Margaret R. Ellice

Margaret R. Ellice, age 97 years, of Readington Township, NJ, died on Wednesday, October 19, 2011, in the Hunterdon Medical Center, Raritan Township, NJ.

Born in Millburn, NJ, December 20, 1913, she was the daughter of the late Charles and Florence Clark Ross.

She graduated from Millburn High School and Sweet Briar College, VA in 1934. She was employed by RCA Communications, Ney York, NY in the television department. In 1939, she married Edward M. Ellice and moved to Cokesbury, NJ in 1941. She volunteered for the Red Cross in Hunterdon County, the Hunterdon Medical Center, the Hunterdon Welfare Board and the Clinton Township Board of Education. She was formerly a member of the Clinton Presbyterian Church and the Community Garden Club. In 1970, she and her husband retired to Hillsborough, NH where she was a member of the Bird and Garden Club, the Antrim Presbyterian Church and it's Ladies Society. She also volunteered for the church consignment shop, was a docent at the Franklin Pierce Homestead and at the Gregg Rehabilitation Institute. In 2000, she moved to Readington Township, NJ, where she was a member of the Stanton Reformed Church.

She is survived by her daughter and son-in-law, Parry and Bruce Adam of Readington Township, NJ; two granddaughters, Aubrey Barr of Duxbury, MA, and Gladden Falivene of Warren, NJ; and four great-grandchildren: Ellie, James, Eva, and Adam.

Interment will be in Maple Avenue Cemetery, Hillsborough, NH. A Memorial Service will be held on Sunday, October 30, 2011 at 1 PM in the Stanton Reformed Church, Stanton, NJ, under the direction of the Holcombe-Fisher Funeral Home, 147 Main Street, Flemington, NJ.

Memorial contributions may be made to the Aubrey Adam Barr Fellowship at Memorial Sloan Kettering, 1275 York Avenue, New York, NY 10021, or to the Hunterdon Medical Center Foundation, 2100 Wescott Drive, Flemington, NJ 08822.

Please visit www.holcombefisher.com for further information, or to send condolences.