Mary E. Hoffman
Mary E. (Betty) Hoffman, 82, of Pennington died at her home on Wednesday.
Born in Johnstown, Pa., Ms. Hoffman had lived in Pennington for 51 years.
She retired from RCA Corp. in 1986 as a senior database monitor.
Wife of the late Henry P. Hoffman, mother of the late Mary Kathleen Hoffman-Heine and sister of the late Bernadette and Theresa Botter, she is survived by two daughters and a son-in-law, Patricia and Larry Ulrich of Ewing and Nancy Hoffman of Pennington; two sisters and brother-in-law, Margaret Fowler of Hamilton, Eileen and Dr. Tinoy Arenas of Hamilton Square; a sister-in-law and her husband, Kate and Joe Kamrad of Pennington; two grandsons, one granddaughter; two great-grandchildren and nieces, nephews and great nephews.
Mass of the Christian Burial will be celebrated on Monday at 10 a.m. in St. James Chapel, Eglantine Avenue, Pennington.
Interment will be in St. Mary’s Cemetery, Hamilton.
Friends may call from 3-5 p.m. on Sunday and from 9 a.m. until time of the Mass on Monday at the Blackwell Memorial Home, 21 N. Main St., Pennington.
Memorial contributions may be made to St. James Church, 115 E. Delaware Ave., Pennington, 08534, or the Cancer Institute of New Jersey, c/o Dr. Michael Kane, 5 Hamilton Health Place, Suite 120, Hamilton, 08690.
Charlotte Elizabeth Longley Orr
Charlotte Elizabeth Longley Orr, 89, of Bloomfield, Conn., formerly a resident of Pennington for 40 years, died Feb. 26 at Seabury Retirement Community.
Born at home in Norway, Maine in 1913, she had a summer residence on Keoka Lake in Waterford, Maine an area that her ancestors helped settle.
A 1935 graduate of Bates College in Lewistown, Maine, she received a master’s degree in the teaching of English from Syracuse University in 1940, and certification as a teacher-librarian from Trenton State College in 1968.
She retired in 1977 after nine years as librarian at Hopewell Valley Central High School. She previously taught school, mostly English and Latin, for 30 years in Maine, Vermont, Massachusetts and New Jersey.
A longtime member of the Pennington Presbyterian Church, where she served as deacon and church school teacher, she also was a longtime member of the national philanthropic women’s organization, PEO. She also was a lover of poetry.
Daughter of the late Leon M. and Edna Sibley Longley and widow of James M. Orr, who died in 1981, she he is survived by a son and daughter-in-law, Richard F. Orr and Cynthia F. Courtney of West Hartford, Conn.; a daughter and son-in-law, Priscilla O. and Daniel M. Treadwell of Pennington; and four grandchildren, Andy and Kelly Orr of West Hartford, Conn., and Jamie and Libby Treadwell of Pennington.
A memorial service will be held at 11 a.m. on March 22 at the Pennington Presbyterian Church, with private interment at the Presbyterian Church Cemetery.
Contributions in her name may be made to the James M. Orr Memorial Music Fund of the Pennington Presbyterian Church, 13 S. Main St., Pennington, 08534; or to Norway Center Church in Norway, Maine, 04268.
Arrangements are by the Wilson-Apple Funeral Home, Pennington Circle.

