OBITUARIES

From the July 19 edition

Annie T. Cranmer
   NEW EGYPT — Annie T. Cranmer, 95, died Sunday at Bartley Health Care in Jackson.
   Born in Hightstown, she had been a longtime resident of New Egypt. Ms. Cranmer was formerly employed in the cafeteria of the New Egypt Elementary School.
   Wife of the late Bichler Cranmer Sr. and grandmother of the late Janie Liedtka, she is survived by two sons, Bichler Cranmer Jr. and wife Anne of Dunnellon, Fla. and Edward Cranmer and wife Donna of Forksville, Pa.; three daughters, Elizabeth Tronco of Pemberton Township, Sally Liedtka of Wrightstown and Charlotte Pullen and husband Dean of New Egypt; 16 grandchildren; many great-grandchildren; several great-great-grandchildren; a niece, Kathleen Karlberg of New York and a nephew, George Taylor of New Egypt.
   Funeral services were held at the Tilghman Funeral Home in New Egypt and interment was in the Jacobstown Baptist Cemetery.
   Memorial contributions may be made to the Holosticare Hospice, 54 E. Water St., Toms River, NJ 08753.
Clifford Potts
   ROBBINSVILLE — Clifford Potts, 85, of Robbinsville, died July 10 at RWJ University Hospital at Hamilton.
   Mr. Potts was born in Bordentown and was a lifelong area resident. He was a U.S. Army veteran of World War II. He retired as a millwright from John A. Roebling & Sons after 33 years of service. Mr. Potts was the former owner of Cliff’s Cab in Bordentown. He was a member of the Roebling American Legion Post No. 39 and Veterans of Foreign Wars Post No. 491 of Yardville.
   Husband of the late Edna Mae Potts, he is survived by three daughters and sons-in-law, JoAnne and John Muia of West Virginia, Carol and George Morringelli of Burlington and Mary and James Wood of Florence; six grandchildren; three great-grandchildren; a dear friend, Helen Richmond; and several nieces, nephews and cousins.
   Funeral services were held from the Peppler Funeral Home in Bordentown and interment was in Princeton Memorial Park, Robbinsville.
   Memorial contributions may be made to the American Cancer Society, 6725 Lyons St., P.O. Box 7, East Syracuse, NY 13057.
Nicholas Ferrant
   CREAM RIDGE — Nicholas A. Ferrant Jr., 89, died July 9 at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in Hamilton.
   Born in Atlanta, Ga., he graduated from Fulton High School, Atlanta in 1934. Mr. Ferrant was a resident of Cream Ridge for the past 28 years. In 1938 he received his bachelor’s degree and in 1940 he received his master’s degree in Agronomy from Rutgers University.
   He joined the Agway (GFI) in Bordentown in March of 1941 where he served as crop specialist since 1945 covering New Jersey, Delaware and portions of Pennsylvania and Maryland. He was a member and director for six years of the Plant Food Society of New Jersey, a member and director of the Pesticide Association of New Jersey, a member and past director of the Bordentown, New Jersey Rotary Club, a member for 55 years of the American Society of Agronomy, and original member of the Weed Science Society of America.
   Mr. Ferrant published 12 research papers in various journals on weed and agronomic work. He was editor for four years of the crops page in the Agway Cooperator, in addition to writing several hundred farmer-oriented articles. He received a citation for outstanding service to the vegetable industry of New Jersey by the Vegetable Growers’ Association of New Jersey.
   Mr. Ferrant was a veteran of World War II, serving in the U.S. Air Force for five years as a navigator-radar operator, flying out of England and Africa in B-24 bombers. He spent five years in the active reserve teaching radar bombing.
   He is survived by his wife Irene (Bond-Andrews) Ferrant; two sons and daughters-in-law, Nicholas and Alice Ferrant, Thomas Ferrant and Reisa Jones; three daughters and sons-in-law, Jamie Lee and Alan Soderstrom, Joanne and Louis Licitra, Patricia and Bendicto Gonzalez; and seven grandchildren.
   Funeral services were held at the Huber-Moore Funeral Home, Bordentown. Burial was in Brigadier Geneneral William C. Doyle Veterans Memorial Cemetery.
   Memorial contributions may be made to the Helyar House Scholarship for Agriculture, Cook College (checks payable to Rutgers University Foundation), mail to Rutgers University Foundation, Attn: James J. Dawson, 7 College Ave., Winants Hall, New Brunswick, NJ 08901.