October 28, 2020

Obituaries 10/28/20

Maureen Theresa Lima

Maureen Theresa Lima, formerly known as Maureen Curtin, born August 31, 1940, died October 25, 2020 peacefully with her family by her side. 

Maureen epitomized the great American success story. The second daughter of Irish immigrants, Maureen grew up in the Bronx, NY, with her loving four sisters, Margaret (deceased), Eileen, Ann, and Theresa and her deceased brother Dennis. She met her soul mate at 15 attending a Catholic school dance. Maureen and Vincent Lima were married on June 12, 1960. Maureen always knew what she wanted. When she met Vinny, she knew they would create a beautiful home for their children. Maureen and Vinny had four children and 11 grandchildren: Mary Ley (Bill Ley) and daughter Isabella; Joanne Cella (Chris Cella) and children Justine, Christopher, and Clare; Vincent Lima (Beth Lima) and children Rachel, Vincent, Natalie, and Alexandra; Jennifer McLaughlin (Mark Dowden), and children Patrick, Molly, and Anna.

Growing up in the Bronx, Maureen dreamed of her elegant home filled with children, antiques, art, and a kitchen table for family dinners every evening and an abundance of love. She accomplished that and so much more. Maureen became an avid tennis player, a spectacular bridge player, and a wonderful mom. Her love affair with Vinny was without equal and an inspiration to her children. Later in life bridge became her passion. She studied the game and fell in love with its beauty. She played bridge because she loved it. While talented enough to make life master, she didn’t care about the title. She only cared about the love of the game and the camaraderie and friendships it brought.

Maureen was a student in the best sense of the word. She studied and developed deep knowledge for no other reason than the love of it. She introduced her children to great literature, art, and film. If there was one phrase to describe Maureen, it would be simple elegance.  She carried herself with great confidence, she was a keen listener and always lent a sympathetic ear.

Maureen will be missed by her husband Vinny, her four children, her cherished 11 grandchildren, all of her friends from bridge, and so many others touched by her kindness and grace.

Maureen lived the American dream. It wasn’t effortless, but she made it appear so. Her grit and vision and unwavering belief and desire to build a beautiful life for her family all came true.  She will be sorely missed, remembered always, and cherished forever.

A mass will be held at St. James Church in Pennington, NJ, on Friday, October 30th.  Family will be receiving visitors from 1:30 to 2:30 p.m. followed by a memorial mass. In lieu of flowers, a donation can be made to the Bronchiectasis and NTM Initiative (www.bronchiectasisandntminitiative.com). Arrangements are by the Wilson-Apple Funeral Home, Pennington. Condolences are welcome at www.wilsonapple.com.

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Catherine F. Lloyd
1919-2020

Catherine Fanget Lloyd passed peacefully on Thursday, October 22, 2020, from natural causes. She recently celebrated her 101st birthday.

A longtime resident of Catonsville, Maryland, she was born and raised in Princeton, New Jersey, and graduated from Wellesley College in 1941.

She was a long-term parishioner of St. Mark in Catonsville where she taught school for eight years and served on the parish council. She was a devoted teacher, both at St. Mark and Catonsville High School, with a lifelong impact on many of her students. She was passionate about travel and playing bridge with friends and family.

She is survived by her three children, Edward Lloyd of South Orange, NJ (Janine Bauer), Pamela Lloyd Coulter of New York, NY (John V. Coulter), and Robert Lloyd of Catonsville, Maryland. She is also survived by three grandchildren, Alex Lloyd, Kimberly Coulter, and Abigail Lloyd, all of New York, NY.   

Catherine was predeceased by her beloved husband, Edward Lloyd; her sisters Connie Driver, Rita Price, and Lillian Fanget; and her brother, Louis A. Fanget.

She was interred at St. Paul Cemetery in Princeton, New Jersey, on Tuesday, October 27, 2020. A memorial service will be scheduled at some future date.

In lieu of flowers, her family requests donations be considered in Catherine’s honor to St. Mark School, 26 Melvin Avenue, Catonsville, Maryland 21228.

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Marian Lucille Miles McCredie

Marian Lucille Miles McCredie died on October 23 at the Princeton Medical Center. She was 81.

She was born Marian Lucille Miles on February 20th, 1939 in New York, New York, to George and Lucy Eleanor (Briggs) Miles. She graduated from the Masters School in Dobbs Ferry, New York, in 1956, having spent a year abroad at La Chatelaine in St. Blaise, Switzerland. She received a Bachelor of Arts in the History of Art from Smith College in 1960.

Marian, known from an early age to her friends and family as Mimsy, succinctly framed her aspirations in her high school yearbook this way: “To really live life.” And so she did. She was presented to society at the Westchester Cotillion in 1956. By then she was already a veteran traveler and had proved herself an accomplished canoeist, swimmer, horseback rider, skier, and mountain climber. She was a lifelong traveler and lover of adventure. She visited places as far flung as India, Norway, Kenya, and the Galapagos and she had crisscrossed North America from the Baja peninsula to the northern woods of Maine. From 1960 to 2019, she spent part of each year on the remote Greek island of Samothrace. In fact, she liked to say that she had been on her way around the world when she stopped in Athens, Greece, and married the archaeologist, James R. McCredie on September 3rd, 1960.

Mimsy and James went on to share a 58-year marriage until his death in 2018. She was an essential partner during his extraordinary career in academia and classical archaeology, putting her legendary organizational skills and social graces to work for the benefit of all. As wife of the Director of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, she was known for careful planning of parties and events and tactful follow-through that advanced many a student’s career. On a more human level, she simply made sure that everyone felt included. Her ability to connect people came through in every part of her life and across the world. She is remembered fondly as a loyal correspondent, a rememberer of birthdays, and an expert networker long before that became a thing.

Mimsy is survived by and will be forever missed by her son, Miles McCredie, her daughter Meredeth McCredie Winter, son-in-law Mark Winter, grandchildren William and Eleanor Winter and by the many, many friends and acquaintances whose lives she touched.

In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the Marquand Park Foundation in Princeton, on whose board she served for many years, or to the Loon Preservation Committee in memory of her long love of a particular loon-graced lake.

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Helen Gentile

November 15, 1921 – October 20, 2020

Helen Theresa Gentile, 98, passed away peacefully while sleeping at her home at The Avalon in Hillsborough, New Jersey, on the morning of October 20, 2020, a few weeks before her 99th birthday. She had been a longtime resident, with her husband Emile Gentile, of Garden City, New York for 44 years before moving to New Jersey.

Helen was born on November 15, 1921 in Brooklyn, New York, the middle child and only daughter of Alexander and Rose Picozzi (née Adamo) and adoring sister of Matthew Picozzi and Vincent Picozzi, who predeceased her. Helen grew up in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, and Richmond Hill, Queens, spending happy summers with her close-knit extended Italian-American family at her family’s bungalow in Highland, New York, near New Paltz, a tradition she later continued with her own children. An excellent student, Helen graduated from Richmond Hill High School at 15 and then attended Queens College, along with her older brother Matthew, where she majored in French and Spanish language and literature and was on the diving team and in the badminton and fencing clubs. She was proud to be a member of Queens College’s first graduating class in 1941, receiving a Bachelor of Arts degree with departmental honors. She took post-graduate courses in foreign language education at Middlebury College and Cornell University and later earned a Masters of Arts degree in Education from City College of New York in 1945. 

Following college, Helen embarked on a long and rewarding career as a New York City public school teacher, beginning as a high school French teacher during World War II, where her students were so close in age that more than one of them asked her for a date. She later changed to teaching elementary school, working for many years as a sixth grade and Spanish teacher at P.S. 41 in Bayside, Queens. She was a strict but encouraging teacher, imparting her love of learning and gift for language to her many students over the years, until retiring in 1986. 

In 1952, Helen met her future husband, Emile Gentile, on a ski slope in the Poconos when she dropped her skis and he offered to carry one for her. They were engaged four months later, married on December 21, 1952, and continued a lifelong love and partnership for more than 60 years until Emile’s death in 2013. 

Helen was a devoted, loving mother of four children. She demanded high standards but never ceasing to do as much as she could for her family. With remarkable energy through most of her life, she managed to teach school, grade papers, plan lessons, and graduation exercises, shop, cook three-course Sunday pasta dinners, be a Cub Scout den mother, clean house and dishes, sew hems, dresses, doll clothes and Halloween costumes, schedule dance and piano lessons, sports activities and doctor visits, host family holidays and birthday parties, attend weekly mass, bake chocolate cakes, zeppoles, honey cakes and cream puffs, and try her hand at crocheting, upholstering furniture, sculpture and painting. In retirement, Helen volunteered at a local Long Island hospital and with the League of Women Voters, played bridge and golf, and enjoyed movie nights, local theater, and traveling with Emile, taking Elderhostel (now Road Scholars) vacations for many years. Helen and Emile especially enjoyed spending the winter months in the Florida sun at their second home at PGA National in Palm Beach Gardens, where they made many new friends and visited with old friends and family. 

Although slowed in her last years, Helen continued to find joy in the beauty of nature and in her children and grandchildren, delighting most recently in her great-grandson.  She will be greatly missed by her family and caregivers for her indomitable spirit, humor, and caring concern. Helen is survived by her son, Vincent E. Gentile of Princeton, New Jersey, and his wife Patricia Pickrel, her daughter, Patricia E. Coutu of Warwick, Rhode Island, daughter Laurie J. Gentile, and son-in-law Scott Friedland, of Chappaqua, New York, and daughter Jill T. Gentile, of Highland Park, New Jersey; her grandchildren Andrew V. Gentile and wife KC Arbour, Daniel Gentile, Katherine Coutu Holland and husband Chris Holland, Nicholas Coutu, Julia Friedland, Alexander Friedland and Michael Friedland; and her great-grandson, Henry Gentile. Her son-in-law, Roland J. Coutu, predeceased her.

Her family extends their heartfelt thanks to the staff of Avalon @ Hillsborough, NJ, for the high quality and loving care they provided to their mother, Helen, for the past seven years. A short memorial service for the family was held at The Mather-Hodge Funeral Home, Princeton, New Jersey. Mass of Christian Burial was celebrated on Saturday, October 24, 2020 at St. Paul’s Roman Catholic Church, Princeton. In lieu of flowers, the family has suggested that donations may be made in Helen’s name to Queens College, www.qc.cuny.edu, or Alzheimer’s Foundation of America, www.alzfdn.org.

October 21, 2020

Obituaries 10/21/20

Marvin R. Reed

Marvin R. Reed, Jr. died peacefully on October 12, 2020 after a lengthy battle with Parkinson’s disease. He was 89 years old. A resident of the greater Princeton area for over 60 years, he moved to Stonebridge at Montgomery in Skillman, New Jersey, five years ago. Marvin served as mayor of Princeton Borough from 1990 to 2003.

Born July 30, 1931 to Marie and Marvin R. Reed Sr. in Vineland, New Jersey, Marvin lived his early years in South Jersey. He graduated from Vineland High School in 1948 and attended Rutgers University on a state scholarship. He graduated Phi Beta Kappa in 1952.

Shortly after college, Marvin was drafted into the U.S. Army at the time of the Korean War. After his initial training, he was sent to the Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville, Alabama, where he was selected to work on the guided missile system program. His service and experience in the South and at the Arsenal would forever shape his lifelong commitment to public service and civil rights.

After his discharge in 1954, he began a 31-year career with the New Jersey Education Association (NJEA) in Trenton as the assistant editor of the NJEA magazine. His professional career evolved quickly, and he soon became Director of Communications for the NJEA. He also took on leadership roles in New Jersey school and college development efforts and taxation and municipal reform issues until his retirement in 1986.

In 1957, Marvin discovered Princeton while residing with several friends on Jefferson Road. His life changed forever in 1958 when he met Ingrid Wagner, also from Vineland, who was working in New York City while he was in the NYU Graduate Communication program. They were married a year later in Vineland and settled in Princeton. They soon became active members of the Unitarian-Universalist Church of Princeton.

Early in 1961, the Reeds purchased their first home in one of Morris Milgram’s planned communities called Glen Acres in West Windsor — a small cluster of suburban homes designed specifically to foster the integration of Black and white families. Marvin and Ingrid would go on to have two children, David and Liza. The family felt lucky to spend their childhood growing up in this special place and continue to maintain connections with their many Glenview Drive neighbors.

In 1974, the Reeds moved to Princeton Borough where their family could walk and bike to town and school. In 1984 then Mayor of Princeton Borough, Barbara Sigmund, asked Marvin to run for a seat on the Borough Council which he won. Following Sigmund’s death in 1990 Marvin became Mayor, a post he would hold for 13 years. He will be remembered for his contributions to dozens of public projects, local, regional, and State, as well as his management of the relationship between the Princeton community and Princeton University. His legacy lives on in many ways. Marvin led the effort to redevelop the Princeton Public Library, the Albert Hinds Plaza, adjacent retail spaces, and Spring Street parking garage.  In addition to town administration and policy development responsibilities, he enjoyed presiding over weddings and was proud to have married over 500 couples during his tenure! While Mayor, he served on the League of Municipalities Executive Committee and chaired its Cable Television Study. He was also appointed to the State’s Local Unit Alignment, Reorganization and Consolidation Commission (LUARCC) and served as President of Downtown New Jersey.

Following his years as Mayor, Marvin served as Chair of the Redevelopment Task Force of New Jersey Future, on the Princeton Planning Board, and took an integral role in the relocation of Princeton Hospital and the redevelopment of the hospital’s former location.

In 2018, Marvin and Ingrid were awarded the Leslie ‘Bud’ Vivian Award for Community Service by the Princeton Area Community Foundation honoring their combined lifetime of service to dozens of local, regional, and State level projects, committees, and organizations.

Throughout their adult lives Marvin and Ingrid maintained a strong interest in the arts and travel. They were enthusiastic supporters of the Princeton Symphony Orchestra, Princeton Opera Festival, and Arts Council. As followers of theatre, opera, and film, they often made these activities the focal point of their travel adventures around the world including memorable visits to Colmar, France, the American West, and regular visits to the island of St. John in the US Virgin Islands. In lieu of a traditional vacation home, they acquired a small apartment on the Upper West Side of Manhattan in partnership with good friends. This proved to be a magnet for family gatherings as well as providing a home base for their energetic interest in everything New York City.

Further details of Marvin’s life and contributions to the Princeton community can be found in the Princeton Personality profile from the November 7, 2007 issue of Town Topics and the August 2011 issue of Princeton Magazine with a story about his life and partnership with Ingrid.

Marvin is survived by Ingrid, his wife of 60 years, a son David Reed and his wife Nan of Orinda, California, and a daughter Liza O’Reilly and her husband Tom of Hingham, Massachusetts, as well as granddaughters Cecilia, Jacquelyn, and Agnes O’Reilly, and grandson Owen Reed.

To celebrate Marvin’s life, consider: a walk around downtown Princeton, a ride on the FreeB Marvin I or Marvin II, a visit to the Princeton Public Library, a stop at Hinds Plaza, or a donation to Princeton Community Housing (pchhomes.org) to honor Marvin’s commitment to affordable housing and helping people live a better life.

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Irwin Litt, M.D.

Irwin Litt, M.D., of Princeton, New Jersey, passed away in August of 2020 at the age of 83. Irv was born, raised, and educated in Philadelphia, attending South Philadelphia High School for Boys, and completing his undergraduate and medical training at Temple University. He interned in Brooklyn, New York, and was subsequently commissioned as a Captain in the United States Air Force, serving as a General Medical Officer. 

He returned to Temple University to complete his residency in radiology and a fellowship in interventional radiology, and soon after joined what is now the University Radiology Group in New Jersey. Irv practiced with this group for his entire career, specializing in mammography and dedicating himself to women’s health for decades. He mentored medical students and residents and worked tirelessly on behalf of his patients. He loved his profession.

Irv lived a full life with his wife of 57 years, Barbara. His three children and their spouses as well as eight grandchildren brought him much joy. He loved them all. In his free time, he was a music enthusiast with a passion for jazz, blues, classical music, and opera. He loved theater and visiting New York City, as well as travel, always with his trusty camera by his side. Irv was an avid reader of newspapers, magazines, medical journals, and books. For years he audited classes at Princeton University and later attended classes at the Senior Resource Center, and he enjoyed spending time with his friends in the Old Guard and 55 Plus social groups. 

Private funeral services were held due to COVID. Charitable contributions in Irv’s memory may be sent to The Jewish Center in Princeton (thejewishcenter.org) or Greenwood House (greenwoodhouse.org).

To send condolences to the family, visit orlandsmemorialchapel.com.

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Brigadier General Guy Keller Dean III

On October 11th 2020, loving husband, father of two, and grandfather of three, Brigadier General (Ret.) Guy Keller Dean III died at the age of 80. Guy was born in Princeton, NJ, in October of 1939 to Guy K. Dean, Jr. and Marion F. Dean. 

He spent his childhood in Plainsboro, NJ, and attended Princeton Country Day School through 1955. Guy then studied at Woodberry Forest School in Virginia, graduating in 1958. Guy went on to Rutgers University, where he rowed varsity crew, sang in the Glee Club, acted in the Queens Theater Guild, and enjoyed fraternity brotherhood at Delta Sigma Phi, graduating in 1962 with a Bachelor of Arts degree. 

After college, Guy enlisted in the U.S. Army, serving on active duty as a Special Agent with the Intelligence Corps at NATO Headquarters and in Paris, France. Guy transferred to the U.S. Army Reserves in 1966 while pursuing a career in banking over the next 30 years. Guy was commissioned as an Officer in the U.S. Army Reserves in March of 1968. Later, he graduated from the National Graduate Trust School at Northwestern University in 1974 and earned a Master of Arts in Business degree from Rider College in 1981.

Guy worked at various banks in New Jersey, becoming Vice President and Senior Trust Officer at PNC Bank at Palmer Square in Princeton, NJ. In 1993 Guy’s service with the Army Reserves ended and he transitioned to the New York State Guard where he reached the rank of Colonel. In 1995 Guy began a new civilian career as well, becoming a Certified Financial Planner and Certified Life Underwriter with MetLife Securities, where he worked for the following 25 years. In 2004 Guy Joined the Veteran Corps of Artillery State of New York, the state’s oldest military command, where he rose to the rank of Brigadier General in 2017 at the time of his retirement. Guy’s military decorations include the Legion of Merit, the Defense Meritorious Service Medal, the Meritorious Service Medal, the New York Conspicuous Service Medal, the New York Meritorious Service Medal, and numerous others. 

Throughout his 55 consecutive years of service in the armed forces and two careers in business, Guy volunteered on several boards, including the Princeton YMCA and Mercer Medical Center, was a founding member and treasurer of the Buck Hill Conservation Foundation, was President of the New Jersey Association of Financial and Insurance Advisors, and enjoyed membership in the Princeton Rotary Club and the Nassau Club of Princeton. Additionally he was active in many genealogical and patriotic organizations, serving as New Jersey chapter Vice President of the Society of the Cincinnati, President of the Military Society of the War of 1812, and he held leadership positions with many other organizations such as the Society of Colonial Wars, the Sons of the Revolution, the Baronial Order of the Magna Carta, and more.

Guy was a lover of history, classical and jazz music, Tiger and Scarlet Knight football, dog walks throughout the Princeton and Rocky Hill nature ways, and being active with Trinity Church Princeton.  He was especially fond of peaceful summers in Buck Hill Falls, PA.

Guy is survived by his wife of 50 years, Victoria; his daughter Wistar, son-in-law Andrew and granddaughter Elizabeth Wallace of Norwalk, CT; his son Andrew, daughter-in-law Ashleigh, grandson Aston and granddaughter Amelia Dean of Jacksonville, FL; his sister Marion and brother-in-law Peter Hall of Gloucester, VA; and his brother John Dean of Canyon Lake, TX. 

A private service with burial was held for immediate family on 17 October at Trinity Church, Princeton.  A larger memorial service will be planned for a later date. Donations in Guy’s name would be appreciated to the Buck Hill Conservation Foundation (buckhillconservation.org); Trinity Church, Princeton (trinityprinceton.org); or the Society of the Cincinnati (societyofthecincinnati.org).

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Daniel B. Rew

Daniel B. Rew, 60, died peacefully at home with his family in Bay Head, NJ, on October 12, 2020. He spent the last year with family and friends, painting, baking, and walking in between treatments for colon cancer.

Dan was born on September 6, 1960 in Berkeley, CA, to Ella May Green Rew and David Robertson Rew. Ella and David met in California after growing up as children of missionaries in Kenya and the Belgian Congo respectively, a unique perspective on life that Dan found invaluable. They raised Dan and his siblings Ritch and Sherry around the world, moving between California, Paris, Texas, and Connecticut. In 1982 Dan graduated with a Bachelors in Environmental Science at Texas A&M and set off for New York City to attend the Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies.

He met the love of his life over a drafting table at the University of Virginia where he then graduated with a Master of Architecture in 1987. Dan and Pam were married at the Bay Head Yacht Club on September 26, 1987.

Dan believed in books. He treated himself, family, and friends to books at every opportunity. He believed in lines and never forgetting his sketchbook. He loved towers and careful details. He could hold whole buildings in his mind, turning them over to make them better, more responsible, more comfortable. And always simpler. He believed in starting a project by reading a book and starting the day with a long breakfast. He believed in running a quick six miles to let himself think. He believed in not trying to be perfect.

He composed his complex buildings with trace paper and careful models. Over his career, he received countless AIA design awards, leading several carbon-neutral and sustainable research facilities, laboratories, and an emerging technology and innovation center. He was proud to become a partner at CUH2A and eventually a Design Director and Vice President of Sustainability at HDR Architecture. His projects were located across the world and included infectious disease research, a library and a residence for students at the Cape Eleuthera Institute, and a tiny playhouse for his three daughters.

Dan spent his time running dozens of marathons, playing weeknight basketball at the neighborhood park, and watching his girls in countless sailing regattas. He rarely missed a Texas A&M football game, loved racing his brothers-in-law to the top of Stratton Mountain, and made his mother’s lace cookies every Christmas.

Dan and Pam raised their three daughters in Princeton to be confident and curious about the world. He adored them with passion and pride, his only regret was leaving them too soon. He is survived by his wife of 33 years, Pamela Lucas Rew of Bay Head, NJ, and their three daughters: Margaret Rew of Washington, DC, her husband Owen Weinstein; Jane Rew Buckley of New York City, her husband Mike Buckley; and Julia Rew of New York City. To add to those riches Pam and Dan spent the last ten months doting over their first grandchild, Kailie Ella Buckley. He will be greatly missed by his brother, Ritch Rew, and sister, Sherry Nunez, their families; and his many beloved in-laws, out-laws, running buddies, colleagues, and friends. We are indebted to Memorial Sloan Kettering’s many years of research that informed the thoughtful care and chemo regimens that kept Dan comfortable over the past year.

Father Dowd, a family friend who married Pam and Dan, will be holding a private family service this week. The Rew girls will travel this spring to spread his ashes in the places he loved the most. Once it is safe for a larger gathering, Dan asked that we host a celebration of his life with his community of friends and colleagues. If you would like to attend this event, please contact the family at remembering.dan.rew@gmail.com.

We have established a memorial fund at the University of Virginia School of Architecture in Dan’s name. You can make a contribution at givenext100.com, or by mailing a check to: School of Architecture Foundation, Campbell Hall P.O. Box 400122, Charlottesville, VA 22904. Indicate in special instructions “For Dan Rew Memorial Fund.” Our hope is that these funds will support students as they too create a library which will enrich their study and passion for architecture.

Thank you to our family — loud and loyal fans of Dan. Thank you to the many, many people who have reached out with stories and condolences.

October 14, 2020

Obituaries 10/14/2020

Dr. Stephanie K. Chorney

Dr. Stephanie K. Chorney died peacefully in Princeton, NJ, on September 29, 2020, at age 50. She is the daughter of Don Chorney and the late Doris Chorney. Stephanie leaves her legacy to her husband Orlando, son Julian, father, sister Alison Yowell, as well as extended family, friends, and colleagues.

Stephanie was a graduate of Rutgers University and Temple Medical School. She was a licensed pediatrician, with her last position being at Penn Medicine Princeton Health Hospital, where she worked on the pediatric floor.

Stephanie was a strong advocate for the arts, health, education, equality, sustainability, and Jewish community efforts. From being the co-chair of the Princeton Environmental Commission to encouraging the Princeton Public Schools to concentrate on healthy meals, to placing separate trash and recycle containers dispersed throughout the town, she made her mark. To honor her for significantly contributing to the community, Princeton Township declared May 26, 2020 Dr. Stephanie Chorney Day. She was a wonderful wife, mother, daughter, sister, aunt, and friend to everyone. Stephanie led by example that coordination, collaboration, and communication help us unite together. Her resilience inspired others as she fearlessly stood up for what she believed in and gave tireless effort to aid many. Stephanie was a beautiful person inside and out with a heart of gold and will be missed by all. We love you, Stephanie, and you will always be remembered and never forgotten.

In lieu of flowers, contributions can be made towards https://www.stephaniechorney.org/how-to-donate-instructions.

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Alvin Gordon

Alvin Gordon, most recently residing with his wife Felice Gordon at Windrows senior community, died at home at the age of 91 on September 28. He and Felice previously resided at 48 Woods Way in Princeton for 48 years and moved to Windrows in 2018. Prior to 1970, they lived in East Brunswick. Their younger children, Joel and Neil, both attended Princeton High School. Mark, their oldest child (deceased in 2018), attended East Brunswick High School.

Alvin was born on April 11, 1929 to Bernard and Mary Gordon in New York City. His sister Ginger, who lives in Teaneck with her husband Jim, was his only sibling. He attended Stuyvesant High School in Manhattan. He subsequently attended Queens College, and then transferred to the City College of New York. He earned his degree in civil engineering, graduating from CCNY with honors.

Alvin and Felice married in 1952. They lived in Queens for two years and then moved to East Brunswick, where he met his future business partner Sanford Nacht. Together, they founded Alsan Masons, a masonry and concrete firm, which experienced a decade of growth and success during the 1960s. Alvin and Sandy transitioned Alsan into commercial real estate development during the 1970s.

He took a break from business in 1979, and then served a two-year term as the president of the Princeton Jewish Center. In 1982, he created Gordon Construction, which was focused on building renovation projects in New York City. The company was successful, and as it grew, Alvin invited his previous partner Sandy to join him. Felice joined Gordon Construction as the director of marketing in the late 1980s. The company continued to operate until the mid 1990s, when Alvin and Felice decided to retire.

Alvin and Felice enjoyed traveling abroad and in the United States. They also loved folk dancing and playing on their tennis court that they had built at their Princeton residence, where Alvin also played with his friends. Alvin and Felice enjoyed listening to classical music and Broadway show tunes. They attended performances at the Metropolitan Opera in New York, the New York City Ballet, and other venues including McCarter Theatre in Princeton. At the age of 44, Alvin successfully undertook the challenge of climbing with a group expedition to the summit of Grand Teton mountain in Wyoming. He and Felice also enjoyed participating in a book club in their later years.

Alvin is survived by his wife Felice and by his sons Joel and Neil. In addition, he is also survived by his daughters-in-law Patricia Gordon and Anna Pegler Gordon, as well as his grandchildren Bernard, Rebecca, Dora, Eli, and Talia Gordon, Maya and Naomi Pegler-Gordon, and four great-grandchildren. He is also survived by his sister Ginger and her husband Jim, as well as Ginger’s three sons Jeremy, David, and Benjamin.

Memorial contributions may be sent to the Jewish Center of Princeton.

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Frances Young Goeke

Frances Young Goeke, 78, of Lawrenceville, passed away peacefully on Thursday, October 8th. 

She was born on May 17, 1942 in Trenton, NJ; daughter of the late Frank and Mildred Young. She is survived by her loving husband of 59 years, Noel; a brother and his wife, George and Connie Young of Ewing Twp., NJ; sister-in-law, Wilma Goeke of Virginia; two nieces, Lorraine Ellerth and her husband Dan, Georgette Jung and her husband Tom; one nephew, Alan Goeke and his wife Lynn; and her great-nieces and nephews, Andrew, Jocelyn, Jackson, Jimmy, Shelby, Maxwell, and Daniella.

Frances attended Sacred Heart School and graduated from Cathedral High School in 1960. She started work for the State of NJ in 1960 and retired as a Principle Administrative Assistant to the Attorney General in 1999 after 39 years of service.    

Frances married her handsome childhood sweetheart, Noel, on September 23, 1961. They spent 59 loving years as the very best of friends. They enjoyed cruises, traveling around the U.S. and Caribbean, and her favorite vacation spot Hilton Head, SC. When they weren’t traveling, they enjoyed going to Flyers hockey games, the local theatre, dining out, and relaxing by their pool.

One of her true passions was Genealogy. She was active in the Central Jersey Genealogy Society. She published their newsletter, and took several research trips all over the U.S. and one to England with her husband and parents. Over several years she worked on her own, and assisted others in their family ancestry. 

“Aunt Fran” to many, she will be remembered for her devotion to her family and friends. Whether it be a Girl Scout patch, a school play, a religious event, a soccer or basketball game, she was always the first in line to help and support the people she loved. She had a special bond with her niece Daniella, whom she babysat from birth; she never missed a basketball game and always wore her team colors.

Funeral services have been completed under the coordination of Blackwell Memorial Home, 21 N. Main Street, Pennington, NJ. www.blackwellmh.com.

In lieu of flowers, please consider a donation to the Dementia Society of America, PO Box 600, Doylestown, PA 18901. www.dementiasociety.org.

October 7, 2020

Obituaries 10/7/2020

Roy “Murf” Higgins

It is with broken hearts that our family announces the passing of Roy “Murf” Higgins. Murf died peacefully on October 1, 2020. He was 87.

Born at home on June 11, 1933 to the late Leroy and Florence Higgins, Murf has been a lifelong resident of Belle Mead. When he was six years old, his family moved to Overbrook Oaks on Mountain View Road, where he proudly remained for the last 81 years.

Murf attended Somerville High School where he met the love of his life, Carol Amerman. After high school, he attended Lehigh University graduating in 1956 with a BS in Business. He and Carol married in 1959 and spent 61 years happily building their family and being active in their community.  

Murf was the President and owner of the Belle Mead Garage his entire life. Having won Chrysler’s highest recognition for customer service for 30+ years, Murf was truly recognized as one of Lee Iacocca’s “Good Guys.”

Known for his love of Belle Mead, Murf was active in the community. He served as Deacon and Elder at the Harlingen Reformed Church; he was a member of Belle Mead Rotary; he was on the Advisory Board of the First National Bank of Central NJ; he served as treasurer during his tenure on the Harlingen Cemetery Association; was a member of the board of directors for the Belle Mead Co-op; and he was a former member of Montgomery Volunteer Fire Department #1.

In his spare time, Murf loved caring for his sheep and cows on the farm, sitting on the deck looking out at Lake Champlain with Carol at their camp in Vermont, and taking his kids and grandkids out to dinner, always insisting on paying the bill.

He is predeceased by his sister Barbara McLachlan who passed away in 1998. Surviving Murf is his devoted and loving wife, Carol; sons Jon (and wife Tracy), Christopher (and wife Becky), daughters Amy, and Bonnie (and husband Tom Sullivan); six grandchildren, Christopher, Michael, Joseph, Jessica, Ryan, and Benjamin; one great-grandchild, Nicholas; and nephew Morgan McLachlan III and niece Leigh McLachlan.

Graveside services were on Monday, October 5, 2020 at the Harlingen Reformed Church Cemetery, Route 206 in Montgomery. 

In lieu of flowers, donations can be made “in memory of Roy Higgins” to the New Jersey Farm Bureau, 168 West State Street, Trenton, NJ 08608 or to the National Multiple Sclerosis Society, directed to the COVID Relief Fund, 1480 US Highway 9 North, Suite 301, Woodbridge, NJ 07095.

To send condolences to the family, please visit brucecvanarsdalefuneralhome.com.

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Leon Joseph Christen

On September 16, 2020, Leon Joseph Christen, loving husband and father of three, passed away at the age of 93.

Leon was born in Princeton, New Jersey to Joseph and Marie Louise Christen. He enlisted in the Navy in April, 1945 and served in the Naval Amphibious Forces in the South Pacific. Upon return from the military, he matriculated at Princeton University where he graduated cum laude in 1949 with a B.S. in engineering and went on to receive his M.B.A. from Columbia University in 1952. He married Rosemarie Simone in 1953. After starting his career in New York City, they moved to Canada where Leon worked for an international insurance brokerage firm.

In 1960, they returned to Princeton and Leon took over the family business, Lahiere’s Restaurant. Lahiere’s was a Princeton institution and family run for 91 years. Among its many accolades was the prestigious Wine Spectator Grand Award. Leon built the restaurant into an iconic gathering place for generations of Princeton families, students, faculty members, and the occasional celebrity. He delighted in sharing his love of food and wine not only with his family, but with everyone he met.

Upon retirement, Leon and Rosemarie moved full time to their beloved home in Mantoloking. There, Leon enjoyed boating, fishing, model ship building and, of course, great food and wine. He will always be remembered as a loving husband, father, and grandfather with a great sense of humor and a silly joke to tell. He is survived by Rosemarie, his wife of 67 years, his children, Caroline Boucher and husband Peter of Edwards, Colorado, Michele Antoniewicz and husband Ron of Jupiter, Florida, and Joseph Christen and wife Jill of Princeton, New Jersey, and four grandchildren.

A memorial service will take place at a future date. Memorial contributions may be made to Wall Township First Aid and Rescue Squad, PO Box 1105, Wall Township, NJ 07719. Arrangements are under the direction of Mather-Hodge Funeral Home, Princeton.

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Anita M. Tocco

Anita M. Tocco (Nina) 61, of Columbus, NJ, passed away on Monday, April 20, 2020 after losing her five month battle with cancer, surrounded by her two loving friends Barbara and Kim.

Born in Princeton, Nina attended Stuart Country Day School and graduated from Princeton High School. Early in Nina’s life it was apparent that Nina had a great talent for music. She could play multiple instruments, but it was the piano that took Nina to another level. Growing up Nina pursued her passion, winning many awards and accolades from her competitions. At first, she pursued music at Trenton State College but after the tragic loss of her beloved father, Nina lost that passion to perform and put aside that part of her life.

She became a rural carrier for the U.S. Postal Service of Princeton and Wrightstown where she also became involved as a state steward in the Union which took her around the country for various meetings and other duties. She also was part of a pilot program designed for training and promoting the Postal Service for which she received awards in excellence prior to her retirement with 35 years of service.

Besides music, Nina was a lover of sports and played basketball, soccer and softball in school and leisure, always with a competitive edge. In her later years she liked gardening, dining out with friends and traveling. This was usually to warm climates with beaches. Nina had a generous nature that extended itself to her love of cats. As a crazy cat lady she had up to six cats at a time periodically, leaving behind three of her beloved felines. And known only to a few she had a beautiful singing voice.

She is predeceased by her parents Santo and Anne (Fiumenero) Tocco and survived by three brothers Ronald (Karen), Santo, and John Tocco and also two nephews, Michael and Jonathan, plus decades of friends.

She has been cremated and a memorial service will take place on Thursday October 8, 2020 from 7-9 p.m. at Mather Hodge Funeral Home, 40 Vandeventer Avenue, Princeton, NJ 08540. Due to Covid restrictions it will be by invitation only; those interested call Kim at (609) 335-4251. Interment will be in Princeton Cemetery, 29 Greenview Avenue, Princeton, NJ 08540 on October 9, 2020 at 10 a.m.

In lieu of flowers, contributions can be made to local shelters, animal rescues, or the ASPCA.

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Martha Hinman Vaughn

Martha H. Vaughn, 85, died peacefully Monday morning, September 28th, at her home, surrounded by family.

Photographer, world traveler, volunteer, singer, and sportswoman — Martha had many passions and avocations. She was a devoted wife, mother, and grandmother. Those who knew Martha were always happy to be in her orbit — and she in theirs.

Born and raised in Binghamton, NY, to Barbara and George Hinman, a longtime political advisor to Nelson Rockefeller, Martha graduated from Dana Hall School in Wellesley, MA, and Wheaton College in Norton, MA. 

She met the love of her life in her early 20s while working in New York City for Mutual of New York and Readers Digest, catching a ride with him to the slopes of Vermont. In 1958 she married George “Arky” Vaughn III, an engineer from Staten Island, NY, working with Alcoa Inc. The newlyweds moved in 1959 to the Philadelphia Main Line, where she was a member of the Junior League of Philadelphia and stayed busy as a young mother.

Martha and Arky moved to Princeton in 1965 where they raised their three daughters, Barbara, Susan, and Phoebe. Martha immersed herself in the community, volunteering with many local and regional organizations including McCarter Theatre, The Friends of the Princeton University Art Museum, Arts Council of Princeton, Princeton Symphony Orchestra, Princeton Hospital, NJ Neuropsychiatric Institute, Planned Parenthood, and others. She served for many years on the boards of Princeton Symphony Orchestra, The Friends of the Princeton University Art Museum, and McCarter Theatre.

Indefatigable, Martha had a zest for life and seized every opportunity to spend time with her family and large circle of friends. She was a creative and prolific hostess. Wanderlust was in her veins: Martha planned and took trips to exotic destinations across Europe, Africa, Asia, and the Pacific, as well as Bermuda, where the Vaughn’s bought a house in 1978. Bermuda became a beloved second home for them.

Travel sparked Martha’s creativity, and, in her mid-life, she embarked on a career as a fine art photographer, which gave her much joy and fulfillment. She had a keen eye for color, light, and abstraction and found inspiration on her many trips overseas. Her work was exhibited in many venues including the NJ State Museum, the National Arts Club (NYC), the Bermuda National Gallery, and the Masterworks Foundation (Bermuda). She published a book of her photographs, Of Time and Place, in 2013.

