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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.

Nancy M. Hansen

04/16/1938 - 08/27/2024

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Obituary For Nancy M. Hansen

Nancy Mae (Wyant) Hansen passed away unexpectedly on August 27, 2024 at the age of 86. She was born on April 16, 1938 in Vincennes, Indiana to Willard Lewis and Sylvia (Gilmore) Wyant. She grew up in Glasgow, Kentucky and graduated from Glasgow High School where she was class salutatorian, and a proud member of the Scotties marching band and Beta Club. She was a lifelong Methodist, singing in the choir, acting as substitute organist and pianist and active in Methodist Youth Fellowship.

She graduated from Kentucky Wesleyan College in 1959 with honors and was a member of the Oak and Ivy Honor Society.

She worked as Secretary to the Dean of Arts and Sciences and Office Manager of Testing and Counseling at Indiana University, Fiscal Officer of Gateway Area Development District in Eastern Kentucky, Church Secretary at numerous churches and self-employed accounting services for numerous businesses in the Toledo, Ohio area.

She was an active Girl Scout Volunteer in Morehead, Kentucky and volunteered for 20 years at Greenview Hospital in Bowling Green, Kentucky.

She married Robert E Hansen August 22, 1959. They had 4 children, Julia, Eric, Joyce and Linda and lived in Kent, Sylvania and Perrysburg, Ohio and in Morehead and Bowling Green, Kentucky over the course of their 62-year marriage. Robert passed away in 2021. Nancy was a homemaker who took great pride in her home and loved to cross stitch, bake, and can the many vegetables that Bob grew in the garden. She had courageously battled leukemia at the age of 69 and was a loving caregiver to Bob who had Type I diabetes for their entire marriage. She was an avid reader and liked to work jigsaw puzzles and catch up with family and friends by phone and visit with her neighbors.

Nancy is survived by her 4 children Julia (Mike) Pasternak, Eric (Sherry) Hansen, Joyce (John) Hansen-Huber, and Linda Hansen DVM, 7 grandchildren, 5 great-grandchildren and two sisters, Betty Jean (the late Douglas) Moseley and Marcia (the late Lee) Clore.

Services for Nancy will be private. Funeral arrangements were entrusted to Witzler-Shank-Walker Funeral Home, Perrysburg (419-670-7199). In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the Dr. Robert E and Nancy M Hansen Endowment Fund at Morehead State University (alumni.moreheadstate.edu), The Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (jdrf.org) or the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society (lls.org). Condolences may be made to the family online at www.walkerfuneralhomes.com.

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