Obituaries

Therese ‘Terry’ Pounds (Joiner): 1927-2024

Therese “Terry” Pounds (Joiner), 97, of Montclair, NJ died peacefully surrounded by family at Mountainside Hospital on Wednesday, September 11, 2024. Beloved mother, grandmother, great-grandmother, aunt, cousin and friend, Terry was born a ‘survivor,’ having lost her mother who died soon after her birth in 1927 in New York City. She subsequently lived all over the world as a self-described “army brat” after her father, Colonel Talley Dosier Joiner, remarried and reclaimed “his little Therese” from her aunts who raised her until she was six. After graduating from Columbia High School in Maplewood, NJ, Terry briefly attended college at Trinity, DC, then decided to go to Katharine Gibbs Secretarial School in NJ. The skills she learned there served her well at her first secretarial jobs in Manhattan, then later at Montclair Kimberly Academy in Montclair where she worked for almost twenty years in the Office of External Affairs. She was proud of her mastery of the rules of English grammar, and many relied on her to proofread their letters. After the death of her husband in 1978, Terry set up a Montclair chapter of THEOS, a nationwide non-denominational support group for widowed men and women. She ran the group for approximately ten years and created friendships from that work that lasted until her death. She was also involved with the Friends of Barnet and the Montclair Fine Arts Festival.

Terry was predeceased in death by her husband, Donald Pounds, her son Richard, her beloved companions, Arthur Jones and Fred Berinato, and her sisters Lucy and Claire. She is survived by her son Donald Pounds and his companion Patrice Holtzer, daughter Mary Pounds Sisler, daughter-in-law Bette Pounds, sons James Pounds (Bethany) and Thomas Pounds (Liljana), daughter Virginia Pounds, sons Michael Pounds (Catherine) and John Pounds. She was the proud grandmother of sixteen grandchildren and five great-grandchildren: Katy, Austin, Colleen, Connor, Jordan, Jason, Jeremy, Natalie, Anika, Evan, Noah, Ben, Eli, Max, Harper and Nolan; Scarlett, Emma, Carson, Peyton and Wesley. She is also survived by a large extended family and countless friends.

Funeral Services will be held on Saturday, November 9 at 10 a.m. at Immaculate Conception Church, 30 N. Fullerton Ave., Montclair, NJ 07042, followed by interment of ashes at Immaculate Conception Cemetery in Upper Montclair.

In lieu of flowers, donations may be made in Terry’s name to The Release Recovery Foundation at: https://donate.hakuapp.com/donations/new?fundraising_effort=in-loving-memory-of-therese-terry-pounds.

Catherine Suzanne Cappelletty

01/14/1942 - 12/19/2023

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Obituary For Catherine Suzanne Cappelletty

Catherine Suzanne (Link) Cappelletty, 81, passed away suddenly on December 19, 2023, with family by her side. A music teacher at Saint Rose Catholic School in Perrysburg for 25 years, she was a skilled pianist with an excellent singing voice and was a church choir leader at St. Rose for many years. Cathy was kind, loving and thoughtful, with a generous spirit, a sharp sense of humor, and a knack for making friends anywhere and everywhere.

Born January 14, 1942, in Chicago, IL to Dr. Gustave and Barbara Link, Cathy moved to Toledo when she was 5, attending Rosary Cathedral Catholic School, St. Ursula Academy and later, Marquette University and the University Of Toledo, where she studied music. She received her Master Of Arts in Music in 1993 from Bowling Green State University and retired from teaching in 2005. She moved from Perrysburg to Loveland, OH, to be closer to son David and his family in 2018. Cathy has always been strong, fighting past three bouts of breast cancer.

Cathy married florist Kenneth Cappelletty in October 1967 at Our Lady Of Perpetual Help Catholic Church in Toledo and they were together for nearly 45 years. She is preceded in death by Ken and survived by sons Mark (Jennifer) and David (Kelly), grandchildren Ella and Sophia, and sister Mary Link Frost. A beloved mother, Cathy saw her daughters-in-law as her children and bonded tightly with her granddaughters, who called her “Ma.”

The family would like to thank the doctors and staff in the cardiac ICU at Bethesda North Hospital in Montgomery, OH, as well as the doctors and nurses at Oncology Hematology Care (OHC) in Blue Ash, OH.

Friends will be received between 4:30-7:30 PM on Friday, December 29 at Witzler-Shank-Walker Funeral Home, 222 E. South Boundary St., Perrysburg (419)-874-3133. A Funeral Mass will be held on Saturday, December 30 at 10:30 AM at St. Rose Catholic Church, 215 East Front St., in Perrysburg with burial at Fort Meigs Union Cemetery. Those planning an expression of sympathy in Cathy’s name are asked to consider The Breast Cancer Research Foundation (https://www.bcrf.org) or Compassion (https://www.compassionondeathrow.org). Online condolences may be made to the family at www.walkerfuneralhomes.com.

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