Timothy Wade Miller
March 26, 1965 – June 27, 2024
Tim Miller passed away peacefully on June 27, 2024, surrounded by family in his happy place near the beach in Delaware.
Tim was known for his incredible talent in woodworking and construction, coaching girls’ softball, the gift of cooking, and his love for his family.
He fought a courageous battle with throat cancer, overcoming treatment that left him with incredible difficulties and poor quality of life, but he continued to persevere and still enjoyed time with friends and family and especially cooking for everyone.
Throughout his life Tim especially enjoyed music, watching the Food Network, building, mentoring young girls’ softball, and took great pride in his development of good sportsmanship. He loved being a father and was so proud of his daughters. He fought so hard to try to be there for every important moment in their lives.
Tim was predeceased by his parents Bob and Sherry Miller.
He is survived by his loving wife, Cindy; his daughters, Taylor Wagner (Brad) and Barrett Miller; his granddaughter, Emerson Wagner; his brother, Randy Miller (Zina) and their children, Tatiana and Tad. Jeanne Dollar (Ed), JP Crosson (Stephanie) and their children, Ryan Dollar and Charlie Crosson, as well as many friends who will miss him dearly.
Tim did not want a service, but he would like to be remembered with a story, laughs, and a raised beer. For all who knew him this should make you smile!
He will always be in our hearts and never forgotten.
Please visit Tim’s Life Memorial at parsellfuneralhomes.com.
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Paul A. Cruser
Paul A. Cruser, Princeton, NJ, age 91, died July 29 at Princeton Medical Center.
Born in Pennington, NJ, November 20, 1932, to Fred and Elsie Cruser, Paul grew up in Princeton and graduated from Princeton High School. His undergraduate education at Ohio Wesleyan University was interrupted by two years of service in the U.S. Army. After completing his BA degree, Paul earned MA and PhD degrees in English literature at the University of Pennsylvania. He taught at Penn and Drexel University before accepting a position at the College of New Jersey, where he taught literature and writing. He also served as the Associate to the Dean of Arts and Science and as Interim Dean, then returned to the English Department, happy to be teaching again. He retired in 1999 after 27 years at TCNJ.
Paul is survived by his wife of 20 years Karen Murray and his nieces Barbara Stalcup and Mary Skarzenski. Paul and Karen traveled abroad extensively: to Europe, South and Central America, India, Southeast Asia, Japan, China, Morocco, Egypt, Kenya, Tanzania, and South Africa. Paul was such an animal lover that they took four African safaris. Back at home, he relished classical music, especially concerts at Princeton University and performances at the Metropolitan Opera.
Paul requested his services to be private.
Donations in Paul’s memory suggested to the World Wildlife Fund, the American Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, or Princeton University Concerts.
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Everard K. Pinneo
Everard Kempshall Pinneo died on August 2, 2024 at his son Tom’s home in Princeton where he’d been living for the last year. He was born in Elizabeth, NJ, on January 16, 1927, graduated from the Pingry School in 1944, and earned a B.A. in Economics from Princeton University in 1950 as a member of the class of 1948 after serving in the U.S. Navy for two years.
Ev’s first job was at Owens-Corning Fiberglass selling insulation yarn to electrical cable manufacturers. “When the allure of that occupation began to run dry,” as Ev said himself, he pivoted to education. In 1955 he became Assistant Director and later Director of Admissions at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York.
In 1960 he took on the role of Director of Admissions at the University of Pittsburgh. Those were exciting years not only professionally but personally as well, with his marriage to Katharine Anne Salter in 1962. Ev’s romance with Pitt, though, ended in 1964. He and his admissions colleagues “drew the line over beefy football applications, some of whose talents were exceptional in all areas except reading, writing, adding, subtracting, and consecutive thinking. A call from the front office suggested that some things were sacred, but that I was not.”
Ev, Kay, and their newborn son Tom piled into their ’63 Volvo wagon and drove east to the Central Office of the State University of New York. For 15 years he traveled the SUNY system’s 67 campuses as Assistant Vice Chancellor participating actively in what he regarded as a remarkable vision to provide education at a modest price for all citizens of New York State.
From 1979 to 1992 Ev was director of the Princeton Educational Center at Blairstown, an adventure-based outdoor education center that he first knew as The Princeton Summer Camp when he served as its undergraduate director from 1948-1950. He maintained a nearly eight-decade-long affiliation with PBC, serving, in retirement, as a Trustee and then Honorary Trustee. He also served on and supported a variety of nonprofit organizations including the Trenton After School Program, Youth Concerns Committee, Corner House, Trinity Church Grants Committee, the Trigeminal Neuralgia Association, and the Southern Poverty Law Center as part of his vision of a world in which all people have access to “opportunities and health, a share of the abundance of life, and the undying hope of peace and justice for all.” In addition to his service to the community, he will be remembered for the way he would “tune in” to someone, give them his full attention, and leave them feeling heard and encouraged.
Ev is survived by his daughter Nell and grandson Martin of Pau, France, and son Tom, grandson Steven, and daughter-in-law Julie Pantelick of Princeton. Jackie Martin provided warmth, care, and companionship when Ev moved back to Princeton in the fall of 2023. Patrons of the library knew them as puzzle masters fueled by Halo Pub ice cream.
Nell, Martin, Tom, Steven, Julie, and Jackie made Ev’s casket from weathered barn planks as was his wish after seeing his son Tom do the same for his wife Kay. A memorial service will be held at a later date. Please consider honoring Ev’s memory with a gift to the Princeton-Blairstown Center.
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By Stuart Mitchner