Gertrude Gurisic Tennyson, age 90, passed into God's loving embrace on Monday, April 18, 2011 at Park Place Center in Monmouth Junction, NJ.

Born on November 28, 1920 in Rocky Hill, NJ, she was a long time resident of the borough. Later on, she lived, for many years, in both New Brunswick and Princeton.


Gertrude was a 1938 honors graduate of Princeton High School. In her early youth, she organized the first choir at St. James' Mission Church in Rocky Hill and had been a volunteer at Princeton Hospital. Mrs. Tennyson was a former member of St. Paul's Catholic Church in Princeton, a member of its school's PTA and was a Consolata Society member. Gertrude loved to travel and had done so extensively in the US as well as having made numerous trips to Western Europe.

For many years she worked as paralegal in the Princeton area at many prominent law firms. Gertrude eventually retired as the secretary to the Franklin Township Fire Inspector.

Mrs. Tennyson was predeceased by her husband, Thomas Tennyson, a son Alan Tennyson and a brother, former Somerset County Sheriff George A. Gurisic. Surviving are her sons Edward of Princeton, Thomas and his wife Joan, Kevin and his wife Patricia and Brian and his wife Frances all of Florida and her daughters Kathleen Lynch of Florida and Aileen Lamb and her husband James, of Brick, NJ. Also surviving are six grandsons, one great grandson and two sisters Margaret Voorhees of Hudson, NY and Grace Gurisic of Pompton Lakes, NJ.

Visitation is on Wednesday, April 20, 2011 from 10:00am to 11:00am at the Kimble Funeral Home, 1 Hamilton Avenue, Princeton, NJ followed by an 11:00am funeral service. Burial will follow at Ten Mile Run Cemetery, Franklin Township, NJ.

Memorial contributions in her name to St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, 501 St Jude Place,
Memphis, TN 38105 or St. Paul's Church, 214 Nassau Street, Princeton, NJ 08540 would be appreciated.