Page 22 THE VILLADOM TIMES II • April 10. 2013 retiring, he was a handyman with the Hawthorne Board of Education. He was a member of Hawthorne Gospel Church and Grace Bible Church. He is survived by his children Maryann Schwinge and John M. Schouten, 10 grandchildren, and two great-grandchildren. He was predeceased by his wife Lois Schouten and his son David Schouten. Arrangements were made by Browning Forshay Funeral Home in Hawthorne. Memorial donations may be made to Hawthorne Gospel Church, 2000 Route 208 Hawthorne, NJ 07506 or Grace Bible Church, 369 High Mountain Road, North Haledon, NJ 07508. Steven Jack Soodsma of Vancouver, Washington, formerly of Wyckoff and Midland Park, died March 24. He was 56. He was a member of the Ramapo Regional High School Class of 1974, and the Colorado State University Class of 1979. He had been employed in the retail automobile sales business, and had resided in Vancouver for the past 22 years. He is survived by his brothers Robert Soodsma of Hamburg and Thomas Soodsma of Vero Beach, Florida, his nieces Hope Douma and Alyson Kanet, and two grandnieces. He is also survived by his aunts Gertrude “Trudy” Dykstra and Dorothy “Dot”’ Sluisman, both of Prospect Park. In lieu of memorial donations, friends and family are asked to recall and relate a fond or humorous memory of Steve while spending time with a loved one. Abbie Winson died March 26. She was 87. She was born on Jan. 1, 1926 to Bertha and Norton Franks in Pittsburgh, and lived in Philadelphia and the Washington Heights neighborhood of New York City. Her vast and varied early education included Music and Art High, the Arts Students League, Queens College, and the Sorbonne in Paris, where she studied medicine, shifting her interests to anatomy and medical illustration. She spoke fluent and nuanced French. She studied painting with Vaclav Vytlacil and Hans Hoffmann in New York, and was greatly influenced by the modernists and abstract expressionists, but developed her own dynamic and calligraphic style. She created mixedmedia paintings before the term was coined. She learned typesetting from Sy Winson, another pioneer in a new field with whom she had three children and eventually married. She earned master’s degrees in fine arts, and special education. She taught art, science, math, and learning disabled children. She worked at grade schools, high schools, and in universities. She became involved with computer graphics on early model mainframe computers. She loved to paint and returned often to large acrylic canvases and watercolors with collage. She exhibited in group and solo shows in New York City with much acclaim. In her 70s, she took up Chinese calligraphy and the Mandarin language. In her 80s, she frequently traveled to the south of France to paint, collaborated with small press magazines on cover art for poetry books, and projected her paintings over dancers and acrobats as part of the Nouveau Cirque movement. She is survived by her daughters Suzi Winson of New York and Julie Winson of New Mexico, and her granddaughter Isabel Winson-Sagan. She was predeceased by her husband Sy Winson, her son Robert, and her siblings Julian Franks and Doris Goldman. There will be a year-long posthumous retrospective of 70 years of work at a new gallery that is being developed in her honor: Art and Circuses in Long Island City, New York. Memorial donations may be made through artandcircuses.com. Arrangements were made by C.C. Van Emburgh Funeral Home in Ridgewood. Obituaries Mary T. Giordano, nee Robinson, of Glen Rock, formerly of Palisades Park, died March 31. She was 79. Before retiring in 1999, she was a nurse at Valley Hospital in Ridgewood for 20 years. She is survived by her husband Don Giordano, her children Gene, Donald, and Michael Giordano, and 12 grandchildren. Arrangements were made by Kugler Community Home for Funerals in Saddle Brook. Memorial donations may be made to the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society, New Jersey Chapter, 14 Commerce Drive, Cranford, NJ 07016. Irene Eleanor Habernickel of Jupiter, Florida, formerly of Ridgewood, died March 15. She was 82. She was the daughter of Max and Marie Habernickel, founders of the Haband