Mary Clare Gaughan O’Dea, 84, of Scranton, Pennsylvania, died September 21. Survivors include a son-in-law, Alan Sare, Plainsboro.##M:[more]##
Sean Vincent Matera, 11, of Fort Wayne, Indiana, died September 21 in Lutheran Hospital, Fort Wayne, Indiana. Born in Princeton, he attended West Windsor-Plainsboro schools before the family moved to Fort Wayne.
Survivors include his parents, Richard and Mary Matera; his brother, Richard; and his maternal grandparents, Robert and Mary Lynch of Whitehouse Station. Donations may be made to the Epilepsy Foundation.
Beverly Hamrick Beggs Youmans, 74, of Plainsboro died at her home September 22. Born in Agana, Guam, where her father was a military physician, the family moved around the country before settling in Lanett, Alabama.
Valedictorian of her high school class, she was salutatorian at West Virginia Wesleyan College where she graduated in 1955 with an honors degree in chemistry. She married James Lee Beggs, a neurosurgeon, worked as a researcher at Mellon Institute in polymer science and organic chemistry.
Active in the Princeton United Methodist Church for many years, she served on the board of trustees, in several church committees, and sang in the choir. She also taught swimming at the Princeton YWCA and administered the Princeton High School scholarship fund.
From 1985 to 1997 she was the tour manager at American Boychoir. She accompanied her second husband, Roger Lee Youmans, a general surgeon, on a humanitarian mission to Ghana, helping women and children navigate living conditions. She recently established a children’s library in Amedzofe, a village in Ghana.
Survivors include her husband Roger L. Youmans of Plainsboro; two daughters Kristin Fletcher of Princeton, and Hilary Beggs of California; her sister Phyllis Elaine Trayham Polly of Savannah, Georgia; and three grandchildren, Christian Latimer, James (JJ) Barbash, and James Beggs.
Donations may be sent to the endowment fund for the Princeton United Methodist Church, 7 Vandeventer Avenue, Princeton 08542.
Albert J. Taran, 87 of Plainsboro died September 25 in the Merwick Care Center. Born in Philadelphia, he moved to Plainsboro in 2000. Taran, a World War II Army Air Corps veteran, was a member of Queenship of Mary Church.
Survivors include his wife of 63 years, Mary Bigenis Taran; three sons and daughters-in-law, Albert and Nadia, Stephen and Claudia, Michael and Shari; a daughter and son-in-law, Mary and Edward Cunnally, grandchildren Edward, Mary Frances, Alexandra, Sophie, Nicholas, Andrew, and Benjamin; and three great-grandchildren, Michael, Isabella and Mia.
Donations may be made to Sisters of St. Casimir, 2601 West Marquette Road, Chicago, IL 60929, or St. Casimir’s Church, 324 Wharton Street, Philadelphia PA 19147.
Marcelo Ceralde, 93, of Plainsboro died September 27 at the Pavilions. A longtime area resident, he was a member of the Queenship of Mary Church.
Survivors include two daughters and sons-in-law, Doree and Ed Solis and Cecil and Rudy Damingo; a son and daughter-in-law, Serge and Emma Ceralde; seven grandchildren, and 11 great-grandchildren.
Edgar Jacob Denlinger, 69, of West Windsor died October 4 at Fox Chase Cancer Center in Philadelphia. He was born in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
A graduate of Penn State , he received his master’s and doctorate degrees in electrical engineering from Penn. After a career in microwave engineering, he retired from Sarnoff in 2003, after 30 years. He was a research engineer at RCA in Camden, a reseach faculty member at MIT Lincoln, an adjunct professor of electrical engineering at Drexel, and a visiting professor at Harvard .
He was a life fellow with the IEEE, a member of the International Standards committee and the Electromagnetic Academy.
Survivors include his wife, Cynthia Wilson Denlinger; his children, Crystal Denlinger of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and Craig Denlinger of Memphis.Donations may be made to the First Presbyterian Church of Hightstown, 320 North Main Street, Hightstown 08520, or to Fox Chase Cancer Center, Development Office, 333 Cottman Avenue, Philadelphia, PA 19111.
