Marian J. Wert

Marian J. Wert, age 83, a resident of Bridgeway Care Center in Hillsborough, died Monday, February 27, 2023 at Robert Wood Johnson Hospital in Somerville NJ.

Born August 15, 1939, in Aliquippa, Pennsylvania, Marian was the daughter of the late Thomas and Anna (Kirin) Krizmanich. She graduated from St. Veronica’s High School in Ambridge, Pennsylvania in the Class of 1957.

She was a secretary for the United States Navy and later as an Executive Secretary at Crum & Forster Insurance Company in Morristown NJ.

She retired to The Villages in Florida and lived there many years before returning to New Jersey to be closer to her daughters and family.

Marian was strong in her faith and attended different Catholic churches depending on where she lived at the time. The time spent with her family, especially her grandchildren and great-grandchildren, were most precious to Marian and she will be missed by all of those who had the pleasure to know her.

She was preceded in death by her husband, Robert Wert in 2006 and her four siblings, Thomas, John, Robert and sister, Catherine.

Surviving are three children and their spouses, her son, Don and Kim Winklepleck of Burleson, Texas, her two daughters, Christine and Anthony Tiano of Somerset, NJ, and Sherry and Thomas Marlatt of Stockton, NJ, as well as her sister-in-law, Beth Krizmanich of Phoenixville PA, her six grandchildren, Karen Robertson, Daniel Winklepleck, Jessica Aldrich, Shaylyn Tiano, Brooke Marlatt and Cole Marlatt and her six great-grandchildren, Luke, Jacob, and Pierce Robertson, along with Alice and Lois Winklepleck, and Miles Aldrich.

A private memorial service will be held on Saturday, March 4th at South Branch Reformed Church, 870 River Rd, Hillsborough Township, NJ 08844.

Funeral arrangements are under the direction of Holcombe-Fisher Funeral Home, 147 Main Street, Flemington, NJ. For further information or to leave an online condolence, please visit www.holcombefisher.com.