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.

Eileen Patricia Macrina

02/02/1944 - 09/17/2024

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Obituary For Eileen Patricia Macrina

Eileen (Piatt) Macrina, 80, passed away peacefully on September 17, 2024, at Hospice of Northwest Ohio in Perrysburg. She was born on February 2, 1944, in Meadville, Pennsylvania, where she spent her childhood before moving to West Palm Beach, Florida. She spent most of her adult life in Northwest Ohio. In retirement she and her husband shared time between Maumee, Ohio and Ocala, Florida.

She was a dedicated homemaker who enjoyed cooking a variety of wonderful dinners and party dishes from her vast catalog of recipes which included preparing secret Italian recipes from her husband’s family. She gave her time volunteering for the American Cancer Society, as an election poll worker, and later worked in the registrar’s office at the University of Toledo as well as Hickory Farms. She was an avid walker who also loved reading and visiting Walt Disney World.

Eileen was preceded in death by her beloved husband of 53 years, Robert (Bob) Macrina, her sister Chloe Piatt, and parents James W. and Anita Miller Piatt. She is survived by her children, Craig (Kristen) Macrina, daughter Michele (Mike) Daum, and daughter Karen Macrina as well as five grandchildren (Katelyn, Marissa, Mason, Cortni, Callie) and her rescue cat, LuLu.

Services for Eileen will be private.

The family requests any donations be made in her honor to Toledo Area Humane Society.

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