OBITUARIES, Aug. 20

Peter A. Schwartz, Lucius Wilmerding Jr., Betty Lou Ward, James Boyd Brown, John T. Westlake

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Peter A. Schwartz
Assistant dean
Peter A. Schwartz of Princeton Borough died Aug. 8 at The Medical Center at Princeton. He was 89.
   Born in Philadelphia, he was an assistant dean of men at Princeton University and taught for two years at the Chicago Latin School.
   He was a 1936 graduate of Princeton University.
   He served as a Navy ensign during World War II.
   Following his military service, he was assistant headmaster of The Hun School of Princeton. He later was headmaster of Allendale School in Rochester, N.Y.; Pembroke Country Day School in Kansas City, Mo.; and founding headmaster of The Fort Worth Country Day School in Fort Worth, Texas.
   Upon retiring from Fort Worth Country Day in 1979, he went to the Marine Military Academy in Harlingen, Texas, where he was head of the middle school for two years.
   Mr. Schwartz retired to John’s Island, S.C., where he taught Latin at the Island Academy for a year and worked with the soup kitchen ministry. He also taught people to read and was involved in other charitable efforts.
   Son of the late Georgiana Gormley and David Louis Schwartz, husband of the late Alice Crosby Sinclair, to whom he was married 58 years, he is survived by a sister, Madeira S. Meader of Rochester, N.Y.; daughter Carol S. Haag of Princeton; sons Peter A. Schwartz Jr. of Bulverde, Texas, and Donald S. Schwartz of Nashville, Tenn.; several grandchildren including Cindy and Kenneth Haag, Heidi Schwartz Anderson, Heather Schwartz Schultz, Peter A. Schwartz III, Allison Schwartz Greiner and Donald Sinclair Schwartz Jr.; and great-grandchildren including Elia Mikaela Aisling Lara, Colton Lucas Anderson, Bryson Reid Anderson, Drake Thomas Greiner Jr., Donald Elliott Greiner and Margaret Alice Greiner.
   His body was donated to the Robert Wood Johnson Medical School Anatomical Association.
   At his request, a memorial service will be held Nov. 29 at St. John’s Episcopal Church, John’s Island, S.C.
   Memorial contributions may be made to the Soup Kitchen of Crisis Ministry, P.O. Box 20038, Charleston, SC 29413.
Lucius Wilmerding Jr.
Author, scholar
Lucius Wilmerding Jr. died Tuesday at his summer home in Maine. He was 96.
   Born in New York City, the son of Lucius Wilmerding Sr. and Helen Cutting, he was educated at St. Paul’s and the Evans School; Princeton University, Class of 1927; and Queens College, Oxford. He taught English at Columbia University.
   Mr. Wilmerding served on various commissions and administrations in New York City between 1931 and 1935. After moving to Washington, D.C., in 1935, he worked for the Treasury Department until joining the Navy.
   During World War II, he served in London and at the Army and Navy College, Washington, D.C. He rose to the rank of lieutenant commander.
   After the war, Mr. Wilmerding moved to Princeton, where he was at the Institute for Advanced Study from 1945-1948. He was a consultant to the Federal Reserve Board and was called to testify before Congress on various points of constitutional law.
   The author of several books dealing mainly with political economics or history, his book on the Electoral College was of great interest. In later life, he was a private scholar and continued to research his fields of interest.
   Married for 64 years to the late Jane Mather, he is survived by sister Helen Bastedo of Peterborough, N.H.; children Lucius Wilmerding III of Old Lyme, Conn., Jan Wilmerding Binger of Plainfield, N.H., Walter Wilmerding of Princeton and Helen Cutting Milner of London, U.K., and Princeton; 12 grandchildren and 14 great-grandchildren.
   A memorial service will be held at the Princeton University Chapel, 11 a.m. Sept. 5.
Betty Lou Ward
School principal
MONTGOMERY — Betty Lou Ward, who retired in 2001 as principal of the Orchard Hill Elementary School in Montgomery, died Thursday at home. She was 69.
   Born in Canandaigua, N.Y., she received a bachelor’s degree from Cornell University and a master’s in education at St. Lawrence University. She also received an elementary teaching certificate from The College of New Jersey and a principal and supervisor certificate from Rider University.
   Ms. Ward taught for seven years at schools in Genoa and Governeur, N.Y., and Baltimore. She also taught at the Rocky Hill Nursery School.
   She came to the Montgomery Township School District in 1971 and worked as a sixth-grade teacher until 1988. She was the principal of the Orchard Road Elementary School from 1988 until 1996, when it was merged with the Burnt Hill Elementary School and renamed the Orchard Hill Elementary School.
