Michael A. Gelatko, James M. Beck III, Anna M. Stachurski
Michael A. Gelatko
Audit supervisor
MONTGOMERY Michael A. Gelatko died Saturday at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital as a result of injuries sustained from an auto accident. He was 46.
An audit supervisor, he was employed by Empire Medical Services of New York City for over 20 years.
His interests included fixing cars, tinkering with computers, listening to music, attending New York Jets games and vacationing in Hawaii.
He was a graduate of Montgomery High School and received an accounting degree from Pace University.
Son of the late Theresa M. Gelatko and brother of the late Robert E. Gelatko, he is survived by his father, Emil R. Gelatko of Montgomery and sister Kathie A. Altemose of Jeffersonville, Pa.
Viewing will be 6 to 9 p.m. today at Hillsborough Funeral Home, 796 Route 206, Hillsborough.
Burial will be in Calvary Cemetery in Pennsylvania.
Memorial contributions may be made to Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital Foundation, University Center, 8 Easton Ave., New Brunswick, NJ 08901.
James M. Beck III
Longtime Princeton resident
James Montgomery Beck III of Princeton died Sunday at home of cardiovascular disease. He was 77.
Born in London, he was a longtime Princeton resident. Mr. Beck also lived at times in Newport, R.I.; Hollywood, Calif.; Savannah, Ga.; New York City; Mexico and Switzerland.
Mr. Beck had a varied career that included owning a restaurant in London, as well as working for an advertising agency in New York City, the U.S. Department of Agriculture in Georgia, and as a college librarian in Newport, R.I., before retiring to Princeton to devote himself to historical research centering on members of his family.
He was a graduate of The Hun School of Princeton and in 1952, Princeton University.
He was a former board member of the Princeton branch of the English Speaking Union and a member of Trinity Church, the Nassau Club, the Princeton Club of New York and the Sprouting Rock Beach Association of Newport, R.I.
Born to an American father and a British mother, he came to the United States at the age of 10 in 1939, but returned to the United Kingdom after graduation from Princeton.
His American grandfather, James M. Beck, was a congressman from Pennsylvania, assistant attorney general and solicitor general of the United States, and the author of a number of books on the U.S. Constitution.
His British grandfather, Edward Priaulx Tennant, Lord Glenconner, was a Scottish Liberal member of the Parliament and financier who served as lord high commissioner to the general assembly of the Church of Scotland and lord lieutenant of Peeblesshire.
His British grandmother, the Edwardian author Pamela Wyndham Tennant was a member of "The Souls," an influential late 19th-century group of aristocratic English art patrons, intellectuals and politicians. She is the central figure in John Singer Sargent’s painting "The Wyndham Sisters," which now hangs in the Metropolitan Museum.
Predeceased by two half-sisters, Nina Marais and Diana Blow, half-brothers Harold, fourth baron of Tennyson and Mark, fifth baron of Tennyson, he is survived by his twin sister Virginia Clare Beck of Philadelphia; adopted son David Lawson-Beck of Princeton; granddaughter Ian Salmon of Houston; grandsons James D.T. Lawson of New York City and Fort Lauderdale, Fla., and Samuel P.T. Lawson currently in the U.S. Army in Iraq; great-grandson Brian Stewart Salmon of Houston; half-brother E.R.C. Beck of Newport, R.I.; and a niece and two nephews.
Interment in the Princeton Cemetery will be private.
In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to The Hun School of Princeton, 176 Edgerstoune Road, Princeton NJ 08540.
Arrangements are by Mather-Hodge Funeral Home, Princeton.
Anna M. Stachurski
Grew up in Princeton
CRANBURY Anna M. Stachurski died Saturday at University Medical Center at Princeton. She was 79.
Born in Bristol, Pa., she grew up in Princeton and was a longtime resident of Cranbury.
She was a member of St. Anthony of Padua Roman Catholic Church, a former member of the Ladies Auxiliary of Cranbury Fire Company and was also active with Cranbury Girls Softball League.
Wife of the late Arthur C. Stachurski, she is survived by a daughter and son-in-law, Suzanne and Jay Lawrence of Cranbury; sister Carmella Trani of Port Richey, Fla.; grandsons Joshua, B.J. and Adam Lawrence; granddaughter Airica Lawrence; great-grandson Jacob; and many nieces and nephews.
A memorial service will be held 10:30 a.m. Wednesday at St. Anthony of Padua Roman Catholic Church Parish Center, Maxwell Avenue, Hightstown.
Calling hours are 7 to 9 p.m. today at A.S. Cole Funeral Home, 22 North Main Street, Cranbury.
In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to Cranbury First Aid Squad, 68 Maplewood Ave., Cranbury, NJ 08512 or Cranbury Fire Company, 2 South Main St., Cranbury, NJ 08512.