Esther Duker-Pollack
Esther Duker-Pollack, 88, of Media, Pa., died of a heart attack on May 1. She was an elementary school teacher and middle school librarian who lived in Princeton following her retirement. Born in Rypin, Poland, one of 10 children, she and her family emigrated to the United States in 1923. She attended local schools in Pittsfield, Mass., and graduated from Radcliffe College with a major in government in 1937. Following marriage and graduation, she lived in New Jersey and in New London, Conn., from 1945 until 1958, where she reared her four children. Her marriage ended in divorce in 1955. She subsequently relocated to Brookline, Mass., and enrolled at Boston University, where she earned an M.Ed. In 1961, she moved with her children to central New Jersey. She lived and worked in Highland Park, first as an elementary school teacher and later as a middle school librarian, until her retirement in 1977. She relocated to Princeton in 1979, where she pursued a wide range of personal interests and volunteer activities, including cooking and gardening, auditing classes at Princeton University, and volunteering at the Merwick Unit of the Princeton Medical Center and at the Nearly New Shop. She was also a member of the Newcomers Club. She later moved to life care facilities near Philadelphia, first in Gwynedd and later in Media. She is survived by three sons, Ethan Pollack of Newton Centre, Mass., Jeremy Pollack of Kingston, and Jonathan Pollack of Jamestown, R.I.; a daughter, Judith Pollack Meyer of Phoenix, Ariz.; two brothers, Samuel and Jonathan; a sister, Rita; four grandchildren; and one great grandchild. On May 4 she was interred in a family burial plot at King Solomon Memorial Park in Clifton.

Anker N. Halvorsen
Anker N. Halvorsen, 80, of Griggstown, died May 12 at home. Born in Brooklyn, N.Y., he had been a resident of Griggstown since 1952. He retired in 1985 from Gulf and Western Stainless Steel Company in Reddington, where he was a hydraulic press operator and driver. A veteran of World War II, he served in the U.S. Navy during the Atlantic and Pacific theaters and took part in the African campaign and the invasions of Sicily and Normandy. He also participated in Guam, the Solomons, Okinawa, and the Philippine liberation. He was a charter member of Bunker Hill Lutheran Church. He is survived by his wife of 52 years, Helen M. Halvorsen; two sons, Leonard of Griggstown and Paul of Concord, N.H.; and a sister, Grudrun Knarvik of Griggstown. A memorial service will be held Wednesday, May 21 at 7 p.m. at Bunker Hill Lutheran Church, 235 Bunker Hill Road, Griggstown. In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to the Bunker Hill Lutheran Church, 235 Bunker Hill Road, Princeton 08540. Arrangements are under the direction of The Mather-Hodge Funeral Home.

Caroline S. Johnson
Caroline Shirk Johnson, 88, of Hightstown, died in her sleep at Meadow Lakes on April 13. She had been a resident of Princeton for 62 years before moving to Hightstown. She received her college education at Bucknell and Rutgers Universities. For 22 years she was a teacher in the West Windsor public school system and later taught at Ewing High School. She was a member of the Nassau Club and the Present Day Club. She is survived by her husband of 68 years, Prof. Walter C. Johnson; three sons, W. Curtis Jr. of Corvallis, Ore., William S. of Collegedale, Tenn., and David E. of Cortlandt Manor, N.Y.; two sisters, Hazel Coup and Mary Doebler, both of Mifflinburg, Pa.; six grandchildren; and six great-grandchildren. The funeral was private. Arrangements were under the direction of Kimble Funeral Home. Memorial contributions may be made to Meadow Lakes Forum Scholarship Fund, 300 Etra Road, Meadow Lakes, Hightstown 08520.

Emilio D. Mangieri
Emilio D. Mangieri, 56, of Princeton died May 18 at home. Born in New York City, he was a resident of Chicago, Philadelphia and Cherry Hill before moving to Princeton ten years ago. A graduate of Xavier High School and Iona College in New York, he completed postgraduate studies and was a scholar of the works of Dante. He was a co-founder of On Air Sales & Marketing in Exton, Pa., a manufacturers¹ representative agency to QVC Shopping Network. His interests included Italian art, culture and language, surf fishing and automobiles. He was a former board member of the Boheme Opera and a member of the Porsche Club of America. In his younger days he played guitar and sang with an Irish band. Son of the late Daniele and Gemma Battaglini Mangieri-Eucaris, he is survived by his wife, Concetta Maglione-Mangieri; a daughter, Laura Mangieri of Manhattan; two step-daughters, Connie Faye Calisti of Princeton and Diane Chiacchio of Mantua; and one granddaughter. The funeral will be 8:30 a.m., May 21 at Mather-Hodge Funeral Home. A funeral Mass will be celebrated at 9:30 a.m. at St. Paul Roman Catholic Church, followed by burial at Princeton Cemetery. Memorial contributions, designated for lung cancer research, may be made to the American Cancer Society, 3076 Princeton Pike, Lawrenceville 08648-2304.

