Obituaries 3/6/2024
Dr. Carol Dwyer
Dr. Carol Dwyer, 78, of Pennington, NJ, passed away in her sleep on February 20, 2024.
Dr. Dwyer, an educational researcher, retired after a career of more than 30 years at Educational Testing Service (ETS), where she served as a Distinguished Presidential Appointee and devoted her career to education and especially gender equity in testing. She was active in national professional organizations, serving as a Division President of the American Psychological Association and as Vice President of the American Educational Research Association (AERA). For her scholarship and service in support of the education of women and girls, she was recognized with the Willystine Goodsell Award from the AERA.
Carol was born to Anne and James Dwyer in Baltimore in 1945. She grew up in Hagerstown, Maryland, where she graduated from St. Maria Goretti High School in 1963. She graduated from Barnard College in 1968, earned a Master of Arts in 1970, and then a PhD in psychology from the University of California, Berkeley in 1972. In 1978, she married W. Miles McPeek, and they enjoyed over 45 blissful years together. Carol and Miles were devoted parents to their three children.
In addition to her professional achievements, Carol was an accomplished host and cook, a delightful conversationalist, and a person of impeccable judgment and taste who excelled as a sounding board and mentor. Her many hobbies included gardening, carriage driving, and the study of French language and literature. She and Miles enjoyed vacationing in France and, in their later years,
traveling extensively throughout Europe, Morocco, Australia, and New Zealand.
Carol will be dearly missed by her husband Miles; her children Mary Sara McPeek (Mark Abney), Robert McPeek (Natalka Freeland), and Carol-Anne McPeek (Mateo Pastore); her sister Cathy (Michael) Kleinbeck; her brother Dennis (Judy) Dwyer; her five granddaughters, Helena, Fiona, Roxelana, Katrusia, and Rowan; her many nieces and nephews; and her longtime friends.
A celebration of life is being planned for the spring, please visit blackwellmh.com for service updates.
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Eberhard Mathias Rosenblad
1943 — 2024
Born in Stockholm Sweden, Eberhard Mathias Rosenblad came to the U.S. in 1950 and resided in Princeton, NJ. The youngest son of Curt F. Rosenblad and Baroness Lucie H. Hermelin, he graduated from The Hun School and University de Los Americas in Mexico with a Bachelor of Science in Economics.
He worked in New York City for Laidlaw Co. as a stockbroker and then worked in Princeton for Rosenblad Corporation, a family company specializing in the manufacturing of evaporators that were used in the pulp and paper industry to treat and clean up the water used in the process.
In 1966 he married Sandra Sayen Rosenblad and had daughters Nicole Rosenblad Wheeler and Mikaela Rosenblad. In 1987 he moved to Siesta Key in Sarasota, FL.
He is survived by his wife, daughters, and three grandchildren: Samantha Jones, Curt Wheeler, and Nils Wheeler. He is also survived by his two older brothers and sister, Axel Rosenblad of Rhode Island, Elof Rosenblad of Sarasota, and Anna Davies in Mougins, France.
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Kathleen Babich
Kathleen Simko Babich, born July 8, 1947, in Staten Island, NY, passed away peacefully Tuesday evening, February 27, 2024, at the Hospital at the University of Pennsylvania with family at her bedside.
The eldest of three daughters to Michael and Margaret Simko, she spent her childhood in Fords, NJ, later to attend high school at St. Mary’s in Perth Amboy, NJ.
Kathleen went on to become a Registered Dietitian Nutritionist, holding a BS from Marywood University in Nutrition and Dietetics and serving a dietetic internship with the U.S. Public Health Service. It was while at Marywood that she met the love of her life, Charles. Kathleen then received her MA in Nutrition Education and Dietetics from New York University, and she held a New Jersey Department Education teaching certification in Family and Consumer Sciences.
Kathleen was a Renal Dietitian in the Hemodialysis Unit at the Raritan Bay Medical Center in Perth Amboy, NJ, also serving as a faculty member in the dietetic internship program. She worked in community nutrition and was a “Live for Life” Nutrition Consultant with Johnson and Johnson, Inc. in New Brunswick, NJ. From 1987 to 1995 she taught secondary school Foods and Nutrition, Food Science, and Education for Parenthood at JP Stevens High School in Edison, NJ. She was also an adjunct Nutrition Instructor in the Dietetic Technology Program at Middlesex County College in Edison.
In 1995, Kathleen was diagnosed with the rare inherited blood cancer predisposition “RUNX1 Familial Platelet Disorder” after being diagnosed with acute myelogenous leukemia. She beat the odds in spring 1996 after receiving a successful allogeneic bone marrow transplant, only to develop another rare hematologic disorder, thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura (TTP). A lifelong learner with a passion for understanding health and one’s ability to affect disease outcomes, she returned to school in later life to complete the Medical Humanities Program in the Caspersen School of Graduate Studies at Drew University.
Kathleen was a longtime member of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics and of the NJ Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, for which she held numerous elected state and local board positions, also serving as a reviewer for the nutrition journal Topics in Clinical Nutrition. As an advocate for the two rare diseases she bravely battled, she served as a patient advisory board member to the RUNX1 Research Program, was a member of the PCORI Advisory Panel on Rare Disease and the Answering TTP Foundation. While a resident of Princeton, NJ she was an active member of the Women’s College Club of Princeton.
Kathleen was a parishioner of St. Paul’s RC Church in Princeton, NJ, where she served in the St. Paul’s Altar Rosary Society. Surviving are her husband of 53 years, Charles Babich, son Timothy and his wife, Monica, and son Daniel and his wife, Luisa. She was blessed with five grandchildren, Nathaniel, Elijah, Joseph, Catherine, and Anna.
A visitation was held from on Monday, March 4 at The Mather-Hodge Funeral Home, 40 Vandeventer Avenue, Princeton, NJ, 08542.
Mass of Christian Burial was celebrated on Monday, March 4 at St. Paul’s Parish Church, 216 Nassau Street, Princeton, NJ, 08542.
Burial was in the Holy Savior Cemetery in Bethlehem, PA.
In lieu of flowers, the family asks that donations be made to the RUNX1 Research Program, runx1-fpd.org.