summer resident for 49 years.
He was the author of seven books of poetry and founder of the Belle Mead Press. His other publications include high school literature texts, Byron and the Magazines, The English Teacher's Handbook of Ideas, and Poems for Pleasure, an anthology of famous poems. His own poetry was published in The New York Times, Descant, The English Journal, College English, and Nassau Lit. In 1987, he shared a volume, Three Voices, with Eugene T. Maleska and Arthur Bramhall.
A self-taught handyman, he spent many years renovating his beloved Dutch Colonial home in Belle Mead, taking great care to be true to historical detail. In honor of his efforts, he received the 2004 Award for Historic Preservation from the Montgomery Township Landmarks Commission. He also enjoyed a lifelong love of classical music and played the violin. Among his other interests were painting watercolors and sailing, a pursuit he enjoyed during his summers in Cape Cod.
He is survived by his wife of 63 years, Margery Brearley Ward; four children, Gretchen W. Warren of Tampa, Fla., Bonnie W. Simon of Washington, D.C., David B. Ward of Falmouth, Mass., and Michael W. Ward of Swarthmore, Pa.; and five grandchildren.
A memorial service will be held at the Unitarian Universalist Church, 50 Cherry Hill Road, this Sunday, March 5 at 3 p.m.
In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to the Van Harlingen Historical Society.