Charles W. Raleigh
Charles W. Raleigh, 78, of West Windsor, died May 12 at The Medical Center at Princeton. Born in Boston, he was a longtime area resident. He was a graduate of Northeastern University in Boston. He was a chemical engineer at FMC Corp. in Plainsboro and Philadelphia for 34 years, retiring in 1988. An Army veteran of World War II, he served in the 45th Infantry Division in Africa, Italy and France, earning four campaign stars. He was past president of the West Windsor Lions Club. Son of the late Joseph and Muriel Raleigh, he is survived by his wife, Frances Raleigh; a son, Stephen of Ewing; a daughter, Betty Ring of Gaithersburg, Md.; one granddaughter; and two great-grandchildren. Memorial contributions may be made to the West Windsor Lions Club, P.O. Box 295, Princeton Junction 08550; or the Leukemia Society of America, New Jersey Chapter, 419 North Black Horse Pike, Mt. Ephraim 08509. Arrangements are by the A.S. Cole Funeral Home, Cranbury.

H. Huntington Bliss
H. Huntington Bliss, 100, of Medford, died May 14 at Medford Leas. He was a Princeton resident for 20 years, from 1967 to 1987. Born in Beirut, Lebanon, he was the son of Howard S. Bliss and Amy B. Bliss. His father and grandfather were the second president and the founder, respectively, of the Syrian Protestant College, now the American University of Beirut. While at Amherst (B.A. 1926) and at Columbia University (M.A. 1929), he concentrated in English literature, which he taught throughout his life. He taught at the St. Louis Country Day School, St. Louis, Mo.; at the American College of Sofia, Bulgaria; at Damascus College, Damascus, Syria, where he was also the principal; and at International College in Beirut, where he was also the chairman of the English Department. In 1967, he retired to Princeton, where he read for the Recording for the Blind & Dyslexic, sang in the adult choir at Nassau Presbyterian Church, and was a member of the Old Guard. In 1987 he moved with his wife to Medford Leas. While there, he read to the residents and sang in the Madrigals and with the Medford Leas Singers. He was a member of the Protestant Community Church in Medford Lakes. Predeceased by his wife, Persis, he is survived by three daughters, Joan Bliss Wilson of Hanover, N.H., Margit B. Orange of Austin, Tex., and Alice B. Studebaker of Princeton; seven grandchildren; and 10 great-grandchildren. Memorial contributions may be sent to the Employees Appreciation Fund, Medford Leas, Medford 08055; or American College of Sofia, 2728 North Fillmore Street, Arlington, Va. 22207. Arrangements are by the Lechner Funeral Home, Medford.

Alfred A. Ceraso
Alfred A. Ceraso, 76, of Robbinsville, died May 23 at Raritan Bay Medical Center, Old Bridge. Born in Princeton, he was a resident of Princeton until 1983. He retired in 1983 after 35 years at the Princeton branch of the U.S. Postal Service. He was a Navy veteran of World War I. He was a parishioner of St. Gregory the Great Roman Catholic Church in Hamilton Square. An avid sports fan, he enjoyed bowling with the Hamilton Senior Bowling League. Son of the late Luigi and Maria Ceraso, he is survived by his wife of 53 years, Frances Sabatino Ceraso; a daughter, Ann Fletcher of Pennington; a son, Alfred Jr. of Ewing; two sisters, Julia Carrier of Hamilton and Lydia Hulbirt of Princeton; and one grandson. The funeral was May 27 at Saul Colonial Home in Hamilton Square, followed by a Funeral Mass at St. Gregory the Great Parish Center. Burial was in St. Mary¹s Cemetery, Hamilton Township.

