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.

Kurt Gustav Joseph Frank

05/15/1956 - 03/15/2024

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Obituary For Kurt Gustav Joseph Frank

Kurt Franck, vice president of newspaper operations for Block Communications Inc., owners of the Blade of Toledo and the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, died March 15, 2024 at Hospice of Northwest Ohio in Perrysburg. He was 67.

Mr. Franck joined the Blade as managing editor in 2000. In 2009, he was promoted to executive editor, then general manager, and ultimately became president/general manager. In 2018, he assumed the title of vice president of newspaper operations for Block Communications Inc.

He was born in Newark, Ohio. He attended the Kiski School in Saltsburg, Pennsylvania, then went to Bethany College in Bethany, West Virginia, where he majored in communications and was a competitive swimmer.

Kurt worked for United Press International in Columbus, Atlanta, Birmingham, Orlando and Miami. He covered numerous launches at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center and became UPI’s Florida editor and its Miami bureau chief. He worked for the South Florida Sun-Sentinel in Fort Lauderdale for 17 years, most recently as deputy managing editor/executive news editor before moving back to Ohio with his family in 2000.

He was one of the several key editors who oversaw the Tiger Force series that led to The Blade’s first and only Pulitzer Prize in 2004, then served as a judge for the Pulitzer Prize for the award’s investigative and local news categories.

Outside of work, Mr. Franck enjoyed spending time with his family and friends, watching the Ohio State Buckeyes and Toledo Walleye hockey.

He is survived by his wife, Lynn, and their children, Kurt and Sophia; his sisters, Katherine Rohrer and Barbara Franck.

Plans are being made for a Celebration of Life at a later date. Online condolences may be made to the family at www.walkefuneralhomes.com.

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