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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.

Joe Truett Fogle

07/14/1928 - 09/18/2024

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Obituary For Joe Truett Fogle

Joe Truett Fogle, 96, of Maumee, Ohio passed away peacefully on September 18, 2024, at St. Clare Commons in Perrysburg, Ohio. Truett was born on July 14, 1928 to Jesse Josiah Fogle and Mattie Fogle (White) in Bluff Springs, Texas. The son of a sharecropper, he worked from a very young age at many different jobs to make a living. He served in the Texas State Guard from 1944-1947. In 1950 he attended Wayland Baptist College in Plainview, TX while pastoring a small Spanish speaking Baptist church. In 1952 he met and married Esperanza (Hope) Gonzales. For the next 21 years he worked for the Southern Baptist Convention as a pastor to Spanish-speaking churches in Hereford, Alvin, and Angleton, TX. He was the Director of the Goodwill Center in Amarillo, TX for 5 years. While there he graduated with a BA from West Texas State University. In 1964 he was transferred to NW Ohio as Superintendent of Migrant Missions in Ohio, Illinois, Indiana and Michigan to start Spanish Speaking churches. In 1971 he left the SBC and went to Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland and graduated with his MSW several years later. He joined the American Baptist Convention and over the years he pastored or was an interim pastor of The First Baptist Church of Toledo, Cass Road Baptist Church and Ashland Avenue Baptist Church. He also pastored “La Iglesia del Buen Pastor” in Toledo. From 1973-1984 he taught Social Work at the University of Toledo. For many years he went on mission trips to Columbia, Mexico, Costa Rica and Ecuador with local churches.

In their retirement years Truett and Hope made several trips to Europe and Central America, including frequent travel in the United States. Truett loved the latest in gadgets and loved taking films of family trips. He was an avid reader, enjoyed music and movies, loved a good joke and savored ice cream more than anything.

Survivors include his wife, Hope Fogle; Children Virginia Darling (Clay) and David Fogle (Colleen); Grandchildren Adam Fogle (Amy), Ryan Fogle (Amy), Elizabeth Darling (Ryan); Great Grandchildren Eden Darling, Parker Fogle, Reid Fogle, Graham Fogle, Caroline Fogle, Clara Fogle, Collette Fogle and siblings Velma Shurtleff, Steve Fogle and Jan Downs along with many nieces and nephews.

Visitation will be held on Monday, September 23, 2024 from 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm in Maison-Dardenne-Walker Funeral Home. A graveside service will follow at Riverside Cemetery at 2:00 pm.

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