William H. Forsyth
William H. Forsyth, 96, of Hightstown, died May 14. He was a Princeton resident from 1970 to 1991 before moving to Meadow Lakes in Hightstown. He was curator emeritus of medieval art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Cloisters, where he worked his entire career. He was the last surviving member of the staff of The Cloisters who was involved in its construction and arrangement of its collection. A 1930 Princeton University graduate, he received a master's degree in fine arts from Princeton and began work in the medieval art department of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1933. His first assignment was to help curator James Rorimer during the construction of The Cloisters, the uptown branch of The Metropolitan Museum that opened in 1938. In the course of his career, he specialized in Burgundian sculpture of the 15th and 16th centuries; located two fragments of the Unicorn Tapestries, now on display in the Cloisters; wrote articles and monographs on objects d'art in the museum¹s collections; and completed work on the study of The Entombment of Christ‹French Sculptures of the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries, published in 1970. After retirement, he moved with his wife to Princeton. While in Princeton, he continued to publish articles and completed his second study of monumental Burgundian sculpture, The Pieta in French Late Gothic Sculpture, published by The Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1995. He is survived by five children, Agnes Kuenkler, Caroline Elischer, William H. Forsyth Jr., Marian Weekly and Therese Hare; 10 grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren. A memorial service was held May 21 at Trinity Church. Memorial contributions may be made to Trinity Church, 33 Mercer Street, Princeton 08540.

Philip W. Smith
Philip Waddell Smith, 91, of White Horse Village, Pa., died May 17 at Riddle Memorial Hospital in Media, Pa. He was formerly a Princeton resident, having moved with his family to Princeton in the early 1930s. He was a banker with Chase National Bank. He joined the bank in 1946 and was vice president from 1957 until his retirement in 1979, during which time he assisted the opening of the consumer credit department, which he headed. A graduate of The Lawrenceville School and Princeton University, he graduated from Harvard Business School in 1935. His business career began at CIT Corp., where he served as office manager for seven years. During World War II, he joined the FBI as a special agent. He was a member of the Consumer Credit Division of the American Bankers Association and the New York State Bankers Association. He was a former deacon, elder and trustee of the Westfield Presbyterian Church. He was also active in fund-raising for the YMCA and United Way and delivered food for Meals on Wheels. He was a member of Echo Lake Country Club in Westfield and Myakka Pines Golf Club in Englewood, Fla. Son of the late Philip Henry Waddell Smith and Isabella Williamson MacLaren Smith of Princeton, brother of the late Alice "Santita" Waddell Smith Roberts and William Coventry Waddell Smith, he is survived by his wife of 64 years, Jeanne Evans Smith; daughters Santita Ogren of Tulsa, Okla., and Susan Gallant of San Diego; two grandchildren; and two great-grandsons. The funeral service was held May 24.

Salvatore M. Baldino
Salvatore M. Baldino, 93, of West Windsor, died May 30 at home. Born in Princeton, he was a lifelong area resident. He was a carpenter with Princeton University for 25 years, retiring in 1974. He was a veteran of World War II, serving in the Navy as a Seabee in the Pacific theater. His last job during the war was to build a floating dock for the P.T. No. 109 that Lt. John F. Kennedy piloted in the Soloman Islands. Mr. Baldino was a member and past commander of American Legion Post 76; a member of VFW Post 925 of Plainsboro; a member of Disabled American Veterans, Chapter 41; and a life member of the Princeton Junction Volunteer Fire Company. He was an original member of the board of directors for the West Windsor Little League, and the director of construction for the Richard J. Ward Complex. He served 20 years as a Boy Scout Committeeman for Troop 66, and was a recipient of the troop's Man of the Year award. He was a member of St. Paul Roman Catholic Church in Princeton, where he was a longtime usher. He is survived by his wife of 63 years, Anne Tevere Baldino; two sons, John Joseph, of Skillman, and Louis Lonnie, of Lambertville; one sister, Marie Phillips, of Gerber, Calif.; and three grandchildren. A Mass of Christian Burial was held June 2 at St. Paul Church; burial was at Princeton Memorial Park. Memorial contributions may be made to Disabled American Veterans, P.0. Box 14301, Cincinnati, Ohio 45250-0301.

Barbara B. Carberry
Barbara Brauer Carberry, 57, of Orr' s Island, Maine, died May 30 at Brunswick Hospital in Brunswick, Maine. She was formerly a Princeton resident. Born in Forest Hills, N.Y., she was a graduate of Princeton High School and Wells College in Aurora, N.Y. She was employed as a teacher in the public school system of Oxford, Conn.; as director of volunteer training for hospice at Riverside Hospital, Columbus, Ohio; and as director of Christian Education at St. Alban' s Episcopal Church, Bexley, Ohio. She was a communicant of St. PaulŒs Episcopal Church in Brunswick, and All Saints Chapel in Orr' s Island; and also served as a member of the board of directors of the Orr's/Bailey Islands Fire Department. She is survived by her husband, Timothy 0. Carberry; her mother, Constance, of Princeton; two children, Megan C. Creech of Grandview, Ohio, and Matthew of Pickerington, Ohio; a brother, C. Andrew Brauer of Princeton, a sister, C.D. Harbridge of Evergreen, Colo.; and two grandchildren. A Memorial Service will be held at 11 a.m. on Thursday, June 5, at All Saints' Chapel, Orr' s Island. Interment will be in the Memorial Garden adjacent to the chapel. Officiants will be the Rt. Rev. Edward Chalfant, Retired Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Maine, and the Rev. Daniel Warren, Rector of St. Paul' s Episcopal Church, Brunswick, Maine. In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be made to St. Paul' s Episcopal Church, Capital Campaign, 27 Pleasant Street, Brunswick, Maine 04011; or to Orr' s/Bailey Islands Fire Department, P.0. Box 177, Orr' s Island, Maine 04066.

