Adele R. Tamasi
Adele R. Tamasi, 91 of Skillman died on Wednesday, November 26, 2025 at Artis Senior Living. Born in Pesche, Italy, she immigrated to the United States in 1954. Adele resided in Princeton before moving to Skillman in 1978.
Adele was a member of St. Pauls’ Church, Princeton and St. Charles Borromeo Church, Skillman, the Italian American Sportsman Club, Dorothea House, Princeton Pettoranello Foundation, and the Italian Women’s Club. Adele was a devoted wife, mother, and friend. Her heart was generous and loving whether it was hosting a meal, volunteering at an event or as a compassionate listener … her intent was pure; a true testament to her deep rooted faith.
Daughter of the late Olindo and Matilde Petrecca, wife of the late Domenico E. Tamasi, sister of the late Vanda Petrecca, she is survived by two daughters Elvina Pettus, Sandra Tamasi; two sons and a daughter-in-law Nicholas Tamasi, Paul and Laurie Tamasi (Siggia); siblings and their spouses Mario and Cenzina Petrecca, Silvana Petrecca, Luciana and Richard Bellantoni; brother-in-law Dino Mercante; 10 grandchildren Ean Jacobs, Erroll Tamasi, Ryan Pettus, Erin Pettus, Ellis Tamasi, Evan Pettus and Devin Pettus (Brakel), Briana Tamasi and Guthrie Schoolar, Emma Tamasi, Peytann Tamasi, Jameson Troy; five great-grandchildren Bianca Pettus, Elizabeth Pettus, Dominic Pettus, Miles Parker, Amos Pettus; and many other nieces, nephews, in-laws, and cousins.
A Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated 10:30 a.m. on Friday, December 5, 2025 at St. Charles Borromeo Church, 47 Skillman Road, Skillman. A visitation will be held from 9:30 a.m. until the time of funeral mass at the church.
Burial will follow in the Princeton Cemetery.
In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to St Charles Borromeo Church or Embracing Hospice Care, 3349 State Route 138 Building D, Suite F, Wall, NJ 07719.
Arrangements are under the direction of the Mather-Hodge Funeral Home, Princeton.
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Carole Ann Shingle
July 8, 1935 –April 2, 2022
Carole Ann Shingle, beloved mother, sister, teacher, and friend, passed away on April 2, 2022. Carole was a longtime resident of Princeton as well as towns in Central Jersey and the Jersey Shore. Born in Easton, Pennsylvania, she was the eldest of four children of Edward and Esther Flynn. Raised in a close-knit family rich in early American heritage, she grew up exploring her neighborhood, attending Methodist Sunday School, and developing the creativity that would define her life.
Carole’s artistic gifts emerged early; she won a national soap-carving competition as a young girl and later pursued art education, earning her degree from Kutztown State Teachers College. She taught art throughout her life, most notably spending 37 years at the University League Nursery School in Princeton. She also shared her talents with generations of young artists at the Princeton Arts Council’s summer programs. Carole was a truly special teacher who inspired countless children to love art and feel good about what they made.
Carole married twice, first to Fred Bartlett, with whom she had her daughter Lauri, and later to Frank Shingle, Sr. Carole and Frank built a blending, loving family including Lauri, Carole’s second daughter Tara, and Frank’s children Melody and Frank, Jr. A devoted mother, she nurtured creativity, kindness, and hospitality in her home. Also an avid gardener, she served as President of the Central Jersey Rose Society and won numerous first-place awards for her beautiful blooms. Carole was a longtime beloved member of First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Princeton, NJ.
Carole will be remembered for her selflessness, her gentle spirit, and the many lives she enriched through art and love. She is survived by her daughters Lauri and Tara; her youngest sister Louise; her niece Elizabeth and nephews Matthew, Benjamin, Gregory, and Daniel; grandsons Joshua and Murphy; and great-granddaughters Genevieve and Carolyn.