Martha, along with Arky, also found great joy in singing, which was part of her life from early on. Martha was founder of the Witherspooners, a singing group that performed in Princeton in the late 1960s and early 1970s that performed in regional a cappella gatherings up and down the East Coast.

Other pursuits and passions included sports (tennis, golf, skiing), politics (member of the Off the Record Lecture Series of The Foreign Policy Association, NY), gardening, and membership at a variety of clubs in Princeton, Bermuda, and New York City.

Martha is survived by her husband, George, and three daughters, Barbara Vaughn Hoimes of San Francisco and New York City, Susan Vaughn (O’Brien) of Los Angeles, and Phoebe Outerbridge of Pennington, NJ, and their husbands; six grandchildren: Alexander Hoimes, Bailey and Whitney Outerbridge, and Owen, Lucie, and Finn O’Brien; a sister, Virginia Hinman Cummings along with her husband Dr. Harland Cummings, and brother, Harvey Hinman along with his wife Peggy Hinman; and many nieces and nephews. She is predeceased by her sister Constance Getz.

A private family service took place at her home; a virtual remembrance for friends and family will be held at a later date. In lieu of flowers the family requests that any gifts in Martha’s honor be made to HomeFront and Planned Parenthood of Central and Greater Northern NJ.

September 30, 2020

Obituaries 9/30/2020

Kevin T. Delaney

Kevin T. Delaney, 76, died on Saturday, September 26, 2020 with his loving family at his side. Affectionately known as Sir and Darts he was born in Princeton, NJ, living there for over 50 years before moving to Lawrence Township in 1997.

A 1963 graduate of Princeton High School he was employed in the Tin Shop at Princeton University, having just celebrated 45 years of service. He was a 52-year member and past President of Princeton Engine Company #1 volunteer fire department and a member of the fire police, and the Knights of Columbus #7000.

Son of the late John F. Delaney and Ann P. Smith, son-in-law of the late Thomas J. Procaccino, brother-in-law of the late Francis S (Booper) Davison Jr., he is survived by his wife of 30 years, Maria Procaccino Delaney; their daughter Bridget C.; his mother-in-law Mary Agnes Procaccino; sisters-in-law Ann P. Davison and Claire F. Allen (Ronald); his nieces and nephews Sara, Ryan, and Scott Davison, Melissa Wiltsey (Craig), Emily Allen (Jason Kok), and Kyle Allen; great-nephew Oliver Wiltsey; and many friends, cousins, and wonderful neighbors. He was a wonderful cat Dad to Lightning, Tuna, and Queenie.

The family would like to thank Princeton Hospice, especially Liz, Heather, and Marie.

Mass of the Christian Burial will be 10:30 a.m. on Wednesday, September 30, 2020 at St Paul’s Church, 216 Nassau Street, Princeton and all are invited to attend.

A memorial will be held at a later date when we can give him a proper send off.

In lieu of flowers, the family respectfully requests that memorial contributions may be made to Christine’s Hope for Kids or Princeton Hospice.

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Robert Fomalont M.D.

Robert Fomalont M.D., of Cranbury, New Jersey, passed away peacefully at his home surrounded by his family on September 27, 2020 due to complications from Parkinson’s disease. He was 85.

Born in Philadelphia to Celia and Jack Fomalont, Bob (often referred to as Rob) grew up in West Philadelphia and graduated with friendships that lasted a lifetime from West Philadelphia High School in 1952. He completed undergraduate studies at Temple University in 1956. After receiving his medical degree from Hahnemann Medical College in 1960, he was commissioned in the United States Navy where he served in the Medical Corps as a Lieutenant.  

Following his service, Dr. Fomalont was a founding physician of Princeton-Nassau Pediatrics in Princeton, NJ. He remained with this growing medical practice his entire career, caring first for thousands of children and then for their children a generation later. He was loved by his patients and their parents — sharing a smile, or a joke, and often wearing a brightly colored tie that told the kids he was there for them. Dr. Fomalont became a pioneer in the emerging specialties of Attention Deficit Disorder and learning disabilities and helped countless children address these previously unmet medical needs. In 2004 he retired to a new home in Cranbury, NJ.

Dr. Fomalont lived a full life filled with love together with his wife and high school sweetheart, Bobbi (nee Narish), until she predeceased him in 2016. They traveled to Africa, went on cruises, and thought Paris was the most romantic city in the world. You could often find them enjoying a fine meal and a Broadway show, opera, or ballet in NYC, or dining in and around Princeton before attending a performance at the McCarter Theatre. Being an avid reader, his home was filled with stacks of newspapers, magazines, medical journals, and books of all genres. Dr. Fomalont was also involved with CWW and The Old Guard of Princeton, NJ, for many years. For decades after retiring, Dr. Fomalont was often approached in public venues by former patients, friends, and acquaintances who were thrilled to see him and to remember and thank him for how he had cared for them.

Dr. Fomalont thrived being surrounded by family. After marrying Bobbi in 1975, their blended family included eight children; Michael Fomalont, Joel Fomalont, Susan (Tom) Fomalont Sloan, Bud (Sindey) Dranoff, Sue Sabogal, Dede (Peter) Horowicz, Lisa (Michael) Connors, and Judi (Harvey) Malove. Along with their spouses and 14 grandchildren and four great-grandchildren, Dr. Fomalont’s “immediate” family included 35 people.

He will be greatly missed. Due to Covid-19 considerations, services are private. Charitable donations in the memory of Dr. Fomalont are requested to be sent to McCarter Theatre Center (mccarter.org/donate).

To send condolences to the family, visit orlandsmemorialchapel.com.

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Elaine L. Gulick

Elaine L. Gulick, 95, of Skillman passed away peacefully at home on September 26, 2020. She was born in Plainfield, NJ, and was the daughter of Berta Randolph Millar Loizeaux and Senator Charles Edward Loizeaux. She attended the Hartridge School and graduated from The National Cathedral School in Washington, D.C., then attended the Barmore School in New York City.

In 1948 she married Alfred William Green, who joined the law firm of Carlson Wilhelm and Cook in New York City. A few years later he opened his own law firm in NYC. Mr. Green was a graduate of Princeton University and The Harvard Law School. During WWII he was captain of a motor torpedo boat and later served in the OSS. They lived in the Plainfield area for 20 years and had two children, Cynthia and Harold. Mr. Green died at the age of 49 in 1971.

In 1976 Elaine married Jack Gulick from Princeton, moved there in 1978, building a house on Nelson Ridge Road where they lived for 35 years.

Elaine was a member of the Plainfield Junior League and The Plainfield Country Club. She and Jack were members of The Mantoloking Yacht Club, Hilton Head Golf Club, Bedens Brook Club, and The Nassau Club. Elaine was also a member of The Present Day Club and The Jamestown Society. Her direct ancestor was John Rolfe and Pocahontas, who were the first settlers in Jamestown, VA, in 1608. 

Elaine loved to entertain. She did it well and her many friends enjoyed her efforts. Her other passion was travel. She and Mr. Green extensively toured the Far East as well as India, Iran, Nepal, Indonesia, Hong Kong, Turkey and Africa. With Jack she often traveled to Europe as well as Norway, Sweden, Russia, and England. In the later years they enjoyed traveling by ship — twice around South America, South Pacific Islands, Australia, New Zealand, Panama Canal, and the Mediterranean. She visited more than 145 countries.

For many years Elaine played and loved tennis before transitioning to golf, so she and Jack could enjoy the sport together. They played many courses in Ireland and Hawaii but loved the Bedens Brook course. 

She is survived by her daughter, Cynthia, and her husband, John Wappel of Flemington, and her son, Harold Chamberlain Green of Monkton, MD. She had four grandchildren: Whitney Trif and her husband Greg living in Mendham, NJ; Jonathan R. Wappel and his wife, Edyta, from Delaware Township; William Green and Charlotte Green from Reistertown, MD. She also has two great grandchildren, Scarlett and Wesley.

Due to Covid-19 restrictions, the Memorial Service at the Trinity Church, Princeton, will be private.

Arrangements are under the direction of the Mather-Hodge Funeral Home, Princeton.

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Sophia Hugel Zaininger

Sophia Hugel Zaininger took her last breath on September 24, 2020. Born in 1929 in Galicia, Poland, before the outbreak of WWII, Sophia lived her earliest years in a patriotic Ukrainian family.

In 1944, as the Soviet army approached her hometown L’viv for the second time, Sophia’s widowed mother took her young daughter and two younger sons and fled. Fate would lead them to southern Germany, where Sophia continued her studies in the schools organized by the displaced Ukrainian diaspora. Being more interested in socializing than in mathematics, she was introduced by a friend to a handsome young Bavarian, who would finish her diagrams of conical sections, allowing her to complete her Abitur. One thing led to another and a year after Sophia and her family had immigrated to NYC, Karl joined her there.

Their partnership lasted another 69 years, until Karl’s passing in 2018. Together, as they built Karl’s career as a research scientist and professor, raised a family, built houses, collected art, supported Ukrainian causes, and traveled the world, their home was always filled with friends from around the globe. Sophia’s ability to make any visitor feel welcome was next to none. Her bountiful dinner tables were populated with visitors from all walks of life, including scientists, professors, business leaders, international exchange students, and even the neediest of immigrants, always bustling with conversation and storytelling. Sophia’s exquisite entertaining and culinary skills left guests spiritually and physically nourished.

Sadly, Sophia struggled in the final decade of her life, especially following the painful and far too early demise of her youngest son from brain cancer. Though diminished during these years by dementia and back pain, which slowly eroded her true essence and joie de vivre, there were moments, even toward the end, when her zest for life bubbled up to produce a smile on her face and a twinkle in her eye, evoking former times.

Beyond all else, Sophia was devoted to her husband, children, and grandchildren, whom she loved with fervor. Predeceased by her son Mark and husband Karl, Sophia is survived by daughter Lydia; son Alexander with wife Amely and children Paula, Augustin, and Louisa; and Mark’s wife Leslie with children Charlotte and Luke.

A memorial service will be held when gathering and travel are again permitted. The family welcomes any donations in honor of Sophia and Karl and asks that they be directed to the Ukrainian Museum or Ukrainian Institute in NYC.

September 23, 2020

Obituaries 9/23/2020

Julian Tao Knipper

It is with great sorrow that we announce the August 31, 2020 death of our beloved Julian. Julian Tao Knipper died of a tragic accident on his family farm in Crampagna, France. He was born on April 29, 2017 to parents Jonathan Knipper and Eugénie Baudon. His family, on the farm and in the States, was large and loving. Living next door to his grandparents Papé and Mamie, he would excuse himself from the dinner table and run next door for the chance of enjoying a second dinner and to sit and read comic books with Papé at their table.

Julian was smart. From walks around the farm with his Papé he learned the names of all the plants and grasses – with a keen eye for his favorite, edible champignons. With his Mamie he would eat all the strawberries, raspberries, raw green peppers, and edible flowers. He peered into the stars and the universe with his mom on his bedroom balcony wrapped in a blanket at night. He loved helping his dad on the farm, riding together in his tractor and feeding the cows. He was very proud that he could speak both English and French with his parents and would take joy in testing his teachers at the Creche (Nursery School) on how well they knew English!

Julian also had a love for music and knew Bach, Vivaldi, and Beethoven, whom he preferred to Tchaikovsky, but also listened, on repeat, “Despacito” and most recently “Paw Patrol.” He was curious about everything, open, and loved meeting new people. He showed us that if we didn’t impose adult limitations on a child’s speech, it was possible for him to give us insight into life’s most complicated questions.

Even separated by the Atlantic and with no travel possible due to COVID, he loved his father’s parents and would look forward to their video calls, enjoying puppet shows, reading books, and sharing laughter and love. For indeed, Julian was loving, kind, and gentle to everyone in his life — but especially to his younger sister, Bloom, who just turned one. One of his first English phrases he used regularly with his family was “I love you so much, forever time.”

Julian leaves behind his parents and sister; his maternal grandparents, Doris Leuenberger and Sylvain Baudon of Crampagna, France; his paternal grandparents, James and Teresa Knipper of Washington Crossing, PA, and Barbara Beaumont and George Newton of Somerset, NJ; and many aunts, uncles, and cousins. A private family funeral service celebrating his life, his light, and his love was held in France.

The family has established the Julian Knipper Memorial Fund at the University of Virginia Children’s Hospital, which will go to supporting their Child Life Services for their pediatric patients with cancer and/or bone marrow transplantation and thus ease the pain and suffering of many children for years to come. To make a donation to his fund please go to: http://get-involved.uvahealth.com/goto/Julian.

For more information about Julian’s life and/or to leave a message for the family please visit: https://www.forevermissed.com/julian-tao-knipper/about.

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Richard A. Ragsdale

Richard A. Ragsdale (Dick), 77, of Skillman died Thursday, September 10, 2020 at Penn Medicine Princeton Medical Center of Plainsboro. Born in Vancouver, Washington, he grew up in Medford, Oregon, and resided most of his life in Skillman.

Dick received his undergraduate degree from Stanford University where he was captain of the football team and was selected to play in the East-West Shrine Bowl. He subsequently attended Hong Kong University for a year on a Rotary International scholarship. Dick received his J.D. from Stanford Law School, during which time he also played rugby (he was later inducted into the Stanford Athletic Hall of Fame for rugby). He then served in the U.S. Army for three years before beginning his legal career.

Dick was a partner at the law firm of Davidson, Sochor, Ragsdale and Cohen, LLC, located in Skillman and Elmwood Park. His practice focused on commercial litigation, real estate, commercial transactions, and First Amendment law. He was named one of the top First Amendment lawyers in New Jersey in The Best Lawyers in America. Dick was also a member and past president of the Montgomery-Rocky Hill Rotary Club.

Son of the late Lee Verdell Ragsdale and Elizabeth (Crow) Ragsdale, he is survived by his wife of 50 years Cathi (Artandi) Ragsdale; two sons and two daughters-in-law — David and Jennifer Ragsdale of Wilmington, MA, and Daniel and Amy Ragsdale of Brooklyn, NY; a sister, Dana Kramer of Medford, OR; and four grandchildren — Eleanor, Vivian, Catherine, and Charlie Ragsdale.

Funeral Arrangements are private under the direction of the Mather-Hodge Funeral Home.

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Rodney Allen Fisk

Rodney A. Fisk, 79 of Princeton, NJ, and New York City passed away on September 9, 2020 at Calvary Hospital in the Bronx after battling brain cancer.

He was born in Birmingham, Michigan. He graduated as valedictorian from Detroit Country Day School. Rodney attended the University of Vermont where he was ranked third in his class before transferring as a junior to the University of Michigan. He majored in transportation economics at University of Michigan, graduating with deans list honors and a commission in the Army Ordnance Corps. Rodney entered into active duty in the Army achieving rank of captain. He served three years in Germany commanding the Third Armored Division (Spearhead). He learned German well enough to serve as battalion interpreter. Shortly after being released from active duty he taught middle school in the inner city of Detroit. After his job as a teacher he was quickly promoted to an assistant divisional manager of the country’s fifth largest department store J. L. Hudson Company.

Rodney entered into Harvard Business School where he received his MBA in 1969. After Harvard, he went on to join Trans World Airlines in New York full time. At TWA he moved up over the years to head the Internal Consulting Group and Management Appraisal and Arbitration. Rodney used to take day trips to surrounding areas outside of New York City. On one of those trips he discovered Princeton and became enamored of this small university town in New Jersey. He relocated to the Witherspoon-Jackson Neighborhood where he and his partner Karl renovated two houses, one of which was a Sears Roebuck Kit Home. After over ten years at TWA, he went on to tend to his investment properties in Princeton.

Rodney went on to work for National Interurban Consortium from 1980-1999. He headed a group of companies (Siemens Transportation, GE Signal, RJ Corman Railroad Construction) to operate some 50 miles of commuter-rail service in the greater Philadelphia area. Rodney then went on to work for Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage from 1999-2004. He was number one in buyer-controlled sales by his second year with the company. Rodney was also a U.S. Census Bureau Field Representative in 2008 and Enumerator (assistant coordinator) in 2010.

Rodney was a Princeton Borough Councilman from 1987-1989 who had worked with airlines and other transportation ventures. He advocated for privatizing the “Dinky” (the short line railroad between Princeton and Princeton Junction for service to New York City). His efforts gained extensive media coverage both locally and nationally.

He was a member of many originations including Mensa, Rotary, American Ordinance Association, Harvard Club, and Metropolitan Association of Railroad Superintendents. Rodney was also a member of the Tri-State Weimaraner Rescue of NJ, DE, and PA. Rodney and Karl have had Weimaraners for over 30 years, getting their first puppy in 1976 and many more rescued Weimaraners have followed.   

Rodney is predeceased by his parents Fredrick Besancon Fisk and Margaret Barthel Fisk. He is survived by his loving partner of 45 years, Karl Lessig, three nieces, and his beloved dog Sara who is now in the loving care of his partner.

Arrangements are under the direction of the Mather-Hodge Funeral Home.

September 16, 2020

Obituaries 9/16/2020

Robert Harold Atkinson

Robert Harold Atkinson, age 89, passed from this life into Heaven on Friday, September 11, 2020, at home surrounded by his family. He is now with his Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.

He is survived by his loving family, his wife of 69 years, Verna (Raymond) Atkinson; two daughters, Denise Atkinson and Dezra Richmond and son-in-law Curt Richmond; granddaughter Tae Richmond-Moll and grandson-in-law Jeff Richmond-Moll; great-grandson Beck Richmond-Moll and great-granddaughter Willa Richmond-Moll; a sister Donna Hieshima; two brothers, Richard Atkinson (Bonnie) and Charlie Atkinson (Sharon) and sister-in-law Carolyn Tice; and many nieces and nephews.

Born in Mt. Holly, NJ, on July 14, 1931, and raised in Vincentown, he served in the United States Army in Korea, where he found his faith in Jesus. He worked in construction for more than half a century and pursued higher education in related fields at Rutgers (New Brunswick) and Rider College. His career – including as Project Manager for Marriott Corporation and the New York State Thruway – allowed him to travel throughout the United States, from Maine to Hawaii, and many endeavors in between.

Bob and Verna built their house in Lumberton together and lived there for 55 years until they moved to Princeton in 2012. Throughout their marriage they enjoyed serving in their local church as long-standing members of Shawnee Baptist and most recently Stone Hill Church of Princeton.

His spirit of generosity made him quick to help and support others. Bob was a gentle, humble man, a true “Barnabas,” a son of encouragement and comfort. He greeted everyone he met with the most genuine smile and would almost daily say, “Thank you Lord for everything.”

Always the adventurer, he rode motorcycles most of his life, only parting with his Gold Wing bike when he was 80 years old. He picked up downhill skiing in his forties and learned to fly a plane in his seventies.

He was loved dearly by his family and friends and will be missed tremendously.

His favorite Bible verse was John 3:16, “For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.”

A service honoring his life will take place at Stone Hill Church of Princeton, after the lifting of COVID restrictions. There will be a private ceremony at Princeton Cemetery on Friday, September 18, 2020.

In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to America’s Keswick (https://americaskeswick.org/support/) and/or  Princeton Medical Center Hospice Care (https://www.princetonhcs.org/care-services/princeton-homecare/what-we-do/hospice-program).

Arrangements are under the direction of Mather-Hodge Funeral Home, Princeton.

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John Suydam Kuhlthau

John S. Kuhlthau, a retired Judge of the Superior Court of New Jersey, passed away on September 4, 2020.

Born in New Brunswick, May 16, 1937 he spent his early life in Milltown in the New Brunswick area. He attended Rutgers Preparatory School, graduated from Princeton University in 1958, and from Rutgers University Law School in 1962. He married Carol Collier Kuhlthau and they raised three daughters joyfully together in North Brunswick. After retirement he and Carol moved to Princeton, NJ, in 1999 and made that community their home. He was a wonderful husband and father with a generous heart and spirit. He was quick with a warm smile and beloved by the many lives that he touched in each community where he lived and served.

John earned his J.D. at Rutgers University Law School and served as Public Defender and as Middlesex County Prosecutor prior to his appointment in 1976 to the bench as a Judge of the Superior Court of New Jersey sitting in Middlesex County. He retired from the bench in 1997 after many years of public service.

He was a lifelong member of the United Methodist Church, trained at Drew Theological Seminary, and demonstrated his faith in his actions throughout his life. In his retirement he devoted his efforts to numerous charitable causes. He supported community programs at Turning Point United Methodist Church in Trenton. He established scholarships for minority students at the Pennington School. He was a founding member of the Board of the Petey Greene Prisoner Assistance Program at Princeton University. He founded the John Suydam Kuhlthau Bioethics Conference at the New Brunswick Theological Seminary which has convened annually since 1997 to explore ethical and spiritual issues in medicine especially for end of life.

He is survived by Carol, his wife of 62 years, his daughter Eleanor Molloy and her husband Christopher, and their children Emma, Jack, and Owen; his daughter Ann Caspari and her children Elizabeth and Charles; and his daughter Leslie Maniotes and her husband Bill and their daughter Lily; and his brother Kearney Kuhlthau and sister-in-law Carolyn Kuhlthau. A private funeral was held at The Elmwood Cemetery in North Brunswick. Funeral arrangements are under the direction of Quackenboss Funeral Home, New Brunswick. A memorial service will be held in the future.

Memorial donations may be made to the John Suydam Kuhlthau Bioethics Conference at the New Brunswick Theological Seminary, Princeton United Methodist Church, or Petey Greene Prisoner Assistance Program at Princeton University.

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Luise Ella Heiba

Luise Ella Heiba, 92, passed away peacefully on Monday September 7, 2020.

She was born and raised in Leipzig, Germany. Prior to coming to the United States, she achieved her Abitur from Leipzig’s Fachshule fur Wirtschaft und Verwaltung.   She moved to Princeton in 1963, where along with her husband, El-Ahmadi Heiba, she raised her family.

Luise is survived by her three sons, Adel Heiba (Irvine, CA), Karem Heiba (Bridgewater, NJ), and Tarek Heiba (Yardley, PA), their wives, eight grandchildren, and two great-grandchildren.

Funeral services and interment will be private.

Extend condolences and share memories at TheKimbleFuneralHome.com.

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John Lowell Johnson

John Lowell Johnson died peacefully on September 6, 2020. John was born on March 18, 1926 in Butte, Montana. He graduated from Butte High School in 1943, received a BS in Engineering Physics at Montana State College (now Montana State University) in 1949, an MS in Physics in 1950 and a PhD in Physics in 1954 from Yale University.

His college education was interrupted for two years when he served in the United States Navy, becoming an ETM1/c and serving on the Destroyer Minesweeper USS Carmick, DMS 33, as it swept mines in the South China Sea. While in school, John was elected to membership in several honorary societies, the National Honor Society, Phi Eta Sigma, Order of Collegiate Knights, Tau Beta Pi, and Sigma Xi, which he served as Secretary-Treasurer, Vice President, and President of the Princeton Chapter.

John joined the Commercial Atomic Power Department of Westinghouse Electric Corporation in 1954 and was lent to Princeton University in 1955 to work at Project Matterhorn, the University’s fusion energy program, for one year. His stay was extended annually for the next 30 years, at which time he retired from the Westinghouse Research and Development Center as a Consulting Scientist (the corporation’s highest non-managerial title) and joined Princeton University as a Principal Research Physicist in the Theory Division of its Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (the name given to Project Matterhorn when the fusion program was declassified). He retired in 1995 but continued to work for several years as a consultant.

While at Princeton he served as Chairman of the Laboratory Patent Committee, on the Space Committee, and as a member of the Program Committee. His interests centered on magnetohydrodynamic equilibrium and stability studies of toroidal systems with an emphasis on tokamaks and stellarators, on which he published over 100 refereed papers. He collaborated with many physicists internationally, and spent significant periods at the Culham Laboratory in England, Nagoya University, Kyoto University, and the National Institute for Fusion Studies in Japan, the Australian National University, Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics in Germany, Trieste University in Italy, and Los Alamos National Laboratory.

John was a Fellow of the American Physical Society and served as Secretary-Treasurer of its Division of Plasma Physics. He chaired the organizing committee for several meetings of the APS Division of Plasma Physics and associated fusion theory conferences, organized two Atomic Energy Agency International Conferences on Plasma Theory and Controlled Nuclear Fusion Research, and served on the Board of Editors of the journal Plasma Physics.

His major community contribution was through the Princeton United Methodist Church, where he served as delegate to the Southern New Jersey Annual Conference, financial secretary, and a member of its Board of Trustees. He was very proud of his activity with Boy Scout Troop 88, for which he was Committee Chairman, an Assistant Scoutmaster, Eagle Advisor, and Scoutmaster (for 16 years) as well as a member of the Stony Brook District Advancement Committee. He was honored for this service with the George Washington Council’s Silver Beaver Award. Under his encouragement his son, godson, and grandsons all achieved the rank of Eagle Scout. 

During their 69 years of marriage, John and Barbara were blessed with the opportunity to travel extensively in Europe, Asia, Australia, New Zealand, and North and South America. He loved spending time hiking in the Rocky Mountains and visiting children and grandchildren.

John was pre-deceased by his parents, Lowell Wallace and Esther Thornwall Johnson, his sister, Genevieve Jean Johnson, and his brother, Robert Clifton Johnson. He will be missed by his wife, Barbara Hynds Johnson, and his children, Lowell John Johnson and Michelle Dansereau Johnson of Raleigh, North Carolina, Lesley Johnson-Gelb and Steven Gelb of Oakland, California, and Jennifer Johnson Goodall and David George Goodall of Mill Valley, California, seven grandchildren, and one great-granddaughter. 

The family wishes that any memorials made in his name be directed to the Rocky Mountain Conservancy (rmconservancy.org) or the Princeton United Methodist Church’s Appalachia Service Project (princetonumc.org).

Arrangements are under the direction of Mather-Hodge Funeral Home, Princeton, NJ.

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Richard Stephen Blofson

1933-2020

Richard Stephen “Dick” Blofson, a Broadway production manager and New Jersey filmmaker, died peacefully on September 3, 2020, of complications of non-COVID pneumonia at the University Medical Center Princeton in Plainsboro, NJ. He was 87 years old.

As stage manager of Michael Todd’s blockbuster 1957 party at Madison Square Garden to celebrate the premiere of the film Around the World in 80 Days, he cued Marilyn Monroe’s entrance on an elephant. Blofson remembered that someone presented Elizabeth Taylor, Todd’s wife at the time, with a raccoon. “Here, take this,” she hissed at Blofson as she exited the stage. He also said he never saw so many rich people argue so vociferously over glasses of cheap champagne. The New York Times in 1999 called the event one of the “10 Parties that Shook the Century.” Although it was the most prominent production he worked on, it was not the one of which he was most proud.

Blofson’s career started when he was a student at Antioch College majoring in anthropology and creative arts, spending half the year in Yellow Springs, OH, and half the year in New York City working at the Phoenix Theatre. The director Arthur Lithgow (later artistic director at McCarter Theatre in Princeton) was his mentor at Antioch and deepened Blofson’s lifelong appreciation of Shakespeare. Among the many shows Blofson worked on at the Phoenix were The Golden Apple (1954), the first off-Broadway show to win the Best Musical Award from the New York Drama Critics’ Circle; and Once Upon a Mattress with Carol Burnett (1959); both went on to Broadway. In 1955, he worked with Bernard Gersten on the New York City Center production of Guys and Dolls, starring Walter Matthau. 

At the American Shakespeare Festival in Stratford, CT, Blofson worked on a number of productions, including a 1957 tour of Much Ado About Nothing with Katharine Hepburn and Alfred Drake, directed by John Houseman. During the tour, Hepburn paid for Blofson’s transportation back to New York to spend time with his infant son, who had a medical issue.

He was the stage manager for Barbara Streisand’s Broadway debut production, I Can Get It for you Wholesale (1962), in which Elliott Gould also played; for the gospel musical Tambourines to Glory (1963) by poet,
author, and playwright Langston Hughes;  for Strange Interlude (1963) directed by Jose Quintero with actors Jane Fonda, Franchot Tone, and Ben Gazzara; and Baby Want a Kiss (1964) with actors Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward.

Other artists he worked with include actors Jean Arthur, Richard Boone, Katherine Cornell, Richard Easton, Merv Griffin, Eliot Feld, Carol Lawrence, Nancy Marchand, Roddy McDowell, Geraldine Page, Jason Robards, and Fritz Weaver, as well as directors Sidney Lumet, Arthur Penn, and Ed Sherin; and playwrights Tennessee Williams and Sean O’Casey.

An inveterate traveler, he then embarked a freelance career as a camera operator for CBS, ABC, WNET, and the USIA that took him to Turkey and many countries on the African continent. For the USIA, he followed tennis players Arthur Ash, who was Black, and Stan Smith, who was white, during a series of exhibition games in various countries in Africa. Ashe was the first Black American male to win a NCAA tennis Championship, the first to win a Grand Slam Title, and the first to represent the United States in the Davis Cup; Smith was a World No. 1 American tennis player and two-time Grand Slam singles champion. 

For CBS, Blofson followed candidate and former Vice President Richard Nixon in the 1968 film version of The Making of the President. He also filmed productions for the National Theatre of the Deaf with his former Broadway colleague, lighting designer David Hays. 

In 1968, Blofson and filmmaker Nigel Noble formed Arden Productions. Several years later, he and Scott Nielsen cofounded The Production Staff, succeeded in 1977 by Telequest Inc., which specializes in documentary films. Among the productions for WNET were Clash of Cultures, which won a Cine Golden Eagle and a Eudora Welty American Award. Two of 16 animated shorts made for the CBS program Captain Kangaroo won a Silver award at the Houston International Film Festival and as a Best Children’s Program award for animation sequence.  

Director and cameraman for the New York Times History Project, Blofson worked on three films: Abe, about the career of the former executive editor Abe Rosenthal, who presided over the publication of the Pentagon Papers; Reston, about James “Scotty” Reston, the Pulitzer-Prize winning journalist who had been executive editor and columnist at the Times; and Hirschfeld, a celebration of the 85th birthday of Al Hirschfeld, caricaturist for the theatre section of the New York Times, whose hidden tributes to his daughter Nina were eagerly sought after by his followers. The footage was developed into The Line King, a full-length documentary written and directed by Susan Dryfoos that was nominated for an Academy Award. 

Telequest went on to make a series of documentaries for WNJN, Harvard University, Princeton University, independent schools, and various nonprofit organizations, including the Arts Council of Princeton, the Princeton Public Library, Womanspace of Mercer County, and a number of organizations based in Trenton, NJ, including the Children’s Home Society, and Isles. The company also made a pro-bono film called Before You Enlist to provide young people and their families a more complete picture of the life-altering consequences of joining the military, especially in wartime.

Born in Philadelphia in 1933, Blofson attended Central High School. During the Korean War, he served in the U.S. Navy on the USS Putnam. A member of the Actors Studio and the Actors Equity Association, among other organizations, he lived in New York from the 1950s until 1988, when he moved to Princeton. After he retired from Telequest, he came out from behind the curtain and the camera to become a player in Onstage Seniors (McCarter Theatre), whose members create and act short documentary stories collected from community members.

He is survived by his wife, Scotia MacRae, his son Tony Blofson from his marriage to Betty Hellman (which ended in divorce), wife Denise Paasche and grandsons Caleb and Pete Paasche; his daughters Kate Blofson (Thomas Case) and Beth Blofson (Ben Dickey) both from his marriage to Eleanor Harter Ruma (who died in 1982), and stepdaughter Aurora MacRae-Crerar (Vinayak Mathur). He was predeceased by his sisters Lorraine Blofson Brown and Jane Blofson Rudofker.

Contributions in Blofson’s honor may be made to the Arts Council of Princeton (www.artscouncilofprinceton.com), Friends of Princeton Open Space (www.fopos.org), or Veterans for Peace (www.veteransforpeace.org).

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Barbara M. Spalding

Barbara M. Spalding, age 61, a longtime resident of Princeton, New Jersey, died Tuesday, September 1, 2020 at home surrounded by her loving family after a long and valiant battle against breast cancer.

Barbara will be remembered as a devoted wife, mother, and friend, who loved life and refused to be defined by the disease she spent almost two decades fighting. Barbara’s determination to overcome challenges was lifelong and her greatest joy came from helping others overcome obstacles in their own lives.

Barbara encouraged others to start businesses, return to school, live healthily, and stay positive even in the most trying times, an example she set for herself.

After earning a bachelor’s degree from Tufts University and a master’s from Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), Barbara moved to Princeton in 1986 with her husband Keith Spalding. While balancing the demands of life as a young wife and mother, Barbara founded and grew her own Princeton-based insurance brokerage. Some of her children’s earliest memories are of sleeping on the floor of the “CEO’s” office when they were too sick to go to school.

Barbara was a successful local entrepreneur by the time she was first diagnosed with cancer. After beating the disease, she was inspired to sell her business in 2004 to return to university in mid-life to become a registered dietician, a career that married her twin passions of cooking and healthy living. Despite being more than 25 years older than many of her classmates, Barbara graduated summa cum laude from Rutgers and went on to also earn her master’s degree from the university.

As a dietician, Barbara combined her training and personal experiences to help other cancer patients stay healthy and resilient during recovery. She ran two blogs, Second Act Kitchen and Breast Cancer Wonderland, where she shared recipes she loved and gave advice to others struggling with their health.

Barbara loved spending time with her family at Lake George where she shared her passion for the natural world with her husband and children. Having grown up in Westport, Connecticut, Barbara loved sailing and swimming in open water and long hikes through the Adirondack forest. Most of all, she loved cooking and sharing a meal with family and friends on the dock, which she considered one of life’s simple but great pleasures.

Although she is gone far too soon, Barbara’s determination meant she was able to attend her daughter’s wedding and son’s college graduation, all while battling metastatic cancer. Her endless energy, resilience, and courage will always serve as an inspiration for her family, especially in this time of deep grief.

Barbara is survived by her husband of 34 years, Keith R. Spalding, son Holt Spalding of Princeton, NJ, daughter Rebecca Spalding and son-in-law Alexander Plough of New York, NY,  and brothers Brook Manville of Bethesda, Maryland, and Reed Manville of Paradise Valley, Arizona. She is predeceased by her father, Richard Manville, and mother, Mary Harbord Fox.

September 9, 2020

Obituaries 9/9/2020

Jeffrey Haig Bossart

Jeffrey Haig Bossart died on September 2, 2020 at age 67. Jeff was one of the kindest, most thoughtful, caring, smart, hard-working, and above all selfless men most people have ever known. He is survived by his three daughters (Caitie Bossart, Kristie Mass, and Callie Bossart), son-in-law (Darren Mass), and three grand-daughters (Lucine, Eloise, and Coraline Mass). He is also survived by his brother, David Bossart and family.

Jeffrey was born in Jersey City to Florence and Theodore Bossart. He and his brother, David, were raised in Chatham, New Jersey. Jeff went on to receive his Bachelor of Science from the American University in Washington, D.C., graduating cum laude. He received his Juris Doctor from the University of San Diego School of Law and his license to practice law in the State of New Jersey in 1983.

On January 15, 1983, he married his wife, Paula Jo Haider, who he met in San Diego while attending law school and working at Allstate Insurance. They were colleagues both working in the Claims department.

Jeff and Paula moved to Chester, New Jersey, and had their first and second daughters in 1985 and 1986. In 1989, they moved to Mission Viejo, CA, and had their third daughter, Callie. In 1993, they moved to Basking Ridge, New Jersey, where they stayed for the next 20 years.

Throughout these years, Jeff, Paula, and their family went on many family trips throughout the US, Europe, the Caribbean, and countless trips to Disneyland and Disney World. Jeff was an amazing provider and caretaker for his family. He always attended his children’s sports games and swimming competitions, and he never missed an opportunity to spend quality time with his girls.

Once Jeff and Paula were “empty nesters” they enjoyed many travels together, and loved going on cruises (the Baltic Sea cruise and Alaskan cruise were some of their favorites) and traveling around different parts of Europe.

Professionally, Jeff managed many specialty claims organizations throughout his career. This included numerous claim executive roles, his most recent being EVP and Chief Claims Officer for Aspen Insurance Group, which he retired from in December 2015. His subordinates, friends, and colleagues in the professional world would describe him as wise, generous, and passionate, and having an ability to listen without judgment and give them support, even beyond work-related topics.

In the bittersweet year of 2014, Jeff lost Paula to colon cancer after 31 years of marriage. Three months later, he became known as “Papa” when his first grandchildren, twins Lucine and Eloise, were born to his daughter Kristie and her husband, Darren. As Papa, he was fun-loving, supportive, and a regular part of Lucine and Eloise’s lives.

In his retirement, Jeff spent his time remodeling houses, going on bike rides and hikes, attending church, keeping his brain sharp by enrolling in classes at Princeton University, and spending time with his children and grandchildren. Jeff had many interests in self-discovery, growth, health, art, astronomy, and theater. He loved to walk around the center of town in Princeton, where he resided, and spent a lot of time along the trails and in the parks.

Jeff’s family never hesitated to tell him how much he meant to them and how much he was loved. He was, and always will be, a meaningful and important person in their lives. There are countless memories of him that his family will hold onto forever.

Jeff will be missed significantly, yet his family finds comfort knowing he and Paula will now be together eternally.

Services are being handled by Gallaway & Crane Funeral Home, 101 South Finley Avenue, Basking Ridge, NJ. For service information or to leave an online condolence for the family please visit their website at www.gcfuneralhome.com.

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Ellen (Helen) M. Long

Ellen (Helen) “Bunnie” Mathilda Long died peacefully on September 1, 2020. Her daughter Eileen was with her. A resident of Princeton, NJ, since 1953, she was an active member of St Paul’s Parish, Princeton, NJ, and retired from Princeton University Firestone Library in 1995.

