Amie
G. Burns
Amie Goodwin Burns, 82, of Princeton,
died March 23 in Princeton.
Born in Georgia, she grew up
in Orlando, Florida before moving to
Princeton in 1961.
In 1941, she married Robert C. Burns, an art teacher at Rollins
College.
After World War II, she devoted herself to the care and education
of her
children, who grew up in Hawthorne, N.Y., and Trenton.
She volunteered as a
Girl Scout troop leader and in Parent-Teacher
Associations, holding a
variety of offices from secretary to
president. As a Trenton State College
faculty wife, she was
active in the faculty community. She also worked as a
field
test administrator for Educational Testing Service.
In
her forties and fifties, she pursued her interests in political
issues,
women¹s rights, art, literature, cooking, gardening and nature.
She
took courses at Douglass College, participated in a march
on Washington, and
traveled, making extended stays in Italy,
New York City, Oregon, and
Florida. Together with her husband
she visited many art museums in the U.S.
and abroad.
She is survived by her husband, Robert; her children Sandy and
Carl,
both of Princeton; a brother, Herman Goodwin Jr. of Florida;
and two
grandchildren.
Arlene M.
Kantner
Arlene M. Kantner, 93, of Peterborough, N.H.,
formerly of Princeton,
died on Memorial Day following a period
of failing health.
Born into a Pennsylvania Dutch family
near Allentown, Pa., she walked with
her family every Sunday
five miles to the church where her father was
organist and
choir director. She graduated from West Chester State College
at
17, having skipped two grades in elementary school.
In
1933 she married Ogden A. Kantner, an engineer and corporate leader,
and
moved to Trenton. After the death of her husband, she built a
house in
Princeton in 1958 on former land of the Columbus (American)
Boychoir School,
which her sons attended.
For many years
she was active in the Princeton community through volunteer
work
at the hospital, membership in PEO (a service/educational
organization),
the Present Day Club, and Nassau Presbyterian Church. She
also
served as a trustee of the American Boychoir School, traveling
with the
Boychoir in 1966 on their first tour to Japan.
She moved to Pennswood in 1989 and then to Peterborough in 1996
to be
near her son Bruce and her grandchildren and great-grandchildren.
She is survived by two sons, Kerry of Santa Fe, N.Mex., and Bruce
of
Temple, N.H.; five grandchildren; and six great-grandchildren.
A family memorial service will be held later this summer. Memorial
gifts
may be made to the American Boychoir, 19 Lambert Drive,
Princeton 08540.
Arrangements are by the Cournoyer Funeral
Home, Jaffrey, N.H.
Lynne R. Lewis
Lynne Rader Lewis, 44, of Princeton, died June 2.
Born
in San Diego, Calif., she was a writer and producer, and a former
Walt
Disney World dancer.
She is survived by her husband, Peter
M. Lewis, IV; a son, Dare, and a
daughter, Aurora, both of
Princeton; her mother, Virginia Rader, of Orlando
Fla.; and
a sister, Karen Rader of Las Vegas, Nev.
Funeral arrangements
are private.
Memorial contributions may be made to American
Cancer Society of New
Jersey, Mercer County Chapter, 3076 Princeton
Pike, Lawrenceville 08648.
Arrangements are under the direction
of The Mather-Hodge Funeral Home.
Louise
S. Maddux
Louise Stoll Maddux, 73, of Princeton, died
June 4.
A native of Princeton, she was a 1948 graduate
of Princeton High School.
She received a B.A. from the College
of Wooster, in Wooster, Ohio; then did
graduate work at Johns
Hopkins School of Public Health and Hygiene. She
worked as
a research assistant at the American Museum of Natural History,
the
pathology department of NYU-Bellevue, and the biology department
at
Princeton University. She was later employed by H.P. Clayton
and the
Princeton Public Library.
She was a member of
All Saints¹ Church where she was active in the
vestry,
women¹s fellowship, family choir, and many lay ministries.
She was
also a volunteer with Crisis Ministry and Hospice.
The daughter of the late Norman R. Stoll and Estella Scott Stoll,
she
was predeceased also by a brother, Henry Charles Stoll,
and her stepmother,
Kay Stevens Stoll. She is survived by her
husband, William; two daughters,
Ellen Maddux of Thetford,
Vt., and Susan Polk of Hinesburg, Vt.; a son,
David, of Queens,
New York; a sister, Margaret Dawson of Michigan; and one
granddaughter.
A memorial service was held on June 8 at All Saints¹
Church.
Memorial contributions may be made to S.A.V.E.,
900 Herrontown Road,
Princeton 08540; or Princeton Hospice,
253 Witherspoon Street, Princeton
08540; or Crisis Ministry,
61 Nassau Street, Princeton 08542.