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Peggy Henning
Peggy Henning, 97, of Princeton, NJ, passed away on November 18 at Serenity Hospice at the Robert Wood Johnson Hospital in Hamilton, NJ. Born Peggy Menefee, she came to this earth on September 25, 1928, in Baltimore Maryland. She was a rambunctious girl with lots of friends who spent her time imagining the possibilities. Her father was a renowned architect who designed buildings across Baltimore and her mother was a gentle soul from the Eastern Shore of Maryland. Peggy always challenged the norms of the times, which for women were limited to getting married and having babies, or if they wanted a career, becoming a secretary. After high school, she went off to Sullans Junior College in Bristol, VA, but it was more of a finishing school, and she quickly realized that she didn’t want to be finished when her life was just starting.
She transferred to Syracuse University and knew she’d found home. She started off majoring in radio broadcasting, but after doing a play reading for a friend, the head of the Drama Department (Sawyer Falk) recruited her to join the Summer Theatre where she enjoyed over eight summers. Theater is where Peggy really began to shine. She worked her tail off, made many close friends including Jerry Stiller. (Graduating class Dick Clark, Jerry Stiller, Leo Bloom.)
She graduated with a degree in Speech and Drama in 1950 and was voted “The Outstanding Performer of the Year” by the staff and all the other actors in her class, an honor that was one of the greatest achievements of her professional life. She was also voted one of the top 10 Seniors of the year, voted into Boars Head, the drama honorary, and Zeta Phi Eta, the national women’s speech honorary.
After college, she continued Summer Stock, honing her skills by rehearsing one play during the day while performing another at night. Finally, she took the leap and moved to New York where she pounded the pavement daily while working odd jobs like a cigarette girl at the Russian Tea Room. She had several successes like doing a radio play with Paul Newman but finally got the holy grail with a role in a Broadway show, the Long Watch (Directed by John Larson and produced by Anthony Brady Farrell). After six weeks on the road, the show only ran for six performances on Broadway, but Peggy always got a big applause from the audience after her scenes. (She was also in Mistress Liggons, which sadly did not make it to NY.)
She grew disillusioned with the grind of being an actress in New York during the ’50s and moved back to Baltimore where she got a new role of Miss Peggy on the brand-new TV show Romper Room produced by Bert Claster Productions. She flew around the country setting up franchises in different cities doing the show there until the local Romper Room teacher got up to speed.
During this time, she was introduced to a tall handsome man named Ted Henning who quickly swept her off her feet and the two were married in a June wedding. It wasn’t until 2022 did she learn that her husband, originally from Germany, was a Ritchie Boy in the American Army landing in Normandy on D-Day to fight the Nazis. Newly married they left Baltimore for the New Jersey suburbs and bought a house in Madison where their first child Pamela Booth Henning was born, followed two years later by their son Theodore Walter Henning. But Peggy wanted more for her kids and moved them to Princeton where they could take advantage of all the culture and energy a University town had to offer.
She quickly put her Romper Room skills to work and became a substitute teacher in the Princeton school system. After earning her education degree from Rutgers, she was hired full-time at Princeton Middle School first as a drama teacher where she was notorious for using the Hokey Pokey to get kids moving, and then as an extremely popular English and Social Studies teacher. She loved her students and they loved her (at least, most of them did) and she spent the years getting them to love poetry, understand different cultures, and learn the importance of mutual respect for over 25 years. She could rarely walk down Nassau Street without running into someone she had taught, and stopping to catch up on how their lives were going.
When Peggy finally retired, she split her days between Princeton and Florida where she spent most of her time on her favorite hobby, ballroom dancing. When the commute became too much, she moved into Princeton Windrows with her cat Tripp and spent her time with old and new friends alike. Her husband died in 1978 after she cared for him in a years long battle with cancer. She’s survived by Pamela Henning, her daughter, Ted Henning, son, her daughter-in-law Stefanie and her spectacular grandchildren Jessie and Liam. The family is planning a celebration of life in Princeton early in 2026.
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Peter Lindenfeld
Peter Lindenfeld, 100, of the Stonebridge community in Skillman, New Jersey, and of Princeton where he resided for 65 years, died peacefully on November 21, 2025 while holding the hands of his children, Tom and Naomi. Born on March 10, 1925 in Vienna, Austria, Peter was the son of Bela and Elda (nee Lachs) Lindenfeld who were Austrian physicians. Peter was a retired professor emeritus of physics at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey, having taught there for over 45 years.