The fourth of five siblings, Helen was born in Fairtown, Co. Cavan, Ireland. In the 1920s her parents met and married in Brooklyn, NY, where two of Helen’s older siblings were born before the family returned to Ireland and bought a small farm. Shortly after she was born they all returned to the USA to live in Brooklyn. The Great Depression changed those plans yet again and they all went back to Ireland in 1936 where Helen spent a contented childhood. In 1953 she set sail for New York on the SS Mauritania from Cobh, Co. Cork, and as she writes in her memoir, “…to face the world on my own.”

After a short stay with her Aunt Helen in NY she took a job in Princeton, NJ, and eventually met Patrick J. Long. They married in 1956 settling in Princeton where they both worked, raised three children and proudly took advantage of all the opportunities of their USA citizenship. Helen’s children have the most wonderful memories growing up with their happy parents.

Helen was an enthusiastic volunteer both in St Paul’s ministries and at the Princeton Senior Resource Center. She shared a love of music, art, travel, and the simple pleasures of the world outdoors with everyone. Helen had a special approach to the aesthetics of everything around her. She trained, apprenticed, and was employed as a professional seamstress early in her working life. That expertise, talent, and her love of design meant she always planned and often made everything exactly to her own specifications. Her pretty gardens and generous hospitality welcomed visitors from everywhere. Her travel adventures took her around the US, to the Holy Land, Italy, France, Bahamas, through the Panama Canal and many times back to Ireland.

Predeceased by her husband Patrick J. Long and her son Michael P. Long, her brothers Nicholas Smith and Thomas Smith, and sister Kathleen Smith, Helen is survived by her son Brian J. Long of Princeton, NJ, daughter, M. Eileen Long and son-in-law, Tarik R. Shahbender both of Princeton, NJ; her sister, Margaret Paul of Lawrenceville, NJ; stepsisters Helen Cordner of Brewster, MA, and Mary Ellen Benedetto of Ventura, CA; and many cousins, nieces, nephews, and friends locally and around the world.

There will be a Mass of Christian Burial on September 10, 2020 at 10 a.m. at St. Paul’s Roman Catholic Church, 214 Nassau Street, Princeton, NJ. Mass will also be viewable starting at 9:50 a.m. at www.stpaulsofprinceton.org. Burial will follow the mass at Princeton Cemetery on Greenview Avenue, Princeton, NJ. A memorial for Helen will be planned at a later date when it is safer for friends and family to gather as we wish.

Donations in memory of Helen are welcome for the Princeton Senior Resource Center at princetonsenior.org or to St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital at stjude.org.

Arrangements are under the direction of Mather-Hodge Funeral Home, Princeton.

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Maurice D. Lee, Jr.

Maurice D. Lee, Jr., age 94, a longtime resident of Cranbury, New Jersey, died on July 12, 2020, as a result of a fall. Born in 1925 in Buffalo, New York, he was educated at the Hotchkiss School and Princeton University, from which he received his doctorate in 1950 after service in the Navy at the end of WW II.

A distinguished historian of 16th and 17th century British/Scottish history, he spent his life as a college professor, teaching generations of undergraduates and graduate students, first at Princeton University from 1950-59, then at the University of Illinois until 1966, and finally at the Douglass College Department of History at Rutgers University. He eventually chaired the History Department at Douglass, and in 1987 he was appointed the Margaret A. Judson Professor of History in honor of his distinguished predecessor at the College in the Tudor/Stuart field. A prolific writer, he wrote ten books, primarily focused on the Stuart period of British/Scottish history. For his lifetime of work in Scottish history, he was awarded an honorary doctorate in 1994 from the University of St. Andrews in Scotland. Although he officially retired from Douglass in 1996, he continued to teach at the College, and publish, for many years thereafter.

Maurice was deeply engaged with his friendships, politics, theatre, current events; he always had a book on hand. In the arts, his first love was opera, a lifelong passion. He was still attending Saturday matinee productions at the Metropolitan Opera in New York until the pandemic brought the curtain down on live performances in the spring of this year.

His wife of over 50 years, Helen, died of Alzheimer’s in 1999. He is survived by two children, Maurice D. Lee, III and L. Blair Lee, five grandchildren, three great-grandchildren, and his partner of many years, Laurine Purola. Because of Covid, a memorial has not yet been scheduled. As a strong supporter of women’s education, contributions may be made to the Institute for Women’s Leadership at Rutgers University.

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Kelly Procaccino

Kelly Procaccino, of Princeton, died Monday, August 31, 2020 at Penn Medicine Princeton Medical Center, Plainsboro. Born in Princeton, NJ, she was a lifelong resident and attended Princeton High School. Kelly was employed by the State of New Jersey for 34 years, most recently as a Human Resource Specialist with the Division of Developmental Disabilities.

She was a member of St. Paul’s Church.She was a wonderful, kind, and loving person who cared about everyone she came in contact with. She especially loved celebrating Halloween and Christmas, going to the beach, and red Twizzlers.

Her late father, Ralph Procaccino, was a sergeant on the Princeton Borough Police Force. Her late mother, Marion (née Gibbons) Procaccino, was an operating room nurse at Princeton Medical Center. She met her husband, Thomas A. Clark, in 1978. Together for 42 years, they were married at La Piedad Church in Isla Verde, Puerto Rico, on January 21, 1995. She is survived by her husband, Thomas A. Clark; daughter Haley M. Clark; sisters Michele Lanahan and Rebecca Israel; nieces Ashley Israel, Alexis Stemler, Emily Clark, and Grace Clark; and nephews Christopher Lanahan, Andrew Bilgrav, and Thomas Bilgrav.

A Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated at 10 a.m. on Friday, September 11, 2020 at St. Paul’s Church (216 Nassau Street, Princeton).

Due to the COVID19 pandemic, everyone must wear a mask and social distance.

A memorial celebration will be held at a later date.

September 2, 2020

Obituaries 9/2/2020

Stephen N. Bender

Stephen N. Bender died peacefully in his sleep on Thursday, August 13th in Chapel Hill, NC. He was born on January 17th, 1934 in New York City, where he was raised. He is a graduate of Alfred University where he majored in chemistry and New York University College of Dentistry. 

He served as a Captain in the United States Army, Dental Corps 82nd Medical Detachment in Giessen, Germany. After being honorably discharged from the Army, he moved to Princeton in 1962.

He practiced dentistry in Princeton from 1962 to 2004, along with his partner, the late Jack Roemer. Their office at 214 N. Harrison Street was local architect Bob Hillier’s first commercial building. 

During his time in Princeton Steve was an active member and leader of the New Jersey and Mercer County Dental Associations, the Princeton Ski Club, and the Princeton Jewish Center, and he helped to establish the Department of Dentistry at Princeton Hospital. 

He was an avid skier – braving the icy and windy conditions of skiing in the Northeast while his children were young, before discovering the pleasures of the Rockies and the Alps.  He was a passionate world traveler – something that he shared with and passed on to his children. He continued to travel and even to ski long past the time that his body deemed those activities prudent.   

While he died peacefully, he lived his life fully and loudly – volunteering as a traveling dentist in Appalachia in the early 70s; hosting Ski Club sheep roasts in his backyard; yelling at his kids to find their way down an icy ski slope; buying a windsurfer before most of us knew what the sport was; asking his wife to endure travels to remote corners of the word, including horseback riding in Mongolia; collecting Asian antiques throughout his travels; driving through Hurricane Gloria to see his youngest daughter at her college parents’ weekend; and always driving a speedy little sports car (including his beloved mustard yellow Volvo p1800 which all of Princeton seems to recall, if only for its missing muffler which allowed all to hear it from blocks away).

He is survived by his wife Phyllis Bender of Chapel Hill, NC; his four children Lauren Bender (Adrian Hyde) of Princeton, David Bender of Richmond, VA, Michael Bender (Carolyn Bender) of Hopewell, and Ruth Bender (Dan Sheline) of San Francisco, CA; his grandchildren Tyler Bender, Katharine Bender, Lola Bender, and Hudson Bender; and his sister Judy Uman. He will also be missed by his stepchildren and stepgrandchildren.  He was preceded in death by his parents Maurice and Edna Bender of New York City. 

A private celebration of Stephen’s life will be held at a later date. Donations in his memory may be made to Dental Lifeline.

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Carroll Keeley King

Carroll Keeley King, age 98, died on August 22, 2020.

She was born in New York City and grew up both there and in Fairfield, CT. She graduated from the Ethel Walker School in Simsbury, CT, and attended Finch College in New York City. She was a former member of the New York and Philadelphia Junior Leagues and worked for the Red Cross during World War II.

She lived in Princeton since 1957 and spent winters in Tubac, AZ, for over 30 years. While living in Princeton she dedicated her life to raising her family, travel, and volunteering within the community. She was interested and supported the D&R Greenway Land Trust, Princeton Area Community Foundation (Women and Girls), Meals on Wheels, Princeton Hospital, and the Tubac Art Museum in Arizona. She was an avid reader, enjoyed gardening and needlepoint, and was an expert flower arranger. She and her husband were founding members of the Bedens Brook Club.

Predeceased by her husband Frederick P. King Jr. she is survived by daughter Nancy K. Carleton of Kiawah Island, South Carolina, and son Frederick P. King of Dover, MA, plus six grandchildren Emily Vaughan of Chevy Chase, MD, Elissa Fontenot of Houston, TX, William Carleton of Albuquerque, NM, Fred King of Medfield, MA, Lissy Kasschau of Boston, MA, and Charlie King of Sherborn, MA, and nine great-grandchildren. She was devoted to her entire family including seven nieces and one nephew.

A private burial service will take place at a later date at All Saints’ Church in Princeton. Arrangements were made by the Mather-Hodge Funeral Home. Gifts in her honor may be made to D&R Greenway Land Trust, 1 Preservation Place, Princeton, NJ 08540.

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Naomi Hanft Olin

Naomi Hanft Olin died on Sunday, August 9, 2020 at her home in Surprise, Arizona, just shy of her 98th birthday.

Born September 3, 1922, in Brooklyn, she spent the majority of her adult life in Trenton, New Jersey, after her marriage in 1947.

Meeting her husband was the stuff of fiction. Harry William
Olin (neé Olinsky) was born and educated in Trenton, attended Lehigh University, and served in World War II. They met on a blind date, arranged by mutual friends, under the large clock at Grand Central Station, New York, and were married at the Plaza Hotel in New York City.

Over three decades together in Trenton they raised their children, longtime Princeton resident Dr. Ferris Olin, Distinguished Professor Emerita, Rutgers University, and Arthur Olin, a retired State of Arizona Project Manager who lives in Goodyear, AZ.

Naomi Olin, unlike most mothers in the 1950s, went to work as the office manager for a Trenton-based lace factory while her husband was first employed as a paper salesman and then worked at the NJ Department of Transportation. He was also an entrepreneur, co-owning and co-founding Tele-Rent, a business that provided televisions to patients in all of Trenton’s hospitals from the 1950s-1970s.

Naomi Olin later became an interior decorator helping many householders in the area to place their already existing furnishings in more interesting ways as well as assisting clients to select new furniture, wall hangings, and rugs. She never imposed her own style on her clients, but rather helped her clients to identify their personal styles.

The Olins retired in mid-1970 to Delray Beach, Florida, where Naomi Olin took up tennis and golf — sports she had never played before. They fulfilled their dream of seeing the world. In 1989-1990, they spent a year traveling the world by flying westward across the Southern Hemisphere. They were in Tiananmen Square when the student-led demonstrations took place. She loved to tell the story about needing to replace clothing and suitcases at least three times during their travel, as well as saying that the trip allowed them to fall in love, all over again.

In 2000, when she was 77 years old, Naomi Olin fulfilled another lifelong dream — to get a college degree — something not available to her during the Depression, when she was forced to enroll in a two-year secretarial/business course which she finished in six months. She applied to Lynn University in Boca Raton, which had never had a returning student who was so old. She received credits for her life experiences by writing up her world trip as a modern version of Homer’s Odyssey and was tutored by a high school student who taught her to use computers and also helped her pass her math courses. When she received her BA in Liberal Arts at 80 years old, her proud family attended her graduation. She then worked for a number of years as a museum docent and volunteer. Perhaps following in her feminist art historian daughter’s footsteps, she gave several lectures on women artists, among them women artists in 1920s Paris and the work of Georgia O’Keeffe, as fundraisers for the local museum.

Soon after her graduation, the Olins decided to re-retire and moved to Surprise, Arizona, nearby where her son Arthur and his family lived. Moving to Arizona provided Harry and Naomi with new pleasures as they got to spend many hours with their grandchildren and then their great-grandchildren. Son Arthur and his wife Nancy spent much time with the elder Olins, both socially and then as companions and helpers when they were no longer able to get around. Their sons, Jarrett (wife Ashley and children Harrison and MacArthur) and Justin (wife Megan and sons Tanner and Cameron), were constant visitors. Naomi Olin set up tea dates with Tanner and Cameron and had overnight pajama parties at their home so she could watch them play team sports. She also traveled to Denver to spend time with Jarrett and his family.

Ferris visited often from her home in Princeton. When her daughter, Anya Olin-Leon, moved to Waltham, Massachusetts, she and her mother helped her decorate her new home. Naomi Olin is also survived by Ferris’ son, Noah Leon (wife Nicole and daughters, Nicole, Olivia and Mia) of Miami, Florida. The last major family event that Naomi Olin attended was the first birthday party for her great-granddaughter, Mia, which was held virtually in July due to the pandemic.

After moving to Arizona, Naomi Olin continued to work in local museums and led art history and art appreciation classes for public school students in grades 4-7. She organized an exhibition of the students’ works in one of the local museum. For many of the students and their parents, visiting the exhibition was the first time they had even been to a museum. 

During her years in Surprise and until the Covid pandemic, Naomi Olin played bridge several nights a week. She and her partner were well matched, and she often took home the winnings for the night.

After her husband’s death and well into her 90s, Naomi Olin continued to satisfy her wanderlust by cruising from Los Angeles to Tahiti, from Los Angeles to Seattle, Miami to Montreal, around the United Kingdom following the route of the Titanic back to Brooklyn, and to Spain and Portugal. Her travel companions were her son and daughter-in-law, and her daughter, with whom she roomed. These were her “last hurrah travels” which allowed her and her children to gather up many memories, sight-see, and enjoy lots of adventures together.

Naomi Olin fell on August 2nd, developed embolisms in her lungs, and died less than a week later. During her illness, she was constantly and lovingly attended by Arthur and Nancy Olin.

Due to Covid-19, there will be no funeral or memorial services. The family asks that if anyone wishes to honor the memory of Naomi Olin, to make a donation to the Naomi H. Olin Endowed Scholarship at Douglass College. The scholarship was established in 1992 by Dr. Ferris Olin in honor of her mother’s achievements by providing funds for non-traditionally aged women returning to college. Donations can be made at the Rutgers University Foundation website at support.rutgers.edu. Please specify that it is a memorial gift to the Naomi H Olin Endowed Scholarship.

August 26, 2020

Obituaries 8/26/2020

Jean S. Cheng

Jean S. Cheng passed away peacefully in her home on August 9, 2020, at 97 years old. She had been a full-time resident of Princeton for over 70 years. Most of her life she was inseparable from her high school sweetheart and then husband Professor Sin-I Cheng of Princeton University, who pre-deceased her in 2011. 

Born in the village of Wangli, China, she grew up amidst the turmoil of war, with first the Sino-Japanese War and then the Communist Revolution. She was the first in her family to strive for self-improvement through schooling, an extraordinary ambition when the education of girls was at best an afterthought. She attended a boarding school, needing to walk for days to get from home to school in the countryside at a time of war. She had decided for herself that education was a must, and nothing was going to get in her way.

Luck was with her when the Catholic Church chose to sponsor her for college in the United States, where she could join Sin-I who was already in the U.S. having won one of the few Chinese Government scholarships for studies abroad. For each of them, it was a once in a lifetime opportunity to achieve dreams that had been previously inconceivable. She was forever grateful for the generosity afforded to her by the Church, a priceless gift she never forgot. After graduating from the College of New Rochelle, she followed Sin-I to Princeton, and proudly relished his accomplishments over decades as a renowned professor in the Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Sciences at the University.

She is survived by her daughters Doreen and Irene and her son Andrew, seven grandchildren and four great-grandchildren. She often measured her own success by the success of her children and then theirs. She could not be more proud, or feel more fulfilled, than to see her life’s devotion to family bear such fruit. She never forgot where she came from, while also never taking her sights off the need to do better. She lived the motto “You make your own luck,” a lesson she passed on to all her family.

Extend condolences and share memories at TheKimbleFuneralHome.com.

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Leighton Laughlin

Leighton Laughlin passed away at home in South Hero, VT, on Friday August 21, 2020 at the ripe old age of 93. He was born the son of Roberta Howe and Ledlie I. Laughlin in Buffalo, NY, on November 27, 1926, but moved with his parents at the age of 2 to Princeton, NJ, where he spent his childhood and most of his adult life. 

After service in the Marine Corps, he was a graduate of the class of 1949 from Princeton University. At the end of his sophomore year he married Carin Moore, with whom he was married for 51 years until her passing in 1998. In 2000 he married the former Ann Niebling Bartle; they celebrated their 20th anniversary earlier this year.  

Leighton had a varied career with his degree in psychology: he worked for Opinion Research, he had an administrative position at Project Matterhorn at the Plasma Physics Project of Princeton University, and was part of the formation of Princeton Applied Research Cooperative. Most of his professional life was spent as an investment advisor with various companies including Clark Dodge, Tucker Anthony, and finally Royal Bank of Canada (RBC). Leighton was very involved in the Princeton community, the Princeton Association of Human Rights and Trinity Episcopal Church. Much of his personal and financial involvement was behind the scenes of many organizations.

Leighton was predeceased by his first wife Carin Moore Laughlin, his parents, and two of his brothers, Ledlie and Robert. He is survived by his wife Ann of South Hero, VT; his four children Toby (Nancy) of Skillman, NJ, Buzz of Keene, NH, Al (Janet) of Hopewell, NJ, Carin and Dale Hoffman of Starksboro, VT; also 10 grandchildren and numerous great-grandchildren. He is also survived by Ann’s children Amanda (Greg) Mazaleski of Medford, NJ, Fred (Erin) Bartle of South Hero, VT, and Matt (Kristen) Bartle, also of South Hero, VT, and six grandchildren. Also his brother Jim of Skillman, NJ.  

In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to Isles, Inc., a community development and environmental organization supporting youth and families, 10 Wood Street, Trenton, NJ, 08618, or Trinity Episcopal Church, 33 Mercer St, Princeton, NJ, 08540. The burial and memorial will be private. Arrangements are made by Stephen C. Gregory and Son Cremation Services.

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Richard Stockton Snedeker

Richard Stockton Snedeker, of Princeton, NJ, passed away on August 16, 2020.

Born in Brooklyn, NY, on April 14, 1927 to Leonard and Annis Snedeker, “Dick” attended Poly Prep Country Day School. He served in the U.S. Navy from 1945 to 1946. He graduated with a bachelor’s degree in aeronautical engineering from Princeton University in 1951 and received a master’s in 1961.

Initially employed by the Princeton University Press as a technical illustrator and editor, Dick moved on to work at Aeronautical Research Associates of Princeton (ARAP), where he spent his 40-year career working in the field of experimental fluid dynamics. He published nearly 100 papers and received five U.S. patents. He retired from ARAP in 1997.

Dick married Mary Ellen Burroughs in 1952. They moved to West Windsor in 1957 where they raised their three children. Dick added two major additions to their Grover’s Mill home, doing all the carpentry, plumbing, heating, electrical, and roofing work himself. 

A beloved fixture in many aspects of the local scene, Dick served as a board member for the Princeton Small Animal Rescue League for three years. He was also a member of the West Windsor-Plainsboro School Board for 12 years, serving as president for four. He co-authored the plan to regionalize West Windsor with Plainsboro and played a significant role in the construction of the first West Windsor-Plainsboro High School.

Dick was chairman of the Grover’s Mill Pond Task Force, which successfully revitalized the pond. He also served as a board member for the Friends of West Windsor Open Space (FOWWOS) which protected areas of the township from development.

After retiring from ARAP, Dick gave walking tours of Princeton for the Princeton Historical Society and was a docent at the Morven Museum.  He helped found the West Windsor Arts Council and constructed large “Fabulous Forms” sculptures in his home woodshop for township children to paint during the council’s spring celebration. He also wrote the popular column “Looking Back” for the West Windsor-Plainsboro Community News, relating fun facts and anecdotes about West Windsor history.

An IC4A champion miler while at Princeton, Dick competed in area road races for many years, usually winning his age group. He officiated Princeton cross-country and track meets and received the Larry Ellis Alumni Award for his service. 

Dick enjoyed taking his family on camping trips to places such as Nova Scotia, Lake Michigan, and Cape Hatteras. Later in life, he and Mary Ellen found immense pleasure in semi-annual trips to numerous destinations around the globe, with western and eastern Europe as particular favorites. Dick was a master woodworker and his hobbies included building furniture, making art, and family genealogy. He and Mary Ellen especially loved German band music, Gilbert and Sullivan, and John Philip Sousa.

Dick and Mary Ellen were married for 60 years until her passing in 2012.  Dick is survived by his children Jenky Snedeker and her partner Kevin McCue of Essex Junction, VT, James Snedeker of Sunderland, MA, and Amy Snedeker of Pennington, NJ; three nephews: Robert Taylor of Asbury, NJ, Robert Snedeker and his wife Fran of Larchmont, NY, Don Snedeker and his wife Victoria of Falls Church, VA; two grandchildren: Laurel Jenkins, her husband Matthew Kent and their son Desmond of Middlebury, VT, and Peter Dugan, his wife Angela, and their children Siena and Caleb of Hopkinton, MA.

The Snedeker family offers thoughts and prayers to all those suffering from Alzheimer’s disease and dementia. Dick and Mary Ellen were huge animal lovers all their lives. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to SAVE, A Friend to Homeless Animals, 1010 Route 601, Skillman, NJ 08558.

A family service will be held on Tuesday, September 1, 2020 at 1 p.m. followed by burial of ashes in Princeton Cemetery, 29 Greenview Avenue, Princeton, NJ 08540, that everyone is welcome to attend at 2 p.m. A Zoom service will take place on Tuesday, September 1, 2020 at 1 p.m. A link for the service will be available in the service information section of Richard’s obituary on matherhodge.com.

Arrangements are under the direction of Mather-Hodge Funeral Home, Princeton.

August 19, 2020

Obituaries 8/19/2020

Herman Alexander Zullow

Herman Alexander Zullow, the cherished and beloved son of Keith Zullow and Kathleen Moriarty, the loving brother of Madeleine, Lillian, and Hannah Zullow, and the adored grandson of Marlene Zullow, passed away on Sunday, August 9, 2020, at the too young age of 20.  

Herman was born in Manhattan, New York, on April 19, 2000. He lived almost half his life in Ossining, New York, and then moved to Princeton Junction, New Jersey, where he attended The College of New Jersey.  

Herman was a quiet, gentle soul with a quirky sense of humor. As a child, he enjoyed inventing silly characters and games when playing with his younger sisters. He shared inside jokes with his sisters and was often heard laughing late into the night while gaming online with his friends. He also loved his pets (two dogs and two cats) and had a special bond with them. They brought him great comfort and joy, especially during times of turmoil.

From a young age Herman showed a strong interest in the outdoors and nature, something that matured into a lifelong love for hiking and adventure.  Between family trips and camps, he bungee jumped and hiked mountains all over the world, including glaciers in Iceland, the Inca Trail and Machu Picchu in Peru, Pulpit Rock and Kjeragbolten in Norway, and many others in the United States. During such hikes, Herman’s compassionate side would shine through, as he could often be found with the slowest hikers making sure that they were okay or raising group spirits through trail games. Herman also surfed sand dunes in Peru, surfed 15-foot waves in Hawaii, and even surfed with his sisters in the Arctic Circle.  

Herman’s greatest passion was technology. He would take apart old phones and other devices to learn how they worked. This curiosity for electronics morphed into a talent for computer programming and software engineering. Herman was a self–taught programmer in multiple languages and successfully built and fixed computers and other devices for himself and loved ones. Some of Herman’s happiest times were when he was tinkering with an electronic device and searching for ways to make it work.  

Since age 9, Herman battled health issues with physical and psychological manifestations, including anxiety and depression. He was diagnosed with an autoimmune disorder known as PANS/PANDAS (Pediatric Neuropsychiatric Disorders Associated with Streptococcal Infections) that caused inflammation in the brain and neurological and psychological symptoms, including anxiety, OCD, and tics. He was later diagnosed with Bartonella, an insect-borne bacterial disorder that can also have psychological manifestations, including anxiety and depression. Unfortunately, the stress of college combined with his battles with these physical and mental illnesses proved too much for him to bear. Though Herman’s time with his family was short, he touched many lives and was loved deeply by those around him. His family cherishes his memory as the brief gift it was.

In lieu of flowers, the family respectfully requests that memorial contributions be made to the Brain and Behavior Research Foundation (https://www.bbrfoundation.org) and the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention (https://afsp.org).

To leave condolences for the family, visit orlandsmemorialchapel.com.

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Lawrence Robert Caruso

Lawrence Robert Caruso, known as “Bob” to his close friends, and professionally as “Robin the Juggler,” was born in Princeton, NJ, on Friday, February 7, 1958 and died on Friday, August 7, 2020 in Gainesville, Florida, where he was a longtime resident.

His sisters Amy Pisechko and Marti Davis have fond memories of him teaching them how to ride and fix bicycles, and how to box and juggle. Amy said that her boxing skills have been a lifelong form of self-defense and have made her fearless.  Marti says, “He bought me my very first 10-speed bicycle, a used Schwinn, that he fixed up for me as a birthday present.” When she was learning to ride it, she looked back at him and “smacked right into the back of a parked car!”  Lawrence told her that falling is inevitable and to “get right back up again and go!” 

His sister Gina Caruso remembered the extensive rock collection that he gathered in the 1960s from the dumpster behind Guyot Hall on the Princeton University Campus.  She recalls that he would identify, label, and arrange his rocks, and as a reward for “not telling on him for his almost daily, imaginative pranks,” would periodically give her a private tour of his collection. “He was the most mischievous child I’ve ever met, but he had such a sparkling curiosity. I loved exploring Guyot Hall and building forts with him in the woods,” she says. 

As a teen he was a promising visual artist and drummer who loved Pink Floyd, David Bowie, and the Velvet Underground. His sister Kathleen Kalinowski remembers when he hitchhiked across the country in his 20s and sent postcards home written in a Jack Kerouac-like style. His sister Mary Ann Mitchell remembers frequently corresponding with Lawrence when she was serving in the military in Iraq.  In 2003, she visited him in Florida, and they watched Kill Bill together. “I just loved him,” she said.

Lawrence was a certified electrician, professional juggler, owned a small moving company, played chess in a club he organized, loved old cars and motorcycles, and his dogs.  He is survived by his 91-year-old mother Mollie Jean Caruso, and his siblings John Caruso, Kathleen Kalinowski, Mary Ann Mitchell, Gina Caruso, Marti Davis, Amy Pisechko, and Aaron Caruso. Donations can be made in his memory to the ASPCA. 

A memorial for him will be held at a later date. 

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Louise Russell Irving

1922 – 2020

Louise Russell Irving, aka “Weedie,” was born on March 14th, 1922 in New York City. She died at home in Princeton on August 8th, 2020. She was 98. Her large family sorely misses her.

In 1947, she married the late John E.D. Irving, a DuPont Co. marketer. They honeymooned at Varadero Beach, Cuba, and went on to raise five children: John Jr., of Princeton; the late Henry Russell Irving of Cambridge, Mass; Douglas Irving of Princeton; David D. Irving of NYC; and Carol R. Irving of Northumberland, England. John and Louise were together for over 50 years until his death in 1998.

Louise attended Miss Hewitt’s School in NYC; Foxcroft School in Middleburg, VA (under the celebrated headmistress Miss Charlotte Noland). Her friends from Foxcroft School remain loyal unto death. Louise received a BA in zoology from Barnard College in 1944.

After college, and consonant with American WWII efforts, she signed up as an assistant nurse with the Red Cross and shipped out in early 1945 to Tagaytay, Philippines. There, the U.S. Marines welcomed her and made her their “Company Mascot.” Mustered out with the homebound soldiers after VJ day, she built her family with John successively in Wilmington, New York City, Providence, and Unionville, PA. After her husband died, she relocated to Princeton, her childhood summer home. Louise was conversant in French, Italian, and Spanish and applied her language skills in travels to such other countries as Vietnam and Panama. She returned from those trips and penned lively travelogues for her local newspapers. Louise practiced assiduously at the piano all her life, which brought her immense joy. She played competent tennis and golf. She loved astrology.

Louise promoted her six grandchildren’s participation in sports, music, film, and dance. While in Princeton, she was a strong proponent of the Charter School and the admirable PHS Studio Band jazz program directed by Joe Bongiovi. Her grandchildren visited her regularly, traveled with her, laughed with her, and delighted in her charisma and indomitable energy. Louise was always thrilled to see her family and especially proud of her great-grandchildren. 

She was a dyed-in-the-wool Republican with strong opinions about politics, American life, and food. She regularly hosted local Republican functions at her home, and in recent years was distraught at Leftist and progressive excesses in America. She liked President Trump and preferred “All Lives Matter” to other iterations of that concept. She was an avid, competitive bridge player up to the day she died, with a few games already scheduled for the following week. She planned to live forever.

Survivors include her four adult children John, Douglas, David, and Carol, their spouses, as well as the spouse of her predeceased son Henry; six grandchildren; two great-grandchildren; and her younger brother Archibald Douglas Russell and his family.

In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to The Princeton Republican Club, 131 Victoria Mews, Princeton, NJ 08542 or PHS Band Parents Association, c/o Amanda Kewley, 174 Nassau Street, Suite 423, Princeton, NJ 08542. 

Written by John Irving Jr.

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“Pete” Peters

Florence “Pete” Lamborn Peters passed away peacefully at Acorn Glen Assisted Living in Princeton, New Jersey, on July 19. She had just turned 92 in June.

Pete was born June 28, 1928 in Montclair, New Jersey, and was the second child of John Warren Lamborn and Anna Elizabeth Flynn. Pete graduated from The Convent of the Sacred Heart Maplehurst (now Greenwich) in 1945 and from Rosemont College in 1949 with a degree in English. Upon graduation, Pete returned home to Montclair where she worked in a photography studio. 

While spending her summers at Martha’s Vineyard, she met Landon Peters, who also happened to be from Montclair.  She married Landon on February 2, 1952 and they moved to San Antonio, Texas, where Landon served in the Air Force during the Korean Conflict. Their eldest child, Eric, was born in San Antonio.  They truly enjoyed their adventure there, far from family, and made many lifelong friends. They visited San Antonio many times, thereafter.

They returned to Princeton, New Jersey, so Landon could finish his studies at Princeton University, from which he graduated in 1956, though a member of the Class of 1952. Pete and Landon remained in Princeton for the rest of their lives, where their sons Michael, John, David, and Christopher were born. Pete’s younger cousin, Elinore Flynn, came to live with them in 1957, after her parents had died. They were married for 53 years until Landon’s death in 2005. 

Pete’s ties to Martha’s Vineyard were deep. Both sets of grandparents became summer residents in the early 1900s. While spending time there, she enjoyed sailing and tennis, and hosting visitors at Pohogonot Farm, as well as at the home that Landon and she built in 1989.  Until recently, she spent summers there every year of her life.  She was devoted to her large, extended family there and to the preservation of Pohogonot and its flora and fauna.

Her own mother’s lessons of community service led Pete to enjoy a long career as a volunteer in Princeton community organizations.  During the 1960s her focus was more on religion, helping to initiate, and teach, lay-taught CCD classes at St. Paul’s Church, and as a founding board member of the Princeton Interfaith Council, an ecumenical organization of people with a variety of community concerns.  At various times in the 1970s and 80s, she served on boards and various committees for the Princeton YWCA, Friends of Princeton University Art Museum, McCarter Theatre, the Medical Center Auxiliary, and the United Way of Princeton. Many of her roles focused on editing newsletters and publicity.

Her interest in history, its preservation and ongoing interpretation, drove a deep commitment to the Historical Society of Princeton, serving at various points in time, on its Board of Trustees, as Vice President, and editor of its “News and Notes.” Gardening and flower arranging was one of her primary interests throughout her adult life.  She was a member of the Garden Club of Princeton for 51 years during which she held many leadership roles including President. Friends in the GCP recall Pete as a knowledgeable and passionate horticulturist and gardener, a fabulous flower arranger, a mentor to everyone who sought her advice, and a worker who chased down every detail.  Pete served the Garden Club of America as Director, Board of Associates member, Chairman of Archives, Secretary of the Finance Committee, and Zone IV Director. She received the Zone IV Creative Leadership Award and the GCA Medal of Merit. Pete and her friend Phyllis Hamel ran The Princeton Flower Shop for several years in the early 1980s. Together with Landon, she grew and maintained gardens at their homes in Princeton and Edgartown, MA. 

In 1990, the United Way of Princeton awarded her the Gerard Lambert Award, its annual award recognizing volunteer leadership. Pete held a firm belief that those who have been blessed with good fortune have a responsibility to contribute to their communities and to those less fortunate.  She also greatly valued the enduring, cross-generational friendships that were a part of all of her community activities.

Pete was also a founding Trustee of Kieve Affective Education in 1974 (now Kieve Wavus Education) which runs Camp Kieve and Wavus Camp for Girls on Lake Damariscotta in Maine. Several of her sons and granddaughters attended those camps, as have many Princeton residents.

She was a member of Prettybrook Tennis Club, the Nassau Club, and Springdale Golf Club.

Pete was predeceased by her husband Landon, her son Michael, her sisters Patricia Coward Kolbe and Elizabeth Lamborn, her brothers John W. Lamborn, Jr., and George D. F. Lamborn, and her daughter-in-law Sarah Gelotte Peters. She is survived by her sons, Eric  and his wife, Eileen Murphy, and John, of Vineyard Haven, David, of Princeton, New Jersey, and Christopher and his wife Kathryn, of Dallas, Texas, her seven grandchildren, Nathaniel Peters, Molly Peters, Emily Peters, Caroline Peters, Lorna Peters, Charles Landon Peters, Kathryn Peters, and her great-grandchild, John Peters.

A memorial service in Princeton will be held and burial will be at Martha’s Vineyard, both at a future date.

Donations in her memory may be made to the Historical Society of Princeton, 354 Quaker Road, Princeton, NJ 08540 or the Martha’s Vineyard Museum, 151 Lagoon Pond Road, Vineyard Haven, MA 02568.

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Barbara MacLeod Morgan

January 3rd, 1935 –July 28th, 2020

Barbara MacLeod Morgan 85, of Stockbridge, MA (formerly of Princeton, NJ) passed away peacefully on July 28th at home with her daughters by her side.  

Barbara was born in Bear River, Nova Scotia, Canada, to Reverend Archibald A. MacLeod and Barbara Grace MacLeod. She was educated at Saint Andrews High School, Saint John General Hospital Nursing School (Registered Nurse), and University of Pennsylvania (Masters of Science in Nursing — Nurse Practitioner). She lived in Princeton for 47 years and summered on Prince Edward Island, her ancestral home, in her beloved seaside cottage on the Northumberland Strait.

In 1962 Barbara met and married her first husband, David Baxendale, in Nova Scotia, Canada, where she worked as a Registered Nurse at the Cornwallis Naval Station Medical Center and where he was an officer in the Royal Canadian Air Force. Soon after the birth of their two daughters they moved to Cambridge, MA. During those years, Barbara worked at Mount Auburn Hospital while David attended university. Subsequently the family settled in Princeton, NJ, where Barbara was employed at Princeton Medical Center, both in the Operating Room and the Neonatal departments; Carrier Clinic; and eventually Princeton University Health Center. Their marriage ended in divorce in 1982.

In 1985 Barbara married Arthur Palmer Morgan of Princeton, NJ. Barbara and Arthur enjoyed a 32 year marriage including travel to five continents. Barbara worked as a fundraiser in the interest of the environment, in expanding the Princeton Public Library, and in supporting Planned Parenthood. Together she and Arthur formed a blended family with five daughters, always keeping up with the comings and goings of each and providing support and wisdom. They welcomed many shared grandchildren and great-grandchildren into their fold throughout the years. 

Although Barbara worked in many areas of medicine during her 35 year career she was most devoted to woman’s health care concerns. As a Nurse Practitioner at the Princeton University Health Center, she was especially proud of the pre-natal and post-natal program she established for international students and their spouses offering a supportive and loving atmosphere.

As an advocate and ally of those less fortunate among us, Barbara always extended her hand to offer support to those in need. A lifelong progressive, she was concerned with the socio-political atmosphere created by the current administration in Washington and followed politics, environmental and social justice issues until the end. She recognized suffering in all forms and responded with compassion.

Barbara was predeceased by her grandson William MacLeod Manning, sister Alexandra (Sandra) Thompson, brother Bently MacLeod, stepbrother Hinson MacLeod, stepsister Marion Burns, and her husband Arthur Morgan.

She is survived by her daughters Robin Alexandra Manning of Great Barrington, MA, and Jennifer MacLeod Baxendale (Richard Epstein) of Stockbridge, MA, and Dummerston, VT, and her three surviving grandchildren —Jesse Baxendale Manning (Jack), Donovan William Lally, and Lucy Alexandra Manning. She especially delighted in time spent with her devoted family.

