OBITUARIES, June 12, 2007

Jeanie M. Walker, Katherine B. Wilson, Felice Toto, Edwin D. Shaw Jr., Wilfred P. Reynolds, Frances Sanders

Jeanie M. Walker

Longtime Princeton resident
   
LEXINGTON, Mass. — Jeanie Miles Walker died May 17 at home at Brookhaven. She was 89.
   Born the youngest of four children to Louis Wardlaw and Katharine Stockton Miles in Princeton, she grew up there and in Baltimore where her father was the headmaster of the Gilman School.
   She graduated from the Bryn Mawr School and then attended Bryn Mawr College.
   Following her marriage in 1942, she returned to Princeton in 1945 where she raised her four children.
   She was an avid gardener and volunteered for Meals on Wheels for many years.
   Wife of the late William H. Walker II, who died in 1987, mother of the late Sam Walker, who died in 1999, sister of the late Frank Miles, Sarah M. Kindleberger and Samuel Miles, she is survived by daughters Adelaide Walton and her partner Paul Ferguson of Concord, Mass.; Katharine Ellison and her husband Dan of Steamboat Springs, Colo.; son and daughter-in-law William H. III and Judy Walker of Orono, Maine; daughter-in-law Andrea Volpe of Cambridge, Mass.; eight grandchildren; and many nieces and nephews.
   A memorial gathering will be held July 14 in Concord, Mass.
   Memorial contributions may be made to the Sam Walker Scholarship Fund, U Mass Boston – Institutional Advancement, 100 Morrissey Blvd., Boston, MA 02125 or to the charity of the donor’s choice.
Katherine B. Wilson

Teacher, administrator
   
MONTGOMERY — Katherine Buehring Wilson died May 29 at home.
   She was a teacher and administrator.
   Born in Kansas City and raised in Chicago, she attended Saint John’s College in Winfield, Kan. and Concordia College in River Forest, Ill., before beginning her teaching career in Lutheran parochial schools in the Detroit, St. Louis and Richmond, Va. areas.
   She later received a master’s degree from Buffalo State College in Buffalo, N.Y., and served for 22 years as a teacher and administrator for the Buffalo Board of Education.
   She was a member of Faith Lutheran Church in Hillsborough where she sang in the choir, taught Sunday School and Vacation Bible School and was a member of the Bell Choir and Church Council.
   Before her illness she was an inveterate runner. She also hiked in the Smoky Mountains, the American and Canadian Rockies, Spain, Italy, New Zealand and Ireland.
   She is survived by her husband of 47 years, the Rev. Robert Hugh Wilson of Montgomery; daughters and sons-in-law Xris and James Muller of Hillsborough, Laura and Charles Hespe of San Francisco, Jennifer and James Starkey of Christiansburg, Va.; sons and daughters-in-law Daniel and Cheryl Tredo Wilson of Hamburg, N.Y., and Jonathan and Natalie Galvin Wilson of Syracuse, N.Y.; grandchildren Scott and Nicole and Elizabeth Muller, Zachary and Rebecca Wilson, and Wilson Hespe; sister and brother-in-law Jean and James Beres of Huntington Beach, Calif.; and brother Hugo Buehring of Honolulu, Hawaii.
   A memorial service will be held 5 p.m. Sunday at Faith Lutheran Church, 381 South Branch Road, Hillsborough.
   Memorial contributions may be made to Faith Lutheran Church, 381 South Branch Road, Hillsborough, NJ 08844 or The Pulmonary Fibrosis Foundation, 1332 N. Halsted St., Suite 201, Chicago, IL 60622.
Felice Toto