mail order company. She was a graduate of Cedar Crest College and was one of the first women to graduate from Harvard Business School (then Radcliffe). Her farm on Hillcrest Road in Ridgewood is now an enduring legacy as The Irene Habernickel Family Park, made possible in part by her substantial gift to the Village of Ridgewood. She was a member of Saint Elizabeth’s Church and the Ridgewood Country Club. She is survived by her children William and Dawn Kuipers of Haskell, John and Cyd Kuipers of Jupiter, Florida, and Marie Kuipers of Park City, Utah, three grandchildren, and her brother Duke Habernickel and his family. Memorial donations may be made to Cornell University Veterinary College-Jack Lowe Equine Health Fund, Box 39, Ithaca, NY 14853. A memorial service will be held May 18 at Saint Elizabeth’s Church, 169 Fairmount Road in Ridgewood. Alice Fitzgerald Harvey, formerly of Ridgewood, died March 29. She was 90. She graduated from Saint Joseph’s College in Brooklyn, New York, and worked as a medical social worker at Saint Vincent’s Hospital before raising her family. She also worked at Bergen Pines Hospital in Paramus for many years. She was a volunteer with Meals on Wheels. She is survived by her children Paul of Oregon House, California, Joan McKeon of Ridgewood, Kathy Lutz of Lutherville, Maryland, Jim of Wayne, Mary Alice Spadaro of Timonium, Maryland, Rosemary Bustard of River Vale, and Tom of Cornelius, North Carolina. She is also survived by 25 grandchildren, seven great-grandchildren, and her sister-in-law Joy Fitzgerald of Florham Park. She was predeceased by her husband Bill. Arrangements were made by Feeney Funeral Home in Ridgewood. Memorial donations may be made to Stella Maris, Dulaney Valley Road, Timonium, MD 21093 or the Little Sisters of the Poor, c/o Saint Joseph’s Home for the Elderly, Totowa, NJ 07512. John C. Schouten of Midland Park, formerly of Wayne, Hawthorne, and Clifton, died March 29. He was 90. Before Mary T. Giordano Steven Jack Soodsma Irene Eleanor Habernickel Abbie Winson Alice Fitzgerald Harvey Religious Notes John C. Schouten International speaker Rob Gilbert will present “God and Health” on Thursday, April 18 at 7:30 p.m. The discussion will be held at the First Church of Christ, Scientist located at 259 Godwin Avenue in Midland Park. “This lecture corrects misconceptions often held about God and shows the nature of God, divine love, to be a consistent healing principle,” said Gilbert. “The ideas shared in this lecture will break down the long-held beliefs that assign the body to material theories of medicine and the mind to religion, thus hiding the power of spiritual understanding to heal. Exploring the early investigations of Mary Baker Eddy in the mind/body relationship, not unlike investigations going on today, reveals the path that eventually led her to the discovery of Christian Science and the practice of spiritual healing that corrects misconceptions about God, secures health, and restores the body.” Gilbert’s ideas are based on the teachings of Jesus as recorded in the Bible, and as discussed in “Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures” by Mary Baker Eddy. Gilbert to present ‘God and Health’ Gilbert is a member of the Christian Science Board. A practitioner and teacher of Christian Science healing, he holds a master’s of theology degree from Boston University School of Theology, where he majored in biblical studies. While serving as a chaplain in the United States Army, he had a variety of assignments, including military prisons, hospitals, and a tour of duty in Vietnam. Gilbert retired from the Army as a lieutenant colonel. More recently, he co-produced two educational videos for medical nursing schools and hospitals, answering commonly asked questions about the practice of spiritual healing, how it informs health care decisions, and spirituality in nursing care. He has addressed medical audiences on the practice of spiritual healing, college classes in women’s studies and alternative healing, high school classes on the subject of comparative religions, and has spoken in jails and prisons. For more information about the program in Midland Park, call Joan Fox at (201) 389-6860.