Barbara is also survived by her brother Archie MacLeod (Carmel) of Halifax, Nova Scotia, and her stepdaughters Ann Battle (Craig) of Princeton, NJ, Cathy Morgan (John) of Hawaii, and Cynthia Pastahov (Stefan) of Linconville Center, ME, and her stepgrandchildren Jason Battle (Sarah), Celina Fuller (Dan), Morgan Battle (Brooke), Silas Standard (Cali), Alex Pastahov (Brittony), Miles Pastuhov (Sabrina), and Eloise Standard (Patrick). She was lovingly known as “GG” by her great-grandchildren.  

In honor of Barbara we invite you to make a contribution to HospiceCare in The Berkshires, Inc., 877 South Street, Suite 1W, Pittsfield, MA 01201.

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William W. Augustine

William Winfield (“Bill”) Augustine died peacefully of natural causes on August 9, 2020 at Brandywine Assisted Living, where he had resided for the last eight years. He was 93.

A longtime resident of the Princeton area, Bill was born in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, on March 26, 1927. In 1942, his parents, Thomas Henry and Ruth Duncan Augustine, moved the family to Bucks County, near Bowman’s Hill Tower, so that Bill’s father could work for General Motors in Trenton in support of the War effort. Bill’s older brother, Duncan, studied engineering at Princeton University, and Bill loved to recount stories about coming to Princeton as a child in the 1930s to visit his brother.

As a young man, Bill had his eye on a career in radio and the exciting new medium, television. He received voice training for radio in Philadelphia and also became involved with the local theater, playing leading roles in several productions at the Play and Players Theater there. However, despite having job offers from local radio and TV stations, he ultimately decided on a different path. After attending Rider College for several years, he left to take a series of sales and marketing positions with Dodge Reports, 3M, and Standard Oil, which sent him to work in Italy for several years. In the mid-1950s, Bill returned to the Princeton area to work for Johnson & Johnson as a product manager. 

In 1960, he and local contractor, Ray Hunt, formed Hunt & Augustine, Inc., which quickly became a leading residential construction and real estate development firm in the Princeton area. They partnered with architect William Thompson, Jr. AIA, who had previously spent several years as the resident architect for Williamsburg, in designing both custom homes and residential developments, including  Winfield, Audubon and Castle Howard in Princeton and the Abey tract and the Pennington Professional Center in Pennington.

In 1962, Bill began development of the property that would become the Bedens Brook Club in Skillman. Bill was one of the founders of the golf club, and the Bedens Brook Company, of which Bill was President, also built many of the beautiful custom-designed homes that ring the golf course. 

In 1981, Hunt & Augustine began development of a 700-acre tract of land in Skillman as a golf club community to be named Cherry Valley Country Club. Bill assembled the land and obtained all of the necessary approvals, which was a grueling process that took many years. This project was eventually sold to Dyson, Kissner & Moran. However, Bill remained involved until the Cherry Valley golf course was completed. It opened in 1991.

Bill married his wife, Mary Jane, in 1986. They loved adventure and traveled extensively together. One notable trip involved following the Silk Road across China from east to west in 1995. That trip ended abruptly in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, when Bill became seriously ill from food poisoning and had to be transported by medivac plane to the American Hospital in Istanbul, where he stayed for more than a month. There, he made many friends among the hospital staff, who started spending their breaks visiting in his room. In typical fashion, Bill Augustine fashion, he turned his time in the Istanbul hospital into a continuation of the Silk Road adventure.

Throughout his business career, Bill always found time to be active in the community and later in life, he devoted much of his time and energy to charitable pursuits. While serving as President of both Hunt & Augustine, Inc. and the Bedens Brook Company, he was also President of the Princeton Art Association and Senior Vice President of the Princeton Ballet. After retiring, he became a Board member of the American Red Cross of Central Jersey, which awarded him the Bob Clancy Culture of Caring Award for service in 2008. He was also a longtime volunteer with Meals on Wheels, continuing to deliver meals and cheer to shut-ins well into his mid-80s.

Bill was an accomplished athlete pursuing tennis, figure skating, running, and golf at various times in his life. However, golf was his enduring passion. He took up the game in his late 20s and continued to play until he was well past 80. He loved nothing better than spending time on the Bedens Brook and Cherry Valley Country Club golf courses with his many friends. He was especially proud of being an honorary member of both Clubs. In his later years, he researched and authored detailed histories of Bedens Brook and Cherry Valley, which he gave as an enduring gift to both the Clubs and their members.

Bill was pre-deceased by his parents; his brother, Duncan Colfax Augustine; his sister, Natalie Jean Augustine; and his two children by a previous marriage, William Winfield Augustine, Jr. and Sara Dougan Augustine. He is survived by his wife, Mary Jane Augustine; his stepdaughter, Lia Christian Nielsen, of Lambertville; and a nephew, Dr. D.C. Augustine of Amherst, Virginia.

A private memorial service is planned for late September. 

The family wishes to express their gratitude to Brandywine Assisted Living and Vitas Healthcare for taking wonderful care of Bill. In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to the American Red Cross of Central Jersey. Extend condolences and share memories at blackwellmh.com.

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Evelyn Geddes

Evelyn Geddes, age 97, of Princeton, New Jersey, passed away on August 11, 2020 after suffering a stroke. Evelyn lived a long, full life. She loved cooking, travel, reading, and had a very wide range of interests ranging from healthcare policy to politics, social justice, and the arts.

Evelyn was born in Brooklyn, NY, to Harry and Rose Basse in 1923. She grew up mostly in Brooklyn, with a short period in Providence, Rhode Island. She graduated from James Madison High School, and then earned a BA in economics from Brooklyn College and studied economics in graduate school at the University of Wisconsin. She married Robert Geddes, her husband of 73 years, in 1947. They had two children, David, an anthropologist and business consultant, and Ann, an architect and ceramic artist.

Evelyn was involved in Democratic politics in Pennsylvania and New Jersey. She was particularly active in healthcare issues, as president of Planned Parenthood of Mercer County, as president of the Princeton School Board, introduced sex education programs into the Princeton schools, and served as chair of the New Jersey State Health Commission.

She is survived by her husband, her two children, seven grandchildren, ten great-grandchildren, her sister (Minna Berkowitz), one niece and her family, and one nephew and his family, and several cousins.

The family will be having a Zoom funeral service in the near future. In lieu of flowers, gifts in her memory should be made to the Guttmacher Institute.

August 12, 2020

Obituaries 8/12/2020

Edward J. McCabe, Jr.
Susan C. McCabe

Edward J. McCabe, Jr. (Ted), 85, of Princeton died suddenly on Friday, July 31, 2020. Born in New York, NY, he was the son of the late Dr. Edward J. McCabe and Mary (Webster) McCabe. Ted was preceded in death by his sister, the late Patricia (McCabe) O’Connell, and is survived by his younger sister Mary Sue (McCabe) Virtue.

Three days later, Susan C. McCabe (Susie), 83, of Princeton died Monday, August 3, 2020 at home surrounded by her loving family. Born in Chicago, IL, daughter of the late George Shepard Chappell Jr. and Caroline (Smith) Chappell. Her death was preceded by her sister, the late Barbara (Chappell) Copello and her brother, the late George S. Chappell, III.

The McCabes have been residents of Princeton since 1966. Ted enjoyed a successful investment banking career before retirement. Susie was a co-founder and president of SAVE Animal Rescue for over 20 years, and worked for over 30 years as Manager of Talbots, Princeton. She also served on Board of Trustees for The Hun School.

Ted was a graduate of The Canterbury School and The University of Vermont ’56, where he was a member of the Phi Delta Theta Fraternity and the Men’s Basketball Team. Ted proudly served in the United States Marine Corps as Ranger Captain. Susie was a graduate of Miss Porter’s School and Smith College ’58. Ted and Susie spent their days enjoying their children, grandchildren, and great-grandchild. Both avid sports fans, the McCabes didn’t miss a game of their beloved New York Yankees.

They are survived by sons E. Michael McCabe and Christopher James McCabe (Helen); daughters Pamela McCabe Haley, Sheila Shumway McCabe, and Wendy McCabe Messick (Scott); grandchildren Christopher H. Grey (Kate), Spencer M. Grey (Ashley), Olivia L. McCabe, Faye W. Haley, Andrew E. Haley, Grace C. Haley, Oliver M. McCabe, Benjamin H. McCabe, Molly J. McCabe, Charlotte C. McCabe, and Miles E. McCabe; and great-grandchild George Edward Grey.

A private celebration of life will be held in Martha’s Vineyard at a later date.

Donations in their honor may be made to: SAVE – A Friend to Homeless Animals, 1010 Route 601, Skillman, NJ 08558 or Vineyard Trust, PO Box 5277, Edgartown, MA 02539, or Huntington’s Disease Society of America (HDSA.org).

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Dr. Klaus Georg Florey

Dr. Klaus Georg Florey, noted biochemist and pharmaceutical scientist, died at home in Princeton, New Jersey, on August 4 surrounded by family. He was 101. He was a Princeton resident for 62 years.

Dr. Florey served as the head of Analytical Research and Development for Bristol-Myers Squibb, where he spent over 30 years of his career. As an expert advisor for the World Health Organization (W.H.O.), Dr. Florey shared his knowledge with developing nations across the world and served on the W.H.O. Expert Advisory Panel on the International Pharmacopoeia from 1976-93. He was also active on the Revision Committee for the United States Pharmacopeia, 1970-95. From 1980-81, he served as President of the Academy of Pharmaceutical Sciences, and in 1983 he was elected Chairman of the Council of Scientific Society Presidents, the center for national science leadership and policy development, headquartered in Washington, D.C. As a leader in pharmaceutical science, Dr. Florey was awarded the Research Achievement Award from the American Pharmaceutical Association Foundation in 1987 and the Distinguished Service Award from the American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists in 1990, where he served as Academy Fellow. In recognition of his scientific contributions, he was elected as Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, a lifetime honor. Over his long career, Dr. Florey was perhaps best known for creating the annual book series, Analytical Profiles of Drug Substances, a resource used worldwide and for which he served 22 years as the editor.

Born on July 4, 1919 in Dresden, Germany, Klaus was the eldest son of Friedrich Georg Florey and Margarethe Pick. He completed the Academic Gymnasium in Coburg, Germany, before receiving a Master’s degree in Chemistry at the University of Heidelberg. Klaus’ mother was of Jewish ancestry, and his family was therefore persecuted during WWII. Miraculously, Klaus survived the war and he and his brother Peter made the decision to leave Germany. In 1947, Klaus traveled by refugee ship organized by the World Council of Churches to New York City and began his new life in the United States. He became a naturalized U.S. citizen in 1952 and went on to receive his PhD in Biochemistry from the University of Pennsylvania in 1954.

Klaus’ curiosity never waned. He always had a book by his side and explored a wide range of literature, translating his favorite German literary works into English. He was an avid traveler and enjoyed many adventures with his family in the Alps and across the globe. He had a lifelong love of classical music and art, regularly attending concert series in Princeton and New York and frequently visiting the Metropolitan Museum of Art. In 1991, he joined the Princeton University Art Museum Docent Association, leading tours and serving as the association’s archivist.

Dr. Florey is survived by his beloved wife of 64 years, Anne Major Florey; his children, Peter Georg Florey and his wife Patricia Dalmazio, Andrea Florey Bradford and her husband Samuel C. Bradford, and five grandchildren, John Florey and his wife Katie, Michael Florey and his wife Jessica, Stephanie Bradford and her fiancé Kevin Toth, Sarah Bradford, and Elisabeth Bradford, and three step-grandchildren, Anthony-John Scordio, Marco Scordio, and Jon-Paul Scordio. A memorial gathering will be held in the future. Gifts in Dr. Florey’s honor may be made to the Princeton University Art Museum Docent Association, Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, NJ, 08544-1018.

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Ruth Jane Kenneweg Bruns

Ruth died peacefully in her sleep at home in Belle Mead, NJ, with her loving husband of 61 years by her side on July 31, 2020. Born on October 26, 1936 and raised in Brooklyn, NY, Ruth attended Collegiate Institute in Manhattan following high school graduation, earning an Associate’s Degree in Paralegal Studies, and then went straight to work for a private firm on Wall Street.

Ruth was a lifelong member of the Lutheran Church throughout the years, always joining a local church wherever she lived. During her youth she was a member of Good Shepherd in Brooklyn where she was baptized, confirmed, and later married. It was in her mid-teens that her husband to-be joined the church. That’s when it all started. They were part of a very active youth group and, in addition to youth group activities, shared the additional interests of playing city-wide basketball and singing in the church choir. The romance grew through the years and they were married when Bob graduated from Lehigh University.

Bob was then commissioned in the Air Force and the newlyweds headed off to their first assignment in Omaha, NE. Ruth enjoyed a good life in Omaha, joining one of the city’s top law firms and working with a great staff of attorneys on some of the city’s largest cases. She was treated well by Bob’s Air Force colleagues as the officers and their wives treated Ruth and Bob as their kids, always very kind and accommodating, making the young married couple feel comfortable and welcomed. Ruth became friends with many great people in Omaha, many of whom remained great friends through the years.

Following Bob’s resignation from the Air Force, he joined IBM in Bethesda, MD, where they spent the next three years and celebrated the birth of their daughter, Kristin. Bob was then transferred “home” to NY to work at IBM’s Research Center in Yorktown Heights, NY. There, Ruth established her roots for 29 years and during that time their son, Kirk Lars, was born. Both children grew up there until they went off to college. Later, Bob took advantage of an early retirement from IBM and joined Continental Insurance Co. in the Princeton, NJ, area where they have resided for the past 26 years.

Ruth’s faith was extremely important to her. Her baptismal certificate was prevalently displayed as many people display their college diplomas. She had always been active in her church from the days of her youth and on, especially while her children were growing up, working in their gardens and planning and running events through the years.

Ruth was an extraordinary gardener, crafter, and baker. She applied all these skills to benefit her church in addition to her home. Her home gardens were the envy of the neighborhood.  She was also known for her parties with homemade everything and neighbors and church friends always looked forward to her annual super bowl party. In the winter months, gardening was replaced by Ruth’s crafting and during Kristin’s early years she would make her fancy lined dresses. She later expanded her crafting to make lovable stuffed animals and dolls which many kids of neighbors, friends, and relatives proudly displayed bearing the “Made by Ruth” name tag on them.

She performed an admiral job of raising two great children as a caring mother that lived for her children, later adding her three grandchildren to the list. In addition to being a loving wife and mother of two, she also loved her many dogs through the years, especially cocker spaniels and retrievers.

Ruth was also a very strong person and fighter, both in her faith and determination. She suffered a debilitating stroke 15 years ago that left her paralyzed on her entire left side and a poor prognosis. This stole from her those things she loved to do; the gardening, baking, and crafting. Following her stroke, her son was to be married in the coming nine months and she was determined to dance at his wedding. Through true grit, determination, her faith, and fighting spirit, she achieved that objective which doctors did not believe was possible.

Pre-deceased by her parents, William Christian Kenneweg and Meta Aschoff Kenneweg; siblings William Kenneweg (Red Hook, NY), Edward Kenneweg (Prescott, AZ), Doris Kenneweg Nichols (Norwalk, CT), and Howard Kenneweg (Brooklyn, NY); she is survived by her husband of 61 years, Robert Bruns (Belle Mead, NJ); children Kristin Bruns Chenworth (Geoffrey) of Schnecksville, PA, and Kirk Lars Bruns (Colleen) of Waitsfield, VT; and three grandchildren, Megan Chenworth (Chicago, IL), Andrew Chenworth (Northampton, PA), and Stephen Chenworth (Cleveland, OH).

A private funeral for immediate family was held August 4th at Christ the King Lutheran Church, in Kendall Park, NJ, with a private burial at Rocky Hill Cemetery, Rocky Hill, NJ.

Memorial contributions may be made to Guiding Eyes for the Blind in Yorktown Heights, NY, Christ the King Lutheran Church in Kendall Park, NY, or via random acts of kindness to others, as Ruth loved to do.

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Cintra Carter Sander

December 19, 1929 – August 3, 2020

Cintra Carter Sander was born in Bryn Mawr, PA, on December 19, 1929.

She left Pennsylvania and moved to Princeton when she married Dr. Richard Huber, a PHD and noted scholar at Princeton University. Unlike many in her generation, Cintra went to college at the art school of Philadelphia, University of the Arts, and became a commercial illustrator. She went on to use her talent for years, illustrating artwork for over 52 Princeton charities and advertising agencies. She was most proud of her work at The Neuro Psychiatric Institute, where she taught the groundbreaking techniques of art therapy to patients.

Cintra’s name was always of interest. When asked, Cintra would reply that her name “Cintra” had been given to the eldest daughter in each generation of her family since 1843. Originating with the daughter of Israel P. Hutchinson, who was nominated to a diplomatic post in Portugal by President James Madison; Cintra Sander is the  fourth generation to carry on the tradition. Her granddaughter Cintra McGauley Sedalik is the sixth Cintra who recently got married in Sintra*, Portugal, at Monserrate Palace. (*spelling was changed in 1900.)

Cintra lived in Princeton for many decades until she moved to Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida, to be with her daughter Cintra H. McGauley and her late husband Lawrence P. McGauley, Esq., and her grandchildren. 

She settled into the lovely Florida sunshine for many years where she was a popular Marsh Landing resident and an active Garden Club leader. She was also a great participant in The Woman’s Club. 

Mrs. Sander is survived by her three children Cintra Huber McGauley and the late Lawrence P. McGauley Esq., Richard Miller Huber Jr. and Lucile Olson Huber, Casilda Carter Huber and Capt. Bill Campbell. She is also survived by her four grandchildren Cintra McGauley Sedalik, Gillan Richard McGauley, Richard Miller Huber III, and Alexandra Lucile Huber. 

Mrs. Sander is also survived by her beloved nephews Michael R. E. Carter, George W. Scudder, and stepson Whitney Sander.

The family will hold a celebration of Cintra’s life when it is safe to do so. Perhaps on her birthday, which is in December, because many friends will need to travel.

August 5, 2020

Obituaries 8/05/2020

Claire Grover Parsells

On July 14, 2020, Claire Grover Parsells, age 93, passed away peacefully after a brief illness and her belief that “it was time to go.”

She was a Princeton native, born March 5th, 1927 to Hermina and John Grover. Her older sister Molly Shallow passed away also at the age of 93 in 2018, while her younger brother Lloyd died at the age of 26 from heart problems.

She was the widow of  H. Richard Parsells, who passed away in 1974, and predeceased by her eldest son Mark. She is survived by her children: Barbara Andazola, Telfair and husband Jerry Steele, Lloyd Parsells, Jaunie and husband Shaun Schooley. She is also survived by grandchildren, Becky Steele, Amanda Bassford, Emily Eldridge, Mercedes Schieu, Amelia Schooley, and Aidan Schooley. Memories of great-grandma will be retold to great-grandkids Malia, Gavin, Grover, Sylvia, and Lucy. 

Always the sporty tomboy, she honed her athletic ability playing with her neighborhood friends of “Jugtown.” Lifelong friendships at Nassau Street Elementary and Miss Fines School, continued through her attendance at Choate Rosemary Hall, Finch College in NYC, and Rider College.

While she may have believed a bad day of golf was better than a good day at work, she enjoyed her various jobs at the Princeton Public Library, Parsells Real Estate, and the Princeton Packet. When not working you could find her on the golf course. Her love of golf was inherited from her father, a “scratch” golfer and repeat club champion at her beloved Springdale. Winning the Women’s championship in 1978 was one of her fondest memories. She also won the Women’s Senior Tournament six times.     

Summers were spent with family and friends at her parents’ home in Mantoloking, N.J.

She was a mother of five, but a mom to many. While a well-kept house may not have been her forte, she made up for it by providing a home on Princeton Avenue, the family’s longtime epicenter, where all were welcome.

She resided in Princeton for 86 years before joining her daughter Jaunie Schooley in Northern California in 2013.

She was, amongst her many attributes, an animal lover, good cook, artist, world traveler, and book lover. She will be remembered not only as a strong willed, smart, and funny woman, but first and foremost, as a mother, grandmother, and great-grandmother whose presence will be greatly missed.

A celebration of her life will take place next summer.

In lieu of flowers, memorial gifts may be made to the Princeton Senior Resource Center (princetonsenior.org) or SAVE (savehomelessanimals.org).

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Marcia Satterthwaite

Marcia Satterthwaite, 71, originally of Haverford, PA, died peacefully in her sleep on August 2, 2020 of complications from progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP).

A longtime resident of Haverford, PA, and Hightstown, NJ, and a graduate of Swarthmore College and the Bryn Mawr School of Social Work, she was a beloved mother, sister, and cousin, and a longtime social worker, travel writer, book lover, and family historian, as well as a co-owner of Tuscan Rentals.

She was predeceased by her parents, Isabel and Alfred Satterthwaite. She is survived by her sons, David (Diane) Wertime and Geoffrey (Philip Zachariah) Wertime, the father of her children, Richard Wertime, her sister, Mare (Sue Coffey) Satterthwaite, and many beloved cousins, including Julia (Phil Kapp) Hough.

An online memorial will be held at 11 a.m. on Sunday, August 9, 2020; email in.memory.of.marcia@gmail.com for details. An in-person ceremony will follow at a later date.

In lieu of flowers, donations may be made in her memory to Cure PSP at psp.org. Extend condolences and share memories at TheKimbleFuneralHome.com.

July 29, 2020

Obituaries 7/29/2020

Joseph Leo Bolster, Jr.

Joseph Leo Bolster, Jr., a beloved father of 14 who built a distinguished career at Princeton University and lived a life dedicated to public service, died on July 21, 2020, at the home of his youngest daughter, Peggy, in Westport, NY. He spent his final weeks surrounded by his 14 children and passed peacefully. Among Joe’s many gifts were an unflagging buoyancy of spirit, a quick, often hilarious wit, and a powerful devotion to community service born of the gratitude he felt for the opportunities afforded him in his lifetime. Joe was an inspiration to his family and to many who knew him, and whenever he entered a room, the good cheer within underwent a noticeable uptick.

The eldest son of Joseph Leo Bolster, Sr. and Jane Carroll Bolster, Joe Bolster was born in Albany, New York, on November 6, 1928, and grew up in Williamstown and Pittsfield, MA. At Pittsfield High School, he was a member of the Student Council, Vice President of the Senior Class, captain of the track team, and Western Massachusetts half-mile champion in 1945 and ’46.

After graduating from Pittsfield High, Joe spent a year in the Army of Occupation in Japan, and then attended The Hill School in Pottstown, PA, from January to June 1948. In September of ‘48, with the help of the GI Bill, he entered Princeton University as part of the Class of 1952. Joe majored in history and became an active member of the school community, joining the Senior Class Council, becoming President of The Princeton Charter Club, and Secretary-Treasurer of the Inter-Club Committee. He ran cross country and track at Princeton, captaining both the freshman and varsity track teams during his four-year career. Joe was a member of the Princeton-Cornell track team that raced against Oxford-Cambridge in 1950. He ran the mile in that meet in a four-man field that included Roger Bannister. On the voyage to England aboardthe MV Georgic, he met his future wife, Sarah “Tink” Murdock. In 1951, Joe was part of the Princeton team that finished second in the 4 x 880 relay at the IC4A Indoor Track and Field Championships, edging out a Fordham team that included future Olympic gold medalist Tom Courtney. The following season, Joe’s Tiger team finished first in the 4 x 880 relay at the Millrose Games at Madison Square Garden.

After graduation, Joe
embarked on a 39-year career at Princeton University. He started in the Bureau of Student Aid and subsequently held positions in the Admissions Office and as Secretary of the Alumni Schools Committees. In 1965, he joined Princeton’s Annual Giving Office, where he spent the next 26 years, 24 of them as Director. During his tenure, the Annual Giving Office raised more than $200 million in fully unrestricted funds for the university. Joe was also a member of the Board of Advisors, the Committee on Minority Affairs, and a coach of the freshman cross country and track teams.

As an offshoot to his Annual Giving work, Joe was a member of the Council for the Advancement and Support of Education (CASE), serving as Middle Atlantic District Chair. In 1989, he was named CASE’s Professional of the Year.

Joe spent his adult life giving back to and volunteering in his communities, never forgetting the windows of opportunity that were opened for him as a schoolboy of modest means from Western Massachusetts. In Princeton, he served as Commissioner of the YMCA Little League Baseball organization, President of the Youth Employment Service (YES), President of the Johnson Park Elementary School PTO, and President of the Friends of Princeton Track. He was one of the founders of Princeton’s Dorothea’s House Scholarship program, which he chaired for more than 25 years. Joe was also a board member at the Princeton YMCA, the Princeton Regional Scholarship Program, the Aquinas Institute, St. Paul’s Church, and the Princeton Blairstown Center (PBC), which provides adventure-based, experiential education to vulnerable youth. Joe helped complete several significant capital initiatives for PBC.

For the Princeton University Class of 1952, Joe joined the Executive Committee after graduation, and also served as president and reunion chairman, among other posts. There is a Joseph L. Bolster, Jr. ’52 scholarship at Princeton.

Elsewhere, Joe served for 15 years as a trustee of the Hill School, and 10 years on the Board of Managers at Camp Dudley, in Westport, NY,

Joe was a member of the Nassau Club, the Princeton Club of New York, the Old Guard of Princeton, and the Nassau Swim Club (where he and Tink became lifetime members after helping the club raise funds for a major renovation in 2005). He was an avid biker in later life, as well as a regular jogger who completed several marathons.

Predeceased by his cherished wife, Tink, Joe is survived by his six daughters (Carrie, Jane, Mary, Martha, Libby, and Peggy), eight sons (Joe, Jim, Andy, Michael, Tom, Charley, John, and Richard), and 20 grandchildren (Martha, Frances, Kate, Bolster, Willa, John, Dana, Henry, Michael Mac, Callye, Jake, Eva, Luke, Jack Henry, Ethan, Clay, Jack Dashiell, Kayla, Magdalena, and Leo), who loved their “Bee-Bo” dearly.

A memorial service will be held on a future date in the Princeton University Chapel. A family burial will be held in the Princeton Cemetery. In lieu of flowers, memorial gifts may be made to Dorothea’s House (dorotheashouse.org), Princeton Blairstown Center (princetonblairstown.org), Princeton University, Class of 1952 Annual Giving (makeagift.princeton.edu), Centurion Ministries (centurion.org), or the Boys and Girls Club of Pittsfield, MA (bgcberkshires.org).

Hoo-ha! Sis Boom Bah! We’ll always miss you, Joe.

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Lynn Rabinowitz

Lynn Rabinowitz passed away on Wednesday, July 22, 2020 at age 75 with her family by her side.

Born in New Orleans, Louisiana, to Harry Lewis Lennard (Lenny) and Ruth Lennard, she lived all across the United States as a child and young woman. Lynn resided in Yardley for the past 54 years.

Her first career was working as a receptionist and bookkeeper with her first husband Barry Rabinowitz, at his pediatric dental practice in Trenton. She was also a successful real estate agent earlier in life and for the past 21 years has been a partner, with her daughter Rachel, at the fashion boutique Hedy Shepard LTD in Princeton.

As a younger woman, Lynn was interested in the arts, loved the ballet and could be found there whenever it was in town. Lynn enjoyed tennis, swimming, her daily morning walks, and was a gardening enthusiast.  She and her husband enjoyed travel and visiting new places. Lynn was a fabulous cook and loved to feed  friends and family. Family was more important to Lynn than anything else.

Lynn is survived by her loving husband, Robert Beckelman; her children, David Rabinowitz (Kathy) and Rachel Reiss (Adam); and her grandchildren Natasha, Jordyn, Jacob, and Addison. She is also survived by her blended family, John Beckelman (Marsha), Barbara Beckelman (Susan), Linda Beckelman (Mark, deceased), and their children and grandchildren.

Private memorial services were held on July 27 at Orland’s Ewing Memorial Chapel. To leave condolences for the family, visit Lynn’s obituary page at orlandsmemorialchapel.com

The family respectfully requests memorial contributions be made to Capital Health Cancer Center directed to Capital Health Development Office at Two Capital Way, Suite 361, Pennington, NJ 08534.

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Joseph Michael Azzara

Joseph Michael Azzara, age 64, of Princeton, NJ, entered into eternal rest Sunday morning, July 19, 2020.

Beloved husband of Barbara Hinkle-Azzara, devoted father of Michael Joseph of Charlotte, NC, and John Thomas of Asbury Park, NJ, and dear brother to Anthony (Sherry) of Jupiter, FL, Patrick of Manhattan, NY, and Carol Ann (Bob) Eberhardt of Palm Bay, FL. Joe was cherished by his loving nieces, nephews, cousins, and many extended family and friends.  

Born April 5, 1956, Joe was raised in Corona and Port Jefferson, New York, son of the late Anthony J. Azzara and Olga Azzara (nee DiNello).  He later moved to Canton, OH, where he began his working life at Republic Steel as an engineer. This was just the first step of an extensive dedicated career that later led him back to New York and the nascent field of Management Information Systems. Joe spent over 20 fruitful years at St. Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital (later Continuum Health Partners and Capgemini) in NYC, and subsequently landed at Accenture where he continued his commitment to hard work and the advancement and encouragement of successful teams and projects. Throughout these years, many of Joe’s colleagues were impacted by his compassionate and supportive leadership style.  

Joe placed his highest priority on raising his two sons – always finding time for soccer tournaments near and far, assisting with schoolwork, and organizing ski trips. His other passions included golfing, taking care of his home – which was never visited by a plumber or an electrician – exploring small towns with his wife, particularly in Italy and France, and enjoying wine and good conversation with family and friends. Joe had an uncanny ability to spot a wine ‘winner’ in advance and took pride in his prescient picks.

Above all, Joe was defined by his strength of character – which was truly evidenced by his unwavering battle with cancer. Joe will be remembered as someone who was easy to talk with, who loved his family, and who held fast to his convictions.

Arrangements are being handled by the MJ Murphy Funeral Home in Monmouth Junction, NJ. Due to the COVID public health emergency, the family did not hold a visitation. The Mass of Christian Burial was held on Saturday, July 25th at St. Augustine of Canterbury, 45 Henderson Road, Kendall Park, NJ 08824. Following the funeral mass, entombment services were privately held for family at Holy Cross Burial Park and Mausoleum in Jamesburg, NJ.

In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to Blavatnik Family Chelsea Medical Center at Mount Sinai Giving @  In Memory of Joseph Azzara.

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Anne Dorothy (Hevner) Sullivan

Anne Dorothy (Hevner) Sullivan, 91, an acclaimed artist, departed this world peacefully on Thursday, July 23, 2020 at Meadow Lakes Retirement Community in E. Windsor, New Jersey.  She was married for 61 years to the late James Leo Sullivan, former Lowell and Cambridge city manager and president of the Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce, who passed away in 2012.

Born March 17, 1929 to Anna (Zemeitus) Hevner and Thomas Benjamin Hevner, Anne grew up in South Boston, Massachusetts with her parents and siblings Dolores (Dorie), Jeanne, and Thomas (Tom) Benjamin Jr.

Since childhood, Anne wanted to study art, however, economic times postponed her dream for some years. In 1948, Anne stayed at Holmes’ Farm in Boscawen, New Hampshire, where she met her husband James. The couple married and began their family – the focus of their lives.

While raising her children, Anne began taking painting and drawing classes, entering local art competitions, and winning regional art awards.  She sold her first prize-winning oil painting, to Red Sox great Carl Yastrzemski and wife Carol in 1968.

Anne began her formal art instruction at Northeastern University in 1969. After completing her associate’s degree, she continued her art study with many classes in new techniques, particularly print making at the De Cordova Museum in Lincoln, MA. In 1975, Anne began working on her B.A. in Art at University of Massachusetts Lowell as one of very few adult day students and graduated in 1977.

Anne was a longtime member of Depot Square Art Gallery in Lexington, Massachusetts, Emerson Umbrella in Concord, Massachusetts, and a founding member of the Brush Art Gallery in Lowell. She was a signature member of the International Society of Experimental Artists, National Association of Women Artists, National League of American Pen Women, New England Watercolor Society, Copley Society of Boston – Copley Artist, and the Monotype Guild of New England.

Anne was an art instructor for the summer Aid to Individual Development program at University of Massachusetts at Lowell, where she worked with incoming freshmen who were first generation college students. In later years, she worked in Boston as an art consultant assisting banks and businesses in art acquisition for office spaces. She continued to teach at many venues, including the Whistler House Museum in Lowell, MA, where its Parker Gallery hosted her 2009 retrospective show when she turned 80.

Anne was a lifelong learner; always open to new ideas and developing many of her own during her 40 years in the art field, including print making, collagraphs, paper making, collage, and mixed media. She drew art inspiration from nature, and was known for her evocative watercolors as well as creative use of color and texture in experimental works. As her eclectic style became known both nationally and internationally, Anne was recognized by the National Association of Women Artists and the International Society of Experimental Artists, as well as named in “Who’s Who in American Art,” “Who’s Who in the East,” “Who’s Who in America,” and “Who’s Who in the World.”

Anne is survived by her four children and their spouses: Dr. Maura Ammendolia and her husband Anthony of Conway, New Hampshire; Mark Sullivan and his wife Elizabeth of Falmouth, Maine; Lianne Sullivan-Crowley and her wife Julie of Princeton, New Jersey; and Christopher Sullivan and his wife Kristin of Concord, New Hampshire. In addition, Anne leaves seven grandchildren: Cara (Ammendolia) Faria and her husband Adam of Westford, Massachusetts; Erin Sullivan of Cambridge, Massachusetts; James Sullivan of Cleveland, Ohio; Anne and Elizabeth Sullivan-Crowley of Princeton, New Jersey; and Jake and Quinn Sullivan of Concord, New Hampshire, as well as two great-grandsons, Wyatt and Leo Faria of Westford, Massachusetts.

Anne is also survived by her sister Dorie Docherty and her husband Edgar Eugene (Doc); her brother Thomas B. Hevner Jr. and his wife Anne; as well as several nieces and nephews, their spouses, and children. In addition to her parents, her sister Jeanne Weathers and Jeanne’s husband John Weathers predeceased her.

A private service will be held in the chapel at New Hampshire Veterans Cemetery in Boscawen (the town where they met) on Friday, August 7, at 11 a.m. where Anne will be laid to rest with her husband James.

In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the New England Watercolor Society, PO Box 170140, Boston, MA 02117.  E-condolences may be sent to the Kimble Funeral Home website at www.thekimblefuneralhome.com.

July 22, 2020

Obituaries 7/22/2020

The Reverend Robert E. Sanders

The Reverend Robert E. Sanders, Pastor Emeritus, Princeton Theological Seminary, died peacefully, surrounded by his family, at the age of 96 on July 16, 2020, from complications of pneumonia, not related to Covid-19.

Born on June 26, 1924, in Steubenville, Ohio, Bob was the son of Frederick P. and Lucille H. (McCoy) Sanders, and is predeceased by brothers, Maurice and Frederick. He was educated in the Steubenville public school system, received a Bachelor of Arts in History from Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, in 1947, and a Master of Divinity from Princeton Theological Seminary in 1955.

Bob was an ordained Presbyterian minister, and following Seminary he served as the assistant minister of the First Presbyterian Church in Englewood, New Jersey. He was called to serve as Assistant to the President of Princeton Theological Seminary, under the Rev. Dr. John A Mackay, and subsequently under Seminary President James I. McCord.

In the early 1960s, Bob worked for the Board of National Missions of the Presbyterian Church, U.S.A. serving as the Eastern Area Director for the division of radio and television. In 1964, he was called as the senior minister of the First Presbyterian Church, Utica, New York, and in 1969, the First Presbyterian Church, Ann Arbor, Michigan, called him as the senior minister, a position he held until 1978. He subsequently served as the senior minister of the First Presbyterian Church, Greenwich, Connecticut. In 1981, he returned to Princeton
Theological Seminary as Pastor to the Seminary, a position he held until his retirement in 1989.

Bob was a passionate amateur astronomer and built an observatory to house a large telescope that he enjoyed for many years, and shared his interest in American history as a volunteer tour guide for the Princeton Historical Society.  Bob retired in 1989, and realized his dream of living in Vermont full-time, after spending almost every summer vacation of his married life there. In the early years of his 30-year retirement in Waterbury, Vermont, Bob enjoyed working as an on-air host for WEZF
Radio Station in Burlington, Vermont. He also served as the interim minister of the Second Congregational Church (UCC) in St. Johnsbury, Vermont, the College Street Congregational Church (UCC) in Burlington, Vermont, and the First Congregational Church (UCC) in Morrisville, Vermont.  He was also frequently invited to lead services of worship at the Stowe Community Church in Stowe, Vermont.

Bob was a devoted husband of Isabelle Peck Sanders for 57 years. He is survived by his wife, Belle, sons Mark and David, and daughter-in-law Bronwen Sanders.

A memorial service will be held at Miller Chapel on the campus of Princeton Theological Seminary at a future date to be determined. A private interment service will be at Princeton Cemetery. Memorial contributions can be made in memory of Robert E. Sanders to: Princeton Theological Seminary, Office of Scholarship Support, P.O. Box 821, Princeton, NJ  08542.

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Albert C. Barclay, Jr.

Albert C. Barclay, Jr., 88, of East Lansing, Michigan, a resident of Princeton for nearly 50 years, died July 17th in East Lansing.

Born in Trenton, N.J., in 1932 to Albert and Marion Barclay, Ace (as he was known to his friends) was raised in Cranbury. He was a graduate of The Peddie School, Yale University, and Harvard Law School. He also earned a Master of Taxation degree from the NYU Law School.

Ace was a local attorney for over 50 years, operating a law office in Princeton and then in Kingston. Ace’s passions were photography, computers, cars, and motorcycles. He also had a love for all things outdoors — including hiking, canoeing, bicycling, and running. In his mountain climbing years, Ace summited the Grand Teton, Mount Rainer, Mount Whitney, and Monte Rosa (in Italy). 