Peter and his parents were driven from Austria by the German annexation of March 1938. Shortly thereafter he spent time at the Sanitorium des Enfants in Switzerland while recovering from tuberculosis, then went with his mother in England. They made their way to the Sooke Harbor House on Vancouver Island courtesy of a Canadian agricultural visa. Peter went to high school in Vancouver and to the University of British Columbia where he earned a Bachelors and Masters in Engineering. Peter came to the United States to attend graduate school at Columbia University where he earned his Doctorate in Physics.
While studying at Columbia, Peter lived at International House and became an observer of the lively New York City art scene of the early 1950s. At a John Cage “happening” at the Eighth Street Club he met his future wife Lore Kadden, a textile artist and graduate of the avant garde Black Mountain College in North Carolina. Peter and Lore married May 31, 1953. Lore Lindenfeld died in 2010.
Peter became a full professor at Rutgers University in 1966 and retired in 1999. His research focus was on solid state superconductivity. However, his real passion was for making physics accessible to non-physics majors.
Peter’s sabbaticals included time at Oxford in England, Tirupati in India, University of Paris D’Orsay, and at Kyoto University in Japan. He was a fellow of the American Physical Society and a member of the American Association of Physics Teachers/AAPT. He received the 1988 Warren I. Sussman Award for Excellence in Teaching at Rutgers. In 1989 the American Association of Physics Teachers awarded him the Robert A. Millikan award for “notable and creative contributions to the teaching of physics.” In 2001, Rutgers created an endowed chair in his name in Experimental Condensed-Matter Physics. In 2011 Rutgers University Press published Physics, The First Science, which Peter co-wrote with Suzanne White Brahmia.
In the 1960s, Peter and Lore sent their children to the Quaker Farm and Wilderness Camps in Plymouth Union, Vermont. They fell in love with the area and bought a modest, three-room cottage in nearby Barnard where they spent their summers walking along Bowman Road, visiting the Barnard General Store, and swimming in Silver Lake.
Peter was informed and devoted to the traditions and culture of his Jewish faith, yet he also enjoyed a wider philosophical worldview.
Peter was a social human being to the core, taking real interest in the lives of others, bringing his subtle and gentle sense of humor to the task, and keeping the focus on others. He supported Lore in her textile industry career and her later weaving and teaching career. He enthusiastically followed Tom’s career as a political consultant. He championed Naomi’s work as a potter and ceramics teacher.
Peter was active in many social justice causes. He was a founding member of the Princeton Community Democratic Organization, and remained its secretary for decades.
During the last 15 years, he shared his active life with his partner, Mary Clurman, who died this past August. He also quickly engaged in the Stonebridge community in the last two and a half years which celebrated him at his 100th birthday party this past March.
Peter was a collector of pre-Columbian, Ashanti, and other art, collected ancient Arabic and Judaic coins, was a music appreciator and played recorder with the Princeton Recorder Society. Peter spoke German, French, English, Hebrew, Arabic, Japanese, and some Russian. Peter and Lore were so intrigued with Japanese culture that they visited there several times. He loved photography, mycology, book making, origami, officiating weddings, and collecting and keeping in touch with his many friends.
Peter is survived by his son Tom and his partner Becky Leise of Princeton, New Jersey, his daughter Naomi and her husband Michael Bosworth of Brattleboro, Vermont, and his grandson Sam Lindenfeld of Brooklyn, New York.
Peter’s memoir was just published: A Century in the Making – A Hundred-Year Journey from Refugee to American by Flare Books. He worked on it until his final days. (website: PeterLindenfeld.com)
A memorial service will be held on January 17, 2026 at 10:30 a.m. in the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Princeton, 50 Cherry Hill Road. All who knew Peter and his family are invited. To offer condolences, visit thekimblefuneralhome.com. To make contributions in Peter’s honor, please consider either the Princeton Community Democratic Organization princetondempsit.wixsite.com or Sustainable Princeton at sustainableprinceton.org to honor his support for the Guyot Walk restoration project.
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