Custodian at university
   
LAWRENCE — Felice Toto died Friday at the University Medical Center At Princeton. He was 72.
   Born in Pettoranello di Molise, Italy, Mr. Toto immigrated to the United States in 1972 and resided in Princeton before moving to Lawrence in 1977.
   Mr. Toto retired in 1997 from Princeton University with over 22 years of service as a custodian.
   Son of the late Sebastiano and Maria Toto, brother-in-law of the late Liliana Tamasi and Giuseppe Nini, he is survived by his wife of 47 years, Esterina Tamasi Toto; son and daughter-in-law Sebastiano and Cynthia Toto of Edgewater Park; daughters Michelle Toto of Lawrence and Mirella Bednar and her fiancé Richard Eastmead of Lawrence; sister and brother-in-law Mariangela and Nicola Valentino of Argentina; ; brothers-in-law and sisters-in-law Antonio and Claricia Cifelli, Ersilia Nini and Frank Tamasi; grandchildren Michael, Jessica and Alexander Toto, and Robert Bednar; and many nieces, nephews and cousins.
   The funeral will be 8:45 a.m. today at Mather-Hodge Funeral Home, 40 Vandeventer Ave., Princeton.
   A Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated 10 a.m. today at The Church of Saint Ann, 1253 Lawrence Road, Lawrence.
   Entombment will follow in St. Mary’s Mausoleum, Hamilton.
Edwin D. Shaw Jr.

Memorial service is Saturday
   
A memorial service for Edwin Donald Shaw Jr., who died March 1 in Sarasota, Fla., will be held 11 a.m. Saturday at Nassau Presbyterian Church, Princeton.
   A longtime Princeton resident, he was a sales and marketing executive at Deering Milliken & Co.
   He is survived by his wife Ruth of Sarasota; daughters Nancy Norland of Hopewell Township, Susan Shaw of Novato, Calif., and Sandy Shaw of Hailey, Idaho; and grandsons Mike Norland of Washington, D.C. and Sam Strong of Hailey, Idaho.
   In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to The American Cancer Society.
Wilfred P. Reynolds


Owned antiques store
   
TUNKHANNOCK, Pa. — Wilfred Proper Reynolds died June 1 at the Golden Living Personal Care Home in Tunkhannock. He was 98.
   Born in Factoryville, Pa., he was a former Princeton resident.
   In the mid 1950s he opened Reynolds Antiques on Ridge Road in South Brunswick, running the store until he retired to Tunkhannock in the early 1980s.
   In the early 1930s he graduated from Syracuse College of Forestry, and finished Art and Color Design School in Washington, D.C.
   He later was employed by Louis C. Bowers & Son Construction Co. of Princeton, where he managed the Painting Division. Then, Mr. Reynolds was the owner of his own painting company for 15 years in Princeton before opening his antiques store.
   Son of the late Fred and Esther Reynolds, husband of the late Ruth Alexander Reynolds; father of the late Sidney A. Reynolds and Law Penny Reynolds, brother of the late Dr. Kenneth Reynolds and Harold P. Reynolds, grandfather of the late Pamela Reynolds, he is survived by sons and daughters-in-law Dean and Jung Reynolds of Pasadena, Md. and Martin and Betty Reynolds of Crosswicks; daughter-in-law Barbara Reynolds of Flemington; grandchildren Janet Nemith of Flemington, Kimberly Dominguez of Waldorf, Md., Jim and Steve Reynolds, both of Omaha, Neb.; seven great-grandchildren; and many nieces and nephews.
   A memorial service will be held 11 a.m. Saturday at Sheldon-Kukuchka Funeral Home, 73 W. Tioga St., Tunkhannock, Pa.
   In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to the Wyoming County Historical Society, Harrison Street, Tunkhannock, Pa. 18657.
Frances Sanders


Princeton resident
   
Frances Sanders of Princeton died Wednesday at home.
   Born in Paterson, she resided there most of her life.
   Daughter of the late Reuben and Fanny Talof Yolken and wife of the late Louis Sanders, she is survived by sons and daughters-in-law Dr. Michael and Diane Sanders of West Palm Beach, Fla., Edward and Christine Sanders of Gloucester, England and Marc Sanders of New Brunswick, and several grandchildren and great-grandchildren.
   Funeral services and burial were private at Shalom Memorial Park, Philadelphia.
   Arrangements are by Orland’s Ewing Memorial Chapel, Ewing Township.