Henrietta Milstein, Zada Boone, Douglas Dean, Hazel Davenport, Frances E. Henderson, Leonard Volenski, Rose McDonald, Luigi Mincini.
Henrietta Milstein
Co-founded Burlington Coat Factory
Henrietta Milstein of Princeton Township, an Austrian immigrant who with her husband, Monroe, began a national chain of retail clothing stores from her savings as a librarian, died Friday at Columbia Presbyterian Hospital, New York City. She was 72.
Before moving to Princeton, she was a resident of Burlington and Westampton Township.
Mrs. Milstein was vice president of Burlington Coat Factory, which began in 1972 with the purchase of a former coat factory outlet in Burlington Township on the savings from her job as an elementary school librarian to cover most of the $75,000 down payment. Today the chain of nearly 300 stores employs 23,000 people in 42 states.
Born in Vienna, she immigrated to New York 10 years later with her mother and younger brother as the Nazis began their occupation of Europe. She studied retailing at New York University and earned master’s degrees in library science and education from C.W. Post College on Long Island.
She worked for many years as an elementary school librarian in Long Beach, N.Y., continuing after the first store was purchased but eventually working full time as a general manger.
Over the years, under her guidance, the product offerings of the store expanded. Mrs. Milstein served as vice president of children’s wear and juvenile products from 1974 to 1997 and then retired, though she continued to serve on the company’s board.
Mrs. Milstein was past president of B’Nai B’rith women’s organization, the Long Beach PTA and was active in the Anti-Defamation League. She established a fellowship for medical research at Columbia Presbyterian Hospital.
In addition to her husband of 52 years, she is survived by sons Lazer of Monsey, N.Y. and Andrew and Steven of Princeton.
Zada Boone
Retired chef
Zada Boone of Princeton Township died Aug. 14 at home. She was 90.
Born and educated in Register, Ga., she was a Princeton resident for 71 years.
Mrs. Boone had been a chef more than 25 years with the Einstein Institute of Princeton University.
She was a member of Lord Jesus Love Temple, its Mother Board and Helping Hands Committee.
Daughter of the late Beauford and Dillie Everett, wife of the late Latson Boone, mother of the late Ama Pearl Everett, Drew Willie Craig and Trumaine Jezaquel, she is survived by daughter Veronica Shorter of Princeton; 14 grandchildren; niece Valeria Price of Cincinnati; many great-grandchildren and great-great-grandchildren; and other relatives.
Funeral will be 11 a.m. today at Lord Jesus Love Temple, 68 Vine St., Trenton, with the Rev. Nancy Spearman, pastor, officiating.
Burial will be in Princeton Cemetery.
Calling hours will be 9 a.m. until service at the church. Arrangements are by Anderson Funeral Service, Trenton.
Douglas Dean
Expert on healing
NEWTOWN, Pa. Dr. Douglas Dean died Wednesday at Chandler Hall. He was 85.
He was a Princeton resident for almost 50 years.
After immigrating from England, where he was born, he held positions as a research chemist, an employee of Educational Testing Service and a college teacher and researcher. He was an expert in parapsychology and founded the American Healing Association and was co-founder of the Holistic Health Association in Princeton.
He was educated at Liverpool University and later at Cambridge, majoring in chemistry, physics and mathematics.
A conscientious objector during World War II, he was assigned as a fire watcher at a hospital during the "blitz."
He served with the British Friends Relief Service in Germany from 1945 to 1948, working with war refugees, particularly in rehabilitating amputees.
Coming to the United States, he held positions in industry as a research chemist. Later he worked at Educational Testing Service.
At the New Jersey Institute of Technology, he taught computer science and statistics, conducted research on top U.S. executives which assessed their extra-sensory perception (ESP) abilities and co-authored the book, "Executive ESP."
Research was his primary interest and he did research at J.B. Rhine’s Foundation for Research on the Nature of Man, and at the Parapsychology Foundation in New York. The research for his doctorate dissertation at the Humanistic Psychology Institute in San Francisco was on infrared absorption in water treated by healers.
He traveled and gave lectures and demonstrations all over the world, and made presentations before international conferences.
His interest in healing led him to found the American Healing Association and he was active in the movement to have healers given the same hospital privileges as medical doctors.
He was co-founder, with Patience Hite, of the Holistic Health Association of the Princeton Area.
He was author of the book "The Mystery of Healing: Still a Mystery After 60,000 Years." He was also one of a small group involved in arranging for the publication of Dr. Helen Schucman’s "A Course in Miracles," and in forming Princeton’s first Course in Miracles study group.
Dr. Dean was also interested in space and went to Cape Canaveral to witness all seven moon shots.
He was a former president of the Parapsychological Association and a former member of the board of trustees of the Academy of Religion and Psychical Research.
A memorial meeting will be held at Princeton Friends Meeting, where he was member, at a later date.
Arrangements were under the direction of The Kimble Funeral Home, Princeton.
Hazel Davenport
Retired school teacher
PLAINSBORO Hazel Linnea Oslund Anderson Davenport died Saturday at the Plaza Regency nursing facility. She was 87.
She was a public school teacher in New York.
She earned a bachelor’s degree from Hofstra University and was elected to the honor society.
She began her teaching career in a one-room school house in Minnesota and later taught for many years in the Roslyn Public Schools in Long Island, N.Y.
During the 1940s, she assisted her husband in the founding of St. Andrew’s Lutheran Church in West Hempstead, N.Y. and on his death the Lutheran Church and the community build the family a home to honor their commitment.
