Karin V. Beurling, Eleanor L. Thoren
Karin V. Beurling
Research scientist
Karin Vanja Lindblad Beurling of Princeton died Oct. 12 at home after a long illness. She was 86.
Born in Degerfors, Sweden, she completed advanced degrees in chemistry, botany and zoology at the University of Uppsala before emigrating to the United States in 1952 with her husband, the late Arne K. Beurling. She moved to Princeton in 1953.
She worked as a research assistant at Princeton University and was a senior scientist at the Textile Research Institute in Princeton. She co-authored a number of research papers.
Mrs. Beurling was a member of the community at the Institute for Advanced Study where her husband was a member.
She is survived by her stepson, Per Bergstrom; his wife, Helen Bergstrom; grandchildren Lisa Lerner, Eva J. Harbury, Pehr Harbury, Henry Harbury, Jan Bergstrom, Hans Bergstrom and Christina Bergstrom; and nine great-grandchildren.
A memorial service will be held 11:30 a.m. Nov. 9 at the Marquand House, Institute for Advanced Study.
Eleanor L. Thoren
Former Princeton resident
UNION TOWNSHIP Eleanor Louise Thoren died Oct. 20 at Hunterdon Medical Center, Flemington. She was 92.
Born in Queens, N.Y., she was a Princeton resident before moving to the Country Arch Care Center in Pittstown in 2004.
She was a member of the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Princeton and was a volunteer at the senior center in Princeton.
She was a public health and psychiatric nurse in New York and New Jersey for many years and an associate professor of nursing at St. John’s University and The College of New Jersey.
She received a registered nurse degree from Bellevue Hospital School of Nursing in New York in 1935. She was an Army captain from 1940 to 1946 and received a bachelor’s degree from New York University in 1948 and a master’s degree from Teacher’s College, Columbia University in 1953. She had post-master’s credits from the New School for Social Research in New York City and was working toward a doctorate in social work until the early 1980s.
She was a phone volunteer for Parents Anonymous of New Jersey, a member of the Retired Senior Volunteer Programs of Mercer County and an appointee to the Mercer County Mental Health Board.
She enjoyed reading, animals, especially cats, classical music and theater.
She was daughter of the late Oscar E. and Anna Brundage Thoren and sister of the late Doris T. Clark and Marie Estelle Ott.
Memorial contributions may be made to the Dorothea Dix Unitarian Universalist Community, Ward Avenue and Church Street, Chesterfield, NJ 08515.
Arrangements were by Johnson-Walton Funeral Home, Holland Township.

