UPPER MAKEFIELD TOWNSHIP Stuyvesant "Peter" Barry, longtime head of Buckingham Friends School, in Lahaska, Pa., died Wednesday, Nov. 22.
Mr. Barry was born in Llewellyn Park, West Orange, N.J., son of New York lawyer Herbert Barry and his wife, Ethel Morgan Dawson Barry.
Mr. Barry was educated at St. Bernard’s School in New York, St. Paul’s School in Concord, N.H., Harvard, Class of 1931, and Harvard Law School.
In 1935, he married Alice Scoville, daughter of Samuel Scoville, a Philadelphia lawyer and newspaper columnist.
The couple settled in New York City. Mr. Barry worked for the law firm Satterlee and Canfield, but then made an abrupt career change, leaving the law, the church and the city.
He went into the teaching profession, starting at Episcopal Academy on Philadelphia’s Main Line while he acquired a graduate degree in education at the University of Pennsylvania.
He and his wife became a member of the Society of Friends or Quakers. They began participating in American Friends Service Committee work camps in Pennsylvania, Maine, Kentucky, Missouri, North Carolina and Mexico.
A 1944 summer work camp in a remote area in Southeastern Kentucky led to a teaching post at the rural Pine Mountain Settlement School. Here, Mr. Barry taught sociology.
After a brief stint in Vermont, in 1948 he began teaching at Buckingham Friends School where he spent the remainder of his long career. He was principal of the school for 23 years while also teaching English, religion and history of art.
After retirement, he continued to teach art history and religion until well into his 80s.
Mr. Barry played ice hockey with the Old Bucks team until the age of 75 when he retired as high scorer.
Mr. Barry played the piano, accordion, electric organ and auto-harp, and he regularly led students in singing songs from all over the world. After retirement, he and his wife traveled, and he painted in watercolor. At 95, he received an award for one of his watercolors at the Phillips Mill art show.
He continued to sing and play the piano, occasionally at Chez Odette, with his son David, a professional musician, and he played and sang for his fellow residents at Chandler Hall in Newtown, Pa., until a few days before he died.
Surviving are his wife; five children, Frank, Katharine, David, Roxana Robinson and Bethany Menkart; nine grandchildren; and five great-grandchildren.
A memorial service will be held Dec. 9 at 2 p.m. at Buckingham Friends Meeting.
Memorial donations may be made to the school, the American Friends Service Committee or the Heritage Conservancy.
LOWER MAKEFIELD TOWNSHIP, Pa. Matthew J. McGonigle, 72, died Sunday, Nov. 26, at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia.
Born in Summit Hill, Pa., he had been a resident of Lower Makefield for the past 43 years.
Mr. McGonigle was retired from the Internal Revenue Service.
He was a graduate of LaSalle College in Philadelphia.
He was a member of St. Ignatius Parish in Yardley, Pa., and the St. Mary Wellness Center.
Surviving are his wife, Margaret McDonnell McGonigle; two daughters, Beth A. Brokaw of Lambertville and Megan C. McGonigle of Old Bridge; a son, Mark T. McGonigle of Los Angeles; two brothers and a sister, James, Francis and Marge.
A funeral mass will held Nov. 30 at the church. Burial followed in the parish cemetery.
Arrangements were under the direction of the FitzGerald-Sommer Funeral Home, Yardley.
Memorial donations may be made to St. Mary Wellness Center, 1201 Langhorne-Newtown Road, Langhorne, Pa., 19047.
MORRISVILLE, Pa. Thomas K. "Pop" Stintsman Jr., 68, of Morrisville, Pa., died Monday, Nov. 27, at the Langhorne (Pa.) Gardens Rehabilitation & Nursing Center.
Born in Trenton, Mr. Stintsman had been a Morrisville resident for more than 30 years, moving there from Lambertville,
He was a truck driver for Wonder Chemical Co. where he retired as a foreman in 2000.
He was the father of the late Kenneth M. Stintsman and son of the late Thomas K. and Louise Stintsman.
