Christine Marie Cardenas

Christine Marie Cardenas (Guilfoy) 64, was born March 30, 1953 in Moscow, Idaho to Philip L. Guilfoy and Betsy Guilfoy (Pelton). She died on Saturday March 17, 2018 at Kennestone Memorial Hospital in Marietta, Ga. after bravely fighting colon cancer.

She was preceded in death by her father Philip L. Guilfoy (2016) and her mother Betsy Guilfoy (1983).

Lovingly known as Chris, she attended Moscow High School graduating in 1971 and from the University of Washington, Seattle in 1975 with a degree in Nutrition Science. After graduating, she enlisted in the Peace Corps and was stationed in Concepción, Chile working with women and children in a hospital. Later she was a student of medicine at Universidad Autónoma de Guadalajara in Guadalajara, Mexico, where she met her husband of 37 years, Rodolfo Cardenas MD.

Chris and Rodolfo moved to the metro Atlanta area in 1987, where they raised their family of five children. She was a master knitter, winning multiple blue ribbons for her work at the North Georgia Fair. Her interests included visiting her children, teaching knitting, tennis (especially attending the U.S. Open) and constantly learning about health and wellness. Chris was a longtime member of the West Cobb YMCA as well as the USTA. Chris also loved to attend spin night at the Whole Nine Yards. She enjoyed trips to the ballet and the Atlanta Botanical Gardens. Other interests included traveling the world with Rodolfo by her side. She was affiliated with the Peachtree Handspinners Guild and The North Georgia Knitting Guild.

She is survived by her husband Rodolfo Cardenas; her children Alisha, Wendy, Erica, Veronica (Nathan Farmer) and Mario; her sister Julie Guilfoy (Patrick Morrow); brother Gene Guilfoy (Tonna Guilfoy); and nieces and nephews Grace Morrow, Maddison Irwin, Cameron, Tyler, and Luke Cardenas.

Memorial services were at 4 p.m. on Tuesday, March 20, 2018 at Clark Funeral Home, 4373 Atlanta Hwy, Hiram, GA 30141 with a reception following at 655 West. Located at 655 Rich Davis Rd., Hiram, Georgia 30141.

In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to the Savannah College of Art and Design Department of Fibers. Checks to be made to the Department of Fibers at Savannah College of Art and Design. Address is Department of Fibers Pepe Hall, 213 West Taylor Street, Savannah, GA 31401. Additional information is at contact@scad.edu.

Interment will be a private ceremony at a later date.

Clark Funeral Home in Hiram, Ga., is in charge of arrangements.

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Marion A. O’Connor

Marion A. O’Connor passed away at sunrise on March 14, 2018, age 94. She was born and raised in New York City. She graduated from Hunter College and subsequently earned a Master’s Degree in Industrial Engineering from Columbia University. She worked for Bell Telephone Laboratories; Princeton University’s Office of Population Research, and Woodrow Wilson School; and the United Nations Population Fund where she was Chief of the Programme Planning and Statistics Branch when she retired in 1983. She and her husband were long-time Princeton residents and raised three children. Marion loved classical music and particularly opera; she and her husband supported many of Princeton’s musical organizations.

She is preceded in death by her parents, Arthur and Edith Azzoni, her brother Alfred, and her husband Robert. She is survived by her three children: Christine, Arthur and his wife Linda, and Andrew and his wife Kathryn, and seven grandchildren.

A funeral mass was held on Monday, March 19 at 10 a.m. at St. Charles Borromeo Church in Skillman, N.J. In lieu of flowers, the family suggests that donations be made to The Princeton Festival, P.O. Box 2063, Princeton, NJ 08543 (https://princetonfestival.org).

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Jean B. Quandt

Jean B. (Midge) Quandt died peacefully early March 14th, 2018 at Penn Medicine Princeton Medical Center at the age of 85 after battling Parkinson’s disease for almost three years. Midge was born in Cleveland to John Briggs and Mary Shepley Briggs and received her secondary education at Miss Porter’s School. She obtained a BA from Connecticut College, an MA in History from Radcliffe College where she met her future husband Richard, and another MA and a PhD in American History from Rutgers University. In her early post graduate years she taught briefly at secondary schools in the Princeton area and also at Swarthmore College, Bryn Mawr College, Princeton University, and Rutgers. Her best-known book was From the Small Town to the Great Community, Rutgers University Press, 1970, an analysis of the idea of community in modern American thought through the writings of nine intellectuals and how their thought relates to some of the major assumptions of Progressive reform in the late 19^th and early 20^th centuries. After she gave up teaching, she created, with Edie Jeffrey and the late Sonia Gutman, an independent scholars’ research group and eventually turned to studying Latin America, particularly Nicaraguan politics. Her articles appeared in the Nicaragua Monitor, Against the Current, the Monthly Review, and numerous other publications. She made frequent trips to Nicaragua and interviewed many political personages, including the former President Daniel Ortega.

She adored Maine and spent most summers there in Bass Harbor, where she and her husband owned a small summer house. It was the place to sail, play tennis, relax, and spend time with family. She also loved Provence, particularly Nice, Les Baux-de-Provence, and Avignon. She loved her dogs and her friends deeply. She loved books, art, poetry, and theatre. She was fiercely loyal, a progressive spirit, a feminist and advocate of the disenfranchised who defied many conventions of her generation. She is missed and mourned by her devoted husband Richard of 62 years, her loving son Stephen, her son-in-law Thom Heyer, her brother John Briggs, her sister-in-law Kate Halle Briggs, her sister-in-law Alexa Aldridge and her husband Fred Aldridge; and numerous nieces and nephews. She was deeply loved and will never be forgotten.

A memorial service will take place on Sunday, May 27th at 2 p.m. at Stonebridge at Montgomery in the Auditorium with a reception to follow. In lieu of flowers donations can be made to the Alliance for Global Justice at https://afgj.org/.

Arrangements are under the direction of the Mather-Hodge Funeral Home, Princeton.