Thomas Scott Barrows

Thomas Scott Barrows, 81, of Princeton and Nantucket, Mass. passed away at home on Sunday, February 25, 2018.

Thomas was born in 1936 in Bryn Mawr, Pa. to Donald Barrows and Anna Newbold Barrows. Raised in Edgemont, Pa., he graduated from The Lawrenceville School in 1954 and Harvard University in 1959 with an AB in Psychology and Social Relations. He pursued a graduate degree in education at the University of Pennsylvania. In 1961, Thomas married Abigail Spencer Liggett. They moved to Princeton in 1965 where they raised two daughters, Katie Barrows Dadagian and Anna Barrows Beakey.

Thomas started his career as a teacher at the Vanguard School in Pennsylvania. In 1965 he started working for Educational Testing Service where he served as a research psychologist for over 25 years. Thomas was a founding trustee of Princeton Child Development Institute. He was actively involved in land use planning and local government, serving on the Zoning Board, Planning Board, Finance Committee, Town Council, and as Mayor in Franklin Township. He sat on the Board of First Florida Bank.

Thomas spent summers in Nantucket, Mass. where he was happiest on the water. His life-long passions included fly-fishing, sailing, music, cars, his family, and active debate.

Thomas is predeceased by his parents. He is survived by his wife of 57 years Abigail Spencer Liggett Barrows; two daughters and sons-in-law, Anna and James Beakey and Katie and Steve Dadagian; four grandchildren, Spencer and Nicholas Beakey and Max and Theo Dadagian; his sister and brother-in-law, Sally and Vaugh Worm; sister-in-law and brother-in-law Lulie and Gordon Gund; and two half-brothers and their wives Mercer and Joy Barrows and Donald and Mary Barrows; and many nieces and nephews.

A memorial service will be held on Nantucket this summer.

In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be made to The Nantucket Conservation Foundation at www.nantucketconservation.org/online-donations or the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation at jdrf.org.

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

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Oliver P. Giller

Beloved Husband and Father, Oliver P. Giller, 44, of Titusville passed away Friday, March 2nd at home surrounded lovingly by his family. Born in Media Pa. and raised in Princeton, he had resided in Titusville for the last 15 years. He was a Data Manager for the State of New Jersey, Department of Early Intervention. He was a member of St. James RC Church in Pennington and a Cub Scout leader for his son Alexander’s Troop 1776. A friend to all, Oliver was known for his infectious smile, warmth, quick wit, and hearty laughter. He was an avid sailor and skier who enjoyed nothing more than time with his wife Susanne and family on the ski slopes, riding waves at the beach, and sailing with his Father on the Barnegat Bay.

He is survived by his parents, Peter and Renate Walter Giller of Princeton; his wife, Susanne Herbert Giller; his children, Alexander and Julia Giller; as well as sister and brother-in-law, Michelle and Ted Clark and their children Maika and Taggart of Seattle, Washington.

A Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated 10 a.m. Friday, March 9th at St. James RC Church, 115 E. Delaware Avenue, Pennington. The burial will follow in Harbourton Cemetery. Friends may call Thursday, March 8th, from 5-7 p.m. at the Church.

In lieu of flowers, contributions in Oliver’s name may be made to the American Brain Tumor Association or Good Grief of Princeton.

Arrangements are by the Wilson-Apple Funeral Home, 2560 Pennington Road, Pennington. Condolences are welcome at www.wilsonapple.com.

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Jane Frances Okoth

Jane Frances Okoth, 60, of Princeton, died on March 1, 2018 in the presence of her sister, Atuki Turner and niece, Natalie Turner, after a long battle with breast cancer.

Born to Evelyn and Lawrence Okoth, Jane was the second of 11 children. She was educated at St. Mary’s College, Namagunga and then at Makerere Medical School. Not long after becoming the second woman to complete medical school from her tribe, the Jopadhola, she was forced to flee a turbulent Uganda. Praying her daughter Simone’s crying would not alarm the authorities, she snuck across the Kenyan boarder while pregnant with her son, Pinto. As a physician, she was one of few Ugandan refugees able to find work, and she supported more than her own family in those trying times. Through determination and more than a bit of luck, she was relocated to the United States by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.