She was an avid gardener, shell collector and choral musician.
Wife of the late the Rev. Tibert Anderson, she is survived by children Ronald T. Anderson, Kenneth R. Anderson, Leonard S. Davenport Jr., the Rev. E. Joy Kulvicki, Karen L. Anderson and Barbara McCool Henry; grandchildren Christine, Richard and Jennifer Anderson, Suzanne McGuire and Caroline Kulvicki; daughters- and sons-in-law Georgeen Anderson, Robert Kulvicki, Kim Hunter Anderson, Gail Davenport and Richard Henry; and many nieces and nephews.
Funeral will be 2 p.m. Thursday at Prince of Peace Lutheran Church, West Windsor.
Burial will be at Rocky Hill Cemetery, Rocky Hill.
Visiting hours will be 2 to 4 p.m. and 7 to 9 p.m. Wednesday at The Mather-Hodge Funeral Home, 40 Vandeventer Ave., Princeton.
Memorial donations may be made to Princeton Hospice, Bunn Drive, Princeton, NJ 08540 or St. Andrew’s Lutheran Church Memorial Fund, 54 Nassau Blvd. S., West Hempstead, NY, where a room will be furnished in the parish house in her memory.
Frances E. Henderson
Child caregiver
MILLVILLE Frances E. Henderson died Friday at Newcombe Medical Center, Vineland. She was 91.
Born in Pleasantview, Va., she was a Princeton resident for over 60 years before moving to Millville in 1997.
She was a child caregiver for Princeton area families.
She was a former member of Princeton Methodist Church and its Circle Club and the Friday Club of Princeton.
Wife of the late Earl S. Henderson, she is survived by daughters Joan H. Lord of Contoocook, N.H., and Nancy A. McConnell of Port Elizabeth; son James L. Henderson of Seattle; sister Gladys Coffee of Virginia; six grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren.
Funeral will be 2 p.m. Wednesday at The Kimble Funeral Home, 1 Hamilton Ave., Princeton.
Burial will be in Princeton Cemetery.
Visiting hours will be 1 p.m. to time of service at the funeral home.
Memorial contributions may be made to Princeton United Methodist Church, 7 Vandeventer Ave., Princeton, NJ 08542.
Leonard Volenski
Former Princeton resident
LOUDON, Tenn. Dr. Leonard Volenski died July 30 at home. He was 64.
A former resident of Princeton, he moved to the Tellico Village Community in Loudon in anticipation of his marriage to a Knoxville, Tenn. resident on Sept. 16, his birthday.
Recently retired, he had served in the priesthood, was a research fellow at Princeton Theological Seminary, a practicing clinical psychologist and a professor of psychology at Seton Hall University.
He is survived by his bride-to-be, Angle Galler Vaughan, two nephews and a niece in New Jersey and one niece in North Carolina.
A Christian Wake Service was held at the Click Funeral Home Farragut Chapel, Lenoir City, Tenn.
In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be made to the American Heart Association, 4708 Papermill Drive, Knoxville, TN.
Rose M. McDonald
Longtime Kingston resident
SOUTH BRUNSWICK Rose M. McDonald died Thursday at The Medical Center at Princeton. She was 90.
Born in Trenton, she lived in Kingston more than 70 years.
A retired telephone operator, she worked with New Jersey Bell Telephone Co. in Princeton more than 12 years.
She was a member of Kingston Volunteer Fire Co. Ladies Auxiliary.
Wife of the late James McDonald and mother of the late Robert McDonald, Rose Haskins and Patricia Breece, she is survived by son and daughter-in-law James H. and Caroline McDonald of Kingston; sister Martha Walters of South Brunswick; nine grandchildren, including James McDonald, Carol Tamasi, Rosemary Milkewicz, Susan Holtzclaw, Elizabeth Hanasewych and Brian McDonald; 12 great-grandchildren; and a great-great-granddaughter.
Funeral will be 10 a.m. today at The Mather-Hodge Funeral Home, 40 Vandeventer Ave., Princeton.
Burial will be in St. Paul’s Cemetery.
Memorial contributions may be made to Kingston First Aid and Rescue Squad, P.O. Box 529, Princeton, NJ 08542 or Kingston Volunteer Fire Co. Ladies Auxiliary, P.O. Box 131, Kingston, NJ 08528.
Luigi Mancini
Retired transit worker
SOUTH BRUNSWICK Luigi Mancini died Saturday at home. He was 86.
Born in Benevento, Italy, he came to the United States in 1934 and resided in New York City 40 years and Columbus, Ohio, four years before moving to Kingston in 1978.
He retired in 1974 after 30 years with the maintenance department of New York Transit Authority. He had previously been employed as a track worker with New York Central Railroad.
Husband of the late Rita Mancini and brother of the late Carmine and Grace Calendrella, he is survived by daughter and son-in-law Marie Ann and Brian Gorman of Kingston; brothers Armand of Bayside, N.Y., and Victor of Astoria, N.Y.; grandchildren Patricia Davis, Brian Gorman Jr. and David Gorman; and several nieces and nephews.
Funeral will be 8:45 a.m. Wednesday at The Mather-Hodge Funeral Home, 40 Vandeventer Ave., Princeton.
Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated 9:30 a.m. at St. Paul Roman Catholic Church, 214 Nassau St., Princeton.
Entombment will be in Ferncliff Mausoleum, Hartsdale, N.Y.
Calling hours will be 6 to 9 p.m. today at the funeral home.
In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to the American Cancer Society, 3076 Princeton Pike, Lawrenceville, NJ 08648.