Dianne J. White, 65, from Petersburg, Virginia, died November 8 at Southside Regional Medical Center after a brief illness. Born in Milltown, she was a longtime West Windsor resident.##M:[more]##
She attended Marietta College and graduated from Penn State University with a bachelor’s degree in education. After graduation she worked in New York City for NBC before joining Pan American World Airlines as a flight attendant and purser. During her flying time she worked as a teacher in elementary and junior high schools in New York City.
White retired from Pan American in 1989 and joined World Wings International where she was active as vice president of the NJ/Philadelphia chapter and a member of CARE International, an organization that often lobbied Washington for support of AIDS and World hunger projects.
After becoming a publishing liaison for Demark Communications, she wrote, designed, developed, edited, and sold advertising for the annual directory, “Who’s Who in West Windsor.” She was the managing editor for the “News Eagle,” a community newspaper based in West Windsor from 1997 to 2000.
In 1998 she visited Petersburg, Virginia, and purchased the historic Dodson’s Tavern with her husband Robert in 1999. After extensive renovations they moved into Dodson’s Tavern in 2004 and White became an activist for the renaissance of her adopted city. She soon became interested in the local theater, Sycamore Rouge, as a catalytic cornerstone in the revitalization of historic downtown Petersburg in providing an artistic venue. White joined the theater’s board of directors in January, 2006, and became president of the board in March, 2007.
Survivors include her husband, Robert Carey White; daughter and son-in-law, Carey White and Jason Maas; granddaughter Savannah Maas; son, Craig Clarke White; and her sisters, Janice Cox, Joanne Elvins, and Dale Watten.
A memorial service was held November 15, at the Prince of Peace Lutheran church, Princeton Hightstown Road, West Windsor. Donations may be made to Sycamore Rouge, 21 West Old Street, Petersburg, Virginia 23803
Arthur J. Jones Jr., 77, of Plainsboro died November 8 in the University Medical Center at Princeton. Born in Chestnut Hill, Pennsylvania, he moved to West Windsor in 1971.
A graduate of Drexel University, Class of 1954, he was a starter on the school’s first championship basketball team. He worked with associated Dry Goods in New York and Simon Properties in Jersey City.
Survivors include his wife of 53 years, Kathleen E. McHale Jones; a son and daughter-in-law, A. Stephen and Susan Jones; four daughters and three sons-in-law, Julianne Jones, Suzanne and Richard Albanese, Elizabeth and William Haskell II, and Mary Kate and Lester Stines; and seven grandchildren, Matthew Haskell, Rachel and Cameron Jones, Olivia, James, Sophia Albanese, and John Stines.
Donations may be made to the Sisters of St. Joseph of Chestnut Hill or Drexel University.
Tracy J. Kelman, 41, of Carteret died November 8, at the Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, New Brunswick. Survivors include a brother and sister-in-law, Brian and Judy Kelman of West Windsor. Donations may be made to Robert Wood Johnson Cancer Institute of New Jersey.
Carmela Rosania, 95, of Andover, Connecticut died. Survivors include her son and daughter-in-law Richard and Linda Rosania of West Windsor. Donations may be made to the Alzheimer’s Association, 279 New Britain Road, Suite 5, Kensington, CT 06037.
Nancy S. Croteau, 56, of Biddeford, Maine, died November 9 at Gosnell Memorial Hospice. Survivors include a sister and brother-in-law, Judith and Robert Miller of West Windsor. Donations may be made to the Susan B. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation Maine Affiliate, Box 3283 Brewer, Maine 04412 or to Hospice of Southern Maine, Gosnell Memorial Hospice House, 11 Hunnewell Road, Scarborough, Maine 04074.
Judith Ann Chagnon, 53, of Stratford, Connecticut died November 10. Survivors include a sister and brother-in-law, Linda and Henry Petri of West Windsor. Donations may be made to the Royal Family Kids Camp, C/O Black Rock Congregational Church, 3685 Black Rock Typk, Fairfield, CT 06824.
George S. Airel, 78, of Cliffwood Beach died November 11 at N.Y. University Hospital. Survivors include his sister and brother-in-law, Lorraine and Frank Mazza of West Windsor.
David E. Kleber, 73, of Monroe Township died on November 13 at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in New Brunswick.
Born in Pittsburgh, Kleber was a former resident of West Windsor. A graduate of Carnegie Tech, he received his MBA from Rutgers University, and was a financial analyst for the N.J. Department of Insurance before retiring.
Survivors include his wife, Marjorie Rosenberg Kleber; a daughter and son-in-law, Beth Kleber and James Poniewozik of Brooklyn, New York; a son and daughter-in-law, Robert and Leslie Kleber of Oakland Township, Michigan; a sister, Tema Feintuck of Manchester; and six grandchildren, Milo, Andre, Sydney, Alexandra, Audrey, and Owen.
Donations may be offered to Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital Foundation’s Surgical Intensive Care Unit East, 8 Easton Avenue, New Brunswick 08901.
Roni Williams, 66, of West Windsor died November 17. She was born in New London, Connecticut and raised in Stonington.
Survivors include her husband, Frank J. Kenny Jr.; daughters Karen (Williams) Newman, Elizabeth (Williams) Munns, and Mary Elizabeth (Kenny) O’Keefe; and grandchildren Morgan, Dylan, Caroline, Jake, Michael, and Tommy; three brothers, Stephen, Peter, and Daniel McGuire; and a sister, Winifred Hoff.
She was a longtime teacher and head of the preschool at Stuart Country Day of the Sacred Heart and a founding trustee of the Princeton Academy of the Sacred Heart.
Viewing hours will be Friday, November 21, from 2 to 4 p.m. and 6 to 9 p.m. at The Mather-Hodge Funeral Home, 40 Vandeventer Avenue, Princeton. Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated Saturday, November 22, 11 a.m. at St. Paul’s Roman Catholic Church, 214 Nassau Street, Princeton. Donations may be made to Stuart Country Day School of the Sacred Heart or Princeton Academy of the Sacred Heart.
