IN MEMORIAM
This column salutes the lives and careers of recently departed colleagues. It is the way NJMEA and NJRMEA can express appreciation for the work that they have done and the lives that they have touched. We mourn their passing and salute their contributions, which are the basis for music education in the state of New Jersey.
If you know of the passing of any music educator, please contact: Christine Sezer at 570-756-2961or
drcsezer@gmail.com
(Please send obituary notices from your local newspaper concerning music teachers from New Jersey who have passed away. It is not possible to keep track of all the newspapers in the state and your help is needed.)
Barbara Bonyadi Duncan
Barbara Bonyadi Duncan, 84, entered into eternal peace on Monday, Dec. 24, 2012, at Seacrest Village Rehabilitation Center in Little Egg Harbor. Barbara was born in Hammonton on Sept. 30, 1928, daughter of
the late Mary and Angelo
Sandos. She graduated from Bristol Tennessee High School in 1945, and from Maryville College in Knoxville, TN with a bachelor’s degree in Music Education in 1949. Prior to college, she attended the Philadelphia Academy of Music. After her service in the Army Special Services in Germany, she traveled on an Army ship. She then worked for SACom, where she met and married Danny Bonyadi. Most notably, Barbara worked as a music teacher at the Long Beach Island Grade School in Ship Bottom for 30 years. She retired with honors in 1993 at the age of 65. In college, she was a member of the Maryville College Choir and also the Band. During her later years, she was a member of the Ocean Reformed Church in Manahawkin; an active member of the Soroptimist Club of Long Beach Island for decades; a member of the Brant Beach Yacht
Club; the Ocean County
College Community Band; the Ocean Pops performance band; as well as a devoted fundraiser for the local FACES 4 Autism chapter; and many charitable organizations. She loved to play the clarinet and the piano, and was proficient at both. She also loved country line dancing, folk dancing, and square dancing with her daughter. She loved watching sunsets at the end of her street on LBI and was an avid reader. She loved to play Bridge and hosted numerous
TEMPO
card parties with her good friends. She also loved to travel and went to Europe several times, Mexico, Southern United States, New Orleans, and Philadelphia. Barbara was a very kind and generous soul; an exceptionally devoted mother and friend, a loving sister to her other siblings, and a fiercely independent soul. She treated her daughter’s friends as if they were her own. Above all, she loved her family. She had a loving heart, and was always giving to others. Her humanitarian efforts were very notable, since she always gave to those in need. It was her love of music which became her legacy to generations of children and adults. Even to the end of her years, she kept up with all the current artists and musicians.
Lester P. Hrbek
Lester P. Hrbek, 88, of Bricktown, passed away peacefully on January 15th at Brighton Gardens of Middletown. He was born on June 13, 1924 in Hackensack. Lester was raised in South Hackensack and graduated from Hackensack High School just prior to the start of WWII. From 1942 to 1945 he was the featured trumpet solo- ist with the Navy Band at Camp Perry, Vir- ginia. After the war, he graduated from the Julliard School of Music with a bachelors degree in Music Performance and from Co- lumbia University Teacher’s College with a masters degree in Music Education. After teaching music at Passaic High School for several years, he was hired by the Nutley board of Education as the band director for Nutley High School and the Franklin Middle School. During his thirty years of teaching the Nutley High School Band was
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a charter performer of the Herald-News Band Festival and North Jersey Band Fes- tival. His band performed at the 1964 NY World’s Fair, halftime for the NY Jets Foot- ball Team at Shea Stadium, performed by invitation on the steps of the US Senate Building and the Lincoln Memorial, and at numerous Walt Disney World Magic King- dom Parades. After he retired from teaching and moved to Bricktown, he continued on with the North Jersey Band Festival. Lester had recently celebrated his 54th year on the Executive Board of the North Jersey Band Festival.
Edward J Kuter Edward J Kuter., 85, of Hasbrouck
Heights, formerly of Green Pond, passed away on December 1, 2012. Born in Brook- lyn, NY to the late Joseph G. and Elizabeth Kuter. He was a graduate of Manahattan School of Music where he received his Bach- elors Degree. Edward was an Army veteran of the Korean War. Before retiring in 1993, he was a music teacher for the Wyckoff School System for twenty-five years and a member of the New Jersey Education Asso- ciation. Edward was an accomplished mu- sician and after retiring, he was a violinist with the North Jersey Symphony Orchestra. He was a member of the Associated Musi- cians of Greater New York Local 802, and the American Federation of Musicians Local 248 in Paterson.
MARCH 2013
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