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 remembered for his careful insights and dedication to the integrity of design. Born in Barcelona,…
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, Sept. 24, at the University Medical Center of Princeton at Plainsboro. He was 83. The son of Ada…
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 expert in solving various kinds of Rubik’s cubes, an enthusiastic…
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 his bachelor’s degree in business from Wilkes College in Pennsylvania, where he was a member of…
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 Riverside Elementary School and, prior to that, he was a teacher for more…
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 to Massachusetts. His writings and teachings spanned more than half a century and…
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 years. Betty was born in Marshall, Texas on Sept. 25, 1940. She is predeceased by…
Princeton resident Richard C. Leone, who served as state treasurer for Governor Brendan Byrne and as a past chairman of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, died on July 16. He was 75 years old. Leone was being treated for Parkinson’s disease and was recently diagnosed with prostate cancer. Born in Webster,…
Margaret (Peggy) Taylor Karcher, 72, of Tequesta, Florida, died June 4, 2015 in Brielle, New Jersey, with her loving family at her side. Her passing came after a valiant battle with cancer. She was passionate, vibrant and optimistic. Peggy was the second of six children of Harold and Dorothy Taylor of Spring Lake, New Jersey….
Former Princeton Borough Councilwoman Peggy Taylor Karcher is dead at 72. Karcher served on the Princeton Borough Council from 2000 to 2009. She served as council president for two years of her tenure. Karcher was the wife of former New Jersey Assembly Speaker Alan Karcher. She also sold real estate for Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage….
Bob Callahan, the man who laid the foundation for Princeton Squash over four decades, died Tuesday, Jan. 27, at the age of 59 following a three-year battle with brain cancer. Callahan, a 2012 inductee into the U.S. Squash Hall of Fame, produced championships as both an undergraduate standout and throughout his 32-year tenure as head…
William H. Scheide, the Princeton philanthropist and Bach enthusiast who made significant contributions to scholarship in various fields of study and curated one of the largest rare book and manuscript collections in the world, died early this morning, a source close to the family confirmed. He was 100. Born in Philadelphia on January 6, 1914,…
Legendary wrestling coach David B. Icenhower, who guided the Lions team at The College of New Jersey for 35 seasons, died Saturday, Oct. 25, after a long battle with cancer. He was 66. Born in Norfolk, Va., he lived in the Mercer county area for the last 40 years, most recently in Robbinsville. “Ice” attended…
H. Robert Schroeder, a former state police employee and photographer, died Oct. 22 at the at Lourdes Specialty Hospital of Southern New Jersey. He was 62. His mother, Gladys DeSantis Schroeder, died at the age of 90 two days before her son died. Born in Trenton, Robert was a life-long area resident. He retired as…
Thomas S. Fulmer, an architect and community leader in Princeton for many years, died last Thursday at the University Medical Center of Princeton at Plainsboro from complications related to Lou Gehrig’s Disease. He was 79. Born Aug. 31, 1934, in Cleveland, Ohio to O. Kline Fulmer and Lois Fulmer (nee Hoover), Tom attended elementary and…
Harold Kuhn, a Princeton University mathematician who advanced game theory approaches to economics, died of congestive heart failure on July 2. He was 88 years old. Born in 1925, Kuhn served in the U.S. Army from 1944 to 1946 and completed his bachelor’s degree at the California Institute of Technology in 1947. After completing his…
