Modestina G. Debaggis
Sep 3, 2014
Princeton Modestina G. DeBaggis, 83, passed away peacefully, Wednesday, September 3, 2014 at Princeton Medical Center surrounded by her loving and caring family. Born in Pettoranello, Italy to the late Nicola and Santa Tamasi, she came to the United States in 1955 and settled in Princeton. Modestina was a member of St. Paul's Church in Princeton and was a strong-loving...
Jerome Kurshan
Sep 3, 2014
Jerome Kurshan, 95, of Princeton, New Jersey, died September 3rd, 2014, of natural causes. Born in Brooklyn, New York, he subsequently lived in Princeton for 71 years. He was a graduate of Erasmus Hall High School, class of 1935, where he was awarded the Holmes medal for scholarship every year. He made pocket money by tutoring other high school students....
Francesca Cuomo Porcaro
Aug 5, 2014
Princeton Borough Francesca Cuomo Porcaro, 84, passed away peacefully Tuesday, August 5, 2014 at Princeton Medical Center surrounded by her loving family. Born in Ischia, Italy to the late Vincenzo and Teresa Cuomo, Francesca came to the United States in 1954 and settled in Princeton with her family. She was a food service preparer at Bristol Myers-Squibb in Princeton for...
Judith A. Reeder
Jul 22, 2014
Judith "Judy" Ann Reeder, nee Sands, formerly of Princeton, NJ and Nassau, Bahamas, died of natural causes in Louisville, KY on July 22, 2014. Judy was born in Nassau, Bahamas in 1935 to the late Hon. Harry P. Sands, Esq. and Doris Marie Sands, nee Thompson. She graduated from Havergal College boarding school in Toronto, Canada and Bryn Mawr College...
Norma Burns
Jul 20, 2014
Norma R. Burns, 94, died Sunday, July 20, 2014 at the Lewis County General Hospital. She was born on November 9, 1919 at Rector in Montague, New York daughter of William and Julia McDonald. She graduated from the Augustinian Academy in Carthage. She later graduated from the Mercy Hospital School of Nursing. Worked at St Francis Hospital in Miami, Florida...
Araxi Chiavoni
Jul 16, 2014
Araxi Chiavoni, of Jackson, NJ passed away on Wednesday, July 16, 2014 at Centra State Medical Center in Freehold, NJ surrounded by her loving family. Mrs. Chiavoni graduated from TCNJ with a Bachelor's Degree in chemistry. She spent 22 years working in the industrial research area for Elementis in East Windsor. Araxi was predeceased by her husband Frank J. Chiavoni...
Phyllis Kurshan
Jul 10, 2014
Phyllis Kurshan, 88, died July 10, 2014 at home at Princeton Windrows of natural causes. Born in Brooklyn, New York, she lived in Princeton for the past 68 years. She graduated from Samuel J. Tilden High School in January 1944. She attended New York University and received the Bachelor of Science degree cum laude from its School of Education in...
Karl G. Hernqvist
Jul 7, 2014
Karl Gerhard Hernqvist , 92, physicist at RCA in Princeton, NJ, passed away on Monday July 7, 2014 at Acorn Glen in Princeton , NJ after a four-year struggle with Alzheimer's. He is survived by his wife of 65 years Thyra Hildegard, and their children Lars Hernquist of Lexington, Massachusetts, Thomas Hernquist of Lancaster, Pennsylvania and Ingrid Hernquist of Princeton,...
Charlotte Shapiro
Jun 22, 2014
Charlotte W. Shapiro, 94, who was a resident of Princeton for 52 years, died at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in New Brunswick on Sunday, June 22, 2014. Mrs. Shapiro graduated from James Madison High School in Brooklyn, NY, Brooklyn College and New York University with a master's degree in Retailing. She worked in New York and Philadelphia before getting...
Jeanne Calo
Jun 20, 2014
Jeanne Calo passed away on June 20, 2014 in her Princeton home following a long battle with congestive heart failure. She was 98 years old. Born in Tunis in 1916, Jeanne moved to Paris at the age of 2, completing her studies through law school and marrying in 1938 before returning to Tunis. In 1957, upon Tunisia's independence, she emigrated...
