Muriel Worthley Schmidt
Muriel Worthley Schmidt, 106, passed away on Sunday, December 7, 2025 at her home at Stonebridge at Montgomery in Skillman, NJ.
She was formerly of Oradell, NJ, and moved to Princeton in 1946. In 1985, she retired after 23 years from Princeton University in the Office of the Treasurer. She was a member of American Women Volunteers Service (AWVS) during WWII, the Nassau Street PTA Board Committee for the building of Witherspoon Street School and the Mother’s Association of the American Boy Choir School. She served on the Executive Committee of the Princeton Business and Professional Women’s Association and was a member of the Order of the Eastern Star. Muriel and her husband were founding members of All Saints’ Church where she served on the Flower Guild.
Predeceased by her parents John Abbott and Gertrude (Volk) Worthley and husband Robert Christie Schmidt Sr., she is survived by her sons Robert Christie Schmidt Jr. and his wife Rosa, and Gregory Karl Schmidt and his wife Peggy; three grandchildren, Tracy, Chris III, and Karl; two great-grandchildren: and many extended family.
Visitation will be held on Wednesday, December 10, 2025 from 1-3 p.m. at All Saints’ Church, 16 All Saints Road, Princeton, NJ 08540 with a service at 3 p.m. Burial will follow in Trinity-All Saints’ Cemetery.
Arrangements are under the direction of Mather-Hodge Funeral Home, Princeton.
Memorial donations may be made to All Saints’ Church.
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Roslynn Greenberg
Roslynn Greenberg, of Princeton, passed away unexpectedly on December 6, 2025 at the age of 92.
Born in Queens on September 17, 1933, she spent most of her early life in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn. She attended the public schools in Brooklyn. She married Joel Greenberg on the 4th of July, after attending Brooklyn College for a year.
The couple then moved to Utica, New York, where Joel was employed as an electrical engineer at Rome Air Development Center, responsible for researching ICBM early warning and missile intercept systems. While in Utica, from 1952-1961, Roz attended the Munson-Williams-Proctor Art Institute, where she majored in enamel painting. She became a bridge player, competing in many local and national tournaments. Years later she became a Life Master. She also found the time to raise three children!
In 1961 the family moved to the Princeton area — Lawrenceville, NJ. She became a successful real estate agent while Joel worked at RCA, responsible for new business planning including printing automation and satellite communications. In 1980 they moved to Parkside Drive in Princeton where they built the home they would share for 45 years.
As long as the children were amenable to travel with their parents, the Greenberg family visited many of the National Parks. Roz and Joel also spent a week rafting and shooting the rapids of the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon.
Joel left RCA to work at Princeton University’s Aerospace Dept and participated in many space programs. This led to Roz and Joel attending international space meetings throughout the world (which alternated between communist and non-communist countries) and provided an excuse for a great deal of antique collecting in which Roz’s education at Munson-Williams-Proctor came in handy.
Roz become a teacher of enamels paintings, and she started to collect and raise orchids. She won many awards for her orchids and was a President of the local orchid society. She also taught orchid culture at Princeton’s adult education program.
She is survived by her husband Joel Greenberg, and her children Marian Greenberg, Judith Wright, and Robert Greenberg.
Funeral services were held Tuesday, December 9 at Orland’s Ewing Memorial Chapel, with burial at Fountain Lawn Memorial Park in Ewing, NJ.
For condolences please visit Roslyn’s obituary page at OrlandsMemorialChapel.com/Roslynn-Greenberg.
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Nancy K. Light
After decades of teaching girls the structure and subtleties of fiction and poetry at Stuart Country Day School in Princeton, Nancy K. Light, 86, succumbed to months of decline on Thanksgiving morning, before celebrations began.
