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Friends are invited to join the family for a memorial service at 2 PM on Friday, August 26, 2016 at the Interfaith Chapel, Cedar Crest Village, Pompton Plains, NJ.
Margaret J. Bance, age 95 died peacefully on Wednesday, August 3, 2016. She had been a resident of Cedar Crest Village in Pompton Plains since 2001.
Margaret grew up in Belleville, NJ and graduated as valedictorian of the Class of 1938. She took a job with Prudential Insurance immediately after graduation. A very bright woman, she became a computer programmer analyst with Prudential and enjoyed a career spanning nearly thirty five years. She was very active with the Fewsmith Memorial Presbyterian Church in Belleville, where she served as an elder and sang in the choir.
Margaret was an adventurous woman. She loved hiking and belonged to a variety of hiking clubs over the years; the Appalachian Mountain Club and the Woodland Trail Walkers, to name just two. She often recited a story of one particular hike where she managed to break her ankle and her fellow hikers had to carry her out of the woods! That didn’t slow her down though, and she was back hiking as soon as the injury had healed. She had also traveled extensively, visiting England, Scotland, Scandinavia, China, Japan, Greece, Turkey, Bermuda, Israel, Alaska, and many other destinations in Canada and the United States. She had even sailed across the Atlantic to visit relatives in England.
An independent woman, she didn’t marry until she was fifty years old. The story of how she met Mr. Edlow S. Bance is charming. Their families were acquainted and the two had known each other when they were young children. Their mutual love of classical music and the opera was what eventually brought them together again. Edlow had never married either and thus began an endearing courtship. They frequented the opera, the NY Philharmonic, and attended many chamber music concerts. They adored one another greatly and they made each other very happy, eventually exchanging vows in 1971. Margaret retired and the two of them moved to Garden City, Long Island. She became active in the Cathedral of the Incarnation, serving as president of the Cathedral Women and on the Altar Guild. Sadly, Edlow passed away in 1995 and Margaret decided to move back to New Jersey, settling in at Cedar Crest Village in 2001. She was involved in a variety of volunteer activities there in earlier years, but had been less active recently.
Margaret is survived by two nieces; Karen Heald of Wayne and Nancy Walker of New York, NY, sister-in-law Ruth Walker, Edlow’s niece and nephew; Jo-Anne Tempest and Peter Goodwin, Edlow’s brother-in-law; Ian Goodwin, and many more members of their ‘woodpile kin.’
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Friends are invited to join the family for a memorial service at 2 PM on Friday, August 26, 2016 at the Interfaith Chapel, Cedar Crest Village, Pompton Plains, NJ.
Services
Friends are invited to join the family for a memorial service at 2 PM on Friday, August 26, 2016 at the Interfaith Chapel, Cedar Crest Village, Pompton Plains, NJ.
Margaret J. Bance, age 95 died peacefully on Wednesday, August 3, 2016. She had been a resident of Cedar Crest Village in Pompton Plains since 2001.
Margaret grew up in Belleville, NJ and graduated as valedictorian of the Class of 1938. She took a job with Prudential Insurance immediately after graduation. A very bright woman, she became a computer programmer analyst with Prudential and enjoyed a career spanning nearly thirty five years. She was very active with the Fewsmith Memorial Presbyterian Church in Belleville, where she served as an elder and sang in the choir.
Margaret was an adventurous woman. She loved hiking and belonged to a variety of hiking clubs over the years; the Appalachian Mountain Club and the Woodland Trail Walkers, to name just two. She often recited a story of one particular hike where she managed to break her ankle and her fellow hikers had to carry her out of the woods! That didn’t slow her down though, and she was back hiking as soon as the injury had healed. She had also traveled extensively, visiting England, Scotland, Scandinavia, China, Japan, Greece, Turkey, Bermuda, Israel, Alaska, and many other destinations in Canada and the United States. She had even sailed across the Atlantic to visit relatives in England.
An independent woman, she didn’t marry until she was fifty years old. The story of how she met Mr. Edlow S. Bance is charming. Their families were acquainted and the two had known each other when they were young children. Their mutual love of classical music and the opera was what eventually brought them together again. Edlow had never married either and thus began an endearing courtship. They frequented the opera, the NY Philharmonic, and attended many chamber music concerts. They adored one another greatly and they made each other very happy, eventually exchanging vows in 1971. Margaret retired and the two of them moved to Garden City, Long Island. She became active in the Cathedral of the Incarnation, serving as president of the Cathedral Women and on the Altar Guild. Sadly, Edlow passed away in 1995 and Margaret decided to move back to New Jersey, settling in at Cedar Crest Village in 2001. She was involved in a variety of volunteer activities there in earlier years, but had been less active recently.
Margaret is survived by two nieces; Karen Heald of Wayne and Nancy Walker of New York, NY, sister-in-law Ruth Walker, Edlow’s niece and nephew; Jo-Anne Tempest and Peter Goodwin, Edlow’s brother-in-law; Ian Goodwin, and many more members of their ‘woodpile kin.’
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