He is also fondly remembered by his kids and their friends as a dedicated sports coach (baseball, soccer). An avid traveler, Ace and his wife Marge took their kids and their extended family on trips to expose them to the broader world.

Ace had a lifelong love of Chautauqua Institution, and the ideals it embodies – the arts, community, justice, religion, and service.  In his later years, he served as the honorary ambassador for the community table at the Athenaeum hotel – sharing a meal and a glass of wine with any and all looking for friendship and fellowship.

A lifelong Rotarian, Ace was a Past President of the Rotary Club of Princeton.  He was an Elder at Nassau Presbyterian Church, a long-standing member of the Nassau Club, and was also a Board Member at the local animal shelter SAVE.

Ace was predeceased by his wife of 47 years, Margaret (Marge) Barclay. He is survived by three children: Albert Barclay III (Meredith) of Atlanta, GA; Lee Reimann (Christopher) of East Lansing, MI; and Elizabeth Livingston of New York City; his sister Florence Winston of Raleigh, NC; and seven grandchildren – Clay, Parker, Burke, Lain, Lila, Carter, and Robert.

He will be remembered at a graveside service in Chautauqua, NY, in October of this year.

In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to The Chautauqua Fund, P.O. Box 28, Chautauqua, N.Y. 14722 or https://giving.chq.org/apply-my-annual-gift-wherever-it-is-needed-most.

July 15, 2020

Obituaries 7/15/2020

Harriet E. Bogdonoff

Harriet Joy Eisenberg Bogdonoff passed away peacefully on July 5th in Portland, Maine. Beloved by many for her quiet wisdom and caring presence, she listened and rarely judged. Harriet will be deeply missed and always remembered.

Harriet was born December 14, 1922 in New York City and spent her early years living on the beach in Edgemere. She attended Hunter College as a math major, and worked in the statistics lab teaching others how to use the new computing machines. She was head of the math honors society, and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts, cum laude, in mathematics in 1943. Thinking she would find employment in one of the research labs nearby, she was told they were not hiring women.

Harriet ultimately found a job with the US Government at NACA, the precursor to NASA, and she left for Langley Field in Virginia, her first time out of NYC. She was to work for Seymour Bogdonoff, a young aeronautical engineer designing airplanes for the war effort, who had requested an engineer, not a mathematician. They overcame that obstacle and soon were inseparable. They married in October 1944.

In 1946 Seymour accepted the offer of a research assistant position at Princeton University, where over the next few years he built one of the foremost labs in the world for wind tunnel research into supersonic and hypersonic gas dynamics — then a new field. For more than 60 years, Seymour and Harriet were both active in the Princeton community, and were founding members of the Jewish Community Center.

Harriet worked at the forerunner of ETS (Educational Testing Service), in the math construction department, creating questions for the college board and SATs, and in the computer lab at Princeton University. After the birth of her first child, she turned to volunteer work. She was instrumental in starting a holistic health organization, a new approach at the time. She was interested in alternative health options, practicing yoga for many years and holding weekly meditation groups in her living room years later.

As a volunteer, she provided job placement advice for recently divorced homemakers and underemployed older women. Truly a lifelong learner, Harriet took a counseling class to improve her skills, and continued on to receive a Master of Education in Counseling and Guidance, from Trenton State College, in 1977. After graduation, she worked on a literacy grant to teach older adults how to read. She found such pleasure in helping others and had wonderful stories of the people she had met.

At the Mercer County Community Action Council, she provided training, jobs, and follow-up for people in poverty.  When the grant was not renewed, she went back to school for her social work degree. In 1982, at age 60, she graduated from Rutgers, Graduate School of Social Work, with a Master of Social Work.  She did her internship at Cornerhouse in Princeton, a counseling center for teenagers, and then at Jewish Family Services in Trenton, working with the elderly population, where she found her life’s work. She was there for many years, leaving only when her two weeks of vacation made world travel difficult. She started a private practice that she continued until she moved to Maine.

As part of her practice she worked with one of the first retirement communities in the area, providing residents with counseling and discussion groups around isolation, health concerns, and issues with their children. She was among the first group of social workers to work specifically with the elderly and to recognize that they had their own set of needs and issues. She became a National Certified Gerontological Counselor in 1991. She was also active in the Princeton Senior Resource Center where she received an award for outstanding achievement, and represented Princeton at the White House Conference on Aging. During that time, she started an information and referral service for corporate workers dealing with issues with their elderly parents. Funded initially by IBM, many other companies signed up for this service, her database surpassing anything else available. 

In 1992 Harriet, and three friends decided something had to be done to promote aging in place in Princeton. Community Without Walls (CWW) came into being. Starting with one house (chapter) of 75 – 100 members, they wrote a constitution and by-laws, and became a 501c3. Harriet served as resident gerontology expert, nudge, muse, President, and Board member. CWW continues, now with six houses, and is a national model for aging in place.

In 2001 Harriet was the New Jersey Geronotogist of the Year. Her keen mind, generosity, and quiet persistence profoundly changed the lives of seniors in Princeton and the surrounding communities.

Travel was a lifelong love. When Seymour was asked to lecture on his research in each NATO country, off they went with their three children (ages 2, 5, and 7), for seven months of travel throughout Europe — doing reading and math lessons as they drove. Five years later, they took off again with their family for another seven months (having toured the U.S. the summer before). From then on they planned a trip or two every year, often traveling with their good friends Roz and Norm.

The list of places they visited reads like a world atlas, and includes destinations like the Soviet Union, South America, Egypt, China, India, Vietnam, Laos, Jordon, Indonesia, Antarctica, Kenya, Mongolia, and Mali, actually traveling to Constantinople and Timbuktu.  Harriet continued traveling after Seymour died, visiting Guatemala, Alaska, the Netherlands, Japan, and Budapest into her late 80s and early 90s.   

In 2008, three years after her husband died, she left her close community in Princeton to move nearer to her daughter in Portland, Maine, where she made a new life for herself. She volunteered at Osher Life Long Learning, continued to take classes, served on the community board at The Atrium, an independent living community where she settled, and made many new friends. She ate numerous lobster rolls, a long-time favorite.

Harriet is survived by her daughter Sondra Bogdonoff (Jamie Johnston), and her son Alan Bogdonoff (Estelle Gross Bogdonoff), five grandchildren (Nemo, Caitlin, Jake, Emma, Noah) and two great-grandchildren (Scout and June). She is predeceased by her sister Doris Silberstein, her adored husband Seymour, and her beloved daughter Zelda.

She included many others among her extended family, from younger friends, to relatives’ children to her friends’ children and grandchildren. Across the generations, all received her love and attention. She was curious and open-minded, never satisfied with an easy answer. She was always there when someone needed to talk, and shared her knowledge and expertise with grace and generosity. 

Memorial contributions can be made to: The Good Sheppard Food Bank of Maine, P.O. Box 1807, Auburn, ME 04211-1807 or to the charity of your choice.

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Hedwig H.C. Dekker

Hedwig H.C. Dekker, a longtime resident of Princeton, died peacefully at her home on July 10th, 2020 at the age of 99. Her death followed that of her beloved husband of 53 years and all of her siblings.

Hedwig, known to all as Henny, was born on June 10th, 1921 in Indonesia to Dutch parents. While she had very fond memories of her childhood in Indonesia, adequate local schooling was not available so her parents decided that it was best for her and her siblings to get an education in The Netherlands. At the age of 7, she and her older brother were brought to Holland to attend school. Life without her parents was difficult and got even worse when the Germans occupied Holland. Henny lived in Amsterdam during most of the war and endured the Dutch Famine of 1944-1945 (Hongerwinter) while half a world away her father was a Japanese prisoner of war. These memories of her early life were very vivid to Henny and she talked about them constantly and in great detail to those who cared for her in her final years.   

After the war, Henny studied physical therapy at the Mensendieck Institute in Amsterdam. By the time her parents returned to The Netherlands, she had met her future husband, the mathematician Jim Dekker, whom she followed to the U.S. in 1949. They were married in 1951. As a young academic couple they lived in Syracuse, Chicago, Princeton, Kansas City, and New Brunswick until they finally settled in Princeton in 1969. 

For many years Henny worked as a physiotherapist at Roosevelt Hospital in Edison, NJ, where she was well loved and respected by the staff and patients alike. She retired in 1986. 

Henny was a very giving person. There was not a charity that knocked on her door that was left empty-handed. She also helped friends and family whenever they needed it. She felt very blessed in her life and was grateful for everything that came her way. She will be missed by all of those that had the good fortune of knowing her.

A memorial gathering will take place when it is safe to do so.

Burial arrangements will be under the direction of Mather-Hodge Funeral Home, Princeton, NJ.

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Carol Hamilton

Carol Hamilton, age 80, passed away at home in the early morning of July 6th, 2020 after a two-year struggle with ovarian cancer. She passed in the home she’d lived in for nearly 50 years, surrounded by her family.

Carol Hamilton (nee Dudrick) was born on March 11th, 1940 in Nanticoke, Pennsylvania, a town centered around Anthracite coal mining with a strong legacy of Polish American immigrants. She graduated from Nanticoke High School and received her undergraduate degree from Penn State University. She was teaching at Widener Memorial School (Philadelphia, PA) when she met her future husband, S. Sutton Hamilton III, who was a resident in psychiatry at the University of Pennsylvania.

Carol had a lifelong interest in cooking and baking and originated a catering business, “Scandinavian Flair,” with her dear friend, Sue Johnson. Carol cooked along with Sue for years until returning to teaching, where she taught children with learning disabilities at the Newgrange School and finishing her teaching career at the Bridge Academy in Trenton, New Jersey. She cultivated expertise in the instruction of children experiencing difficulty in learning to read and was known for her patient and caring manner. While never a particular fan of travel by prop plane, she traveled all over the United States — including trips over the Rockies to Alaska — in the co-pilot seat of the Cessna flown by her husband.

Carol’s life centered around her family and her deep Christian faith. She was particularly active at the Stone Hill Church where she led weekly Bible study. Perhaps, above everything, she is best known and loved for her extraordinary kindness and patience. It is difficult to meet someone who knew Carol who did not comment on her remarkable concern for the wellness of others over herself. She was famous for her handwritten notes that she wrote — without expectation of return — to anyone she thought was suffering or might otherwise benefit from a personal and concrete example of kindness. 

Carol will forever be beloved and remembered for her exemplary kindness, extraordinary concern for others, and her endless capacity to put the needs of others ahead of her own. She is desperately mourned and missed by her husband of over 50 years, S. Sutton Hamilton III as well as her two children — S. Sutton Hamilton IV (Jessica) of Haddonfield, NJ, and Julie C. Hamilton (Alex) of Arlington, VA. She is also survived and similarly missed by her brother Jack Dudrick, her sister Joan McBean and her grandchildren Sophia, Micah, Cleo, Liam, and Aiden.

Special thanks to Richard Lee, MD and Laurie and Carmella of Princeton Hospice.

A celebration of life memorial service is planned for 2021.

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Sally Hagen Schmid

Sally Hagen Schmid, 77, passed away peacefully on July 1, 2020, at Sandhill Cove Retirement Community in Palm City, Florida, where she was an active resident for the past 10 years.

Sally grew up in Princeton, New Jersey, and graduated from Ms. Fine’s School then attended Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs, New York. She married in 1961 and had three children.  Following a divorce, she relocated to Hawaii to be near her family.  She worked in banking and married Albert Schmid in 1976. She was a long-term member and supporter of the Junior League of Honolulu, serving a term as President. In 1994, Sally moved back to the mainland, eventually settling permanently in Florida in 1998. During her time at Sandhill Cove she served on several committees and enjoyed living in the community.

Sally had a remarkable memory and a thirst for knowledge. She was once a contestant on Jeopardy and carried that skill throughout adulthood as an avid trivia player (and frequent champion). She was inquisitive and adventurous – she loved traveling the world on cruise ships and, in later years, reading multiple books a week, doing jigsaw puzzles and socializing with friends. She always loved meeting, talking to, and learning about people and was easy to share her quick wit. Sally (aka Gigi) especially loved watching her three grandchildren grow into adulthood.

She was preceded in death by her husband Albert; her son Thomas; and parents Ruth and Ralph Hagen. She is survived by daughters Kathleen Kerney and Barbara Kerney Phelan, son-in-law Stephen, and grandchildren Sara, Timothy, and Kevin Phelan as well as her sister Nancy Hagen Spaulding.

Sally’s wish was to have a celebration of life at Sandhill Cove which may be scheduled at a later date. She was an advocate of education and donations in her memory can be made to provide scholarship assistance to employees and their children: Sandhill Cove Foundation, 1500 SW Capri Street, Palm City, FL 34990. 

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William E. Vandermark

William E. Vandermark passed away suddenly, at the young age of 70, on Friday, July 10, 2020, surrounded by his loved ones.

Billy was born and raised in Princeton and resided in Lawrenceville for the past 12 years. He was a fan of classic cars, was an ace mechanic, and was an avid camper.  He also enjoyed spending time with his family and friends.

Billy was the son of the late Warren P. and Daisy Bastedo Vandermark. In addition to his parents, Billy was preceded in death by his brothers Warren P. Vandermark and Arthur D. Vandermark.

He is survived by his loving wife, Pamela L. Vandermark; two daughters Anne Kahwaty (Albert) and Susan Vandermark; and one son Robert Vandermark (Kelly). Billy is also survived by his grandchildren Ronald and Katelyn Heil and Michael Kahwaty; two step-daughters Kimberly McBride and Katie Furfey; and several cousins, nieces, and nephews. In addition to his family, Billy is also survived by his lifetime friends, the Moore Brothers, several other close friends, and his sidekick, Casey.

At this time there will be no services.

Donations may be made in Billy’s name to the American Cancer Society, P.O. Box 22478, Oklahoma City, OK 73123 (donate3.cancer.org), Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation at JDRF, PO Box 37920, Boone, IA 50037 (JDRF.org), or to a charity of donor’s choice. 

Extend condolences and share memories at TheKimbleFuneralHome.com.

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Nancy S. Klath

Nancy S. Klath, age 79, of Princeton, New Jersey, died on July 11, 2020, at home.

She was born in Cleveland, Ohio, and resided in the suburbs of that city, where she attended public schools. She graduated from Wellesley College in 1963 where she majored in history, and received a master’s degree in information science from Drexel University in Philadelphia in 1968. After leaving Wellesley she worked for a year in Boston as a pension trust analyst for the New England Mutual Insurance Company, and following marriage to Norman in 1964 they moved to Brooklyn Heights in New York City, where she began part-time work as a researcher for the Grolier Society. In 1966 the couple moved to Princeton, NJ, where they have resided since.

Following her degree from Drexel, she began a career as a professional librarian at Princeton University. She spent 28 wonderful years working in various capacities both in public and technical services, ending up as Deputy University Librarian for eight years and finally as University Librarian for two years. She retired in 1996, one year after her husband retired from JP Morgan.

Together they pursued a long-standing interest in gardening, with a large greenhouse and extensive outdoor perennial gardens, where over the years they hosted many garden tours, primarily for benefits of local nonprofits but also for membership groups like the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society and the North American Rock Garden Society. The couple also traveled extensively following their retirements.  Even while both working, they took annual vacations in Barbados in February, a tradition that continued for nearly 45 years with over 50 visits. They traveled extensively throughout Europe, including the Baltic, Mediterranean, and Black Seas. England and Scotland were each visited at least once annually over a period of 15 years, along with numerous visits to France, Italy, Spain, and Norway. They also traveled widely in North America, particularly to the Northeast and Midwest, where they had family and close friends, as well as numerous times to Arizona and Canada. Nancy loved to swim, needlepointed continuously, and read widely, especially history and mystery books.

She served many years on the Council of the Friends of the Princeton University Library, including two years as President. She also served six years on the Council of the Friends of the Princeton Public Library, as well as numerous years on the Board of the Princeton Adult School and as co-chair of its lectures committee.  She was an active member of Community Without Walls House 5 from its initial establishment until her death.

Nancy was preceded in death by her parents, Marie G. Stark and Hawley E. Stark.  She is survived by her sister, Emilie Kaden and partner Nancy Tobias of West Newton, MA; by nephew Joshua Kaden and his wife Giulia Cox of New York City; by nephew Matthew Kaden of Memphis, TN; and by nephew William Schmiedeskamp and his wife Carie Levin of Mason City, IA. Also surviving is Nancy’s husband of 56 years, Norman R. Klath of Princeton, NJ.

Memorial donations may be made to the Princeton Medical Center Foundation or the Princeton Senior Resource Center. Arrangements are under the direction of The Mather-Hodge Funeral Home.

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Barbara W. Pierce

Barbara W. Pierce, formerly of Princeton, died on June 29 at the age of 101 years. Following a brief illness, she died from natural causes at Bear Creek Senior Living in West Windsor, NJ, where she had resided in recent years.

Born June 9, 1919 to parents Ernest S. Winterburn and Jessie Hounslea Winterburn, Barbara was raised in Fairfield and Nichols, CT, where she attended local schools. A graduate of Warren Harding High School in Bridgeport, CT, she completed a two-year course of study at Weylister Junior College in Milton, CT, now incorporated as part of the University of Bridgeport.

At a young age, her father immigrated with his parents to Connecticut from Bradford, England. Her mother was a direct descendant of Roger Williams, founding father of the colony of Rhode Island and pioneer of American religious liberty. Barbara was predeceased by her husband of 56 years, Henry (Hank) Wilder Pierce, Jr., whom she married on June 28, 1941.

Barbara had an active mind and was an avid reader, creative homemaker, and accomplished cook. She was an exquisite, lifelong knitter and possessed a natural talent for flower arranging. A gracious hostess, Barbara loved to entertain, and her warm, easy hospitality was regularly enjoyed by her family, her many friends, and a steady stream of out-of-town guests. She had an outgoing, vivacious personality and, often surprising those who didn’t know her well, possessed a quick, clever, and incisive wit.

Barbara and her husband were frequent travelers, enjoying many international trips with Dartmouth College’s alumni travel program, and particularly with the Dartmouth Class of ’37 alumni trips. They also enjoyed spending winter months at their Caribbean home in Bequia, B.W.I.

A long-standing member of Princeton’s Nassau Presbyterian Church, The Present Day Club, and The Nassau Club, Barbara was a devoted wife and mother, good and loyal friend and neighbor, and active community volunteer. As a young bride living in Stratford, CT, during World War II, she rolled bandages for the Red Cross in support of the war effort. Moving several times during her husband’s lifelong career with the General Electric Company until his retirement, she was a supportive, corporate GE wife, repeatedly packing up their growing family of three children and establishing a new home and life in a new community.

After her husband was transferred to York, PA, Barbara was an active member of the York County Hospital Women’s Auxiliary and the Junior Women’s Club of York. When later living in Verona, NJ, she co-founded a new chapter of the Junior Women’s Clubs (a branch of the General Federation of Women’s Clubs, a national organization); was active in the PTA of North Caldwell, NJ’s schools; was a board member of Princeton’s Present Day Club, at one time serving as its Treasurer; and volunteered at Nassau Presbyterian Church. A resident of Princeton for more than 50 years, Barbara worked for several years on the Princeton Medical Center’s annual Rummage Sale.

She is survived by her three children: Bonnie Pierce Stevenson and husband J. Robert Stevenson of Summit, NJ; Wendy Pierce Evans and husband Larry A. Evans of Princeton, NJ; and Jay Wilder Pierce of Denver, CO. Barbara is also survived by four grandchildren: Christine Stevenson Willeford of Benicia, CA; Andrew Pierce Stevenson of Summit, NJ; and Natalie Louise Pierce and Samuel Wilder Pierce, both of Denver, CO; as well as three great-grandchildren. Also surviving her is her sister Sally Arline Nichols of Shelton, CT, and two nephews.

A private service and burial were held at Princeton Cemetery on July 10. Arrangements were by The Mather-Hodge Funeral Home, Princeton. Donations in her memory may be made to The Present Day Club Preservation Fund through the Community Foundation of New Jersey, P.O. Box 338, Morristown, NJ 07963.

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Susan (Suzy) Bell Trowbridge

Susan (Suzy) Bell Trowbridge, 78, of Princeton, NJ, passed away peacefully on July 4, surrounded by her adoring four sons and husband of 53 years, James W. Trowbridge. Suzy was born in Chicago, IL, the second daughter of Joseph and Sallie Bell, raised in Winnetka, IL, and educated at Woodlands Academy (‘59) and Newton College of the Sacred Heart (‘63), now Boston College.  

Suzy taught at an elementary school and then was a feature writer for the Chicago Tribune’s “Women’s Page,” before marrying Jimmy on April 1, 1967. Together, they embarked on an adventurous odyssey following Jimmy’s postings with the Ford Foundation’s regional offices in Jamaica, Mexico, Peru, Washington DC, and New York, which brought the family to Princeton, NJ, in 1978. Suzy next worked with the new Forrestal Village’s commercial marketing, followed by several years’ writing the Town Topics’ commercial column, “It’s New To Us,” and then for the past 35 years as a broker associate with the Henderson family’s real estate firms, now Callaway Henderson Sotheby’s International Realty.

Suzy’s bright light, warm smile, and her gracious, joyful manner immediately engaged and was loved by everyone she met, wherever she went. She was highly active in supporting her sons at each of their schools and was an enthusiastic participant in each community’s arts, music, and sports.  

She delighted in introducing her four sons and daughters-in-law, Jamie (Shannon O’Neil), Jeb (Ali Trowbridge), Mark (Sylmarie Trowbridge), and Matthew (Suzanne Cunningham), and nine grandchildren to her countless friends. Suzy lived for her relationships, exemplified being other-directed, and was always ready to lend support in her upbeat, cheerful way. She was fun and truly embraced life as an adventure. 

Suzy is also survived by her three sisters, Sallie Bulley (Kenilworth, IL), Bonnie Pacelli (Winnetka, IL), and Betsy Riley (Princeton, NJ).  

Gifts in Suzy’s memory may be made to HandsTogether.org, to support Susan Trowbridge Scholarships for the higher education and empowerment of selected young women living in Haiti’s poorest areas.

Arrangements by the Blackwell Memorial Home. For condolences, go to blackwellmh.com.

July 8, 2020

Obituaries 7/8/2020

Henry Read Martin

Longtime New Yorker cartoonist Henry Read Martin (who signed his cartoons H. Martin) died on June 30, 2020, just two weeks shy of his 95th birthday. For a man who had dealt with serious heart issues since he was 15, his sweet, loving, funny ticker sure gave him his money’s worth. 

Also known as Hank, Martin was born in Louisville, KY, where he attended public schools until entering Texas Country Day School in Dallas, TX, now known as St. Mark’s School of Texas. He graduated from Princeton University in 1948, after which he attended the American Academy of Art in Chicago. Hank then headed back East and began his 45-year career with The New Yorker magazine. He sold his first drawing — known as a “spot” (the small drawing inside a story) — to The New Yorker in April 1950, though it was another four years before he sold his first cartoon there. He was also a longtime contributor to Punch magazine and The Spectator in England and for 15 years had a daily syndicated newspaper cartoon called “Good News/Bad News.”  Collections of his cartoons included Good News/Bad News and Yak! Yak! Yak! Blah! Blah! Blah!, both published by Charles Scribner’s Sons. Hank received the National Cartoonist’s Society’s Gag Cartoon Award in 1978 and also illustrated many books published by Peter Pauper Press.

In 1953 Hank married Edith (Edie) Matthews and they settled in Princeton, NJ, where they raised their two daughters and Edie taught pre-school. It was Edie who noticed a sign for a one-room office for rent across the street from the Princeton University Press that became Hank’s studio for close to 40 years. For years he commuted to it on his bicycle and friends often stopped by his window to say hello. Despite working with pen and ink, Hank always wore a coat and tie to work “because you never know when someone is going to stop by and ask you to lunch.” In fact, every Thursday for over 10 years, Hank and other Princeton cartoonists such as Arnold Roth, Clarence Brown, and Mike Ramus met regularly for lunch at the (now defunct) Annex Restaurant on Nassau Street. 

On Wednesdays Hank would take the bus into New York “to peddle his wares” at The New Yorker, Good Housekeeping, Ladies’ Home Journal, and The Saturday Evening Post. Wednesday was “Look Day” at The New Yorker where the cartoon editor chose potential cartoons from each artist. Hank capped those days with lunch with the New Yorker cartoonists, a group often consisting of some combination of George Booth, Roz Chast, Sid Harris, Lee Lorenz, Nurit Karlin, Mort Gerberg, Sam Gross, Frank Modell, Jack Ziegler, Warren Miller, and Peter Porges (who usually sold his drawings elsewhere but regularly joined the lunch). It was a long-held tradition: in the 1940s the cartoonists’ lunch included such luminaries as Charles Addams, Charles Saxon, Barney Tobey, Whitney Darrow, and William Steig.

In Princeton, Hank served on the boards of several local Princeton organizations including SAVE, McCarter Theatre, and Friends of the Princeton Public Library. The Special Collections at Princeton University Library holds over 500 of his original cartoons published in The New Yorker and other publications along with 680 pen drawings for the famous New Yorker ‘spots.’ Also included in the collection is a complete set of his illustrated books and other archival materials. Hank also contributed cartoons and drawings to the Princeton Alumni Weekly as well as other Princeton University-themed mailings throughout his career and into retirement. In addition, the Morgan Library in New York City holds eight of his cartoons in its permanent collection.

Hank and Edie remained in Princeton until moving to Pennswood Village in Newtown, PA, in 1998. Edie predeceased him in 2010. He is survived by his sister Adele Vinsel of Louisville, KY, two daughters, “The Baby-Sitters Club” author Ann M. Martin and Jane Read Martin, as well as son-in-law Douglas McGrath, grandson Henry, and eight nieces and nephews.

A memorial service will be planned for a later date when it is safe to congregate.

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Christine Wainwright

Christine Wainwright, known to all as Nina, passed away on June 26, 2020 having waged a brave, three-year-long battle with cancer. She was surrounded by her daughter, Alex, her fiancé, John H. (Skip) Warvel III, and close friends. Nina was the daughter of the late Nicholas Biddle Wainwright and Christine (Tina) Henry Wainwright of Gwynedd, PA. Nina was born in Philadelphia, PA, graduated cum laude from both Germantown Academy and Trinity College in Hartford, CT. She earned her MBA from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. 

After receiving her MBA, she began her storied career in corporate bond sales at Lehman Brothers in NYC where, as a role model for young women in the world of finance, she rose to the position of Managing Director, an extraordinary accomplishment for a woman at that time. Following her retirement from Lehman Brothers she acted as a consultant for the Rockefeller Foundation.

Nina had a lifelong love for music. She starred in college musicals such as Kiss Me Kate and was the Director of the Wharton Follies while pursuing her MBA. In New York City, she was an active member of the Blue Hill Troupe, and she was on the board of the Singer’s Forum. When she moved to Princeton, she became active with the Princeton Symphony. As a member of the PSO board, she founded the Pops Series which remains one of the highlights of Princeton’s musical events. As a member of the Westminster Choir College Dean’s Advisory Council, she was involved with strategic planning of the College. She created the Philip A. Campanella Memorial Scholarship as an endowment to support Westminster Choir College undergraduate voice majors with a minor in musical theater. In collaboration with Phil, her friend, mentor and accompanist, she recorded the album If I Ever Love Again, a valued keepsake for family and friends.

Nina also sat on the board of Andalusia and contributed greatly to the museum which was her family’s ancestral home. Nina was devoted to Andalusia and was a generous benefactor for many years. She took great pride in assisting and advising on the upkeep and horticulture of the property, as well as the family genealogy.

Nina was a passionate athlete and outdoors enthusiast. She was an accomplished figure skater, tennis player, and loved to ski and hike the mountains near her home in Beaver Creek, Colorado. Nina was an experienced equestrian who enjoyed practicing dressage with her horse, Nobby, locally and in the summers exploring on horseback the mountains of Wyoming near her favorite ranch. Her love of nature was reflected in the gardens she lovingly created at her home which were enjoyed by many from her porch. 

Nina’s friends were her family. She drew them close to her with her natural charm, generosity, infectious humor, and loyalty. She never judged differences; she celebrated them. Nina often said her friends were a prism; they reflected the many facets of what she felt was meaningful in life. Those who were part of her sisterhood were grateful. Nina’s greatest joy and accomplishment was her daughter, Alex. She carries and exudes the grace of her mother. 

Christine Wainwright is survived by her daughter, Alexandra Henry Wainwright Sowanick, of Princeton, NJ; her fiancé, John H. Warvel, III; her beloved dog, Baxter; her cousins Richard S. Auchincloss, Jr. of St. David’s, PA, Thomas F. D. Auchincloss of St. David’s, PA, Dorothea H. Schnorr of Philadelphia, PA, Ansie S. Monaghan of Princeton, NJ, and James C. Biddle, of Bryn Mawr, PA.

A private family service was held near her family home in Gwynedd, PA.

In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the Glioblastoma Foundation, P.O. Box 62066, Durham, N.C., 27715 (email: info@glioblastomafoundation.org);  or SAVE, a friend to homeless animals, 1010 Route 601, Skillman, NJ, 08558 (email: save@savehomelessanimals.org).

Arrangements are under the direction of Mather-Hodge Funeral Home, Princeton, NJ.

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Robert Moody Laughlin

Robert Moody Laughlin died in Alexandria, Virginia, as the result of the current pandemic on May 28, 2020.

Bob was born in Princeton, May 29, 1934, the son of Leslie Irwin Laughlin and Roberta Howe Laughlin. He was the youngest of four sons, including Leighton, James, and Ledlie. The family moved to Princeton when Bob’s father was appointed Assistant Dean for Admissions at the University.  He built one of the earliest houses on Drakes Corner Road where Bob and his three brothers were raised. Bob fondly remembered the family turning a part of their Drakes Corner property into a Victory Garden during World War II. The few Princeton University students still on campus volunteered to work along with Bob and his older brothers to make it a success.

Bob attended the Princeton Country Day School before continuing his education at the South Kent School in Connecticut. He graduated from Princeton University as an English major with the Class of 1956 and went on to Harvard to achieve a PhD in Anthropology in 1963. These two contrasting learning experiences convinced him that Princeton was far more attentive to students than Harvard. He remained a loyal tiger.

While a graduate student Bob married Miriam Elizabeth Wolfe. His graduate experience at Harvard included participation in the Harvard Chiapas Project. This took him and his young family to the highlands of southern Mexico to study the modern Maya and acquire one of its languages. His fascination with the Maya resulted in Bob’s 17-year effort to produce a dictionary of one of the 30 surviving Maya languages. Its 36,000 entries challenged the prevailing mistaken supposition that indigenous American languages possessed limited vocabularies. Bob’s Great Tzotzil Dictionary Of San Lorenzo Zinacantan remains the largest compilation of any indigenous American language.

Bob’s work with the Maya in Mexico was shared with his wife, Mimi, and their two children, Liana and Reese. His appointment as curator of Mesoamerican ethnology at the Smithsonian kept him in Washington, D.C., half of each year. Bob and his family spent the other half in San Cristobal de Las Casas, the colonial capital of Chiapas state in Mexico, surrounded by Maya villages.

Bob’s fascination with the Maya never faltered. His work in the Mexican highlands continued for more than a half century. His studies went beyond his dictionary to create works that preserved not only Maya botanic knowledge, folk tales, and dreams, but also revealed the literary quality of common Maya speech. These studies were published in acclaimed works which brought the language to the attention of the world (and the surprising fact that today over six million people still speak one of 30 Maya languages). His dictionary not only aided scholars in cracking the ancient Maya hieroglyphic code, but also spurred the modern Maya to promote literacy in their indigenous languages. This led to the creation of an indigenous cooperative of Maya writers to preserve their literary traditions and produce materials to make literacy in their native languages possible and thus enter the school curriculum. What followed was a major cultural revival. Bob and Mimi, whose own talents as a writer were turned to the Maya also, eventually created a theater group, which they named Monkey Business Theater, which toured Maya towns with productions in their own languages.

The work of this couple reached beyond traditional ethnographic pursuits to include activism, the creation of indigenous institutions, and environmental concerns. Bob has been feted expansively in Mexico, by his fellow anthropologists and among indigenous people widely. His contribution to academic literature was always outweighed by his interest in producing books with a wide appeal which could change minds about the nature of indigenous Americans.  One of his more popular books is his Maya Tales From Chiapas, Mexico, published in 2014.

It was Bob’s choice to be interred next to his parents in the Princeton cemetery.

Among his wide range of friends, Bob is fondly remembered happily bestriding the mountain trails in the cloud forests of Chiapas in proper Zinacantan gear: huaraches with recycled tire soles, the pink tunic worn by Zinacantec men, and a locally crafted disk-like hat heavily beribboned in traditional Maya fashion.

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Conrad Schure

Optimistic, endlessly curious about the past, and humorous right up to the end, Conrad Schure of Freehold, NJ, and Clinton, CT, died on July 4, 2020 at Connecticut Hospice in Branford, CT, where his family was permitted to be with him in a coastline paradise.

Born in New York City on  April 2, 1930, the Great Depression took away the progress of his immigrant parents but not the foundation of a good education and how the determined can rebound. Among the depression tales that were learned from and became legendary, was the tongue in cheek story that he did not have a middle name because that was an extravagance. His parents, Stanley S. Schure and Tillie Effin Schure, rebuilt an economic base that also pulled an extended family to prosperity. Turning down football scholarships at several well-known colleges, which his father never forgot, Conrad elected instead to follow a drive to broaden his experiences and chose on his own to go from Elizabeth, NJ, to Montana State University to study engineering.

After graduate school at The George Washington University in Washington, DC, he went to work for the Department of the Navy working on the Navy’s first foray into computers. From there career highlights included working for several Fortune 500 companies such as Burroughs and IBM which took him into the Pentagon regularly. Later he worked on a team that put the first computer system on Wall Street. Then fine tuning his focus, his career passion became the installation of computer automation systems into hospitals across the country.

Locally, in the Freehold, New Jersey, area, he co-founded Brookside, a swim and tennis club where several generations of families made lasting summer memories. It also functioned as a way for his children and nieces to earn money for their college tuition but also to experience working in and eventually running a service business as part of becoming well rounded individuals.

Jerry (Geraldine Usher) his wife of 44 years predeceased him in 1999. His brother Stephen Schure died in 2003. His stepson Paul Schure passed away in 2015. He is survived  by children Patricia Schure and Sari Schure Picard Valenti, both of Freehold; and David Schure and his wife Anne Weber of Princeton, NJ. Four grandchildren: Emily Picard of Freehold, Molly Picard of Washington, DC, Aaron Valenti of Savannah, Georgia, and James Schure a student at RPI in Troy, New York. Of special importance is Sharon Baker, a member of the family for nearly 20 years.

A remarkable collector of art and antiques related to his many passions, ranging from western art, horses, and sailing, to surveying, scientific instruments, and calculating devices. He wrote articles and gave presentations in the U.S. and Europe on what he had learned, often using items from his collections as examples.

Due to safety precautions related to the COVID-19 pandemic, a memorial service celebrating his life will be held when it is safe to gather. If friends and family are so inclined, contributions may be made to a cause of their choice.

July 1, 2020

Obituaries, 7/1/2020

Romus Broadway

Romus Broadway of Princeton, N.J., Princeton’s chronicler of the Witherspoon-Jackson community through photos and lectures, died peacefully at home on Tuesday, June 23, 2020 surrounded by his family, after a short battle with cancer.

He was a beloved brother, wonderful father, grandfather, an adored great-grandfather, and an iconic figure in the community.

Romus was born on February 13, 1939 in Belle Meade, N.J. He was the son of Jossie and John Broadway. He grew up on the farm in Belle Meade until he was about 4 years old when his family relocated to Princeton, N.J.

Princeton is where he acquired lifelong friends which started in Princeton Nursery School, The Witherspoon School for the Colored, Valley Road School, and Princeton High School where he graduated in 1956.

Shortly after Princeton High School, he joined the United States Air Force. He was so proud to be in the Air Force and he was even prouder to have yearly reunions with many of his fellow soldiers.

After the Air Force, Romus moved to Washington, D.C., to work for American Airlines. In 1969, when Romus was riding his motorcycle to work, he was hit by an impaired driver which led Romus to a long hospitalization and numerous surgeries. Needless to say, this ended his career with the airline.

Undaunted by his disabilities, he persevered and went on to get a college degree from Amherst College in Massachusetts. During that time, he combined his love for history and photography. After graduation, he returned to Princeton and began researching his family history along with writing, photographing, and chronically people and events in the Witherspoon-Jackson neighborhood as well as the Italian Americans who lived in Princeton. He made collages for almost every event in Princeton.

As a result of his collages, he began speaking at churches, the Arts Council and Suzanne Patterson Center, and the Henry Pannell Center on Clay Street. His love for his community always led to giving time to Princeton Nursery School and activities in the neighborhood.

Romus is survived by his daughter Michelle Crespo and her mother Evelyn Winrow of Tampa, Fla., son Collin Broadway of Tampa, Fla., sons James Broadway (Shellbe), of Princeton and Lee Broadway (Nashae) of Atlanta, Ga., grandchildren Christiana Crespo, Ewing, NJ, Carmen Blaise (Fred) of Lynden, Wash., Antonio Crespo (Kenia) of Coral Springs, Fla., Cathleen Moore ( Sidney) of Seffner, Fla., and Jose Muniz of Tampa, Fla.

Great-grandchildren, Quincy, Jasmine, Kadin, and Theo Romus Blaise. Samara, Victoria, and Isabella Broadway, Sidney, Desmond, Zane, James, Ava, Sriah, Lauryn and David Moore, and Amyla Broadway.

To say that Romus loved his children is an understatement, but the love he had for his grands and great-grands was immeasurable.

He made many trips to see his grands and great-grands but he said his last trip, which was a month ago, was one of his best trips when he went to Florida and Georgia.