Surviving are his wife of 48 years, Lillian Matthias Stintsman; two sons and daughters-in-law, Thomas W. and Kathy Stintsman of Levittown, Pa., and Richard and Kelly Stintsman of Morrisville; six grandchildren, Tomika, Thomas, Anthony, Ashley, Matthew and Kaitlyn; two great-grandchildren, Gavin and Konner; three brothers, Robert Stintsman of Morrisville, Richard Stintsman of Georgetown, Del., and James Stintsman of San Antonio, Texas; two sisters, Jane Sked of New Jersey and Charlotte Narducci of Lambertville; and several nieces and nephews.
Memorial services were held Saturday at the J. Allen Hooper Funeral Chapel, Morrisville. Interment of cremains was private.
Memorial donations may be made to Deborah Heart & Lung Center, in care of the Morrisville Chapter, 195 Simons Drive, Morrisville, Pa.
WEST AMWELL George J. Farber, 94, formerly of Trenton, died Tuesday, Nov. 28, at Royal Health Gate Nursing Home in Trenton.
He was born in Szatorjajaujhel, Hungary, at that time part of the Austria-Hungary Empire.
He came to the United States in March 1914 and lived in Trenton until 1956 before moving to West Amwell.
He worked at Scammell China for two years, the Horseman Doll Factory for six years and retired from DeLaval Turbine after 33 years.
He was a member of the American Legion Toscanni Post 120 of Lambertville, the AARP and Saints Peter and Paul Church.
Mr. Farber served in the Army from 1937 until 1940 and the Marine Corps as a tech sergeant from 1942 until 1945, serving in the South Pacific and in the Battle of Mindoro and the Liberation of the Philippine Islands.
Mr. Farber was the widower of Elizabeth Sirovetz Farber, son of the late George and Anna Sabo Farber and brother of the late Mary Farber Beers, Joseph Farber, Stephen Farber and Ann Pone.
He is survived by his sister, Helen Meglis of Fairless Hills, Pa.; his nephews, Joseph Farber of Trenton, Robert Pone of Chatsworth, Calif., Stephen Farber of Port Charlotte, Fla., George S. Farber of Whiting, Andrew Sirovetz, John and Susan Sirovetz and Edward A. and Shirley Sirovetz Jr.; and his nieces, Dorothy Frascella of Hamilton, Mary Bell of Mount Laurel, Olga Dembrowski of Trenton, Margaret Kuprian of Trenton, Evelyn Tedeschi of Simi Valley, Calif., Dorothy Copazzuto of Anaheim, Calif., Jackie Cavallo of Fairless Hills and Susan and Michael Kornikowski.
Funeral services were held Tuesday at Kutch Funeral Home, Trenton. A Mass of Christian Burial was held at Divine Mercy Parish, Church of the Holy Cross, with Monsignor Edward J. Arnister as celebrant. Burial was in Saints Peter and Paul Cemetery in Hamilton.
EATONTOWN Adeline A. Cherkos, 86, died Saturday, Dec. 2, at Riverview Medical Center in Red Bank.
Mrs. Cherkos was born in Lambertville and lived in Ewing Township before moving to Eatontown in 1990.
She worked as an administrative assistant for the Mercer County Library for 12 years before retiring in 1980.
She was a communicant of St. Dorothea’s Roman Catholic Church in Eatontown and a former communicant of Incarnation Church in Trenton.
Mrs. Cherkos was a member of the Meadowbrook Association and a former member of the Senior Citizens Club in Ewing Township.
She was the widow of Walter J. Cherkos.
She is survived by two daughters, Patricia Thul of Eatontown and Carole J. Carr of Mount Airy, Md.; a brother, Joseph J. Narducci of Pennington; and four grandchildren.
There was a funeral liturgy Wednesday at St. Dorothea’s Roman Catholic Church. Burial was at the First Presbyterian Church Cemetery in Ewing Township.
Arrangements were under the direction of the Braun Funeral Home, Eatontown.
Memorial donations may be made to St. Dorothea’s Roman Catholic Church, 240 Broad St., Eatontown, 07724.
Letters of condolence may be e-mailed to www.sidun.com.

