Louise Sharretts

Louise “Weedie” Sharretts, née Hoy, died peacefully at her home in Princeton on October 27, 2016 at the age of 95.

Louise is survived by her children Brooke Kaufman of San Francisco and her son Bret Sharretts of Morristown, N.J. She has four grandchildren and two great grandchildren.

She is preceded in death by her husband Col. Amos B. Sharretts, her daughter Blakeley S. Miller, and her sister Nannette Nickerson.

Louise Sharretts was born on January 6, 1921 in Chester, Pa. Her parents were Albert C. Hoy and Marjorie B. Hoy. She graduated from Miss Porter’s School, Farmington, Conn. in 1938. She married Amos B. Sharretts in 1943 in Plainfield, N.J. She then drove across the country to Alamogordo, N.M. where Amos was in flight school for the U.S. Army Air Corp. Amos then served in the 8th Air Force, based in Attlebridge, England where he flew 36 combat missions as a B-24 pilot.

After the war, they settled on Long Island where Amos was a partner in the law firm of Sharretts and Sharretts.

Her daughters Brooke (1944) and Blakeley (1948) were born in Plainfield and Bret (1955) was born on Long Island (LI).

In 1957, she welcomed into her home Don McClure, an orphaned teenager, and he has been a part of the family ever since.

Louise was active in the communities of Garden City, LI and later Cold Spring Harbor, LI where she volunteered at the Cold Spring Harbor Whaling Museum and was active on the Altar Guild for St. John’s Church, Cold Spring Harbor, LI.

In 1999 she moved from Cold Spring Harbor to the Windrows in Princeton and remained there until her passing.

A memorial service is planned for her at St. Peter’s Episcopal Church, Morristown, N.J. on November 15, 2016. The service will be at 11 a.m. with a light repast to follow at the St. Peter’s Parish House.

In lieu of flowers, contributions can be made to the World Wildlife Fund or Planned Parenthood of N.J.

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Mary Farlee Kraeger

Mary Farlee Kraeger, age 78, passed away on Sunday November 6, 2016.

Born in Princeton, she was the daughter of the late Charles Henry Farlee and Elizabeth Whipple Farlee. She graduated from Princeton High School and was a lifelong area resident.

She leaves behind her beloved husband of 41 years, Robert H. Kraeger, Jr.; two children: son, Richard H. Sarafin, his wife Irma of Titusville N.J.; daughter Melissa Ann Wilson, her husband Wayne of Newtown, Pa.; her sister, Carole J. Farlee of Boyertown, Pa.; three grandchildren, Wyatt, Clay and Chase; and numerous cousins, nieces, and nephews. She is preceded in death by her sister Elizabeth Jean Teyhen.

As a lifelong area resident, Mary was an active and generous supporter of many charities and nonprofit organizations. She enjoyed playing bridge as well as seeing friends at the Luncheon In, the Antiques Group, The Investment Club, and The Present Day. She was a loving and caring person and a devoted wife, mother, and friend.

A Funeral service and burial will be held privately at West Laurel Hill Cemetery, Bala Cynwyd, Pa.

The family will receive friends at their home on Saturday, November 12 from 1 to 4 p.m. Arrangements are by the Wilson-Apple Funeral Home, Pennington.

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Juan E. López Sanchez

Juan E. López Sanchez, 89, of Lawrenceville, passed away peacefully on Thursday, November 3, 2016 at St. Francis Medical Center, Trenton.

Born in A Coruña, Spain, he was a longtime resident of Lawrenceville. Juan taught Spanish at the beginning of his career at The Hun School and The Lawrenceville School, and then he spent the greatest part of his tenure as beloved Spanish Teacher, Spanish Section Head, and Director of the Summer Program in Spain at Choate Rosemary Hall in Wallingford, Conn. Juan taught, coached, and lived on the Choate campus from 1963–1993 until he retired. Juan touched the lives of countless students, influencing many of them in such a way that many of them continued their study of Spanish in college and they still use their Spanish in their own careers today. In addition, as the section head of Spanish, Juan served as a caring and experienced mentor to many a teacher who worked under his guidance. He was a loving, caring, gentle, humble man who was enormously proud to be an educator. Juan loved his family, his friends, his country, and his puppy that he fondly called Perliña.

Son of the late Eusebio and María Rosario López, Juan was also predeceased by his son, Xuan López and his daughter, Angelique. He is survived by his son, Antonio López and a grandson Christopher López; his brother Isaac López, his sister Mari Fe, and his devoted and loving wife Amalia García Gascón; and several nieces, cousins, close neighbors and friends. A memorial service for Juan will be held on Sunday, November 13, 2016 at noon at Poulson & Van Hise Funeral Directors, 650 Lawrence Road, Lawrenceville, NJ 08648. There will be no calling hours.

Interment will be held privately and at the convenience of the family.

In lieu of flowers, memorial donations can be made to the Pulmonary and Heart Association at St. Francis Medical Center, 601 Hamilton Ave, Trenton, NJ 08629.

To send condolences to the family or for directions, please visit www.poulsonvanhise.com.

Arrangements are under the direction of Poulson & Van Hise Funeral Directors, Lawrenceville, NJ.

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Ani Trime Lhamo

The Venerable Bhikshuni Karma Trime Lhamo, known as Ani Trime, aged 88, died on October 31, 2016 after complications from treatment of esophageal cancer. She was surrounded by loving friends at Merwick Care and Rehabilitation Center in Plainsboro. Ordained as a nun in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition in 1988, Ani Trime was a longtime meditation teacher in Princeton and spiritual director of the Princeton Buddhist Meditation Group on Witherspoon Street.

Born Nettie Louise Poling in Fairmont, West Virginia, Ani Trime served in the Women’s Army Corps in the years following World War II, then worked in an array of jobs across the country. During her time as a medical technician in Miami, Florida in the early 1970s, she encountered Tibetan Buddhism through the teachings of Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche, one of the first wave of Tibetan teachers to come to the United States.

In 1986 Ani Trime arrived in the Princeton area, and soon thereafter began practicing meditation with a group of other students of Trungpa Rinpoche at Fellowship in Prayer (FIP), an organization committed to multifaith prayer and world peace. She would go on to serve for some years as a member of the board of FIP, and to practice meditation with a number of Buddhist groups hosted there. She was also a resident in the early 1990s of Gampo Abbey, a Western monastery in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition on Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, where she was a colleague of noted Buddhist author Pema Chödrön.

In the early 2000s, the group now known as the Princeton Buddhist Meditation Group took shape around Ani Trime and her teachings. Through her work with this group and with her current teacher Anam Thubten, as well as in such venues as the Omega Institute and Steve Buscemi’s “Park Bench,” Ani Trime touched thousands of lives.

Ani Trime Lhamo is survived by nieces June Escalante (N.C.), Jeanne Mitchell (Va.), and Eleanor Reese and Lorraine Graves (Fla.); by her housemates of 30 years, Jean Field and Britt Adams; and by hundreds of grateful and adoring meditation practitioners who cherished her clarity, sense of humor, and no-nonsense approach to spiritual practice in an everyday, down-to-earth context.

In lieu of flowers, please send contributions to the Roscoe Animal Retreat, PO Box 432, Roscoe, Illinois 61073; Ani Trime long supported this no-kill long-term home for all animals.