In Memoriam

Dick Williams, who spent 20 years as the Somerset County administrator, died on January 22.  He was 77.  Williams began working for Somerset County’s Office of Economic Development in 1970 and became county administrator in 1991.

Edith Hodes Rose, who was New Jersey’s oldest resident, died on January 11.  She was 111.  Rose was the sister of Irving Hodes, the Democratic nominee for Congress in New Jersey’s 12th district in 1956.  Rep. Robert W. Kean (R-Livingston), the grandfather of former Senate Minority Leader Tom Kean, Jr., defeated Hodes by 31,668 votes, 60%-39%, in his bid for re-election to a tenth term in an Essex County-based House district.

Patricia Aldrich, who was an emergency room nurse and prominent conservationist, died on January 22.  She was 85.  She was the widow of former Dover (now Toms River) Mayor Bud Aldrich.

Lilly Lodge, an actress whose father was Connecticut Gov. John Davis Lodge and uncle was former U.S. Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, died on August 7 at the Actors Fund Home in Englewood.  She was 91.  Her father was an actor who played Shirley Temple’s father in The Little Colonel before winning serving as a congressman, governor, and U.S. Ambassador to Spain, Argentina and Switzerland.  Through her maternal grandmother, Lodge was the great-great-granddaughter of U.S. Senator Frederick Frelinghuysen of New Jersey