   She served as vice principal of the Orchard Hill School from 1998 to 2000, when she was named principal. She served as principal until she retired in 2001.
   Paulette Bearer, current principal of Orchard Hill School, said, "We are very saddened by her passing. She brought a real focus on the children to her job. She was a wonderful person, kind, intelligent and child-centered."
   Ms. Ward was a member of the American Association of Sexuality Educators and was a member of Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Princeton.
   She also was active in Orchard Road School theater programs.
   Ms. Ward was the co-author of "About Sexual Abuse," for teens and young adults, and "The Coupe Enrichment Program — Leader’s Manual."
   Daughter of the late Ella Wagner, she is survived by her husband, the Rev. Wilfrid Ward; a brother, Dennis Carson, of Canandaigua; her step-father, Norton Wagner; son and daughter-in-law David T. and MaryAnn Ward of New Paltz, N.Y.; and surrogate grandchildren Caitlyn and Kyle Curtis, Alan and Amber Sweeton and T.J. and Morgan Van Liew, all of Belle Mead.
   Services will be 10 a.m. Saturday at the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Princeton, 50 Cherry Hill Road. Private interment will be in Bristol, N.Y.
   Contributions may be made to Montgomery Township Elementary Schools Memorial Scholarship Fund, Attn: Joe Deddy, Orchard Hill Elementary School, Orchard Road, Skillman, NJ 08558.
   Arrangements are under the direction of the Kimble Funeral Home, 1 Hamilton Ave., Princeton.
James Boyd Brown
Letter carrier
James Boyd "Brownie" Brown died Friday at the Princeton Nursing Home. He was 80.
   Born and educated in Paducah, Ken., Mr. Brown attended Morgan State University, where he majored in chemistry.
   He served in the U.S. Army for three years and served during World War II. While stationed at the Belle Mead Depot, he met and married Rosa B. Yancey. They were married for 58 years.
   Mr. Brown served 45 years in the civil service, 42 of which were with the U.S. Postal Service as a letter carrier.
   He was a member of First Baptist Church of Princeton, where he was a member of the Senior Citizens Club. Mr. Brown also was a member of the Charles Robinson Post 218 and the Aaron Lodge 9 F&AM, both of Princeton.
   He was a sports enthusiast and had a deep love of jazz.
   Predeceased by his parents, Boyd J. and Lena Brown, brother Peter Brown and sister Francis Brown, he is survived by his wife, Rosa B. Yancey Brown of Princeton; daughter and son-in-law Faith and Wayne N. Miller Sr. of Princeton; a granddaughter, Tiana J. Brown-Miller of New York City; sister-in-law Madge Gilbert of West Orange; niece and god-daughter and nephew Geraldine and Robert Thomas of Bear, Del., William Gray of Princeton and several other nieces and nephews and cousins; god-daughter Pamela C. Wells of Princeton and many friends, including Lloyd Banks, John Clark, Charles Green, Isaiah Fisher and Annie Higgins.
   Services will be 7 p.m. Wednesday at First Baptist Church, John Street and Paul Robeson Place, Princeton, with the Rev. Dr. Leslie Callahan and the Rev. Maurice C. Wright III officiating. Calling hours will be 5 p.m. until the time of service at the church.
   Organizational services will be held at 6 p.m.
   Interment will be in Princeton Cemetery.
John T. Westlake
Art director
John Trevanion Westlake, 87, died Wednesday at The Medical Center at Princeton.
   Born in Taber, Alberta, Canada, he moved to Chicago in 1923 and graduated from St. Paul’s Preparatory School in New Hampshire. He graduated from Harvard University in 1938 and from the Pratt Institute in New York City.
   During World War II, he was a cartographer for the Hydrography Office of the U.S. government.
   He later pursued a career in publishing as an art director for McGraw-Hill in New York City and World Publishing in Cleveland. He joined Darwin Press in Pennington in the early 1970s as an art director.
   He was a member of All Saints Church, Princeton.
   He is survived by his wife of 50 years, Alice Bacon Westlake; four daughters, Frances W. Brandyberry of Coraopolis, Pa., Rachel Westlake-Uhlman of Lafayette, Calif., Sylvia Westlake of Houston and Rosalind Westlake of Princeton; and nine grandchildren.
   Memorial service will be 4 p.m. Saturday at All Saints Church.
   Memorial contributions may be made to All Saints Church, 16 All Saints Road, Princeton, NJ 08540.
   Arrangements are by Mather-Hodge Funeral Home, Princeton.