Patricia C. Pell, Emilio Tamasi, Ward S. Hagan, Max F. Zullig.
Patricia C. Pell
Director at Recording for the Blind
Patricia Chancellor Pell died Monday at University Medical Center at Princeton after a three-year battle with cancer. She was 68.
Born in Wilmington, Del., she was a longtime Princeton resident.
She volunteered at the Princeton studio for Recording for the Blind & Dyslexic and then served as assistant studio director for 22 years.
Following her retirement, she became deeply involved practicing pilates and yoga. An avid and eclectic reader, she was taking a course in Islam at the Evergreen Forum at the time of her death.
Mrs. Pell was a member of Trinity Church in Princeton and its Social Justice Committee. She also belonged to the Fort Ticonderoga Association of Ticonderoga, N.Y.
She graduated from Wilmington Friends School and attended Vassar College with the Class of 1956.
She is survived by her husband, Stuyvesant B. Pell; daughters and sons-in-law Alison C. Pell and J. Michael Helms of Snohomish, Wash., and Sarah B. Pell-Stires and Wayne Stires of Ewing Township; sister Nancy Lamson-Scribner of Florida; brother Ira F. Doom of Alabama; and grandsons James, Samuel and Grayson Helms of Snohomish, Wash.
A memorial service will be held 5 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 13 at Trinity Church, 33 Mercer St., Princeton.
Interment was private in Old St. Anne’s Church Cemetery, Middletown, Del.
Memorial contributions may be made to the New Jersey Unit of Recording for the Blind & Dyslexic, 69 Mapleton Road, Princeton, NJ 08540, or Fort Ticonderoga Association Inc., Box 390, Ticonderoga, N.Y. 12883 or Alcoholics Anonymous.
Arrangements are by Kimble Funeral Home, Princeton.
Emilio Tamasi
Retired from university
Emilio Tamasi of Princeton died Tuesday at home. He was 89.
Born in Pettoranello, Italy, he resided in the Princeton area since 1955.
Mr. Tamasi retired in 1977 after 24 years with Princeton University.
He was a member of St. Paul’s Roman Catholic Church.
Son of the late Achille and Bammbina Carnivale Tamasi, husband of the late Modestina Ciccone Tamasi, he is survived by son and daughter-in-law Jesse and Kathleen Tamasi of Hamilton Square; brothers Achille Tamasi of Pettoranello, Italy, and Antonio Tamasi of Canada; sister Bammbina Tamasi of Pettoranello, Italy; grandchildren Jennifer, Patrick and Jessica Tamasi; great-grandson Robert Tamasi; and several nieces and nephews.
The funeral will be 10:30 a.m. today at Mather-Hodge Funeral Home, 40 Vandeventer Ave., Princeton.
Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated 11 a.m. at St. Paul’s Roman Catholic Church, 214 Nassau St., Princeton.
Burial will be in St. Paul’s Cemetery, Princeton.
Calling hours are 9 to 10:30 a.m. today at the funeral home.
Ward S. Hagan
Princeton resident
Ward S. Hagan of Princeton died Thursday at the University Medical Center at Princeton of heart failure.
He was former chairman of Warner-Lambert Co., Morristown.
Mr. Hagan was an Army Aircorps veteran of World War II, serving at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. He was a 1948 graduate of Princeton University.
He is survived by his wife, Patricia; daughters Susannah and Tracey; brother Robert; and grandchildren Jessica and Nicholas.
Services were private.
Arrangements were by Mather-Hodge Funeral Home, Princeton.
Max F. Zullig
Retired chemist
HOOVER, Ala. Max Frank Zullig died Nov. 28. He was 92.
Born in St. Gallen, Switzerland, he immigrated to the United States with his family when he was 4 years old. He was a longtime Princeton resident before moving to Alabama.
A chemist, he worked primarily in the area of fine specialty organics. During World War II, he synthesized the pain-killer Demerol, the first scientist to do so in the United States.
In 1992, he retired from Alpine Aromatics and moved to Birmingham, Ala., to be near his daughter and her family.
He was a member of the American Chemical Society.
He was a member of St. Paul’s Roman Catholic Church and the Knights of Columbus. He was a member of St. Peter the Apostle Catholic Church in Birmingham.
He attended public and private schools in New Jersey and received his college education as an organic chemist at Newark College of Engineering, becoming a registered New Jersey professional engineer.
An avid traveler, he journeyed throughout the United States and five continents on a number of occasions, taking members of his family with him.
Son of the late Emil Gottfried Zullig and his wife, Anna Karharina Hafner, husband of the late Mary Victoria Drosback Zullig, to whom he was married 43 years, brother of the late Irwin Paul Zullig, he is survived by his daughter and son-in-law, Lois Ellen Laura Zullig Greene and Dr. Ernest Rinaldo Greene Jr. of Mountain Brook, Ala.; brother Charles Joseph Zullig of Naples, Fla.; grandchildren Laura Greene Silsbee and her husband, William Mead Silsbee III, Ernest Rinaldo Greene III, Ellen Victoria Greene and Max McKeen Greene, all of Mountain Brook, Ala.; cousin Anton Hafner of St. Gallen, Switzerland; and many nieces, nephews and cousins.
Visiting hours are 9:30 to 11 a.m. Wednesday, Dec. 10 at Kimble Funeral Home, 1 Hamilton Ave., Princeton. A Christian wake service will be held during this time.
Interment will follow in Princeton Cemetery.
Memorial contributions may be made to St. Jude Children Research Hospital, P.O. Box 1000, Dept. 300, Memphis TN 38148-0552.