He is also survived by his brother John (Florence) of Lawrenceville, NJ, and sister Frances Broadway Craig of Princeton, NJ, and many loved nieces, nephews, and extended family/friends, but Roland Glover, Charles Phox, John Bailey, Bucky Jackson, Jimmy Craig, and Melvin Drakeford were often seen with him or at his house.

Romus was predeceased by his parents John and Jossie Broadway and siblings: Clayton, Robert, Johnsie Broadway Burnett, Herbert, James, Lee, Lina Broadway Boone and Husted.

Funeral Services for Romus will be Thursday, July 2, 2020 at Hughes Funeral Home, 324 Bellevue Avenue, Trenton, NJ. Public viewing is at 1 p.m. Private Service for the family is at 1:45 p.m. Burial will be at the Princeton Cemetery.

The family of the late Romus Broadway extends its heartfelt gratitude and appreciation to the Hospice group of The Medical Center at Princeton; especially staff Carmella, Mary, and Liz Cohn.

In lieu of flowers, any donations can be made to Mount Pisgah AME Church Building Fund at 170 Witherspoon Street, Princeton, NJ 08542, in memory of Romus Broadway.

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Dr. Arthur Howard Ackerman, MD

November 4, 1937 – June 20, 2020

Dr. Arthur Howard Ackerman, MD, 82, of Princeton, passed away on June 20, 2020 at his home.  He was born in New York City on November 4, 1937, to Boris and Laura Ackerman. Arthur moved to Brooklyn as a young boy, where he developed his unapologetic character and love of family. 

In Brooklyn, Arthur attended P.S. 225 and Lincoln High School, where he was an active contributor to the school newspaper, the Lincoln Log. He frequently recounted stories from his singularly American childhood – following the campaigns of World War II; sometimes engaging in truancy to watch Jackie Robinson play for the Brooklyn Dodgers or to attend a concert at Carnegie Hall, indulging his lifelong love of classical music; spending summers at Ten Mile River Scout Camps, where he developed an abiding passion for outdoor pursuits and sharing them with others; and fishing with his father. Arthur was proud to be the son of a hardworking immigrant who, along with Arthur’s uncles, built a thriving restaurant business and achieved the American Dream through constant labor, education, and a bit of good luck.

For Arthur, the most fortunate moment of his life also occurred in Brooklyn, where during his adolescence, he met his beloved wife of 60 years, Carol, who survives him. Together, they built a life emblematic of the Jet Age in which they reached adulthood. Carol and Arthur shared a passion for travel, other cultures, and adventure, reaching six continents as a couple, plus a visit to Antarctica for Arthur. They loved the sea, maintaining homes and developing close friendships in Truro, Massachusetts and Antigua, West Indies. 

In Princeton, where they have lived since 1968, Carol and Arthur are known for their lively sense of fun – perhaps best captured through their Halloween costume parties, where they and their friends came dressed as famous historical figures. Friends and family will remember Arthur’s delight in telling a long-form joke and the twinkle in his eye on the frequent occasions when he engaged in mischief.

Arthur attended college at New York University and, not surprisingly given his varied intellectual interests, majored in history. He went on to Yale Medical School, where he graduated in 1963. Arthur completed a residency in anesthesiology at Yale under his mentor and friend, Dr. Nicholas M. Greene, MD — who has been described as a founding father of modern anesthesiology. 

When the Navy called Arthur to serve, he did so honorably with the First Marine Division in Da Nang, Vietnam, providing anesthesia to Marines injured in battle during 1967 and 1968. While in Vietnam, Arthur was exposed to Agent Orange, which ultimately precipitated his final battle with prostate cancer — a fight through which Carol constantly was at his side.

Arthur used his medical training for good throughout his life, beginning with his service to our country. He returned from Vietnam to practice anesthesia for nearly 40 years at Princeton Hospital, where he made lasting friendships that enriched his life. After his retirement, he remained curious and energetic. Arthur taught anesthesia in Tanzania and Rwanda. He provided anesthesia for operations to correct pediatric heart defects in Ukraine, Belarus, Libya, and Kyrgyzstan. 

Arthur loved his family deeply, and his passing leaves for them both a void and many warm memories. In addition to Carol, he is survived by his daughter, Nancy (Rick), his son, Peter (Elizabeth), and his grandchildren, Alexander, Oliver, Henry, William, and Lucy. He is also survived by his two sisters, Ellen and Joan, brother- and sister-in-law, Ron and Roberta, and numerous nieces and nephews. Arthur will be buried at sea by the U.S. Navy. 

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Frederic Sharaf

Frederic Sharaf, American Composer, passed away on June 23, 2020 at the age of 85.

Frederic was born on July 1st, 1934 in Brookline, MA, to Louis and Mae Sharaf. He received a B.A. in Music from Cornell University in 1956 and completed his graduate work at Stanford University where he received an M.A. in Composition and Orchestration. Frederic, or Fred as he was known to family and close friends, will be lovingly remembered by his children: Jonathan Sharaf and his wife, Lorraine Sharaf; Megan Moore; Carter Sharaf; and Kathryn Battistella and her husband, Matt Battistella. He will also be dearly missed by his grandchildren and a lifetime of close friends, many dating back several decades. His death was preceded by that of his wife, Jane Sharaf, who he loved and adored throughout their marriage of 35 years.

He was a brilliant composer who had several of his pieces published by Carl Fischer, Inc. and performed in prestigious venues worldwide. Frederic and his wife Jane, an accomplished vocalist, premiered “Three Settings of Imitations by Robert Lowell” which he had written for her. After Jane’s death in 2007, Frederic sought solace in composing 19 songs dedicated to his late wife’s memory. He continued to write a wide variety of music ranging from art songs to chamber works, and bluesy ballads. In addition to being an accomplished musician, Fred will be remembered as an energetic cook, effortless conversationalist, and a good humored friend who maintained warm and witty friendships with a large circle of friends.

Frederic will be laid to rest alongside his wife Jane in Princeton, NJ, where they raised their family. A private ceremony will be held there to celebrate his life. In lieu of flowers, donations in Frederic’s name can be made to the ASCAP Foundation, www.ascapfoundation.org/donate. To send the family personal condolences, please visit www.sheafuneralhomes.com.

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Katharine Adams Chenoweth

Katherine Adams Chenoweth, a native of Jacksonville, Florida, and longtime resident of Princeton and Lawrenceville, New Jersey, died peacefully in Decatur, Georgia, on December 23, 2019. She had just celebrated her 89th birthday.

A talented artist, sculptor, and storyteller, who worked as an editor and then a real estate agent, Kitty, as she was known, split her time between New Jersey and her beloved mountain home in Beersheba Springs, Tennessee. During typical summer weeks in Beersheba, she would visit with scores of relatives and friends from all over the country.

Born on December 12, 1930, in Jacksonville, Katharine Ogden Adams was the eldest of four children of Elliott and Katharine Adams, a lawyer and a homemaker both active in community affairs. In addition to summers in Beersheba Springs, where her father’s family has been vacationing since 1872, Kitty attended Keystone Camp in Brevard, North Carolina, for many years, was active in drama productions as a teenager, and graduated from the all-girls Bartram School (now the Bolles School) in Jacksonville.

Kitty majored in French at Vanderbilt University and served as an officer of the Delta Delta Delta sorority in her senior year. After graduation, Kitty returned to Jacksonville in her first job as a social worker. There, she met H. Avery Chenoweth and they married in 1954. Avery’s career as an artist and creative director in television and advertising took them to Gainesville, Florida, Huntington, West Virginia, and then New York City. They lived in Kendall Park for several years, and settled in Princeton in 1965.

In Princeton, while raising children, Kitty obtained a degree in interior design from the New York School of Interior Design, and served as Chairwoman of the YWCA International Festival in 1965 and 1966. She also served on a committee welcoming new families to Princeton, many of them foreign immigrants. An accomplished portrait sculptor and savvy collector of antiques, Kitty had a deep knowledge of art and design. For several years in the 1960s, she sold her beautiful hand-sculpted angels to Lord & Taylor in New York City, where they could be seen in the holiday window displays.

In the 1970s, Kitty became an editor for National Code Consultants, a publishing house for municipal codes. After her divorce in the early 1980s, she sold real estate in the Princeton area for over 30 years, most recently for Stockton Real Estate. Her training in interior design and passion for antiques and collecting were an asset in real estate and made her a natural at understanding the potential of period and historic houses.

Kitty was also fascinated with Revolutionary War history and read every book she could find on General Washington and his troop movements through New Jersey. She loved to attend re-enactments at Washington’s Crossing and could describe in detail the battles of Trenton and Princeton.

Friends and family remember her best for her infectious smile and laugh, and love of storytelling, which they attribute to her southern upbringing and long summers in the Cumberland Plateau of Middle Tennessee. She had friends wherever she went and delighted in parties and long nights on cottage porches talking about history, literature, art, and family life.

She struggled in recent years with a variety of illnesses, but also staged a series of recoveries. She recently lived for a year and a half in Connecticut, near her daughter, Isabel, and spent the last two and a half years in Georgia, near her son, Matthew. Both treasured the opportunity to care for her as she had once cared for them.

Kitty was predeceased by her parents, Elliott and Katharine Adams, and her brother Gillespie (Lep) Adams and his wife, Rebecca (Betsy) Adams. She is survived by her four children and five grandchildren, H. Avery Chenoweth Jr. (Mary) of Charlottesville, Virginia, Richard Chenoweth (Amy) of Starkville, Mississippi, and his children, Elliott, Damaris, and Lydia Chenoweth, Isabel Chenoweth (Charlie) of Hamden, Connecticut and her children, Walker (Briana), and Leila Sachner, and Matthew Chenoweth of Atlanta, Georgia. She is also survived by her sister, Louise Ropp, and brother, Elliott Adams Jr. (Tillie), both of Jacksonville, Florida, along with several nieces and nephews, and numerous cousins and extended family members.

A celebration of Kitty Chenoweth’s life will take place in Beersheba Springs in July, 2020.

Memorial donations be made in Kitty’s name to the nonprofit Beersheba Springs Medical Clinic (beershebaclinic.org), founded by Kitty’s cousin Dr. Garrett Adams. The clinic provides free medical care to local residents of Grundy County, Tennessee.

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Elizabeth Dale Walton

Elizabeth Dale Walton was born on September 18, 1959 and passed away on May 25, 2020 in Princeton, New Jersey. Known to everyone as Betsy, she grew up in Pennington, NJ, enjoying board games, camping, and watching TV baseball and movies with her family. In 1988 she moved to Princeton. She followed the examples of her grandmother Helen and her mother Carolyn, who both helped empower her to be a very independent woman.

Betsy had a very robust sense of humor and a sharp wit that helped her endure struggles, especially coping with cerebral palsy her whole life, and developed patience and feisty persistence to overcome many obstacles. She was a supportive, caring friend with an endearing mischievous streak, and believed strongly in the power of prayer, even in the most difficult circumstances.

She attended Hopewell Valley Central High School, where she sang in a mixed chorus, and Trenton State College, where she served as president of the Lambda Lambda Chapter of the national sorority Delta Zeta. She led the Disabled Students Coalition’s talks with the college administration that resulted in the 1983 construction of an outside ramp at the main entrance to the library. In 1984 Betsy received a Bachelor of Science degree in Special Education and was included in Who’s Who Among Students in Colleges. She continued with graduate studies at TSC, receiving a Master of Education degree in Developmental Reading.

Betsy worked for five years at McGraw-Hill Education in Hightstown, NJ. Then for 17 years she was a Professional Math Tutor at Mercer County Community College, a job that she loved passionately. She mentored individual students in computational math and introductory algebra, attending class with them and tutoring them outside of class, using her strong organizational skills and personally-created handouts to reinforce classroom lessons. She loved advocating for others struggling either academically or emotionally, and was a guest speaker for various school and church groups to educate about the needs of people with disabilities. After her time at MCCC, she served as an intern for the NJ Division of Disability Services, and then as a trained Crisis Chat volunteer with CONTACT of Mercer County.

A longtime member of Pennington Presbyterian Church, Betsy sang in the choir and served as an Elder. She chaired a workshop on ministering to children with special needs, and a task force to address the needs of people with disabilities, leading to significant building accessibility renovations. For several years she sang with the Hopewell Valley Chorus. In 1999 she became a member of Hopewell Presbyterian Church, again singing in the choir. She strongly supported accessibility renovations there, and loved using the new elevator after several years of climbing stairs with her crutches to attend choir rehearsals. She attended several church family retreats in the Poconos, and was delighted to participate in a Spring 2020 virtual chat with the choir.

An avid sports fan, she was fiercely loyal to the Philadelphia Phillies and the New York Giants, and was known to indulge in occasional hijinks such as wheelchair races (for which she adopted the email nickname “Crash”). She enjoyed movies, word puzzles, puns, lots of reading, pizza with garlic, being Mama to her cat Ling-Ling, and sharing holiday dinners with friends and at church members’ homes. Singing was a special joy; she loved her God and loved to sing his praise.

Betsy highly valued her independence which included having a private residence, using an electric wheelchair “scooter,” and driving a wheelchair-adapted minivan, and she deeply appreciated all those who helped her maintain that independence. Over the years she worked hard at physical therapy with a series of dedicated therapists. In 2020 she especially appreciated the skilled, caring staff at Merwick Care & Rehabilitation Center.

Predeceased by her parents Carolyn Y. Walton in 1996 and M. Lee Walton in 2003, Betsy leaves her brother Scott R. Walton and sister-in-law Joyce J. Walton of South Carolina, and nieces Christine Walton Morrow of Georgia and Melanie Walton Faulk of South Carolina. Betsy was a loving aunt and was especially thrilled to become a great-aunt last year.

Interment will be at the First Presbyterian Church of Ewing Cemetery on July 9, 2020. Contributions may be made to Hopewell Presbyterian Church, 80 W. Broad Street, Hopewell, NJ.  Plans are also under consideration for a memorial service in 2021.

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Jean Beckerman

Jean Beckerman, a Princeton resident for more than 50 years, died Tuesday morning, June 23rd. She was 93.

Jean did library work for much of her life.  Originally with the New York Public Library system, she worked during the late 1950s as librarian of The Neighborhood Playhouse in New York, where she had a nodding acquaintance with such future stars as Robert Duvall, Suzanne Pleshette, Tammy Grimes, Tuesday Weld, and Sydney Pollack.

Born Jean Rose Friedburg in the Bronx, the daughter of a vaudeville and silent movie pianist, Jean attended Hunter College beginning at age 15. She worked with Hunter classmates Barbara Cohen Holdridge and Marianne Roney Mantell, founders of Caedmon Records, when in 1952 they began to amass recordings of the world’s great writers, including Dylan Thomas, T.S. Elliot, and Sylvia Plath. In 1954, she married librarian Edwin Beckerman. They had three children.

Following Edwin’s career path, the couple moved from Manhattan to Leicester, England to Albany to Yonkers to South Brunswick to West Windsor and finally, in 1968, to Princeton. Edwin became the director of the Woodbridge Public Library System, served as president of the New Jersey Library Association, and was on the board of the Princeton Public Library. Jean worked, for a time, at the Ewing Branch Library, Mercer County.

Jean was funny, opinionated, literate, a voracious reader. She loved theater, music, swimming, museum-going, vodka martinis, The New Yorker, and — somewhat incongruously — Dr. Phil. She loved certain movies: The Ghost and Mrs. Muir, Fahrenheit 451, The Maltese Falcon. And she loved Princeton.

She will be missed by her husband Edwin, a South Brunswick resident, her sons Jim Beckerman of Sayreville, Lee Beckerman of South Brunswick, Peter Beckerman of Pittsburgh, their spouses Tom, Wendi, and Eileen, her grandchildren Max, Amelia, Maia, and Lydia, her niece Susan Braun and nephews Michael Braun, Jonathan Beckerman, and Michael Beckerman.

In lieu of flowers donations can be made to the Mr. Rogers’ Neighbors Kindness Project feeding hungry Princeton families, https://mrrogersneighbors.com.

Extend condolences and share memories at TheKimbleFuneralHome.com.

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Richard L. Wines

Richard L. Wines passed away peacefully on May 22, 2020 surrounded by his loving family. Dick was born to the late Marcella and Wilbur Wines in Rego Park, Queens. He graduated from St. John’s Prep, Villanova University and attended Northwestern and New York University Graduate Schools. Dick was a big Villanova fan.  He tried to never miss a basketball game and believed his armchair coaching helped win the big ones. 

Dick was in the NROTC program at Villanova and was commissioned to Ensign at graduation.  He was assigned to the Naval Intelligence office in Chicago.  After two good years on active duty he moved to New York where he started his career with Peat, Marwick, Mitchell (KPMG). In addition, he continued his Naval career as a reservist, eventually becoming the Commanding Officer of the Navy Field Intelligence Office in New London, Connecticut. Dick loved the Navy, the Reserves and enjoyed the men and women with whom he served. He retired at the rank of Captain and continued to be a proud patriot.

At Peat, Marwick he was responsible for the first audit by an outside firm at First National City Bank (Citigroup).  As a result, he was recruited by FNCB and later by United Jersey Bank where he advanced the ranks to President and Chief Executive Officer. While bank mergers were on the rise Dick became President of Ryan, Beck & Co, Pennsylvania. Years later he founded his own investment banking firm, Capital Consultants of Princeton. When planning to retire he was approached by McConnell, Budd & Romano Investment Banking firm to continue working with them for a few more years. Once again, good people, easy decision. 

Over his career Dick has been featured in New Jersey Monthly Magazine as “Someone to Watch in NJ Business.” He received the Villanova Alumni Medal. He was President of the Boy Scouts of America, NJ area, a member of their Northeast Region Board of Directors, and Chairman of their Exploring Committee. He was Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Rider University and Trustee of the Independent College Fund of NJ. Dick was Director of the George Washington Taxpayers Association and Director and Trustee of many local organizations and charities. He was a member of Shadow Wood Country Club and past member at Trenton Country Club & Bedens Brook Golf Club.

Dick was married to Dorothy (Dot) Shields. He was a wonderful husband and father to four daughters, dedicated, selfless and cherished. Among other things, Dick was Father Christmas to his daughters and beloved grandchildren. He was a generous man who loved making the season magical. True happiness was being Dad and PopPop. He beamed with pride at all their accomplishments. When Dick and Dot retired they spent their winters on the west coast of Florida. They were fortunate to share many memorable times with dear friends from their younger days, as well as making many great new friends. 

Dick was predeceased by his parents, his brother John Lewis Wines (J.L.), and son-in-law Peter Lamb. He is survived by his wife, Dot, his daughters Mary Susan Lamb, Ann Marie Phillips (Mike Kelly), Patricia (Neil) Habig and Karen, his grandchildren Christopher, Michael and Alexandra Lamb, Morgan Phillips, Chase, Chandler and Cameron Habig.  He is also survived by his cousins, many nieces, nephews, and great friends, all of whom brought him much happiness.

A private burial will be held at Arlington National Cemetery. Due to COVID-19, a Celebration of Life will be held at a later date. Arrangements are by Blackwell Memorial Home, for condolences go to blackellmh.com.

June 24, 2020

Obituaries 6/24/2020

Donna Winslow

July 23, 1948 — February 22, 2020

Donna Finch was born prematurely in Atlantic City, New Jersey.  A rush to be part of a great scene would be a theme in her life.

An only child, and disabled when these things weren’t much spoken of, Donna worked to overcome her limitations and volunteered at Navajo reservations in the early ‘70s; worked tirelessly for POW/MIAs in the ‘80s; volunteered at the Bradley Food Pantry in the ‘90s; and crocheted blankets for soldiers at Walter Reed in the ‘00s. She never failed to run a Girl Scout Cookie campaign or show up to schools to support the plight of indigenous peoples, having fostered a little boy, Curtis, who she loved deeply.

Donna was very briefly survived by her husband, Bill; her daughter, Liz; and her grandchildren who could do no wrong, Tristan, Cora, and Aaron. Services were private.

In lieu of flowers or cards, donations to the Native American Rights Fund or the United Jewish Federation would honor her legacy.

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William Dyer Winslow

June 21, 1945 — February 26, 2020

Bill Winslow grew up a chameleon. One minute he at age 8 was founding the Darien Cub Scouts; the next the family was out of money and squatting in Maine; the next after that, he was back in his mother’s Deep South home feeding an alligator out back in the bayou they’d named Owen. And Bill thus learned to improvise, adapt, and overcome.

Bill Winslow was a wonderful man full of contradictions. He was graduated from Deerfield Academy on scholarship, went to Vietnam where a man he’d saved in a firefight gave Bill his MOH Service ribbon from that same fight in thanks, and sold bar soap for 30 years in the South Bronx for Procter and Gamble. He achieved 70% market share by being the unofficial gunsmith of minority store owners who couldn’t depend on the cops for protection in the ‘70s, while pursuing a second career at night in exposing cases of stolen valor.

Bill spent his retirement alternating between cowboy action shooting and doting on his grandchildren.  He is survived by his daughter Liz, and grandchildren Tristan, Cora, and Aaron.

In lieu of flowers, donations to the charity named in his will before he had grandkids to consider — Gay Men’s Health Crisis, largely in honor of his own dad — would make Bill happy to continue doing right.

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Rose Rozich Bonini

1925 — 2020

Rose Rozich Bonini a resident of Princeton, NJ, for over 60 years, passed away peacefully at the age of 94 on Sunday June 14, 2020 of natural causes in Bala Cynwyd, PA, surrounded by her family.

Rose was preceded in death by her loving husband of 62 years William E. Bonini, parents Evan and Agnes Rozich, and sister Mary Rozich. She is survived by their four children and spouses, seven grandchildren, one great-grandchild, one step-grandchild and spouse, and two step great-grandchildren.

Born in her home on August 29, 1925 in Farrell, PA, Rose was a first generation American raised by her parents in a bilingual home, fluent in English and Serbo-Croatian. She grew up in a richly multi-ethic small-town community where she enjoyed tap dancing, roller skating, hours of reading at the local library, and commuting on foot about town. Graduating 1st in her class from Farrell High School in 1943 she was recruited and offered an academic scholarship to Youngstown College graduating with a B.S. in Chemistry in 1948 to become the first college graduate in her family. After college she attended the University of Chicago and the University of Wisconsin, Madison where she earned a Master of Science Degree in Zoology in 1951. She was just shy of a PhD in Biochemistry at Wisconsin, when her graduate work was disrupted to return home to care for her dying mother.

In 1952 she met the love of her life Bill Bonini in Madison at a Geology graduate-student party. They married on December 4, 1954 at the Georgetown Lutheran Church, in Georgetown, Washington, DC. The newlyweds settled in Princeton, NJ, where Bill was on the faculty at Princeton University and raised their four children. At age 50 after their youngest child started school full-time, Rose went back to work and had a rewarding career as Manager of Information Services at Carter-Wallace research laboratories in Cranbury, NJ, where she used her extensive science background to do online medical and pharmaceutical document research and indexing as their research librarian. She was always deeply grateful for her career at Carter-Wallace.

During her years in Princeton she enjoyed membership in the Princeton University League, the League’s Garden Club, the Orchid Society, and her community Bridge Club.  In their younger days Bill and Rose were regulars at all the home Princeton football and basketball games. Together, they loved the arts, collecting original artwork that filled the walls of their home, and attending the Metropolitan Opera in New York City. She also loved to sew, making clothing for herself and her family. She could not have been prouder of her four children who attended Princeton University and her delightful grandchildren and step-grandchildren, all of whom gave her much joy. Above all else, she loved her family and often reflected that she had a wonderful life.

Rose is survived by her four children and sons- and daughters-in-law: John A. Bonini and wife Loretta A. Estabrooks of Holmes Beach, FL; Nancy M. Bonini and husband Anthony R. Cashmore of Penn Valley, PA; James P. Bonini and wife Patricia C. Bonini of Frisco, TX; and Jennifer A. Bonini and husband Scott N. Miller of Laramie, WY. Seven grandchildren: Christine A. Ryan (Bonini) and husband Trevor N. Ryan, Megan E. Bonini, Caroline A. Bonini, James P. Bonini Jr., Sam D. Miller, Keegan A. Miller and Margaret M. Miller. One step-grandchild: Shivani M. Cashmore and husband John E. Nevergole, one great-granddaughter Adeline M. Ryan, and two step great-grandchildren Nolan A. and Siona M. Nevergole.

Services will be private and a family memorial will be held at a later date. Arrangements are under the direction of Mather-Hodge Funeral Home, Princeton, NJ.

In lieu of flowers, contributions can be made in her memory by mail or online to either: Youngstown State University Foundation, College of Science Engineering Technology and Math, Department of Chemistry, 655 Wick Avenue, Youngstown, OH 44502 or online at http://ysufoundation.com/giving; or the University of Wisconsin Foundation, Department of Biochemistry Fund-132151050, US Bank Lockbox 78807, Milwaukee, WI 53278-0807 or online at https://secure.supportuw.org/give.

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Harriet Cooper Robertson

Harriet Cooper Robertson was born on May 30th, 1931 in Baltimore, Maryland, and she died in Princeton, NJ, on May 7th, 2020 of the coronavirus. Our mother fought a battle with dementia and Alzheimer’s for over 20 years, but she was a beacon of light for many family, friends, and Princeton residents and establishments who knew her through these difficult years, with her endearing smile, laugh, and kisses of joy. We are grateful for the gift of an extraordinary mother who was loving, bright, clever, creative, and full of life. We reflect fondly on all of the opportunities she gave to improve the lives of so many people throughout her life and for her unceasing dedication to the Princeton community since 1966.

Harriet was the daughter of J. Crossan Copper, Jr. and Eleanor Chalfant Cooper. Harriet grew up in Baltimore where she studied at the Calvert School, and she went on to Foxcroft School in 1949, and later graduated Summa Cum Laude from Bryn Mawr College in 1953. Post-Bryn Mawr, Harriet married Pieter Fisher, and moved to Fort Sill, Oklahoma, and started a family. Shortly thereafter, Harriet moved to New York state, where she coached middle school athletic teams, combining her love for athletics and working with youth; both of which were to become a recurring theme in Harriet’s life. In 1966 Harriet moved to Princeton, the town which would become her lifelong home. In addition to auditing art and music classes at Princeton University, Harriet’s life became one of giving to others, as she became increasingly involved in the Princeton community, where she shared her leadership, time, and energy: supporting and working hands-on with family crisis issues, Princeton Hospital Fetes, Princeton Day School, the NJ Symphony, and the Arts. Harriet was a giver and a doer in countless organizations, but she was especially passionate about her involvement with Planned Parenthood and Corner House, a drug and alcohol prevention and treatment center for troubled youth in Princeton. For over 25 years, Harriet was involved in every aspect of Corner House as a revered leader, board member and eventual President. On June 11, 2008, the town of Princeton celebrated Harriet’s vision and generosity with a Proclamation from the Office of the Mayor, “to applaud the magnanimous and philanthropic Princeton Township resident for 25 years of service to Corner House.”

Following a divorce in 1972, Harriet married David Frothingham. Harriet loved her extended and growing family, and delighted in additions to her brood. Harriet’s home on Arreton Road became a haven for countless young people, and everyone relished in the laughter and straight talk that became an important part of the late ’60s and early ’70s. Our mother’s home was filled with flowers and mementos of her extensive travels. This included an annual trip to Scotland highlighting hiking on her “beloved Isle of Skye,” and her winter expeditions to Palm Island in the Grenadines where she enjoyed snorkeling the reefs by day, and leading a line dance to the beat of the steel bands by night. Harriet will be remembered as a gentle and luminous spirit who left a lasting impression on all those she met. 

After becoming widowed in 1986, Harriet continued her worldly travels, and in 1991 she married David A. Robertson, a retired professor from Columbia Barnard College who predeceased her in 2004.

Harriet is survived by her children: Ellen M. Fisher of York, Maine and Pieter A. Fisher, Jr. of Querétaro, México, her daughter-in-law Karla Flores, and her stepchildren: Will Frothingham, Carrie Frothingham, daughter-in-law, Pamela Frothingham, five grandchildren, and four step-grandchildren. Harriet is also survived by her sister Louisa Dubin, a niece and nephews, and many cousins. Her brother, Jack Cooper and stepson, David Frothingham Jr. predeceased Harriet. In lieu of flowers, please consider making a donation to Corner House in Princeton, New Jersey.

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Sally Kuser Lane

Sally Kuser Lane died June 7 at her family home in Bay Head.  She was 95 and had battled declining health since September.

A striking woman who was an athletic 5 feet, 11 inches tall, she was the first grandchild of James and Sarah Mullen Kerney (for whom she was named), and a grandchild of Fred and Teresa Doelger Kuser. Her maternal grandfather was editor, publisher, and owner of the Trenton Times. Her paternal grandfather, brewmaster of Peter Doelger Brewery in New York, retired to his summer home, now Hamilton Township’s Kuser Farm museum.

The oldest of three children of R. George and Mary Kerney Kuser, she grew up in Lawrenceville. Her father was a Trenton stockbroker and her mother was chairman of the board of the Trenton Times until the paper’s sale to The Washington Post in 1974. Sally attended Miss Fine’s School in Princeton, and graduated from Mary Lyon School in Swarthmore, Pa.

She married lawyer Arthur S. Lane when she was 22. He was 14 years older and they had met at her parents’ pool when she was eight and he captained the undefeated 1933 Princeton football team. Their 50-year marriage produced seven children, who attended Miss Fine’s School or its successor, Princeton Day School. For 35 of those years, the Lanes lived in Harbourton. Art became a county and then a federal judge, then general counsel at Johnson & Johnson as their first child started college. He went back to practicing law in Princeton, with Smith, Stratton, Wise, Heher & Brennan, after reaching J&J’s executive retirement age. By then they had moved to her parents’ home in Princeton, although she continued to be a regular at the Pennington Quality Market.  A year after Art’s 1997 death, Sally returned to Lawrenceville, parking her current red car outside Morris Hall for 21 years. When her health began to deteriorate, she moved to The Meadows in October, relocating in March to the shore house, where she’d spent August for 35 years.   

She had a wide acquaintance. The annual Christmas card pictures, begun with one child and mailed to a global list, recorded the aging of parents and children before expanding with their marriages and christenings, then their children’s. An inveterate sender of postcards while traveling, she celebrated birthdays, graduations, and anniversaries of family and friends with cards. Knowing that a grandchild, great-grandchild, or child of friends was going to sleep-away camp for the first, she sent a card a day to ward off homesickness. Young relatives got a parade of birthday cards. 

In recent years, she walked to the Post Office in Lawrenceville most days, a tall, white-haired woman striding unaided along Rt. 206 in the afternoon, before stopping in at Fedora Café for chai and an oatmeal raisin cookie. The Postmaster General sent her a birthday card for her 95th birthday, as did Rose and Beth, her friends at the P.O., who processed the hundreds of greetings she received.

She continued her mother’s tradition of celebrating big birthdays with Christmas family reunions, parasailing with grandchildren and great-grandchildren for her 80th, 85th, and 90th in Key West. She liked to plan July trips, so she could include grandchildren and great-grandchildren out of school. She returned often to Tuscany, and most recently to Ireland, but news of a grandson taking a semester in Cape Town or a great-granddaughter in Greece sent her packing. One pocket of her handbag held a supply of $2 bills, folded for tipping or slipping to a child.

Five years ago, she traveled to Oxford to see a granddaughter get her master’s and to Salt Lake City to see a grandson receive his MBA. More recently, she celebrated a grandson’s wedding in Harrogate, England, a granddaughter’s in New Orleans, three great-granddaughters’ weddings and her great-great-grandson’s first birthday. She had two 95th parties, one on the day and one to close out the year. Princeton football, basketball, and lacrosse games were always on her calendar, along with New Jersey State Museum day trips. 

Princeton University, the alma mater of Art and four of their children, was a big part of her life. She was a member of the Princeton Varsity Club and the only female lifetime member of the Princeton Football Association. She and Art hosted an annual picnic for the football team for years in Harbourton and later, in Princeton. While the picnics ended with his death, she looked forward every spring to the presentation of the Art Lane ’34 Award.

She was a passionate, lifelong Yankees fan, calling to needle Massachusetts grandchildren the morning after a Yankees win over the Red Sox. She had a transistor radio that fit into a purse, enabling her to leave parties to check scores in the ladies room. A picture of Whitey Ford, autographed to her at the behest of his onetime caddy, a daughter’s suitor, remained on prominent display for decades. Sally & Art’s 40th wedding anniversary was celebrated at Yankee Stadium, with a surprise Jumbotron greeting.

As a widow, she chose to live at Morris Hall. Never a cook, she was grateful for the meals, and for the ability to lock up her rooms and travel. But she also valued her ability to help others, pushing wheelchairs, delivering papers and running errands for those who didn’t enjoy her good health.  When she moved to The Meadows, she spoke often of missing daily Mass in the chapel, and of residents and staff left behind, although she felt blessed to be cared for and visited by people she loved. She was mindful, also, of having missed the chance to say her goodbyes at the Bay Head Yacht Club and the Nassau Club.

She is survived by seven children: Sarah Kerney Lane (Samuel Graff), of Trenton; Arthur Stephen Lane, Jr., (Marie) of Groton, Mass.; Mark Kuser Lane (Linda Axelrod), of Little Falls, N.J.; Catherine Scannell Lane (Steve Jacobs), of Colorado Springs, Colo.; Henry Welling Lane, of Bay Head; Mary Kuser Lane, of New York City; Teresa Doelger Lane (Edward Nelson) of Basking Ridge, N.J. ; sixteen grandchildren, eight great-grandchildren, and one great-great-grandchild; a sister-in-law, Helen Lambert Kuser, of Fort Myers, Fla.; and many nieces, nephews, and cousins. She was preceded in death by her brothers, R. George Kuser, Jr., and James Kerney Kuser.

Her funeral at Sacred Heart Church, Trenton, and Memorial Mass at Morris Hall Chapel, Lawrenceville, are planned when possible. At the end of her life, Sally was most concerned about the Trenton Area Soup Kitchen (TASK), 72 Escher Street, Trenton, N.J. 08609, www.trentonsoupkitchen.org; and Fernbrook Farms Environmental Education Center, P.O. Box 228, Bordentown, NJ. 08505, to underwrite camp for Trenton children, www.fernbrookfarms.com/center/support-us/urban-youth-scholarships.

June 17, 2020

Obituaries 6/17/2020

Regina “Jean” Sharp Breithaupt
May 23, 1938 – June 4, 2020

Jean Breithaupt passed away on June 4th, peacefully and grateful for having lived a full life. She departed this earth from her Longmont, Colorado, home in the loving presence of her three children Deborah Breithaupt Smyth, Wendell Thomas Breithaupt, Jr., and Curtis Todd Breithaupt.

Born in Pittsburgh, PA, at Allegheny General Hospital to George Arthur Sharp, Jr. and Helen Campbell Sharp, Jean was the second of two children, the first being her brother George Arthur “Jay” Sharp, III. Jean spent her early childhood in Washington, PA, before moving to Erie, PA, in December 1943 when her father, a pharmacist, took a pharmaceutical sales position with E.R.Squibb & Sons.

In Erie, she attended Harding Elementary School before moving on to Strong Vincent High School (Go Colonels!) where she played clarinet in the marching band, participated annually in the talent show, and graduated as honorable mention student in June 1955.

Jean’s fondest memories of her childhood and teenage years are centered on “The Peninsula” and Presque Isle State Park replete with ice skating on the bay in the winter, lying on the beach and boating in the summer, as well as family vacations in Saint Michael’s, Maryland, trips to the “big cities” of Pittsburgh and Cleveland, summer dances in the Rainbow Gardens at Waldemeer, the annual Assembly Ball, and, of course, family fish fry dinners.

In the fall of 1955 she matriculated at Upsala College in East Orange, NJ, where she studied English Literature. During her time on campus, Jean participated in the Student Christian Association, was a house officer in her dorm, joined Chi Delta Sorority, and was an avid bridge player.

Post college life brought to Jean to Clifton, NJ, in 1958, to Oakland, NJ, in 1964, then on to Princeton, NJ, in 1972, and finally to Longmont, CO, in 2005.

In Oakland, Jean was a substitute teacher for The Oakland Public Schools, a member of the Mothers Club of Oakland, and volunteered for the Recreation Department. In Princeton, she worked for 12 years in the radiology department of The Medical Center at Princeton and later for 18 more with Princeton Orthopaedic Associates until she retired in 2005. Jean was a member of the Princeton Hospital Volunteers, the Princeton Hospital Fete Auxiliary, and Womanspace. In Colorado, she was a member of the Longmont United Hospital Volunteers.

Jean was not a person who asked much of the world, except for the occasional Steeler Super Bowl victory, Penn State National Championship, and daily pictures of Lake Erie, and one who counted her riches in terms of her relationships and contentment of her children and grandchildren.

One of the many things she taught us is to be grateful for what you have in this life. Perhaps today, tomorrow, or whenever the mood strikes you right, you’ll take a moment to yourself and think of Jean and those close to you who too have passed, and then all those around you who are here and that you hold dear, and know that you too are wealthy beyond all riches for the love you grant, the love returned to you, and the contentment within you.

Jean is preceded in death by her parents and is survived by her brother Jay; her children Debbie, Tom, and Todd; her grandchildren Robert Joseph Smyth, Miles Maximillian Breithaupt, Kathryn Mariel Breithaupt, and Campbell Adele Breithaupt; her son-in-law Robert Osgood Smyth; and her two daughters-in-law Anna Neis and Tracy Zoller Breithaupt.

Contributions in Jean’s memory can be made to Womanspace (www.womanspace.org).

