OBITUARIES

Jun 1, 2014

Trenton Wesley W. Roberts, 86, died on Sunday in Capital Health at Fuld. Born in Amherst County, Virginia, he had been a resident of Pennington for 52 years before moving to Trenton in 2003 He served with the U.S. Army during the Korean Conflict in Korea and was a demolition expert . He Was a master carpenter and cabinet maker...

May 18, 2014

Pennington. Russell William Higginbottom, 102, died on May 18, 2014 at St. Joseph's Care Center, Lawrenceville with his daughter by his side. Born and raised in Millbury, Mass, he graduated from Clark University in 1933 with a degree in Chemistry and continued his education to become an electrical engineer. Following his marriage to Barbara Dedicke in 1941, they lived in...

May 10, 2014

Gordon T. Bamford Gordon Thomas Bamford, of Pennington, died May 10 in St. Francis Compassionate Care Hospice in Trenton. He was 96. Born in Trenton, he was raised there, and in Morrisville, PA. He was a graduate of Morrisville High School. He graduated from the Pennsylvania State University with a B.S. in forestry in 1940 and received a masters degree...

Apr 27, 2014

Pennington. H. Arthur Smith, 79, passed in Hamilton Grove Rehabilitation Center on Sunday. Born in Trenton, he had been a resident of Pennington for 77 years. He attended Pennington Prep School Class of 1955. Attended Rutgers University and graduated with a degree in Journalism and ROTC in 1959. He served at Fort Benjamin HarrisoN as a 1st Lieutenant in the...

Apr 26, 2014

Pennington. Ellen Patterson Risinger, 87, died at her home on Saturday. Born in Glasgow, Scotland, she had been a resident of Pennington for the past 43 years. Prior to her marriage, she had been an Administrative Assistant FAU for the United Nations in Rome, Italy. She was a member of the Pennington United Methodist Church and United Methodist Women, where...

Apr 11, 2014

Joseph Reading Comly, III, 81 died peacefully at his home in Pennington, NJ, on April 11th. Joe was born in Morrisville, PA, and spent most of his personal and professional life in the Trenton area. Son of the late Joseph and Susanne Comly, he was a graduate of Lawrenceville School and Lehigh University, where he was a champion wrestler. After...

Apr 10, 2014

Pennington. Eugene G. Seems, 89, died in St. Francis Medical Center on Thursday. Born in Torrington, Conn., he had been a resident of Pennington for 56 years. He was a graduate of the University of Connecticut, achieved a law degree from Boston College, and became a member of the American Bar Association. He became Director of patents and licensing for...

Apr 3, 2014

Flemington. Mary Alice Suydam Yoders , 91, passed away on Thursday in Hunterdon Care Center. Born in Ewingville, she was a life long resident of Hunterdon and Mercer Counties. She was a lifetime member of numerous Military Auxillary Organizations, and she and her husband, Carl attended all Chapter and Division reunions and outings. She was also a member of many...

Mar 29, 2014

Service: Wednesday, April 2, 2014 at 11:00 a.m. Blackwell Memorial home, 21 N. Main St., Pennington, NJ

Mar 24, 2014

Ewing. Elizabeth M. Harris, 89, died at Capital Health at Hopewell on Monday. Born in Throop, PA. she had been a resident of Ewing since 1964, prior to that she had resided in Pennington. She had moved to Pennington from Scranton in the 1950's Before her retirement in 1984 she had worked as a telephone operator for N.J. Bell Telephone,...

Mar 10, 2014

Pennington. Dolly Boyd, of Pennington died at her home on Monday after a long illness. Born in Camden in 1917, she had been a resident of Pennington for over 60 years. After high school, she worked for Samuel Langston Paper Machine Co. in Philadelphia until war and marriage took her into military offices in Washington, DC, and Memphis, TN. Moving...

Mar 4, 2014

Feb 26, 2014

Titusville, NJ. Theresa P. King, 81, passed away on Wednesday, February 26th, 2014. Born in Brooklyn, New York. She had been a resident of West Hempstead, Long Island before moving to Titusville, NJ 3 years ago. Before her retirement, she had been a secretary at Adelphi University in Long Island, NY She is survived by her husband of 58 years,...

Feb 18, 2014

Greenville, SC. Kenneth Titus Blackwell, 93, of Greenville, SC husband of Alice Hart Blackwell for 71 years, died February 18, 2014. He is survived by two sons, Ronald K. Blackwell (Barbara) of Roaring Branch, PA and Dr. Richard H. Blackwell(Karen) of Simpsonville, SC four grandchildren and four great-grandchildren. Relatives and friends are invited to Celebrate the Life of Ken Blackwell...

Feb 15, 2014

Margaret Elizabeth Booth, 91, of Holland, PA, died Saturday, February 15, 2014, at her home. Margaret was born April 9, 1922 in St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada, the elder child of Alice Liscomb and Chester Smith. She was predeceased by her parents; her husband, Albert F. Booth; her sister, Joan Smith Bain; and her dear aunt, Margaret Liscomb Gayder. She is...

Feb 14, 2014

Burlington. Helen Clara Bernasco, 93, formerly of Hamilton, died in the Masonic Home in Burlington Saturday. Born in Stanton, she had spent her youth in Pennington. Helen had resided in Hamilton for over 35 years before moving to Burlington. She was a registered nurse for 41 years, 21 of those years were spent with the New Jersey Department of Health...

Feb 13, 2014

After a brief illness, Carol Dumont Wilbur, 83, of Titusville, NJ passed away on February 13 surrounded by her loving family. Born in Montana on Jan 18, 1931, her family moved to Glendale, CA where she made many lifelong friends including her husband of 55 years, Dr. Robert Wilbur. After supporting his undergraduate and doctoral studies, which gave her great...

Feb 10, 2014

Ewing Township. Nancy Lee Burroughs Cavallo, 63, passed away at her home on Monday. Born in Trenton, she grew up in Pennington and had been a resident of Ewing for 27 years. She was a graduate of Hopewell Valley High School . She was employed by the Dept. of Transportation, State of New Jersey for 17 years. She was a...

Jan 24, 2014

Gordon L. Youngs, age 91, died peacefully on January 24, 2014 at his home in Stonebridge, Skillman, New Jersey. Born in Trenton, N.J. to Arthur M. and Juanita Willmarth Youngs, Gordon grew up on Elmhurst Avenue in Trenton. He graduated from Bordentown Military Institute and the Hun School, and he attended Lafayette College until he enlisted in the U.S. Coast...

Jan 21, 2014

Joan Shepard (Fleet) DeNicola Died on January 21st at her home at The Fountains, Stack Boulevard, Melbourne, FL. She was 90. She was born October 31, 1923 in Englewood, New Jersey, the daughter of the late William Hamilton Theophilus Fleet and Mabel Pollard Heath. Wife of the late Louis J. DeNicola whom she married on October 7, 1966 in Pennington,...