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.

Sally B. Kuzmanov

08/20/1935 - 04/23/2024

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Obituary For Sally B. Kuzmanov

Sally Blakelock Kuzmanov, 88, a resident of Oregon, Ohio, passed away peacefully on April 23, 2024. She was born in Catskill, New York, the daughter of Eden and Gertrude (Slater) Blakelock, and lived there until she started college in Keuka Park. Later, she lived near Stewart Air Force Base for several years. Sally lived in Roswell, New Mexico from 1959-1960; spent 5 years at Homestead Air Reserve Base in Homestead, FL; South Toledo, Ohio from 1967 to 2009; moving to Oregon, Ohio in 2009.

Sally graduated from Keuka College in 1958 with a degree in nursing. She worked at the Medical College of Ohio for over 20 years until her retirement in 1996.

Sally enjoyed knitting, embroidery, playing the organ and piano, singing, square dancing, art (painting), gardening and baking. She was a long-time member of the German-American Club Choir.

Sally will be lovingly remembered as a strong-willed and tenacious woman with an astonishing amount of grit and determination. She survived a catastrophic car crash the year before her graduation. Despite this and her long recovery, she went on to graduate a year later and had a long career. Sally will be remembered for her generosity. She gifted an incredible number of hand knit scarves and hats as well as donating them to many causes. She also participated in the Christmas Around the World celebration at The Toledo Zoo many times, contributing both her baking skills and her time setting up and manning booths.

Sally will be missed by her two sons, Carl Perkins and Eden Perkins; her daughters-in-law, Janet Perkins (m. Eden) and Debrah Ferguson (m. George); and her grandchildren, Gretchen Perkins and Alexandra Ferguson. She was preceded in death by her husband, Strahil Kuzmanov; sons, George Perkins and Daniel Perkins; parents, Eden Blakelock and Gertrude Slater-Blakelock; and her brother, George Blakelock.

A Funeral Service for Sally will be held on Tuesday, April 30, 2024, at 11:00 AM at Walker Funeral Home – Oregon Chapel, 3500 Navarre Avenue. Interment will immediately follow in the Willow Cemetery, 1961 Pickle Road, Oregon, Ohio. In lieu of flowers, the family suggests memorial contributions be directed to the American Cancer Society. Online condolences may be shared by visiting www.walkerfuneralhomes.com.

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