James Floyd, the first African-American mayor of Princeton Township and a community activist for several decades, died Monday morning. He was 96. Born in Trenton in 1922, he was the oldest son of John and Adeline Floyd. A 1939 graduate of Trenton...
Category - Obituaries
John Sauerman, Lawrenceville School history teacher for four decades, dies at 65
John Sauerman, a beloved history teacher who worked at the Lawrenceville School for four decades, died on April 25. He was 65. Born in Elizabeth, on June 20, 1953, John graduated from the Peddie School and then earned his bachelor’s degree...
Longtime Princeton resident Connie Poor dies at 64
Connie Hazelwood Poor died on March 2 at her home in Princeton. She was 64. She was born in Fayetteville, Tennessee to Roland and Mable (Townsend) Hazelwood and moved to Phenix City, Alabama, in 1962. She leaves behind her devoted husband of forty...
Law historian Joseph Lynch dies at 93
Joseph M. Lynch, a longtime Princeton resident, died on February 3 at age 93 in his home at Morris Hall Meadows in Lawrenceville after a long career as an attorney, law professor and legal historian. Joe was born on Aug. 28, 1924 in Jersey City, the...
Paul Sigmund, former Mercer County Freeholder, dies at 53
Paul Sigmund died on January 11 after a long illness. He was 53. A native of Princeton, Paul was a graduate of Stanford University and the University Michigan Law School. He was a banker, lawyer, and technology industry executive, and also served as...
Princeton University community mourns death of student who battled a rare cancer
Princeton University student Jacob Kaplan died Dec. 24 after battling a rare and aggressive form of cancer for several months. He was 21. Kaplan had been receiving care for angiosarcoma at the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York City...
Longtime YWCA supporter Patricia Clearwater dies at 83
Patricia G. Clearwater died unexpectedly on Dec. 13 at the University Medical Center of Princeton at Plainsboro. She was 83. Patricia loved living in Princeton, her 22nd place of residence, with her husband of 59 years. She also enjoyed travel at...
Princeton teacher, coach and mentor Larry Ivan dies at 85
Larry Ivan, Jr., a teacher and coach for the Princeton Regional Schools for more than 40 years, died on Saturday, Dec. 2. He was 85. Relatives will remember him as a loving husband, father, brother, and grandfather. He was a role model and mentor...
David Cromwell, former Princeton Police captain, firefighter and first aid squad member, dies at 75
Princeton native David Cromwell, who served on the Princeton Township police force for more than a quarter century, died on Nov. 23, surrounded by his family. He was 75. The son of Kenneth and Erna Cromwell, he was born and raised in Princeton and...
Lifelong Princeton resident Thomas Murray, Jr. dies at 81
Thomas R. Murray, Jr. 81, of Princeton died on Wednesday, Nov. 22, at the University Medical Center of Princeton at Plainsboro surrounded by his loving wife and family. He was 81. Born in Princeton, Murray was a lifelong resident. He graduated from...
Health economist Uwe Reinhardt dies at 80
Uwe Reinhardt, the famed health economist and beloved mentor to students at Princeton University for almost five decades, died on Nov. 13. He was 80. Born in Osnabrück, Germany in 1937, Reinhardt later emigrated to Canada, where he received his...
Louise Wells Bristol dies at 91
Louise Wells Bristol died at home on Nov. 2, which is All Souls’ Day. Born in New York City on Sept. 8, 1926, she was raised in the Philadelphia area as well as in California and Florida. The constant in her early years was summers spent at...
Mathematician Gerard Washnitzer dies at 91
Gerard Washnitzer, a Princeton University professor of mathematics emeritus known for his work in algebraic geometry, died April 2 in hospice in Scotch Plains. He was 91. Colleagues and family recalled Washnitzer as an avid reader who loved history...
Architect Michael Mostoller, a leader in urban housing, dies at 79
Michael Mostoller was an architect, professor, writer, and artist. Through his work, his teaching, and his private life as a partner, parent, and grandparent, he touched countless lives, always putting the needs of others above his own. He died in...
Princeton cardiologist John Hagaman dies at 69
Princeton cardiologist John F. Hagaman, M.D., died at home on March 6 after a long illness. Dr. Hagaman was born in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania on December 15, 1947. He was a graduate of the Episcopal Academy in Merion, Pennsylvania; Trinity College in...
Carles Vallhonrat, founder of the Louis I. Kahn Archive, dies at 89
Architect and teacher Carles Vallhonrat, the founder of the original Louis I. Kahn Archive, died in his home in Haverford, Pa. on Feb. 21st. He was 89. Vallhonrat, who taught at the Princeton University School of Architecture for forty years, is...
Princeton Theological Seminary Professor Charles Ryerson III Dies at 83
Charles Anthony Ryerson III, who expanded the thinking of a generation of prospective Christian pastors and countless others in his teachings about the religions of South Asia, died peacefully surrounded by former students and friends on Saturday...
Obituary: Owen Gerrard Bardzilowski
Owen Bardzilowski died at home in Princeton on Thursday, Sept. 15 at age 14. A lifelong resident of Princeton, he began his freshman year at Princeton High School this month. Over the years, he loved to play golf with his dad and grandpa, was an...
Princeton High School Athletic Director Dies
John Miranda, the athletics director and supervisor of health and physical education at Princeton High School, died suddenly on Sunday. He was 57. A native of Cinnaminson, he played football, baseball and track at Riverside High School. He earned...
Obituary: William Cirullo
William Cirullo of Pennington died Monday, Feb. 15, 2016, at University Medical Center of Princeton at Plainsboro.He was 67. Bill was born and raised in Princeton and moved to Pennington in 1977. He was the principal for more than 30 years at...
Former Princeton Theological Seminary Professor Max Stackhouse Dies at 80
The Rev. Dr. Max Stackhouse, a former professor at Princeton Seminary, died on Saturday, Jan. 30 at home in West Stockbridge, Mass. He was 80 years old. Stackhouse taught at Princeton Theological Seminary from 1993 to 2006. He then retired and moved...
Obituary: Betty Jean Osborne Ayers
Betty Jean Osborne Ayers died peacefully on Sunday, Sept. 13, supported by her family and friends while in hospice care at her home in Pennington after courageously managing for a rare and chronic progressive disease called polycythemia vera for 44...
