Pauline S. Tramutola

Pauline S. Tramutola, age 98 years, of Bridgewater, NJ, died Saturday, May 16, 2015 in The Chelsea at Bridgewater Assisted Living.

Born in New York City, NY, June 14, 1916, she was the daughter of the late Samuel and Anna Osym Sharshon who emigrated here from Russia and the Ukraine.

Pauline may well be the last member of the Flemington High School Class of 1934. She was a homemaker, worked for City Gas, Flemington, NJ. She was a part time mail carrier for the United States Postal Service in the 1940s at a time when women did not work as mail carriers. She used to joke about being ahead of her time. She also taught a Sunday School class at the Locktown Christian Church in Locktown for many years and performed in minstrels to raise money for the various organizations she belonged to.

An avid writer, she wrote the Locktown, NJ local news column in the Hunterdon County Democrat. She would check with the residents of Locktown Sunday nights to see if they had any news—visitations, trips, etc.—pecking away on the old manual typewriter in time to submit it to the Democrat for publication.

She was pre-deceased by her first husband, Edward M.F. Heath, second husband Michael Tramutola and one brother Walter Sharshon. Surviving are one son and daughter-in-law, Edward and Catherine Heath of Somerville, NJ; a daughter and son-in-law, Nancy and Ralph David Medici of Philadelphia, PA; two granddaughters, Sherelyn Heath-Hersch of Summit, NJ and Cindy Gooding ofChecotah, Oklahoma, and three great-grandchildren, Kaitlyn, Alexander and Kendall. In addition to raising her own children, she also raised her granddaughter, Cindy.

She was also very talented at knitting, crochet and needlepoint and gave away the afghans and other things she made to others to enjoy. She always thought of others before herself and once drove all the way back to Raritan to the bakery to return the extra change she had been given when the clerk made a mistake.

Her long life can be likened to the fact that she always did what the doctor told her to do even if she didn’t agree with him. Growing up during the Great Depression and during other rough periods of her life, she acquired the ability to eat & enjoy virtually every kind of food...especially vegetables. There was not a single vegetable she didn't like. She was an excellent cook & baker and.prepared all food dishes & baking from 'scratch'.

Arrangements and interment will be private under the direction of the Holcombe-Fisher Funeral Home, 147 Main Street, Flemington, NJ.