Enoch J. Durbin
Enoch J. Durbin, 80, of Princeton, died May 27 at home. He had lived in Princeton for 50 years. He graduated from the City College of New York and received a graduate degree from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. He was a professor in the Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department at Princeton University from 1953 until his retirement in 1999. Following his retirement, he continued to guide students as an emeritus professor and as a fellow at Mathey College. His main focus of research was the internal combustion engine. He worked on the conversion of these engines to run on natural gas fuel. In recent years, he published many articles explaining the environmental, economic, and political benefits of using natural gas as a replacement for oil. He held numerous patents, in areas as diverse as ion flow meters and tennis racket design. Mr. Durbin was a member of the Army Scientific Advisory Group, a part of NATO, and the Princeton Borough Council. He was an avid tennis player and a member of the Unitarian Church of Princeton. He is survived by his wife of 57 years, Marilyn Adele Durbin, two sons, Jon and Paul; a daughter, Karen Jain; and five grandchildren. A memorial service will he held on Saturday, June 14 at the Unitarian Church of Princeton. Memorial contributions may be sent to Deborah Hospital Foundation, P.0. Box 820, Browns Mills, NJ 08015.

Alice G. Lackey
Alice Griggs Lackey, 87, of Monmouth Junction, died May 26 at The Elms of Cranbury in Cranbury. Born in Monmouth Junction, she had been a resident of Monmouth Junction and Princeton. A Princeton High School graduate, she was employed at Educational Testing Services in Princeton. Predeceased by her husband, John J. Lackey, her brother, Thomas C. Griggs, and sister Elsie Ely, she is survived by two sons, John of Sonora, Calif., and James of Monmouth Junction; a daughter, Joan L. Novatokoski, of Hamilton Square; a sister, Catherine McKeon, of Moss Beach, Calif.; and nine grandchildren. The funeral was May 30 at the M. J. Murphy Funeral Home in Monmouth Junction. Burial was in Kingston Cemetery.

Grace M. Loetscher
Grace Miller Loetscher, 94, of East Windsor, died May 29 at the Medical Center at Princeton. She had lived in Princeton for 55 years before moving to Meadow Lakes in 1993. Born in Philadelphia, she was a graduate of Wilson College in Chambersburg, Pa. She was a member of Nassau Presbyterian Church for 49 years, and a past elder of the church. At the time of her death she was a member of the Lawrence Road Presbyterian Church in Lawrenceville. She was an assistant editor for the board of Christian Education in Philadelphia, a past commissioner of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church, and a former member and past president of the Presbyterial. Ms. Loetscher was a member of the Princeton Regional School Board for four years, and a representative from the Princeton Board of Education to the New Jersey State Board of Education. She was a member of the College Club of Princeton and a past member of the Present Day Club. She was predeceased by her husband, the Rev. Dr. Lefferts A. Loetscher, professor emeritus of American Church History at Princeton Theological Seminary; and by a brother, Dr. Park Hays Miller Jr. She is survived by a son, John, of Lawrenceville; a daughter, Elizabeth Chase, of Kingston; and one grandchild. A memorial service will be held on Saturday, June 7, at 11 a.m. at the Lawrence Road Presbyterian Church. Arrangements are by the Mather-Hodge Funeral Home. Memorial contributions may be made to the Lawrence Road Presbyterian Church Access Fund, 1039 Lawrenceville Road, Lawrenceville 08648.

George S. McWilliams
George S. McWilliams, 91, of Princeton, died May 20 at The Medical Center at Princeton. Born in Powell, Wyo., he grew up in Philadelphia. He was a Princeton resident from 1965 to 1977, before moving back to Philadelphia. He returned to Princeton in 1995. He was an art director for J.C. Penney Co. in Manhattan, retiring in 1976 after 26 years. Mr. McWilliams was a communicant at St. Paul Roman Catholic Church in Princeton. He enjoyed still-life painting in oil and watercolor. He is survived by his wife of 65 years, Rosa; two sons, Charles of Princeton and Daniel of Oxford, Md.; and two grandsons. The funeral was private under the direction of Hillsborough Funeral Home, Hillsborough. Memorial donations may be made to the Macular Degeneration Foundation, Inc., P.O. Box 531313, Henderson, Nev. 89053.