Born in the rolling hills of wheat south of Spokane, Washington, Nancy grew up on the farm her father built from land grants after the great depression. Nancy learned to read at age 3, and her local library became a second home. By high school, Nancy yearned to move beyond her rural, small town life and applied to regional boarding schools. She thrived at St. Paul’s School for Girls in Walla Walla, WA. The Prussian headmistress saw Nancy’s potential but also the drawbacks of her attraction to a local boyfriend. In response, she ordered Nancy to apply to Stanford. There, she majored in English and fell in love with a New Englander, her future husband. She earned a master’s degree at Harvard and by stages found herself settling in Princeton in 1969.
Nancy loved classic American and British authors, especially Jane Austen, as well as more contemporary Irish poets W.B. Yeats, Seamus Heaney, and Paul Muldoon. She read all of Muldoon’s playful, complex poems of pain and humor and predicted he would win the Nobel Prize in literature. She joined the Jane Austen Society and a local reading group of Austen devotees.
While at Stuart, Nancy applied for and won five separate summer fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities. These fellowships were typically limited to one per teacher; yet her proposals consistently impressed the selection committee to award Nancy one fellowship after another. For example, she proposed to study heroines in “George Eliot” (Mary Ann Evens) and Henry James, where “marriage presents itself as a moral question … in the construction of their identities.” These fellowships enabled Nancy to study with great literary critics of her time, including Helen Vendler, Marjorie Garber, and Thomas Roche at Princeton. She fondly remembered them and continued to stay in touch with them.
Nancy also loved cooking New York Times recipes and orchestrated delicious dinners parties for friends. She loved 20th century art, especially the German Blaue Reiter paintings and Bauhaus designs that revolutionized our sense of beauty.
Nancy is survived by her loving husband of 61 years, Donald; her two cherished children, Holly and Peter; their two devoted spouses, Percy and Emily; and her two talented grandchildren, Cecilia and Jeremy.
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Dr. J. Thomas Davidson
Tom Davidson, beloved husband, father, grandfather, and friend, passed away peacefully on November 22, 2025, at the age of 85.
Born in Marion, Indiana, and raised in Grand Rapids, Michigan, Tom attended Colgate University and Cornell Medical School, where he met the love of his life, Sharon. He lived a life marked by kindness, integrity, and a steadfast commitment to both his profession and the people around him. Though he liked to describe himself as a “simple country doctor,” Tom built a distinguished career as a vascular and general surgeon with Princeton Surgical Associates. He served as Chairman of the Department of Surgery at Princeton Medical Center and as an Associate Professor of Surgery at Robert Wood Johnson Medical School. He was a beloved teacher, mentor, and colleague whose warmth and steady presence helped shape the fabric
of the Princeton medical community.
Always “game for anything,” Tom was happiest when surrounded by family and friends — sharing stories, offering guidance, playing tennis, bridge and, of course, enjoying many rounds of golf. He and Sharon cherished a close circle of friends and were active members of the Princeton community, as well as of Manchester, VT and Vero Beach, FL. Tom will be remembered for his quick wit, gentle humor, and rare ability to make everyone feel truly seen and valued.
Tom is predeceased by his parents John L. Davidson and Mary Ruth Stone Davidson. He is survived by his wife, Sharon; his children, Jon (Liza) and Elizabeth (Ethan); and his granddaughters, Anni and Louisa, who will forever carry his memory in their hearts. He is also survived by his brother, Stephen Davidson (Carol); nephews Scott (Amy), Todd (Dawn) and Chad (Laurie); and beloved members of Sharon and Tom’s extended families.
In lieu of flowers, the family asks that donations be made to Colgate University or to the Princeton Medical Center Foundation (5 Plainsboro Road, Suite 365, Plainsboro, NJ 08536). For the Foundation, please specify The J. Thomas Davidson Endowment, which supports surgical education for the medical staff at Princeton Medical Center.
Arrangements are under the direction of Mather-Hodge Funeral Home, Princeton.
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Correction
The memorial service for Peter Lindenfeld [Obituaries, December 3] will be held on January 17, 2026, at 10:30 a.m. at the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Princeton, 50 Cherry Hill Road.