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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.

James Walter Lindeen

5/4/1939 - 11/21/2025

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Obituary For James Walter Lindeen

James W. Lindeen, a longtime resident of Sylvania Township, was born in 1939 in Omaha, Nebraska to Walter Elmer Lindeen and Evelyn May Noble Lindeen.

Jim was a graduate of Omaha University, where he was a member of Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity. Particularly because of the influence of Professor W. C. Breckinridge Lambert, he developed an interest in studying politics because of the great breadth of human life that it embraces. He then received Master’s and Doctor of Philosophy degrees from University of Nebraska. It was in Lincoln, on the top floor of Love Memorial Library, that he met Shirley Ann in September of 1962 and the two were wed in August 1963.

After a year teaching at the University of Central Missouri, Jim and Shirley arrived at the University of Toledo in 1967. His areas of teaching and research were legislative behavior, public opinion, and political economy. His book Governing America’s Economy was never seen on any list of best sellers; and he was at work on a manuscript to be called “Eighteen Recessions” at the time of his death.

Professor Lindeen was the longtime Director of the Department of Political Science’s Master of Arts Program, and served as Department Chairman from 1995 to 2000. At various times he served on the Council of the College of Arts and Sciences, the Faculty Senate, and the University Athletic Committee.

He was fond of saying that, except for summers during high school and college, he never had a job. Instead, he had a career—scholarship—that he loved. The world of ideas is a seamless web of knowledge. Because he believed that everyone else should have careers too, and more than one in today’s world, he found that his most rewarding experience at the University came after his departmental chairmanship, and with the chance to serve as an undergraduate adviser. His role was not simply telling students which courses and requirements were needed for timely graduation. Instead, he sought to elicit from each person what she or he would like to be doing ten or twenty years from now, and to guide them to the courses, experiences, and people who might help them reach that goal.

He is preceded in death by his wife Shirley. He is survived by his daughter Lorelei Ann Collins (Edward A.) of Huntington Woods, Michigan, granddaughter Blythe Elizabeth Collins, son James Edward Lindeen (Kristen R.) of Portland, Michigan.

A memorial service will be held later at St. Michael’s in the Hills Episcopal Church, 4718 Brittany Road, Toledo, OH 43615-2314 where he was a long-time parishioner and former member of the Vestry.

In lieu of flowers please consider donating to the Dion Foundation for Children with Rare Diseases Inc., a cause which helps support research and development of treatments and cures that will help his granddaughter.

https://www.thedionfund.org/

CHECKS CAN BE MADE PAYABLE TO: THE DION FOUNDATION PO BOX 550011, WALTHAM, MASSACHUSETTS, 02455

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