Julia C. Soons
A memorial service in honor of Princeton native Julia "Judy" C. Soons will be held on Friday, June 6 at Trinity Episcopal Church at 11:00 a.m. Ms. Soons passed away at the age of 80 on February 19 in Colchester, Vt. A graduate from Princeton High School in 1940, Ms. Soons studied at art school. Following her marriage in 1943, she lived in Englewood and in 1979 returned to Princeton. She moved to Vermont in 2000 to be closer to her children. Ms. Soons was a volunteer at The Medical Center at Princeton, where she was a member of the 5/20 club and was involved in organizing the annual hospital fetes and other fund-raising activities. She was also a member of the Women's Club of Princeton and Princeton Fire Co. No. 1 auxiliary. A reception at the church will immediately follow the memorial service.

Henry H. Patton
Henry H. Patton, 89, of Princeton, died May 31 in Princeton following a stroke. Born in Philadelphia, Pa., he attended St. George's School in Newport, R.I., and graduated from Princeton University magna cum laude with a B.A. in English in 1935. While at Princeton he competed on the squash and tennis teams and was a member of Tiger Inn. From 1942 to 1945, he was a commissioned officer in the U.S. Navy, serving in the Pacific. After the war, he settled in Princeton, commuting to New York to work as an investment banker for Deltec Panamerica S.A. In 1953, after being made president of Deltec Cuba, S.A., he moved with his family to Havana, where they lived for the next year and a half. At the end of 1954, he brought his family back to Princeton and went to work for the New York securities firm Kuhn, Loeb & Co. In 1959 he became president of American Overseas Finance Company. From 1962 until his retirement in 1969, he was vice president of Deltec Panamerica S.A. and served on the board of Deltec Securities Corporation. He also served on the boards of directors of the Daniel and Florence Guggenheim Foundation and of the Mercer County Council on Alcoholism. In Palo Alto, Calif., he worked to help troubled children as an advisor to the Police Council. During a five-year period in the 1970s, as a Senior Fellow from the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation, he visited small colleges in the South and Midwest to encourage students to consider a career in international banking. He was an active supporter of St. George's School, where he served on the board of trustees, and of Princeton University, where he served on various alumni committees. In recent years, he could be found at most games played by the Princeton women's softball team, home or away. He is survived by his wife, the former Elsa Schundler Edwards of Palo Alto; and two sons and a daughter from his first marriage to Evelyn Denison Patton Carrillo-Rodman of Key Largo, Fla., Alexander of New York City, and Elizabeth E. Patton of Charlotte, Vt.

Raoul H. Nehr
Raoul H. Nehr, 90, of Skillman, died June 7 at The Medical Center at Princeton. Born in Newark, he attended Lincoln Grammar School, West Side High School and Columbia High School, graduating in 1931. He then took a post-graduate year at The Lawrenceville School, graduating in 1932. He attended Princeton University, where he was a member of the team, and graduated with a B.A. in 1936. He worked for American Airlines in various capacities, the last of which was overseas sales manager. He lived and worked for American in Zurich, Switzerland. In 1951 he started with the Prudential as a special agent. He received many regional and national citations for outstanding sales and led the company in sales in 1962, at which time he received the President's Citation. He retired from Prudential in 1991. During his years in the business community, he was a member of the Greater Newark Chamber of Com¬merce, and for many years chairman of the Chamber's Aviation Committee. He also served on the committee of Newark's 300th anniversary celebration. In 1975, he established the Nehr Scholarship for International Students at Princeton University. He has since assisted 66 students in obtaining a Princeton University education. He also funded the Nehr Scholarship for Native Americans at The Lawrenceville School. He earned a Bronze Medal at the Lake Placid Olympics in 1932 in the bobsled competition. He is survived by his wife, Jo-Ann Fiordaliso Nehr; a brother-in-law and his wife, Joseph and Marilyn Fiordaliso of Livingston; and many nieces, nephews and cousins. The funeral service will be Wednesday, June 11, at 10:30 a.m. at Princeton University Chapel. Private burial will be at Fairview Cemetery in Westfield. In lieu of flowers, contributions may be made to the Medical Center at Princeton, 253 Witherspoon Street, Princeton 08540. Arrangements are under the direction of The Mather-Hodge Funeral Home.

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