Obit of Madeline Mary Becsetz Fahringer mother of Lynn Lockard former student and school teacher at Bloomsbury

Madeline Mary Bencsetz Fahringer
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Madeline Mary Bencsetz Fahringer, 90, passed away on January 6, 2011, at Warren Haven, Oxford, NJ. Born: on August 7, 1920, in Alpha, NJ, she was a daughter of the late Joseph and Mary Gyurkovics Bencsetz. Personal: Madeline treasured her Austro-Hungarian heritage and her memories of growing up in Alpha. Despite Alzheimer's Disease, she recalled Alpha and her dear parents vividly. She married her beloved soul mate, Elwood Fahringer, on July 11, 1946, in a double wedding with her sister Olga and John Moll. Madeline's love of Elwood remained to the end. She lived all her life in Warren and Hunterdon Counties, NJ, 47 of those years in Harmony Twsp., NJ. Madeline graduated Phillipsburg High School in 1938 and Paine Hall School, NYC, and was medical assistant to Dr. Raymond Wing from 1940 to 1947 in his Easton, PA, practice. With becoming a mother, she was a stay-at-home mom, and, after raising her four children, she was nanny to sixteen other babies and children for working mothers. Affectionately called "Putyi" or "Put" by family, she also bore the nickname "Red" in her youth for her red hair.That red hair complemented her lively spirit, that she spoke her mind, but softly, that she laughed freely and often and was a strong champion for her causes or beliefs. Providing a loving, comfortable home for her husband and family was paramount to Madeline.She enjoyed decorating, sewing, embroidery and crafts.She especially loved to welcome family and friends to visit her home. Above all, she was a devoted wife, a wonderful mother to her children and a loving "Gram" to her grand and great-grandchildren..babies and small children her passion.Madeline was a teacher of love and patience and held dearly the values of family and friendship as a strong matriarch, a woman of insight, a lady. Memberships: Madeline was a past member of Alpha, Bloomsbury and Harmony Presbyterian Churches and recently a member of First Oxford Presbyterian Church of Hazen.She was a very active member of church committees and served as deacon and elder at the Harmony church. Civically, she served for 12 years on the zoning Board in Harmony, NJ, highlighted by work on the Merrill Creek Dam project.She also was a past Girl Scout leader in Alpha and in Bloomsbury. Survivors: She is survived by three daughters, Lynn Lockard of Pohatcong Twsp., NJ, Jane Przybylkiewicz of Saylorsburg, PA, Nancy Fearnhead of Ocean City, NJ, and their respective husbands, Richard, Henrik and Anthony; a son, Glenn and his wife Lisa of Cave Creek, AZ; eleven grandchildren, Michael, Keith, Kristen, Kevin, Daniel, Anthony, Coral, Gwyneth, Justin, Lucas and Ian; eleven great-grandchildren, Destinee, BreAnna, Andrew, Haylee, Colton, Olivia, Kinsey, Ty, Logan, Ian and Ayden; two sisters, Olga Moll and Josephine Hanlon; and numerous cousins, nieces, nephews and extended family and friends. In addition to her parents, she is predeceased in 2008 by her husband Elwood, and by her sisters Blanche Wilson and Leona Bencsetz. Services: Family and friends are invited to attend a Celebration of Life service on Saturday, January 22, 2011, (snow date Jan.23) at 2 p.m. at United Presbyterian Church of Alpha. High St., Alpha, NJ, 08865.The Finegan Funeral Home, Phillipsburg, is in charge of arrangements. Memorials: In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to Alzheimer's Association , 400 Morris Ave., Suite 251, Denville, NJ 07834 or to a charity of one's choice.

Published in The Express Times from January 8 to January 11, 2011

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Chic Anderson

Peggy Sullivan Stoval daughter of Dr. James Sullivan has informed me that a really great member of our community when I was growing up has past on to eternal life last month in Hawaii. She was the mother of Babs and Bobbie Anderson. Please remember them in your prayers. I have a cute story about the Anderson girls. I remember I was young and for some reason had found myself playing with them. Not saying it like I should not have been, but I wasn't allowed at that end of town. As we've discussed before on this forum The West Street Kids could not cross Church Street, I'm sure the exact opposite was true as well. I guess folks figured it was too busy and too dangerous. Anyway back to my story............Probably Babs asked what I wanted to play. I said for some bizarre reason HORSES!! She said ok, what do you want to be?
I thought about it and thought hmmmmmm Stallions are tough, So I decided I wanted to be a female Stallion!!! She laughed at me, I felt sooooooooooooooooooo small. She then told me a stallion was a boy horse. LOL Crazy the things that stick in your mind over probably 50 some years good grief, but I did learn a valuable lesson on horse breeding that day. :)
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Lorene Anderson

Posted On July 10th, 2010 - Honolulu Star-Advertiser

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July 2, 2010
Lorene “Chick” Anderson, 94, of Kaneohe, a homemaker, died in Kaneohe. She was born in Riegelsville, Pa. She is survived by daughters Roberta A. Ubersax and Barbara A. Krasniewski, and four grandchildren. No services.

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Bloomsbury United Methodist Church 175th Anniversary

The church is looking for old photos. If you have them would you please contact them?
Also they would love to see all of you there.

Bloomsbury Hose Company #1

Again questions arising on FaceBook. This time by Jr Allen, son of Herb and Joyce Allen. He was questioning me on the location of the early fire house. I had to admit I knew nothing of one being anywhere but the old section in it's current location. My dad must have been listening ;) Because I suddenly saw this book The celebration of the fire companies 25th anniversay. I scanned a few pages to show here. There are quite a few pictures and if anyone wants to see more I will do it. Also it answered a question that came up many years ago about the location of the water lines in town. So I'll try to get them in order. If anyone has any comments please let me know.

Of course it uploaded backwards LOL

Delivery men in town.

Some things have come forward in FaceBook that brought back some memories. I thought I'd mention mine and see who else had memories of delivery men who used to come to town.
I remember the huckster who used to bring fruit and vegetables. Don't know his name, but I do remember it being an old blue van with awnings I believe out of the sides. The next would be probably Fairview Dairy deliveries. I don't know if Harold Lutz was the milk man for them or not. Bill? Can you correct me here? Of course many years later Mike Vendetti delivered all our dairy needs.
Bill Letcher who delivered our bread for Sunbeam aka Freihofer's bakery...... Was this relation of the Letcher's in town? A stout man who our one dalmation detested. ;) He also delivered our wonderful purchased birthday cakes, a real treat, from Easton Bakery.
I'm trying to think if there were more. Of course Weiller's store had delivery and Lance worked delivering for them for a while. I don't recall if Leo's or anyone before them had delivery. Can someone help me out here?

Pictures

Would you all please post a picture? We'd love to see how you look after all these years?