With only what she could fit in suitcases and the love and support of family, friends, and the church she made her way to Metuchen, N.J. and then Harrisburg, Pa., where her sons, Lawrence and Paul were born. From Harrisburg, she moved to Lewisburg, Pa., where she began a two-decade long career at the Federal Bureau of Prisons, providing health care to some of the most vulnerable members of our communities. She was forever grateful for the personal and professional relationships she forged at her posts in Lewisburg, Philadelphia, and New York.

In recent years, she was enjoying semi-retirement and was beginning to imagine how she might return to Uganda to practice medicine there, as she intended to do from her first medical training. She founded a non-profit and hoped to offer health care services to people from her village affected by Sickle Cell Anemia. After her diagnosis, she expanded her idea to include providing mammograms, therapy, and pain management to women in the village.

Gone too soon, Jane will be sorely missed by her children, Simone Awor, Pinto Adhola, Lawrence Obote, Paul Mbusa, and Azuka Okeke, her spouse, Yoga Adhola, and her sisters, brothers, nieces, nephews, family, and friends.

Visitation will be held at Trinity Church, 33 Mercer Street, Princeton, NJ 08540 on Saturday, March 10, 2018 beginning 4 p.m. immediately followed by services at 5 p.m. All are invited to a reception from 6:30 to 9 p.m. in the church fellowship hall. Following services in Princeton, Jane’s life will be celebrated at her home and final resting place in Uganda.

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Marion Slattery “Mike” Tyler

April 2, 1932 – February 28, 2018

Slattery will be remembered as a loving, artistic woman devoted to her family and community.

She was born in Brooklyn to Martin Slattery and Dorothy von Dahlbender. She and her two brothers were raised in California where her father started a chicken ranch.

She went to college in Boston at Newton College of the Sacred Heart where she majored in Art History.

After college she signed on with the Red Cross to serve in Korea as a Recreation Worker. There she met, and eventually married, Cliff Tyler.

She raised her three children mostly in New Jersey. She was a stay-at-home mom with part-time jobs; always active with her children and community. She approached projects with pride and gusto, turning nearly everything she touched into a success — the Girl Scouts, the Boro Recreation Commission, Fayson Lakes Beach, band parents.

After she divorced and her children were launched, she sold the family home and toured the country in a van. She next settled in Seattle where she finally had time to pursue her love of writing. She fell in love with the art scene there and was active in readings, painting groups, and even got to participate in a project to paint murals on the bus stops.

Eventually Slattery moved to Princeton to be closer to family. She lived in Harriet Bryan House until her deteriorating health led her to a nursing home. Even there, she was sociable and community minded to the end.

She was predeceased by her brother Marty Slattery and her daughter Brenda Marie Tyler-Pell.

She leaves behind a brother, Eugene Slattery of Nipomo, Calif.; two children and their spouses — Mauri Tyler and Lorraine Hand of Columbus, N.J. and Jim Tyler and Markus Naslund of Barrie, Canada. She was beloved Aunt Mike to Cathy, Scott, and Wyatt Maxwell of Bloomingdale, N.J. and counted Marie and Jerry Zink as close family. Also left to mourn her passing are six grandchildren with their significant others and three great-grandchildren.

In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be made to the ArtSpace and Sewing Space programs of Home Front, 1880 Princeton Avenue, Lawrenceville, N.J. 08648-4518 (homefrontnj.org).

There will be a memorial service, March 10, 2018 at 11 a.m. (gathering begins 10) in the Kimble Funeral Home, 1 Hamilton Avenue, Princeton, NJ. Buffet to follow at 1 p.m. at Westin Princeton at Forrestal Village, 201 Village Boulevard, Princeton, NJ.