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Thomas Myers Poole

Thomas Myers Poole, son of Emma and Raymond Poole, passed away November 19 surrounded by the tremendous love of family and friends. Tom was predeceased by his wife of 61 years Jane; and survived by daughters Joanne Reese (Steve) and Grace Benn (Alex), brother Bob Poole (Claude), grandchildren Abby and CJ Benn, nephew Eric Poole, niece Michele Sinclair (Chris), step-grandchildren Steven (Leah) and Matthew Reese (Sara), and step-great-grandchildren Joshua, Hannah, Sophia, and Barrett.

Born on Flag Day, June 14, 1926 in Philadelphia, Tom had patriotism in his blood. After graduating from Central High School (182nd class), he was drafted by the Army mere days after D-Day. He often described himself as the luckiest Infantryman of WWII landing in France eight days before the war in Europe ended. Upon returning home, thanks to the GI Bill, he earned a BS in Economics from the University of Pennsylvania Wharton School. Tom was a devoted Penn man missing few reunions or Penn/Princeton football games. He missed his fifth reunion, however, to marry the love of his life, Jane; a true testament to the power of his love for her.

Penn ran deep in Tom, but so did Princeton, the town where he and Jane raised their daughters and lived for 54 years 23 days. He served on the Township Committee for six years, two as Deputy Mayor; and made many dear friends through his roles as Fire Commissioner, Housing Board Chair, and Deer Committee Chair. Tom was also a member of the Nassau Club of Princeton and proudly served as President from 2006-2008.

As an avid birdwatcher, Tom improved the land and environment by serving on the Boards of D&R Greenway Land Trust, Friends of Princeton Open Space, the Washington Crossing Audubon Society, and was a member of the Princeton Environmental Commission. He and Jane loved the outdoors and could often be found with binoculars around their necks in the Princeton Wildlife Refuge or Institute Woods.

Tom was a natural storyteller and laughter was pervasive in their home; he and Jane hosted many riotous evenings around old radio shows. Classical music was also a constant in their home. So of course Tom was a member of the Advisory Commission for WWFM, the Mercer County Radio Station. As the reader can gather, Tom was a “doer” and a “joiner”; if he believed in the cause, he joined the committee and thanks to his integrity, wit, and gregarious nature, he often wound up running it.

But Tom’s life wasn’t all birdwatching and laughs, he put his Wharton degree to good use working for Vicks, N.W. Ayre, and Lever Bros to name a few; and was Vice President and Co-Founder of the Princeton Chapter of the Institute of Management Consultants. He was intimately involved with developing and launching Close-Up, the first gel toothpaste; some readers may want to thank him for helping them get “up close and personal.” He would have enjoyed knowing he played a part in fostering romance.

We’re not done yet, as sports also loomed large in Tom’s life. He played a mean center field and passed along his love of sports to his daughters. A lifelong Phillies and Eagles fan, Tom grew to enjoy the Suns and Cardinals after moving to Arizona and thoroughly enjoyed his proximity to spring training.

A man of varied interests, and never one to leave a party early, Tom was fun to be around and will be sorely missed. In lieu of flowers, feed the birds, raise a highball, or have a laugh in his honor. And if so inclined, send a donation in his name to the Washington Crossing Audubon Society, D&R Greenway Land Trust, or the University of Pennsylvania Class of 1950.

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Benjamin “Roz” Warren

As of June 7, 2020, the Warren family, Kate, Ben, Heather, and granddaughter Mollie, mourn the passing of Roz Warren, affectionately known as “Mr. Wonderful,” “Dude,” and champion of non-sequiturs. He was an esteemed and adored elder member of the Kleban “out-law” club and a lifelong resident of Princeton. Having served as Chief of Princeton Fire Department in his 50 plus years of service, as well as his decades long membership to the NJ Chapter 22 Red Knights Motorcycle Club, he was not a stingy man with his family or his community.

From the time of the birth of his granddaughter, Mollie — the center of his universe — his last 15 years were lovingly devoted to make her every wish come true.

Full of excitement, fear, hopefulness, and love Kate and Roz set out to make a life together. The next 50 years were not all quiet but always filled with love. Love for one another and love for the family they created. Roz was the beloved father to Ben and Heather and everyone who met him gained another dad. You could feel Roz cheering you on, supporting you in good and in sad life events.

He may be the origin of the expression “smile, people will wonder what you’ve been up to.” His sincere impish smile danced in his incredibly sparkling blue eyes and lingered with anyone lucky enough to see it. And many were lucky as Roz was a happy man with an acerbic wit.

In lieu of flowers, a donation to a cause that was near to his heart, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital at www.StJude.org will be welcomed. Mark your calendar for July 15, 2020 at 10 a.m. to join family and friends for a motorcade through Princeton celebrating the life of Roz starting at Princeton Battlefield and culminating with his interment at the Princeton Cemetery.

Share memories and extend condolences at TheKimbleFuneralHome.com.

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Jane Faggen

Jane Faggen, of Princeton, N.J., died on Sunday, April 19, at Acorn Glen, an assisted living facility; she was nearly 96 years old.

She was born on May 5, 1924, in New York City, N.Y. She graduated from Hunter High School in 1941, from the University of Michigan in 1944, and earned an M.S. in Physics from Cornell University in 1947. At Michigan, she was inducted into Phi Beta Kappa. She worked at Bell Labs in Manhattan for a short period in 1944 and as a member of the scientific staff of the Sonar Analysis Group, under the auspices of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute, from 1947 to 1948. Ms. Faggen was remarkable in her ambitions and achievements in science, especially considering the era in which she lived as a young woman.

Then, having raised three children in New Rochelle, N.Y., she earned a doctorate in educational psychology at the Graduate Center of the City College of New York in 1972 and proceeded to work at the Educational Testing Service in Princeton, N.J., as a senior measurement statistician until her retirement. There she in part investigated gender bias in testing.

Ms. Faggen established two academic prizes, both for outstanding dissertations: one in memory of her longtime companion, Robert Simon, at Columbia University’s Applied Physics and Applied Math Department, and a second one at Princeton University’s Art and Architecture Department.

At Cornell, she was the first female teaching assistant in the Physics Department.

Dr. Faggen was an active member of the Princeton Borough Historic Preservation Review Committee, at one point acting as its Vice Chairwoman. She was also a docent at the Princeton Art Museum, an expression of her deep love of the arts.

A loving mother, and deeply devoted friend, she is survived by her three children, Peggy Steckler, Patti Steckler Bhagat, and Peter Steckler, as well as three granddaughters, Kay Bhagat-Smith, Sarah Bhagat, and Dr. Leah Steckler, and a great-granddaughter, Fiona Smith.

June 10, 2020

Obituaries, 6/10/2020

William James Tate III

William James Tate III, MD of Princeton, NJ, died peacefully on Sunday, May 31, 2020 after a short battle with cancer. He was a beloved husband and brother, a wonderful father and grandfather, and a gentle healer.

Bill was born on October 22, 1932 in Hartford, CT. He was the son of Dr. William James Tate, Jr. and Regina Wahl Tate. Bill grew up in Deep River, CT, where he developed a lifelong love of sailing. He went to The Gunnery for high school and then on to Yale where he earned a degree in Art History in 1954. Following graduation he spent two years in the Army where he was stationed in Stuttgart, Germany. After his stint in the Army Bill decided to follow in his father’s footsteps and become a doctor. He graduated from Boston University School of Medicine in 1961 and moved to New Haven, CT, for his internship and residency. In New Haven, he met his future wife, Constance Klein, a nurse.  

Bill and Connie were married in 1964 and lived in Pittsburgh, PA, and Morgantown, WV, as Bill pursued an academic career in infectious disease research. However, he found that he missed working with patients and decided to go into private practice. A fellow medical resident and friend from New Haven, Dr. David H. Fulmer, told Bill of a vacancy at Princeton Medical Group. Bill interviewed and was offered the position. He and Connie moved to Princeton in 1969 and Bill began what was to be a 32-year career at Princeton Medical Group. 

After a successful and fulfilling career as a physician, Bill embarked on an equally rewarding career in retirement. Bill’s love of boats, which began as a young boy growing up in a small town on the Connecticut River, never dimmed. He named is first sailboat Nepenthe, which is a drug described in Homer’s Odyssey as one which banishes grief or trouble from a person’s mind. He then spent a decade rebuilding and restoring a 28-foot wooden sailboat named Welcome. He also built a wooden sailing dinghy for Welcome, aptly named Welcome’s Wagon.

When he wasn’t working on his boats or fixing something around the house, you could find Bill with his nose in a book. For years, he took great joy in auditing courses at Princeton University, finally taking all the courses he wished he had taken when he was an undergraduate. He was also a dedicated volunteer at the Bryn Mawr-Wellesley Book Sale, showing up at the collection barn on Wednesday and Saturday mornings where he perused, sorted, and stacked used books.  Finally, in retirement Bill had time to indulge his love of music through song. Bill found a musical home with the choir of Trinity Church Princeton, which challenged him musically and fed his soul spiritually. He also sang with the Yale Alumni Chorus. He (and Connie) went on singing tours with YAC to Guatemala, Mexico, Cuba, Turkey, Georgia, Armenia, Singapore, Vietnam, Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia.

Bill is survived by his wife, Connie; his sister, Regina Tate of Deep River, CT; his son, Bill and his wife, Anne Christine Tate of Ewing, NJ; daughter Abigail and her husband, Spencer Reynolds Jr., of Princeton, NJ; his daughter Sarah and her husband, Ian Constable, also of Ewing, NJ; and his grandchildren, Spencer, Sydney, Emma, Matthew, Peyton, and James. Bill was predeceased by his sister, Emily Tate Rudolph. A memorial service and celebration of his life will take place at a later date.

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Harold Broitman

Harold Broitman died on June 1, 2020 at his home in Princeton, NJ, surrounded by family and friends. He is survived by his son Steven L. Broitman, a retired professor of molecular biology (wife: Barbara Wood a polymer scientist and avid musician); daughter Jessica Broitman, a psychoanalyst (husband: Gibor Basri, an astrophysicist and former Vice Chancellor of UCB); and three grandsons: Benjamin Wood Broitman, Adam Wood Broitman, and Jacob Avram Basri.

Harold was born in Brooklyn, NY, in 1927 to Max and Jenny Broitman. His brother Kalman was two years older and preceded him in death by two years. He was a feisty kid in school, showing an early interest in how things are built and how they work. He served in the military in 1946 and learned to be a sharpshooter. He met his wife Adeline while a waiter in the Catskills and “stole“ her from his best friend Herbie. They were married in 1949; the marriage lasted for 67 years until her death in 2016.

Harold attended high school at Brooklyn Tech and college at Brooklyn Polytech, earning a BSc in mechanical engineering and immediately started working in the field. He was employed by a number of large companies, starting with The Burroughs Corp. From there he moved to Fairchild Camera, where he worked on reconnaissance data analysis and design of reconnaissance cameras, among other technical military and defense projects. He developed a talent for reading requests for proposals from the government and turning them into successful projects for his company. He was often put in the position of working on something new, and would do whatever it took to learn what was needed. He was given increasing responsibility for taking projects from beginning to end, and managed increasingly large teams of engineers. He was very fond of regaling family and friends with stories of his successful exploits and problematic supervisors. The last large corporation he worked for was RCA (Astro Division) in 1968, which precipitated the family move to Princeton, New Jersey, in 1970 from Bayside, Queens. He eventually decided to start his own company, and with Meyer Sapoff founded Thermometrics in 1970.

Harold loved the work of technical development, manufacturing processes and sales, and loved running a company. His prior experience in industry served him well and Thermometrics developed into an extremely successful company. It was a major supplier of thermistors (temperature sensing devices) to manufacturers and in medical applications. He enjoyed giving employees gifts, life advice, and help when they needed it. The company provided a profit-sharing option to employees. It was one of the early companies to take advantage of off-shoring, and Harold paid many visits to plants in Puerto Rico, Mexico, and China. Thermometrics was sold to a large British conglomerate in 1995 and Harold continued to consult with them for three years before full retirement.

In 1989 Harold and Addie built their dream house in Princeton, participating in every detail. The home reflects his engineering creativity and sophistication, and had many advanced features. In the basement he put together an amazingly equipped “dream” shop, where he built and repaired things and indulged his talent for sculpting. He was an engaged citizen of Princeton and sat on various local boards, particularly in the Jewish community. He was passionately philanthropic — interested in making the world a better place. Projects he supported included Columbia University research on Alzheimer’s and dementia, many mental health programs, support for seniors at home, and creating a safe and strong Jewish community as well as national and international Jewish projects that serve the needy of all backgrounds. Harold was fond of saying “We are put on this Earth to help improve humanity. The prize is not winning, the prize is the satisfaction of accomplishment in moving the mountain a little.” He indeed did that and had that satisfaction, and enjoyed the accomplishments of his children as well.

Private funeral services and burial will be at Mount Hebron Cemetery in Flushing, NY.

To leave condolences for the family, please visit OrlandsMemorialChapel.com.

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Edmund Allenby Wilson Jr.

Oh, baby! What a life!!

Edmund Allenby Wilson Jr., 82, of Princeton, New Jersey, passed away peacefully on Tuesday, June 2nd, 2020 at his home, surrounded by his loving family.

He was born in Helena, Arkansas, to Edmund Allenby Wilson Sr. and Dorothy Lillian Wilson. He attended the University of Arkansas, and graduated in 1964 with dual degrees in Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Architecture. In 1962, he moved to Massachusetts, where he worked for the architecture firm of Alderman & MacNeish. He enlisted in the Air National Guard, from which he later received an Honorable Discharge as a Staff Sergeant. In 1968, he accepted a position with The Hillier Group in Princeton, New Jersey, where he became a principal in the firm. He subsequently worked with Looney Ricks Kiss of Princeton, and then he embarked upon a solo practice as an architect and planner.

His years as a consultant for Robbinsville, NJ, were some of the most professionally gratifying of his career. During this time, he was able to facilitate the construction of the beautiful BAPS Akshardham Hindu Temple, and this brought him tremendous joy.

Amongst his numerous personal and professional accomplishments and accolades, in February 2020, he was honored to be a 2020 Inductee into the John G. Williams Fellowship at the University of Arkansas Fay Jones School of Architecture + Design.

An avid traveler, he and his loving wife, Darleen, explored the world together, which afforded him many opportunities to exercise his love of photography. These adventures also provided diverse and delightful locations to pursue his lifelong passion for the arts. He held a deep appreciation for fine art, not only in the many museums and churches they visited, but those pieces carefully collected and displayed in the Wilson home.

Trains, planes, and automobiles were a special source of enjoyment. He was a subscriber of several automotive magazines, and always happy for the chance to discuss the newest models and technology.

He was a great music enthusiast, with tastes ranging from classical and jazz to the country of his Southern roots. These were a frequent accompaniment to the rich and varied discussions he so loved, on topics traversing philosophy and religion to politics and culture.  In addition, they provided comforting background to his lifelong love of the mystery novel; in particular, the exploits of his favorite sleuth, Jules Maigret.

Ed was predeceased by his mother, Lillian Burke Wilson, and his father, Edmund Allenby Wilson, Sr. He is survived by his beloved wife, Darleen Wilson, of Princeton, NJ; daughter Elise Courtney Wilson, of Los Angeles, CA, and son Christopher Allenby Wilson of Manhattan, NY; daughter Artelia Lyn Ellis of Danbury, NH, with first wife Linda Ray Wilson; sister Gail Smithson Robinson and her husband, Danny; as well as caring uncle to numerous nieces and nephews residing in Arkansas, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Tennessee.

In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to the Ed and Darleen Wilson Travel Award in the Fay Jones School of Architecture and Design at the University of Arkansas. Gifts may be mailed to the following address: Mary Purvis, Sr., Director of Development, Fay Jones School of Architecture and Design, 120 Vol Walker Hall, Fayetteville, AR 72701.  Please make checks payable to the University of Arkansas Foundation.  Credit card gifts may be made by calling (479) 236-0675, or by using the online giving link at onlinegiving.uark.edu.

In all his years, Ed never met a stranger. He made friends wherever he went, whether at the local grocery store, or halfway around the world. Father, son, brother, husband, he filled all his earthly obligations with honor and grace. He will be deeply missed, and remembered with love and laughter in perpetuity.

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Renate Giller

Renate Giller passed away peacefully at home on June 8, the result of complications from recently diagnosed cancer. 

Born in 1941 in Buenauburg, today the Czech Republic, she and her family were forced to flee their home in 1945 to escape the Russians. They re-settled in Hameln in the West German State of Lower Saxony, where she grew up. Always a practical person, Renate became a technical designer. She met her future husband Peter in January 1960, when he invited her to a Carnival ball. She went as Cleopatra and he as Caesar. Renate and Peter married in 1966, thus celebrated their 54th wedding anniversary in March of this year.

When Peter and Renate were offered jobs in the U.S. with Westinghouse Electric, the Gillers emigrated to America in 1969, where they resided initially in Media, Pennsylvania, then moved to Princeton in 1976. Renate became the mother of two children, Oliver in 1974 and Michelle in 1978, today Mrs. Michelle Clark of Seattle. Both gave her two grandchildren: Julia, Maika, Alexander, and Taggart. Unfortunately, Oliver passed away from brain cancer in 2018, which caused Renate great pain until her final moments.

First and foremost a wife, a mother, a grandmother, and a friend, Renate was an active member of the Lutheran Church of the Messiah since 1978, of the German Club in Princeton, and of her neighborhood, where she was always there to help when needed, likewise a wonderful hostess, both done with love and grace. She was especially proud to have become an American Citizen in 2018.

There will be a private burial at the Princeton Cemetery this week. It will be followed by a memorial service and reception after the coronavirus is no further threat to the participants.

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Sylvia Yarost Tumin

Sylvia Tumin, daughter of the immigrants of Poland Isadore and Esther Yarost, wife of Melvin Marvin Tumin of Newark, mother to Jonathan Tumin and Zachary and their wives Kathie Tumin and Laura Dawn Barbieri, and grandmother to Remy Tumin, Rachel Tumin, Ben Tumin, and Ariel Tumin, and step-grandaughters Kathleen Rigby and Alexandra Rigby, died in her sleep June 4 at her home at Stonebridge, Montgomery Township, New Jersey. She battled lung cancer for four years, but said “no more” to her treatments in late May, vowing to let nature take its course, which it did within the week.

She was born on the Lower East Side of New York January 29, 1927. The family moved to the Bronx, then to Detroit, Michigan, all in search of work during the Great Depression. She graduated from Detroit’s Central High School in 1944, then Wayne State University, whence she married Mel, then a young instructor at Wayne, and soon a professor at Princeton University’s first glimmers of a Sociology department. They made their life there, first in apartments at 120 Prospect Avenue, then 110 Prospect Avenue, then in 1965, moved around the corner to a house at 119 Fitzrandolph Road. This would be their home and neighborhood for 50 years.

As Jonathan made his way to Haverford, then Harvard, and Zach to U-Penn and on, Sylvia reinvented life in the empty nest, first as a trained interior designer, then, when no jobs came her way, in social work and the caring of the aged with a MSW from Rutgers, and work at Greenwood House, Jewish Home for the Aged in Ewing, where she retired a decade ago as the director of social work.

Her husband passed away of lung cancer in 1993, leaving her to face the future full blast as a widow, which she did for 27 years, with grace, fortitude, and a steely love always enduring in a lifelong marriage to one man, resolute and empowering. She died with his ring on her finger, his gift of love, a gold necklace, around her neck. She is buried by his side, as they lived, in Princeton Cemetery

We loved her madly, and she, us. We will miss her, and will carry on in her name and embrace.

Greenwood House, Jewish Home for the Aged of Ewing would welcome your contribution in her name (www.greenwoodhouse.org).

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David Aaron Friedman

David Aaron Friedman, of Lawrenceville, NJ, and Boynton Beach, FL, passed away on June 6th after a long battle with heart disease.

David was born in Trenton, NJ, on May 19, 1933, to Max and Janet Friedman. Max was an obstetrician at Helene Fuld Hospital in Trenton, having moved from Brooklyn shortly after receiving his medical degree and marrying Janet, who had been a hat model in New York.

After graduating from Trenton Central High School in 1951 where he excelled on the swim team, David attended Duke University undergraduate and Law School, graduating in 1957. It was at Duke that David discovered the true love of his life, Marilyn Nelson, who survives him. They married on June 30, 1956. Marilyn always said David’s favorite things were golf, Chinese food, and her, in that order, but everybody knew Marilyn was number 1; although, golf was surely a close second.

After graduating law school, the newlyweds moved back to Trenton, where they began an impressive and exciting life together. David began practicing law working with State Senator Sido Ridolfi, forming the law firm Ridolfi and Friedman in the early 1960s. His law career encompassed an extensive array of land use and development work, and he was involved in development and redevelopment projects throughout New Jersey and especially in Mercer County. He represented many local builders and some national developers building apartments, office parks, single family houses, and many other land use real estate projects.

One of his proudest career achievements was stewarding the approvals and advancing the development of Eggerts Crossing Village in Lawrenceville, which provides low income housing in an historically African American section of Lawrence Township. Years later, Fred Vereen Jr., past president of Lawrence Non-Profit Housing, Inc., recognized David as an integral component to the completion of the project.

Amongst David’s additional professional accomplishments were developing low income, senior citizen and family apartment projects, extensive involvement in several community banks, and being a leading force in bringing cable television to Hamilton Township.

David’s favorite place to be was on the golf course. David played golf his entire life, from joining the golf team at Duke to winning the club championship at Greenacres Country Club (now known as Cobblestone Creek) in five different decades. His involvement with Greenacres extended to serving on the Board and as President. His life-long dedication and commitment ensured the ongoing viability of the Club, including spearheading the recent land sale to construct housing, renovating the golf course and clubhouse, and creating a fresh environment for members and guests.

He was an original member of the Falls Country Club in Lake Worth, Florida, and he and Marilyn spent each winter in Boynton Beach for over 40 years. He had the first hole in one recorded at both the Falls and Metedeconk National in Jackson, NJ, where David was also an original member. One of his crowning golfing achievements was playing at over 1,000 golf courses around the world, including some of the all-time greats in Scotland and Ireland, and even Augusta National while a member of the Duke University golf team. His list of golf friends and acquaintances is endless; David always said he never met anyone he didn’t like on the golf course. He was also one of the original creators and board members for the First Tee of Greater Trenton which provides golf opportunities and life skills to young people.

One of David’s greatest and longest lasting traits was bringing people together. He was a connector always looking to create mutually beneficial personal and business relationships. Countless people looked to David as a resource of knowledge and leadership. His business and personal network was extensive, and he was always looking to combine the expertise of numerous people when starting a new project. He had an uncanny ability to build a team while providing guidance.

He loved to travel, especially to the south of France, developing lifelong relationships with many couples. Enjoying delicious food and wine with Marilyn as his favorite companion made him especially happy.

Most of all, he loved spending time with his family. Although spread throughout the country, he had very close relationships with his children and grandchildren, always providing guidance and insight when needed (and sometimes when not).

David is predeceased by his parents, Max and Janet Friedman, his son, Eric Friedman, and brother Richard Friedman. In addition to his wife of 63 years, Marilyn, he is survived by his brother Robert Friedman and sister-in-law Adele of Los Angeles, California; son Jeffrey Friedman and daughter-in-law Kathy Lee of Berkeley, California; son Steven Friedman and daughter-in-law Heath of Lawrenceville, NJ; daughter-in-law Amy Gutmann of Seattle, Washington; and seven loving grandchildren: Kelly (and husband Dan Buyanovsky), Margot, Ally, Ben, Lily, Julia, and Louisa Friedman.

He will be dearly missed by many, but he leaves a lasting impression on all who knew him.

Services will be private. The family will hold a memorial service when public gatherings are possible.

In lieu of flowers, the family requests donations be made to either The First Tee of Greater Trenton (www.firstteegreatertrenton.org/ways-to-give) or The American Heart Association (www.heart.org).

To leave condolences for the family visit www.orlandsmemorialchapel.com.

June 3, 2020

Obituaries 6/3/2020

Gaylord “Rusty” Johnson III

Gaylord “Rusty” Johnson III, C.F.A., passed away on May 28, 2020 at his home in Skillman, New Jersey after living with pancreatic cancer for over two years. He was surrounded by his family and his brothers, and was regularly visited by dear friends and neighbors whose generosity and kindness during the past two years was truly remarkable. The family is deeply comforted by the knowledge of how many lives Rusty touched in such a positive way.

Rusty was born in Houston, Texas, on August 31, 1963 and graduated from Kinkaid High School in 1982. He received a Bachelor of Arts in Economics from Washington & Lee University in 1986. He remained very close to his Washington & Lee classmates through his life, especially his Kappa Alpha brothers. Rusty spent his senior year of college studying abroad in Taiwan, which led to six years of working in Hong Kong as a sell-side equity analyst, two years in Bangkok, Thailand, a year in New York City, and finally in 1994, a move to Harding Loevner Management in Somerville, New Jersey, where he was a partner until his passing. Rusty joined Harding Loevner as one of the original portfolio managers on their emerging market strategy and remained in that role until 2018. His impact went beyond investment expertise; his passion for his work and his commitment to excellence helped create the strong corporate culture of which he was so proud. 

Rusty is survived by his wife of 23 years, René McCurry Johnson and his two daughters: Samantha Kate, 20, a junior at Washington & Lee, and Caroline Alys, 16, a junior at the Peddie School. Rusty is also survived by his mother, Helen Morgan Johnson of Denver, Colorado, his step-mother, Pamela Barber Johnson of Pearland Texas, his brother Thomas Morgan Johnson (Gina, Thomas, and Eric) of Houston, Texas, his brother Douglas Paton Johnson (Christin, Davis, and Clayton) of Lakewood, Colorado, his aunt Gail Serrell of Houston, Texas, his uncle Joe Morgan (Carol, Colleen, Katie) of Lakewood, Colorado and his in-laws William and Kathy McCurry of Rocky Hill, New Jersey and Jim McCurry (Brenda, Aidan, and Blythe) of Isle of Palms, South Carolina. Rusty was predeceased by his father, Gaylord Johnson, Jr.

Rusty was dearly loved by his friends and neighbors — particularly his neighborhood “brothers” on Van Zandt Road, and his fishing, hunting, tennis, and ice hockey friends in Houston, Princeton, and Wellington, Florida. He was an avid fisherman who loved to fish for everything from small crappies behind his house in Florida, to big marlin in Cabo. Rusty loved to play tennis, was known for a wicked, unreturnable serve, and became an avid golfer in his later years. 

Rusty lived his entire life at “show pace.” Never one to waste time or sit still, he loved to putter in the garden with his plants and bird feeders, fritter in the house (i.e. throw out things belonging to his wife and daughters), and his favorite birthday gift was always a dumpster in the driveway. Rusty loved hanging out with friends, grilling in the backyard or grabbing a beer at the Tiger’s Tale. He absolutely hated fancy food, particularly small portions. Rusty loved to travel and firmly believed in the transformative power of travel for young people. To that end, Rusty started a scholarship at Washington & Lee to fund summer study abroad programs, with a focus on non-traditional destinations. Rusty loved animals, and will be greatly missed by his two dogs, four cats, and a herd of horses he could never exactly tell apart.  

Rusty was incredibly proud of his daughters, and loved to watch them compete in show jumping or field hockey (Sam) or basketball and field hockey (Caroline) and was thrilled to introduce both girls to scuba diving.Rusty hated cold water and cold weather. And, until the very end, he had absolutely appalling taste in both music and movies. He was widely known for his “Rusty-isms,” his fantastic sense of humor, and his warm heart.  

In his memory, the family asks that you gather your friends and family, pop a cold Coors Light or New Zealand Sauvignon Blanc, put your feet up by an outdoor fire (preferably an excessively smoky one, built with random objects the fire department would prefer you not burn), and tell tall tales of fishing exploits or exotic street meals from far-flung lands.

In lieu of flowers, the family asks that you consider donating to HomeFront (1880 Princeton Avenue, Lawrence Township, New Jersey 08648) an organization Rusty and René have long supported, or the Rusty Johnson ‘86 Endowment for Study Abroad at Washington & Lee (c/o William Greer, Development Office, Lexington, VA 24450), or the Basser Center for BRCA at Penn Medicine’s Abramson Cancer Center (www.basser.org/events-giving/make-gift).  

Arrangements are under the direction of The Mather-Hodge Funeral Home, Princeton, NJ.

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Edward P. Neuburg

Edward P. Neuburg died of natural causes on May 23rd at Morris Hall Meadows nursing home in Lawrenceville, NJ.

Ned Neuburg was born in 1925 in Larchmont, New York. He attended the Fieldston School and Swarthmore College. After serving in the US Navy during World War II, he was graduated from Swarthmore with a Bachelor’s degree in mathematics in 1948, and in 1950 married classmate Helen (“Greenie”) Green. He obtained a Master’s degree from the University of Chicago and taught for a year at the University of Vermont. He had begun work on a PhD at Harvard University when he was called back into service for the Korean War and was eventually sent to Washington, D.C., where he became a cryptanalyst and computer programmer at the Naval Security Station. This later became the National Security Agency where Ned remained, raising a family in the Washington metropolitan area, with stints at GCHQ in Cheltenham, England, and at the Institute for Defense Analyses in Princeton, NJ. He retired from the NSA in 1988, and returned to IDA, working as a consultant and adjunct until 2013.

His titles at the NSA included Chief of Mathematical Research, Chief of Speech Research, Deputy Chief of Research, Chief of Research, and Scientific Advisor. In 1980 he received the Exceptional Civilian Service Award from the Department of Defense. He published many papers in technical journals, was involved in administering the ARPA funding that led to the first successful computer speech recognition programs, and created the first computer algorithm for changing the rate of a sound without changing the pitch.

He is survived by his wife, Greenie, by his two sons, Matthew and Ethan, by his daughter, Amy, and by his grandson, Nicholas.

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Dr. Helen H. Martinson

Beloved Grandmother, Retired Dutch Neck Elementary School Principal, and Princeton University Teacher

Helen Jean Harveycutter Collier Martinson died at age 88 on Monday, May 18, 2020 at Stonebridge Senior Living after a brief illness of pneumonia and COVID-19.

Helen led a wonderful and full life. She was born on October 26, 1931 at Garfield Memorial Hospital in Washington, D.C., to the late Eunice and Alfred Harveycutter. Helen Jean graduated from George Washington University in 1953 and soon afterwards, she met the love her life, Merrill F. Collier, on a blind date. What followed immediately afterwards was a profound, storybook romance with a soft-spoken man from Bethel, Ohio, and they were married in 1956 at the U.S. Naval Academy’s Dahlgren Chapel. On April 10, 1963, an unimaginable tragedy struck when Lieutenant Merrill Collier and all hands on the USS Thresher (SSN-593) were lost at sea during routine depth-testing exercises which forever changed Helen’s and her children’s lives.

Helen chose to enter the education sphere first teaching kindergarten at Wicoff Elementary School in Plainsboro, NJ, then became Assistant Principal at Dutch Neck Elementary School in West Windsor, NJ, after earning an M.S. in Education in 1981 from Bank Street College in New York City. Helen became known for her dedication, talent, and affinity for supporting and encouraging those around her and became Principal when a redistricting brought new growth opportunities. Helen and team created a “Camelot” — a new vision for an entirely new school within the walls of an old building, to hire all new staff and to design an entirely new curriculum developmentally appropriate to create the optimal environment for learning and nurturing young children.

Helen won two grants from the Geraldine Dodge Foundation, which supported her attendance at the Harvard Graduate School of Education summer institute on the “Art and Craft of Principalship” with some of the most respected authorities on effective school leadership in the world, and another to train teachers on alternative assessment. In 1993, Redbook Magazine selected Dutch Neck as one of the nation’s top elementary schools. She credited the “entrepreneurial nature” of her staff for the many success at Dutch Neck for earning the recognition as one of “America’s Best Schools.” The same year, Helen was honored as a National Distinguished Principal by the National Association of Elementary School Principals who selected 60 elementary and middle school principals across the U.S. for outstanding contributions to their schools and communities. In her early sixties and while working, Helen earned a Doctorate in Education (Ed.D.) in 1999 from Columbia University Teacher’s College in New York City.

After retirement from the school district, Helen led Princeton University’s Teachers as Scholars program, a partnership between Princeton University and surrounding school districts with the objective to provide scholarly and intellectually engaging professional development opportunities for teachers, then was asked to lead within Princeton University’s Program in Teacher Preparation, a uniquely designed interdepartmental course of study that prepares Princeton University students, both undergraduate and graduate, to become certified to teach at the elementary and secondary levels and participate in direct collaboration with area classroom teachers through structured, practical field experiences, including full-time practice teaching that Helen arranged given her experience and contacts within the teaching community, before moving to Stonebridge Living facility in Skillman where she was quick to develop new valued friendships.

Helen is profoundly missed by all those who knew her. She was elegant and gracious, an amazing leader, mentor and educator who rose above adversity countless times, no matter how daunting, and loved fun and laughter and Long Beach Island.

Helen was preceded in death by her son William, and is survived by her children Sherrill (Michael) of Flemington, NJ; Neal (Carol) of Trappe, PA; Merrill (formerly Kristine) of Santa Rosa, CA; and nine grandchildren Dorothy, John Paul, Thérèse, and Maria Helen; Ben (Nicole), Katherine (Craig), and William; Gregory and Jennifer; and great-grandchild Jane Marie.

 In lieu of flowers, please share your stories by posting a tribute on www.forevermissed.com/helen-jhc-martinson.

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Memorial Service Postponed
Elisabeth Borgerhoff Pomerleau

The Memorial Service for Elisabeth Borgerhoff Pomerleau, which was going to be held on June 14 at the Princeton University Chapel, is being postponed to a later date, yet to be determined. Our family keeps our loved ones in our thoughts in anticipation of gathering together to remember Beth at another better time.

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Dr. Michel Vallieres

Dr. Michel Vallieres, 74, of Princeton, died Sunday, April 26, 2020 at Penn Medicine Princeton Medical Center of Plainsboro from complications related to the COVID-19 virus. Michel was a gentle gentleman with a persistent French Canadian accent and unassuming manner. He was friendly, accepting, and voraciously curious by nature. He instinctively saw the goodness and potential in people, and everyone he met liked him immediately. He leaves behind many friends throughout the world.

Michel was unafraid to experience life.  He was willing to try any food without description. He learned Spanish without taking classes and preferred to speak Spanish with Latins even if their English was better than his Spanish. He knew he could not keep a rhythm, but loved to dance anyway. He met his wife of 50 years at a Samba dance party. He was unapologetically a nerd’s nerd — fully embracing Star Trek, Star Wars, Dr. Who and, embarrassingly, was an avid fan of The Big Bang Theory sitcom, which we chalked up to English as a second language and gave him a pass. His enthusiasm for life was an example to us all.

Michel deeply loved, and was loved by, his family. He never missed his daughter’s volleyball games or his son’s hockey games as kids. He spent many hours watching hockey and football with them. He spoke with his parents in Canada almost every day until they passed. He loved large get-togethers with family and friends from around the world. We cherish so many happy memories.

Born in Quebec City, Canada in 1945, Dr. Vallieres graduated Laval University in the Spring of 1967, obtained a Masters and PhD in Physics from the University of Pennsylvania. He did post-doctoral work in England and Canada, before spending 38 years as a professor and 17 years as Head of the Physics Department at Drexel University. Dr. Vallieres was also a published author.

Son of the late Ulric and Noella (Villeneuve) Vallieres, he is survived by his wife of 50 years, Maria-Gladys (Cano) Vallieres, a son and daughter-in-law Rick and Irma Vallieres, daughter and son-in-law Nathalie and Nicholas Hand, sister Danielle Vallieres, and six grandchildren Thomas Hand, Maria Hand, Marcella Hand, Genevieve Vallieres, Jadie Tome, Joshua Tome, niece Caroline Leblanc and partner Eric Pfalzgraf, nephew Simon Leblanc and wife Valerie Drolet, nephew David Leblanc and partner Emilie Langevin.

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Glenn Mohrman

Glenn Mohrman, 94, of Lawrence Township, NJ, passed away on Friday, May 1st, 2020. He was born in Brooklyn, NY, on January 20th, 1926 and grew up in Rockville Centre, NY. After serving in the US Army Specialized Training Program at Harvard he was assigned to the US Army Field Artillery as a radio operator, earning three battle stars in the European Theatre.

Glenn graduated from Dartmouth College in 1949 and Virginia School of Law receiving his LLB in 1952. While at UVA he served as Editor in Chief of the UVA Law School Reading Guide.  Following law school, he became a member of the Connecticut Bar Association and began his career with General Cable Corporation at its Rome, NY, plant specializing in labor arbitration cases. 

Glenn had an extensive career in advertising research starting in 1955 with Gallup and Robinson Inc. in Princeton, NJ, where he rose to Executive Vice President and served as Vice Chairman of the Executive Committee and Member of the Board of Directors. Continuing his career, Glenn joined Opinion Research as Vice President of Advertising in 1969 and then in 1976 joining Physicians Radio Network in NYC as Vice President of Marketing and Research. In 1983, he founded Mohrman/Scott Associates, Inc. in Princeton, NJ, a company specializing in pre-testing pharmaceutical company medical journal ads. He retired from him firm in 1995.

During his career, Glenn wrote, published, and lectured frequently for conferences of the American Marketing Association, the Association of National Advertisers and other industry associations. He lectured at Princeton University and the Harvard School of Business Administration and was a member of several Marketing and Advertising Associations and councils including the Pharmaceutical Advertising Council and the Sigma Delta Chi Honorary Journalistic Society.     

Glenn enjoyed traveling extensively with his wife, visiting more than 45 countries worldwide.  He was an avid tennis player, fly and salt-water fisherman, downhill skier and skilled sailor, spending vacations cruising the world with his family and friends. He loved classical music and tunes of the ’30s and ’40s. He was devoted to his Springer Spaniels. 

