MONROE TOWNSHIP, N.J. – Pauline Zedd Katz, 84, died on September 1.
She was born in Norfolk, Virginia in 1940, where she lived and worked until marriage to her husband, Norman. They first met at a New Year’s Eve party in 1959, when Norman was stationed there in the Navy aboard the USS Newport News. They got to know each other when they met again at a Sunday breakfast at the Jewish Community Center where Pauline was a volunteer.
They were married in 1963 and moved to Cambridge, Ohio for 2 years, where Norman was employed by RCA. After Ohio, they lived in New Jersey for 26 years, upstate New York for 5 years and then to her hometown of Norfolk to take care of her mother for
five years. Next, they moved to Monroe Township, N.J., where she enjoyed life in an adult community and where she learned to play canasta and enjoyed going to shows and taking community trips. She enjoyed going on business trips with Norman and seeing the sites when he was in meetings.
When her children were young, she was a stay-at-home mom, and then worked as a secretary, teacher’s aide, and various other jobs in Hebrew and nursery schools associated with various synagogues and YMCA nursery and after school programs. She loved working with children.
Pauline was a lifetime member of Hadassah, a member of ORT and served on the board of Yiddish Club, now known as the Shalom Club, at Greenbriar at Whittingham in Monroe Township, N.J.
She was preceded in death by her parents, Nathan and Helen Zedd, and her sister Sue Ann Zedd. She is survived by
her husband of 61 years, Norman Katz, her children Jeffrey Katz (Lisa) of Livingston, N.J., Teri Kornfeld (Joel) of Los Angeles, Calif., and grandchildren Rachel, Nathan, and Stephanie Katz and Jonathan and Joshua Kornfeld.
Funeral services were private and entrusted to Mount Sinai Memorial Chapels in East Brunswick, N.J.
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