John C. Duncan, Natascha Brunswick, Joseph M. Cooney.
John C. Duncan
Princeton resident
PLAINSBORO John Coulter Duncan of Princeton died Thursday at Pavilions at Forrestal after a six-month battle with a brain tumor. He was 47.
Born in Princeton, he was educated at Princeton Day School and Emerson College in Boston.
Mr. Duncan spent several years as a fashion photographer in New York City; Madrid, Spain; Milan, Italy; and Vienna, Austria.
Changing careers, he was associated with several New York signature restaurants before returning to Princeton and association with area restaurants.
During these years, he developed strong relationships with Alcoholics Anonymous groups in the area, working with them and becoming a sought-after speaker.
Brother of the late Stuart Duncan III, he is survived by his parents, Stuart and Nell "Petie" Duncan of Princeton; sisters and brother-in-law Creigh Duncan of Princeton and Allison and Paul Taylor of Key Largo, Fla.; and his companion, Susanne Trout of Princeton.
A memorial service will be held 11 a.m. Saturday at Trinity Church, 33 Mercer St., Princeton.
In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to the hospice organization Care Alternatives, Attn: Donation Account, 70 Jackson Drive, Cranford, NJ 07016.
Arrangements are by Mather-Hodge Funeral Home, Princeton.
Natascha Brunswick
Teacher, editor
Natascha "Jasny" Artin Brunswick died Feb. 3 in Princeton of cancer. She was 93.
She was a longtime Princeton resident.
She was a teacher, translator and the founding editor of the journal Communications in Pure and Applied Mathematics, a position she held until her retirement in1991 at age 82.
She was chief administrator during the formative years of the Courant Mathematics Institute at New York University, taught mathematics and Russian at the Washington Square campus, and translated works from French, Russian and German for a journal on probability.
After retiring from NYU, she continued to translate works in mathematics and volunteered at the Princeton University Art Museum.
Her photographs of Hamburg, Germany, most taken in the 1930s, were the subject of two recent exhibits. The photographs are now in the permanent collection of the Museum fur Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg.
Born in Saint Petersburg, Russia, her family became refugees following the Russian Revolution, arriving in Austria in 1922 and finally in Hamburg, where she studied mathematics at the University of Hamburg.
She married Emil Artin, a mathematician, in 1932. She, her husband and two children left Germany after the rise of Hitler, coming to the United States in 1937, where her husband assumed a teaching position at Indiana University in Bloomington.
At the same time, she taught Russian under the auspices of the U.S. Army Special Training Program. She later taught Russian at the university.
In 1946, the family moved to Princeton where her husband accepted a position at the university. The couple separated in 1956 and later divorced.
In 1959, she married the composer Mark Brunswick, head of the music department of the City College of New York.
The couple maintained a house in the Adirondacks and she continued to spend the summer months there following her husband’s death in 1971.
She enjoyed birding, traveling, entertaining in Princeton and in the Adirondacks, reading, and attending concerts, theater, and the opera.
She is survived by her children, Karin Tate, Michael Artin and Tom Artin; daughters-in-law Jean Artin and Cynthia Artin; stepdaughter Matilda Stewart; sister Tanya Moss; seven grandchildren; nine great-grandchildren; cousin Alexander Jasny; a niece and nephew.
A memorial service will be held later this year.
Joseph M. Cooney
Area contractor
HOPEWELL TOWNSHIP Joseph M. Cooney died Friday at Doylestown Hospital, Doylestown, Pa. He was 81.
Born in Lambertville, Mr. Cooney was a resident of Hopewell Township for 50 years.
He was an independent contractor based in the Princeton and Pennington areas.
Mr. Cooney was a U.S. Navy veteran of World War II serving in the Pacific with the Seabees.
Son of the late John and Gertrude Reagan Cooney, he is survived by his wife of 52 years, Louise L. Cooney; daughter and son-in-law Charlotte C. and Theodore Zanidakis of New Hope, Pa.; son and daughter-in-law Douglas J. and Tonamarie P. Cooney of Douglassville, Pa.; and grandchildren Olivia and Joseph Cooney of Douglassville, Pa.
Mass of Christian burial will be celebrated 10 a.m. Wednesday at St. George’s Church, River Road (Route 29), Titusville. Burial will follow at Mount Hope Cemetery, Lambertville.
Arrangements are by the VanHorn-McDonough Funeral Home, Lambertville.

