Obituary of Harriet S. Ehringer
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Mrs. Harriet Ehringer, 90, died Friday at her home at Fellowship Village in Basking Ridge after a lengthy illness. Arrangements are by the Norman Dean Home for Services in Denville.
Born in Elmira, N.Y., the daughter of Fred and Mildred Scharf, Mrs. Ehringer was a 1942 graduate of Elmira College. She worked as a junior high school and high school teacher in New York state and Alabama. In addition, she worked as secretary to the president of Thatcher Glass in Elmira, and secretary to the engineering manager at Westinghouse in Elmira.
Over the years, Mrs. Ehringer did a great deal of volunteer work. In Elmira, she worked with groups including the Park Church Women's Society and Nursery School, the American Association of University Women and the Cub Scouts Parents' Committee.
After moving to New Jersey in the 1950s, she was active in organizations including the Toy Bureau of the Oranges and Maplewood, and the Orange Memorial Hospital Auxiliary.
In retirement, Mrs. Ehringer expanded her interest in history and genealogy, becoming active with groups including the Daughters of the American Revolution and the Descendants of Founders of New Jersey. For several years she served as a docent at the Crane House, a Revolutionary War-era home in Montclair, where she dressed in period costume and demonstrated open-hearth cooking techniques for visiting schoolchildren.
Mrs. Ehringer is survived by a daughter, Margaret Waring of Arizona; a son and daughter-in-law, Stephen and Penny Ehringer of Scotch Plains; a daughter-in-law, Marion Pallesen of California; a brother, Frederick Scharf of Havertown, Pa.; a brother and sister-in-law, Robert and Marilyn Scharf of Dundee, N.Y.; six nieces and nephews, and six grandchildren.
She was predeceased by her first husband, Edmund Pallesen, an Army veteran of World War II and the Korean War, who was killed in action in Korea; her son David Pallesen, a former Navy officer, who died in 2000; and her second husband, Hermann Ehringer, a retired metallurgical engineer at Westinghouse, who died in 2001.
Friends and family may call at the Norman Dean Home for Services at 16 Righter Ave. in Denville from 2 to 5 p.m. Monday.
Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. Tuesday at the funeral home.
Entombment will follow at Restland Memorial Park in East Hanover.
In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the Visiting Nurse Association of Somerset Hills, the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation, or a charity of your choice. Please light a candle in her memory at: www.normandean.com.