Glenn is survived by his beloved wife Waltraud (Trudy) of 36+ years, son Mace Mohrman and wife Ann Barry of South Hampton, NY,  daughter Darby O’Neill of Hopewell, NJ, and her daughters Devin and husband Joaquin Garcia, Morgan and husband Michael Barton and their two children Tanner and Blake, and sons Brooks Mohrman and his wife Veronica of Mexico City and Morgan Mohrman and wife Ashley of Duxbury, MA, and their children Clay and Chase. He is predeceased by his sister, Jean Springer of Cincinnati, OH.

Memorial contributions can be made in memory of Glenn to The Smile Train and S.A.V.E or any organization of your choice.

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Newton Everett Godnick

Newton Everett Godnick, of Princeton Junction, NJ, died peacefully on May 30 at the age of 94.

Newton is survived by his loving wife of 60 years, Sherley; daughters Jenny (Deb Karvelas) and Stacy (Lisa Perricone); son Michael (Steven Cohen deceased); sister Hermine Basnight; niece Beatrice Basnight; nephews Jim Basnight and Sam Basnight (deceased); sister-in-law Flora Atkins; brother-in-law Thurston Atkins; and many cousins, colleagues, and friends.

Newton was born on May 22, 1926 in the Bronx, New York, to parents Lillian and Samuel Godnick. He graduated from Bronx High School of Science, Rutgers University BS, and New York University MS.

A kind man with an inquiring mind, his employment history reflects his diverse interests: Newton was a landscape architect with his own nursery, a buyer in retail, and chairman of the Fashion Buying and Merchandise Department at the Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT). Newton was well respected as a leader and educator. After retiring from FIT in 1992, he maintained relationships with many students providing counsel and friendship.

His children remember him as a patient and devoted father who encouraged them to pursue their interests. He was a passionate story teller, historian, and had a marvelous sense of humor. He loved politics, baseball (especially the N.Y. Yankees), old movies, nature, and gardening. His ability to remember lyrics to popular, film, and Broadway songs was impressive.

In retirement, Newton and Sherley traveled the world and enjoyed spending time with family and friends.

At Newton’s request, no services will be held.

In lieu of sending flowers, condolences may be sent to 134 Harris Road, Princeton Junction, NJ 08550. Donations in his memory may be made to The Nature Conservancy (nature.org), Alzheimer’s Association-Greater NJ Chapter (alzheimer.org) or Jewish Family and Children’s Service of Greater Mercer County (jfcsonline.org).

May 27, 2020

Obituaries, 5/27/2020

Robert Jay Merritt

Robert Jay Merritt, a longtime resident of Princeton, NJ, and Vero Beach, FL, was born on November 23, 1941 and passed away on Friday, May 15, 2020. He lived a full life defined by an unwavering faith in God, a deep love for his family and friends, a tireless sense of service to his country, and colleagues. His unshakeable optimism for life and contagious smile brought incredible joy and left an indelible mark on the fortunate individuals who knew him. 

Bob was born to Raymond C. and Mildred Bernoski and raised in East Williston, New York. Growing up, Bob enjoyed a typical Long Island childhood during the golden age of the 1950s. Beginning at North Side Elementary and continuing through graduation from Chaminade High School, Bob established friendships that he treasured throughout his life. He, along with his brother, were the first generation of their family to attend college. He earned a Bachelor of Science at Siena College and served in their ROTC program. 

Leaving New York, Bob joined the Army and served his country in Vietnam as a First Lieutenant in the famed 716th Military Police Battalion from 1965-1967. During the war, he “distinguished himself by exceptionally valorous action” and was awarded both the Bronze Star and the Soldier’s Medal for Heroism. According to one citation: In disregard for his own personal safety, he fled his detachment’s headquarters to the scene of a nearby downed U.S. Air Force Bomber, which was carrying its full payload of live munitions. His act of bravery saved the lives of countless fellow U.S. servicemen on the ground and U.S. airmen trapped in the wreckage. 

After his service, Bob enrolled at Columbia Business School, where he earned an MBA in Industrial Engineering. Subsequently, he joined First National Bank in New York City. He was invited to lead Manufacturers Hanover Leasing Corporation (MHLC) in 1973 as Vice President. In 1986, with the merger of MHLC and CIT Corporation, Bob was named President and Chief Executive Officer of Equipment Financing at CIT Group. Held in high esteem in the industry, Bob would go on to serve as President of the Equipment Leasing Association. In 1990, he received Siena College’s Professor Joseph A. Buff Award, which is presented to alumni with outstanding accomplishments or achievements in their careers. Additionally, he served on the board of the directors of the New York City Opera and was a member of the New York Athletic Club for over 45 years.  

There was no other relationship more important to Bob as the one he cultivated with his family. Bob fell madly in love with Dee Dee, they married and had four beautiful children. He was a hero to his three daughters who adored him endlessly. Bob’s relationship with his son quickly evolved from not only being a father figure, but also becoming a lifelong friend and idol. 

Bob is survived by his beloved wife of 41 years, Dee Dee, nee Fluehr (Vero Beach, FL), daughter, Meghan Merritt (Chicago, IL), daughter and son-in-law, Mackenzie and David Skeen (Nashville, TN), daughter and son-in-law, Mercedes and Sebastian Barsh (Chicago, IL), and son and future daughter-in-law, Robert Jay Merritt, Jr. (“Beau”) and Julia F. Walker (Seattle, WA). He is also survived by seven grandchildren: Grier, Ford, Webb, Bo, Tully, and Robert Pike Skeen, and Landon Barsh, and was predeceased by grandson Cauley Skeen. Brother of Raymond Merritt and his wife Carol (Long Island, NY).

Due to current events, the burial service will be private. The Merritt Family anticipates a future celebration to honor the extraordinary life of Robert Jay Merritt. (Refer to www.fluehr.com for information on future celebration.)

In lieu of flowers, gifts in Bob’s memory can be made to: Siena College, The Robert J. Merritt Scholarship, 515 Loudon Road, Loudonville, New York 12211.

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Robert Lewis Fishback

Robert Lewis Fishback died on May 21, 2020. Loving father of Trina (Ken) Weingarten and Jed (Breena) Fishback; devoted grandfather of Sofia, Elena, Jillian, and Jordan. Lifetime resident of Philadelphia. High school history teacher in the Philadelphia Public School System.

Last resided in Princeton. Services and interment are private. Contributions in his memory may be made to Princeton Medical Center Foundation, Healthcare Heroes Fund, www.princetonhcs.org/princeton-medical-center-foundation/make-a-gift-now/online-gift-form. Goldsteins’ Rosenberg’s Raphael-Sacks, www.goldsteinsfuneral.com.

May 20, 2020

Obituaries, 5/20/2020

Janelle Connevey Morris

Janelle Connevey Morris of Princeton, New Jersey, passed away peacefully on May 17, 2020 at the age of 93. She is reunited for eternity with her beloved husband of 72 years, Mac Glenn Morris, and their beloved daughter Patricia Morris Harris, who preceded her mother in death exactly one year earlier.

Janelle was born in Breckenridge, Texas, on August 19, 1926 to John Lawrence Connevey, an oil company superintendent, and Virginia Nell Connevey, née Sutton, and had two sisters, Maxine and Madge. Janelle was raised in Tuleta, Texas, a suburb of Beeville, by her father and stepmother, Mary Alice (Mamie) Connevey, née Underwood, surrounded by love and laughter, and enjoyed many travels with Maxine by her side to New Mexico and Colorado.

Janelle met her husband Mac, a Marine bomber pilot, when he was assigned to Chase Field Naval Air Station in Beeville shortly after returning from service in the Pacific during World War II. They were married at her home in Tuleta on July 27, 1946 before moving to Princeton, New Jersey, in 1947, where they raised their four children. Their life together was marked by an immense love for one another, enjoyment of every moment spent with their children and grandchildren, a wonderful circle of friends, and annual road trips out West.

Many happy days were enjoyed by the Morris family and their treasured friends at Clearbrook Farm in Princeton, where Janelle and Mac raised their family. They purchased Clearbrook Farm, originally the country home of Moses Taylor Pyne, in 1962 and Janelle found great joy in making the house a home by renovating, painting, and wallpapering it herself. Janelle’s hospitality knew no bounds and Clearbrook Farm quickly became synonymous with a place of celebration and joy, hosting church gatherings, large Thanksgiving dinners for family and friends, plays that Janelle wrote, and Davidson reunions for hundreds of alumni. Janelle opened her home and her heart to all, treating strangers as friends and friends as family, always cooking for a big crowd, entertaining guests around the piano, and creating traditions at Clearbrook that have been carried on for generations.

Janelle was known for her contagious laughter and sense of humor, her unconditional kindness and warmth, her Texas pride, and her heartfelt love of music. As a natural creative, she enjoyed staying up all night sewing clothes, curtains, and outfits for her grandchildren. She had a deep knowledge and admiration of Southwest Native American jewelry and developed lifelong friendships with local artists. This later inspired her career as a buyer, sharing their craft with the Princeton community. She found beauty in everything — in the people she met, the clouds in the sky, the flowers in her garden, and through music and verse. She laughed easily and often, mainly at herself. She valued her faith and was a proud deacon of the Nassau Presbyterian Church. Most of all, Janelle loved her hero, Mac Morris, and their marriage was a love story that continues to inspire all who were lucky enough to know them.

Janelle Morris is survived by her son Steve Morris of Cleveland, Ohio, daughter Janelle Thibau and husband Eric of Potomac, Maryland, son John Morris and wife Suzy of Princeton, New Jersey, and son-in-law Ed Harris, Pat’s loving husband, of Perkasie, Pennsylvania. She is also survived by her 13 adoring grandchildren and many great-grandchildren.

In lieu of flowers, the family requests that donations be made in Janelle’s name to Nassau Presbyterian Church in Princeton, New Jersey.

Arrangements are under the direction of Mather-Hodge Funeral Home, Princeton, NJ.

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Carol A. Weiss
Cherished mom, grandma, and sister

Carol A. (Johnson) Weiss, 76, passed away peacefully on Thursday, May 14, 2020 after a courageous seven-year battle with ovarian cancer.

Carol was raised in Florham Park, NJ, and graduated from Hanover Park High School. She graduated from Trenton State College with a degree in Elementary Education. She began her teaching career as a third-grade teacher at Mt. Way School in Morris Plains, NJ. She continued her teaching career as a permanent substitute for the Parsippany-Troy Hills school district. She raised her family in Parsippany, NJ, for 25 years and was very active in the community, including serving as President of the Troy Hills School PTA, President of the Parsippany Council of PTAs, and initiating/organizing the Parsippany-Troy Hills school district-wide fingerprinting program for elementary school students. After moving to Skillman, NJ, in 1995, Carol remained active in the community as a Drumthwacket docent for 22 years and mentor for Princeton University postdoctoral international students. She was very involved at Trinity Church in Princeton, serving as reception desk volunteer, One Table Cafe waitress, and rummage sale volunteer.

The pride and joy of Carol’s life were her children and grandchildren. She was their biggest supporter and cheerleader! She especially enjoyed all of the wonderful vacations they all took together over the years.

Carol was predeceased by her husband of 53 years, Ed, and her parents Theodore and Eleanor. She is survived by her children Kim (Ron) Payne, Ed (Trish) Weiss III; grandchildren Ryan, Kevin, Rees, Landon, Riley, and Griffin. She is also survived by her sister, Gloria Knight.

Due to the COVID-19 restrictions, a celebration of Carol’s life will be held at a later date. In lieu of flowers, donations in memory of Carol can be made to Trinity Church, 33 Mercer Street, Princeton, NJ 08540.

Carol’s family would like to thank her “sister” friends, neighbors, and caregivers Ginny Scala and Joanne Prospero for all of their love and support. They would also like to thank Dr. Konner, Dr. Jewell and the entire Memorial Sloan Kettering team for their excellent care during Carol’s seven-year cancer battle.

Arrangements are under the direction of Mather-Hodge Funeral Home, Princeton, NJ.

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Jane Gregg Schowalter

Jane Gregg Schowalter passed away in Princeton on May 14, 2020, from complications associated with dementia.

Jane lived in Princeton for nearly 50 years, with a 15-year interval in Champaign, IL, between 1989 and 2003.

Jane was born on April 6, 1929, in Milwaukee, WI, to Scranton and Violet (Durand) Gregg. She graduated from Whitefish Bay High School near Milwaukee and received a BS degree in sociology from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. While living in Madison she met her future husband, William Schowalter. They were married in 1953.

In 1957 the couple moved to Princeton and shortly thereafter had the first of their three children, all of whom were born in what was then known as Princeton Hospital.

When their children were young Jane became involved in community volunteer activities. They centered on the schools her children were attending and ranged from room mother to committee and officer positions at parent-teacher organizations for Nassau St., John Witherspoon, and Johnson Park Schools. She was also active as a volunteer to the Princeton YWCA, serving as a member of the board. She was Chair of the Pearl Bates Scholarship Fund and of the Princeton Youth Tennis Foundation.

As the children grew older, Jane’s volunteer interests shifted to the field of healthcare, primarily through the Auxiliary of The Medical Center at Princeton. In that era the Medical Center’s primary fundraising effort was an annual community event known as the Princeton Hospital Fête. She had increasingly large responsibilities for the Fête, ultimately serving as co-chair in 1976. A lasting contribution to Princeton healthcare was her conception and realization of a Patient Support Program, along with her membership on the Board of Trustees of The Princeton Medical Center. Jane’s work at the Medical Center provided an opportunity for her to interface with the Family Service Organization of Princeton, of which she was a member of the executive committee.

Because of her husband’s affiliation with Princeton University Jane also contributed her talents to University-related activities. Most notable of these are services as vice president of the University League and as a member of the Auxiliary to the Isabella McCosh Infirmary of Princeton University.

Jane’s deep involvement in the Princeton community was recognized in 1986 when she was chosen to receive the Gerard B. Lambert Award, a recognition presented annually by the United Way for community service.

The next phase of Jane’s contributions to healthcare began in 1989 when her husband accepted a position at the University of Illinois and they moved to Champaign, Illinois. Soon after their arrival she was hired as a teaching associate in the University’s Department of Community Health. This led to Jane taking students on hospital visits to learn what it is like to be a patient in a hospital. She essentially transplanted her Princeton patient support experience into the consciousness of students, many of whom would become nurses or medical doctors and spend their careers caring for people in hospitals.

In 2003 Jane and her husband returned to Princeton. She reconnected with Princeton friends and made many new ones, joining The Present Day Club and re-joining the Auxiliary of the McCosh Infirmary.

Beyond Princeton, Jane’s favorite place to be was her vacation home on Martha’s Vineyard. That is where summers were filled with the presence of children and young grandchildren, and off-season time was savored by Jane and her husband alone.

A description of Jane’s life would not be complete without mention of her warmth and natural affinity for people. She thrived on personal interactions and was equally engaging whether hosting functions in her home for Princeton or Illinois faculty members, undergraduate engineering students, or the co-founder and CEO of Sony.

In addition to her husband Jane is survived by her three children, Katherine Schowalter (and Richard) Lesch of Scarsdale, NY, Mary Raser of Rancho Santa Fe, CA (whose husband Jeffrey predeceased Jane), David (and Beckley) Schowalter of Holden, MA, and eight grandchildren, Stephen, Elizabeth, Charles and Jack Raser; Jackson, Clara and Dylan Lesch; and Timothy Schowalter.

Donations in memory of Jane can be made online at https://allerton.illinois.edu/donate-to-allerton/ or by check made out to Allerton Park/University of Illinois Foundation and mailed to Allerton Park, 515 Old Timber Road, Attn: Ms. Jan Gill, Monticello, IL 61856. In either case the gift should be specified for restoration of the room of Jane’s uncle, John Gregg Allerton.

A private burial service will be held at Trinity Church, 33 Mercer Street, Princeton. A celebration of Jane’s life will be scheduled at a future date.

Arrangements are under the direction of Mather-Hodge Funeral Home, Princeton, NJ.

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Mark William Durand

A longtime resident of Skillman and Princeton, NJ, Mark William Durand, age 60, died March 19, 2020 at his home.

Mark was born in 1959 in Camden, NJ, to parents William and Dorothy (Drummond) Durand (both deceased), and was raised in Somerdale, NJ. He graduated from Highland Regional High School in Blackwood, NJ, and received a BS in Zoology from Duke University, an MS in Biological Sciences from Dartmouth College, and an MBA from the University of Chicago.

He joined Bristol Myers after graduating from business school and was involved in many key transactions, including the merger with Squibb Corporation. He was a highly accomplished executive in the pharmaceutical industry for almost three decades, with leadership roles in several companies. He also believed in giving back to his community and volunteered at several nonprofits.

Mark had a great sense of humor and loved spending time with family and friends. He doted on his daughter and encouraged and supported her in all her endeavors. He was a passionate and talented tennis player and would play at any opportunity. An avid basketball fan, he never missed an opportunity to watch the Duke Blue Devils. He loved animals, including his two dogs, and spent many hours walking them in Princeton, NJ, and surrounding parks. He had an exceptionally keen wit and could always be counted on to pen a witty limerick, poem, or doggerel for any occasion. Mark could always be counted on to support family, friends, and colleagues, and he will be remembered for his wonderful smile, the twinkle in his eye, and his humanity and kindness. He will be dearly missed.

Mark is survived by his beloved daughter Serina Durand, his former wife, Gianna Sabella, and several cousins, nieces, and nephews.

Because of coronavirus restrictions, a memorial service may be planned for a later date.

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Judith Ceccoli Colnaghi

Judith Ceccoli Colnaghi died after multiple medical challenges on May 9, 2020 at Merwick Care and Rehabilitation Center in Plainsboro, NJ. She lived in Princeton, NJ, for many years but also lived in Ewing, NJ, and San Diego, CA. Ms. Colnaghi was born on April 6, 1942 in Scranton, PA, to Louis and Anita Bartoli Ceccoli.

She is predeceased by her parents and her brother Louis E. Ceccoli. She is survived by her nephew Louis G. Ceccoli and her sister-in-law Carol Ann Ceccoli both of Peckville, PA, and very dedicated friends.

Judith grew up in Olyphant, PA, graduating with honors from Olyphant High School. She received her BS degree in psychology from Penn State University, State College, PA, and a MA degree in public administration from Rider University, Lawrenceville, NJ.

Judith was a devoted, generous, and loving daughter, sister, and aunt and a loyal and caring friend who will be deeply missed. Even with a major medical challenge during her entire adult life, Judith was an accomplished, independent, self-sufficient, and resourceful woman. She had a well-respected career as a management consultant with over 25 years in State government for the Departments of Labor, Human Services, and Treasury. She was a member of the local chapter of Mensa and the Nassau Club of Princeton. She was active in both AGA (Association of Government Accountants) and ASPA (American Society of Public Administrators).

She traveled extensively through the United States, Canada, Europe, Asia, Middle East, and Mexico and loved to winter in San Miguel de Allende. Through her travels she studied languages and architecture and collected paintings and artifacts that were displayed in her home. She was an insatiable reader, consummate intellectual, researcher of “the best,” exuberant about life, an avant-garde interior decorator, and creator of a beautiful ambiance. She added elegance and color to everything she touched, enjoyed Sunday football, and loved beagles. Judith was an avid contract and duplicate bridge player and played at local clubs in Princeton and West Windsor regularly. She was instrumental in teaching and encouraging some of her friends to play as well.

The educational inequities of Native American Indian youth have been Judith’s lifelong concern. To that end she created as her legacy “The Judith Ceccoli Endowed Navajo Graduate Scholarship Fund” to support Navajo students at the University of New Mexico enrolled in the School of Medicine and School of Law who have demonstrated a commitment to assist their community after graduation. You may support Judith’s vision by sending a contribution in her memory in care of The Judith Ceccoli Endowed Navajo Graduate Scholarship Fund to The University of New Mexico Foundation, 700 Lomas Blvd NE, Two Woodward Center, Albuquerque,  NM  87102 or through the secure website: www.unmfund.org/fund/ceccoli-scholarship-fund/.

Arrangements are under the direction of Mather-Hodge Funeral Home in Princeton, website: www.matherhodge.com. A memorial remembrance will be held at a later date.

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Denise Hodgins Call
October 27, 1942 – May 10, 2020

Denise Hodgins Call passed away peacefully on Mother’s Day, May 10th, at her home in Princeton, New Jersey. Denise lived her life to the fullest as a mother to four, grandmother to 13, loving wife, friend, and renowned artist.

Born and raised in Philadelphia, Denise was the daughter of Catherine Costello Hodgins and James Hodgins. She graduated from West Catholic Girls’ High School and Cabrini College in Philadelphia. Denise continued her studies doing post graduate work at the University of Pennsylvania. Her love of books and writing led her to become an English teacher at Marylawn of the Oranges Academy in South Orange, NJ.

Denise’s impeccable memory and voracious reading habits landed her a spot on the show Jeopardy! In 1994, Denise married Steve Call, whom she loved dearly. Steve and Denise traveled the world together and threw fabulous dinner parties, sharing their love of gourmet food and wine with their many friends.

After retiring from a career at Exxon in aviation fuel sales, Denise enrolled in duCret School of Art, where she began her next career as an artist. Denise painted all over the world, but created the majority of her masterpieces from her home in Bayse, VA, where she skied and played golf with her many grandchildren.

In her final years, Denise sailed the Queen Mary with her granddaughter Morgan and could often be found at the Museum of Natural History, the Met, or Alice’s Tea Cup in New York City with her granddaughter Reagan. She was an avid fan of her grandchildren’s athletics and could be spotted at many lacrosse games and rowing regattas. Denise was a member of the Nassau Club, Springdale Country Club, and a friend of the Institute for Advanced Studies.

Denise will be missed by many and is survived by her husband Steve, her children Caitlyn Parker (Steve), Mairin Kuligowski (Jeff), Edward Gilhooly III (Sheryl), and Bevin Walsh (Tim), and her 13 grandchildren.

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Diana S. Deane

Diana passed away peacefully at her home on Saturday, April 25th. She had lived in Pennington, NJ, for many years prior to her retirement from the Glenmede Trust Company. Diana was born on October 7, 1953 in New York City to Betty and Everett Deane, Sr. She grew up in Sunnyside Queens and spent many long weekends in Terryville, Long Island, at the family’s country home.

Diana attended Garden School growing up and went on to Mount Holyoke College. Upon graduation, Diana later received a Master’s in Business from Harvard University and her Law Degree from Duke University. Diana honed her considerable skills by first joining private law practices which included two very prestigious firms, Shanley & Fisher and Drinker, Biddle & Reath. She completed her career concentrating on wealth and estate planning at New Jersey National Bank and Glenmede. She retired from Glenmede in 2008.

Diana loved the Arts and gave generously of her time to support local charitable causes. She was an active fundraiser for her alma mater — Mount Holyoke College. At the time of her death, Diana was the president of the Mary G. Roebling Foundation and the Roebling Musical Scholar Fund. She was preceded in death by her parents and is survived by a brother (Everett, Jr.), sister (Kathleen), and nieces Lisa Lynch (Ryan) and Kelsey Tardiff along with a grandniece (Chloe) and grandnephew (Benjamin). Diana’s beloved Golden Retriever, Wilson, has already been adopted.

Diana enjoyed a large circle of friends in the tri-state area who will miss her indomitable spirit. Due to the COVID-19 virus, funeral and memorial services are pending. Diana had requested to be interred near her parents at the Moravian Cemetery on Staten Island. Anyone wishing to make a donation in her memory should make it to Mount Holyoke College through their website mountholyoke.edu and then to Giving to MHC.

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Barry Edward Kaftanic

Barry Edward Kaftanic, formerly of Princeton, NJ, died suddenly on April 27, 2020 at Park Place Center in Monmouth Junction, NJ. He was 67 years old.

Barry grew up in Metuchen, NJ. He attended RCA Institute in Cherry Hill, NJ, and worked in the computer industry in New Jersey and then California. He moved back to Princeton when his worsening Multiple Sclerosis made it too difficult for him to live on his own.

Born November 25, 1952, Barry was the son of the late Harriet and Edward Kaftanic of Princeton, NJ. He is survived by his daughter, Amber DePasquale and her husband Ed, of Cherry Hill, NJ; his son, Justin Kaftanic and his fiancée Elizabeth Aitkin, of Cherry Hill, NJ; his sister, Linda Meuse and her husband John, of Princeton, NJ; three grandchildren, Olyvia, Edward, and Kathryn; and former wives, Toni Carter of Cherry Hill, NJ and Laurie Kaftanic of Monterey, CA.

Burial at the Princeton Cemetery was private. Arrangements are under the direction of the Kimble Funeral Home, Princeton, NJ.

Extend condolences and share memories at TheKimbleFuneralHome.com.

May 13, 2020

Obituaries 5/13/2020

William David McCloskey

William David McCloskey, 88, known as Dave to all that knew him, passed away peacefully on Saturday May 2, 2020 at RWJUH in Hamilton, NJ.

Dave was born on July 22, 1931. He was a lifelong Princeton resident and the youngest of seven children. Dave was a devoted member of St. Paul’s Parish. He attended St. Paul’s School and graduated from Princeton High School in 1950.

Dave and his three brothers all served in the Armed Forces with Dave proudly serving as a United States Marine. Dave worked for over 30 years as a supervisor in the Princeton University Housing Department. He spent countless falls and winters cheering for the Tigers at Princeton football and basketball games.

Dave met his beautiful wife Bridie when she immigrated from Ireland to the United States at a picnic in Trenton. They married in 1960 and had two children, Kevin and Missy. Dave loved his family and friends. He enjoyed the outdoors, sports, especially golf, and vacationing on Long Beach Island with his family. He enjoyed shopping and was known for his sweet tooth! Dave was a member of the Princeton First Aid and Rescue Squad and a proud member and past Chief of Engine Company #1 for over 50 years. Dave was also a member of American Legion Post 76 and each Memorial Day he placed thousands of flags beside Veterans’ graves in Princeton area cemeteries.

Dave was predeceased by his parents Thomas and Margaret (Murphy) McCloskey; sisters Veronica Luttmann, Cecelia Johnson, and Rita McCloskey; brothers Robert, Thomas, and Leo McCloskey; his loving son Michael (Kevin) and wife Mary (Bridie) McCloskey. Dave is survived by his daughter Maureen (Missy) and son-in-law Ken Bruvik of Skillman; grandchildren Kelly and Ryan; and sister-in-law Margaret McCloskey of Plainsboro, and several nieces and nephews.

Dave spent his last few years at Brookdale Hamilton Assisted Living and the family would like to offer their sincere thanks to all of the associates and caregivers for their love and care shown. It will be forever appreciated.

Dave was laid to rest May 5th at Princeton Cemetery in a private graveside service.

In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to St. Paul’s Church, 216 Nassau Street, Princeton, NJ.

Arrangements are under the direction of Mather-Hodge Funeral Home, Princeton.

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Ethelyn C. (Peg) Volz

Ethelyn C. (Peg) Volz of Toms River passed away on May 1, 2020 at Bey Lea Nursing and Rehab Center. She was 100.

Born in Jobstown, NJ, on April 1, 1920, Peg was the widow of Princeton University coach R. Jack Volz. She was mother of the late Thomas Volz and daughter-in-law Bonnie Volz.
The daughter of the late Gertrude and George Mantell, Peg was a 1937 graduate of Pemberton High School. She lived in Princeton for 30 years before moving to Pinellas Park, FL, and then back to New Jersey.

She is survived by a son and daughter-in-law, Richard and Catherine Volz of Toms River, NJ; a son and daughter-in-law Roger and June Volz of Penne, Italy; grandchildren Robert, Debbie, David, Sharon, Cristin, Richard, Brian, and Alyx; and great-grandchildren Nicholas, Meghan, Justine, Ella, Lauren, Hannah, Abigail, Robert, Richard, and Andrew.

She was the sister of the late Mable Prickett, Mildred Letts, Arlene Gaskil, Harold Mantell, Irving Mantell, Gerald Mantell, Sylvia Sloane, and Loris Haines.

Cremation and inurnment in Ewing Cemetery will be held privately.

Arrangements by the Perinchief Chapels, Mount Holly. www.perinchief.com.

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Naomi Jury Chandler-Reik

Naomi Jury Chandler-Reik, a gifted pianist and piano teacher, passed away on Saturday, May 9, 2020. She had been a resident of Princeton since 1951. She was born on September 5, 1920.

Naomi was born in Canton, Ohio, the younger daughter of Dr. and Mrs. N. J. Jury. Her father was a general physician who made house calls. Her only sibling was her sister Ruth, who was 11 years older. Naomi’s musicality was first evidenced when she was about four years old. “When I heard the piano, I’d run from wherever I was and sit on the bench with Ruth as she practiced.”

She graduated from Canton McKinley High School, and attended the College of Wooster where she studied piano with Clarice Parmelee. “She was the best teacher I ever had. She was a whiz, and the most marvelous sight-reader ever.” It was at Wooster that she met her first husband, Charles H. Chandler. He was a violin student of Ms. Parmelee’s husband.

Naomi and First Lieutenant Chandler married during World War II. After the war, they moved to Princeton because Chandler, a physicist, was hired by RCA. Most Princeton residents thought RCA was a factory or a warehouse, while it was actually a top-notch research institution. They built one of the first commercial buildings on Route 1.

Originally the Chandlers lived in Stanworth Apartments, but they were asked to leave because Naomi’s constant piano practicing bothered the neighbors. Naomi and Charles designed and built a house on Westcott Road. The living room is the same dimension, in scale, as the Boston Concert Hall.

Naomi studied at Juilliard with James Friskin. Later, he hired her to teach piano and piano pedagogy at Chautauqua, the educational and cultural center in New York State.

Charles Chandler was a very fine violinist, and he and Naomi played together for Einstein once. It was at Tiffin Harper’s house and they played Mozart’s Sonata for Violin and Piano. She said, “I’ll never forget it. In the middle, I looked up and there he was! Einstein looked exactly as expected.”

After her first year of teaching piano in Princeton, Naomi had no dearth of students. Some years she was teaching about 40 students, and she taught hundreds in the course of her career. Ten were accepted to Princeton University.

Albert Spaulding was America’s first concert violinist. Andre Benist, a French pianist, was to play Cesar Franck’s Sonata for Violin and Piano with him. He hired Naomi to coach and prepare him for the recital.

Naomi and Charles divorced and several years later, in 1971, she met and married Louis Reik. He was a psychiatrist who worked for Princeton University at McCosh Health Center, treating both students and faculty. Louis was a friend of Merrill Knapp, a professor of music at Princeton, who referred him to Naomi for piano lessons. Generally she didn’t teach adult beginners; she had gotten tired of saying, “No, you’re not stupid.” But Reik wasn’t really a beginner; he could play a Bach 2 Part Invention quite well, so she took him on. They were married until he died in 1989.

Naomi had four Steinway pianos in her house, and throughout her life, she enjoyed playing four hands with friends with whom she got along with pianistically. She played often with Merrill Knapp and Jean Couts. Naomi was gifted with a very long reach between her fingers.

She was a member of the Present Day Club for 50 years, where she gave an annual recital. Brahms was always a favorite. For 10 years, Naomi was a docent at the Princeton University Art Museum.

She is the author of Piano Games, an instructional book for piano beginners.

A memorial service will be held in the future when it is appropriate.

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Patricia Tindall Tantum

Patricia Tindall Tantum, a lifelong Princeton-area resident, passed away on May 4, 2020, due to the effects of COVID-19. She leaves behind her husband of nearly 68 years, Stanley William Tantum; brother Barry Tindall of Falls Church, VA, brother Wayne Tindall of Edinburg, NJ, and sister Marilyn Bergen of San Diego, CA; her three children, Robin Carter of San Diego, Bruce Tantum of New York City, Debra Kuser and her husband J. Ward Kuser of Lawrence Township; and a granddaughter, Juliana Kuser of North Brunswick.

Born November 27, 1931, Patricia grew up in Edinburg and attended Dutch Neck Elementary School, Princeton High School, and Rider College. After graduation in 1952, she married Stanley, from nearby Windsor. After briefly residing in Princeton, she and Stanley moved to Dutch Neck, where they stayed until 1977. Following time spent in Hamilton and Lawrence Townships, she had had been living with Stanley at the Acorn Glen assisted-living facility in Princeton since 2016.

A devoted mother and wife, Patricia served as a full-time homemaker and mother until the early 70s. Later, she was employed by the Junction Pharmacy, Princeton Medical Group, and Princeton Theological Seminary. A longtime congregant at Dutch Neck Presbyterian Church and member of the Ladies Auxiliary of the West Windsor Fire Department, she enjoyed socializing with her friends; spending summers along the seaside in Manasquan, NJ; traveling, with Florida among her favorite destinations; and dogs, especially dachshunds.

Patricia will be loved and remembered by her family and many friends. A memorial service celebrating her life will be held at a later date. Please visit Patricia’s permanent memorial site at www.saulfuneralhomes.com. We encourage all to share memories, words of comfort, or leave a message of condolence for the family.

Arrangements are under the direction of the A.S. Cole Son & Co. Funeral Home, 22 North Main Street, Cranbury, NJ.

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Betsy Howe Smith

Betsy Howe Smith died peacefully of a chronic condition on April 29, 2020 at Stone Bridge continuing care facility in Skillman, New Jersey. She was 94 years old.

Betsy was raised in Pennington, New Jersey, the daughter of William Peyton and Evelyn Howe. She graduated from Miss Fine’s School and attended Wellesley College. During World War II, she was a typist in a factory producing the Douglass Dauntless, a naval scout plane.

In June of 1946, she married James Boyd Smith at Princeton University Chapel. They reared four children Brett, Derek, Lane, and Tenbroeck Smith. Starting in Princeton, they moved to Texas for a few years, before returning to Princeton where they became longtime residents. Betsy was highly engaged in the Princeton community serving on the Vestry of Trinity Church, as a volunteer for the Arts Council of Princeton, and engaging in many other activities. She was an avid gardener, Bridge player, and a lifelong lover of crossword puzzles.

Betsy expressed her love of family in many ways. She had little experience cooking when first married. Through time and perseverance, using the methods and recipes of chefs such as Julia Child and Craig Claiborne, she gave her family and fortunate dinner guests five-star meals. She always found a place at the table for unexpected guests, and often invited those away from their families for holidays. Conversation at the dinner table was lively and engaging, due in no small part to Betsy’s outstanding conversational skills. She organized family trips to the Cotswold’s, Western Ireland, and other places. A loving mother, she helped her children overcome the obstacles which life entails and provided them with opportunities to grow.

With her children reared, Betsy returned to college in the 1970s, receiving a Bachelor of Arts from Rutgers University. She joined Phi Beta Kappa reflecting her lifelong love of learning. Continuing at Rutgers School of Social Work, she received a Master of Social Work. She then pursued post-graduate training at the Philadelphia Child and Family Training Center, ultimately becoming a practicing Licensed Clinical Social Worker, working at Catholic Charities to provide counseling for those in need. Respecting the confidentiality of her clients, she spoke little of her professional experiences but, years later, a former client attested to the value of the counseling she provided.

Most importantly, she will be remembered as a caring and devoted mother and mother-in-law. She is survived by her daughter Lane and her sons Brett and Tenbroeck, five grandchildren, and four great-grandchildren. A celebration of her life will take place later in the year.

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Richard Williams

Richard Williams, of Princeton, passed away on April 28th at the age of 92 after a long illness. Richard was born in Chicago, IL in 1927, the youngest child of Nadia and Frank Browne Williams. He lived in Montpelier, Ohio, with his Aunt Fanny and Uncle William Shatzer and cousin, Bill. Following graduation from high school, he enlisted in the U. S. Navy.

After his discharge in 1946, he attended Miami University of Ohio, graduating with an A.B. degree in chemistry, and continued his studies at Harvard, receiving a PhD in Physical Chemistry in 1954. Richard then served a year in the US Army at the Army Chemical Center in Edgewood, MD, before becoming a chemistry instructor at Harvard for the next three years. He joined RCA Laboratories in 1958 where he spent the rest of his career, eventually becoming a Fellow of the Laboratories.

His work with liquid crystals was pivotal in the development of liquid crystal display (LCD) technology. In 1962 he discovered that liquid crystals exhibited unusual electro-optic  characteristics that could be used to generate patterns by applying voltage. He referred to these patterns as “domains” — a phenomenon that is now known as “Williams Domains.” This finding opened the door to the potential of utilizing liquid crystals as elements for display devices.

Richard also enjoyed meeting and collaborating with colleagues around the world. His travels included stays in Zurich, Switzerland (where he was a visiting scientist at the RCA Zurich Laboratory in 1963), Sao Carlos, Brazil (Fulbright Lecturer, 1969), and teaching as a summer school lecturer at the National Polytechnical Institute in Mexico in 1972. Later in his career he made several trips to China where he lectured at the Chinese Institute of Electronics, as well as visiting the University of Inner Mongolia to attend a meeting about rare earths.

In addition to his teaching, he made a point of learning all he could about the culture and languages of the countries he visited. He taught himself Portuguese, and wrote the textbook in that language that was used for his course in Brazil.  He later studied Chinese to prepare for his visits to that country, and continued studying the language in later years.

After his retirement, Richard remained curious and engaged with the world around him from following national and international news, writing occasional articles for the American Physical Society newsletter, to observing the backyard wildlife at his home. He was also interested in the environment and volunteered with the Stony Brook-Millstone Watershed Association.

Richard is survived by his wife, Alma, and their three children Elena, Cristina (husband Joseph Helms), and Matthew, as well as several nephews and nieces. He was a longtime member of All Saints’ Church of Princeton, NJ. A memorial will be held at a future date.

In lieu of flowers, the family would be honored to have charitable contributions in his memory made to a local conservation organization of your choice, or to the Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation (xerces.org).