Page 30 THE VILLADOM TIMES III • April 10. 2013 Obituaries Tilden E. Bright Jr. of Upper Saddle River died March 27. He was 96. He was a Marine Corps veteran of World War II. He had a long career with the Western Electric Company before retiring in 1982. He was a member of the Church of the Presentation in Upper Saddle River. He is survived by his wife Olga Bright (nee Gordon), his son John Bright of Hoboken, and two grandchildren. Arrangements were made by Van Emburgh-Sneider-Pernice Funeral Home in Ramsey. Memorial donations may be made to the RamapoBergen Animal Refuge, Inc. in Oakland. Gennaro Ferrante of Waldwick, formerly of Brooklyn, New York, died March 30. He was 91. He was a U.S. Navy veteran of World War II. Before retiring, he was employed by the New York City Department of Sanitation Mechanic Division. He was a parishioner of Saint Luke’s R.C. Church in Ho-Ho-Kus, where he was an usher and altar server. He was a member of Knights of Columbus Council 4541 in Brooklyn, New York, and the Catholic War Veterans. He is survived by his wife Florence (nee Dell’Olio), and his children Michael, Daniel, Thomas, and Gerald. He is also survived by nine grandchildren and his siblings Michael, and Ann Casertano. Arrangements were made by Feeney Funeral Home in Ridgewood. Memorial donations may be made to Villa Marie Clare, 12 West Saddle River Road, Saddle River, NJ 07458. John A. Manz of Forked River, formerly of Saddle River, died March 31. He was 91. He was a U.S. Air Force veteran of World War II. He graduated from Saint Luke’s High School in 1940 and earned his bachelor’s degree at Seton Hall University and a master’s degree from Montclair State. He began his career in education as a sixth grade teacher with the Franklin Lakes schools in 1958. He later became superintendent of schools, a post he held for 22 years. He retired in 1985. During his tenure, the Franklin Lakes School District expanded from one school to four. He served as president of the Bergen County Superinten- Tilden E. Bright Jr. dents’ Association for a time. He is survived by his wife Betty, his children John C. Manz of Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania, Melinda J. Freid of Lower Macungie, Pennsylvania, Joseph M. Manz of Fishkill, New York, six grandchildren, and three great-grandchildren. He is also survived by his siblings Rudy Manz of Waretown and Carol King of Manahawkin. Arrangements were made by Layton’s Home for Funerals in Forked River. Memorial donations may be made to the Ronald McDonald House of Connecticut, 501 George Street, New Haven, CT, 06511. Derk Stavinga of Wyckoff, formerly of Hawthorne, died March 30. He was 87. Born in Uithuizen, Netherlands, he came to the United States in 1954. He owned and operated the Sharp Shop in Midland Park with his brother-in-law John Valkema for 25 years before his retirement in 1982. He was a member of the Cedar Hill Christian Reformed Church in Wyckoff. He is survived by his wife Tena (nee Kersaan), and his children Jacob Derk Stavinga, Trudi Churco, and Marian Trossman. He is also survived by his 10 grandchildren, five great-grandchildren, and his sisters Tillie Meinders and Wieke Van der Ploeg, both of whom reside in the Netherlands. Arrangements were made by Vander Plaat Funeral Home in Wyckoff. Memorial donations may be made to the Eastern Christian School Association, 50 Oakwood Avenue, North Haledon, NJ 07508. 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 Derk Stavinga Gennaro Ferrante Abbie Winson John A. Manz 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. Religious Notes 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.