Irene M. Lynch
Jun 20, 2014
Irene Lynch, a longtime resident of Princeton, died on June 20th at her Skillman home. She had recently celebrated her 84th birthday. Irene Mary O'Neil was born in Boston to John Edward O'Neil and Mary Genevieve Murray, and grew up in the neighboring city of Quincy. In 1951 she graduated Phi Beta Kappa, magna cum laude in economics, from Radcliffe...
Mary Kao Chin
Jun 19, 2014
Mary Yun-Chen (Kao) Chin, 90, passed away at her Princeton home on June 19, 2014. Born in Zhejiang, China, on June 12, 1924, Dr. Kao graduated from St. Mary's Hall, an Episcopal senior high school in Shanghai (now called Shanghai No.3 Girls High School) in 1941. She attended the Université Aurore for two years, majoring in chemistry before transferring to...
Ann Harris Yasuhara
Jun 11, 2014
Ann Harris Yasuhara, 82, died at her home in Princeton, New Jersey, on Wednesday, June 11. A logician and computer scientist, she was known for combining her Quaker faith with action focused on peace, social justice, racial equality, and the environment. Her life balanced her love for the sacredness of all life, the compassionate concerns of a Quaker activist for...
Elizabeth Gray Erickson
May 22, 2014
Elizabeth Gray Erickson of Princeton died unexpectedly on May 22, 2014. She was 46. A dancer with the School of the Princeton Ballet Society throughout her youth and a graduate of the Princeton public schools, Liz attended Williams College where she majored in Japanese Studies and spent her junior year in Kyoto, Japan, graduating in 1989. During the summers of...
John Manzo Duncan
May 21, 2014
John Manzo Duncan, devoted father and grandfather, died May 21, 2014, at age 65, surrounded by his loved ones. He was born on October 25, 1948 in Brooklyn to Valerie and John Duncan. Though born in New York, Princeton was Johnny 's true home and he spent much of his life in the area. He graduated from Princeton High School...
Wayne L. Kasbar
May 19, 2014
Wayne L. Kasbar, 75, of Lawrenceville, NJ, passed away on May 19, 2014. Born in New York City, he was a resident of New Jersey since 1961 living in Elizabeth, Summit and Princeton before moving to Lawrenceville. Wayne was a graduate of Rutgers University and worked as a commercial real estate executive. He was honorably discharged from the US Navy...
Franca C. Beumee
May 17, 2014
Franca Caponi Beumee, 67, died Saturday May 17th, 2014 in her Princeton home surrounded by her family and friends. She was born to the late Elviro Caponi and Agnese Del Roscio in Rome, Italy. She graduated from Trenton Junior College and Montclair State University with a degree in Education. She then received a Masters Degree in Romance Languages from Princeton...
Gloria Jones Borden
May 16, 2014
Gloria J. Borden of Princeton, NJ died on May 16th in Princeton, NJ. The cause was adeno carcinoma. Born in 1930 in Columbus, Ohio, she grew up in a small Welsh community, Jackson, Ohio, where her father ran a pig iron blast furnace, Globe Iron Co. Educated at The Masters School in Dobbs Ferry, NY and the, then, Connecticut College...
Patricia Twitchell
May 13, 2014
H. Patricia "Tricia" Twitchell passed away on May 13 at Stonebridge in Montgomery, New Jersey where she had been a resident for nearly ten years. Tricia was born in London, England in 1934, the daughter of Marian and H. Kenaston Twitchell and granddaughter of Sen. H. Alexander Smith and Helen Dominick Smith. Her family returned to the United States in...
Tanis V. Cox
May 12, 2014
Tanis Virginia Cox, 100, of Bradenton, FL, passed away on Monday, May 12, 2014 at Westminster Towers and Shores in Bradenton, FL. Born in New York City, NY, she grew up in the Princeton area and moved back to NYC before relocating to Florida in 1975. She was a graduate of Princeton High School and attended both NYU and Hunter...